Ivan Viola, Andreas Traxler, Helwig Hauser

We are proud to announce the eighth Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics for students to be held in Budmerice (together with SCCG 2004) in late April, 2004. This international seminar is a continuation of CESCG '97, CESCG '98, CESCG '99, CESCG 2000, CESCG 2001, CESCG 2002, and CESCG 2003, and previously held joint seminars. CESCG is organized by the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, and the Department of Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Comenius University, in Bratislava. The seminar is again organized under the auspices of His Excellency Martin Bolldorf, Austrian ambassador in Slovakia. The main sponsor is SOFTIP company.

We are pleased to invite the following groups (in alphabetical order) to actively participate in CESCG 2004 by sending students to the seminar:

Austria	Graz		Institute for Computer Graphics, Graz University of Technology
	Hagenberg		Media Technology and Design, FH Hagenberg
	Vienna		Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology
			VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization
Czech Republic	Brno		Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Brno University of Technology
	Plzen		Computer Graphics Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of West Bohemia
	Prague		Computer Graphics Group at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University
Germany	Bonn		Institute of Computer Science II, Computer Graphics Group, University of Bonn
Hungary	Budapest		Computer Graphics Group at the Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest
	Szeged		Department of Applied Informatics, University of Szeged
Italy	Genoa		Institute for Applied Mathematics, National Research Council
Poland	Szczecin		Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Systems, Technical University of Szczecin
Slovakia	Bratislava		Department of Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Comenius University in Bratislava
			Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Slovenia	Maribor		Laboratory for Geometric Modelling and Multimedia Algorithms, Institute of Computer Science, University of Maribor
United Kingdom	Bristol		Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol

Please note that active participation with paper and talk must be announced via email to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at until December 4, 2003. Otherwise an active participation will not be possible! See below for more details about the procedure of registering presentations at CESCG.

Additionally, participants who just wish to attend the presentations and discussions are kindly invited. A registration fee of Euro 40,-- (to be paid directly at the seminar in cash) is requested from (inactive) participants, i.e., seminar attendees who do not present a paper or supervise presenters.

The main idea of CESCG is to bring undergraduate students, who are interested in computer graphics, together across borders of universities and countries. The seminar is also intended to be an international event, where students can present their excellent work to other students. Actively participating students are, therefore, required to study computer science (or something similar) for at least five or six semesters. Sufficient expertise in giving a talk as well as reasonable knowledge of English language is also required for active participation.

Of course, the overall topic of the CESCG is computer graphics. Specifically the following fields are covered by the seminar:

• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
• Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization
• Rendering and Global Illumination
• Animation, Multimedia, and Internet technologies
• Graphical Human-Computer Interaction
• Geometric Modelling, Computational Geometry
• Simulation and Graphics
• Artistic Rendering
• Image Processing, Computer Vision

CESCG is planned to be held in Budmerice at the end of April 2004. Students have enough time to arrive at Budmerice on the first day (in time), even from the far locations. There are approximately twenty-four talks (including time for discussions) scheduled for all three days in total. The program of the seminar is divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Time for lunch and coffee breaks is reserved as well. After the first and second day of the seminar, there are social programs in the evening, e.g., going to a pub, and a possibility to sleep in Budmerice.

Papers submitted to CESCG are reviewed by well-know researchers in the field of computer graphics to provide the authors with constructive feedback to improve their articles before publication. This means that papers are not rejected due to reviewing, but only recommendations on how to improve the papers are provided. The following International Program Committee (IPC) has been established for CESCG (alphabetically ordered):

• Andrej Ferko, Bratislava
• Markus Grabner, Graz
• Helwig Hauser, Wien
• Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos, Budapest
• Radoslaw Mantiuk, Szczecin
• Jiri Zara, Prague
• Pavel Zemcik, Brno

Again, we will have two very interesting invited talks by

• Alan Chalmers (United Kingdom) and
• Jiri Zara (Czech Republic)

The seminar language is English, i.e., CESCG papers are written in English and presentations are also given in English language.

Active participation in the form of a published and presented paper has to follow the following process: first a certain set of computer graphics groups in Central Europe are invited to participate through an according dissemination of the call for participation. Then, until the first deadline, invited groups announce their active participation to the CESCG organization in Vienna via mailto:cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at: groups tell the number of presentation slots they would like to fill at the seminar (one, two, three, or even more). Due to the limited number of talks at a CESCG seminar (up to 24 talks or so), only one or two slots per actively participating group can be guaranteed from the beginning on.
After the first deadline, and according to the total of all talk announcements, the Vienna part of the CESCG organization compiles a so-called preliminary program which states which groups can send how many students for active presentations. Then, until the second deadline, students prepare their CESCG papers and submit them for reviewing to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at. After reviewing, CESCG students incorporate the reviewers' recommendations for improvements into their papers and re-submit the improved papers for final publication. Papers eventually are published in printed form (printed proceedings), electronic form (on CD-ROM and as web proceedings), and as presentations directly at the seminar.

The contributions are submitted in some directly printable format for printed proceedings (device-independent Postscript or PDF) and the paper source (LaTeX). To ensure some typographic quality of the seminar proceedings, all submissions have to follow the guidelines for authors available at http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/studentwork/CESCG/guidelines/. A LaTeX2e class (implementing these guidelines) can be downloaded from this web-page.

Students are highly encouraged to include additional material in their submissions. This additional material can be images, animations, ..., and should be assembled on an HTML page which will be included in the electronic proceedings on the web and the CD.

Note that only those contributions are included in the seminar proceedings, that conform to the guidelines specified above and which are submitted in time according to the schedule of the seminar.

To prepare a successful seminar, it is necessary to coordinate several groups in different countries. It is obvious that this can only work if all the participating groups stick to the schedule of the seminar. The schedule for CESCG 2004 is as follows:

In case you have any questions or recommendations, please send an email to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at. CESCG 2004 is organized by Ivan Viola, Helwig Hauser, and Andreas Traxler in Vienna and Andrej Ferko and Marek Zimanyi in Bratislava.

This CfP is available via URL http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/studentwork/CESCG/CESCG-2004/cfp.html. Pages that provide general information about CESCG, guidelines for the authors, etc., can be reached via URL http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/studentwork/CESCG/.

Best wishes from Vienna,
and looking forward to another great CESCG, next year.