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Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2014 (3DOR'14)
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A co-event of Eurographics 2014
April 6, 2014 in Strasbourg, France
http://3dor2014.ensea.fr/


# Important dates
December 22, 2013: Paper submissions due (!! EXTENDED DEADLINE !!!)
February 14, 2014: Notification of acceptance
February 21, 2014: Camera-ready papers
April 6, 2014: Workshop takes place


# 3D Object Retrieval Workshop Series

3D object representations have become an integral part of modern computer
graphics applications, such as computer-aided design, game development and
film production. At the same time, 3D data have become very common in
various domains such as computer vision, computational geometry, molecular
biology and medicine.

Indeed, the rapid evolution in graphics hardware and software, in particular
the availability of low cost 3D scanners and modeling tools, has greatly
facilitated 3D model acquisition, creation, and manipulation, giving the
opportunity to a large user community to experience applications using 3D
models. As the number of 3D models is growing rapidly, the problem of
creating new 3D models has shifted to the problem of searching for existing
3D models. Thereupon, the development of efficient search mechanisms is
required for the effective retrieval of 3D objects from large repositories.

The aim of the 3DOR Workshop series is to stimulate researchers from
different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine
Learning, Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction who work on the
common goal of 3D object retrieval, to present state-of-the-art work in the
field. This will provide a cross-fertilization ground that will stimulate
discussions on the next steps in this important research area.

3DOR 2014 will be the seventh workshop in this series and will take place on
April 6, 2014 in Strasbourg (France), one day before Eurographics 2014.


# Call for Papers, Posters and System Demonstrations

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and
practical applications in all areas of 3D Object Retrieval. Submissions are
invited in the form of full and short papers, as well as poster and system
presentations. Submissions must be anonymous, should be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- 3D object similarity and matching
- 3D object classification, indexing, and mining
- Similarity of non-rigid shapes
- Feature extraction, decomposition, and segmentation
- Multi-level representations for matching and retrieval
- Partial and many-to-many matching
- Matching under uncertainty and noise
- Semantics-driven 3D object retrieval and classification
- Sketch-based retrieval
- Query interfaces and search modalities
- Benchmarking issues
- Relevance feedback methods
- Active learning
- Generative / Discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization
- Applications in Multimedia, CAD, and Games industry
- Applications in Biometrics, e-Science, e-Learning, Medicine, Biology, and Cultural Heritage
- Multimedia Information Retrieval

This year's workshop will also feature the 7th Shape Retrieval Evaluation
Contest (SHREC'2014). A separate call for participation will be issued.

It is planned to have extended versions of selected papers from the Workshop
appearing, after a further review, in a special issue of an international
journal. Selected papers from previous workshops appeared in special issues
of The Visual Computer (TVC) journal.


# Organization

Workshop Chairs
Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Télécom Lille / LIFL, France
Hedi Tabia, ENSEA-ETIS, France

Programme Chairs
Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, NL
Benjamin Bustos, University of Chile, Chile

Programme Committee
Ceyhun B. Akgül,Vistek-ISRA Vision, Istanbul, Turkey
Yiannis Aloimonos, UMIACS, USA
Stefano Berretti, University of Florence, Italy
Silvia Biasotti, IMATI-CNR, Italy
Michael Bronstein, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Umberto Castellani, University of Verona, Italy
Petros Daras, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Bianca Falcidieno, IMATI-CNR, Italy
Alfredo Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Daniela Giorgi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Afzal Godil, National Institute of the Standards and Technology, USA
Yosi Keller, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Ron Kimmel, Technion, Israel
Hamid Laga, University of South Australia, Australia
Guillaume Lavoué, INSA Lyon, France
Niloy Mitra, University College of London, UK
Georgios Papaioannou, AUEB, Greece
Ioannis Pratikakis, IIT / NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece
William Regli, Drexel University, USA
Marcos Rodrigues, University of Sheffield, UK
Raif M. Rustamov, Stanford University, USA
Nikolaos Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Tobias Schreck, University of Konstanz, Germany
Ariel Shamir, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, the Interdisciplinary
Center, Herzliya, Israel
Michela Spagnuolo, IMATI-CNR, Italy
Theoharis Theoharis, NTNU, Norway / University of Athens, Greece
Oliver van Kaick, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Stefanie Wuhrer, Saarland University, Germany

Further details at: http://3dor2014.ensea.fr/