[General] CFP: 17th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering

------------------------------------------------------------- 17th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Nicosia, Cyprus, June 26-28, 2006 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/egsr2006/ and the Ayia Napa Summer Seminar Ayia Napa, Cyprus, June 29 - July 1st, 2006 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ayia-napa06/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers --------------- EGSR 2006 will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 26 to June 28, 2006. This is an event in the series of highly successful Eurographics Symposia on Rendering and the Eurographics Workshops on Rendering, held over the past 16 years. The local organizers of the conference are Yiorgos Chrysanthou and Daniel Cohen-Or. The program chairs are Wolfgang Heidrich and Tomas Akenine-Muller. Following the EGSR'06, there will be a 3 day seminar in Ayia Napa which aims to provide a forum for some of the leading researchers in computer graphics to present their ideas and vision. For more information on participation in this seminar please see the website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ayia-napa06/ All the information below relates to the EGSR 2006. Conference topics ----------------- Conference topics include (but are not limited to): - Global illumination methods - Monte Carlo techniques - Finite element techniques - Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing - Shadows and visibility - Human perception and error measures - Texture models, analysis, and synthesis - Image-based methods - Sensing for graphics - Point-based rendering - New rendering hardware and new uses of existing hardware - Real-time rendering and real-time ray tracing - Systems and software architecture for rendering - Virtual/augmented reality and interactive systems - Rendering dynamic/animated environments - Non-photorealistic rendering We welcome short papers (max. 6 pages) as well as full papers (max. 12 pages). The presentation format will allow for ample discussion time. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Conference web site ------------------- http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/egsr2006/ Program committee co-chairs --------------------------- Wolfgang Heidrich (CA) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich Tomas Akenine-Muller (SE) http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Tomas_Akenine_Moller International program committee ------------------------------- Timo Aila (SF) Kavita Bala (US) Philippe Bekaert (BE) Per Christensen (US) Oliver Deussen (DE) Fredo Durand (US) Ph?lip Dutre (BE) Aaron Hertzmann (CA) Nicolas Holzschuch (FR) Jan Kautz (US) Alexander Keller (DE) Hendrik Lensch (US) Dani Lischinski (IS) Marcus Magnor (DE) Steve Marschner (US) Wojciech Matusik (US) Ann McNamara (IR) Karol Myszkowski (DE) Sumanta Pattanaik (US) Fabio Pellacini (US) Matt Pharr (US) Ravi Ramamoorthi (US) Eric Reinhard (UK) Szymon Rusikiewicz (US) Peter-Pike Sloan (US) Marc Stamminger (DE) Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos (HU) Nicolas Tsingos (FR) Bruce Walter (US) Greg Ward (US) Organizing chairs ----------------- Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CY) http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~yiorgos Daniel Cohen-Or (IL) http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dcor Keynote speakers ---------------- * Petri Nordlund, Bitboys * Shree Nayar, Columbia University Important Dates --------------- Electronic abstract submission deadline: April 10 (Mon) Electronic paper submission deadline: April 13 (Thu) Author notification: May 17 (Wed) Camera-ready copy deadline: May 24 (Wed) Symposium dates: June 26-June 28, 2006 (Mon-Wed) Note: this year there is very little time between acceptance notification and the due date for camera ready copies of the paper. This is due to restrictions imposed by the publisher. We will therefore have to strictly enforce all deadlines.