Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007
SEPTEMBER 10-12, ULM, GERMANY

With the increasing interest in realistic rendering and simulation, more
and more graphics research focuses on ray tracing. Following a very successful
first event in Utah in 2006, this second Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing
will provide a dedicated forum for the scientific presentation and discussion of
the latest developments in this highly active field of research.
The event will take place at Ulm University, Germany, September 10-12,
2007. The program co-chairs are Alexander Keller and Per Christensen. The
international program committee consists of Bart Adams, Tomas Akenine-
Möller, Carsten Benthin, Jiri Bittner, Erik Brunvand, Per Christensen, Eric Haines,
Vlastimil Havran, Wolfgang Heidrich, Greg Humphreys, Henrik Wann Jensen,
Alexander Keller, Pankaj Khanna, David Luebke, Jeffrey Mahovsky, Dinesh Manocha,
William Mark, Michael McCool, Steven Parker, Matt Pharr, Timothy Purcell,
Alexander Reshetov, Peter Shirley, Philipp Slusallek, Brian Smits, Gordon
Stoll, Ingo Wald, Bruce Walter, Peter Wonka, Sven Woop, Carsten Wächter,
and Sung-Eui Yoon.
The conference proceedings will be printed by the Eurographics Association
in corporation with IEEE (pending) and the ACM (pending). The publication will
be accessible through digital libraries as well.
We invite original and innovative contributions in areas including, but not
limited to:
. Efficient acceleration algorithms and data structures for ray tracing
. Strategies for fast ray traversal and primitive intersection
. Ray tracing advanced primitives (e.g. point clouds, volumes)
. Ray tracing dynamic models
. Scalable parallel algorithms for ray tracing
. Ray tracing hardware
. Implementations of ray tracing on GPUs and novel hardware architectures
. Ray tracing systems
. Sampling strategies, filtering techniques, and advanced illumination techniques
. Tools, benchmarks, and performance studies
. Applications of ray tracing as well as practice and experience reports
We also encourage the submission of posters of current and ongoing work
in these areas. Although the symposium is primarily targeting interactive techniques,
we explicitly invite papers of techniques that are not yet interactive.
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. There will be ample time for
discussions during the symposium.

SCHEDULE
JUNE 14, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE
JULY 12, 2007 REVIEWS DUE
JULY 19, 2007 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION
AUGUST 2, 2007 CAMERA-READY COPY
SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2007 SYMPOSIUM IN ULM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

JACCO BIKKER
NHTV UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

ALEXANDER KELLER
ULM UNIVERSITY

PER CHRISTENSEN
PIXAR
ANIMATION STUDIOS

EMAIL mailto:rt07@uni-ulm.de
WEBPAGE http://www.uni-ulm.de/rt07