Michael Wimmer, Andreas Traxler, Helwig Hauser

We are proud to announce the 10th Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics for students, to be held in Castá-Papiernicka Centre (jointly with SCCG 2006) in April, 2006. This international seminar is a continuation of CESCG '97, CESCG '98, CESCG '99, CESCG 2000, CESCG 2001, CESCG 2002, CESCG 2003, CESCG 2004, and CESCG 2005, as well as previously held joint seminars. And yes, 2006 is the 10th year that this seminar is held! Many will agree: we have to celebrate our annual CESCG in a special way, this time, and we hope that many will join in to celebrate with great papers and/or with their enthusiasm and participation in CESCG! 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 again SOFTIP.

We are pleased to invite the following groups (in alphabetical order) to actively participate in CESCG 2006 by sending students to the seminar:

Austria	Graz		Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology
	Hagenberg		Media Technology and Design, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
	Vienna		Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology
			VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization
Bosnia	Sarajevo		Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
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
Poland	Szczecin		Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia Systems, Technical University of Szczecin
Slovakia	Bratislava		Department of Applied Informatics and Department of Algebra, Geometry, and Didactics of Mathematics, Comenius University in Bratislava
			Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
	Košice		Faculty of Electical Engineering and Informatics, University of Košice
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 13, 2005! Otherwise an active participation will not be possible! See below for more details about the procedure of registering presentations at CESCG.

The main idea of CESCG is to bring undergraduate students who are interested in computer graphics together across the 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 have studied computer science (or something similar) for at least five or six semesters. Sufficient expertise in giving a talk as well as reasonable knowledge of the English language is also required for active participation.

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

• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
• Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization
• Real-Time Rendering and Graphics Hardware
• 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 April 24-26, 2006. Students have enough time to arrive at the seminar location on the first day (in time), even from the distant locations. There are approximately 24 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., a welcome party and going to a pub. Accommodation is included with the seminar registration.

2006 is the 10th year in which CESCG is organized -- a fair enough reason to celebrate! We are planning a number of specialties at the seminar to convert it into a great celebration, from the first day on. Be prepared that the seminar (the celebrations) might start a day earlier to accomodate for the special program. More details will be disseminated later (some no earlier than at the seminar).

Papers submitted to CESCG are reviewed by well-known researchers in the field of computer graphics to provide the authors with constructive feedback so they can improve their articles before publication. This means that papers are not rejected due to reviewing. Instead, only recommendations on how to improve the papers are provided. This also means that authors of CESCG papers need to make best efforts to incorporate the suggestions of the reviewers within their papers.

The following International Program Committee (IPC) has been established for CESCG (alphabetically ordered):

• Alan Chalmers, Bristol
• Andrej Ferko, Bratislava
• Markus Grabner, Graz
• Helwig Hauser, Wien
• Reinhard Klein, Bonn
• Ivana Kolingerova, Plzen
• Radoslaw Mantiuk, Szczecin
• Martin Sperka, Bratislava
• Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos, Budapest
• Michael Wimmer, Vienna
• Borut Zalik, Maribor
• Jiri Zara, Prague

Again, we will have two very interesting invited talks by recognized researchers in the fields of computer graphics and computer vision:

• Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg (Austria) and
• Prof. Vaclav Hlavac (Czech Republic)

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

Active participation in the form of a published and presented paper has to follow the following process:

1. First, a certain set of computer graphics groups in Central Europe (see above) are invited to participate through the dissemination of this call for participation.
2. Then, until the first deadline (see below), 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), only one or two slots per actively participating group can be guaranteed.
3. After the first deadline, and according to the total sum 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. At this point in time, the number of actively participating students per group is fixed -- the students can start to work on their papers. Each student has a responsible advisor.
4. Until the second deadline (see below), students prepare their CESCG papers under the supervision of their advisors and submit them for reviewing using the submission system on the CESCG webpage.
5. After reviewing, CESCG students incorporate the reviewers' recommendations for improvements into their papers. It is the responsibility of the student's advisor that this happens properly, so that the hard work invested by the reviewers is not in vain. The advisor (and not the student!) then re-submits the improved paper for final publication.
6. Papers are eventually 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 (preferably PDF, or, if not otherwise possible, zipped device-independent Postscript) and the paper source (LaTeX). To ensure a minimum 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, etc., 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 which conform to the guidelines specified above and which are submitted in time according to the schedule of the seminar.

CESCG is targeted at undergratuate and Master level students. Therefore, students presenting at CESCG 2006 need to be either actively enrolled in an undergraduate or Master program of their participating institution, or have been enrolled at the time the work they present was created. It is acceptable if the work has been done in cooperation with other students. However, the first author needs to be a student for whom the mentioned criteria hold.

CESCG is a chance for students to be acquainted with the procedures of scientific publishing, e.g., at conferences and in journals. Therefore, CESCG papers should contain all the elements of a scientific paper. In particular, they should include a suitable presentation of the obtained results, and they need to be based on scientific literature, containing a discussion of related and previous work with adequate references. Even though a CESCG paper is not expected to contain research results suited for a major conference, it should contain novelty. For example, a new algorithm, an improvement over an existing one, a new comparison of techniques etc.

To prepare a successful seminar, it is necessary to coordinate the relatively large set of 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 2006 is as follows:

Participation in CESCG 2006 is free for attendees who present a paper or who supervise a presenter (one supervisor per paper). Participants who just wish to attend the presentations and discussions are of course also kindly invited. A registration fee of Euro 50,- (to be paid via bank transfer) is requested from such participants. Details will be published on the CESCG web page later on.

In case you have any questions or recommendations, please send an email to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at. CESCG 2006 is organized by Michael Wimmer, Helwig Hauser, and Andreas Traxler in Vienna, and Andrej Ferko with colleagues in Bratislava.

This CfP is available via http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/studentwork/CESCG/CESCG-2006/cfp.html. Pages that provide general information about CESCG, guidelines for the authors, etc., can be reached via http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/studentwork/CESCG/.