From: Pierre Beylot Subject: CFP: Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia '97 (CFP) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:58:32 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia '97 (VSMM '97) in Geneva, Switzerland http://miralabwww.unige.ch/~vsmm97/ September 10-12, 1997 University of Geneva, Switzerland The third International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia will be held in Geneva on 10-12 September 1997. This conference is supported by the International Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia(VSMM), the International Federation for Information Processing(IFIP) and MIRALab-CUI (University of Geneva). The conference will provide a forum for virtual reality and multimedia, and an opportunity for academic researchers to exchange up-to-date technological knowledge and experience. In addition to the technical sessions, plenary and invited sessions will be organized. =========================================================================== ****** CONFERENCE TOPICS ****** This year, particular emphasis will be put on multimedia topics MULTIMEDIA Communication and Networking Multimedia system services Electronic and Network publishing Distributed multimedia systems Scientific and multimedia toolkits User models for multimodal interfaces Storage and compression techniques Digital video SNHC and MPEG-4 Standards Teleshopping systems Voice, sound and texts integration Multimedia distance learning Interactive virtual studios Interactive Television HUMAN INTERFACE and SENSING Haptic displays Force-feed back models Virtual sensors Visual interface Real-time control of Avatars Sound and speech interfaces 3D Measurement Application of computer vision Tactile sensing Motion analysis and tracking Intelligent sensors Sensors fusion Sensitivity Engineering Pattern recognition 2D&3D Scene analysis and Image processing INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS Telerobotics & Telepresence VR for CAM & CIM,AI Intelligent manufacturing system Control and simulation VR education software(VRES) VR networks APPLICATIONS Medical surgery & supporting systems VR for veterinary medicine Bioscience VR in psychology VR in sports VR in agriculture Artificial social systems MODELING AND THEORY Rapid prototyping Factory modeling & automation Mathematical modeling Computational geometry Fuzzy theory Neural network Artificial life ============================================================================= CALL FOR PANELS Proposals for panels on topics related to Virtual Systems and MultiMedia must be sent to Prof. N. Magnenat Thalmann(thalmann@cui.unige.ch) before April 20, 1997. ============================================================================= PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers submitted should be pertinent to the conference topics. Four copies of full papers in English are due April 20, 1997. Authors will be notified by May 31, 1997. Papers should be around 10 pages single spaced including images, figures, tables and references.The paper should include the title of the paper, authors names, affiliations, postal adresses, e-mail and fax number. Each presentation is expected to be a 20-minute talk. The Conference proceedings will appear in a book published by Springer Verlag. Please submit papers to the following address: Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann VSMM'97 MIRALab CUI 24 Rue du General Dufour CH 1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland or by anonymous ftp (in gzipped PostScript/PDF format) at cuirs1.unige.ch (129.194.137.22) or cuisg13.unige.ch (129.194.137.17) (In case of submission by ftp, authors are requested to send an email to Laurent.Moccozet@cui.unige.ch including the title of the paper, authors names, affiliations, postal adresses, e-mail and fax number, together with the name of the file corresponding to their submission.) AUTHORS SCHEDULE: April 20, 1997 for manuscripts May 31, 1997 for the notification BEST PAPER AWARD: A best paper Award will be given to authors of outstanding papers. Selection will be made at the conference based on technical content. The winners will be chosen by the conference committee members in consultation with the members of VSMM. JOURNAL of VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER ANIMATION special issue: High quality papers related to computer animation and visualization will be selected for a special issue of the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, published by John Wiley. ============================================================================= SUPPORTED BY International Society on VSMM(President: Prof. Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University) International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group 5.10 on Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds MIRALab-CUI, University of Geneva GENERAL COMMITTEE Honorary Committee Chair Thomas B. Sheridan, MIT, USA General Committee Chair Nadia Magnenat Thalmann University of Geneva, Switzerland General Committee Vice-Chairs Scott S. Fisher Telepresence Research, USA Hiroshi Harashima University of Tokyo, Japan Robert J. Stone VR Solutions, UK INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Committee Chairs for Europe Nadia Magnenat Thalmann University of Geneva, Switzerland for Asia Takeo Ojika Gifu University, Japan for America David Zeltzer David Sarnoff Research Center, USA Programm Committee Members Massimo Bergamasco Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore, Singapore Rae A. Earnshaw University of Bradford, UK Ole Henrik Ellestad Norsk Regnesentral, NO Jose L. Encarnacao Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany Scott S. Fisher Telepresence Research Corp., USA Eddy Flerackers Limburg University Center, Belgium Jean-Guy Fontaine Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris,France Mark W. Green University Alberta, Canada Charles Grimsdale Director of Division Ltd, UK Hiroshi Harashima University of Tokyo, Japan Michitaka Hirose University of Tokyo, Japan Young Whan Kim Korean Telecom, South Korea Tohru Ifukube Hokkaido University, Japan Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stanislav Klimenko Institute for High Energy Physics, Russia Myron Krueger Artificial Reality Corp., USA Tosiyasu L. Kunii University of Aizu, Japan Nadia Magnenat Thalmann University of Geneva, Switzerland Hermann Maurer University of Graz, Austria Gavin Miller Apple Inc., USA Makoto Nonaka President of FISA, USA Junji Nomura Matsusita Electric Works LTD, Japan Setsuo Ohsuga Waseda University, Japan Takeo Ojika Gifu University, Japan Alex Pentland MediaLab MIT, USA Werner Purgathofer Vienna University of Technology, Austria Larry Rosenblum Naval Research Laboratory, USA Joachim Sauter ART+COM, Germany Hans-Peter Seidel Erlangen University, Germany Luis Serra National University of Singapore, Singapore Sung Yong Shin Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology(KAIST), South Korea Mel Slater University of College London, UK Robert J. Stone VR Solutions Ltd, UK Yasuhito Suenaga Nagoya University, Japan Susumu Tachi University of Tokyo, Japan Zesheng Tang Tsinghua University, R. P. China Demetri Terzopoulos University of Toronto, Canada Daniel Thalmann Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Hal Thwaites Concordia University, Canada Junichiro Toriwaki Nagoya University, Japan Jiaxin Wang University of Tsinghua, R. P. China Kaye Wohn Korea Advanced Institute of Sciences & Technology(KAIST), South Korea Franz-Heinrich Wolter University of Hannover, Germany Kazuhiko Yamamoto Gifu University, Gifu, Japan David Zeltzer David Sarnoff Research Center, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Pierre Beylot MIRALab-CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland Laurent Moccozet MIRALab-CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland Veronique Willi MIRALab-CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland SPONSOR: Gifu Research and Development Foundation (GRDF) IN-COOPERATION WITH (Tentative): * The Swiss Informaticians Society * The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) * Eurographics * VR News, USA and Europe * The Virtual Reality Society of Japan * The British Computer Graphics Society * Virtual System Laboratory of Gifu University ============================================================================= ============================================================================= For further information Laurent Moccozet MIRALab CUI 24 Rue du General Dufour CH 1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland tel: +41-22 705.77.64 fax: +41-22 705.77.80 e-mail: Laurent.Moccozet@cui.unige.ch or VSMM'97 web site at http://miralabwww.unige.ch/~vsmm97/ ============================================================================