<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***</b></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shape Modelling International (SMI) 2019</b></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vancouver, Canada, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">June 19-21, 2019</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b class="">Shape Modeling International (SMI 2019)</b>, which this year is part of the <b class="">International Geometry Summit 2019</b>, provides an international forum for the dissemination of new mathematical theories and computational techniques for modeling, simulating and processing digital representations of shapes and their properties to a community of researchers, developers, students, and practitioners across a wide range of fields. Conference proceedings (long and short papers) will be published in a Special Issue of Computer & Graphics Journal, Elsevier. Papers presenting original research are being sought in all areas of shape modeling and its applications.</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SMI 2019 will be co-located with the Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2019), the SIAM Conference on Computational Geometric Design (SIAM/GD 2019), the International Conference on Geometric Modelling and Processing (GMP2019), as part of the Geometry Summit 2019.</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Fabrication and Sculpting Event (FASE 2019) will be organized in co-location with SMI 2019. FASE2019 will present original research at the intersection of theory and practice in shape modeling, fabrication and sculpting. SMI2019 also participates in the Replicability Stamp Initiative, an additional recognition for authors who are willing to go one step further, and in addition to publishing the paper, provide a complete open-source implementation. For more details, check the SMI2019 website.</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Acquisition & reconstruction</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Behavior and animation models</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Compression & streaming</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Computational topology</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Correspondence & registration</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Curves & surfaces</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Deep Learning Techniques for Shape Processing</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Digital Fabrication & 3D Printing</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Exploration of shape collections</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Feature extraction and classification</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Healing & resampling</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Implicit surfaces</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Interactive modeling, design & editing</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Medial and skeletal representations</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Parametric & procedural models</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Segmentation</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Semantics of shapes</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Shape Analysis and Retrieval</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Shape Modeling applications (Biomedical, GIS, Artistic/cultural and others)</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Shape statistics</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Shape transformation, bending & deformation</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Simulation</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Sketching & 3D input modalities</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Triangle and polygonal meshes</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Shape modelling for 3D printing and fabrication</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Biomedical applications</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Artistic and cultural applications</span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">HOW TO SUBMIT:</b></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. Paper Format</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Submissions should be formatted according to the style guidelines for the Computers & Graphics Journal and should not exceed 12 pages, including figures and references. We strongly recommend using the LaTeX template to format your paper. We also accept papers formatted by MS Word according to the style guidelines for Computers & Graphics. The file must be exported to pdf file for the first round of submission. For format details, please refer to the Computers & Graphics Journal Guide for Authors</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors" class="">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-graphics/0097-8493/guide-for-authors</a>).</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Double-blind review</b></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The SMI 2019 conference will use a double-blind review process. Consequently, all submissions must be anonymous. All papers should be submitted directly via the journal online submission system of Computers & Graphics: <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/cag/default.asp" class="">http://ees.elsevier.com/cag/default.asp</a>. When submitting your paper to SMI 2019, please make sure that the type of article is specified as "SI: SMI 2019".</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IMPORTANT DATES (<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">23:59 UTC</a>/GMT):</b></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Full paper submission: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">March 11</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First review notification: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">April 15</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Revised papers: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">May 2</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Second review notification: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">May 15</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Camera ready: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">May 20</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Conference: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">June, 19-21</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SMI CONFERENCE CHAIR</b></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Loic Barthe (University of Toulouse, France)x</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ye Duan (University of Missouri, USA)</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">KangKang Yin (Simon Fraser University, Canada)</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SMI PROGRAM CHAIRS</b></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Raphaëlle Chaine (University of Lyon, France)</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Giuseppe Patanè (CNR, Italy)</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">----------------<br class="">Giuseppe Patane'<br class="">CNR - 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