CALL FOR PAPERS & SPECIAL TRACKS 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC08) Monte Carlo Resort & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada December 1-3, 2008 http://www.isvc.net The purpose of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) is to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. ISVC08 will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing with all aspects of visual computing. In addition to the main technical program, the symposium will include several keynote speakers, posters sessions, and special tracks. ISCV08 seeks papers describing contributions to the state of the art and state of the practice in the field of visual computing. The symposium is structured around the four central areas of visual computing: (1) computer vision (2) computer graphics (3) virtual reality (4) visualization. In particular, we are interested in papers that combine technologies from two or more of these areas. For a complete list of topics, please see http://www.isvc.net/cfp.html ************** SPECIAL TRACKS ************** Proposals are invited for special tracks on any topic relevant to the symposium. If you are interested in organizing a special track, please see http://www.isvc.net/tracks.html *************** IMPORTANT DATES *************** Special track proposals: 4/25 2008 Paper submissions 7/21 2008 Notification of acceptance 9/1 2008 Final camera ready paper 9/15 2008 Advance Registration 9/15 2008 ISVC08 Symposium 12/1-12/3 2008 ***************** ISVC08 AREA CHAIRS ******************* (Area 1) Computer Vision Chairs Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University, UK Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA (Area 2) Computer Graphics Chairs Jorg Peters, University of Florida, USA James Klosowski, IBM, USA (Area 3) Virtual Reality Chairs Laura Arns, Purdue University, USA Ka Chun Yu, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, USA (Area 4) Visualization Chairs Theresa-Marie Rhyme, North Carolina State University, USA Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Labs, USA ************************ ISVC08 Keynote Speakers ************************* J.K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, USA Kelly Geither, University of Texas, USA Arie Kaufman, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Gerard Medioni, USC, USA Alma Merians, University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston, USA ********** ISVC08 PC ********** (see http://www.isvc.net) ************ PUBLICATION ************ All papers accepted will appear in the symposium proceedings which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ****************** BEST PAPER AWARDS ****************** Two "best paper awards", each worth of $500, are sponsored by Siemens and MERL. ********** SPONSORS ********** UNR, NASA, LBNL, DRI, Siemens, Ford, Intel, DigitalPersona HP, Equinox, IBM, MERL