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* XVIII Eurographics Workshop *
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* Graphics and Cultural Heritage *
* EG GCH2020 *
* Granada, 18-20 november 2020 *
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* https://www.gch2020.eu *
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Regular Paper Deadline: September 4, 2020
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Given the developing COVID-19 situation, it is unclear yet if the conference can take place in a physical format. We will turn to a virtual format if needed. We encourage authors to submit work to GCH2020 even if they do not think they will be able or willing to attend in person due to the virus situation and/or potential travel restrictions. In any of the scenarios, we will seek to publish the proceedings and make them available in the Eurographics Digital Library.
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The 18th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2020) aims to engage practitioners and researchers across the world working at the interface of novel 3D digital technologies and cultural heritage. This year, EG GCH will take place in the historical and UNESCO World Heritage city of Granada, whose university is almost 500 years old and, at the same time, has one of the leading Computer Sciences faculties in Europe.
The event will explore the role of computer graphics and digital technologies in cultural heritage preservation and dissemination, linking its development with other economic and scientific areas, such as conservation and restoration, or with the role of technologies in sustainable tourism.
GCH2020 welcomes presentations of projects and applications that demonstrate how computer graphics and other digital technologies could impact to cultural heritage. Specific sessions will be organized for active networking to seek new challenges and projects involving different stakeholders of the European Heritage ecosystem. Hence, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to the event.
For the research community, GCH 2020 will provide, as always, an excellent scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and developments as well as to identify future research and application opportunities. For the practitioner community, GCH 2020 will provide a unique opportunity to feed into technical developments as well as to identify new techniques and ideas which can be transferred into practice.
The event seeks different types of contributions including:
1. Research papers: original and innovative research (maximum 10 pages)
2. Short papers: update of ongoing research activities or projects (maximum 4 pages)
3. Posters: overview of activities (500 words abstract)
4. Tutorials of solutions available to the community. Text and class material prepared for 2h to 6h of teaching. It will be held on the pre-conference day.
5. Special sessions on topics of interest to the workshop
6. Panel sessions for international research projects
Topics
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Contributions are solicited (but not limited to) in the following topics:
● Digitisation of Cultural Heritage resources, such as 3D scanning, motion capture, multispectral imaging, X-ray, terahertz imaging
● Visual data analysis, processing and fusion
● Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
● Visual data analysis and modelling, including semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation), similarity search and browsing
● Visualization and virtual museums, including serious games and storytelling
● Multi-modal and interactive environments
● Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
● Digital fabrication, including subtractive and additive methods such as 3D printing
● Computer Graphics related technologies applied to sustainable tourism solutions.
Important deadlines
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Deadline
Research papers 4th september 2020
Tutorials 15th september 2020
Panel Sessions 30th june 2020
Short papers 9th october 2020
Poster 30th october 2020
Submission instructions
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Research papers, short papers and posters
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Please submit your work via the SRM conference management system:https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/GCH_2020
If you have any problems using these format templates, please contact the programme chairs directly at chairs-gch2020@eg.org
For posters, please submit a 500 word abstract.
Tutorials and special sessions
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Please submit the name of the proposer, a summary of the planned activity as well as list of speakers to chairs-gch2020@eg.org
Proceedings
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All accepted research and short papers will be published by the Eurographics Association and archived in the EG Digital Library. The authors of the five selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH, see http://jocch.acm.org/).
We will seek to publish other contributions in collaboration with proposers of tutorials and special sessions.
Organization
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
● Carlos Andujar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) -WS chair-
● Francisco Javier Melero (Universidad de Granada) -local chair
PROGRAMME CHAIRS
● Michela Spagnuolo (CNR-IMATI)
● Francisco Javier Melero (Universidad de Granada)
TUTORIAL CHAIRS
● Carlos Ureña (Universidad de Granada)
● Sofia Pescarin, CNR-ITAB
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (TO BE ANNOUNCED)