<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Please send the amended version below if the previous one hasn't already been sent off. We fixed some typos. Thanks --tony</div><div class="gmail_quote">-=-=-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>GI 2015 Call for Papers</div><div><br></div><div>Graphics Interface (GI) 2015, the 41st annual conference, will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 3-5, 2015. GI is the longest running conference in the field, consistently attracting high-quality submissions on recent advances in computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), and visualization. All accepted GI papers are archived in the ACM Digital Library. The Michael A. J. Sweeney Award will be awarded at the conference to the best student papers in graphics and HCI. Authors of top papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions to the journal Computers & Graphics.</div><div><br></div><div>GI 2015 will be held in conjunction with Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). A single registration provides access to all keynotes, invited and paper talks, as well as a common poster and demo session of the three conferences.</div><div><br></div><div>**NEW: 7 invited talks in the GI Speaker Series!**</div><div><br></div><div>KEYNOTES</div><div> Doug James, Cornell University<br></div><div> Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge</div><div><br></div><div>INVITED SPEAKER SERIES TALKS</div><div> Christopher Batty, University of Waterloo</div><div> Wilmot Li, Adobe Research</div><div> Regan Mandryk, University of Saskatchewan</div><div> Joanna McGrenere, University of British Columbia</div><div> Ryan Schmidt, Autodesk Research</div><div> Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto</div><div> Jianxiong Xiao, Princeton University</div><div><br></div><div>These talks are in addition to those given by winners of the 2015 CHCCS Achievement Award and the 2014 Bill Buxton and Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation awards.</div><div><br></div><div>GI 2015 will have joint sessions for the graphics and HCI tracks. We seek submissions covering all aspects of graphics, HCI, as well as visualization. Authors must request that their submissions be handled by either the graphics or HCI sub-committee. In exceptional cases where significant overlap exists, a submission may be reviewed by members of both sub-committees. All paper submissions are fully peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and two external reviewers. Papers normally have a maximum length of eight pages.</div><div><br></div><div>Deadlines</div><div> Papers submission: December 19, 2014, 11:59 pm PST</div><div> Author notification: February 26, 2015</div><div> Final papers due: March 13, 2015</div><div> Posters submission: March 20, 2015, 11:59 pm PST</div><div> Poster notification: March 27, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>Submission Information</div><div>Submissions should use the format shown in the conference template. Submissions should be converted to PDF and uploaded to the Precision Conference system at <a href="https://precisionconference.com/~gi/" target="_blank">https://precisionconference.com/~gi/</a> by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on December 18, 2014. The PCS system will be open for uploading submissions beginning on December 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Program Co-Chairs</div><div>Hao (Richard) Zhang, Graphics Co-Chair, Simon Fraser University</div><div>Tony Tang, HCI Co-Chair, University of Calgary</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Graphics Program Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Usman Alim, University of Calgary, Canada</div><div>Marco Ament, KIT, Germany</div><div>Christopher Batty, University of Waterloo, Canada</div><div>Alireza Entezari, University of Florida, USA</div><div>Matthew Fisher, Stanford University, USA</div><div>Minglun Gong, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada</div><div>Jianyuan Min, Google, USA</div><div>David Mould, Carleton University, Canada</div><div>Tiberiu Popa, Concordia University, Canada</div><div>Pierre Poulin, University of Montreal, Canada</div><div>Patricio Simari, Catholic University of America, USA</div><div>Kai Xu, National University of Defence Technology, China</div><div>Wenping Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China</div><div><br></div><div>HCI Program Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Lyn Bartram, Simon Fraser University, Canada</div><div>Scott Bateman, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada</div><div>Mark Hancock, University of Waterloo, Canada</div><div>Kirstie Hawkey, Dalhousie University, Canada</div><div>Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research, USA</div><div>Gregor Miller, University of British Columbia, Canada</div><div>Karyn Moffatt, McGill University, Canada</div><div>Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University, Canada</div><div>Evan Peck, Bucknell University, USA</div><div>Jim Wallace, University of Waterloo, Canada</div><div>Wesley Willett, INRIA, France</div><div>Xing-Dong Yang, University of Calgary, Canada</div><div>Jim Young, University of Manitoba, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>Posters chair</div><div>Tiberiu Popa, Concordia University</div></div>
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