Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 21st EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2023: https://www.gch2023.eu/). GCH this year is organised from the 4th to the 6th of September 2023, in the astonishing location of Salento (at Convitto Palmieri in Lecce, Italy) , and, for the first time, in co-location with XRSalento (XRSalento 2023); a special interactive session dedicated to “XR for Cultural Heritage” will be jointly organised on the 6th of September.

Presentation. GCH 2023 welcomes presentations of new research, projects, applications and best practices that demonstrate how computer graphics and digital technologies are impacting cultural heritage research, preservation, simulation, dissemination and promotion of sustainable cultural tourism. Focus of this year’s forum is to present and showcase new developments at the crossroads of AI technologies with rendering, reconstruction and advanced user experiences applied to the cultural heritage. Aim of EG GCH is to foster discussion between AI, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, HCI and Digital Heritage researchers, in a collaborative environment with cultural institutions, scholars in the cultural heritage domain and creative industries. We encourage the community to participate in the panel discussion on promises and concerns about the adoption of AI and reconstruction technologies by scientists and practitioners in the field of Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage. This year's GCH workshop will open up a new avenue and impact by creating a link between researchers with innovative ideas and scientific journals.

Publication and Submission. Accepted full papers and short papers will be published by Eurographics and will be available with open access in the Eurographics Digital Library (EG GCH: EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage ISSN 1811-864X, since 2014: GCH: ISSN 2312-6124).  Accepted papers with a high innovation potential will receive a proposal to prepare an extended manuscript of their contribution to be submitted to a scientific journal. This year, GCH has established dedicated agreements with the following journals that are available to publish manuscripts from the conference: ACM JOCCH Journal, Elsevier DAACH and MDPI Heritage (but other journals might be included). You can submit your work using template and guidelines you can find in the SRM system (Submission & Review Management), selecting either Eurographics GCH full paper (max 10 pages), short paper (4 pages) or demo/poster contribution (2 pages)  

Types of Contributions.

1. Full Research papers: original and innovative research (max 10 pages incl. refs.); 
2. Short Papers: research activities, applications or projects (max 4 pages inc. refs.);
3. Posters/Demo: overview of activities or national/international Interdisciplinary projects (2 pages).

Topics.

Contributions are solicited within the following topics (but not limited to):

• eXtended Reality Applications for Tangible or Intangible Heritage
• Collaborative interactive eXtended and hybrid environments
• Advanced Image Based Rendering techniques
• General AI technologies beneficial for eXtended Reality CH environments
• AI-based view synthesis for ad-hoc 2d and 3d reconstruction
  AI-based material reconstruction for rendering and presentation
• Digitisation of Cultural Heritage resources, such as 3D scanning, motion capture, multispectral imaging, X-ray, etc.
• Material acquisition, reconstruction, preservation
• Semantic technologies for digital libraries
• HCI new approaches and emotional / cognitive UX design
• Multi-modal and interactive environments
• Virtual Museums, Digital Technologies and Applications for Museums
• Visualisation, AR, VR, MR
• Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections
• Digital fabrication, including 3D printing and smart objects for tangible interfaces

Social Events Social events will include the trips to discover the historical city center of Lecce and Otranto, one of the pearls of the historical cities, facing directly on the Mediterranean Sea.

Important Dates

	DEADLINE	NOTIFICATION	CAMERA READY	DEADLINE FOR JOURNAL	2^nd NOTIFICATION
Short Papers	May 7th	May 30th	June 30th	June 30th	July 30th*
GCH Full Papers	May 30th	June 30th	July 15th	July 30th	September 5th*
Interactive Demo / Poster	June 30th	July 30th	September 5th

Support. GCH2023 is organised and supported by CNR ISPC, Fraunhofer IGD, University of Salento, and the PERCEIVE  project.

Holger Graf

Abteilungsleiter / Head of Department

Dep. Virtual and Augmented Reality

Fraunhofer Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD)

Fraunhoferstraße 5

D-64823 Darmstadt

Tel. +49 6151 155 471

Mob. +49 171 7610 621

e.mail.  holger.graf@igd.fraunhofer.de

https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-graf-674393/