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CDVE2017 short paper deadline approaching
by cdve .org 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

*Short paper deadline approaching - The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering* Sept. 17-20, 2017, Mallorca, Spain – www.cdve.org This is to remind you that the full paper deadline of CDVE2017 is approaching soon - April 20. *Short paper *- 4 pages Submission deadline: April 20, 2017. Notification of acceptance May 20, 2017 *Where to submit*: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2017 *How to submit*: See http://www.cdve.org/submit.html All the requirement is the same as full papers except that the paper should be limited to 4 pages. If accepted, it will be published in our proceedings and has the chance to be presented in the conference orally. The contents should concentrate on the intermediate results of a project. The conference proceedings of CDVE2017 will be published by the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. Past journals include Concurrent Engineering, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Symmetry etc. *Paper topics*: See http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for details. Please feel free to forward this cfp. Mallorca is the home of the conference, a famous European vacation resort. We look forward to seeing you in Mallorca, Spain! -- The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Sept. 17-20, 2016, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2017(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Call for Papers - Vis in Practice 2017: Visualization Solutions in the Wild
by Oelke, Daniela 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

VIP Vis in Practice 2017 http://visinpractice.org/ Visualization Solutions in the Wild The 2017 Workshop on Visualization in Practice (VIP) is an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying the latest visualization and visual analytics research to real world problems. VIP targets work at the interface between visualization research and specific application domains. It is highly interdisciplinary and focused on delivering actual value to users. This year, we specifically focus on visualization solutions in the wild, i.e. on tools, systems, or frameworks which are actively used. The workshop will cover all aspects from their initial conception and design, the process of getting them into use, and the long-term work of extending and sustaining them. The 2017 VIP workshop will be held on Monday 2nd October in conjunction with IEEE VIS<http://ieeevis.org> in Phoenix, Arizona (October 1-6). Topics Vis in Practice is a forum for vis practitioners and application-oriented researchers to exchange ideas about the use of state-of-the-art visualization and visual analytics methods on real world problems. This year, we are looking for descriptions of visualization solutions that have proven their benefit in a real-world application setting. Successful submissions will put a strong focus on demonstrating practical impact in a variety of ways, including but not limited to: * User Involvement. The goal of a practical visualization solution should be to address a specific visualization and/or problem posed by a prospective user group, oftentimes experts from other domains. Interaction with users is tricky; they frame their analysis problem in their own terms, which are often nontrivial for visualization experts to understand, and they may find it hard to gauge how their work can benefit from state-of-the-art visualization methods. This leads to interesting questions: * How do we involve users throughout the development? How can we understand their problem domains? * How do we communicate the added value of modern visualization approaches? * Can we identify best practices that transcend specific applications? * Application-driven Design. Generally, no uniquely defined, "correct" approach exists for any given visualization problem. Developing a working solution requires identifying viable options, weighing them, and eventually selecting a small subset. To this end, authors might answer these questions: * What process did you follow to design your solution? Did you use specific visualization methodologies or visualization-theoretic models? * What design decisions did you face? What options did you consider? How did you make a selection? * How did your solution improve the existing situation? * Systems Aspects. Oftentimes, solutions will be a large system rather than a one-method, fire-and-forget approach. Such systems generally require a lot of infrastructure building, a major development effort in its own right. * How can we manage this extra effort? * How can we make solutions sustainable? * Should we consider an open, community-based development approach? * Knowledge Transfer. Practical visualization solutions will by definition live on the interface between visualization research and a specific application domain. Their development will be driven by an exchange of knowledge across this interface. * What does it take to transfer an existing visualization method from a lab setting to a specific application problem? What pitfalls might we encounter? How can we overcome them? * What parts of the problem remain challenging? * Are there open problems that warrant more attention by the visualization research community? Although we do not expect individual submissions to cover all of these aspects, successful papers will feature a strong take-home message for a visualization-centric audience. We ask authors to contribute something beyond a "user manual" for a solution targeting a narrow application use case. Submission We solicit submissions of extended abstracts of up to four pages excluding references. Submissions should be prepared according to the IEEE conference paper format guidelines (http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera.html) Optionally, you may submit a video (MPEG, AVI, or Quicktime format, duration at most 5 minutes) showing your application or methods in action. This will be most helpful for demonstrating the effectiveness of your approach. If you would like to have your video included in the conference USB stick, it should not exceed 100MB. Abstracts will be reviewed for their potential applicability to the VIP workshop audience and their potential impact on the visualization community at large. Additionally, they will be reviewed for timeliness, clarity, and overall quality of writing. Note that research novelty is explicitly not the primary criterion for evaluation at the VIP workshop. Based on the outcome of the review process, authors of successful submissions will be invited to either present their work in a talk during the Vis in Practice workshop on October 2 or to prepare a poster for the VIP poster session, which will be held along with the VIS main poster session on October 4. All submissions for the 2017 Workshop on Visualization in Practice should be submitted via the Precision Conference System. Submissions must be received on or before June 16, 2017 to be considered. In order to maintain interactive and exciting presentations and posters, we require that at least one presenter per accepted submission attend the workshop. Important Dates Submission Deadline: Friday June 16, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: Friday July 14, 2017 Final Submission (Camera-ready): Wednesday July 26, 2017 Workshop presentations: Monday October 2, 2017 Workshop poster session: Wednesday October 4, 2017 All deadlines are at 5:00pm Pacific Time (PDT). If you have questions about this workshop or requests for help with submission problems please contact the chairs at vip(a)ieeevis.org<mailto:vip@ieeevis.org>.

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CDVE2017 full paper deadline apporaching
by cdve .org 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

*Full paper deadline approaching - The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering* Sept. 17-20, 2017, Mallorca, Spain – www.cdve.org This is to remind you that the full paper deadline of CDVE2017 is approaching soon - April 1. *Full Paper* - 8 pages (you do not have to submit an abstract for submitting a full paper) Submission deadline: April 1, 2017 Notification of acceptance May 20, 2017 *Short paper *- 4 pages Submission deadline: April 20, 2017. Notification of acceptance May 20, 2017 *Where to submit*: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2017 *How to submit*: See http://www.cdve.org/submit.html The conference proceedings of CDVE2017 will be published by the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to fully expand to be included in special issues of a couple SCI indexed journals. Past journals include Concurrent Engineering, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Symmetry etc. *Paper topics*: See http://www.cdve.org/cfpaper.html for details. Please feel free to forward this cfp. Mallorca is the home of the conference, a famous European vacation resort. We look forward to seeing you in Mallorca, Spain! -- The 14th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Sept. 17-20, 2016, Mallorca, Spain Email: cdve2017(a)easychair.org Web: http://www.cdve.org

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Biological Visualisation Network AGM
by Kennedy, Jessie 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Dear Colleague, The Biological Visualisation Community's 3rd BiVi Annual Meeting takes place in Edinburgh on 20th-21st April 2017. This two day meeting comprises one day with 3 keynote talks, 7 talks on biological data visualisation as well as opportunities for lightning talks, posters and demos, with a second day of hands on training workshops. The talks and training include visualisation across the whole spectrum of biological data types from ‘omic sequence based data through cells and tissues to whole organism physiology. This is a meeting of interest to anybody working in biomedical science as well as developers of visualisation techniques. The keynote speakers are: - Jean-luc Doumont: The Three Laws of Communication - Marc Streit: From Visual Exploration of Biomedical Data to Storytelling and Back Again - Bang Wong: Art and Science: A partnership catalyzing discovery in biomedicine Registration (includes the evening meal) is £50 and student bursaries are available. More details at http://bivi.co/event/3rd-bivi-annual-meeting. Please forward this announcement to your colleagues. Looking forward to seeing you in Edinburgh, BiVi Organising Committee Contact:info@bivi.co<mailto:info@bivi.co> http://bivi.co<http://bivi.co/> ---------- About BiVi The Biological Visualisation Network, BiVi provides a forum for dissemination, training and discussion for life-scientists to discover and promote complex data visualisation ideas and solutions. BiVi, funded by the BBSRC, is a central resource for information on bio-visualisation and is supplemented with annual meetings for networking and educational purposes, focussed around emerging trends in visualisation and challenges facing biology. This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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CFP: Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis at SPECOM 2017
by Andreas Kerren 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

******************************************************************** SPECIAL SESSION: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS ******************************************************************** The exploitation of natural language from social media data is an intriguing task in the fields of text mining and natural language processing (NLP), with plenty of applications in social sciences and social media analytics. In this special session, we call for research papers in the broader field of NLP techniques for social media analysis. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): sentiment analysis in social media and beyond (e.g., stance identification, sarcasm detection, opinion mining), computational sociolinguistics (e.g., identification of demographic information such as gender, age), and NLP tools for social media mining (e.g., topic modeling for social media data, text categorization and clustering for social media, social media visual analytics). https://sites.google.com/site/specom2017/special-sessions ORGANIZERS The special session is organized by: • Vasiliki Simaki (Lund University, Sweden) • Carita Paradis (Lund University, Sweden) • Fragkiskos D. Malliaros (UC San Diego, USA) • Andreas Kerren (Linnaeus University, Sweden) • Michalis Vazirgiannis (École Polytechnique, France) CONTACT Vasiliki Simaki, vasiliki.simaki(a)englund.lu.se Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, fmalliaros(a)ucsd.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2017 PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2017. IMPORTANT DATES April 06, 2017 ............ Submission of full papers (no extension will be given) May 15, 2017 ............ Notification of acceptance May 26, 2017 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration Sept. 12-16, 2017 ......... Conference dates VENUE The special session will be organized in at the campus of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, alongside with the main conference. ************************************************************* SPECOM-2017 - 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer ************************************************************* Venue: Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, September 12-16, 2017 WWW: http://specom.nw.ru

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VINCI' 2017 Call for Paper - Paper submission deadline extended to
by Yina Li 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

VINCI 2017 The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 August 2017 Paper submission deadline extended to 9 April 2017 vinci-conf.org Visual communication through graphical or sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds or cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, and visual languages. Visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and mobile devices. The Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI) (vinci-conf.org) is the premier international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. The 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI'17) will be held during 14-16 August 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. All accepted papers will be published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to submit revised versions of their works to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier, SCI indexed). In addition, revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press, AHCI indexed). ——————————— 1. SCOPES AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on all aspects of visual information communication and interaction, either via images, computer graphics, animations, virtual reality, web, or other media. Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support, and case studies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cognitive aspects of visual information comprehension Empirical studies of novel visual metaphor Visual interaction through multimodality Visual approaches for knowledge discovery Computational aesthetics Visual analytics Graph drawing and (multivariate) network visualization Information visualization Graphical user interface design Aesthetics in visual communication Influence of visual arts and design Visual modeling languages and UML Visual communication metaphors Visual programming languages Visualization on mobile devices Applications like SoftVis, BioVis, GeoVis, ... Sketching Human-computer interaction 2. PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions that address research and development, as well as experience reports and tool demonstrations on the above and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Papers can be submitted as full papers, short papers and posters. Each submitted symposium paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three International Program Committee members. All accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings of VINCI 2017 published by ACM Press and made available in the ACM Digital Library (EI indexed). Moreover, authors of a number of selected full papers of high quality will be invited to prepare revised versions of their work for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Elsevier; SCI indexed). In addition, it is planned that revised versions of selected best papers in art and design will be invited for the subsequent publication in a special issue of Leonardo (MIT Press; AHCI indexed). Research papers and experience reports of up to eight (8), short papers of up tofour (4), and tool demonstrations or posters of up to two (2) ACM double-column pages should be submitted through easychair.org. The review process will be single-blind. We appreciate the submission of videos or other supplemental material. Please provide a URL at the end of the submitted paper to enable the reviewers the download of your additional material. Detailed information on the electronic submission can be found at the end of this page. 3. KEYNOTE SPEECH Keynote speech 1 Learning through Overcoming Inconsistencies, Prof. Du Zhang, (Macau University of Science and Technology) Du Zhang is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees, both in computer science, from the University of Illinois and Nanjing University, China, respectively. Previously he was a Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at California State University, Sacramento. He has research affiliations with numerous universities in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, China, Czech Republic, and Mexico. Professor Zhang's current research interests include machine learning (inconsistency-induced perpetual learning), knowledge-based systems, big data analytics, and software engineering. He has over 200 publications in these and other areas. He has served in various roles on numerous international conferences, and is editor or editorial board member for several journals in the areas of artificial intelligence, software engineering and knowledge engineering, big data, and applied mathematics. Professor Zhang is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM, a board member of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration, and a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Phi Beta Delta. Keynote speech 2 Michael CohenSpatial Media and Visualization, Prof. Michael Cohen (University of Aizu, Japan) Michael Cohen received an Sc.B. in EE from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) in 1980, M.S. in CS from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1988, and Ph.D. in EECS from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in 1991. He has worked at the Air Force Geophysics Lab (Hanscom Field, Massachusetts), Weizmann Institute (Rehovot; Israel), Teradyne (Boston, Massachusetts), BBN (Cambridge, Massachusetts and Stuttgart; Germany), Bellcore (Morristown and Red Bank, New Jersey), the Human Interface Technology Lab (Seattle, Washington), and the Audio Media Research Group at the NTT Human Interface Lab (Musashino and Yokosuka; Japan). He is currently a Professor in the Human Interface Lab at the University of Aizu (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan). He has research interests in user interfaces for telecommunications, groupware and CSCW (computer-supported collaborative work), stereotelephonics, digital typography and electronic publishing, hypermedia, ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) and virtual reality. Besides teaching various undergraduate courses including Information Theory, he co-teaches graduate-level courses in Acoustic Modeling, and Computer Music. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, 3D-Forum, TUG (TeX Users Group), and VRSJ (Virtual Reality Society of Japan). 4. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS VINCI'17 is also soliciting proposals for full-day or half-day workshops and tutorials on topics that address areas of interest to the community. Proposals should not be longer than a maximum of 2 pages. In particular, workshop proposals should include: The title and a brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest in these times, and the main research areas involved. Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s) and previous experience in chairing scientific events. A tentative list of program committee members. Intended length (half or full day) and a draft of the Call for Papers. It is expected that the workshop organizers will setup an own workshop web page as soon as the workshop proposal has been accepted. Tutorials usually attract a broad range of audiences, including professionals, researchers, students, or practitioners, who wish to enhance their knowledge in the specific tutorial topic. Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in visual information communication and interaction. Tutorial proposals should include short biographies of the proposers, a draft of the tutorial content, intended length, and evidence of the possibility of attracting audience to the tutorial. It is possible to extend the symposium by one day in case many workshops or tutorials are proposed and accepted. Detailed information on the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals can be found at the end of this page. 5. SPECIAL SESSIONS AND PANELS We also invite special session and panel proposals for VINCI'17. Proposals for special sessions and panels should include the title, aim and scope, the names and affiliations of the organizers together with a short biography. A list of potential contributors or panel members would be surely helpful too. The proposers are expected to have a good publication track record and excellent standing in the proposed area. Papers submitted to special sessions should be done through the VINCI'17 EasyChair submission system. The paper types are identical to those of regular submissions. It is the responsibility of the special session organizers to make sure that papers submitted to their special session clearly indicate the name of the special session the paper belongs to. All papers submitted to special sessions will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the regular papers (however chaired by the special session organizers) and will appear in the VINCI'17 conference proceedings as well. The symposium chairs reserve the right to move accepted papers for a special session into a regular session in case the special session has finally less than four papers. In this case, the special session will be cancelled. 6. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel proposals due: still open Workshop/Tutorial/Special Session/Panel decision and notification: within one week after submission Paper submission deadline: April 9, 2017 (23:59 PST) Notification of decision: May 01, 2017 Camera-ready copy due: June 01, 2017 7. ORGANIZATION General Chair Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau, Macau Program Chairs Shigeo Takahashi, University of Aizu, Japan Jie Li, Tianjin University, China Local Chair Vithida Chongsuphajaisiddhi, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Finance Chair Vajirasak Vanijja, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Publicity Chair Yi-Na Li Texas A&M University, USA 8. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Benjamin Bach, Harvard University Rita Borgo, King's College London Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome Paul Bourke, University of New South Wales Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University Michael Burch, University of Stuttgart Vetria Byrd, Purdue University Daniel Cernea, AGT International Wei Chen, Zhejiang University Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern Mai Elshehaly, Virginia Tech Vittorio Fuccella, Università di Salerno Liang Gou, Visa Research Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech Jiquan Han, Huawei Technologies Jiangen He, Drexel University Masahito Hirakawa, Shimane University Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Xiaodi Huang, Charles Sturt University Weidong Huang, University of Tasmania Takayuki Itoh, Ochanomizu University Andreas Kerren, Linnaeus University Karsten Klein, University of Konstanz Jun Kong, North Dakota State University Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University Yina Li, Nankai University Zhanping Liu, Kentucky State University Zhipeng Liu, Huawei Technologies Aidong Lu, UNC Charlotte Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center John McGhee, UNSW Australia Kazuo Misue, University of Tsukuba Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis Quang Vinh Nguyen, University of Western Sydney Patrick Pang, The University of Melbourne Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology Francois Poulet, IRISA Martin R?hlig, University of Rostock Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Kamran Sedig, The University of Western Ontario Guanglei Song, Twitter Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales Changming Sun, CSIRO Ioannis G. Tollis, University of Crete Cagatay Turkay, City University London Gualtiero Volpe, DIBRIS-University of Genova Sai-Keung Wong, The National Chiao Tung University Hsiang-Yun Wu, Keio University Jie Wu, Tongji University Yingcai Wu, Zhejiang University Yu-Bin Yang, Nanjing University Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas Ye Zhao, Kent State University Jianlong Zhou, CSIRO Hong Zhou, Shenzhen University

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AIMaViG 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics (AIMaViG’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aimavig2017(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMaViG’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The main objective of AIMaViG’17 is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and developers to present and discuss the latest advances of artificial intelligence in the context of machine vision and computer graphics. The workshop covers the whole range of AI-based theories, algorithms, technologies and systems for diversified and heterogeneous areas of vision and graphics. TOPICS ======================================= The topics and areas include but are not limited to: - image processing - scene analysis, modeling, and understanding - machine vision - pattern matching and pattern recognition - image synthesis, including three-dimensional imaging and solid modeling - computer-aided graphic arts and animation - mathematical approaches to image processing, analysis, and synthesis - computational geometry - image models and transforms - visualization and graphical data presentation - diagrammatic knowledge representation and reasoning - monocular and stereo vision - modeling of human visual perception - innovative uses of various graphic and vision devices and systems PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Kwaśnicka, Halina, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Śluzek, Andrzej, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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[Reminder] IEEE PacificVis 2017 - Early Bird Registration by March 17 & Program Schedule Update
by GuHyun Han 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

*Summary* - *Early bird registration <http://www.cvent.com/events/2017-ieee-pacific-visualization-symposium-pacif…>* *ends on **March 17!* - *Program <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs> updates - Time table* - Visit our *Offical website* <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/> to acess additional Information - Keep in touch with our *Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/pacificvis>, and Twitter Account <https://twitter.com/pacificvis>!* *Location and Dates* The 10th PacificVis will be held at *Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea* during *April 18 to 21, 2017*. As part of PacificVis, PacificVAST workshop sessions will be held on April 18, with the Symposium starting from April 19. *Early bird Registration <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/registration>* The last day for early bird registration is *March 17, 2017*. You can check the discounted registration fee from the above link. *Program Updates <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs>* We've updated the time schedule of each session. Visit program page and plan what to attend! *Keep in touch with our Official Website <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/>, Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/pacificvis>, and Twitter Account <https://twitter.com/pacificvis>!* *Hope to See you in IEEE PacificVis 2017, Seoul!* *P.S. * *In the previous announcement, there was a spelling error on the name of keynote speaker.* *"Prof. David Ebert" is correct. (not Elbert)* *Sorry for the mistake.*

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WSCG2017-REMINDER-March 20, 2017 - Graphics, Vision, Visualization
by Vaclav Skala 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Sent via: infovis(a)infovis.org >> Deadline FINAL REMINDER << Call for Papers WSCG 2017 -------- 25. Anniversary Conference WSCG ----------- ------------ Submission EXTENDED to March 20, 2017 -------------- 25. WSCG Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision May 29 - June 2, 2017 http://www.wscg.cz http://www.wscg.eu - Venue: Primavera hotel & Congress Center, http://www.primaverahotel.cz/ Pilsen [Plzen] (City of Beer) close to Prague [Praha], Czech Republic =================================================== Main topics (but not limited to – see WEB for details) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer graphics, scientific and medical visualization, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, GPU graphics, graphical human computer interfaces, geometric modeling, rendering and animation, virtual reality, haptic systems, medical imaging, graphical interaction, computational photography, data compression for graphics, image based rendering, mathematical methods for graphics and vision, physically based modeling, shape analysis & modeling & retrieval, surface and volume parameterization, parallel graphics, CAD, CAGD and GIS systems, related applications and other related topics. WSCG Conference Co-Chair ------------------------------ Paul Bourke, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Vaclav Skala, c/o University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Important dates (see WEB for details) -------------------------------------------- - Paper submission (EXTENDED): March 20, 2017 - Acceptance notification (approx.): April 20, 2017 - Final version submission (approx.): April 30, 2017 (including REBUTAL) Willing to help us as a reviewer (PhD is required): ------------------------------------------------------------- Please, send your Last name; First name; @mail address; URL of your research publication page to skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz – SUBJ: WSCG-Reviewing - your help is highly appreciated PUBLICATIONS ---------------------- All submitted papers will be anonymously reviewed by external reviewers (“extended abstract” type submissions will be desk-top rejected). Accepted and presented papers will be published in: - Journal of WSCG (the best selected papers only) ISSN 1213-6972 (print), ISSN 1213-6980 (CD-ROM) - Computer Science Research Notes series (conference proceedings) CSRN 27xx, ISSN 2464-4617 (print), ISSN 2464-4625 (CD-ROM) Journal of WSCG and ALL proceedings published will also be available via WEB with ACCESS FREE => FAST research results dissemination! Recent publications are available at http://wscg.zcu.cz/DL/wscg_DL.htm (OPEN access – available ALL papers since 1992) The Journal of WSCG and CSRN proceedings will be sent for indexing to Scopus, ISI/Thomson Reuters, IEE, Elsevier's Engineering Information (EI) and other reputable indexing services. Associated "sub-events" (part of the WSCG) --------------------------------------- - GraVisMa - Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Computational Mathematics 2017, http://www.GraVisMa.eu - HCI-Europe - Human Computer Interfaces 2017, http://www.HCI-Europe.eu Contact ----------- Prof. Vaclav Skala (Conference Organizer & Co-Chair) skala(a)kiv.zcu.cz mail subject WSCG2017 c/o University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univerzitni 8, CZ 30614, Plzen Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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[Reminder] IEEE PacificVis 2017 - Early Bird Registration Due & Program Updates
by GuHyun Han 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

*Summary* - *Early bird registration <http://www.cvent.com/events/2017-ieee-pacific-visualization-symposium-pacif…>* *ends on **March 17!* - *Accommodation <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/venue> information* - *Program <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs> updates* - Keynote talks - David Elbert (Purdue University), *"**Changing the World with Visual Analytics"* - Gerard Jounghyun Kim (Korea University), *"Requirements and Recent Directions in **Augmented Reality Visualization"* - Sessions - Geospatial Visualization and Applications - Graphs and Networks - Immersion, VR, and Interaction - Medical, Biological, and Archaeological Visualization - Multidimensional Data, Multifields, and Uncertainty - Perception, Quality, and Scalability - Text, Annotation, and Coding - Volume Visualization - Visit our *Offical website* <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/> to acess additional Information *Introduction* PacificVis is an IEEE sponsored international visualization symposium held in the Asia-Pacific region, with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to enter this rapidly growing area of research. Previous PacificVis symposia were held in - *Kyoto (2008), Beijing (2009), Taipei (2010), Hong Kong (2011), Songdo (2012), Sydney (2013), Yokohama (2014), Zhejiang (2015), and Taipei (2016)* all sponsored by IEEE VGTC. *Location and Dates* The 10th PacificVis will be held at *Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea* during *April 18 to 21, 2017*. As part of PacificVis, PacificVAST workshop sessions will be held on April 18, with the Symposium starting from April 19. *Early bird Registration <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/registration>* The last day for early bird registration is *March 17, 2017*. You can check the discounted registration fee from the above link. *Keynote talks <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs>* PacificVis 2017 hosts two keynote speakers, Prof. David Elbert and Prof. Gerad Jounghyun Kim. You can access the additional information for each speech through the links below. *Day1 : Changing the World with Visual Analytics <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/keynotes/1> * *David Elbert (Purdue University)* *Bio.* David Ebert is the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a Fellow of the IEEE, and director of the Visual Analytics for Command Control and Interoperability Center (VACCINE), the Visualization Science team of the Department of Homeland Security’s Command Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence. Ebert performs research in visual analytics, volume rendering, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. He is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society vgTC Technical Achievement Award for seminal contributions in visual analytics. He has been very active in the visualization community, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, serving as IEEE Computer Society Vice President and the IEEE Computer Society’s VP of Publications, and successfully managing a large program of external funding to develop more effective methods for visually communicating information. *Day2 : Requirements and Recent Directions in Augmented Reality Visualization <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/keynotes/2>* *Gerard Jounghyun Kim (Korea University) * *Bio:* Currently, Professor, Dept. of CSE, Korea University Research Interests: VR/AR/MR, Human Computer Interaction, Computer music BS ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, 87 MS/PhD, Univ. of Southern California, 94 Computer Scientist, National Inst. of Science and Technoglogy (NIST), 94-96 Professor, Dept. of CSE, POSTECH, 96-06 Visiting Positions at USC, KAIST, Com2us 2 Books: Designing Virtual Reality Systems: Structured Approach, Springer, 2005 Human Computer Interaction: Fundamentals and Practice, CRC Press, 2015 Has published in Presence, IEEE VR, IEEE TVCG, IEEE ISMAR, ACM VRST, ACM CHI, INTERACT, etc. IEEE ISMAR General Co-chair (2010), ACM VRST Program Chair (2006), etc. Convener of ISO JTC 1 SC 24 WG 9 (Mixed and Augmented Reality Working Group) *Session Updates <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/programs>* We updated session information of full papers and notes. Please visit our website to access the details with the link above. We also provide the list of posters as well as competitors of the visualization contest. - Geospatial Visualization and Applications - Graphs and Networks - Immersion, VR, and Interaction - Medical, Biological, and Archaeological Visualization - Multidimensional Data, Multifields, and Uncertainty - Perception, Quality, and Scalability - Text, Annotation, and Coding - Volume Visualization *Venue+Travel <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/venue>* The venue for IEEE PacificVis 2017 is Hoam Faculty House <http://www.hoam.ac.kr/eng/>. The link above provides the transportation and accessibility of Hoam Faculty House. Hoam Faculty House is our main venue and we recommend it for your stay during PacificVis. We also curated the list of recommended accommodations. *Keep in touch with our Official Website <http://pacificvis.snu.ac.kr/>, Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/pacificvis>, and Twitter Account <https://twitter.com/pacificvis>!* *Hope to See you in IEEE PacificVis 2017, Seoul!*

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