Dear TC18 members, First of all, we would like to wish you a very happy new year before it is too late ! This is also the last chance for New Year's resolutions, and we have a few suggestions for you in this newsletter ;-) It is a quite long letter, with many information, so please take the time to read it until the end ! Have a nice reading, R. Gonzalez-Diaz, P. Bhowmick, I. Sivignon TC18 "Discrete Geometry" Newsletter (Jan. 2014) =============================================== Contents: ========= 1. DGCI 2014 - Call for Papers 2. News about DGCI 2013 Special Issues 3. Call for Images 4. PhDs alerts 5. List of 2013 major Journal Papers ================================================ 1) DGCI 2014 - Call for Papers ------------------------------------------ The second call for papers has been sent a few days ago by the organizers, and here is a quick recall of important dates: Title + abstract submission: February 6th, 2014 (strict deadline) Full paper submission: February 20th, 2014 (strict deadline) Rebuttal phase: starting at April 7th, 2014 Full paper notification: May 1st, 2014 As you may have noticed, there are two novelties for this edition: - there will be NO deadline extension: so be ready to send your abstract and summary right on time ! - a rebuttal phase will be added in the reviewing process, to enable conditionnally accepted papers with a discussion between reviewers and authors before the final decision. Website: http://dgci2014.diism.unisi.it 2) DGCI 2013 Special Issues - Some news ---------------------------------------------------------- After DGCI 2013, two special issues on discrete geometry are in progress in Discrete Applied Mathematics and Computer Vision and Image Understanding. The calls for papers were a success, and the reviewing processes are going on. Here are some news about these SI: - DAM Special Issue: 24 papers were submitted, 5 of them being extensions of DGCI papers. One paper is accepted, two are accepted subject to minor revision, 7 are under the second round of revision, and 14 were rejected (5 of them being "out of scope"). - CVIU Special Issue: the deadline for submission was initially set to September, 30th, then extended to October, 15th. 13 papers were submitted, 6 of them being DGCI papers extended versions. The first round of reviews is nearly over for the 13 papers, and the first decisions have been made, or will be made soon. 3) TC18 website - Call for Images ---------------------------------------------- We would like to set up a Gallery of images illustrating DG activities on the tc18 website. At the moment, only a few images are scrolling on the main page, but the idea would be to set up a dedicated webpage. Each image would be associated to a short caption and a link to a related publication. We believe this would be a nice display of the diversity of DG results. But, to do so, we need your help ! That's why we are launching a Call for images ! We are looking for good quality images, representative of DG, and related to a publication (peer-reviewed journal or conference). We however reserve the right to select the images according to their quality and their relevance to the DG topics. Thank you very much in advance for your help ! 4) PhDs alerts ----------------------------------------------------------- A second idea we are working on is to create an alert on DG PhD defense. We will also record the information on the website. The protocol is very simple: let us know about PhD defenses in your group (title, university, abstract, link to manuscript when possible), and we will spread the information right away to all TC18 members. 5) List of 2013 major Journal Papers -------------------------------------------------- Finally, we are working on the idea of collecting the references of DG publications in major journals. The first step is to set up a list of major journals for our community. Here is a tentative one: - IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis for Machine Intelligence - Pattern Recognition - Pattern Recognition Letters - Discrete Applied Mathematics - Image and Vision Computing - Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision - Theoretical Computer Science - International Journal of Computer Mathematics It is a sublist of the quite exhaustive one you can find on TC18 website. If you think that we forgot some journals or that some should not appear in this list, don't hesitate to let us know. In the file enclosed, you will find all the DG papers published in these journals in 2013. Once again, we may have missed some, so let us know and we will update it.