[General] International Symposium on Volume Graphics: CFP

International Symposium on Volume Graphics 02 - 03 September, 2007 The Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic The 6th International Symposium on Volume Graphics, VG07, will take place in Prague in September 2007. It follows five successful workshops in former years. This 6th occurrence of Volume Graphics has been changed from a Workshop to a Symposium. VG07 aims to bring together researchers from both the academic and industry who are working, or wish to work, on volume graphics. Volume Graphics is concerned with modeling, processing, and rendering of data which is typically acquired through tomography, 3D microscopy, computational simulations, statistical measurements or analytical methods. It is capable of representing solid and soft objects, interiors as well as surfaces, and synthesizing graphical images in a true 3D manner. The symposium will continue to explore the potential of volume-based techniques beyond the scope of volume visualization as it is currently practiced. VG07 will be held in conjunction with the Point-Based Graphics Symposium 2007, both under the auspices of EUROGRAPHICS 2007 Conference. Important Dates May 11, 2007 Electronic abstract submission deadline (23:59 PDT) May 18, 2007Electronic paper submission deadline (23:59 PDT) June 22, 2007 Author notification July 06, 2007 Receipt of camera-ready paper (detailed VGTC guidelines) September 03 - 04, 2007 Symposium CALL FOR PAPERS Volume graphics deals with the analysis, synthesis and presentation of volumetric objects, both static and time-varying. Specifically, it includes topics related to the acquisition, reconstruction and transformation of volume data as well as feature analysis, information extraction and rendering. Research papers are solicited that present original and unpublished results concerning all aspects of volume graphics. We especially invite research contributions that report computational techniques derived from existing knowledge in numerical analysis, signal processing and statistical modeling. Furthermore, papers are solicited which demonstrate the efficacy of the methods of volume graphics towards enhanced practices or understanding of specific applications in engineering, medicine and physical and biological sciences. The accepted papers will be published in IEEE/EG sponsored proceedings, and archived in electronic form in the Eurographics and IEEE online digital libraries. A selected number of submissions will be further considered for publication in a major journal in computer graphics and visualization. Please refer to http://vg.swan.ac.uk/vg07/style.html for detailed paper preparation guidelines. SYMPOSIUM THEMES The Program Committee is seeking papers on original and unpublished research work concerning all aspects of volume graphics. Symposium Topics include (but not limited to): + Representation of Volume Information - Stationary and time-varying data - Single and multi-valued data (i.e. scalar, vector, tensor volumes) - Multi-dimensional data - Hierarchical and multiresolution data - Uniform vs. non-uniform and flat vs. hierarchical grids - Mesh-based, mesh-less and hybrid representations - Interpolation schemes - Volume-based surface representations, e.g. distance and label fields + Acquisition and Reconstruction of Volume Data - Uniform vs. non-uniform sampling schemes - Tomographic techniques, new imaging modalities - Procedural synthesis techniques - Interactive techniques - Modeling, Transformation and Analysis of Volumetric Objects - Resampling, denoising - Data and noise models - Multi-resolution techniques - Statistical and machine learning methods (supervised and unsupervised) - Extraction of geometrical and topological features from volumetric data sources, e.g. iso-surfaces, shapes, skeletons, Morse-Smale complexes - Extraction of application-specific features from volumetric data sources, e.g. flow features, anatomical structures, regions-of-interests - Feature analysis - segmentation, tracking and correspondence - Interactive and procedural modeling of volumetric objects - Warping and morphing - Compression, simplification + Volume Rendering - Local & global illumination models - Transfer functions - Feature emphasis and suppression - Technical aspects of non-photorealistic and illustrative techniques - High dynamic range volume rendering - Acceleration techniques (multi-resolution, specialized data structures, hardware) - Volume graphics architectures, APIs - GPU-based techniques that exploit underlying data representations + Volume Graphics in Applications - Novel domain-specific techniques, evaluation of volume graphics methods, judgment of efficacy and demonstration of utility in application fields (as mentioned below) - Engineering: fluid flow, structural mechanics, geo-physics, material science and nano sciences - Medical imaging: MR, CT, PET, DTI, molecular imaging - computational anatomy - Biological imaging: microscopy - microstructure characterization ________________________________ Important Dates May 11, 2007 Electronic abstract submission deadline (23:59 PDT) May 18, 2007 Electronic paper submission deadline (23:59 PDT) June 22, 2007 Author notification July 06, 2007 Receipt of camera-ready paper (detailed VGTC guidelines) September 03 - 04, 2007 Symposium -- Raghu Machiraju, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 Currently on Sabbatical @ Imaging Technology Lab, GE-Global Research, Bangalore