Welcome to CESCG 2005!
With reference to one of the most ambitious and inspiring organizers of
CESCG ever, Thomas Theussl, we can call this the year 2 a.T. (after
Tom). Or should we call it year 1 a.I. (after Ivan), as yet again,
CESCG organization has changed hands. Indeed, CESCG organization has
reached such a level of maturity during the last few years, that it is a
pleasure to see one step unfolding after the other without much ado -- just
a little nudging here and there, and everything runs smoothly. It is the
unabated effort put into CESCG by many people that makes sure we will have
yet another very successful seminar this year!
So who are the CESCG heroes that made things happen? In no particular order
-- because many people were involved equally -- we would like to thank Ivan
Viola, the organizer of last year's CESCG, who was always there to answer
any questions; Helwig Hauser, also
called the mother of the CESCG, who made many helpful suggestions.
We would like to thank the organizers from Vienna, especially Andreas Traxler for his perfect work in all
kinds of jobs, not least of them keeping the web page up to date,
Attila Neumann for the reviewing
process organization, Georg Zotti
for the CD production, and Jirí
Hladuvka for the proceedings production. We are very thankful to
CESCG organizers from Bratislava, namely Andrej Ferko, also known as the the father
of the CESCG, and Stanislav
Stanek and Marek Zimanyi for
the excellent on-site organization.
The main idea of CESCG is to bring students of computer graphics together
across boundaries of universities and countries. Therefore we are proud to
state that we have achieved a record number of 17 participating
institutions and a very tight time schedule of 24 valuable student works
and two invited talks. We are also proud that for the first time, students
from ETH Zürich, Switzerland joined the seminar. We also welcome
groups from Bratislava, Slovakia (UK and STU); Brno and Prague, Czech
Republic; Budapest and Szeged, Hungary; Maribor, Slovenia; Bonn, Germany;
Graz, Hagenberg and Vienna (TU and VRVis), Austria; Szczecin, Poland;
Bristol, United Kingdom; and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The informal reviewing process has worked just as flawlessly as in previous
years. We would like to thank the members of the International Program Committee for their
contribution in the reviewing process. The IPC of CESCG 2005 consists of:
- Andrej Ferko
- Helwig Hauser
- Michael Wimmer
- László Szirmay-Kalos
- Jirí Zára
- Radoslaw Mantiuk
Invited talks this year are held by Reinhard Klein from the University of
Bonn, Germany, about "Realistic Materials in Computer Graphics," and
Radoslaw Mantiuk from the Technical University of Szczecin, Poland, about
"Digital Photography in Realistic Computer Graphics". The seminar features
an exhibition called "Large Virtual Cities". The seminar is held under the
auspices of the Austrian Ambassador to Slovakia, his Excellency Martin
Bolldorf, and is co-organized with the Spring Conference on Computer
Graphics (SCCG), which takes place right after the seminar.
The organization of a seminar where there are de facto no expenses for the
students requires funding. We are very thankful to the sponsors of CESCG
2005:
- the Ministry of Education of
the Slovak Republic
- SOFTIP, a Slovak information
technology provider
- OCG, the Austrian Computer
Association
- Visegrad Fund, a Fund to
strengthen the ties between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and
Slovakia
- VRVis, a research center for
virtual reality and visualization in Vienna
- UNESCO, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Caligari Corporation, a
company in field of 3D modelling and rendering software
- Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics
April 2005,
Michael Wimmer
Jirí Hladuvka
Radoslaw Mantiuk
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