[General] IEEE CG&A: CfP 3D-Documents Call for Papers

IEEE CG&A Call for Papers 3D Documents Special Issue of IEEE CG&A, July/August 2007 Guest Editors Dieter W. Fellner and Dietmar Saupe Submissions Due: 20 October 2006 Author Notification: 17 January 2007 Final Versions Due: 20 March 2007 To expedite the review process we would appreciate it if authors intending to submit a paper could send a title, author list, and abstract to 3d-docs(a)cgv.tugraz.at by 2 October 2006. Digital libraries (DLs), in general, and technical or cultural preservation applications, in particular, offer a rich set of multimedia objects like audio, music, images, videos, and, of course, 3D models. However, instead of handling these objects consistently as regular documents-in the same way we handle text documents-most applications handle them differently. Looking at textual documents as being only one media type among many, it becomes clear that this type of document is handled quite specially. A full-text search engine permits retrieving a specific document based on its content, that is, one or more words that appear in it. Content-based retrieval of other media types is an active area of research, and only pilot applications exist. The deficits in handling nontextual documents are especially annoying in a situation where the proportion of classical text (journals, books, and so on) is decreasing. It becomes ever easier to create a digital image, a video, or a 3D object-but our libraries, be it classical public libraries or company internal repositories, are not equipped with the right tools to provide all the services for nonstandard documents that are available for books, journals, or technical spec sheets. This is due to the fact that standard tasks like content categorization, indexing, content representation or summarization have not yet been developed to a stage where DL technology could readily apply it for these types of documents. Instead, these tasks have to be done manually making the activity almost prohibitively expensive. Consequently, one of the pressing research challenges is the development of an adequate vocabulary to characterize the content and structure of nontextual documents as the key to indexing, categorization, abstracting, dissemination, and access. Even more pressing is the demand for having automated categorization at hand-this is true even for those only taking pictures with digital cameras and then just dumping them into folders where we can't find particular pictures later on. As more and more artifacts in the technical and engineering world are digitally born the content categorization, the abstraction, the adequate representation-which, by the way, must coexist with long- term archival demands-is vital to all disciplines. We solicit papers for this special issue that present innovative results and concepts in the domain of 3D documents. Potential topics to be covered include but are not limited to * indexing, * content classification, * domain-specific metadata, * domain-specific phrasing of search terms, * automated markup, * content-based retrieval, * search by similarity / similarity measures, * abstracting (that is, what's the 3D analogy to a thumbnail in 2D), * semantic enrichment, * avoiding the loss of model semantics in the classical graphics process pipelines, * transport (for example, over channels with limited bandwidth), * semantic level of detail, * interaction with 3D documents, * navigation in (distributed) 3D documents, * linking in 3D documents (that is, where and how to attach links), and * long-term storage. Articles should be no more than 10 magazine pages, where a page is 800 words and a quarter page image counts as 200 words. Cite only the 12 most critical references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images can be interspersed through the article and should be limited to a total of 10. Visit CG&A style and length guidelines here. Please submit your article using our online manuscript submission service. When uploading your article, please select the appropriate special issue title under the category Manuscript Type. Also include complete contact information for all authors and coauthors in the submission. If you have any questions about submitting your article, please contact Alkenia Winston. Submit a Manuscript Please direct any correspondence prior to submission to one of the guest editors: Dieter W. Fellner CGV, TU Graz Inffeldgasse 16c A-8010 Graz, Austria Phone: +43 316 873 5400 Email: 3d-docs(a)cgv.tugraz.at Dietmar Saupe Fachbereich Informatik u. Informationswissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz Fach M697 D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Phone: +49 7531 88 4220 Email: 3d-docs(a)cgv.tugraz.at