CW 2010 - 2010 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW)

2010 International Conference on Cyberworlds
20-22 October 2010, Singapore http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/SCE/cw2010

Organized by the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society.
In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics Association.
Supported by the Interactive Digital Media R&D Program Office, Media Development Authority of Singapore.

Cyberworlds are information worlds or communities created on cyberspace by collaborating participants either intentionally or spontaneously. As information worlds, they accumulate information regardless whether or not anyone is in, and they can be with or without 2D or 3D visual graphics appearance. The examples of such cyberworlds are communities created in different social networking services, 3D shared virtual environments, and multiplayer online games. Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world and have a serious impact on it. Cyberworlds have been created and applied in such areas as e-business, e-commerce, e-manufacturing, e-learning, e-medicine, and cultural heritage, etc. Cyberworlds augment and sometimes replace the real life and become a significant component of real economy.
The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized annually since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and special issues published in The Visual Computer and other research journals.

10th in the series, CW2010 will consist of paper sessions, tutorials, industrial seminars, exhibitions and hands-on demonstrations where researchers, artists, and vendors will show the state-of-the-art in the field. CW2010 will have several parallel tracks including but not limited to the following topics:

Shared virtual worlds; Virtual collaborative spaces; Shape modeling for cyberworlds; Virtual humans and avatars; Intelligent talking agents; Networked collaboration; Haptic interaction and rendering; Computer vision; Augmented, mixed and virtual reality; Human-computer interfaces; Cognitive informatics; Brain-computer interfaces; EEG-based emotion recognition; E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces; Multi-user web games; Art and heritage in cyberspace; Cyber-museums; Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds; Cyberethics and cyberlaws; Cybersecurity; Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds; Social networking.

CW2010 will also have a special research and industrial track for Singapore Media Development Authority Co-Space projects.

Key-note talks:
Tosiyasu L. Kunii "Modeling Cyberworlds"
Chief Technical Advisor of Morpho, Inc., Japan and Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Nadia Thalmann "A Comprehensive Methodology to Visualize Articulations for the Physiological Human"
Professor and Director of MIRALab, University of Geneva and Director of the Institute for Media Innovations, NTU, Singapore.

Michael Yap "The Future of Media: Co-Space and the Next Web"
Deputy CEO at Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore and an Executive Director of the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Programme Office.

André Gagalowicz "3D Tracking of non Verbal Facial Expressions from Monocular Video Sequences"
Scientific Leader, Mirages, INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt research centre.

Dieter Fellner "3D Semantics Pipeline: Creating, Handling and Visualization of Semantically-Enriched Models"
Professor at TU Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Germany.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

2 special issues of the following international journals will be formed from the full conference papers:
- The Visual Computer (Springer)
- Transactions on Computational Science (Springer)

Important Dates:
Paper submission 15 May 2010 (extended)
Notice of Acceptance 15 Jun 2010
Author registration 15 Jul 2010
Camera-ready paper 15 Jul 2010

Industrial Seminars/Exhibitions:
Key industrialists are invited to share their experience in creating and applying cyberworlds to solve practical problems. Major research labs, industrial companies and other institutions are invited to set up an exhibition to present their group, the work and projects to the conference participants. Please email your requests to cyberworlds{at}ntu.edu.sg or call +65 6790-4292.

General Chair and Co-Chairs:
Alexei Sourin, NTU, Singapore.
Dieter Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany.
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland and NTU, Singapore.

Program Chair:
Olga Sourina, NTU, Singapore.