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                       SMI'2003
           Shape Modeling International '2003

             INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
           SHAPE MODELING AND APPLICATIONS

              Seoul National University
            Seoul, Korea, May 12-16 2003

           http://cgvr.korea.ac.kr/SMI2003

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SETTINGS
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Reasoning about shape is a common way of describing and representing
objects in engineering, architecture, medicine, biology, physics and in
daily life.  Modelling shapes is part of both cognitive and creative
processes and from the outset models of physical shapes have satisfied
the desire to see the result of a project in advance. Recently, shape
modeling has been extended to volumetric and multidimensional modeling
reflecting time-dependent processes and various properties of real and
abstract objects.

SMI'2003 will be the fifth International Conference on Shape Modeling
and Applications. From year 2002 the SMI conference became an annual
event with the venue changing circularly from Asia to Europe, and to
America, it has also included the Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH
Workshop on Implicit Surfaces as a specific session.
Previous events were held in 1997 and 1999 (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan),
2001 (Genova, Italy), and 2002 (Banff, Canada).

The conference will include three days of papers program. Special
sessions will be organized on relevant topics.

The conference is organized by Korea Computer Graphics Society in
cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH (pending) and EUROGRAPHICS (pending).
The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press.


TOPICS
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The conference is devoted to all areas of shape modeling, including but
not limited to:

=> Shape Modeling: Abstraction, Analysis and Transformation
=> Topological Modeling of Shapes
=> Shape Recognition
=> Geometric Modeling
=> Surface Modeling and Reconstruction
=> Implicit Surfaces
=> Solid Modeling
=> Volume and Multidimensional Modeling
=> Compression and Simplification of Shape Models
=> Computational Basis for Shape Modeling
=> Interactive Shape Modeling
=> Modeling for Games and Entertainment
=> Shape Rendering


CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
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Honorary Chairs: Tosyasu L. Kunii and Sung Yong Shin

Conference Chair:
Kunwoo Lee

Program Chairs:
Chang-Hun Kim, Alexander Pasko, Michela Spagnuolo

Organizing Committee Chair:
Myung-Soo Kim

SMI Steering Committee:
Bianca Falcidieno
Tosyasu L. Kunii
Alexander Pasko
Jarek Rossignac
Vladimir Savchenko
Michela Spagnuolo
Brian Wyvill
Geoff Wyvill


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline              15 October 2002
Notification of acceptance             15 December 2002
Camera-ready paper due                 25 January 2003
Conference                             12-16 May 2003


CONTACTS AND SUBMISSIONS
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Contact on organization issues
Myung-Soo Kim, E-mail: mskim@cse.snu.ac.kr

Submission information will be posted on the Web site
http://cgvr.korea.ac.kr/SMI2003
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