Preliminary Call for Papers
Graphics Interface '98
June 18-20, 1998
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Graphics Inteface '98 is one of a trio of major conferences, AI-GI-VI 98, that will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 18-20, 1998. All conference events will take place in the Harbour Centre campus of Simon Fraser University, which is located in downtown Vancouver.

Deadline for Submissions

Papers must be received by the program co-chairs 31 October 1997. See below for more details. An electronic pre-submission form will be made available on-line at this Web site some time in September 1997. All authors are encouraged to submit an electronic pre-submission form to facilitate the reviewing process.

Request for Submissions

Contributions are solicited describing unpublished research results and applications experience in all areas of computer graphics and human-computer interaction, specifically including the following.

Graphics Interface '98 Program Co-Chairs

Kellogg Booth & Alain Fournier
Department of Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4
Phone: 604/822-8990, Fax: 604/822-8989
email: {ksbooth, fournier}@cs.ubc.ca
URL: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/gi.

Program Committee

Stella Atkins, Simon Fraser University;
Steven Collins, Trinity College, Ireland;
Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France;
Mark Green, University of Alberta;
Jessica Hodgins, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Victor Klassen, Xerox Webster Research Center;
Alison Lee, NYNEX;
Steve Mann, University of Waterloo;
Pierre Poulin, Universite de Montreal;
Holly Rushmeier, IBM Watson Research Center;
James Stewart, University of Toronto;
Tokiichiro Takahashi, NTT Human Interface Labs, Japan;
Dan Weeks, Simon Fraser University;

Invited Speakers

Marie-Paule Cani-Gascuel, iMAGIS, France;
Bonnie John, CMU;
Alvy Ray Smith, Microsoft;
Colin Ware, University of New Bunswick.

Instructions for Submissions

Send five (5) copies of a full paper (20 double-spaced pages or less) to the program co-chairs at the address given above by 31 October 1997.

Refereeing will be blind. Only the title and abstract, without any indication of authorship or author location, should appear on the manuscript body. A separate sheet should contain the manuscript title and abstract together with the full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and email addresses for all authors. One author should be designated contact author for all subsequent correspondence regarding the paper.

Procedures for Accepted Papers

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the contact author by 1 February 1998. Camera ready copy of accepted papers is due 28 March 1998. Each paper will be allotted up to eight (8) pages in the proceedings. Extra charges will be made for papers exceeding the limit and for colored photos.

Publication of Accepted Papers

GI '98 Proceedings will be distributed to all GI '98 attendees and to SIGGRAPH Plus members. Exceptional papers will be considered for publication in Computer Graphics Forum.

Best Student Paper Award

The program committee will select the best student-authored paper for the 1998 Michael A. J. Sweeney Award. All eligible papers are automatically considered for the award.

Nearby Conference of Interest

The Third International Workshop on Implicit Surfaces (Implicit Surfaces '98) will be held June 15-16, 1998 at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington (USA) just prior the Graphics Interface '98 conference in Vancouver. Sponsorship is anticipated from Eurographics and ACM SIGGRAPH.

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