The 3D research community is at a potentially revolutionary point. From one side, 3D display technology is at the verge of becoming widespread and reasonably priced, and tha tincludes autostereoscopic displays. From another direction, increases in computational power – including powerful GPUs – has allowed an ever-increasing realism in 3D scene generation. 3D audio in now often tightly integrated with 3D environments, including 5.1 (andhigher) and even 3D soundfield reproduction. Haptic systems are also being tightly integrated within 3D systems. Finally, new depth cameras, coupled with new 3D analysis and synthesis algorithms is close to enable commercial-quality 3D rendering of real scenes, instead of being restricted to synthetic scenes as in the past.

All these factors together create the “perfectstorm”: an environment prone for an explosion of related technology and applications, with a speed of development that will not fit in the (slower) cycle of traditional conferences and journals. In other words, while appropriate venues for presenting research at advanced stages is plentiful, the 3D Multimedia community lacks an appropriate venue for receiving feedback during early or initial stages of the development of radical or potentilly disruptive technology.

This is exactly the void that Hot3D tries to fill, providing an environment for lively discussion of early-stage, potentially disruptive research.

Papers in all areas of Multimedia 3D are solicited. Early stage or preliminary results from potentially disruptive technology is particularly encouraged. Full papers (up to 6 pages) will be published in the proceedings.

Additionally, and maybe most importantly, position papers are solicited for short presentation and discussion of preliminary work or ideas. Submit a proposal of up to 2 pages, with a decision expected up to 3 weeks after submission.

This workshop will be a unique opportunity to interact with other researchers working on 3D Multimedia. With an environment designed to facilitate discussion and feedback in early stage research, as well as forge new collaboration, this is an event not to be missed.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submit Regular Paper (up to 6 pages) by: March 22 April 5, 2010
Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance: April 7 April 20, 2010
Camera‐Ready Paper Due: April 15 April 30, 2010
Position Paper (up to 2 pages) Submission: ASAP, up to May 15, 2010
Notification of Position Paper Acceptance: approximately 2 weeks after submission