Second International Workshop on
Augmented Reality (IWAR) '99

Motivation:

Goals and Scope:

Topics to be Discussed at the Workshop:

• AR applications
  • concepts of AR systems for real applications
  • industrial AR applications
  • personal AR information systems
  • requirements for usable AR

• System architecture (software and hardware design)
  • wearable computing
  • performance issues (progress and technical shortcuts to achieve real-time AR)
  • distributed AR

• Information presentation
  • progress in display hardware
  • real-time rendering of virtual objects
  • photo-realistic rendering (e.g. reflection analysis)
  • object overlay and diminishing techniques
  • aural augmentation

• Sensor registration
  • calibration methods
  • tracking during user motion
  • tracking of changes in the real world (moving objects)
  • computer vision methods for registration
  • acquisition of 3D scene descriptions

• Consideration of human factors
  • user interaction concepts for/with AR (e.g. multi-modal input and output)
  • human acceptance of AR technology

Organization:

The workshop will be on two days from October 20-21, 1999.

In order to provide a convenient opportunity to gather many relevant participants, this workshop willl be held in the same venue as the International Symposium on Wearable Computing (Oct.18-19) at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco.

Conference Chairs:

Program Chair:

Program Committee:

Demo Organizing Committee:

Demo Chairs:

Demo Committee:

We invite researchers to submit technical papers (not more than 10 pages) on the above topics in the research field "Augmented Reality". Please follow the guidelines set by the IEEE Computer Society at http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

For your convenience, you may use the following templates: LaTeX template ( http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip) or Word 97 template ( http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/IEEE_CS_WordTemplate.doc). Submit your paper either as zipped Postscript (viewable by Ghostscript!) or as zipped Word file. Choose a unique filename, composed of the initials of your organization and the last name of the principal author (e.g. TUM_Klinker.zip or RSC_Behringer.zip).

Submission by Email:
If the file you intend to submit is smaller than 6 MB, you may email it to both the following email addresses: reinhold@rsc.rockwell.com and klinker@in.tum.de. Email submissions should have a single MIME-compliant attachment or a single uuencoded file; no multi-part/alternative mails are accepted.

Submission by FTP:
You may upload your paper, poster or discussion summary to the ftp server using the following credentials:

If you do not receive an emailed confirmation of your submission by June 21, please send again an email to reinhold@rsc.rockwell.com and klinker@in.tum.de to ask for the status of your submission.

Posters:

IWAR will host peer-reviewed demonstrations showing AR hardware prototypes and/or AR work in progress. The demos will be given in an informal setting and will be shown on all two days of the workshop. They should be brief (a few minutes) so that they can be shown repeatedly during the demonstration sessions. Demos with which people can interact are especially encouraged.

Demo submission will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance, scientific contribution, and potential logistic constraints.

• A brief summary of your demonstration (1-2 pages, informal, IEEE CS style is not required), covering the research aspect of the system and mainly focussing on a description of what the demo would look like. This summary will not be published in the proceedings, but is intended to brief the reviewers about your demo system.
• It should be accompanied by a demo storyboard with at least six screen dumps or an informal video tape of the demo (six copies, NTSC VHS). Instead of video tapes, digital video clips are acceptable (MPEG, AVI, etc.). Submit these items either by email or by ftp (see guidelines for submitting papers) by the demo deadline.
• A detailed description of hardware and software equipment. You are responsible to bring your own hardware.
• A description of the space and power requirements.

IWAR will provide: electrical power, a table, and a chair for your setup, and lighting.

In order to give people more time to prepare the required items, the deadline has been extended to August 20, 1999.

Preliminary Schedule:

The following schedule is only preliminary and is subject to changes. Please "stay tuned" to the IWAR web page for latest updates!