CFP: 4th Int Symposium on Visual Comuting (ISVC08)

CALL FOR PAPERS & SPECIAL TRACKS

4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC08) Monte Carlo Resort & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada, USA December 1-3, 2008

The purpose of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) is to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This is the fourth in the series of symposia following three very successful meetings in 2005, 2006, and 2007.

ISVC08 will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing with all aspects of visual computing. In addition to the main technical program, the symposium will include several keynote speakers, posters sessions, and special tracks. All papers accepted will appear in the symposium proceedings which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Two "best paper awards", each worth of $500, are sponsored by Siemens and MERL.

**Topics**

ISCV seeks papers describing contributions to the state of the art and state of the practice in the field of visual computing. The symposium is structured around the four central areas of visual computing: (1) computer vision, (2) computer graphics, (3) virtual reality, and (4) visualization. In particular, we are interested in papers that combine technologies from two or more of these areas.

Steering Committee:

George Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Richard Boyle, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Bharam Parvin, Lawerence Berkeley National Lab, USA Darko Koracin, Desert Research Institute, USA

(Area 1) Computer Vision Chairs:

Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University, UK Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA

(Area 2) Computer Graphics Chairs:

Jorg Peters, University of Florida, USA James Klosowski, IBM, USA

(Area 3) Virtual Reality Chairs:

Laura Arns, Purdue University, USA Ka Chun Yu, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, USA

(Area 4) Visualization Chairs:

Theresa-Marie Rhyme, North Carolina State University, USA Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Labs, USA

Keynote Speakers (confirmed):

J.K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, USA Kelly Geither, University of Texas, USA Arie Kaufman, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Gerard Medioni, USC, USA Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston, USA

Program Committee:

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** Sponsors:

University of Nevada, Reno NASA Ames Research Center Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Desert Research Institute Siemens Hewelett Packard IBM Almaden Intel Ford Motor Company DigitalPersona MERL Equinox Corporation

** Important Dates**

Special track proposals: 4/25 2008 Paper submissions 7/21 2008 Notification of acceptance 9/1 2008 Final camera ready paper 9/15 2008 Advance Registration 9/15 2008 ISVC08 Symposium 12/1-12/3 2008

**Paper Submission**

Papers submitted to ISVC08 must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A complete paper should be submitted in camera-ready format. See

for details. Papers will be reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the field. Each paper will receive at least two blind reviews and should not contain names or other information revealing authors' identity. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and presentation quality. In submitting a paper the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, they will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion into the proceedings and will present the paper at the symposium.

**** Call for Special Track Proposals***

Proposals are invited for special tracks on any topic relevant to the symposium.If you are interested in organizing a special track, please email a special track proposal to snipped-for-privacy@isvc.net by April 25, 2008. Each special track proposal should include the following information:

1.Title

1. Scope and Topics
2. Names of organizers and contact information
3. Initial special track committee
4. Anticipated number of papers