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First Call for Papers and Demos
ISMAR 03
The Second International Symposium
on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Oct. 7 - Oct. 10, 2003
The National Center of Sciences
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.ismar03.org
Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society and
SIGMR, Virtual Reality Society of Japan
In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH / SIGCHI
(Approval pending)
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[Aims and Scope]
In the past few years, Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
have received ever increasing attention, as indicated by a series of
events devoted to these areas, including the well-attended International
Workshops and Symposia on Augmented Reality in the USA and Europe (IWAR
'98, IWAR '99, ISAR 2000, ISAR 2001) as well as the International
Symposia on Mixed Reality in Japan (ISMR '99, ISMR 2001). By its very
nature, MR and AR are highly interdisciplinary fields involving signal
processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human
factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks,
distributed computing, information access, information visualization,
and hardware design for new displays and sensors. MR/AR concepts are
applicable to a wide range of applications.
Last year, joined are forces working on Mixed Reality and Augmented
Reality across the world in the premier forum of the field: The
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2002) was
successfully held in Darmstadt, Germany and had more than 200
participants. This year, ISMAR 03 provides an opportunity for MR/AR
researchers from academia and industry across the world to meet again in
an informal atmosphere to exchange ideas, concepts, and research results.
ISMAR 03 is meant to trigger discussions among participants and to
provide an intensive exchange between industrial and academic
researchers working in the different research branches of MR and AR.
[Call for Papers]
ISMAR 03 invites paper and poster submissions in the general field of
Mixed and Augmented Reality. Topics include, but are not limited to:
o MR/AR applications
- personal MR/AR information systems
- industrial MR/AR applications
- medical MR/AR applications
- MR/AR for entertainment
- MR/AR for architecture
o Sensors
- position and orientation tracking technology
- calibration methods and sensor fusion
- vision-based registration and tracking
- acquisition of 3D scene descriptions
o System architecture (hardware and software design)
- wearable computing
- distributed and collaborative MR/AR
- display hardware
o User Interaction
- interaction techniques for MR/AR
- collaborative MR/AR
- multimodal input and output
o Information presentation
- real-time rendering
- photorealistic rendering (e.g., reflection analysis)
- object overlay and spatial layout techniques
- aural and haptic augmentation
- mediated reality
o Human factors
- usability studies
- acceptance of MR/AR technology
- social implications
[Call for Demos]
At the ISMAR 03, the opportunity to present the latest research results
with technical demonstrations will be provided. Authors should submit a
two-page abstract describing the demonstration by May 31, 2003. These
abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers and will appear in the
proceedings. Some selected demonstrations may be invited to the MR Expo
that will be held in the same week as ISMAR 03 in Tokyo and open to
public inspection! For questions, please see the web page
http://www.ismar03.org or send e-mail to: Takeshi NAEMURA & Masahiko
INAMI (ismar03-demo@h .................).
[Important Dates]
Papers and Poster Demonstrations
Deadline for submissions: April 18, 2003 May 31, 2003
Acceptance notification: June 13, 2003 June 13, 2003
Camera ready due: July 4, 2003 July 4, 2003
Early registration deadline: Sep. 14, 2003
Symposium: Oct. 7 - Oct. 10, 2003
[Chairs and Committees]
General Chairs
+ Naokazu Yokoya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
+ Hideyuki Tamura, Canon, Japan
Program Chairs
+ Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
+ Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
+ Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan
Tutorial / Workshop Chairs
+ David Mizell, Intel Corporation, USA
+ Yuichi Ohta, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Technical Demonstration Chairs
+ Takeshi Naemura, University of Tokyo, Japan
+ Masahiko Inami, University of Tokyo, Japan
Publication Chair
+ Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan
Publicity (WWW Management) Chair
+ Masayuki Kanbara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Finance Chair
+ Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Canon, Japan
Local Arrangement Chairs
+ Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
+ Heito Zen, Chiba University, Japan Steering Committee
+ Ron Azuma, HRL Laboratories, USA
+ Reinhold Behringer, Rockwell Science Center, USA
+ Steve Feiner, Columbia University, USA
+ Gudrun Klinker, Technical University of Munich, Germany
+ David Mizell, Intel Corporation, USA
+ Stefan Mueller, University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany
+ Nassir Navab, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
+ Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA
+ Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Japan
+ Didier Stricker, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
+ Haruo Takemura, Osaka University, Japan
+ Hideyuki Tamura, Canon, Japan
[Contact]
Please address any questions to: info@i ..........
or visit: http://www.ismar03.org/
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Dieter Schmalstieg - dieter@c ..............
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