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Educators program

The 8-th International Conference
on Computer Graphics and Visualization
GraphiCon'98

Moscow, September 7-11, 1998


In addition to general topics of interest, Educators Program accentuates its own crucial topics. They are:

Papers: Extended abstracts (up to two pages) on topics consistent with the themes of the Educators Program are invited. Abstracts will be reviewed and will be included in the Conference proceedings if accepted. Please format your abstract in accordance with formatting rules and submission guidelines.

Panels: Panels addressing topics relevant to the theme of the Educators Program are also invited.

Courses: During the first two days at the Conference, the focus is on formal instruction. It is supposed that the courses declared above and organised as regular University courses will be published on CD-ROM to be helpful teachers in development of their own University courses. Additional tentative topics are listed in the following table:

Computer Graphics Computer Vision
Introduction to OpenGL Programming
Introduction to VRML 97
Introduction of Programming in Java 3D
Wavelets: Computer Graphics Applications
Color Image Coding & Color Management
Video Compression Techniques
AI Techniques for Games and Animation
Image-Based Modeling and Rendering
Techniques for Volume Visualization
Edge Detection
Color- and Texture-Based Image Segmentation
Searching for Digital Pictures
Shape from Shading and Motion
3D Photography
Photogrammetry: Epipolar Geometry
Camera Calibration
Face and Gesture Recognition
HMM

Demonstrations: Demonstrations of software, courseware, simulations and other resources used in computer graphics education will be an important part of the conference.