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17th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
Cyprus, June 26-28, 2006
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Call for papers
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EGSR 2006 will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 26 to June 28,
2006. This is an event in the series of highly successful Eurographics
Symposia on Rendering and the Eurographics Workshops on Rendering,
held over the past 16 years.
 
The local organizers of the conference are Yiorgos Chrysanthou and
Daniel Cohen-Or. The program chairs are Wolfgang Heidrich and Tomas
Akenine-Möller.
 

Conference topics
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Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
 
- Global illumination methods
- Monte Carlo techniques
- Finite element techniques
- Sampling, filtering, and anti-aliasing
- Shadows and visibility
- Human perception and error measures
- Texture models, analysis, and synthesis
- Image-based methods
- Sensing for graphics
- Point-based rendering
- New rendering hardware and new uses of existing hardware
- Real-time rendering and real-time ray tracing
- Systems and software architecture for rendering
- Virtual/augmented reality and interactive systems
- Rendering dynamic/animated environments
- Non-photorealistic rendering
 
We welcome short papers (max. 6 pages) as well as full papers (max. 12
pages). The presentation format will allow for ample discussion
time. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
 

Conference web site
 
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/egsr2006/
 

International program committee co-chairs
 
Wolfgang Heidrich (CA)      http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich
Tomas Akenine-Möller (SE)   http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Tomas_Akenine_Moller
 

International program committee
 
Timo Aila               (SF)
Kavita Bala             (US)
Philippe Bekaert        (BE)
Per Christensen         (US)
Oliver Deussen          (DE)
Fredo Durand            (US)
Phílip Dutre            (BE)
Aaron Hertzmann         (CA)
Nicolas Holzschuch      (FR)
Jan Kautz               (US)
Alexander Keller        (DE)
Hendrik Lensch          (US)
Dani Lischinski         (IS)
Marcus Magnor           (DE)
Steve Marschner         (US)
Wojciech Matusik        (US)
Ann McNamara            (IR)
Karol Myszkowski        (DE)
Sumanta Pattanaik       (US)
Fabio Pellacini         (US)
Matt Pharr              (US)
Ravi Ramamoorthi        (US)
Eric Reinhard           (UK)
Szymon Rusikiewicz      (US)
Peter-Pike Sloan        (US)
Marc Stamminger         (DE)
Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos    (HU)
Nicolas Tsingos         (FR)
Bruce Walter            (US)
Greg Ward               (US)
 

Organizing chairs
 
Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CY)    http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~yiorgos
Daniel Cohen-Or (IL)        http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dcor
 

Keynote speakers
* Petri Nordlund, Bitboys
* Shree Nayar, Columbia University
 

Important Dates
 
Electronic abstract submission deadline:
        April 10 (Mon)
Electronic paper submission deadline:
        April 13 (Thu)
Author notification:
        May 17 (Wed)
Camera-ready copy deadline:
        May 24 (Wed)
Symposium dates:
        June 26-June 28, 2006 (Mon-Wed)
 
Note: this year there is very little time between acceptance
notification and the due date for camera ready copies of the
paper. This is due to restrictions imposed by the publisher. We will
therefore have to strictly enforce all deadlines.