From - Sat Mar 22 17:42:11 2003 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:37:19 +0100 Subject: ISMAR 2003 - 1st call for papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Papers and Demos ISMAR 03 The Second International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Oct. 7 - Oct. 10, 2003 The National Center of Sciences Tokyo, Japan http://www.ismar03.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and SIGMR, Virtual Reality Society of Japan In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH / SIGCHI (Approval pending) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Aims and Scope] In the past few years, Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have received ever increasing attention, as indicated by a series of events devoted to these areas, including the well-attended International Workshops and Symposia on Augmented Reality in the USA and Europe (IWAR '98, IWAR '99, ISAR 2000, ISAR 2001) as well as the International Symposia on Mixed Reality in Japan (ISMR '99, ISMR 2001). By its very nature, MR and AR are highly interdisciplinary fields involving signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, distributed computing, information access, information visualization, and hardware design for new displays and sensors. MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications. Last year, joined are forces working on Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality across the world in the premier forum of the field: The International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2002) was successfully held in Darmstadt, Germany and had more than 200 participants. This year, ISMAR 03 provides an opportunity for MR/AR researchers from academia and industry across the world to meet again in an informal atmosphere to exchange ideas, concepts, and research results. ISMAR 03 is meant to trigger discussions among participants and to provide an intensive exchange between industrial and academic researchers working in the different research branches of MR and AR. [Call for Papers] ISMAR 03 invites paper and poster submissions in the general field of Mixed and Augmented Reality. Topics include, but are not limited to: o MR/AR applications - personal MR/AR information systems - industrial MR/AR applications - medical MR/AR applications - MR/AR for entertainment - MR/AR for architecture o Sensors - position and orientation tracking technology - calibration methods and sensor fusion - vision-based registration and tracking - acquisition of 3D scene descriptions o System architecture (hardware and software design) - wearable computing - distributed and collaborative MR/AR - display hardware o User Interaction - interaction techniques for MR/AR - collaborative MR/AR - multimodal input and output o Information presentation - real-time rendering - photorealistic rendering (e.g., reflection analysis) - object overlay and spatial layout techniques - aural and haptic augmentation - mediated reality o Human factors - usability studies - acceptance of MR/AR technology - social implications [Call for Demos] At the ISMAR 03, the opportunity to present the latest research results with technical demonstrations will be provided. Authors should submit a two-page abstract describing the demonstration by May 31, 2003. These abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers and will appear in the proceedings. Some selected demonstrations may be invited to the MR Expo that will be held in the same week as ISMAR 03 in Tokyo and open to public inspection! For questions, please see the web page http://www.ismar03.org or send e-mail to: Takeshi NAEMURA & Masahiko INAMI (ismar03-demo@hc.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp). [Important Dates] Papers and Poster Demonstrations Deadline for submissions: April 18, 2003 May 31, 2003 Acceptance notification: June 13, 2003 June 13, 2003 Camera ready due: July 4, 2003 July 4, 2003 Early registration deadline: Sep. 14, 2003 Symposium: Oct. 7 - Oct. 10, 2003 [Chairs and Committees] General Chairs + Naokazu Yokoya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan + Hideyuki Tamura, Canon, Japan Program Chairs + Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria + Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA + Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan Tutorial / Workshop Chairs + David Mizell, Intel Corporation, USA + Yuichi Ohta, University of Tsukuba, Japan Technical Demonstration Chairs + Takeshi Naemura, University of Tokyo, Japan + Masahiko Inami, University of Tokyo, Japan Publication Chair + Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan Publicity (WWW Management) Chair + Masayuki Kanbara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Finance Chair + Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Canon, Japan Local Arrangement Chairs + Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan + Heito Zen, Chiba University, Japan Steering Committee + Ron Azuma, HRL Laboratories, USA + Reinhold Behringer, Rockwell Science Center, USA + Steve Feiner, Columbia University, USA + Gudrun Klinker, Technical University of Munich, Germany + David Mizell, Intel Corporation, USA + Stefan Mueller, University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany + Nassir Navab, Siemens Corporate Research, USA + Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA + Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Japan + Didier Stricker, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany + Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan + Hideyuki Tamura, Canon, Japan [Contact] Please address any questions to: info@ismar03.org or visit: http://www.ismar03.org/