Call for papers & Participation
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W S C G ' 2005
(formerly the Winter School of Computer Graphics)

13th International Conference in Central Europe
on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2005
http://wscg.zcu.cz 

in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS
University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic
close to Prague - the Golden European City

January 31 - February 4, 2005

Honorary Chair
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Mike L.V. Pitteway, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom

Conference Co-Chairs
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Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic

Keynote speakers
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* Stuart Ferguson: Adapting Computer Game Technology to Build a Surgical Simulator, Queen's University of Belfast, U.K.
* Mark Harris: General - Purpose Computation on GPUs, NVIDIA, USA
* James T. Klosowski: Scalable Visualization using Commodity Clusters: Challenges and Solutions, IBM, USA
* John Spitzer: Evolution of Graphics Hardware Architecture and Applications, NVIDIA, USA

Information for authors
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* Paper registration: October 11, 2004 11:59 GMT (London time)
* Paper and files uploads: October 21, 2004 11:59 GMT (London time)
* Format A4 (strictly), max. 8 pages, additional material (video as MPEG, AVI and similar files, color plates etc. can be submitted, please, no video tapes) up to 5 MB 

Topics included
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Computer graphics and visualization, computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition, fundamental algorithms, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modeling and computer aided geometric design, computational geometry, rendering and virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical imaging, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, parallel and distributed graphics, WWW technologies, CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS systems and others.

International Program Committee and Reviewing Board members review all papers 
peer-to-peer carefully and anonymously.

Selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG, Vol.13. ISSN 1213?6972

Accepted and presented papers and posters will be published in the WSCG proceedings with ISBN.
The Journal of WSCG and WSCG proceedings are indexed/abstracted by ISI, INSPEC and others.

Organizer and conference office
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Prof. Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, Box 314, 
CZ 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic

e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz         Subject: INFO WSCG 2005
http://wscg.zcu.cz 	          Tel./Fax: +420-37-763-2457