Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Welcome to APGV 2011! We are pleased to present you the proceedings of the eighth annual Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, held in Toulouse, France, August 27-28, 2011. The symposium aims at, on the one hand, using insights from perception to advance the field of visual, auditory and multi-sensory representation while, on the other hand, using computer graphics to enable research on perceptual issues that may otherwise not be possible. APGV has traditionally fostered interaction between the fields of perception, graphics and visualization. This year, we have emphasized this tradition by co-locating the symposium with the 34th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). We hope to create synergies between the two research communities, which obviously share a lot of common interests. We received a total of 33 paper submissions. Each submission received three reviews, either by members of the International Program Committee, or external reviewers carefully chosen by them. From those reviews and some additional discussions, 19 papers were finally selected for oral presentation at the conference. Veronica Sundstedt, this year's Posters Chair, additionally selected 17 submissions, highlighting late-breaking research in the field. Following the current arrangement with ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), five submissions underwent a second review cycle for inclusion in the APGV special issue of the ACM TAP journal. These five submissions were selected by the Program Chairs, based on comments and recommendations made in the reviews. To grant publication, the authors were asked to address all the comments in the summary review; most of them actually went the extra mile and spent additional time and effort to provide the best possible papers. These papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as TAP papers at the same time as the symposium takes place. They cannot appear in the APGV proceedings in order to avoid double publication. In addition to the reviewed papers and posters, and as an immediate outcome of the APGV-ECVP collaboration, this year we are honored to have an impressive list of invited speakers, organized in two short joint symposia on Sunday. The first symposium, organized by Quasim Zaidi and Martin Giese, is entitled 'Deforming shapes - deformable templates' and the second one, organized by Simon Thorpe, is entitled 'Computer Vision & Biological Vision'. Furthermore, all APGV attendees are kindly invited to attend ECVP's Rank Price plenary lecture by Stan Dehaene: 'How learning to read changes the visual system'.