Call for Paper Conference

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FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS – VIDEO FESTIVAL (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/sibgrapi2010/index.php/call-for-participation/video-festival/)

The SIBGRAPI Video Festival is an exhibition of short videos (up to 3 minutes for technical videos, and 5 minutes for computer animation shorts) generated with computer graphics or digital video processing techniques, which brings technical innovations and/or creativity. Scientists, engineers, computer science researchers, designers, artists, advertising specialists, and animators are encouraged to submit works that fascinate, innovate, provoke, and entertain. Videos that are related to papers and posters submitted to the conference technical sessions are warmly welcome. The SIBGRAPI Video Festival is a privileged forum where professionals, amateurs, production houses, research groups, and students can share experiences and exhibit their productions to a selected and specialized international audience.

The Video Festival takes place during one of the three nights of the symposium in an informal and cheerful session dedicated to innovation and imagination Amongst the accepted videos, the best ones are selected and advertised as the winners of the Specialist Jury Certificate (one for each video category) and the Popular Jury Certificate (one for all categories).

The accepted videos will be included in the DVD of the symposium.

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CATEGORIES

The videos can be submitted in one of the following categories (but not both):

** Technical Videos: this category includes videos that explain the technical details of research developments in one or more themes of the symposium (mainly computer graphics, computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition). Videos in this category are evaluated according to inventive technical aspects of their production or the innovative techniques used to generate the images.

** Computer Animation Shorts: this category includes a broad range of short videos that involve computer-generated imagery in their making, such as promotional films, game introductions, advertising films, and experimental animations. Videos of this category may use traditional techniques, and they are evaluated according to their artistic, cultural or entertainment value, as well as the quality of editing and finishing.

Videos of a category that also have aspects of the other category are rewarded with extra evaluation points. Any form of computer graphics or image processing technique is eligible for submission. 3D animation, 2D Flash animation, live-action visual effects integration, or digitally manipulated imagery can be considered.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline:
July 1st, 2010, until 23:59 Brasilia/Brazil time (UTC/GMT -3 hours)

Notification of acceptance (by e-mail):
July 12, 2010

Final Video Due:
July 30, 2010, until 23:59 Brasilia/Brazil time (UTC/GMT -3 hours)

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CONTACT

In case of any questions, please feel free to contact the Video Festival Co-Chairs:

Isabel Harb Manssour (isabel.manssour@pucrs.br) – PUCRS, Brazil

Cláudio Rosito Jung (crjung@inf.ufrgs.br) – UFRGS, Brazil

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