FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
GraphiCon\'2010
Computer Graphics and Vision
Twenties International Conference
September 20 - 24, 2010
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
http://gc2010.graphicon.ru

=== Welcome ===

GraphiCon is a major international conference on Computer Graphics, 
Computer Vision, Image and Video processing in Russia. The 20th event will be hosted by Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics on September 20 - 24, 2010. 

Authors are invited to submit high quality papers. All submissions will be carefully and anonymously reviewed by the International Program Committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference orally or as posters and will appear in the proceedings.  

Official language of the conference is English. Submissions in Russian are possible, but they will be organized in separate sections (English abstracts are required nevertheless).

Students are encouraged to submit short papers (2 pages) for Young scientist school. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference as posters and will appear in the proceedings. All papers accepted for the school we take part in \'best student paper\' contest. The official language of the school is Russian.


=== Conference topics ===

The main topics of the conference include (the following list is not exhaustive):

Graphics and multimedia:
 - Photorealistic rendering techniques
 - Geometry modeling and processing
 - Computer graphics hardware
 - Animation and simulation
 - Virtual and augmented reality

Computer vision: 
 - Object localization and recognition
- 3D reconstruction and acquisition
- Multi-sensor fusion and 3-D registration
- Structure from motion and stereo
- Statistical methods and learning in image analysis

Image and video processing:
 - Image enhancement, restoration and super-resolution
 - Medical image processing
- Biometrics
- Tracking and surveillance
- Segmentation and grouping
 - Early vision and image representation
 

=== Important Dates ===

Submission deadline: May 21, 2010
Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2010
Camera ready papers: August 6, 2010
GraphiCon Young scientists & engineer school: September 20-21, 2010
GraphiCon Conference: September 22-24, 2010

=== Conference Chairs ===

Vladimir Vasilev (Saint-Petersburg University ITMO)
Vladimir Galaktionov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics)
Timour Paltashev (Northwestern Polytechnic University)

=== International Program Committee Co-Chairs ===

Gunter Knittel (Tuebingen University)
Anton Konushin (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Alexander Tropchenko (Saint-Petersburg University ITMO)

=== Organizing Committee Chair ===

Alexey Ignatenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Vyacheslav Tozik (Saint-Petersburg University ITMO)