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British Computer Society

21 - 23 April 1998
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK

Television and Broadcasting on the Internet, WWW and Networks

The British Computer Society Computer Graphics & Displays Group will hold an international two day meeting on this theme to take place in the UK, 21- 23 April 1998.

There is substantial current interest in the convergence of computing, telecommunications, television and broadcasting. Media organisations can put their information on network servers and periodically update it. Users download what they are interested in. Tools and techniques for accessing, interacting with, and displaying, media information are on the increase. Strategies for overcoming bandwidth limitations are needed.

Pre-Conference Courses:

20 - 21 April 1998

International Conference:

22 - 23 April 1998

Keynote Speakers:

Prof Dr Jose Encarnacao, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Evaluation of VR-Technology: Experiments and Applications with 3-, 4- and 5-sided CAVES

Invited Speakers:

Prof C Sandbank, Broadcasting Technology Advisor, Department of Trade and Industry, UK
Broadcasting Digits - Convergence or Conflict?

Mr Keiran O'Hea, TechServ, European Commission DGXIII-E, Luxembourg

Prof Marc Cavazza, University of Bradford, UK
Convergence of Technologies and its impact on Content Creation and Access

Dr Mikael Jern, Vice-President, AVS/UNIRAS, Denmark
'Thin' versus 'Fat' Visualization Clients

Prof Peter Gibbins, Director, Digital Virtual Centre of Excellence, UK
Virtual Research and Development

Mr David Leevers, BICC, UK
Telepresence and Shared Virtual Environments over Networks

Pre-Conference Courses

20 - 21 April 1998

Submitted Papers

22 - 23 April 1998

The Future of Web TV: Controller and Controlled
Dr Olga Kisseleva, University of Montpellier, France

WWW TV News In Context - Organisational practices and media products
Dr Simeon J Yates and Ms Jane L Perrone, Open University, UK

Multi-user visualization: a CORBA / Web-based approach
Bastiaan Schšnhage, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Implementing a 3D collaborative virtual environment on a networked PC-based architecture
Dr Karin Coninx, Prof Frank Van Reeth and Prof Eddy Flerackers, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Belgium

Video Search and Retrieval: current practice and future evolution
Michele Re, Finsiel, Italy

Realtime Remote Reality System
Steven J Madsen, Matsushita Electric Works, Japan

Jogging the Memory: Dynamic Visualisation over the Web
Dr Jeremy Walton, NAG Ltd, UK

Live Internet broadcasting - some unique experiences
D R Lawrence*, A Sloane*, G Contable**, D A Price**, **Department Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, *School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Agent-Based Facial Animation
Ali Al-Qayedi and Adrian F Clark VASE Laboratory, Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, UK

Implications of TV over the Internet
Nikolaos Kotsis, Robert Lambert and Douglas McGregor University of Strathclyde, UK

The Role of 3D Shared Worlds in Support of Chance Encounters in CSCW
Dr Avon Huxor, Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, UK

How to build a pan-European multilingual information distribution system
Jill A Hewitt and James A Malcolm, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Reusable dynamic behaviours for network based computer animation
W Tang, A Osman and Dr I. J Palmer, University of Bradford, UK

Remote Rendering on the WWW
M. D. J McNeill, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

The Performing Arts Data Service
Steve Malloch, Carola Boehm, University of Glasgow, UK

Virtual Rehearsal over Networks
C M Reeve and I J Palmer, University of Bradford, UK

Video Compression in MPEG4
Prof J Jiang, University of Glamorgan, UK

Merging Synthetic Animation Sequences with Camera Captured Video from Broadcasts over the Internet
Dr A L Thomas, University of Sussex, UK

Segmenting, Describing and Compositing Video Sequences containing Multiple Moving Elements
Dr G A Jones, Kingston University, UK

Further information and Booking Form:

http://www.sedm.brad.ac.uk/conf/conf98.html

Further information:

Prof R A Earnshaw
Electronic Imaging and Media Communications
University of Bradford
BRADFORD, BD7 1DP
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 384001
Fax: +44 (0) 1274 383727
R.A.Earnshaw@bradford.ac.uk

Prof Huw Jones
Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
BARNET, EN4 8HT
UK
d.h.jones@mdx.ac.uk

Prof John A Vince
Virtual Reality Society
PO Box 316
Haywards Heath
West Sussex, RH117 5YA, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1444 414792
Fax: +44 (0) 1444 414792
qi95@dial.pipex.com

Roy Middleton
University of Edinburgh
The Kings Buildings
Mayfield Road
EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4994
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6552
R.Middleton@ed.ac.uk


Collaborative Virtual Environments 1998 (CVE'98)

CVE'98, the second international conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, is due to take place in Manchester on 17 - 19 June 1998.

A Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is one that actively supports human-human communication in addition to human-machine communication and which uses a Virtual Environment (including textually based environments such as MUDs/MOOs) as the user interface. This is an exciting field with much potential for inter-disciplinary collaboration particularly in the fields of computer science, psychology, sociology, architecture and urban planning, cultural and media studies and Artificial Intelligence.

CVE'98 is aimed towards the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology and applications which support collaboration between users rather than on VR technology itself. CVE'98's goal is to present the current state-of-the-art in Collaborative Virtual Environments and foster inter-disciplinary links between researchers in this field.

This year CVE'98 will be held in conjunction with the workshop System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality which will take place on the 17 June 1998.

The main topics of the workshop include:

Information about CVE'98 is on the web at: http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/CVE98/ Information about the workshop on System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality is at: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/sharedvr/

Dave Snowdon
dns@cs.nott.ac.uk


FRACTAL 98

25 - 28 October 1998
Valletta, Malta

Complexity and Fractals in the Sciences

5th International Multidisciplinary Conference

The latest information is available on : http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fractal

For more information please contact:

Dr Miroslav M Novak
School of Physics
Kingston University
Surrey, KT1 2EE
UK

Tel: +44 (0) 181 547 7481
Fax: +44 (0) 181 547 7562
novak@kingston.ac.uk


The Institute of Mathamatics and its Applications

Eighth IMA Conference on The Mathematics of Surfaces

31 August - 2 September 1998, University of Birmingham

Call for Papers

The eighth IMA Conference on The Mathematics of Surfaces will take place at the University of Birmingham, UK, on 31 August - 2 September 1998. Computer-based methods for the construction, representation, and manipulation of complicated surfaces have led to a wide interest in, and need for, surface mathematics. Many applications now require the use of surface descriptions, especially in such fields as computer aided design and machining, and computer vision and inspection of manufactured parts. The description of surfaces is also of interest in geographic information systems and multimedia, and many other areas of science and medicine. This diversity and the wide range of applicability of the subject have already enabled the IMA to hold seven very successful conferences on the mathematics of surfaces. The eighth such conference has now been scheduled. Several international authorities will be presenting invited papers, and contributed papers. There will also be contributed papers.

Confirmed invited speakers include:

P Besl, Silicon Graphics, R Farouki, University of Michigan, H Hagen, University of Kaiserlauten, J Hoschek, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, G Lukacs, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, T Lyche, University of Oslo, D Manocha, University of North Carolina, and H-P Seidel, University of Erlangen.

Full information is at:

http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/mos8call.html Dr Ralph Martin
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales, Cardiff
PO Box 916, The Parade
Cardiff, CF2 3XF
UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1222 874000 x 5536
Fax: +44 (0) 1222 874598
ralph@cs.cf.ac.uk
http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/


Eurographics '98

31 August - 4 September 1998 Lisbon, Portugal see http://www.eg.org/

UK AVS+UNIRAS User Group (UAUUG) Forthcoming Events

See http://www.exeter.ac.uk/uauug/ for more information about the UK UNIRAS and AVS User Group, including further information on both of these events and last year's Conference.

Technical Briefing Day 21 May 1998

The UAUUG is holding a technical briefing day on Thursday 21 May at the Henry VIII Hotel in Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London. There will be two half-day presentations and tutorials, one from John Stringer of AVS who will be giving a UNIRAS/Toolmaster update and one from Steve Larkin, also of AVS, on Express 3.4 and the Animator.

John's presentation will include a demonstration of the latest examples of the Gsharp Application Seat and the recommended Application Framework for developing applications with an emphasis on applications likely to be used in the UAUUG community. He will also demonstrate the latest Gsharp web examples and describe the new profile system and how to use it.

Steve's presentation will cover the new features available in the release of AVS/Express 3.4. This will include the Animator module which provides users with a convenient method of generating and viewing keyframe animations from AVS/Express applications. The talk will also include live demonstrations of the Animator and other features.

John will be running a clinic/workshop/open forum in parallel with Steve's presentation, and vice-versa. This allows those who are only interested in one of the product lines and those who are interested in both to make full use of the day.

Annual Conference 2-3 November 1998

The 1998 annual UK AVS+UNIRAS User Group Conference is again being held at the University of Birmingham Conference Park on Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 November 1998. The conference is aimed at AVS and UNIRAS users from both industry and higher education. Advanced Visual Systems will, as always, be represented by key management and technical personnel, so the conference provides a valuable opportunity to find out about new developments. Last year's event was well received, with the quality of both the presentations and the environment coming in for praise.

The conference will have exclusive use of Hornton Grange, on the University of Birmingham Conference Park. Hornton Grange was built during the early years of this century as an Edwardian style gentleman's residence which now stands in its own attractive and peaceful grounds within the Conference Park. It has its own bar and Conservatory Dining Room with 32 modern and highly specified en-suite bedrooms in the adjacent North and South wings. The Conference Park itself is located very close to the University campus. As well as offering ample free car parking it has good rail links with Birmingham International airport and the rest of the UK.

Presentations are welcomed on various topics:

We welcome short abstracts on proposed presentations or full papers which will be published as part of the conference proceedings. Accepted talks and papers will entitle the presenting author to a free day's registration for the conference for the day of the presentation or reduced rate registration for the whole conference.

Further details of the Conference are available from the UAUUG web page at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/uauug/

or the Conference Organiser:

Paul Hatton
Information Services
Elms Road Building
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 121 4143994
Fax: +44 (0) 121 4143952
P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk

Offers of talks and papers are welcomed by the Programme Organiser:

Rob Fletcher
Graphics Coordinator
Computing Service
University of York
YORK YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 433816
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433740
R.Fletcher@york.ac.uk

Paul Hatton
P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk


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