Call for Papers for the Second International Workshop on Augmented Reality (IWAR) '99 Oct 20-21, 1999 Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA (USA) http://hci.rsc.rockwell.com/iwar/99/ http://notesbruegge.in.tum.de/iwar/ In cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH. New: Demonstration submission deadline extended until August 20! Join the IWAR discussion group! (Pending: approval of co-sponsorship by IEEE CS, in-cooperation by EUROGRAPHICS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motivation: The research topic "Augmented Reality" (AR) is receiving significant attention due to striking progress in many subfields (triggered by the advances in computer miniaturization, speed, and capabilities) and fascinating live demonstrations. AR, by its very nature, is a highly inter-disciplinary field, and AR researchers work in areas such as signal processing, computer vision, graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, distributed computing, information access, information visualization, and hardware design for new displays. In the past, AR evolved from research activities in areas like "Virtual Reality", "Human-Computer Interaction", and "Wearables". This workshop is intended to provide an opportunity for AR researchers from academia as well as from industry to meet in an informal atmosphere for an exchange of ideas, concepts, and research results. Goals and Scope: This workshop provides an opportunity for the international AR community to get together and concentrate on topics of AR research and applications without the "overhead" of events where AR is only a related topic. It will trigger discussions among participants and provide an intensive exchange between academia and industry as well as between researchers working in the different AR research branches. Topics to be Discussed at the Workshop: Both "AR enabling" and "AR utilizing" research and technology will be discussed at the workshop. The list of topics is: o AR applications + concepts of AR systems for real applications + industrial AR applications + personal AR information systems + requirements for usable AR o System architecture (software and hardware design) + wearable computing + performance issues (progress and technical shortcuts to achieve real-time AR) + distributed AR o 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 o 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 o 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: Reinhold Behringer David Mizell Rockwell Science Center The Boeing Company 1049 Camino Dos Rios P.O. Box 3707 MS 7L-48 Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (USA) Seattle, WA 98124-2207 phone: 805-373-4435 phone: 425-865-2705 fax: 805-373-4862 fax: 425-865-2965 email: email: reinhold@rsc.rockwell.com david.mizell@boeing.com Program Chair: Gudrun Klinker Technische Universität München Arcisstr. 21 D-80333 München (Germany) phone: ++49 89-289-25784 fax: ++49-89-289-25296 email: klinker@in.tum.de Program Committee: Ron Azuma HRL Laboratories, azuma@HRL.com USA Mark Billinghurst U Washington, USA grof@hitl.washington.edu Jerry Bowskill BT Laboratories, UK jerry.bowskill@bt-sys.bt.co.uk Tom Caudell University of New tpc@eece.unm.edu Mexico, USA Steve Feiner Columbia feiner@cs.columbia.edu University, USA Eric Foxlin Intersense Inc., ericf@isense.com USA Vienna University Michael Gervautz of Technology, gervautz@cg.tuwien.ac.at Austria Michitaka Hirose University of hirose@ihl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Tokyo, Japan University of Adam Janin California at janin@cs.berkeley.edu Berkeley, USA Blair MacIntyre Georgia Institute blair@cc.gatech.edu of Technology, USA Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon tk@cs.cmu.edu University, USA Paul Milgram University of milgram@mie.utoronto.ca Toronto, Canada Stefan Müller Fraunhofer IGD, stefanm@igd.fhg.de Germany Nassir Navab Siemens Corporate nnavab@scr.siemens.com Research, USA University of Ulrich Neumann Southern uneumann@usc.edu California, USA Dirk Reiners Fraunhofer IGD, reiners@igd.fhg.de Germany Rajeev Sharma Pennsylvania State rsharma@cse.psu.edu University, USA University of North Andrei State Carolina at Chapel andrei@cs.unc.edu Hill, USA Venkataraman Rockwell Science Sundareswaran Center, USA vsundar@rsc.rockwell.com Mixed Reality Hiroyuki Yamamoto Systems Laboratory, ymmt@mr-system.co.jp Japan Demo Organizing Committee: Demo Chairs: Dirk Reiners Fraunhofer IGD Adam Janin Darmstadt (Germany) University of California at email: Berkeley reiners@igd.fhg.de email: janin@cs.berkeley.edu Demo Committee: Ulrich Neumann Steve Feiner Blair MacIntyre University of Columbia University Georgia Institute Southern feiner@cs.columbia.edu of Technology California blair@cc.gatech.edu uneumann@usc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers: 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: server: hci.rsc.rockwell.com user: IWAR99 password: {your email address} You also should send an email to the organizers ( reinhold@rsc.rockwell.com and klinker@in.tum.de), indicating the filename of the submitted document. The FTP server will give you only write access, no delete access. Therefore, once you have uploaded your submission (or a part of it), you will not be able to overwrite it. Therefore, if you have to upload a new version of your file, you should append to the file name the following: "_revXX", with XX denoting the number of your revision. 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: We invite researchers to submit one-page summaries of posters on the above topics in the research field "Augmented Reality". Please follow the same guidelines as for the above papers. Specifications for poster size will be available later here on this website. Demonstrations: 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. Please submit the following: o 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. o 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. o A detailed description of hardware and software equipment. You are responsible to bring your own hardware. o 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! Papers and posters Demonstrations Deadline for submissions:June 7 August 20 Acceptance notifications:July 20 September 10 Camera ready papers due: Aug. 13 Workshop Oct. 20-21 We are looking forward to see you in San Francisco at IWAR'99! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ last update: Friday, June 25, 08:52 AM (rb)