Call for Papers

ISAR 2000

IEEE and ACM International Symposium on
Augmented Reality

Oct 5-6, 2000
at the Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Computer Science Department

http://www12.in.tum.de/projects/isar/2000/
http://www.Augmented-Reality.org/isar2000

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society:
Task Force on Human Centered Information Systems
and the
Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems.

In cooperation with and SIGGRAPH .

Also in cooperation with

Motivation:

In the past two years, Augmented Reality (AR) has received increasing attention, as indicated by two well-attended International Workshops on Augmented Reality (IWAR) and several other related conferences and symposia. By its very nature, AR is a highly inter-disciplinary field involving areas of 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. Its concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications.

This symposium continues the IWAR series of annual meetings, providing an opportunity for AR researchers from academia and industry to meet in an informal atmosphere for an exchange of ideas, concepts, and research results. ISAR is meant to trigger discussions among participants and to provide an intensive exchange between academia and industry as well as between researchers working in the different AR research branches.

Topics:

AR applications

concepts of AR systems for real applications
industrial AR applications
personal AR information systems
medical AR applications
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
tracker registration 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 symposium will be on two days, October 5-6, 2000 at the Südgebäude of the Technical University of Munich.
In addition to paper and poster presentations and live system demonstrations, ISAR will have several invited talks on applications of Augmented Reality and on activities in related fields. Live system demonstrations at ISAR'2000 will place particular emphasis on comparing different variations of tracking technology - without being exclusively dedicated to this topic.

Program

Local arrangements and Hotels

Schedule:

	Papers	Demonstrations
Deadline for submissions	May 19	Aug. 19
Acceptance notifications	June 23	tba
Camera ready papers due (in POSTSCRIPPT)	July 21
Early registration deadline	Sep. 14
Workshop	Oct. 5-6