2004.12.31 -  The SmartSketches project terminated successfuly in December 2004. You can find the final Technical Reports and Deliverables in the corresponding sections of this site.

2004.12.04 -  SmartSketches was demonstrated at the Fraunhofer Booth, including SBR, GIDES++, SBRGIDES++, SketchAR, during EUROMOLD in Frankfurt, Germany.

2004.10.27 -  The paper "Mixing Images and Sketches for Retrieving Vector Drawings" was presented at the 7th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia (EGMM'04), Nanjing, China, October 2004. Simultaneously, SBR and GIDES++ was demonstrated to several research groups.

2004.10.25 -  Bruno Araujo presented "Curvature Dependent Polygonization of Implicit Surfaces", at SIACG'04/SIBGRAPI'04, in Curitiba, Brazil, and presented SmartSketches to LSI/USP (Sao Paulo).

2004.10.12 -  Papers "Retrieving Mould Drawings by Content" and "GIDeS++: A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Mould Design" were presented at the Rapid Product Development event (RPD 2004), Marinha Grande, Portugal, October 2004.

2004.09.22 -  We have organized the Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based User Interfaces and Modeling. The workshop took place on August 30 and August 31 in Grenoble, France. It was attended by 48 participants who discussed 21 papers. The technical program can be consulted here. The venue was a great success. As a result, the Eurographics Association has created a Working group on Sketch-Based User Interfaces and Modeling. The next venue is planned to take place in Dublin Ireland, just before Eurographics 2005.

2004.07.29 -  Poster on " Retrieving ClipArt Images by Content" was presented at the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR'04), Dublin, Ireland, July 2004.

2004.07.19 -  Manuel Joćo defended his PhD thesis dissertaition on "Sketch-Based Retrieval in Large Sets of Drawings" at IST, Lisbon, Portugal.

2004.06.29 -  A good friend and colleague has left us in the most unexpected manner. Dirk Stepputtis, a member of the ICEM SmartSketches team passed away on 28 June 2004.
In memoriam of Dirk Stepputtis.

2004.06.15 -  Paper on "Sketch-Based Retrieval of ClipArt Drawings" was published at AVI'04.

2004.06.08 -  SmartSketches Demo presented at CeBit, March 2004.
Click here to view a imagem from the Demo

2004.04.22 -  Call for Papers for the Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces, Grenoble, France, August 31, 2004

2004.02.13 -  Dissemination article about SmartSketches published on European Commission Site.

2004.01.15 -  SmartSketches Demo presented at IUI (Funchal, Portugal).

2003.12.03 -  Public demonstration at Euromold (Frankfurt, Germany)

2003.11.12 -  User Tests in Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)

2003.10.10 -  Public demonstration at CAT.PRO (Stuttgart, Germany)

2003.10.03 -  Public Presentation at IST Concertation Meeting (Milan, Italy)

2003.09.29 -  Usability tests at CENTIMFE with the first functional version of the Sketch-Based Retrieval prototype (Marinha Grande, Portugal)

2003.07.18 -  Drawing experiment at CENTIMFE with a preliminary version of the Sketch-Based Retrieval prototype. (Marinha Grande, Portugal)

2003.07.16 -  User Field Testing for WP6 (Marinha Grande, Portugal)

2003.06.30 -  External Audit with Takeo Igarashi (Darmstadt, Germany)

2003.06.17 -  User Tests for First Immersive Modeller Prototype Barski Design (Darmstadt, Germany)

2003.06.05 -  Public Demonstration at DSV-IS 2003 (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal)

2003.05.16 - Paper on "VR Applications for reducing time and cost of Vehicle Development Process" was presented at the "8th Conference ATA on Vehicle Architecture: Products, Processes and Future Developments" held in Florence (Italy)

2003.05.09 -  User Tests for First Immersive Modeller PrototypeFiat/Italdesign (Torino, Italy)

2003.04.25 -  Public demonstration at ICEM User Week

2003.04.09 -  User Tests for First Immersive Modeller Prototype at Fiat/Italdesign (Torino, Italy)

2003.03.19 -  Public demonstration at CeBIT (Hannover, Germany)

2003.03.04 -  Meeting In-depth technical review of SmartSketches (Brussels, Belgium)

2003.02.07 -  Technical meeting on Refinement of Smartsketches API Definition (Lisbon, Portugal)

2002.12.07 -  Public demonstration at Euromold (Frankfurt, Germany)

2002.11.30 -  Workshop on Detailed Work Program and Usability Goals (Lisbon, Portugal)

2002.09.10 -  9th E3 Concertation Meeting (Brussels, Belgium)

2002.06.19 -  ICEM visit at Italdesign-Giugiaro

2002.02.25 -  Workshop on Task Analysis (Torino, Italy)

2002.01.15 -  SmartSketches kick-off meeting on January,18,2002. Check schedule here.