IFIP Workshop on Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual
 Environments
 CAPTECH'98
 26-27 November 1998
 Geneva, Switzerland
 http://miralabwww.unige.ch/captech98
 
 Conference Chair:
 Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
 
 Technical Program Chair:
 Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
 
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 IFIP Workshop CAPTECH98
 
  IFIP Workshop on Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual
 Environments
 
                        26-27 November 1998, (Geneva, Switzerland)
 
                         CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 The University of Geneva (MIRALab) is pleased to announce the IFIP
 Working Group 5.10 CAPTECH98 workshop held in conjunction with the Swiss
 
 French 3rd cycle of Computer Science.
 
 THEME: An international workshop to stimulate discussion on the current
 and future application of all techniques used to capture information on
 objects and movements through various technologies and integrate them
 within Virtual Environments. Technologies used may include video, laser,
 
 photogrammetry, magnetic sensors, speech, haptic devices etc. This
 workshop is held in conjunction with the Swiss French 3rd Cycle in
 Computer Science.
 
 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 
 - Video Capturing
 - Vision-based Motion Capture
 - Motion Analysis
 - Integration of Graphics and Vision
 - Laser-based Technologies
 - Ultrasound-based Technology
 - Infrared-based Technology
 - Augmented Reality
 - Networked Virtual Collaborative Environment (NVCE)
 - Networked Multimedia and Virtual Environments
 - 2D/3D Teleconferencing
 - Real-time Virtual Humans Systems
 - Automatic 3D Cloning of Faces and Bodies
 - Real-time Mixing of Real and Synthetic Pictures
 - Telecommunications networked methods
 - Audio in NVCE
 - Speech Analysis and Synthesis in Real-time
 
 SUBMISSIONS:
 
 1)  to submit a paper send 5 copies to:
 
 Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
 MIRALab, CUI University of Geneva
 24, rue du General-Dufour
 CH 1211 Geneva 4
 Switzerland
 tel. +41-22-705-7769, fax: +41-22-705-7780
 Email: Nadia.Thalmann@cui.unige.ch
 
 or
 
 an electronic copy  by anonymous ftp to cuirs1.unige.ch in the directory
 
 captech98  (Postscript or acrobat PDF only, no email please)
 
 
 
 2) Send a notification by email to Christian.Zanardi@cui.unige.ch
 including the
   title and abstract of the paper together with the authors' names, full
 
 addresses, and emails.
 
 Author's Schedule
 
 June 30, 1998 :   Submission of paper
 July 31, 1998 :   Notification of acceptance by email
 August 31,1998  :  Final camera-ready paper & registration due
 
 Further Information
 
 http://miralabwww.unige.ch/captech98
 or contact Christian Zanardi by email:Christian.Zanardi@cui.unige.ch
 
 Conference Chair:
 Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN (University of Geneva)
 
 Technical Program Chair:
 Daniel THALMANN (EPFL)
 
 Local Committee Chair:
 Christian ZANARDI (University of Geneva)
 
 Tentative International Program Committee:
 
 Alonso, Gustavo (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
 Badler, Norman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
 Bergamasco, Massimo (Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy)
 Carson, Steve (GSC, USA)
 Chua, Tat-Seng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 Earnshaw, Rae (University of Bradford, UK)
 Encarnacao, Jose (Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany)
 Feiner, Steve (Columbia University, USA)
 Fellner Dieter (University of Braunschweig, Germany)
 Flerackers, Eddy (Limburg University Center, Belgium)
 Fua, Pascal (EPFL, Switzerland)
 Gibbs, Simon (Sony, USA)
 Gruen, Armin (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
 Hopgood, Bob (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
 Kalra, Prem (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
 Kaufman, Arie (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
 Keller, Eric (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
 Klimenko, Stanislav (Institute for High Energy Physics, Russia)
 Kunii, Tosiyasu L. (Computational Science Research Center,Japan)
 Metaxas, Dimitris (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
 Niblett, Tim (Turing Institute, UK)
 Pentland, Alex (MIT, USA)
 Reinfelds, Juris (New Mexico State University, USA)
 Rosenblum, Larry (Naval Research Lab, USA)
 Shin, Sung Yong (KAIST, Korea)
 Skala, Vaclav (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
 Stucki, Peter (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
 Suenaga, Yasuhito (Nagoya University, Japan)
 Teixeira, Jose Carlos (Centro de Computacao Grafica, Portugal)
 Ten Hagen, Paul (CWI, Netherlands)
 Terzopoulos, Demetri (University of Toronto, Canada)
 Van Gool, Luc (KU leuwen, Belgium)
 Willis, P J (Bath University, UK)
 Wolter Franz (University of Hannover, Germany)