CESCG 2016 - Call for Participation

Martin Ilcik, Michael Wimmer

   

  

We are proud to announce the 20th Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics for students, to be held in Smolenice in April, 2016.

CESCG is organized by

• SCCG non-profit organization
• Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology
• Mathematical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

• Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University, in Bratislava.
• Czech Technical University in Prague
• Faculty of Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin.
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

CESCG 2016 applied for a small grant at the International Visegrad Fund. We hope for the best.

We are pleased to invite the following groups (in alphabetical order; some groups may be not listed yet) to actively participate in CESCG 2016 by sending students to the seminar:

Austria	Graz		Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology
	Vienna		VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality & Visualization, VRVis
			Research Group Visualization and Data Analysis, Vienna University
			Institute of Computer Graphics & Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology
Bosnia-Hercegovina	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
			Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Masaryk University
	Plzeň		Computer Graphics Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of West Bohemia
	Prague		Computer Graphics Group at the Department of Software and Computer Science Education, Charles University
Germany	Bonn		Institute of Computer Science II, Computer Graphics Group, University of Bonn
Hungary	Budapest		Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Norway	Bergen		Visualization Group, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
Poland	Szczecin		Computer Graphics Group, West Pomeranian University of Technology
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

Please note that active participation with paper and talk must be announced via email to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at until December 18, 2015! 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. A reasonable knowledge of the English language is 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

During the seminar all attendants can also participate in workshops on writing and presentation skills which will be important for their future career in science or industry.

CESCG is planned to be held April 24th - 27th, 2016, in Smolenice 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 four 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. Due to increasing popularity of CESCG but also because of decreasing submission discipline, the IPC has agreed to slightly change the review process since 2011. Each group may submit at most of two papers, the organizers from Bratislava and Vienna three. The best rated paper of each group is guaranteed to be accepted. The remaining paper slots are assigned by reviewers' rating from all submissions. Authors who do not get a paper slot are invited to present their paper in a shortened form as a poster in a poster session. This means that submissions are not rejected due to reviewing. Instead, only recommendations on how to improve 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):

• Vanda Benešová, Bratislava
• Jiří Bittner, Prague
• Andrej Ferko, Bratislava
• Helwig Hauser, Bergen
• Michael Kenzel, Graz
• Ivana Kolingerová, Plzeň
• Radosław Mantiuk, Szczecin
• Selma Rizvić, Sarajevo
• Michael Schwärzler, Vienna
• Jiří Sochor, Brno
• László Szirmay-Kalos, Budapest
• Ania Tomaszewska, Szczecin
• Michael Wimmer,
• Borut Žalik, Maribor
• Pavel Zemčík, Brno

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

Abstracts will be available from the Preliminary program page as soon as we have them!

CESCG is targeted at undergratuate and Master level students. Therefore, students presenting at CESCG 2016 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. We also allow graduate students to publish at the CESCG, however it must be their first publication during their PhD study and it is still considered as non-peer-reviewed.

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 PDF format for printed proceedings including the paper source in 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 LaTeX class (implementing these guidelines) can be downloaded from this web-page.

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.

For the Fast-Forward of all papers during the opening session, all students have to submit a short presentation following the given template. One slot is 30 (thirty) seconds long.

The best video award will be given for the first time in 2015. Students are highly encouraged to prepare videos (max. 5 mins) showing their work. Also any other additional material is appreciated: images, datasets, demo, sourcecode.

To prepare a successful seminar, it is necessary to coordinate a 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 2016 is as follows:

The seminar fees for CESCG 2016 include as usual accommodation, food, participation, and workshop materials. All participants are requested to pay for their registration on site. Reducing the fees is possible in case we collect enough additional funding. Stay tuned for updates.

The standard registration fee is €180,- and applies for supervisors as well. Undergraduate and PhD students may register for €130,-, or for €80,- in case their university or local sponsors are not able to refund the fee. Students presenting a paper or poster may apply for a full sponsorship by the organizers, if the financial situation of the student and the university does not allow to pay the fee.

In case you have any questions or recommendations, please send an email to cescg#cg.tuwien.ac.at. CESCG 2016 is organized by Martin Ilcik and Michael Wimmer in Vienna, and Andrej Ferko in Bratislava. Additional organizing support is provided by Jiří Bittner in Prague, Radoslaw Mantiuk in Szczecin and László Szirmay-Kalos in Budapest.

This CfP is available via http://www.cescg.org/CESCG-2016/cfp.php. Pages that provide general information about CESCG, guidelines for the authors, etc., can be reached via http://www.cescg.org/.