Subject: CEMVRC 05 in Prague - Call for Papers
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:31:29 +0100
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            CALL FOR PAPERS - CEMVRC 05 in Prague

   Central European Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference



  8-10 June 2005 (Wednesday to Friday), Prague, Czech Republic

      Conference website: http://vision.vein.hu/CEMVRC05/

  Organized by: Czech Technical University in Prague (Computer Graphics Group)
  Co-organizer: Czech ACM Chapter

              in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS

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The CEMVRC 05 conference is the second in the newly established series of
Multimedia and Virtual Reality conferences organized annually in Central
Europe. The first conference was held successfully in Veszprem, Hungary,
May 2004. The aim of the CEMVRC conferences is to bring together Multimedia
and Virtual Reality research, applications, and education results and
experience. We are looking for original and unpublished works in the
following areas:

  Advanced user interfaces
  Augmented reality
  Distant learning and Multimedia or Virtual Reality (MM/VR)
  Education with MM/VR
  Emerging MM technologies
  Handicapped users and MM/VR
  Information visualization
  MM and VR for users with special needs (children, elderly, handicapped, etc.)
  Rehabilitation and VR
  Simulation in virtual environment
  Special interaction techniques
  Training in virtual environment
  VR technologies
  Web-based graphics, MM and VR
  3D Reconstruction techniques
  ... other topics related to Multimedia and Virtual Reality

Contributions will be divided into two categories: full papers and posters.
Full papers should not exceed 8 pages (for format details, see conference
web pages). Posters are expected to be 2 pages long. Both papers and posters
will be published by the Czech Technical University Press with an ISBN.
Papers and posters will be reviewed in a double-blind process.


CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Jiri Zara (CZ)
  Czech Technical University in Prague

INVITED SPEAKERS
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Dieter Schmalstieg (AT)
  "The World as a User Interface: Augmented Reality for Ubiquitous Computing".

Mel Slater (UK)
  "TITLE" ... TBD ...

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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  Bedrich Benes (MX)
  Roman Berka (CZ)
  Laszlo Czuni (HU)
  Andrej Ferko (SK)
  Vaclav Hlavac(CZ)
  Andreas Holzinger (AT)
  Nigel W. John (UK)
  Attila Kuba (HU)
  Cecilia Sikne Lanyi (HU)
  Renate Motschnig (AT)
  Tomas Pajdla (CZ)
  Zoltan Poor (HU)
  Werner Purgathofer (AT)
  Gerhard Reitmayr (AT)
  Janos Schanda (HU)
  Christel Schneider (DE)
  Paul M. Sharkey (UK)
  Pavel Slavik (CZ)
  Jiri Sochor (CZ)
  Penny Standen (UK)
  Daniel Thalmann (CH)

STEERING COMMITTEE
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 Andreas Holzinger (AT)
 Cecilia Sikne Lanyi (HU)
 Werner Purgathofer (AT)
 Christel Schneider (DE)
 Jiri Zara (CZ)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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  Paper/poster submission - 15 March, 2005
  Author notification - 15 April, 2005
  Final version due - 30 April, 2005

REGISTRATION FEE
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240 EUR (before 1 May 2005) includes:
- printed Proceedings
- three lunches, refreshments during breaks, welcome toast on Wednesday
- social event (tour and dinner on Friday evening)

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            Visit http://vision.vein.hu/CEMVRC05/
              and mark dates in your calendar!
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Contact information:
  Jiri Zara
  Head of the Computer Graphics Group
  Czech Technical University in Prague
  Karlovo nam. 13, 121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic
  e-mail: zara@fel.cvut.cz
  phone : +(420) 224.357.311
  fax : +(420) 224.923.325
  WWW : http://www.cgg.cvut.cz/~zara