CALL FOR PAPERS & SPECIAL TRACKS

          4th International Symposium on Visual Computing
                             (ISVC08)

                     Monte Carlo Resort & Casino
                        Las Vegas, Nevada
                        December 1-3, 2008

                http://www.isvc.net

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.

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.

ISCV08 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
(4) visualization.

In particular, we are interested in papers that combine technologies from
two or more of these areas. For a complete list of topics, please see
http://www.isvc.net/cfp.html

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SPECIAL TRACKS
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Proposals are invited for special tracks on any topic relevant to the
symposium. If you are interested in organizing a special track, please
see http://www.isvc.net/tracks.html


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IMPORTANT DATES
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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


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ISVC08 AREA CHAIRS
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(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


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ISVC08 Keynote Speakers
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       J.K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, USA
       Kelly Geither, University of Texas, USA
       Arie Kaufman, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
       Gerard Medioni, USC, USA
       Alma Merians, University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey,
       Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston, USA


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ISVC08 PC
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    (see http://www.isvc.net)


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PUBLICATION
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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.


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BEST PAPER AWARDS
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Two "best paper awards", each worth of $500,
are sponsored by Siemens and MERL.


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SPONSORS
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UNR, NASA, LBNL, DRI, Siemens, Ford, Intel, DigitalPersona
HP, Equinox, IBM, MERL