Point-Based Graphics 2006 - Call for Papers Co-sponsored by Eurographics and the IEEE-CS Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH Web: http://www.point-graphics.org The drive for increasingly complex 3D geometric models, especially those scanned from the real-world, has brought about a growing interest in methods that build on point primitives. Following the highly successful 2004 and 2005 Symposia on Point-Based Graphics, the 3rd symposium of its series, PBG06, aims to further demonstrate the applicability of point-based methods in modeling, rendering, and simulation, and in a wide range of application domains. The PBG06 will take place in Boston, MA, July 29-30, 2006, and will be co-located with SIGGRAPH and the International Workshop on Volume Graphics. The best papers of PBG06 will additionally be published in a special issue of Computers & Graphics. We invite your original contributions in areas including, but not limited to, the following: Data acquisition and surface reconstruction Geometric modeling using point primitives Sampling, approximation, and interpolation Rendering algorithms for point primitives Geometry processing of point models Topological properties of point clouds Hardware architectures for point primitives Animation and morphing of point-sampled models Hybrid representations and algorithms Use of point-based methods in real-world applications Transmission and compression of point-sampled geometry Important Dates: 21 April 2006 Electronic abstract submission 24 April 2006 Electronic paper submission 2 June 2006 Author notification 16 June 2006 Camera-ready copy Organization Conference Chairs: Mark Pauly, ETH Zurich Matthias Zwicker, University of California at San Diego Papers Chairs: Mario Botsch, ETH Zurich Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities Papers Committee: Marc Alexa Daniel Aliaga Kavita Bala Loic Barthe Frederic Cazals Daniel Cohen-Or Oliver Deussen Tamal Dey Philip Dutre David Ebert Issei Fujishiro Joachim Giesen Enrico Gobbetti Markus Gross Hans-Christian Hege Arie Kaufman Leif Kobbelt Anselmo Lastra Wojciech Matusik Nelson Max Torsten Moeller Klaus Mueller Matthias Mueller Renato Pajarola Hanspeter Pfister Voicu Popescu Werner Purgathofer Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz Dietmar Saupe Claudio Silva Oliver Staadt Marc Stamminger Alexandru Telea Matthias Teschner Amitabh Varshney Luiz Velho Michael Wand Ruediger Westermann Afra Zomorodian