IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics

                     August 10-11, 2008

        Los Angeles, co-located with ACM Siggraph 2008

                  http://www.zib.de/vg08/


Volume Graphics 08 will be held in conjunction with the Point-Based
Graphics Symposium 08, under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and Eurographics
and will be co-located with ACM Siggraph 2008.

Volume graphics deals with the analysis, synthesis and presentation of
volumetric phenomena, both static and time-varying. Specifically, it
includes topics related to the acquisition, reconstruction and
transformation of volume data as well as feature analysis, information
extraction and rendering.  Research papers are solicited that present
original, unpublished results concerning all aspects of volume
graphics. We especially invite research contributions that report
computational techniques derived from existing knowledge in numerical
analysis, signal processing and statistical modeling. Furthermore,
papers are solicited which demonstrate the efficacy of the methods of
volume graphics in enhancing practices or understanding of specific
applications.

The accepted papers will be published by Eurographics Publishing in
cooperation with IEEE VGTC Publishing. A selected number of the best
papers will be further invited to submit an extended version to the IEEE
Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics.  A joint track on
\'Sample-Based Graphics\' will be organized to evaluate this as the
umbrella topic under which the two symposia will proceed jointly in the
future.

Please refer to
http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_VG08/subinstructions.html
preparation guidelines.


Important Dates
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May  02, 2008  Abstract submission deadline
May  09, 2008  Paper submission deadline
June 13, 2008  Author notification
July 17, 2008  Final paper submission deadline

All deadlines are at 24:00 Pacific Day Time.


Primary Symposium Topics
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+ Representation of Volume Information
+ Acquisition and Reconstruction of Volume Data
+ Volume Rendering
+ Modeling and Transformation of Volumetric Objects
+ Analysis of Volumetric Objects
+ Volume Graphics in Applications


General  Chairs
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Valerio Pascucci, LLNL, USA
Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University, Sweden


Papers Chairs
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Hans-Christian Hege, ZIB, Berlin, Germany
David Laidlaw, Brown University, USA


Steering Committee
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Min Chen, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
Tom Ertl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Issei Fujishiro, Tohoku University, Japan
Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University, USA
Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University, USA


Honorary Symposium Chair
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Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University, USA