2^nd International Conference and Expo on Computer Graphics & Animation September 21-22, 2015 San Antonio, USA

Rendering refers to the process of building output files from computer animations. Rendering research and development has been largely motivated by finding ways to simulate these efficiently. Some relate directly to particular algorithms and techniques, while others are produced together: shading, texture mapping, shadows, reflections, transparency, photorealistic rendering, non-photorealistic rendering, etc.

Simulations are abstractions of reality. It is defined as the process of creating a model of an existing or proposed system (e.g., a project, a business, a mine, a watershed, a forest, the organs in your body) in order to identify and understand those factors which control the system to predict the future behavior of the system. Modelling is the representation of an object or phenomena, which is used by simulation. Modeling and simulation is a leading way that companies are reducing their development time while maintaining or increasing the quality of their products.

Image processing is a method to convert an image into digital form and perform some operations on it, in order to get an enhanced image or to extract some useful information from it with the use of various graphics softwares. It plays an increasingly important role in many aspects of our daily life, as well as in a wide variety of disciplines and fields in science and technology, with applications such as television, photography, robotics, remote sensing, medical diagnosis and industrial inspection.

Virtual reality is all about the creation of a virtual world that users can interact with. This virtual world should be designed in such a way that users would find it difficult to tell the difference from what is real and what is not. Augmented reality is the blending of virtual reality and real life, as developers can create images within applications that blend in with contents in the real world. As it stands, augmented reality is ahead of virtual reality, as there are several products already on the market. We are witnessing the rise of hardware devices from Google in the form of Virtual Glass, and also plans from Microsoft to launch something similar with its $150 million purchase for wearable computing assets.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. A user interface, such as a GUI, is how a human interacts with a computer, and HCI goes beyond designing screens and menus that are easier to use and studies the reasoning behind building specific functionality into computers and the long-term effects that systems will have on humans.

Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization today has ever-expanding applications in science, education, engineering interactive multimedia, medicine. As a subject in computer science, scientific visualization is the use of interactive, sensory representations, typically visual, of abstract data to reinforce cognition, hypothesis building, and reasoning. Data visualization is a related subcategory of visualization dealing with statistical graphics and geographic or spatial data that is abstracted in schematic form.

Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game to facilitate interaction between players for playful, healthful, educational, or simulation purposes. It can be applied both to games and, increasingly, to other interactions, particularly virtual ones. Game development is the software development process by which a video game is produced. The game industry requires innovations, as publishers cannot profit from constant release of repetitive sequels and imitations.

Computer Graphics covers a variety of topics catering to both computer graphics practitioners & researchers. It may be used in the following areas: Entertainment, Computational biology, Computational physics, Digital art, Graphic design, Infographics, Web design, Education and Training. The use of sound cards to make computers produce sound effect led to other uses of graphics. The graphic capabilities of computers are used in a very large variety of areas like criminology (to recreate faces of victims, assailants etz.,) medical fields (recreating pictures of internal cavities, using signals sent by miniature cameras), recreation of Satellite pictures etc.

Computer vision (image understanding) is a discipline that studies how to reconstruct, interpret and understand a 3D scene from its 2D images in terms of the properties of the structures present in the scene. Computer vision has become commercialized in the past few years and is being deployed in a wide range of application markets including security and surveillance, automotive, consumer, industrial, medical, and entertainment, to name a few.

Many developing countries are successfully developing their animation industries which are already contributed to their economic growth. It is noted that these countries have the potentials to become hubs for working international quality animation products due to low labor cost. The future of animation is interactive.