2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW2019)
Kyoto, 2-4 October, 2019
Extended FINAL full/short paper submission deadline - May 31
Submit your titles and abstracts ASAP
In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics Association, the Society of
Art and Science
Conference web page: <http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org>
www.cyberworlds-conference.org ,
<http://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org>
art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org
Submission page: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cw2019>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cw2019
CW 2019 SCOPE:
Cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment
the way we interact, participate in business and receive information
throughout the world. Cyberworlds seriously impact our lives and the
evolution of the world economy by taking such forms as social networking
services, 3D shared virtual communities and massively multiplayer online
role-playing games.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Satoshi Tanaka (Ritsumeikan University)
High-Quality & Transparent Visualization of Large-Scale Point Clouds
Acquired by 3D Scanning
Tomohiro Kuroda (Kyoto University)
Social Hospital and Preemptive Medicine: Prospects of Cyber-Physical
Clinical Medicine in Information Age
Tobias Hollerer (UCSB)
Learning for Reality
CW 2019 will consider the following tracks and topics:
GENERAL TRACK:
Computer graphics for cyberworlds; Visual analytics in cyberworlds; Virtual
humans and avatars; Applications of augmented and virtual reality; Social
computing and services; Multimodal interaction and rendering; Virtual
collaborative spaces; Multi-user web games; IoT and wearable computing;
Computer vision for augmented and virtual reality; Online communities;
Networked and shared virtual worlds; Art and heritage in cyberspace;
Cyber-museums; E-learning in cyberworlds; Cyberethics and cyberlaws; Welfare
in cyberworlds; Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds; Real-time
analytics, modelling, and simulation for the future smart cities and urban
mobility; 3D city modelling, processing and simulation; Generation of
building/city models; Predictive analytics and
machine learning for smart cities and smart manufacturing; Computer vision
for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing; Optical inspection for industry 4.0
/ smart manufacturing; Virtual and Augmented Reality for smart cities and
smart manufacturing; Color theory and image recoloring for color vision
defect support; VR/AR for the vision impaired; Image-based ophthalmologic
diagnosis; Image processing/computer vision for vision enhancement
COGNITIVE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION:
Cognitive informatics; Human factors in transportation, maritime, industry
4.0; Neurorehabilitation and neuroplasticity; Affective computing; Mobile
BCI; Signal Processing; Machine and deep learning for EEG-based algorithms;
Multi-modal Interfaces; Neurofeedback systems and games; BCI applications
CYBERSECURITY AND BIOMETRICS:
Security protocols; Authentication protocols; Privacy protocols; Password
security; Security of personal data; Content protection and digital rights
management; Risk and reputation management; Identity and trust management;
Information hiding and anonymity; Privacy, security and trust in social
media; Security of embedded systems; Behavioral biometrics; Performance
evaluation of biometric systems; Multi-biometrics; Quality of biometric
data; Biometric template protection; Presentation attack detection; Emerging
biometrics
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
full (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and poster papers (up to 4
pages)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS with all accepted papers will be published by
Conference Publishing Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore
Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference
databases of all major referencing indices including EI Compendex, Scopus,
and SCI
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES will consider for publications extended versions of
all accepted full papers:
Computers & Graphics (Elsevier); The Visual Computer (Springer);
Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS); Advanced Engineering
Informatics (Elsevier); Journal of Future Generation Systems (Elsevier)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers (Full/Short) submission : ** May 31 (UTC) ** (Extended firm deadline)
Papers (Full/Short) notification : Jul 1
Poster papers submission : Jul 6
Poster papers notification : Jul 15
Author registration : Jul 24
Camera-ready papers submission : Jul 24
Conference flyer for downloading:
<https://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org/submission/CW19_flyer.pd
f>
https://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org/submission/CW19_flyer.pdf
CONTACT:
Program Co-Chairs: Masahiro Toyoura, Alexei Sourin, Issei Fujishiro
<mailto:cw2019@easychair.org> cw2019(a)easychair.org
Conference URL: <http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org>
www.cyberworlds-conference.org ,
<http://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org>
art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org
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VCBM 2019 Call for Papers
http://www.vcbm.org/
Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine 2019 in
Brno, Czech Republic
*) Workshop Dates: September 4-6, 2019
*) Submission Deadline: June 14, 2019
Aims and Scope
EG VCBM (http://www.vcbm.org/), the Eurographics Workshop on Visual
Computing for Biology and Medicine, is an annual event addressing the state
of the art in visual computing research with a strong focus on applications
in biology and medicine. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for experts
(researchers and practitioners) from visualization, visual analytics,
computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, human computer
interfaces as well as experts from biology and medicine, jointly working on
next generation visual computing solutions for medicine, healthcare and the
biotechnology sector. This years workshop (already the 9th VCBM since its
foundation in 2008) will be held during September 4-6, 2019, in Brno, Czech
Republic.
EG VCBM solicits the submission of original, application-oriented research
papers that advance the fusion of visual computing methods within medicine
and biology. All papers (regular papers as well as short papers) should
focus on a well-defined biological/medical problem, and demonstrate a
significant innovation or improvement in visual computing.
Suggested topics for full and short papers include, but are not limited to:
*) Visual computing solutions for medical applications like radiology,
surgery, pathology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, etc., including
medical education
*) Visual computing solutions for applications that support biomedical
research in systems biology, *omics research, molecular pathology,
neuroanatomy, biomedical imaging, etc.
*) Operation room of the future, including the uses of virtual reality and
augmented reality in medical applications.
*) Visualization approaches for data from new or challenging imaging
modalities including real-time imaging (e.g., ultrasound)
*) Visual computing solutions in the context of the virtual physiological
human. Medical simulation and visual computing solutions that support new
approaches in computational medicine.
*) Visual analytics solutions for data coming from epidemiological studies,
like population studies.
In addition to that, we solicit:
*) Survey papers on visual computing in biology and medicine
Information for Authors
In addition to full-length papers, there will be again a short papers track
and a survey track, encouraging scientific contributions from an even more
diverse group of researchers and practitioners. All VCBM 2019 papers (full,
short and surveys) will be peer-reviewed and will appear in the Eurographics
Digital Library.
We encourage the use of digital videos to support all submissions,
particularly if part of, or all of the work covers interactive techniques.
Please use only the most common video codecs such as MP4 to maximize the
chances that the reviewers can view it.
*) Full Papers: We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted papers
to the full papers track. However, it is unusual for papers to exceed 10
pages (in CGF latex style including all images and references). Papers
should only be as long as their content would justify. Reviewers might rate
a submission lower if it is perceived as being unnecessarily long or might
recommend it for a short paper, instead. Authors are encouraged to use
supplementary material, such as videos or executable programs to provide
extra contents.
As in previous years, the authors of the best three papers will be invited
by the Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) journal to submit a revised version,
which needs to have a significant amount of novel material and be within the
focus subjects of the CGF journal.
In addition to this, we will feature a Computers and Graphics Special
Section on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine. For this,
significantly extended and revised versions of full papers presented at the
2019 EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM) will be
eligible and fully peer reviewed according to the standards of Computers and
Graphics. Extended versions of conference papers need to have at least 30%
new material.
*) Short Papers: Short papers describe a more focused and concise research
contribution and are likely to have a smaller - yet significant - scope of
contribution. Potential examples include the presentation of initial results
from novel ongoing research projects or the exploration of new application
areas. Short papers draw from the same list of topics as full papers. Their
length is limited to a total of 5 pages (including references).
*) Surveys: We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted papers to
the surveys track. However, it is unusual for surveys to exceed 20 pages (in
CGF latex style including all images and references). Authors are encouraged
to use supplementary material, such as videos, to provide extra contents.
Surveys are also eligible for the CGF and Computers and Graphics journal
invitations.
VCBM 2019 will also feature a poster program, the details of which will be
announced in a separate call.
Submission Instructions
Papers can be submitted using the Eurographics SRM conference management
system here:
https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/VCBM_2019
<https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/VCBM_2019%0d>
Login with your existing SRM account, or create a new one using the relevant
links.
More information on the preparation of your submissions will also be
available on the VCBM 2019 website: <http://www.vcbm.org/>
http://www.vcbm.org/
Important Dates
*) Paper submission deadline (full, short and survey papers): June 14, 2019
*) Author notification: July 12, 2019
*) Camera-ready deadline: August 2, 2019
*) Workshop: September 4-6, 2019
All deadlines are at 23:59 CET (UTC+1).
Sincerely,
the Full Paper Co-Chairs of EG VCBM 2019,
Barbora Kozlikova (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Lars Linsen (University of Münster, Germany)
Pere-Pau Vazquez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
together with the Short Paper Co-Chairs of EG VCBM 2019,
Kai Lawonn (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany )
Renata Georgia Raidou (TU Wien, Austria)
Bookshop Clearance
Eurographics is having a clearance sale of printed proceedings, that are
held in stock in Germany. Items will be supplied subject to availability!
Those books will be offered free of charge to people who are willing to pay
the delivery costs in advance.
Don't miss this occasion to complete your own library - so please have a
look at the list of books available.
https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.2312/15058/books_available.pdf
How do you place an order?
Please contact: publishing-support(a)eg.org <mailto:publishing-support@eg.org>
The Department of Medical Physics at the Danish Center for Particle Therapy
of Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark and the Visualization Group at TU
Wien [ <https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/> 1], Austria invite applications for a
one-year PostDoc position offering applicants an exciting opportunity to
join a project in the area of Visual Analytics for Model-based Decision
Making in Image-Guided and Adaptive Radiotherapy.
The main contact people are Prof. Ludvig P. Muren [
<http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/ludvig-muren(221517ef-552a-4a1a-a630-b8
d3765a6bf6).html> 2] from Aarhus University Hospital and Dr. Renata G.
Raidou [ <https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/staff/RenataRaidou.htm> 3] from TU
Wien. The position is available from 1st September 2019. It is funded by a
research grant from VARIAN medical systems for one year, with potential
extensions. For more details, please see the attached pdf, the TU Wien group
page ( <https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/> https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/) or
contact Renata Raidou ( <mailto:rraidou@cg.tuwien.ac.at>
rraidou(a)cg.tuwien.ac.at ). Application deadline: before 24 June 2019.
2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW2019)
Kyoto, 2-4 October, 2019
Extended full/short paper submission deadline - May 31
In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics Association, the Society of Art and Science
Conference web page: www.cyberworlds-conference.org <http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org> , art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org <http://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org>
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cw2019
CW 2019 SCOPE:
Cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. Cyberworlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world economy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Satoshi Tanaka (Ritsumeikan University)
High-Quality & Transparent Visualization of Large-Scale Point Clouds Acquired by 3D Scanning
Tomohiro Kuroda (Kyoto University)
Social Hospital and Preemptive Medicine: Prospects of Cyber-Physical Clinical Medicine in Information Age
Tobias Hollerer (UCSB)
Learning for Reality
CW 2019 will consider the following tracks and topics:
GENERAL TRACK:
Computer graphics for cyberworlds; Visual analytics in cyberworlds; Virtual humans and avatars; Applications of augmented and virtual reality; Social computing and services; Multimodal interaction and rendering; Virtual collaborative spaces; Multi-user web games; IoT and wearable computing; Computer vision for augmented and virtual reality; Online communities; Networked and shared virtual worlds; Art and heritage in cyberspace; Cyber-museums; E-learning in cyberworlds; Cyberethics and cyberlaws; Welfare in cyberworlds; Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds; Real-time analytics, modelling, and simulation for the future smart cities and urban mobility; 3D city modelling, processing and simulation; Generation of building/city models; Predictive analytics and
machine learning for smart cities and smart manufacturing; Computer vision for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing; Optical inspection for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing; Virtual and Augmented Reality for smart cities and smart manufacturing; Color theory and image recoloring for color vision defect support; VR/AR for the vision impaired; Image-based ophthalmologic diagnosis; Image processing/computer vision for vision enhancement
COGNITIVE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION:
Cognitive informatics; Human factors in transportation, maritime, industry 4.0; Neurorehabilitation and neuroplasticity; Affective computing; Mobile BCI; Signal Processing; Machine and deep learning for EEG-based algorithms; Multi-modal Interfaces; Neurofeedback systems and games; BCI applications
CYBERSECURITY AND BIOMETRICS:
Security protocols; Authentication protocols; Privacy protocols; Password security; Security of personal data; Content protection and digital rights management; Risk and reputation management; Identity and trust management; Information hiding and anonymity; Privacy, security and trust in social media; Security of embedded systems; Behavioral biometrics; Performance evaluation of biometric systems; Multi-biometrics; Quality of biometric data; Biometric template protection; Presentation attack detection; Emerging biometrics
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
full (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and poster papers (up to 4 pages)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS with all accepted papers will be published by Conference Publishing Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference databases of all major referencing indices including EI Compendex, Scopus, and SCI
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES will consider for publications extended versions of all accepted full papers:
Computers & Graphics (Elsevier); The Visual Computer (Springer); Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS); Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier); Journal of Future Generation Systems (Elsevier)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers (Full/Short) submission : ** May 31 (UTC) ** (Extended firm deadline)
Papers (Full/Short) notification : Jul 1
Poster papers submission : Jul 6
Poster papers notification : Jul 15
Author registration : Jul 24
Camera-ready papers submission : Jul 24
Conference flyer for downloading:
https://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org/submission/CW19_flyer.pdf
CONTACT:
Program Co-Chairs: Masahiro Toyoura, Alexei Sourin, Issei Fujishiro
cw2019(a)easychair.org <mailto:cw2019@easychair.org>
Conference URL: www.cyberworlds-conference.org <http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org> , art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org <http://art-science.org/cyberworlds-conference.org>
As in previous years, SGP 2019 will offer the following awards (alongside the best paper awards, and the participation in the reproducibility stamp), for which we would appreciate your nominations. The official call can be found here: <https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/awards.html> https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/awards.html
Software Award
To encourage the distribution of high quality software in geometry processing, since 2011 an annual award has been given for freely available software related to or useful for geometry processing. A list of recipients from previous years can be found at: http://awards.geometryprocessing.org
Eligibility. The nomination should include a description of the software and its functionality, as well as a justification why and to what extend the Geometry Processing community benefits from this software. Links to the code and additional material should also be included if possible. Every software project is eligible as long as:
• It can be counted as a Geometry Processing contribution.
• It is available for free to academic researchers in the field (i.e., for non-commercial use).
Procedure. Please send nominations and applications for the software award to <mailto:awardnominations@geometryprocessing.org> awardnominations(a)geometryprocessing.org . All members of the Geometry Processing community can nominate their favorite software (possibly including their own) for the software award, by writing an email to the SGP award chairs with a few words describing the software and why it is worthy of the award. The chairs will collect the nominations, and a dedicated committee will decide on the winner, following the guidelines described above.
Please send nominations and applications for the software award until 5 June 2019 to <mailto:awardnominations@geometryprocessing.org> awardnominations(a)geometryprocessing.org
SGP Dataset Award
The main goal of this award is to highlight the importance of high-quality datasets and benchmarks to the advancement of the Geometry Processing community, and to recognize the suppliers of such datasets. Similar to the software award, the dataset award will provide recognition of the effort and time put into preparing an important tool and stimulus for research.
We encourage submissions that initiate novel research directions by asking difficult questions, either in a form of a benchmark, or possibly by highlighting challenges previously ignored by the community. This way, researchers in Geometry Processing will hopefully become aware of both problems that are not addressed by existing algorithms and new applications in other domains. At the same time, we hope to acknowledge the impact of existing and established datasets that have helped to advance the field of Geometry Processing.
Eligibility. The dataset must be freely available (i.e., must come at no cost), and must be covered by a license allowing free academic use to be eligible for the award. We will also allow datasets that might have been obtained by collecting from different sources, rather than created from scratch (such as the Princeton Shape Benchmark), especially in the case where such datasets come with a novel challenge or problem for Geometry Processing. However, we will give preference to original datasets that have been created directly by their providers. Of course, the nominees should be relevant to the Geometry Processing community, and therefore the datasets must have some "geometric" flavor. However, another goal behind this award is to expand our understanding of what geometric datasets might entail, and therefore we will also consider datasets that have not traditionally been used in the SGP community (for example, volumetric data, point cloud samplings of unusual objects, etc.)
Procedure. Please send nominations and applications for the dataset award to awardnominations(a)geometryprocessing.org <mailto:awardnominations@geometryprocessing.org> . All members of the Geometry Processing community can nominate their favourite dataset (including possibly their own) for the dataset award by writing an email to the SGP award chairs with a few words describing the dataset and why it is worthy of the award. The chairs will collect the nominations, and a dedicated committee will decide on the winner, following the guidelines described above.
Please send nominations and applications for the dataset award until 5 June 2019 to <mailto:awardnominations@geometryprocessing.org> awardnominations(a)geometryprocessing.org
David Bommes and Hui Huang
SGP 2019 Program Chairs
The SIGGRAPH 2019 Doctoral Consortium is open for submissions, detail can be
found at
https://s2019.siggraph.org/conference/programs-events/organization-events/do
ctoral-consortium/.
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum in which you can meet to discuss your
work with other students and a panel of experienced researchers. You should
be about one year away from submission. There are eight places available.
Accepted students will receive a complimentary full conference registration.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward Competition is open for submission,
details can be found here:
https://s2019.siggraph.org/conference/programs-events/organization-events/th
esis-papers-fast-forward
Based on video submissions and, as a secondary criterion on the provided
abstracts, a jury will select up to 12 candidates who will be asked to
perform a three-minute oral presentation live at a special session at
SIGGRAPH 2019.
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CALL FOR POSTERS -- SCA 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
<https://sca2019.kaist.ac.kr/> https://sca2019.kaist.ac.kr
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The posters deadline for SCA 2019 has been extended (May 15th, 2019 23:59
UTC)! Don't miss this opportunity to submit your original ideas and to be a
part of this fantastic event, which already includes a number of outstanding
talks:
Keynote Speakers:
Uri Ascher, Professor, University of British Columbia
L. Mahadevan, Professor, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:
Mridul Aanjaneya, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Chenfanfu Jiang, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Mélina Skouras, Research Scientist, Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
Steve Tonneau, Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh
Etienne Vouga, Assistant Professor, UT Austin
Posters
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The 18th annual Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) will be held in Los
Angeles, CA, July 26-28, 2019, just before Siggraph, on the beautiful campus
of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). SCA is the premier
forum for innovations in the software and technology of computer animation.
It unites researchers and practitioners working on all aspects of time-based
phenomena. Our focused, intimate gathering, with single track program and
emphasis on community interaction, makes SCA the best venue to exchange
research results, get inspired, and set up collaborations.
We invite submissions to the poster and demo session, which is an integral
part of the SCA program. As with previous years, poster abstracts will be
included in the ACM and EG Digital Libraries, thus providing a better and
longstanding referencing to the works. Note however that as usual, an SCA
poster does *not* preclude subsequent publication of a complete paper on the
same topic by the same authors. (However, an SCA poster by other authors is
considered prior art and should be cited as such.)
We encourage any of the following types of poster submissions:
- Up and coming computer animation research
- Technically novel production work
- Work done outside of SCA that would be of interest to the computer
animation community. This includes animation-related works recently accepted
to other conferences.
- Half-baked ideas and negative results
Electronic Submission
=====================
The poster submission deadline has been extended to May 15th, 2019 23:59
UTC.
Submission instructions and link can be found here:
<https://sca2019.kaist.ac.kr/wordpress/poster-instruction>
https://sca2019.kaist.ac.kr/wordpress/poster-instruction
We hope to see you in Los Angeles!
Organizers
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Conference Co-Chairs:
Sung-Hee Lee, KAIST
Craig Schroeder, UC Riverside
Program Co-Chairs:
Christopher Batty, University of Waterloo
Jin Huang, Zhejiang University
Poster Chair:
Tamar Shinar, UC Riverside
The registration of the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2019 is now open on
the SGP 2019 web site.
<https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/registration.html>
https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/registration.html
The Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) is the premier venue
for disseminating new research ideas and cutting-edge results in Geometry
Processing,
and the privileged meeting point for the vibrant scientific and industrial
community orbiting around Geometry Processing aspects of Computer Graphics.
Be part of it!
Early bid registration discounts end the 6 of July.
Additional discounts are granted to Eurographics members and ACM siggraph
members.
Renew yours at:
<https://www.acm.org/membership> https://www.acm.org/membership
<https://www.eg.org/wp/eg-membership/> https://www.eg.org/wp/eg-membership/
News this year:
* Great keynotes have been announced:
<https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/keynote_speakers.html>
https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/keynote_speakers.html
* After SGP tradition, the attached Graduate School offers a rich array of
top-notch courses, aimed at PhD students and other postgraduate students:
<https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/graduate_school.html>
https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/graduate_school.html
Thanks to the SGP School 2019 chairs: Marcel Campen, Sylvain Lefebvre.
* The technical program, chaired by David Bommes and Hui Huang, will be
announced soon.
* In addition to the best paper award, SGP has a Software Project award and
a Dataset award, to recognize authors of to authors of great software
projhects and benchmark which aid to push the research on Geometry
Processing forward.
Anyone can nominate candidates, so you you have one in mind we want to hear
from you!
<https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/awards.html>
https://sgp2019.di.unimi.it/awards.html
Please consider disseminating this announcement to any collegue or student
who may be interested.
Looking forward to see you in Milan!
Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni, Alessandro Rizzi (conference chairs)