[General] STAG 2018 - Call for papers - keynote speaker announcement

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: DEADLINE July 27, 2018 **************************************************************************** ** STAG 2018 - Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics Brescia, October 18-19, 2017 http://stag2018.unibs.it **************************************************************************** ** We are happy to announce this year's keynote Speaker, that will be Prof. Mario Botsch (University of Bielefeld) Smart Tools and Applications for Graphics (STAG) is the annual international conference organized by the Italian Chapter of the Eurographics association. For its th edition STAG will be held in Brescia (Italy) on 18-19 October, 2018. The aim of STAG is the dissemination of research activities and novel ideas on both theoretical and application oriented aspects of Computer Graphics, bringing together researchers and practitioners from both national and international scientific communities to share their latest developments. Contributions on new ways to solve real problems, clever solutions to optimize or otherwise improve techniques and algorithms for real-world applications. System and workflow papers with impact on real-world applications are also welcome. We invite original contributions on topics related (but not limited) to: -Acquisition -Animation -Augmented and virtual reality -Computational geometry -Computer graphics applications (industry, biomedicine, cultural heritage, entertainment, physics, design,...) -Computer vision for graphics -Digital Manufacturing and Fabrication -Geometry processing -Graphics systems -Human-Computer Interaction -Imaging and image processing -Machine Learning for graphics -Modeling -Pattern Recognition -Reconstruction -Rendering -Robotics and Vision -Visualization -Volume graphics -Web graphics Important Dates: * Submission deadline: July, 27 2018 * Notification: September, 4 2018 * Camera ready: September,14 2018 Submission Information Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair. Each PDF should not exceed 10 pages in length (references excluded) and must be formatted according to the Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum publication guidelines. Submitted papers will undergo a double blind reviewing process. STAG proceedings are published in the Eurographics Digital Library. Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a Special Issue of the Computers & Graphics Journal (Elsevier). Doctoral School (NEW!) This year we are happy to announce the First edition of the Eurographics Italian Chapter (EGIT) International Doctoral School, open to both PhD students and young researcher all around the world, that will be held on 16-18 October, just before and in the same location of the STAG conference. This year the focus of the school will be on Digital Manufacturing. School participants are highly encouraged to prepare a submission for STAG. Special discounts on registration fees are foreseen for attendants to both events. More info about the EGIT Doctoral School coming on http://egit-school2018.unibs.it