GRAPP 2007 - International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

2^nd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory
and Applications

8 - 11 March, 2007 Barcelona, Spain

Call for Papers

Scope \| Conference Areas \| Area 1: Geometry and Modeling \| Area 2: Rendering \| Area 3: Animation and Simulation \| Area 4: Interactive Environments \| Keynote Speakers \| Venue \| Proceedings and Book Publication \| Secretariat \| Conference Chair \| Program Co-chairs \| Program Committee

GRAPP is organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication SCOPE The International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Graphics. We have chosen Interactive Environments for Computer Graphics as the main topic. Indeed, games and virtual environments currently dominate both research and practice in our field. The conference will be structured along four main tracks, covering different aspects related to Computer Graphics, from Modeling to Rendering, including Animation and Interactive Environments. We welcome papers describing original work in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference themes and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. CONFERENCE AREAS Each of these topic areas is expanded below. Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also allowed. 1. Geometry and Modeling 2. Rendering 3. Animation and Simulation 4. Interactive Environments AREA 1: GEOMETRY AND MODELING - Geometric Computing - Modeling and Algorithms - Fundamental Methods and Algorithms - Scene and Object Modeling - Solid and Heterogeneous Modeling - Surface Modeling - Modeling of Natural Scenes and Phenomena - Physics-Based Modeling - Multi-Resolution Modeling - Image-Based Modeling - Texture Models, Analysis, and Synthesis - Reflection and Illumination Models - Model Validation - CAGD - CAD/CAM Systems - Graphics Architectures - Sketch-Based Modelling AREA 2: RENDERING - Systems and Software Architectures for Rendering - Rendering Algorithms - Real-Time Rendering - Parallel Rendering - Image-Based Rendering - Volume Rendering - Point-Based Rendering - Lighting and Appearance - Shadows, Translucency and Visibility - Non-Photorealistic Rendering, Painting-like rendering, Drawing - Rendering Hardware AREA 3: ANIMATION AND SIMULATION - Animation Systems - Animation Algorithms and Techniques - Animation Languages - Animation from Motion Capture - Character Animation - Behavioural Animation - Human Figure Animation - Facial Animation - Animation of Particle Systems - Plausible Motion Simulation - Animation and Simulation of Natural Environments - Special Effects - Real-time Visual Simulation AREA 4: INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS - Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments - Distributed Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality - Collaborative Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments - Virtual Tours - Virtual Humans and Artificial Life - Real-time Graphics - Graphics in Computer Games - Collision Detection - Graphical Interfaces - Mobile Interfaces - Advanced User Interfaces - Hardware Technologies for Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. André Gagalowicz, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Prof. Mel Slater, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Prof. Jake K. Aggarwal, The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich, University of British Columbia, Canada VENUE The conference will be held in Barceló Hotel Sants. The Barceló Hotel Sants is a deluxe hotel located in the heart of Barcelona. It stays about 15 minutes from the airport, 4 minutes to Plaza de Catalunya and 500 meters to the Fira de Barcelona. Considering the hotel is exactly above the train station, it allows traveling to anyplace. Most important is the fact that all the noise from the train station is undetected because the hotel is soundproofed. The Barcelo Hotel Sants also offers on site dining and is convenient to many shopping and entertainment venues. PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. CONFERENCE CHAIR José Braz, EST/IPS, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Pere-Pau Vázquez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain João Madeiras Pereira, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Francisco Abad, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Sergey Ablameyko, United Institute of Informatics Problems, Russia Marco Agus, CRS4, Italy Trémeau Alain, LIGIV, France Daniel Aliaga, Purdue University, U.S.A. Carlos Ureña Almagro, University of Granada, Spain Marco Attene, CNR, Italy Dolors Ayala, Polytecnical University of Catalonia, Spain Sergei Azernikov, University of Michigan, U.S.A. Jacob Barhak, University of Michigan, U.S.A. William Baxter, OLM Digital, Inc., Japan Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Jiri Bittner, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Manfred Bogen, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany Kadi Bouatouch, IRISA, France Ronan Boulic, EPFL, Switzerland José Braz, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal / EST-IPS, Portugal Willem F. Bronsvoort, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Pere Brunet, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Guido Brunnett, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Sam Buss, University of California, U.S.A. Patrick Callet, École Central de Paris, France Emilio Camahort, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Pedro Cano, University of Granada, Spain Juan Carlos Torres Cantero, Universidad de Granada, Spain Maria Beatriz Carmo, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Leocadio González Casado, Almeria University, Spain Teresa Chambel, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal Chun-Fa Chang, National Tsing Hua Universitry, Taiwan Norishige Chiba, Iwate University, Japan Wee Chionh, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hwan-Gue Cho, Pusan National University, Korea Min-Hyung Choi, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, U.S.A. Miguel Chover, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Yiorgos Chrysanthou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Ana Paula Cláudio, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Nuno Correia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal António Cardoso Costa, ISEP, Portugal Balázs Csébfalvi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Carsten Dachsbacher, INRIA Sopha-Antipolis , France Hervé Delingette, INRIA, France John Dingliana, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jean-Michel Dischler, Université Louis Pasteur, France Sasa Divjak, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Stéphane Donikian, IRISA/CNRS, France David Duce, Oxford Brookes University, U.K. Roman Durikovic, Comenius University, Japan James Edge, University of Surrey, UK Francisco R. Feito, Universidad de Jaén, Spain Petr Felkel, CTU Prague, Electrotechnical Faculty, Czech Republic Inmaculada Garcia Fernandez, University of Almeria, Spain Fernando Nunes Ferreira, FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, IMPA, Brazil Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Anath Fischer, Technion, Israel Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto, Canada Julian Flores, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Leila De Floriani, University of Genova and University of Maryland at U.S.A., Italy Martin Fuchs, MPI Informatik, Germany Ioannis Fudos, University of Loannina, Greece Tadahiro Fujimoto, Iwate University, Japan Aphrodite Galata, The University of Manchester, U.K. Manuel Gamito, The University of Sheffield, U.K. Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Miguel Gea, University of Granada, Spain Michael Gleicher, University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. Mashhuda Glencross, The University of Manchester, UK Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4 - Visual Computing, Italy Michael Goesele, University of Washington, U.S.A. Abel Gomes, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Eduard Gröller, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany Alain Grumbach, ENST, France Stefan Gumhold, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Igor Guskov, Univesity of Michigan, U.S.A. Mario Gutierrez, ITESM Campus Toluca, Mexico Peter Hall, University of Bath, UK Helwig Hauser, VRVis Research Center, Austria Vlastimil Havran, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic José Tiberio Hernandez, University of Los Andes, Colombia Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK Nancy Hitschfeld, University of Chile, Chile Christoph M. Hoffmann, Purdue University, U.S.A. Toby Howard, University of Manchester, U.K. Zhiyong Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Roger Hubbold, The University of Manchester, U.K. Insung Ihm, Sogang University, Korea Andres Iglesias, University of Cantabria, Spain Patricio Inostroza, Universidad de Chile, Chile Jiri Janacek, Institute of Physiology ASCR, Czech Republic Frederik Jansen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Jie Tang, Nanjing University, China Robert Joan-Arnyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Andrew Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A. Chris Joslin, Carleton University, Canada Marcelo Kallmann, University of California, Merced, U.S.A. Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University (SUNY), U.S.A. Jan Kautz, UCL, U.K. HyungSeok Kim, Konkuk University, Korea Young J. Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea Yoshifumi Kitamura, Osaka University, Japan Stanislav Klimenko, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , Russia Josef Kohout, University of West Bohemia (Department of Computer Science adn Engineering), Czech Republic Ivana Kolingerova, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic David Laidlaw, Brown University, U.S.A. Wonsook Lee, University of Ottawa, Canada Miguel Leitão, ISEP, Portugal Heinz U. Lemke, Institute for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Germany Hendrik Lensch, MPI Informatik, Germany Suresh Lodha, University of California, U.S.A. Celine Loscos, University College London, UK Steve Maddock, University of Sheffield, U.K. Joaquim Madeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, MIRALab-University of Geneva, Switzerland Marcus Magnor, TU Braunschweig, Germany Stephen Mann, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Manzke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Michael McCool, University of Waterloo, Canada Tom Mertens, Hasselt University, Belgium Dominique Michelucci, LE2I, University of Dijon, France Laurent Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ramon Molla, Tecnical University of Valencia, Spain Torsten Möller, Simon Fraser University, Canada Claudio Montani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Matthias Mueller-Fischer, AGEIA, Switzerland Franck Multon, University Rennes /IRISA, France Ken Museth, Linkoping University, Sweden Isabel Navazo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Laszlo Neumann, Universitat de Girona, Spain Gennadiy Nikishkov, University of Aizu, Japan Alexander Nischelwitzer, University of applied Sciences Joanneum, Austria Marc Olano, UMBC, U.S.A. Victor Ostromoukhov, University of Montreal, Canada Miguel A. Otaduy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China Georgios Papaioannou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Alexander Pasko, Hosei University, Japan Nuria Pelechano, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. João Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Bernard Péroche, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Steve Pettifer, The University of Manchester, U.K. Dimitri Plemenos, University of Limoges, France Voicu Popescu, Purdue University, U.S.A. Anna Puig, University of Barcelona, Spain Enrico Puppo, University of Genova, Italy Werner Purgathofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Stephane Redon, INRIA, France Maria-Cecilia Rivara, Universidad de Chile, Chile Przemyslaw Rokita, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Daniela Romano, University of Sheffield, U.K. Bodo Rosenhahn, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany Manuel Próspero dos Santos, FCT-UNL, Portugal Muhammad Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia Francis Schmitt, ENST, France Rafael J. Segura, Univesidad de Jaen, Spain Ariel Shamir, IDC, Israel Ilan Shimshoni, Haifa University, Israel Peter Shirley, University of Utah, U.S.A. Deborah Silver, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A. A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP/INESC Porto, Portugal Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Oliver Staadt, UC Davis, U.S.A. Tapio Takala, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Ayellet Tal, Technion, Israel Tiow Seng Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore José Carlos Teixeira, IT - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Matthias Teschner, University of Freiburg, Germany Daniel Thalmann, EPFL VRlab, Switzerland Holger Theisel, MPI Informatik, Germany Christian Theobalt, MPI Informatik, Germany Gui Yun Tian, University of Huddersfield, U.K. Walid Tizani, University of Nottigham, U.K. Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, U.S.A. Francisco Velasco, University of Granada, Spain Luiz Velho, IMPA - Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada , Brazil Frederic Vexo, EPFL, Switzerland Max Viergever, Max Viergever, The Netherlands Anna Vilanova , Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ivan Viola, University of Bergen, Norway Wenping Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Andreas Weber, University of Bonn, Germany Daniel Weiskopf, Simon Fraser University, Canada Gerold Wesche, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Alexander Wilkie, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Burkhard Wuensche, University of Auckland, New Zealand Gabriel Zachmann, Clausthal University, Germany Jian J. Zhang, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Jianmin Zheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Alan Zundel, Brigham Young University, U.S.A. SECRETARIAT CONTACTS GRAPP Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +351 265 520 186 e-mail: grapp.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://grapp.visigrapp.org

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