From - Thu Aug 14 21:21:54 2003 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:20:24 +0200 From: "SMI&SM'04" Subject: SMI'04 Call for Papers ============================================================= **** First CALL for PAPERS **** SMI'04 Shape Modeling International '2004 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHAPE MODELING AND APPLICATIONS Genova, Italy, June 7-9 2004 as part of the first International Convention on SHAPES AND SOLIDS Palazzo Ducale Genova, Italy, June 7-11 2004 http://smism04.ge.imati.cnr.it ============================================================= As information is moving from textual to visual form, shapes are gaining importance in all fields of the society. Shapes are concerned with geometry, structure, attributes, semantics, and have interaction with time. Shapes populate virtual environments in advanced scientific and engineering simulation fields as in many emerging edutainment applications, where they also interact with virtual human agents. SMI'04 addresses all aspects of shape acquisition, modelling, representation, navigation, retrieval and understanding, and welcomes contributions on the perceptually relevant and semantically capable representations of shapes. SMI was launched for the first time in Japan in 1997 with the aim of engaging a rather multi-disciplinary community with common interests about shape modeling, but looking at the problem from a side view with respect to other specialized conferences. From year 2002 the SMI conference became an annual event with the venue changing circularly from Asia to Europe, and to America, it has also included the Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Workshop on Implicit Surfaces as a specific session. Previous events were held in 1997 and 1999 (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan), 2001 (Genova, Italy), 2002 (Banff, Canada), 2003 (Seoul, Korea). SMI'04 will be the sixth International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, and it will include full paper presentations, tutorials and keynote lectures organized in coordination with SM'04 (see the Convention web site for details), and poster sessions. SMI'04 will feature for the first time the Best Paper Award. The conference is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH (pending), EUROGRAPHICS (pending), and CGS (pending) The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (pending). SMI'04 takes place for the first time within the International Convention on Shapes and Solids 2004 (abbreviated SMI&SM'04). SMI&SM'04 is organized by the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology, Dept. of Genova, belonging to the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and it will be held in Genova, European Capital of Culture in year 2004, with the aim of bringing together the two major international conferences in 3D modeling: Shape Modeling International (abbreviated SMI) and the ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (abbreviated SM). The Conference Chairing will provide a joint coordination of common aspects of the conference (tutorial and keynotes' speakers), while maintaining the distinctive aspects of both conferences which will be run separately. The SMI&SM'04 Convention is chaired by Bianca Falcidieno while Prof. Tosiyasu L. Kunii has been invited to be the Honorary Chair of the event. TOPICS ------------- The conference is devoted to all areas of shape modeling, including but not limited to: Shape Acquisition and reconstruction Shape Modeling and Design Shape Analysis and Reasoning Shape Transformation and Morphing Shape Matching and Retrieval Dynamic Shapes Topological Modeling of Shapes Computational Basis for Shape Modeling Shape Perception and Recognition Interaction with Shapes Implicit Surfaces Polygonization of Surfaces Physically-based Shape Modeling Free-form Feature Extraction and Modeling Volume and Multidimensional Modeling Compression and Simplification of Shapes Interactive and Web-based Shape Modeling Shape Rendering Grammar-Based 3D Modeling Modeling for Games and Entertainment CONFERENCE COMMITTEES ------------------------ Conference Chair: Jarek Rossignac, Michela Spagnuolo Program Chairs: Alexander Pasko, Franca Giannini PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------------ Adzhiev V. Akleman E. Alexa M. Alliez P. Basri R. Belyaev A. Bernardini F. Bowyer A. Cani M.-P. Choi H. Cohen E. Cohen-Or D. Coquillart S. De Floriani L. De Martino M. Dey T. Eakins J. Encarnaçao J. Farin J. Ferri M. Fujishiro I. Funkhouser T. Gotsman C. Gross M. Hart J. Hoppe H. Joy K. Juettler B. Kartasheva E. Kim M.-S. Klein R. Kobbelt L. Leon J.-C. Levy B. Lindstrom P. Magillo P. Martin R. Massabo A. Montani C. Monti M. Nasri A. Okunev O. Peters J. Pottmann H. Puppo E. Qin H. Quak E. Schlick C. Schröeder P. Scopigno R. Seidel H.-P. Shapiro V. Sheffer A. Shinagawa Y. Silva C. Snoeyink J. Stork A. Suzuki H. Szymczak A. Thalmann D. Thalmann N. Turk G. Varshney A. Velho L. Veltkamp R. Woodwark J. Wyvill B. Wyvill G. Zorin D. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ October 20, 2003 Abstracts November 15, 2003 Full papers December 15, 2003 Posters January 15, 2004 Notification February 15, 2004 Camera ready June 7 - 9, 2004 SMI'04 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND SECRETARIAT --------------------------- Sandra Burlando, Marinella Pescaglia Caterina Pienovi (IMATI-GE, CNR) CONTACTS AND SUBMISSIONS --------------------------- Contact on organization and submission: Michela Spagnuolo, E-mail: spagnuolo@ge.imati.cnr.it Electronic Submission will be available (from September 2003) at http://smi2004sub.ge.imati.cnr.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------