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Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Film Editing (WICED'2016)
Lisbon, Portugal, Monday, May 9, 2016 as a satellite event to Eurographics.
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).