Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:26:52 +0200 From: CGI2000 Subject: CGI2000, Revised call for papers Sender: cgi2000@cuimail.unige.ch To: cgi2000@cui.unige.ch This is revised call for papers of CGI2000. Conference topics, paper format are now elaborated. Due to requests from several authors, we are extending the paper submission deadline to October 30, 1999. ___ Computer Graphics International 2000 ___ Nature, Time and People June 19-23, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland http://www.miralab.unige.ch/cgi2000/ The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and the British Computer Society are proud to announce 17th annual conference CGI 2000 organized by MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland. CGI 2000 looks forward to scientists coming together to eagerly visualize changes that occur through time and allow a better comprehension of our daily world and nature. ______________________________________________________Specific Areas__ - Mathematical Aspects of Graphics - Surface Meshing and Modeling - Animation and Applications - Motion: Simulation, Constraint and Capturing - Global Illumination, Ray Tracing and Radiosity - Shape: Capturing, Modeling, Morphing - Visualization and Volume Rendering - Virtual Reality and Man Machine Interaction - Scientific Visualization and GIS Systems - Vision, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition - Web Technologies, Hypermedia and Education Aspects - Parallel and Distributed Graphics - Biomechanics, Physics and/or Natural Phenomenon - Speech and/or Language Processing and/or AI ___________________________________________________Conference Topics__ - Visual simulation of environmental issues: water, ground, forests, mountains, and air pollution - Visual simulation of population through time: overpopulation, aging, and evolution of human body, migration - Visual simulation of human habits through time: dresses, beauty concept, individual and group behavior - Visual simulation of architecture at times and future - Visual simulation of plants, animals of the past, present and future - Visual simulation of the making of molecules and products - Visual simulation of any biological processes - Visual simulation of transportation systems and their evolution - Visualization of medical organs through time - Visual simulation of past, present and future celebrities and methodology to create virtual humans - Visualization of heavens, demons, famous ghosts or prophets - Visualization of our comprehension of the world at a certain period - Visualization of the planet system with its various interpretations through time _____________________________________________________Important Dates__ October 30, 1999 - Conference papers submission December 30, 1999 - Announcement of accepted Conference papers June 19, 2000 - CGI 2000 Tutorials June 20-21, 2000 - CGI 2000 Workshops, workshops will be half-day, full-day, or two-days. June 20-23, 2000 - CGI 2000 Conference _____________________________________________________Call for Papers__ Submission date October 30, 1999 Authors are requested to submit original papers that present research results related to the conference topics. Papers are limited to 8 pages (single line spacing) including all figures. Proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Though there is no specific format for paper submission, final camera ready paper format is as per IEEE. The submission of PAL VHS video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is strongly recommended. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings; videos will be included in the conference video proceedings. A "Best CGI 2000 Paper Award" will be given to the paper that provides excellent visual techniques to give meaningful comprehension of our world. Selected papers of the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, published by John Wiley. It is required that one of the accepted paper's author register and present the paper in the conference. Please submit 5 copies of all materials (hard copy) to: Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann MIRALab, CUI 24, rue du General Dufour CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland ________________________________________________Conference Committee__ Honorary Chair: T.L. Kunii, Hosei University, Japan Conference Chairs: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore Program Chairs: Rae Earnshaw, University of Bradford, U.K Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland Local organization chair: Igor Pandzic, University of Geneva, Switzerland Program Committee (tentative): Yannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA Eric Badiqué, European Commission Norman I. Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin, USA Massimo Bergamasco, SSSA, Italy Hanspeter Bieri, University of Bern, Switzerland Bruce Blumberg, MIT, USA Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA, France Ronan Boulic, EPFL, Switzerland Beat Bruderlin, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Pere Brunet, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain Tolga Capin, EPFL, Switzerland Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Gershon Elber, Institute of Technology, Israel Jose L. Encarnacao, IGD, Germany Bianca Falcidieno, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Gerald Farin, Arizona State University, USA Dieter Fellner, TU Braunschweig, Germany David Dagan Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong Andrej Ferko, Comenius University, Slovakia Eddy Flerackers, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium Pascal Fua, EPFL, Switzerland Martin Goebel, GMD, Germany Markus Gross, ETH, Switzerland Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Christoph M. Hoffmann, Purdue University, USA Bob Hopgood, Rutherford Lab. UK Horace H. S. Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Huw Jones, Middlesex University, UK Kenneth I. Joy, University of California Davis, USA Prem Kalra, Indian institute of Technology, Delhi, India Myung-Soo Kim, POSTECH, Korea Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Hosei University, Japan Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina, USA Dimitris Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania, USA Laurent Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Heinrich Mueller, University of Dortmund, Germany Eihachiro Nakamae, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan Joern Ostermann, AT&T Labs Research, USA Igor Pandzic, University of Geneva, Switzerland Rick Parent, Ohio State University, USA Nicholas M. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA Leslie Piegl, University of South Florida, USA Werner Purgathofer, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University, Israel Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Jarek Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Harold P. Santo, GRASP, Portugal Dietmar Saupe, University of Leipzig, Germany Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany Carlo Sequin, University of California, USA Gil Shin, Seoul National University, Korea Sung Yong Shin, KAIST, Korea Yoshihisa Shinagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Martin Sperka, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia Wolfgang Strasser, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany Demetri Terzopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Godfried T. Toussaint, McGill University, Canada Kees van Overveld, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Frank Van Reeth, Limburg University Center, Belgium Pascal Volino, University of Geneva, Switzerland Phil Willis,University of Bath, UK Franz-Erich Wolter, University of Hanover, Germany Anthony C. Woo, University of Washington, USA John R. Woodwark, Information Geometers Ltd., UK Yin Wu, Mitsubishi Lab, USA