First Announcement and Call for Papers
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                  First COST #229 WG.5 Workshop (IFIP)

          TELEPRESENCE -- A NEW CONCEPT FOR TELECONFERENCING

                    University of Linkoping, Sweden
                           24-25 October 1991

        The goal of the workshop is to highlight the technical and
telecommunication related problems which occur when Telepresence
(helmet display systems) is used for teleconferencing.  The workshop
will work as a forum to discuss these problems and as an information
about current research and development of equipment in the area.

        The following types of sessions are scheduled:

        o Invited tutorials that focus on the state of the
          art and current research

        o Roundtable discussions to present and discuss
          open problems regarding different research topics

        Topics include:

        o 3D scene representation       o Data sharing/task allocation
        o Human body modeling           o {*filter*} feature detection
        o Body movement detection       o Artificial 3D sound generation
        o Image representation          o Special purpose processors
        o Real time image generation    o Display headsets

Workshop Committee:

        Dr. Robert Forchheimer
        Mrs. Anna Linderhed
        Mr. Bengt Kvarnstrom

Deadline for extended abstracts (1500 words):  AUGUST 1, 1991

Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by
August 24th.

Please address questions, or willingness to contribute, to:

        Mrs. Anna Linderhed
        Department of Electrical Engineering
        Linkoping University
        S-581 83 LINKOPING
        Sweden

        Fax:    (46)(13) 139 282
        Phone:  (46)(13) 281 000