Robert Jacobson <cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu> (06/27/91)
First Announcement and Call for Papers First COST #229 WG.5 Workshop (IFIP) TELEPRESENCE -- A NEW CONCEPT FOR TELECONFERENCING University of Linkoping, Sweden 24-25 October 1991 The goal of the workshop is to highlight the technical and telecommunication related problems which occur when Telepresence (helmet display systems) is used for teleconferencing. The workshop will work as a forum to discuss these problems and as an information about current research and development of equipment in the area. The following types of sessions are scheduled: o Invited tutorials that focus on the state of the art and current research o Roundtable discussions to present and discuss open problems regarding different research topics Topics include: o 3D scene representation o Data sharing/task allocation o Human body modeling o Facial feature detection o Body movement detection o Artificial 3D sound generation o Image representation o Special purpose processors o Real time image generation o Display headsets Workshop Committee: Dr. Robert Forchheimer Mrs. Anna Linderhed Mr. Bengt Kvarnstrom Deadline for extended abstracts (1500 words): AUGUST 1, 1991 Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by August 24th. Please address questions, or willingness to contribute, to: Mrs. Anna Linderhed Department of Electrical Engineering Linkoping University S-581 83 LINKOPING Sweden Fax: (46)(13) 139 282 Phone: (46)(13) 281 000 Email: anna@isy.liu.se