[General] CFP: 8th Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2019)

Please consider contributing to the 8th Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2019), which will be collocated with Eurographics for the fourth time, in Genova Italy. We invite submissions in the form of long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and invited papers (1 page). The workshop website can be found here: <https://project.inria.fr/wiced2019/> https://wiced2019.inria.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Researchers should submit one of: - Regular paper (max 8 pages) reporting new work or new ideas in a relevant research area. - Short paper (max 4 pages) describing work in progress or a vision of the near term future of intelligent cinematography. - Invited paper (1 page abstract) reporting relevant work already published in other venues. Proceedings of the workshop will be published by EG Publishing in the EG Digital Library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- The prospective schedule for the workshop is as follows: Paper deadline: 21 March 2019 Notification: 13 April 2019 Camera Ready Due: 20 April 2019 Workshop : 6 May 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- KEYNOTE TALKS ANNOUNCED ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- * Adam Myhill, Creative Director at Unity, Head of Cinemachine Adam Myhill has spent almost two decades in video game and film worlds, working as a Director of Photography and CG supervisor at Electronic Arts and Blackbird Interactive. Using his experience on multiple titles and as a feature film DP on several movies, Myhill created a ground-breaking procedural cinematic and in-game camera system called Cinemachine, which is now an integral part of Unity's offering where he now works to empower creators. He also holds a number of technology patents around virtual cameras and procedural cinematography. * Stephen Jolly, Senior R&D Engineer, BBC R&D Stephen Jolly is a Senior R&D Engineer at BBC R&D. He has been employed by the BBC as a research engineer since 2004, and has worked on a very wide range of projects in areas such as digital radio, 3D television, television remote control APIs, television companion applications and the Internet of Things. He currently co-leads the AI in Production project at BBC R&D, focusing on cinematic feature extraction in video materials, and automated editing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Camera path planning and visibility Interactive and automatic camera control Automatic video editing Movie pre-visualization Game cinematics, cinematic replays, and machinima Virtual reality and augmented reality movie making Immersive and interactive cinema Natural user interfaces for cinematography and video editing Expressive performance of virtual characters Cognitive models of film perception Automatic video analysis of movies Re-cinematography, re-lighting and re-framing of live-action video Computer-assisted multi-camera production Evaluation methodologies and user experience Analysis of film style ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- PROGRAM CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- -Marc Christie, Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS -Stephen Jolly, BBC R&D -Hui-Yin Wu, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis