Papers presenting original research are being sought in all areas of shape and animation processing and its applications, including (but not limited to):

Acquisition & reconstruction Healing & resampling Correspondence & registration Shape transformation & deformation Compression & streaming

Implicit surfaces Interactive design Interactive editing Sketching & 3D input Computational topology

Curves and surfaces Parametric & procedural models Volume & multidimensional modeling Multi-resolution techniques Subdivision methods

Shape analysis Semantics of shapes Shape matching & retrieval Features extraction & classification Segmentation

Important Dates

Dec. 2, 2011, Full papers due
Feb. 3, 2012, First review notification
Feb. 24, 2012, Revised papers due
Mar. 9, 2012, Final acceptance notifications
Mar. 16, 2012, Camera-ready papers due

All accepted submissions will be published as either full-length (14 pages max) or short (6-8 pages) journal papers in issue 36(3) of Computers & Graphics (Elsevier). All submissions will be handled via the Elsevier EES system following a two-stage peer review cycle.

Submissions should conform to a double-column, single spaced format. The Latex style file can be downloaded here. To submit, go to http://ees.elsevier.com/cag and click on "submit paper" in the top menu and log in (you will have to create an account if you don't have one already). Pick "Special issue: SMI 2012" in the drop-down list of article types. When prompted to select an Editor, please select "Guest Editors 2012".

For step-by-step instructions go to technical paper submmission page.