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** EG SBIM 2006
: CALL FOR PAPERS **
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3rd
Eurographics Workshop on
Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM
'06)
http://www.eg.org/sbm
Vienna, Austria
Sunday Sep. 3rd - Monday Sep. 4th
2006
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Aims and
Scope
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The mouse and keyboard have defined user interfaces
for the nearly
forty years since the mouse's invention, yet interfaces based
on this
hardware often leave much to be desired. For example, while
computers
are indispensable tools for engineering and architectural design,
they
have yet to become the preferred tool in the very early stages
of
design, where pencil and paper still reign. This is because
current
user interfaces are too cumbersome when rapid exploration of
the
design space is necessary.
Sketch-based interfaces are emerging as
an approach to address this
sort of problem. Such interfaces are expected to
provide flexible,
informal interaction between computers and users in a way
that that
does not hinder creativity. These interfaces are becoming
increasingly
practical because of the many recent advances in pen input
devices,
especially tablet computers.
The workshop will explore the
techniques needed to enable sketch-based
interfaces, such as techniques for
classification and recognition of
hand-drawn shapes and text. Likewise, the
workshop will explore the
application of sketch-based interfaces to domains
such as 2D/3D
graphics, CAD, diagram editing, note taking, etc. Finally,
the
workshop will welcome empirical usability studies aimed at
clarifying
the nature of sketch-based interfaces and comparing pen input to
other
interaction techniques.
The workshop will provide an opportunity
for researchers working on
sketch-based interfaces to interact with one
another, share lessons
learned, show new results, and discuss open issues.
The workshop,
which will take place in Vienna, Austria, will be held just
prior to
the Eurographics '06 Conference. As such, it will provide
an
opportunity for researchers to participate in both events.
The
two-day workshop will include paper presentations (single track),
coffee
breaks, a conference dinner and invited talks. Participation is
open to
everyone; submitting a paper is not mandatory. The proceedings
will be
published in the EG Workshop series and made available online
through the
Eurographics Digital Library. (Baoquan Chen's report on
last year's event can
be found at:
http://www.eg.org/sbm/2005/EventReport.pdf)
Authors are invited to submit technical
papers on topics including,
but not limited to, the following:
- Low
level ink processing / Pen stroke segmentation
- Sketch parsing
-
Classification and recognition of handwritten sketches
- Multimodal
interfaces for sketching
- Novel sketch input devices
- Rendering
techniques for sketch-based interfaces (NPR)
- Mobile appliances for design
input
- Usability studies of sketch-based systems
- Sketch-based
interfaces for 2D/3D computer graphics
(modeling, animation,
etc.)
- Sketch-based interfaces for CAD systems
- Sketch-based interfaces
for other applications
(diagram editing, math, etc.)
- Sketches for
Medical and Volume data editing
- Sketching surfaces/diagrams/mathematical
annotations/ etc.
- Sketch-based retrieval of Multimedia Information
-
Creativity and design
Submission
Procedure
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Authors are requested to submit papers, no
longer than 8 pages, with
the main body set in Eurographics Conference Paper
Format. All
submissions are electronic. You can download a set of LaTeX
style
files from the EG Conference site.
Each paper should contain
title, authors' names and affiliations,
abstract, keywords, text,
illustrations and references. Detailed
guidelines are available through the
Workshop Site under instructions
for authors. Submissions will be done
electronically via the EG
Conference Manager. We will accept papers in PDF
format only. Please
contact the conference organizers should you experience
any problems
with electronic submission. Post-workshop proceedings will
be
available on-line through the Eurographics Digital Library and in
paper
book form in the Eurographics Book Series. Selection will be
based upon
technical and scientific content and relevance to
the
workshop.
Revised and expanded versions of selected workshop
papers will be
featured on a Special Issue of the Computers and Graphics
Journal
(Elsevier) in 2007
Invited
Speakers
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Eric Saund (PARC) and Marc Alexa (TU
Berlin)
IMPORTANT DATES OF
SBIM2006:
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1) Deadline for paper
submissions: May 26, 2006
2) Notification of Acceptance: July 7, 2006
3)
Camera-Ready Copy Due: July 21, 2006
4) Conference date: Sunday Sep. 3rd -
Monday Sep. 4th 2006
C&G Special
Issue
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1) Selection of Best papers Announced:
October, 2006
2) Revised Versions Due: December, 15 2006
3) Notification
of Final Selection: January, 31 2007
4) Final Version Due: 21 February
2007
************* COMMITTEE
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Workshop Chair
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Joaquim Armando
Pires Jorge
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
jaj@rtr.inesc-id.pt
Program Co-Chairs
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Thomas
Stahovich
University of California Riverside, USA
stahov@engr.ucr.edu
Mario Costa Sousa
University of Calgary,
Canada
mario@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
International Program Committee
(Tentative)
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Marc Alexa,
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Christine Alvarado, Harvey Mudd
College, USA
Ken Anjyo, OLM Digital, Japan
Marie-Paule Cani, INP Grenoble,
France
Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota, USA
Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel
Aviv University, Israel
Pedro Pablo Company, U Jaume I, Spain
Manuel
Contero, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Randy Davis, MIT,
USA
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bianca Falcidieno,
CNR IMATI-Genova, Italy
Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France
Nunes Ferreira,
FEUP, Portugal
Mark Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jason Hong,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Takeo Igarashi, University of Tokyo,
Japan
Kunio Kondo, Saitama University, Japan
Jim Landay, University of
Washington, USA
Pierre Leclercq, University of Liege, Belgium
Hod Lipson,
Cornell University, USA
Josep Llados, U. A. Catalunya, Spain
Ralph Martin,
Cardiff University, UK
Gopi M., University of California, Irvine, USA
Jun
Mitani, Tsukuba University, Japan
Shigeru Owada, Sony CSL, Japan
Faramarz
Samavati, University of Calgary, Canada
Eric Saund, PARC, USA
Michael
Shilman, Microsoft Research, USA
Karan Singh, University of Toronto,
Canada
Andre Stork, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Mark Swain, Walt Disney
Feature Animation, USA
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University,
Canada
Michiel van de Panne, University of British Columbia, Canada
Peter
Varley, University of Tokyo, Japan
Brian Wyvill, University of Calgary,
Canada
Bob Zeleznik, Brown University,
USA
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