GraphiCon 2009, MSU October 5-9

Dear Participant,

We would like to welcome you at GraphiCon'2009, a major international conference on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image and Video processing in Russia. Following well-established traditions, the 19th event will be hosted by Lomonosov Moscow State University on October 5-9, 2009.

This year we have a great program consisting of scientific papers, carefully selected by International Program Committee for oral and poster presentations, young scientist school and industrial exhibition. Keynote talks will be given by Prof. Craig Gotsman (Technion, Israel), Dr. Vladimir Kolmogorov (UÑL, Britain), Dr. Alexey Efros (CMU, USA), Prof. Karol Myszkowski (MPI, Germany).

The International Program Committee was formed of 46 members representing 11 countries all over the world. Being top experts in the respective areas, all of them have done a tremendous job reviewing on average 7 papers out of 135 submitted. We express thanks to the committee members, who served at considerable personal sacrifice and with impressive collective wisdom. The final decision was based on at least two reviews of each manuscript and ended up with 53 works selected for oral presentation and 19 for poster presentation. Also we have decided to organize a young scientist school, where 21 papers will be presented.

Keeping traditions, this year GraphiCon has not only scientifical, but also extensive educational program consisting of 2 full-day tutorials and workshops for both undergraduate and PhD students, researchers and engineers of various companies that are interested in computer graphics topics. This year we have a number of tutorials from Intel, NVidia, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS. We would like to thank lecturers for their willingness to share state-of-the-art knowledge in the respective fields.

We would also like to thank our main sponsors - Intel Corporation, NVidia and Microsoft, volunteers organized by CS MSU Graphics and Media Lab, and everyone who made this event happen.