It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2008) in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year,ISVC grew signi?cantly; the programconsisted of 15 oralsessions, 1 poster session, 8 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers was very strong; we received over 340 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 102 papers for oral presentation and 70 papers for poster presentation. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 56 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 8 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
George Bebis
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA
Richard Boyle
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
Bahram Parvin
Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA
Darko Koracin
Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK
Paolo Remagnino
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, USA
Fatih Porikli
Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA
Jörg Peters
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA
James Klosowski
128 Memorial Mall, Stewart B001, West Lafayette, USA
Laura Arns
Denver Museum of Nature and Space, USA
Yu Ka Chun
Departmen of Computer Science,, NC State University, Raleigh, USA
Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, USA
Laura Monroe
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Visual Computing
Book Subtitle: 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008, Proceedings, Part II
Editors: George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Paolo Remagnino, Fatih Porikli, Jörg Peters, James Klosowski, Laura Arns, Yu Ka Chun, Theresa-Marie Rhyne, … Laura Monroe