Call for Papers for the
Second International Workshop on
Augmented Reality (IWAR) '99
Oct 20-21, 1999
Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA (USA)
http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/
http://notesbruegge.in.tum.de/iwar/
Deadline for papers submission: June 7, 1999
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Motivation:
The research topic "Augmented Reality" (AR) is receiving significant
attention due to striking progress in many subfields (triggered by the
advances in computer miniaturization, speed, and capabilities) and
fascinating live demonstrations. AR, by its very nature, is a highly
inter-disciplinary field, and AR researchers work in areas such as
signal processing, computer vision, graphics, user interfaces, human
factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks,
distributed computing, information access, information visualization,
and hardware design for new displays. In the past, AR evolved from
research activities in areas like "Virtual Reality", "Human-Computer
Interaction", and "Wearables". This workshop is intended to provide an
opportunity for AR researchers from academia as well as from industry
to meet in an informal atmosphere for an exchange of ideas, concepts,
and research results.
Goals and Scope:
This workshop provides an opportunity for the international AR
community to get together and concentrate on topics of AR research and
applications without the "overhead" of events where AR is only a
related topic. It will trigger discussions among participants and
provide an intensive exchange between academia and industry as well as
between researchers working in the different AR research branches.
Topics to be Discussed at the Workshop:
Both "AR enabling" and "AR utilizing" research and technology will be
discussed at the workshop. The list of topics is:
o AR applications
+ concepts of AR systems for real applications
+ industrial AR applications
+ personal AR information systems
+ requirements for usable AR
o System architecture (software and hardware design)
+ wearable computing
+ performance issues (progress and technical shortcuts to
achieve real-time AR)
+ distributed AR
o Information presentation
+ progress in display hardware
+ real-time rendering of virtual objects
+ photo-realistic rendering (e.g. reflection analysis)
+ object overlay and diminishing techniques
+ aural augmentation
o Sensor registration
+ calibration methods
+ tracking during user motion
+ tracking of changes in the real world (moving objects)
+ computer vision methods for registration
+ acquisition of 3D scene descriptions
o Consideration of human factors
+ user interaction concepts for/with AR (e.g. multi-modal
input and output)
+ human acceptance of AR technology
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Organization:
The workshop will be on two days from October 20-21, 1999.
In order to provide a convenient opportunity to gather many relevant
participants, this workshop willl be held in the same venue as the
International Symposium on Wearable Computing (Oct.18-19) at the
Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco.
Conference Chairs:
Reinhold Behringer David Mizell
Rockwell Science Center The Boeing Company
1049 Camino Dos Rios P.O. Box 3707 MS 7L-48
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (USA) Seattle, WA 98124-2207
phone: 805-373-4435 phone: 425-865-2705
fax: 805-373-4862 fax: 425-865-2965
email: email:
reinhold@rsc.rockwell.com david.mizell@boeing.com
Program Chair:
Gudrun Klinker
Technische Universitat Munchen
Arcisstr. 21
D-80333 Munchen (Germany)
phone: ++49 89-289-25784
fax: ++49-89-289-25296
email: klinker@in.tum.de
Program Committee:
Ron Azuma HRL Laboratories, azuma@HRL.com
USA
Mark Billinghurst U Washington, USA grof@hitl.washington.edu
Jerry Bowskill BT Laboratories, UK jerry.bowskill@bt-sys.bt.co.uk
Tom Caudell University of New tpc@eece.unm.edu
Mexico, USA
Steve Feiner Columbia feiner@cs.columbia.edu
University, USA
Eric Foxlin Intersense Inc., ericf@isense.com
USA
Vienna University
Michael Gervautz of Technology, gervautz@cg.tuwien.ac.at
Austria
Michitaka Hirose University of hirose@ihl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tokyo, Japan
University of
Adam Janin California at janin@cs.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, USA
Blair MacIntyre Georgia Institute blair@cc.gatech.edu
of Technology, USA
Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon tk@cs.cmu.edu
University, USA
Paul Milgram University of milgram@mie.utoronto.ca
Toronto, Canada
Stefan M=FCller Fraunhofer IGD, stefanm@igd.fhg.de
Germany
Nassir Navab Siemens Corporate nnavab@scr.siemens.com
Research, USA
University of
Ulrich Neumann Southern uneumann@usc.edu
California, USA
Dirk Reiners Fraunhofer IGD, reiners@igd.fhg.de
Germany
Rajeev Sharma Pennsylvania State rsharma@cse.psu.edu
University, USA
University of North
Andrei State Carolina at Chapel andrei@cs.unc.edu
Hill, USA
Venkataraman Rockwell Science
Sundareswaran Center, USA vsundar@rsc.rockwell.com
Mixed Reality
Hiroyuki Yamamoto Systems Laboratory, ymmt@mr-system.co.jp
Japan
Papers:
We invite researchers to submit technical papers (not more than 10
pages) on the above topics in the research field "Augmented Reality".
Please follow the guidelines set by the IEEE Computer Society.
Author kits are available at http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/.
Posters:
We invite researchers to submit one-page summaries of posters on the
above topics in the research field "Augmented Reality". Please follow
the same guidelines as for the above papers. Further details will soon
be available on this web site http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/.
Demonstrations:
Hardware prototypes and/or work in progress may be demostrated during
this event. Please submit a one-page summary of your demonstration as
well as five copies of a video tape, describing your demonstration.
Further details will soon be available on this web site:
http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/.
Preliminary Schedule:
The following schedule is only preliminary and is subject to changes.
Please "stay tuned" to the IWAR web page for latest updates!
June 7 deadline for submissions
July 20 acceptance notifications
Aug 18 camera ready papers due
Oct. 20-21 workshop
We are looking forward to see you at IWAR'99!
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Sponsored by the Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks
Approval pending for:
Co-sponsorship of IEEE Computer Society
Co-operation of ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI
Cooperation of EUROGRAPHICS