CALL FOR PAPER

XIX COLOR CONFERENCE

The Gruppo del Colore – Associazione Italiana Colore (www.gruppodelcolore.org) is announcing the

XIX edition of the Color Conference.

The international conference will be held online on Thursday, 28 November and Friday, 29 November 2024 (provisional date).

The conference aims to promote the multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary aggregation of all the realities dealing with color and light from a scientific, educational and professional point of view.

The Call for Papers for the conference is open. The topics of interest of the 19th edition are the following:

  1. Color and Measurement/Instrumentation. Colorimetry, photometry and color atlas: method, theory and instrumentation; quality control and food coloring, dyes, organic and sustainable color.
  2. Color and Digital. Reproduction, management, digital color correction, image processing, graphics, photography, film and video production, printmaking and 3D print, artificial vision, virtual reality, multispectral imaging, and data visualization. Light field imaging. Multi-sensor fusion. Color localization, recognition, HDR imaging, ADAS systems.
  3. Color and Lighting. Metamerism, color rendering, adaptation, color constancy, appearance, illusions, color memory and perception, color in extra-atmospheric environments, lighting design, lighting technologies, and visual comfort.
  4. Color and Physiology. Mechanisms of vision in their experimental and theoretical aspects, color vision and color appearance, deficiencies, abnormalities, clinical and biological aspects, synesthesia, health, and well-being.
  5. Color and Psychology. Phenomenology of colors, color harmonies, color & form, perceptive, emotional, aesthetic and diagnostic aspects.
  6. Color and Production. Food and beverages, agriculture, textiles, plastic materials, ceramics, paints, gemology, color in the food industry.
  7. Color and Restoration. Archaeometry, painting materials, diagnostics and techniques of conservation, restoration and enhancement of cultural heritage.
  8. Color and Environment. Representation and drawing, urban planning, the project of color, architecture, interior design, landscapes & horticulture, color and architectural syntax, territorial identities, biodiversity.
  9. Color and Design. Furniture, CMF design, fashion, textiles, textures, cosmetics, food design, museography.
  10. Color and Culture. Arts and crafts, history, philosophy, aesthetics, ethno-anthropology, graffiti, geology, sociology, lexicology, semantics, anthropology of vision, food culture and heritage, color naming.
  11. Color and Education. Pedagogy, didactics of color, aesthetic education, artistic education.
  12. Color and Communication/Marketing. Graphics, communication, packaging, lettering, exposure, advertising.

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts only if they intend to participate in the conference. Contributions sent by e-mail will not be accepted. To upload the contribution, use EasyChair; the online system for the management of conferences, available at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=19cdc2024

The contributions may be in English or Italian (digital proceedings will be available with the English and Italian papers). You must be registered on EasyChair or create an account, if not registered, to send the material. Registration must be done only once. To register for the first time, choose “Signup for an account” on the first page and follow the instructions. It is important to enter complete data by carefully filling out the format and providing valid data and valid e-mails so the conference organizers can contact you. If you already have an EasyChair account, the acronym for entering the XIX Color Conference is 19CdC2024.

IMPORTANT

This edition of the conference will be exclusively online. For this reason, it has been decided to make the conference free for all GdC – Associazione Italiana Colore members. To publish a paper, it will be necessary to become a member by following the procedure on the website, according to the Deadlines indicated, attending the conference, and presenting the work in the format determined by the scientific committee (oral or short presentation). Each author or co-author of an accepted work who wishes to participate in the online conference must be a member of the association. Individuals not joining by paying the regular membership fee will not be admitted to the conference. Papers not presented during the conference will not be published.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

To send the abstract, connect to the EasyChair system by entering the login and password obtained from the previous registration and then select “New Submission” from the top menu:

  1. Fill in the data of the authors and tick “Corresponding Author” so that the e-mail address indicated (at least one) receives communications from the organizers;
  2. Enter the title and abstract in the prefixed fields (maximum 3000 characters including spaces);
  3. Choose the topic of interest to which the paper will refer. Choose the topic in English if the final paper will be in English or Italian for Italian papers;
  4. The presentations can be oral (15 minutes) or short (5 minutes); the authors must indicate their preference by writing ORAL or SHORT as the first keyword (the final decision will be up to the scientific committee).
  5. Enter at least three keywords related to your abstract.

The corresponding author will receive a confirmation e-mail that the abstract has been correctly sent to the organizers. Then, based on the deadlines, the organizers will communicate if the abstract has been accepted, with any suggestions for drafting the final paper.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING THE FINAL PAPER

The final paper must be delivered via the Easychair in respect of the deadlines.

It is necessary to log in to the platform and then click on the magnifying glass (View) corresponding to each contribution previously loaded.

  1. Select “Update authors” and indicate (with a check mark) who will be the Presenter of the article during the online conference (remember that all participants must be members of GdC – Associazione Italiana Colorefor solar year 2024).
  2. Select “Add file” and upload the final paper (edited according the format that will soon be available at the bottom of this page) by pressing the “Browse” button and retrieving the file from your computer.

NB:

  • Only files in *.doc or *.docx format are accepted.
  • The paper must be drawn up per the Format in the link that will soon be available at the end of these instructions. Choose the format in English for articles in English and the one in Italian for articles in Italian. Articles that do not respect the conference format will have to be reformatted by the authors (otherwise, they will be excluded from the publication) during the copyediting phase of the proceedings.

The Book of Abstracts will be available online during the conference days.

All papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The final volume of the proceedings will be available online by December 2024.

The best contributions will be selected for publication in scientific journals specializing in color issues.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING THE FINAL PAPER

The final paper must be delivered via the Easychair platform.

It is necessary to log in to the platform and then click on the magnifying glass (View) corresponding to each contribution previously loaded.

1 – Select “Update authors” and indicate (with a check mark) who will be the Presenter of the article in physical presence during the conference (remember that the Presenter must be registered with the CdC2024 to present).

2 – Select “Add file” and upload the final paper (adequately formatted) by pressing the “Browse” button and retrieving the file from your computer.

NB:

– Only files in *.doc or *.docx format are accepted.

– The paper must be drawn up per the Format in the link at the end of these instructions. Choose the format in English for articles in English and the one in Italian for articles in Italian. Articles that do not respect the conference format will have to be reformatted by the authors during the copyediting phase of the proceedings.