Point-Based Graphics 2006 - Call for Papers

Co-sponsored by Eurographics and the
IEEE-CS Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)
In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

The drive for increasingly complex 3D geometric models, especially those scanned from the real-world, has brought about a growing interest in methods that build on point primitives. Following the highly successful 2004 and 2005 Symposia on Point-Based Graphics, the 3rd symposium of its series, PBG06, aims to further demonstrate the applicability of point-based methods in modeling, rendering, and simulation, and in a wide range of application domains. The PBG06 will take place in Boston, MA, July 29-30, 2006, and will be co-located with SIGGRAPH and the International Workshop on Volume Graphics. The best papers of PBG06 will additionally be published in a special issue of Computers & Graphics. We invite your original contributions in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

• Data acquisition and surface reconstruction
• Geometric modeling using point primitives
• Sampling, approximation, and interpolation
• Transmission and compression of point-sampled geometry
• Rendering algorithms for point primitives
• Geometry processing of point models
• Topological properties of point clouds
• Hardware architectures for point primitives
• Animation and morphing of point-sampled geometry
• Hybrid representations and algorithms
• Use of point-based methods in real-world applications l

  Important Dates

  21 April 2006		Electronic abstract submission
  24 April 2006		Electronic paper submission (11.59 pm Pacific Time)
  2 June 2006		Author notification
  13 June 2006		Camera-ready copy

  Organization

  Conference Chairs:
  Mark Pauly, ETH Zürich
  Matthias Zwicker, University of California at San Diego

  Papers Chairs:
  Mario Botsch, ETH Zürich
  Baoquan Chen, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

  Papers Committee

  Marc Alexa	Daniel Aliaga
  Kavita Bala	Loic Barthe
  Frederic Cazals	Daniel Cohen-Or
  Oliver Deussen	Tamal Dey
  Philip Dutre	David Ebert
  Issei Fujishiro	Joachim Giesen
  Enrico Gobbetti	Markus Gross
  Hans-Christian Hege	Arie Kaufman
  Leif Kobbelt	Anselmo Lastra
  Wojciech Matusik	Nelson Max
  Torsten Moeller	Klaus Mueller
  Matthias Mueller	Renato Pajarola
  Hanspeter Pfister	Voicu Popescu
  Werner Purgathofer	Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz
  Dietmar Saupe	Claudio Silva
  Oliver Staadt	Marc Stamminger
  Alexandru Telea	Matthias Teschner
  Amitabh Varshney	Luiz Velho
  Michael Wand	Ruediger Westermann
  Afra Zomorodian