Eurographics

Call for Papers

15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
Graz, Austria, September 27-29, 2017
https://gch17.tugraz.at/

Full Paper Deadline: May 05, 2017

The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2017) aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broad audience. The objective of the workshop is to introduce and showcase new techniques and applications for supporting Cultural Heritage information ranging from data acquisition, analysis and synthesis, 3D documentation, and data management, to new forms of interactive presentation and 3D printing solutions. Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, classification and interpretation of cultural artefacts are particularly relevant to the event. GCH 2017 provides a scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and techniques in research, education and dissemination of Cultural Heritage information, to transfer them into practice, and identify future research and application opportunities. To advance the dialogue between ICT and CH experts, GCH 2017 will be held in close cooperation with the Museumsakademie of the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, providing opportunity for exchange between the domains.

We seek original, innovative and previously unpublished contributions in the computer graphics area applied to digital cultural heritage, challenging the state of the art solutions and leveraging new ideas for future developments. Equally, original contributions in the cultural heritage field of relevance to computer graphics are welcome. Specific workshop sessions will be devoted to reports on applications, experiences and projects in this domain. Contributions are solicited (but not limited to) in the following areas:

• 2/3/4D data acquisition and processing in Cultural Heritage
• Multispectral imaging and data fusion
• Digital acquisition, representation and communication of intangible heritage
• Material acquisition analysis
• Heterogeneous data collection, integration and management
• 3D printing of cultural assets
• Shape analysis and interpretation
• Similarity search of digital artefacts
• Visualization and Virtual Museums including storytelling and design of heritage communications
• Multi-modal and interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
• Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
• Semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation)
• Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
• Standards and documentation
• Serious games in Cultural Heritage
• Organizational aspects of cooperation between ICT and CH experts for project development
• Best practices for deployment of novel ICT solution in the CH domain, including budgeting and maintenance
• User demand and reception of ICT solutions in CH institutions

In cooperation with the Museumsakademie Joanneum, GCH is also planning for a half-day tutorial program, addressing practices and challenges in the important areas of acquisition and presentation of CH content.

IMPORTANT DATES

05 May Full Papers Deadline
30 June Notification Full Paper
14 July Short Papers + Posters
15 Aug Notification Short Papers + Posters
03 Sept Camera Ready Deadline

27-29 Sept Event takes place

Submission Information

Please submit your work via the SRM conference management system: https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/GCH_2017. A LaTeX template for preparing submissions can be found here: https://gch17.tugraz.at/conference_participation.html. Please also see the submission instructions at https://gch17.tugraz.at/conference_participation.html.

Proceedings

All accepted papers will be published by the Eurographics Association and archived in the EG Digital Library. The authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH, see http://jocch.acm.org/).

GCH'17: EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2017) is organized by the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, Graz University of Technology and by Fraunhofer Austria. It aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to ad...

Call for Papers: Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Film Editing (WICED'2017).

http://wiced.inria.fr/

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 24.
NEW TRACK for INVITED TALKS: Send one page abstract.

The expressive use of virtual cameras, mise-en-scene, lighting and editing (montage) within 3D synthetic environment shows great promise to extend the communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of interactive games and virtual worlds.

At the same time, recent advances in computer vision-based object, actor and action recognition make it possible to envision novel re-cinematography (re-lighting, re-framing) and automatic editing of live-action video.

The workshop series is intended to bridge the gap between the two areas and confront research being performed in both domains.

One common area of active research is the representation and
understanding of the story to be told and its relation to its communicative goals. Another area is the extension of traditional film grammar towards more immersive and interactive experiences, and the emergence of virtual reality and augmented reality movie making.

This one-day workshop aims to bring together researchers and industrial experts working in all aspects of digital cinematography and film editing in their respective fields, including 3D graphics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, visualization, interactive narrative, cognitive
and perceptual psychology, computational linguistics, computational aesthetics and visual effects.

Drawing upon cutting edge research and technologies regarding both the production and comprehension of cinematographic art-work, the workshop seeks to offer a glimpse of the future of cinematography and film editing, as well as a forum for discussion of outstanding research issues.

The 6th edition of the workshop will take place at Villa Lumiere, 25 rue du Premier Film, in Lyon, France on April 24, 2017, immediately before Eurographics 2017. The workshop will include a visit of the Lumiere Museum, which honours the contribution to filmmaking by Auguste and Louis Lumière
- inventors of the cinématographe and fathers of the cinema.

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Submission
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Researchers should submit one of:

•Regular paper (max 8 pages) reporting new work or new ideas in a relevant research area.
•Short paper (max 4 pages) describing work in progress or a vision of the near term future of intelligent cinematography.
•NEW:Invited paper (1 page abstract) reporting relevant work already published in other venues.

Submission information will be updated on the workshop site
http://wiced.inria.fr/

Proceedings of the workshop will be published by EG Publishing in the EG Digital Library.

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Topics of interest
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• Camera path planning and visibility
• Interactive and automatic camera control
• Automatic video editing
• Movie pre-vizualization
• Game cinematics, cinematic replays, and machinima
• Virtual reality and augmented reality movie making
• Immersive and interactive cinema
• Natural user interfaces for cinematography and editing
• Expressive performance of virtual characters
• Cognitive models of film perception
• Automatic video analysis of movies
• Re-cinematography, re-lighting and re-framing
• Computer-assisted multi-camera production
• Evaluation methodologies and user experience
• Analysis of film style

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Important Dates
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Paper submission (EXTENDED DEADLINE): February 24, 2017.
Notification to authors: March 10, 2017.
Camera-ready deadline: March 24, 2017.
Workshop held: April 24, 2017.

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Organizing committee
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The international workshop series is supervised by a steering committee composed of Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern University), R. Michael Young (NC State University), Joseph Magliano (Northern Illinois University), Paolo Burelli (Aalborg University Copenhagen), Arnav Jhala (UC Santa Cruz), and Remi Ronfard (Inria Grenoble).

This 6th edition of the workshop is co-organized by William Bares (College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA), Vineet Gandhi (IIIT, Hyderabad), Quentin Galvane (Technicolor R&D, France) and Rémi Ronfard (Inria, France).

Workshop WICED 2017 – 6th Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing The intelligent analysis and computation of cinematic elements including placement of virtual cameras, transitions between shots and lighting, shows great promise to extend the communicative power of the film arts into the artificial environments of games and virtual worlds. When paired with emergin...