[General] SGP 2019 Software and Dataset Awards - Call for Nominations

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