CALL FOR VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

18th Annual Video/Multimedia Review of Computational Geometry

Video and multimedia presentations are sought for the 18th Annual Video and Multimedia Review of Computational Geometry. This review showcases the use of visualization in computational geometry for
exposition and education, for the visual exploration of geometry in research, and as an interface and a debugging tool in software development. Algorithm animations, visual explanations of structural
theorems, descriptions of applications of computational geometry, and demonstrations of software systems are all appropriate. Videos that accompany papers submitted to the technical program committee are encouraged.

Three to five minutes is ideal for most animations and presentations of applications; eight minutes is the upper limit. Submissions of movie clips in QuickTime or MPEG-4 compressed formats (e.g., XviD or DivX version 6) are encouraged. Consider adding a subtitle track to your movie clip. We also encourage submissions of Macromedia Flash, Java applets, and limited forms of other multimedia. These formats must come with a script that will allow them to be distributed in both interactive and canned QT or MPEG movie formats. In case of doubt, please email the Video and Multimedia Program chair. Some suggestions on making movie clips can be found at http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~efif/SoCG09/movie_suggestions.html.

Accepted video and multimedia presentations will have an abstract in the published conference proceedings; video/multimedia authors will have an opportunity to present their work at the conference during a dedicated video session. Accepted presentations will be available online in various formats in a web proceedings.(The 2008 video proceedings are available at http://www.computational-geometry.org/SoCG-videos/socg08video/.)

Video/Multimedia Submission

We explicitly encourage the submission of multimedia or video presentations that support submitted papers. Submissions of papers and accompanying presentations will be treated as separate submissions: acceptance or rejection of one does not influence acceptance or rejection of the other, and presentations supporting regular paper submissions still need to be accompanied by a description of (at most) two pages, as described below.

Video and multimedia presentations can also be submitted separately, to arrive by February 16, 2009.

The author(s) should submit a one or two-page description of the material shown in the presentation, and where applicable, the techniques used in the implementation. An email address of the correspondence author and a URL or ftp address where the presentation can be retrieved must be included. Additional material describing the contents of the presentations, such as the full text of accompanying papers, may also be included. The final descriptions must be formatted according to the guidelines for ACM proceedings; LaTeX style files will be provided to authors of accepted presentations. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to the Video/Multimedia committee chair, Efi Fogel: efif@post.tau.ac.il. An acknowledgement of reception will be sent within a few days.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and given reviewers' comments by March 1, 2009. For each accepted presentation, the final version of the 2-page textual description will be due by March 16, 2009 (electronically) for inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of accepted video/multimedia presentations will be due April 20, 2009 in the best format available.

Video and Multimedia Presentation Program Committee

• Jur van den Berg (Univ. North Carolina)
• Efi Fogel (chair; Tel Aviv Univ.)
• Michael Kerber (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik)
• Sylvain Pion (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
• Stefan Schirra (Otto-von-Guericke Univ. Magdeburg)
• Lior Wolf (Tel Aviv Univ.)