We invite you to participate in

NPAR 2004 The 3rd International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering June 7-9, Annecy, France in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH sponspored by Annecy Animation Festival in cooperation with Eurographics

Important dates Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2003, 10pm Eastern Authors notified of decisions: December 19, 2003 Camera-ready deadline: March 15, 2004 Conference: June 7-9, 2004

Advance program

New for 2004! Open-Mic session We invite attendees to deliver short, unrefereed presentations at an "open mic" session to be held during the conference. You are free to speak on any topic of interest to the NPAR community; we encourage presentations on work-in-progress or partial results. Each talk will be roughly five minutes long, though the actual duration depends on the number of presenters. We reserve the right to limit enrolment on a first-come, first-served basis. There may also be some time for impromptu presentations. If you wish to participate, please respond by June 1st to Craig Kaplan at csk@cgl.uwaterloo.ca. Send an email message with your full name and a title for your presentation. If you wish to use slides, you must prepare them in advance as a PDF file; attach the file to the email message or include a URL that points to it. (The PDFs will be collected into a single file to help the session go smoothly.)

Invited Speakers: Edward H. Adelson "On Seeing Stuff: The Perception of Materials and Surfaces." Vision Scientist Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chris Landreth "Inside 'Ryan'" Academy Award-Nominated Director of "Ryan," "Bingo," and "The End." Golan Levin "Audiovisuality and Speech Visualization in Real-Time Interactive Installation and Performance" New Media Artist College of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University

Registration, travel, and housing Registration and travel forms are available on the festival web site, including: NPAR conference registration. Annecy hotel reservation form. The deadline for this form was March 31. However, the form might still be accepted late. Collective accomodations, including youth hostels and camp sites See the festival web site for additional information on the airport shuttle, and on discount travel within France.

NPAR is the third international symposium dedicated to non-photorealistic animation and rendering, including cartoon animation systems and techniques. Held in conjunction with the International Animated Film Festival of Annecy, France, the symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, and showcase cutting-edge research in non-photorealistic animation and rendering systems and techniques. (All registrants will also receive a pass to the International Animated Film Festival, which will be held during the same week, June 7-12.)

Conference Themes

Non-photorealistic animation and rendering (NPAR) refers loosely to a set of techniques for creating imagery in which "artistic expression" is the ultimate goal, rather than "adherence to reality," or "photorealism." Techniques for NPAR are extremely important for communicating information effectively, or for telling stories. With this symposium, we plan to bring together artists, animators, and researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss cutting-edge work in the field, view examples of NPAR in animated productions, and, together, attempt to identify the most interesting and challenging areas for new research and applications in the field. Specific themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Papers

We invite researchers and practitioners of all areas connected to non-photorealistic animation and rendering to submit papers. Full-length papers are the primary medium for conveying new research results at the NPAR symposium. Submissions are sought that describe original, unpublished work on all themes listed above. Paper submissions should be at most 5000 words or 10 ACM conference pages in length. The title page should include an abstract (fewer than 200 words) and keywords. The submission is electronic in PDF format; supplemental video may also be submitted. Submission is single-blind, so papers may be submitted in "camera-ready" format. We recommend that prospective authors consult the SIGGRAPH publications page for information on paper formatting for paper submissions. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM SIGGRAPH. See the paper submission form for more details.

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Annecy

Annecy is located in the French Alps, 45 minutes from the Geneva International Airport and 4 hours from Paris by TGV.

It is a beautiful town on the Lac d'Annecy, with sweeping views across the lake of the majestic French Alps. The Old Town is filled with beautiful medieval buildings connected by a labyrinth of narrow, car-free streets and bridges over the several canals that wind through town. Each year, Annecy organizes the International Animation Film Festival in which thousands of professional animators and designers gather to share their impressions during the screenings of the best animated productions of the year, which take place all day long in several theaters throughout the town and at an open-air giant screen.

Images from NPAR 2002 in Annecy, courtesy of Doug DeCarlo.

Other nearby conferences and events

• Eurographics 2004
• Symposium on Computer Animation 2004
• Graphics Hardware workshop 2004
• Symposium on Geometry Processing 2004
• European Conference on Computer Vision 2004
• Normandy memorial, about.

Previous conferences

• NPAR 2002, June 3-5, 2002
• NPAR 2000, June 5-7, 2000