It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2009), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual c- puting includingvision,graphics,visualization,andvirtualreality.Thegoalisto provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners throu- out the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments, and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year, the program consisted of 16 oral sessions, one poster session, 7 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. Also, this year ISVC hosted the Third Semantic Robot Vision Challenge.The responseto the call for papers was verygood;wereceivedover320submissionsfor themainsymposiumfromwhich we accepted 97 papers for oral presentation and 63 papers for poster presen- tion. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 40 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 15 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.
Editors and Affiliations
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,
Daniel Coming
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 338-8570, Japan
Yoshinori Kuno
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Junxian Wang
Univ. of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Zurich, Switzerland
Renato Pajarola
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA
Peter Lindstrom
University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin, Germany
André Hinkenjann
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Miguel L. Encarnação
SCI Institute & School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Cláudio T. Silva
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Visual Computing
Book Subtitle: 5th International Symposium, ISVC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 30 - December 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part II
Editors: George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Yoshinori Kuno, Junxian Wang, Renato Pajarola, Peter Lindstrom, André Hinkenjann, Miguel L. Encarnação, Cláudio T. Silva, … Daniel Coming