FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Computer Graphics and Applications (GraphiCon'2005) Fifteenth International Conference June 20 - 24, 2005 Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Russia http://www.graphicon.ru/2005/ Sponsored by Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Welcome The Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia) in cooperation with: Institute of Automation and Electrometry, SB RAS Institute of Informatics Systems, SB RAS Novosibirsk State University, Moscow State University, Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS, Moscow Ledas Ltd. are jointly organizing the Fifteenth International Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications Graphicon'2005. The conference will be held in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, June 20-24, 2005. The event is organized in cooperation with Eurographics Association. GraphiCon is the largest international conference on Computer Graphics in Europe and Asia annually organized in Russian Federation. The first conference on Computer Graphics in the former USSR (actual predessesor of GraphiCon) took place in Novosibirsk in 1977 because of high level research in the area by Siberian scientists. After that, the GraphiCon conferences took place in Moscow (1991, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004), St.-Petersburg (1993, 1995, 1996), and Nizhni Novgorod (1994, 2001, 2002). It is pretty symbolic that the 15-th GraphiCon is coming back to Novosibirsk, actual place of birth of these computer graphics conferences. The main topics of the conference include, but not restricted by, the following directions: Geometry modeling and processing Visualization techniques Volume rendering techniques Global illumination and photorealistic image rendering techniques Real-time graphics techniques and GPU performance tools Image-based techniques Multimedia applications and techniques Image processing and computer vision 3D reconstruction and acquisition Animation and simulation of natural environment Virtual and augmented reality Tools and applications inspired by cultural heritage Applications of CG: CAD, GIS, and others Computer graphics for mobile devices and commodity graphics Graphics in computer games and movies Computer graphics hardware and GPU applications New APIs and shading languages The EU-funded EPOCH Network of Excellence (www.epoch-net.org) will be assisting in the organization and reviewing of the cultural heritage area. The conference format will include Invited Talks, Contributed Talks, Poster Presentations, Tutorials and Panels, organized in the following tracks: Paper Presentations, STAR Reports, Work in Progress Presentations, Presentations of Industrial Applications, Multimedia Shows and Animation Film Festival, Education in Graphics panels, Students Contest. All the contributed papers will be carefully and anonymously reviewed by the members of International Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published as the Conference Proceedings and distributed in printed and electronic form among the participants. Selected papers will also be published in special issues of the journals "Optoelectronics" (Alerton Press) and "Computer Graphics & Geometry". The best paper presentations at the professional and student levels, selected by the international jury, will be awarded prizes. Official language of the conference is English. Submissions in Russian are acceptable with extended English abstract attached. Such contributions will be addressed to the domestic conference section(s). Important Dates Submission deadline for full papers: February 28 Notification of acceptance: March 15 Final version of full papers due: April 15 Submission deadline for STAR reports: April 30 Submission deadline for Work in Progress:   April 30 Submission deadline for other sections: May 15 GraphiCon Conference June 20 - 23 GraphiCon Tutorials June 23 - 24 In order to evaluate better the conference sections and events you are kindly requested to fill in and send to the Organizing Committee a sort of preliminary non-obligatory registration (declaration of intent): Name ___________________ Title(s) of the proposed report(s)_______________________________________ Position ___________________ Affiliation __________________ City _____________________ Country __________________ Conference Committee Chairs Victor Debelov (Russia) debelov@oapmg.sscc.ru Timour Paltashev (USA) tpaltash@S3graphics.com International Program Committee Chairs David Arnold (UK) D.Arnold@bton.ac.uk Mikhail Lavrentiev (Russia) mmlavr@nsu.ru Conference email: gc2005@graphicon.ru Travel directions Access to the city of Novosibirsk is easy and safe. There are four daily direct non-stop flights from Moscow. Several times a week there are also direct flights from Seoul, Beijing, Tel-Aviv, Frankfurt, and Hannover. List of international airlines can be found at http://s7.ru/en/flight_info/our_cities/index.html Social activities A cultural program is planned for the participants and accompanying persons. Novosibirsk is an administrative center of the Siberian Federal district. Population of the city is about two million. Nowadays Novosibirsk is the major cultural and scientific center in Siberia. The Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, along with the famous Novosibirsk State University, are based in Akademgorodok, where the conferense will take place. The scientific city of Akademgorodok was founded in a very pleasant environment of Siberian nature, the artificial Ob sea is within walking distance. A number of unique museums (geological, archeological, ethnical, and other) are located there.

Ob sea

Typical Akademgorodok yard

After the conference a 2-3 days comfortable trip to the famous Altay mountains, practically untouched by industrial pollution, will be organized. Hiking is possible, but not necesserily required. It is also possible to visit the unique lake Baikal after the conference.

Baikal lake	Altay
Presidium of SB RAS	Baikal lake
Near the Institute of Mathematics	Architecture of the sixties