[General] Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Film Editing (WICED'2016)

************************************************ CFP - Apologies for multiple copies ************************************************ Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Film Editing (WICED'2016) Lisbon, Portugal, Monday, May 9, 2016 as a satellite event to Eurographics. <https://wiced.inria.fr/> https://wiced.inria.fr/ The workshop is open to researchers and industrial experts working on the many related aspects of digital cinematography and film editing in their respective fields, including 3D graphics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, visualization, interactive narrative, cognitive and perceptual psychology, computational linguistics, computational aesthetics and visual effects. These researchers will draw upon cutting edge research and technologies regarding both the production and comprehension of cinematographic art-works in virtual worlds and the real world. Important Dates Paper submission: February 12, 2016. Notification to authors: March 11, 2016. Camera-ready deadline: April 8, 2016. Workshop held: Monday, May 9, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal. Topics of interest Camera path planning Visibility computation Viewpoint entropy Navigation techniques and proximal exploration Interactive camera control metaphors Approaches to framing and composition of individual shots Automatic and interactive lighting design Intelligent staging and blocking of virtual lights, cameras and actors Expressive performance of virtual characters Intelligent video editing tools Efficient algorithms for camera placement and shot sequence selection Natural user interfaces for camera control and video editing Parallels between cinematic and linguistic communication Cognitive models of the comprehension of virtual cinematics Re-cinematography, re-lighting and re-framing of live-action video Computer-assisted multi-camera production Virtual cinematography as a pre-visualisation tool for real-world filming Intelligent tools and novel interfaces for in-game cinematics, replays, and machinima Intelligent generation of comic book layouts Evaluation methodologies and user experience Collaborative visual storytelling Creativity in cinematic communication Interactive and generative cinema Cinematic serious game and applications Virtual reality movie-making Submission Researchers should submit one of: - Regular paper (max 8 pages) reporting new work or new ideas in a relevant research area. - One-page abstract describing work in progress or a vision of the near term future of intelligent cinematography. Proceedings of the workshop will be published by EG Publishing in the EG Digital Library. Organizing committee The international workshop series is supervised by a steering committee composed of Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern University), R. Michael Young (NC State University), Joseph Magliano (Northern Illinois University), Paolo Burelli (Aalborg University Copenhagen), Arnav Jhala (UC Santa Cruz), and Remi Ronfard (Inria Grenoble). This edition of the workshop is co-organized by Rémi Ronfard (Chair, Inria, France), Marc Christie (Co-chair, University of Rennes, France), Quentin Galvane (Co-chair, Technicolor, France) and Arnav Jhala ( Program Chair, University of California in Santa Cruz).