In 2001, SMI has merged with the Implicit Surface Workshop and is now run as an annual event alternating between Asia, Europe and America. SMI adresses all aspects of shape acquisition, processing, retrieval and understanding. Applications of shape modeling cover Image Synthesis, Medicine, Biology, Botany, Motion Picture, Special Effects and Videogame Production, as well as Computer-Aided Design and Manufacture, Engineering.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstracts: 15 November 2005

• Full Papers: 2 December 2005
• Short Papers: 16 December 2005
• Notification: 24 February 2006
• Camera Ready: 24 March 2006
• Conference: June 14 - 16, 2006

CONFERENCE TOPICS (not limited to)

• Shape Acquisition and Reconstruction

• Shape Modeling and Design
• Shape Analysis and Reasoning
• Shape Transformation and Morphing
• Shape Matching and Retrieval
• Shape Compression and Simplification
• Shape Perception and Recognition
• Semantics of Shapes
• Implicit Surfaces
• Dynamic Shapes
• Topological Modeling of Shapes
• Computational Basis for Shape Modeling
• Smart Shapes
• Uncertainty Coding in Shape Models
• Physically-based Shape Modeling
• Volume and Multidimensional Modeling
• Grammar-Based Shape Modeling
• Iconic Modeling of Shapes
• Free-form Feature Extraction and Modeling
• Polygonization and Mesh Processing
• Interactive and Web-based Shape Modeling
• Shape Rendering
• Molecular Shape Analysis
• Human Body Modeling
• Modeling for Games and Entertainment.

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

The SMI'06 program will include full paper presentations and short paper sessions and it will feature the Best Paper Award. Tutorials and keynote lectures will also be organized.

Original contributions should be submitted electronically according to the instructions that will be posted to the conference web site (the submission system will be activated in October 2005). Abstracts are welcome to facilitate the review process and should be 150-300 words in length.

Full papers are expected to be 10-12 A4 pages, and should present previously unpublished original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. All papers will be peer-reviewed, by at least three reviewers. The accepted full paper contributions will be presented during the plenary sessions and will appear in the conference proceedings. Sketches, or short papers, are expected to be 4 A4 pages at most. The accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings as extended abstract and presented during the plenary sessions as short presentations.

After the conference, selected papers will be invited for special issues of major journals devoted to the conference results. In the past, these special issues have appeared in The Visual Computer, the International Journal on Shape Modeling, and Graphical Models.

The conference is sponsored by IEEE (pending) and organized in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, and EUROGRAPHICS (pending).

CONTACT DETAILS

• SMI'06 submission: smi2006@ge.imati.cnr.it

• SMI'06 web site: www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/SMI06

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

• SMI'06 Honorary Chair: Tosiyasu L. Kunii

• SMI'06 Conference co-Chairs: Issei Fujishiro, Bianca Falcidieno
• SMI'06 Programme co-Chairs: Alexander Belyaev, Hiromasa Suzuki, Michela Spagnuolo

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Valery Adzhiev, Ergun Akleman, Marc Alexa, Pierre Alliez, Helmut Alt, Nina Amenta, Dominique Attali, Loic Barthe, Silvia Biasotti, Georges-Pierre Bonneau, David Breen Hyeong In Choi, Daniel Cohen-Or, Sabine Coquillart, Leila De Floriani, Tamal Dey, Gershon Elber, Andrej Ferko, Massimo Ferri, Anath Fisher, Sarah Frisken, Patrizio Frosini, Thomas Funkhouser, Eric Galin, Franca Giannini, Craig Gotsman, Joerg Haber Stefanie Hahmann, John Hart, Kai Hormann, Ken Joy, Bert Juettler, Takashi Kanai, Elena Kartasheva, Myung-Soo Kim, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Leif Kobbelt, Seungyong Lee, Jean-Claude Leon, Bruno Levy, Peter Lindstrom, Takashi Maekawa, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Laurent Moccozet, Claudio Montani, Bernard Mourrain, Ahmad Nasri, Yutaka Ohtake, Oleg Okunev Valerio Pascucci, Alexander Pasko, Jorg Peters, Hong Qin, Ewald Quak, Ari Rappoport, Malcolm Sabin, Dietmar Saupe, Vladimir Savchenko, Christophe Schlick, Hans-Peter Seidel, Alla Sheffer, Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Claudio Silva, Jack Snoeyink, Shigeo Takahashi, Demetri Terzopoulus, Daniel Thalmann, Marc van Kreveld, Amitabh Varshney, Luiz Velho, Remco Veltkamp, Frederic Vexo, Franz-Erich Wolter, Brian Wyvill, Geoff Wyvill, Shuichi Yukita, Afra Zomorodian

Shape Modeling International Steering Committee

Bianca Falcidieno Tosiyasu L. Kunii Alexander Pasko Jarek Rossignac Vladimir Savchenko Michela Spagnuolo Brian Wyvill Geoff Wyvill