___ Computer Graphics International 2000 ___
                         Nature, Time and People
 
 
             June 19-23, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
 
 
 
 
http://www.miralab.unige.ch/cgi2000/
 
 
The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and the British Computer Society
are proud to announce 17th annual conference CGI 2000 organized
by MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland. CGI 2000 looks forward
to scientists coming together to eagerly visualize changes that occur
through time and allow a better comprehension of our daily world and
nature.
 
 
______________________________________________________Specific Areas__
 
- Mathematical Aspects of Graphics
- Surface Meshing and Modeling
- Animation and Applications
- Motion: Simulation, Constraint and Capturing
- Global Illumination, Ray Tracing and Radiosity
- Shape: Capturing, Modeling, Morphing
- Visualization and Volume Rendering
- Virtual Reality and Man Machine Interaction
- Scientific Visualization and GIS Systems
- Vision, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
- Web Technologies, Hypermedia and Education Aspects
- Parallel and Distributed Graphics
- Biomechanics, Physics and/or Natural Phenomenon
- Speech and/or Language Processing and/or AI
 
 
___________________________________________________Conference Topics__
 
 
- Visual simulation of environmental issues:
  water, ground, forests, mountains, and air pollution
- Visual simulation of population through time:
  overpopulation, aging, and evolution of human body, migration
- Visual simulation of human habits through time:
  dresses, beauty concept, individual and group behavior
- Visual simulation of architecture at times and future
- Visual simulation of plants, animals of the past, present and future
- Visual simulation of the making of molecules and products
- Visual simulation of any biological processes
- Visual simulation of transportation systems and their evolution
- Visualization of medical organs through time
- Visual simulation of past, present and future celebrities and
  methodology to create virtual humans
- Visualization of heavens, demons, famous ghosts or prophets
- Visualization of our comprehension of the world at a certain period
- Visualization of the planet system with its various interpretations
  through time
 
 
_____________________________________________________Important Dates__
 
 
October 30, 1999   - Conference papers submission
December 30, 1999  - Announcement of accepted Conference papers
June 19, 2000      - CGI 2000 Tutorials
June 20-21, 2000   - CGI 2000 Workshops, workshops will be half-day,
                     full-day, or two-days.
June 20-23, 2000   - CGI 2000 Conference
 
 
_____________________________________________________Call for Papers__
Submission date October 30, 1999
 
 
Authors are requested to submit original papers that present research
results related to the conference topics. Papers are limited to
8 pages (single line spacing) including all figures. Proceedings will
be published by IEEE Press. Though there is no specific format for
paper submission, final camera ready paper format is as per IEEE.
 
 
The submission of PAL VHS video (up to 5 minutes in length) to
accompany the paper is strongly recommended. Accepted papers will be
included in the conference proceedings; videos will be included in
the conference video proceedings.
 
 
A "Best CGI 2000 Paper Award" will be given to the paper that provides
excellent visual techniques to give meaningful comprehension of our
world. Selected papers of the conference will be published in a
special issue of the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation,
published by John Wiley.
 
 
It is required that one of the accepted paper's author register and
present the paper in the conference.
 
 
Please submit 5 copies of all materials (hard copy) to:
 
 
            Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
            MIRALab, CUI
            24, rue du General Dufour
            CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
 
 
________________________________________________Conference Committee__
 
 
Honorary Chair:
T.L. Kunii, Hosei University, Japan
 
 
Conference Chairs:
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 
 
 
Program Chairs:
Rae Earnshaw, University of Bradford, U.K
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
 
 
Local organization chair:
Igor Pandzic, University of Geneva, Switzerland
 
 
 
Program Committee (tentative):
Yannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA
Eric Badiqu=E9, European Commission
Norman I. Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Massimo Bergamasco, SSSA, Italy
Hanspeter Bieri, University of Bern, Switzerland
Bruce Blumberg, MIT, USA
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA, France
Ronan Boulic, EPFL, Switzerland
Beat Bruderlin, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Pere Brunet, Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain
Tolga Capin, EPFL, Switzerland
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France
Gershon Elber, Institute of Technology, Israel
Jose L. Encarnacao, IGD, Germany
Bianca Falcidieno, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Gerald Farin, Arizona State University, USA
Dieter Fellner, TU Braunschweig, Germany
David Dagan Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong
Andrej Ferko, Comenius University, Slovakia
Eddy Flerackers, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
Pascal Fua, EPFL, Switzerland
Martin Goebel, GMD, Germany
Markus Gross, ETH, Switzerland
Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christoph M. Hoffmann, Purdue University, USA
Bob Hopgood, Rutherford Lab. UK
Horace H. S. Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Huw Jones, Middlesex University, UK
Kenneth I. Joy, University of California Davis, USA
Prem Kalra, Indian institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Myung-Soo Kim, POSTECH, Korea
Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Hosei University, Japan
Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina, USA
Dimitris Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Laurent Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Heinrich Mueller, University of Dortmund, Germany
Eihachiro Nakamae, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan
Joern Ostermann, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Igor Pandzic, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Rick Parent, Ohio State University, USA
Nicholas M. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA
Leslie Piegl, University of South Florida, USA
Werner Purgathofer, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University, Israel
Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Jarek Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Harold P. Santo, GRASP, Portugal
Dietmar Saupe, University of Leipzig, Germany
Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany
Carlo Sequin, University of California, USA
Gil Shin, Seoul National University, Korea
Sung Yong Shin, KAIST, Korea
Yoshihisa Shinagawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Martin Sperka, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Wolfgang Strasser, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
Demetri Terzopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Godfried T. Toussaint, McGill University, Canada
Kees van Overveld, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Frank Van Reeth, Limburg University Center, Belgium
Pascal Volino, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Phil Willis,University of Bath, UK
Franz-Erich Wolter, University of Hanover, Germany