The conference will take place again at the Château Laurier Hotel, one of the finest hotels in Canada, which is located at the very centre of the city, adjacent to the Rideau Canal and within walking distance of a variety of caf‚s, restaurants, shops, museums, galleries, and Ottawa's Byward Market. At this time of the year, the temperatures range from about 20 C (70 F) during the day to 12C (54 F) at night. October is a busy month for visitors to Ottawa, so book early to be sure to obtain a room at the Chƒteau.
The conference begins on Monday morning with tutorial classes and ends Friday afternoon with a lab visit to the NRC facilities. Approximately 60 papers from sixteen countries have been accepted for presentation in a single track format. Half of the papers presented will cover the collection and the preprocessing of 3D data, the other half of the papers will focus on modeling (objects, environment and the human body). There will be three and a half days of presentations starting on Tuesday morning and ending on Friday at noon. Four invited speakers with vast experience in the field will share their views on the collection of 3D data, recent modeling techniques and emerging application opportunities in the field.
To complement the conference, on Monday there will be four half day short courses organized in two parallel tracks. In the morning there will be a session on the design of optical digitizing for 3D image capture in parallel with a session on geometric processing of 3D data. In the afternoon, there will be two parallel sessions on modeling, one related to CAD for industrial applications and the other related to the human body for anthropometry and medical applications. On Friday afternoon, attendees will have the opportunity to visit the NRC Visual Information Technology labs to attend demonstrations related to latest research activities in 3D color digitizing, modeling and display.
To provide you with more opportunities to meet and get to know your colleagues, we have planned a welcoming reception on Tuesday evening at the Chƒteau Laurier and a dinner on Wednesday night at the National Gallery of Canada.
Whether you are interested in learning about 3D digitizing, 3D modeling and the various applications emerging from this field of imaging, or in meeting the leading experts of this developing technology, this is the conference to attend. We look forward to seeing you.
Marc Rioux, Conference Chair
Pierre Boulanger and Denis Laurendeau, Scientific Program Co-Chairs