Call for papers and posters
The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) aims to advance and promote research that crosses the boundaries between perception and disciplines such as graphics, visualization, computer vision, haptics and acoustics. These fields can benefit from the exchange of ideas. The scope of the conference includes applications and algorithms in any area of research that incorporates elements of perception and computer science.
Our fourteenth annual event provides an intimate, immersive forum for exchanging ideas about areas of overlapping interests. The ACM SAP 2017 conference will be held in Cottbus, Germany at the Brandenburg University of Technology on the 16th and 17th of September, 2017. We aim to further promote communication between the core perception and computer graphics communities.
We invite submissions of original work in all areas of applied perception. Relevant areas include:- Modeling, rendering, and animation
- Visualization
- Computational aesthetics
- Haptic rendering, haptic input and perception
- Perception of virtual characters
- Color vision and color appearance modeling
- Perception of high dynamic range scenes and images
- Interaction techniques and interfaces
- Augmented reality
- Virtual worlds
- Display technologies
- Auditory display and interfaces
- Perceptual auditory coding
- Spatialized sound
- Speech synthesis and recognition
- Sensory integration
- Multimodal rendering
- Spatial and temporal vision
- Attention and eye movements
- Statistical learning and perception of natural scenes
- Perception of shapes, surfaces, and materials
Papers
Research can be submitted as a long paper (up to 8 pages and up to 20 minute talk), a short paper (up to 4 pages and up to 15 minute talk), or as a poster presentation (1 page abstract). All submissions should follow the general SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines. Diagrams and images should be represented in color where appropriate. Papers that are not accepted will be considered for the poster session. Authors of posters accepted by this route will, of course, have the option to decline the opportunity to present a poster.
Posters
The posters program at SAP provides an informal venue for authors
to share their research achievements and further discuss them with others.
In that spirit, we encourage all types of scholarly submissions that fit the
scope of ACM SAP. In particular, we explicitly welcome poster submissions
on work-in-progress and on work that may have been previously published
elsewhere but for which additional dissemination and discussion is desired.
The poster session is an integral part of SAP and the SAP program will include
a dedicated time slot for poster viewing and discussion. All poster presenters
will also have the opportunity to give a one-minute presentation on their work
during a poster fast-forward session.
NOTE: SAP poster abstracts are NOT considered to be publications, and
as such will NOT appear in the ACM Digital Library. Poster abstracts WILL
be included in the conference USB drive. Poster abstracts should follow the
general SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines, except that they should
be 1 page long.
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Further details
All papers will be carefully reviewed by our International Program Committee. SAP follows a double blind review process. Papers will be evaluated as submitted, given limited time between submission and printing of final versions. Under an agreement with the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) and the ACM Publications Board, the strongest accepted papers will be offered publication as full papers in the ACM journal TAP. Authors of such special issue papers must agree to present the paper at ACM SAP. As has always been the case, authors of regular ACM SAP papers can still submit to TAP regular issues with appropriate additions.
Papers that have been recommended for acceptance in the ACM TAP journal will undergo a second review cycle, during which the authors will revise the paper to address reviewer concerns (similar to conditional acceptances at ACM SIGGRAPH). Please note that TAP referrals are conditional. The TAP reviewers may recommend bringing the paper back to the SAP proceedings if the quality of the revision is inadequate. Therefore, it is very important to incorporate as many reviewer comments as possible into the revision.
The revised paper has to be submitted in TAP format to Manuscript Central and must include a cover letter stating that the submission is for the SAP special issue. The cover letter should also document the list of changes made to the paper to address the reviewer concerns.
Reformatting an 8-page paper from the SAP format to the TAP format typically adds a few pages so we expect the final papers will have somewhere between 10-15 pages. TAP papers must not exceed 20 pages in length.
Complete TAP author guidelines and templates are available at http://tap.acm.org/authors.cfm.
Deadlines
Papers:
- Monday, May 22: Mandatory abstract submission
- Friday, May 26: Paper submission deadline
- Friday, June 23: Decisions announced
- Friday, July 14: Final papers due
Papers recommended for TAP:
- Friday, July 14 (Camera Ready) Revisions to TAP recommended papers due (in TAP format)
- Friday, July 21: Notification to TAP authors
Posters:
- Friday, July 7: Poster submission
- Friday, July 21: Decisions announced
- Friday, July 28: Camera ready version of 1-page abstract due