Michael Wimmer, Markus Lipp

We are proud to announce the 12th Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics for students, to be held in Budmerice (jointly with SCCG 2008) in April, 2008.

CESCG is organized by the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, and the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University, in Bratislava.

We are pleased to invite the following groups (in alphabetical order) to actively participate in CESCG 2008 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 & Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology
			VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality & Visualization
Bosnia- Hercegovina	Sarajevo		Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
			Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
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, Czech Technical University
Germany	Bonn		Institute of Computer Science II, Computer Graphics Group, University of Bonn
	Freiburg		Computer Graphics, Computer Science Department, Freiburg University
Hungary	Budapest		Computer Graphics Group at the Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest
Poland	Szczecin		Computer Graphics Group, Szczecin University of Technology, Szczecin
Slovakia	Bratislava		Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University
			Faculty of Informatics and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology
Slovenia	Maribor		Laboratory for Geometric Modelling and Multimedia Algorithms, University of Maribor
United Kingdom	Coventry		Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick
Switzerland	Zürich		Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zürich
Czech Republic	Brno		Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Masaryk University

Please note that active participation with paper and talk must be announced via email to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at until December 11, 2007! 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
• Point-based Graphics

CESCG is planned to be held April 24-26, 2008, in Budmerice castle near Bratislava. 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.

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):

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

• Alan Chalmers, Coventry
• Andrej Ferko, Bratislava
• Markus Grabner, Graz
• Markus Hadwiger, Vienna
• Reinhard Klein, Bonn
• Ivana Kolingerova, Plzen
• Radoslaw Mantiuk, Szczecin
• Selma Rizvic, Sarajevo
• Martin Sperka, Bratislava
• Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos, Budapest
• Michael Wimmer, Vienna
• Borut Zalik, Maribor
• Jiri Bittner, Prague
• Pavel Zemcik, Brno

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

To be announced.

CESCG is targeted at undergratuate and Master level students. Therefore, students presenting at CESCG 2008 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.

Note on copyright: Note that work presented at CESCG must be original work and must not have been published BEFORE in another venue. For example, if an article has been submitted to a computer graphics conference, it is NOT eligible for CESCG, as this would violate the original publisher's copyright! On the other hand, it is usually possible AFTER having presented work at CESCG to submit the same work to another venue, for example, a peer-reviewed conference, because CESCG itself does not select papers on a peer-review basis.

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.

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

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.cescg.org/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.

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 2008 is as follows:

Participation in CESCG 2008 is free for attendees who present a paper or who supervise a presenter. Note that there is a limit of two free registrations per paper: one for a supervisor and one for a presenter, even if the paper is authored or presented by more than one student! Participants who just wish to attend the presentations and discussions are of course also kindly invited. A registration fee of Euro 40,- (to be paid via bank transfer) is requested from participants not covered by a free registration. 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 2008 is organized by Michael Wimmer and Markus Lipp in Vienna, and Andrej Ferko in Bratislava.

This CfP is available via http://www.cescg.org/CESCG-2008/cfp.html. Pages that provide general information about CESCG, guidelines for the authors, etc., can be reached via http://www.cescg.org/.