SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISION, VIDEO AND GRAPHICS 7-8 July 2005 Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh http://www.ece.eps.hw.ac.uk/~mtc/VVG05/VVG05cfp.html FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS VVG'05 is the second event in a series promoting high-quality, interdisciplinary research on computer vision, computer graphics and video engineering. The convergence of these disciplines keeps attracting new interest from both academy and industry, and generating exciting applications in the fields of communications (immersive videoconferencing, adaptive scalable image coding), entertainment (video and film production, post-processing, virtual studios), interactive visualisation and distributed gaming. VVG'05 maintains the format of the successful VVG'03 event as a single-stream, high-quality event comprising invited keynote talks and peer-reviewed podium and poster presentations. Accepted papers will be published in ISBN proceedings. Selected papers will be put forward for a special issue of a journal (to be defined). The conference is sponsored by IMA and run under the auspices of the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) and of the EPSRC Network of Excellence on Video, Vision and Graphics (www.bath.ac.uk/~maspmh/VVGwebsite/index.html ). INVITED SPEAKERS Andre Gagalowicz, INRIA Joern Oestermann, Hannover University Hans-Peter Seidel, Max Planck Saarbrücken Demetri Terzopoulos, New York University ORGANISING COMMITTEE Emanuele Trucco, General Chair Adrian Hilton, Vision Area Chair Mike Chantler, Programme Chair Min Chen, Graphics Area Chair John Robinson, Video Area Chair SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE N Canagarajah, Bristol University M Chantler, Heriot-Watt University Min Chen, Swansea University A Clark, Essex University R B Fisher, Edinburgh University P Hall, Bath University A Hilton, Surrey University E Izquierdo, Queen Mary Univ of London M Magnor, Max Planck Institute J Robinson, York University E Trucco, Heriot-Watt University P Willis, Bath University TOPICS AND PAPER FORMAT High-quality papers reporting recent and original developments are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas: - Image-based rendering, hybrid models and image-based methods - Automatic generation of graphics and image-based models from multiple views - Augmented- and virtual-reality collaborative environments - Representation and analysis of complex 3-D dynamic scenes - Modelling, tracking, and animating moving humans - Content-based retrieval of images and video - Automatic generation of caricatures, paintings, and video effects - Immersive communications, e.g., videoconferencing - Imaging techniques in scientific and information visualization - Media and video production, virtual studios, and film applications - Visual data mining in image/video retrieval SUBMITTING A PAPER Submit 8-page, double-column papers in pdf format by email to e.trucco@hw.ac.uk by Friday 4 March 2005. Papers should be anonymous and corresponding authors' details given in the accompanying email. The conference language is English. For detailed instructions for authors see the conference website (in preparation). IMPORTANT DATES 4 March 2005 Paper submission deadline 15 April Notification of acceptance to authors 6 May Submission of camera-ready copies 7-8 July VVG'05 STUDENT TRAVEL SPONSORSHIPS Subjet to confirmation, EPSRC will make a number of travel awards for PhD students as for VVG'03. Final confirmation and application procedure to appear on the conference website. MAILING LIST AND FURTHER INFORMATION To be placed on the IMA mailing list for this conference, please contact the Conference Officer at conferences@ima.co.uk, phone (01702) 354020, FAX (01702) 354111, www.ima.org.uk, or write to The Conference Officer, The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK. For further information contact E.Trucco@hw.ac.uk