[General] Reminder: Call for Papers, Pacific Graphics 2016

Dear Colleagues, Let us remind you that the deadline of the papers/short papers submission to Pacific Graphics is rapidly approaching. Please do not forget to submit an abstract of your work first. To submit your work to Pacific Graphics 2016, you need to first submit your abstract by May 27 and then submit your paper/short paper by June 3 (next Friday). For more details, see below. *Pacific Graphics 2016 Call For Papers* (http://indico.oist.jp/PG16) The 24th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2016) will be hosted by Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and held in Okinawa, Japan, during October 11-14, 2016. Pacific Graphics is an annual international conference on computer graphics and applications. As a highly successful conference series, Pacific Graphics provides a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners in the Pacific Rim and around the world to present and discuss new problems, solutions, and technologies in computer graphics and related areas. *Paper submission* Original unpublished papers are invited in all areas of computer graphics and its publications. The topics include (but are not limited to) modeling, rendering, animation, and imaging, as well as visualization, human-computer interaction, and graphics systems and applications. Any interesting new ideas related to computer graphics and applications are welcome. *Paper publication* The conference will have a full paper track as well as a short paper track. The full papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear as a special issue of the Computer Graphics Forum (CGF). Short papers will not appear in the CGF, but will be published electronically through the EG Digital Library. Extended versions of selected, high-quality, short papers will be invited to a SpringerOpen journal, Computational Visual Media. Papers submitted to Pacific Graphics 2016 must be original, unpublished work. Any work that has previously been published or simultaneously been submitted in a substantially similar form to any other conference or journal will be rejected. Contributions must be written and presented in English. Authors may submit to either the full paper or short paper track. Authors can also specify if they would be willing to have their full paper submission considered for short paper in the event the paper is not accepted. Full papers submission are limited to a maximum of 10 pages. Short papers are limited to a maximum of 4 pages. The review process will be double blind. Please remove all personal data (e.g. names, affiliation, etc.) from your submission. *Important Dates* - Abstract Submission: May 27, 2016 - Paper Submission: June 3, 2016 - Author Notification: July 17 - Camera Ready: August 16, 2016 - Conference: October 11 (Tue) - 14 (Fri), 2016 *Conference Organization* - Conference co-chairs Chandrajit Bajaj (University of Texas Austin) Thomas Ertl (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Tomoyuki Nishita (Hiroshima Shudo University/UEI Research, Japan) - Program co-chairs Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University, USA) Bernd Bickel (IST Austria) Yoshinori Dobashi (Hokkaido University, Japan) More information can be found here: http://indico.oist.jp/PG16