[General] Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007: CFP

Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007 SEPTEMBER 10-12, ULM, GERMANY With the increasing interest in realistic rendering and simulation, more and more graphics research focuses on ray tracing. Following a very successful first event in Utah in 2006, this second Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing will provide a dedicated forum for the scientific presentation and discussion of the latest developments in this highly active field of research. The event will take place at Ulm University, Germany, September 10-12, 2007. The program co-chairs are Alexander Keller and Per Christensen. The international program committee consists of Bart Adams, Tomas Akenine- Möller, Carsten Benthin, Jiri Bittner, Erik Brunvand, Per Christensen, Eric Haines, Vlastimil Havran, Wolfgang Heidrich, Greg Humphreys, Henrik Wann Jensen, Alexander Keller, Pankaj Khanna, David Luebke, Jeffrey Mahovsky, Dinesh Manocha, William Mark, Michael McCool, Steven Parker, Matt Pharr, Timothy Purcell, Alexander Reshetov, Peter Shirley, Philipp Slusallek, Brian Smits, Gordon Stoll, Ingo Wald, Bruce Walter, Peter Wonka, Sven Woop, Carsten Wächter, and Sung-Eui Yoon. The conference proceedings will be printed by the Eurographics Association in corporation with IEEE (pending) and the ACM (pending). The publication will be accessible through digital libraries as well. We invite original and innovative contributions in areas including, but not limited to: . Efficient acceleration algorithms and data structures for ray tracing . Strategies for fast ray traversal and primitive intersection . Ray tracing advanced primitives (e.g. point clouds, volumes) . Ray tracing dynamic models . Scalable parallel algorithms for ray tracing . Ray tracing hardware . Implementations of ray tracing on GPUs and novel hardware architectures . Ray tracing systems . Sampling strategies, filtering techniques, and advanced illumination techniques . Tools, benchmarks, and performance studies . Applications of ray tracing as well as practice and experience reports We also encourage the submission of posters of current and ongoing work in these areas. Although the symposium is primarily targeting interactive techniques, we explicitly invite papers of techniques that are not yet interactive. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. There will be ample time for discussions during the symposium. SCHEDULE JUNE 14, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE JULY 12, 2007 REVIEWS DUE JULY 19, 2007 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION AUGUST 2, 2007 CAMERA-READY COPY SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2007 SYMPOSIUM IN ULM KEYNOTE SPEAKER JACCO BIKKER NHTV UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS ALEXANDER KELLER ULM UNIVERSITY PER CHRISTENSEN PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS EMAIL mailto:rt07@uni-ulm.de WEBPAGE http://www.uni-ulm.de/rt07