Call for paper 3DPVT 2008 (www.3dpvt.org) Fourth International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta DATES - Manuscripts due: February 29, 2008 - Notification: April 15, 2006 - Camera-ready: May 16, 2006 - Conference: June 18-20, 2008 ORGANIZERS General Chairs: Frank Dellaert and Jarek Rossignac (Georgia Tech) Program Chairs: Stefan Gumhold (UT Dresden), Jana Kosecka (George Mason U), Oliver Staadt (U Rostock) TOPICS Every two years 3DPVT offers researchers, developers, and students the opportunity to present and discuss new research results, technologies, and applications related to the capture, representation, compact storage, transmission, processing, editing, optimization and visualization of 3D geometric and photometric models and their use in architecture, geosciences, medicine, manufacturing, security, entertainment, and other fields. We invite research contributions in three broad areas: - Acquisition & Recognition (scanning, registration, 3D reconstruction, recognition…) - Processing & Transmission (similarity, segmentation, resampling, compression, animation…) - Interaction & Visualization (IBR, LOD, visibility, haptics, AR/VR, tele-immersion…) and also application papers (architecture, biomedical, forensic, GIS, 3D-TV, entertainment, tourism, real estate, training…) KEYNOTES - Luc Van Gool (ETH Zurich, CU Leuven): “Adding Color Data to 3D Scanned Models” - Roberto Scopigno (CNR): “Rome wasn't built in one day, but one day virtual Rome will be” - Amitabh Varshney, (U Maryland): "Salient Visualization"