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*  INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED ARCHITECTURE   *
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*           Dublin, Ireland, June 21-22, 2001                      *
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AIM AND SCOPE
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This symposium aims to bring together researchers investigating
the intersection of architecture, computer graphics and computer
vision. Example applications of this fusion include: representations
of real buildings in virtual environments, historical and cultural
setting reconstruction and presentation, virtual graphics overlay of
real buildings for navigational support, education, or architectural
presentation.

The symposium will have a mixture of invited lectures by established
researchers and research presentations describing current results.
Topics of interest (but not limited to) include the following:

        3D Reconstruction
        Architectural Photogrammetry
        Plenoptic recovery
        Uncalibrated recovery of buildings from video
        Range sensors for environment scanning
        Multi-scan fusion
        Data representations for environments
        Use of architectural knowledge
        Media/tourism applications
        Architectural applications
        Construction industry applications
        Video registration
        Interaction in virtual and augmented environments
        User navigation in virtual buildings
        Physics in virtual buildings
        Realistic rendering of architecture
        Hardware for augmented reality
        Interactive buildings
        Fusion of video with virtual components
        Autonomous avatars in augmented/virtual buildings
        
The event is organized by the EC TMR Network CAMERA, the
Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin and
the Division of Informatics at Edinburgh University.
VAA01 LOCATION 
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The event will take place at the campus of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Dublin is an attractive and bustling city, famous for its Guinness, Book
of Kells, literary figures and its after-hours craic. Dublin has
good flight connections to all countries in Europe and connections
to all major cities in America and Asia.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 
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        Peter Allen             Columbia University
        Ronald Azuma            HRL Laboratories
        Roberto Cipolla         Cambridge University
        James Crowley           INRIA Rhones Alpes
        Kostas Daniliidis       University of Pennsylvania
        Michel Devy             LAAS-CNRS
        Sabry El-Hakim          Canadian National Research Centre
        Steve Feiner            Columbia University
        Robert Fisher (Chair)   Edinburgh University
        Andrew Fitzgibbon       Oxford University
        Joao Goncalves          EC Joint Research Centre
        Luc van Gool            Catholic University of Leuven
        Vaclav Hlavac           Czech Technical University, Prague
        David Hogg              Leeds University
        John Illingworth        Surrey University
        Olli Jokinen            Helsinki University of Technology
        Gudrun Klinker          Technische Universit�ät M�ünchen
        Denis Laurendeau        Laval University
        Roy Middleton           Edinburgh University
        Nassir Navab            Siemens Research Labs
        Mark Pollefeys          Catholic University of Leuven
        Giulio Sandini          University of Geneva
        Vitor Sequeira          EC Joint Research Centre
        Gilles Simon            LORIA - University of Nancy 1
        Andrew Zisserman        Oxford University

SUBMISSIONS
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Authors wishing to submit a paper should email a postscript copy
of the full paper of at most 12 1.5 spaced pages to vaa01@cs.tcd.ie.
The paper must have the full author contact information, including 
the contact author's email address. All accepted papers will be
published in the Proceedings of the Symposium by Springer Verlag.
The symposium language will be English.
We will accept dual submission to SIGGRAPH, ICCV and other general
conferences, but the work must not have been previously published
at specialized conferences.

TIMETABLE
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        Reception of papers              15 January 2001
        Notification of acceptance        1 March 2001
        Reception of final papers         1 April 2001

FURTHER INFORMATION
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All information related to VAA01 is available at the following web site:

   http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/VAA01/

Detailed information regarding programme, symposium fee, accommodation
and social events will appear in the VAA01 web site at the appropriate
time. Questions can be put by email to: vaa01@cs.tcd.ie.