3IA'2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Athens (GREECE), 29 – 30 of May, 2009 In cooperation with Eurographics General Chair: Dimitri PLEMENOS (plemenos@numericable.com) Local Chair: George MIAOULIS (gmiaoul@teiath.gr) Invited speakers: Elena MARTINOVA (Russia), Alfred INSELBERG (Israel), Mateu SBERT (Spain) REGISTRATION FEES: 190 Euro (regular participants), 130 Euro (students) – Payment by Bank transfer (see http://3ia.teiath.gr) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: Friday, May 29, 2009, Morning 09:15 a.m: Reception 09:50 a.m: Opening of the Conference 10:00 a.m: Invited speaker (Elena Martinova) Realistic skin rendering on modern GPU. Elena Martinova (RUSSIA) 11:00 a.m: Coffee break 1st session: Human modelling and animation 11:30 a.m.: Affective states in behavior networks. Anja Johansson, Pierangello Dell?Aqua (SWEDEN). SHORT PAPER 12:00 a.m.: A framework for simulating the behavior of various kinds of crowds. Hakim Soussi, Joël Savelli, Marc Neveu (FRANCE). 2nd session: Textures SHORT PAPERS 12:20 a.m.: GENSHADE:Automation of texture production. Alaa Eldin M. Ibrahim (KOWAIT), Donald H. House (USA). 12:40 a.m.: Developing Dynamic Cellular Textures From Monotone Patterns Using Voronoi Diagrams. A.H.F. Navid, A.Z. Nasrollahy, A. Bastanfard (IRAN). 13:00 a.m. Lunch Friday, May 29, 2009, Afternoon 02:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Mateu Sbert) Viewpoint Selection, Mesh Saliency and Geometry Simplification. Mateu Sbert, Miquel Feixas, Miguel Chover (SPAIN). 3rd session: Visualization 03:30 p.m.: A Neural Network Classifier of Volume Datasets. D. Zukic, C. Rezk-Salama, A. Kolb (GERMANY). 04:00 p.m.: Photometric Compression and Interpolation for Light Source Representation. S. Delepoulle, C. Renaud, P. Preux (FRANCE). 04:30 p.m: Coffee break 4th session: Image modelling and processing 05:00 p.m.: An Intelligent System for Overlaying Texts on Background Images Based on Computational Aesthetics. Chien-Yin Lai, Sheng-Wen Shih, Jen-Shin Hong (TAIWAN). SHORT PAPER 05:30 p.m.: Efficient algorithm of noise removal from a torn paper. T. Nawaz, K. A. Qazim, I. Ashraf (PAKISTAN). 05:50 p.m.: End of session Saturday, May 30, 2009, Morning 09:30 p.m.: Invited speaker (Alfred Inselberg) Visualizing Multidimensional Geometry with Applications to AI. Alfred Inselberg (ISRAEL). 5th session: Modelling 10:30 a.m.: An Adjectival Interface for Procedural Content Generation. Carl Hultquist, James Gain (SOUTH AFRICA), David Cairns (UK). 11:00 a.m.: Automation of style acquisition and implementation in 3D scene synthesis. Dimitrios Makris, Georgios Bardis, Georgios Miaoulis (GREECE), Dimitri Plemenos (FRANCE). 11:30 a.m.: Coffee break 6th session: Scene description and interpretation 12:00 a.m.: Performance Evaluation of User?s Profile Estimation Methods in a Declarative Collaborative Framework. N. Doulamis, J. Dragonas, A. Doulamis, G. Miaoulis (GREECE), D. Plemenos (FRANCE). SHORT PAPER 12:30 a.m.: Optimal Scene Interpretation: Semantic Management of 3-D Objects from a Point Cloud Scene. Paul Cotofrei, Christophe Kunzi and Kilian Stoffel (SWITZERLAND). 12:50 a.m.: Lunch Saturday, May 30, 2009, Afternoon 7th session: Evolutionary methods 02:30 p.m.: AURAL: An Evolutionary Interface for a Robotic Sonification Process. A. Moroni, E. Guimaraes, G. de Paula, J. Manzolli (BRAZIL). SHORT PAPER 03:00 p.m.: Evolutionary techniques. Alaa Eldin M. Ibrahim (KOWAIT), Donald H. House (USA). 8th session: Various themes SHORT PAPERS 03:20 p.m.: Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Spatial Clusters Using Monocular Camera. Kai Zhou, Michael Zillich and Markus Vincze (AUSTRIA). 03:40 p.m.: Game technologies usage for users attraction to educational resources. A. Lavrov, N. Ilyina (RUSSIA). 04:00 p.m.: Raster Image Transformation for Laser Engraving Machine NC Programming. Olga V. Yepifanova, Alexander Inozemtsev, Dmitri I. Troitsky (RUSSIA). 04:20 p.m.: 3d-algorithms of conics construction in AutoCAD. Alexander Kheyfets (RUSSIA). 04:40 p.m.: End of the conference