[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] *** Extension of submission deadline until January 26th *** Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2012 A co-event of Eurographics 2012 May 13, 2012 <http://eg3dor2012.ist.utl.pt/> # Important dates Jan 26, 2012: Paper Submission (extended) Feb 16, 2012: Notification of acceptance Feb 27, 2012: Camera-ready papers May 13, 2012: Workshop takes place # 3D Object Retrieval Workshop Series 3D object representations have become an integral part of modern computer graphics applications, such as computer-aided design, game development and film production. At the same time, 3D data have become very common in various domains such as computer vision, computational geometry, molecular biology and medicine. Indeed, the rapid evolution in graphics hardware and software, in particular the availability of low cost 3D scanners and modeling tools, has greatly facilitated 3D model acquisition, creation, and manipulation, giving the opportunity to a large user community to experience applications using 3D models. As the number of 3D models is growing rapidly, the problem of creating new 3D models has shifted to the problem of searching for existing 3D models. Thereupon, the development of efficient search mechanisms is required for the effective retrieval of 3D objects from large repositories. The aim of the 3DOR Workshop series is to stimulate researchers from different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction who work on the common goal of 3D object retrieval, to present state-of-the-art work in the field. This will provide a cross-fertilization ground that will stimulate discussions on the next steps in this important research area. The 5th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR 2012) is a co-event of the 33rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics 2012). The workshop will take place on May 13, 2012 in Cagliari, Italy. # Call for Papers, Posters and System Demonstrations Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and practical applications in all areas of 3D Object Retrieval. Submissions are invited in form of full and short papers, as well as poster and system presentations. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - 3D object similarity and matching - 3D object classification, indexing, and mining - Similarity of non-rigid shapes - Feature extraction, decomposition, and segmentation - Multi-level representations for matching and retrieval - Partial, part-in-whole, and many-to-many matching - Matching under uncertainty and noise - Semantics-driven 3D object retrieval and classification - Sketch-based retrieval - Query interfaces and search modalities - Benchmarking issues - Relevance feedback methods - Active learning - Generative/discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization - Applications in multimedia, CAD, games, biometrics, e-science, e-learning, medicine, biology, and cultural heritage. This year’s workshop will also feature the 7th Shape Retrieval Evaluation Contest (SHREC’2012). A separate call for participation will be issued later on. Extended versions of selected papers from the Workshop will appear, after a further review, in special issues of international journals. Selected papers from previous workshops appeared in special issues of The Visual Computer (TVC) journal and the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) published by Springer. # Organization Chairs Michela Spagnuolo (IMATI-CNR, Italy) Michael Bronstein (Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) Programme Chairs Alexander Bronstein (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Alfredo Ferreira (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) Program Committee Afzal Godil (National Institute of the Standards and Technology, USA) Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy) Atilla Baskurt (INSA Lyon, France) Benjamin Bustos (University of Chile, Chile) Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI-CNR, Italy) Daniel Cohen-Or (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Daniela Giorgi (IMATI-CNR, Italy) Dietmar Saupe (University of Konstanz, Germany) Frank Ter Haar (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Georgios Papaioannou (AUEB, Greece) Hamid Laga (Institut Telecom / Telecom Lille1, France) Ioannis Pratikakis (IIT / NCSR ‘Demokritos’, Greece ) Kai Hormann (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Karthik Ramani (Purdue University, USA) Maks Ovsjanikov (Stanford University / Google Inc., USA) Marcos Rodrigues (University of Sheffield, UK) Martin Reuter Mohamed Daoudi (TELECOM Lille1 / LIFL, France) Nicholas Patrikalakis (MIT, USA) Nikolaos Sapidis (University of Western Macedonia) Niloy Mitra (University College of London, UK) Petros Daras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece) Raif M. Rustamov (Drew University, USA) Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University, NL ) Richard Zhang (Simon Fraser Univeristy, USA) Ron Kimmel (Technion, Israel) Ronen Basri (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Stefanie Wuhrer (Saarland University / Max Plank Institute, Germany) Stefano Berretti (University of Florence, Italy) Theoharis Theoharis (Department of Informatics, University of Athens, Greece ) Titus Zaharia (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Tobias Schreck (University of Konstanz, Germany) William Regli (Drexel University, USA) Yiannis Aloimonos (UMIACS, USA) Yossi Keller (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Further details available at: http://eg3dor2012.ist.utl.pt/