Welcome to VMV 2011

Welcome to the Vision, Modeling and Visualization Workshop 2011, in cooperation with Eurographics Association.

The workshop is a unique event that brings together scientists and people interested in the interdisciplinary fields of computer vision and computer graphics, with special emphasis on the link between the disciplines.

This year's workshop has been held on October 4^th–6^th 2011 at the Fraunhofer‑Forum in the heart of Berlin Mitte, next to the Museum Island and Berlin Cathedral.

VMV 2011 was co‑located with INFORMATIK 2011 – 41. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Next Year's VMV

Best Paper Awards

The best paper award of the 16^th International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization has been presented to Patrick Mücke, Ronny Klowsky, and Michael Goesele for their paper "Surface Reconstruction from Multi-resolution Sample Points".

The 2^nd place best paper award has been presented to Claudia Kuster, Tiberiu Popa, Christopher Zach, Craig Gotsman, Markus Gross for their paper "FreeCam: A Hybrid Camera System for Interactive Free-Viewpoint Video".

Congratulations to the authors! We thank A K Peters / CRC Press for their generous support and the sponsoring of the best paper award.

 

Keynote Speakers

The keynote speeches at VMV 2011 were presented by:

• Michael Black
  (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
• Elmar Eisemann
  (Telecom ParisTech)
• Hans-Peter Seidel
  (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik)
• Jack van Wijk
  (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Conference Chairs

VMV 2011 has been chaired by:

• Peter Eisert
  (Fraunhofer HHI / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• Konrad Polthier
  (Freie Universität Berlin / DFG Research Center Matheon)
• Joachim Hornegger
  (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)