Call for Papers
You are cordially invited to contribute to the 22nd EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH). GCH 2024 (https://www.gch2024.eu/) welcomes presentations of new research, projects, demonstrations and applications that demonstrate how computer graphics and other digital technologies are impacting Cultural Heritage (CH) research, preservation and dissemination and promoting sustainable cultural tourism. Specific sessions will be organised to seek new challenges and projects involving different stakeholders of the Heritage ecosystem. Hence, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to the event.
Location
The event aims to engage with practitioners and researchers across the world working at novel digital technologies and approaches to CH. This year, the workshop is organized in Darmstadt (Germany) from 16th – 18th September 2024 and will take place in the Hessian Landesmuseum (Welcome to the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt – Hessische Landesmuseum Darmstadt (hlmd.de))
Objectives
The objective of this year’s EG GCH is to foster discussion between research scientists at the crossroads of AI, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, HCI design, and Digital Heritage researchers, in a collaborative environment with cultural institutions, scholars in the Cultural Heritage domain and Creative Industries.
GCH 2024 welcomes presentations of new research, projects, applications and best practices that show innovative ideas or other advanced digital technologies involved in CH research, analysis, preservation, simulation, documentation, dissemination, and promotion. Inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to the event.
We encourage the community to participate in the discussions on promises and concerns about the adoption of AI and reconstruction technologies by scientists and practitioners in the field of Creative Industries and CH.
For the research community, GCH 2024 will provide an excellent scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and groundbreaking developments as well as to identify future research opportunities. For practitioners and students, GCH 2024 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.
Journal Tracks
Like last year, GCH has established agreements with leading journals, including the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage and the Elsevier Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Journal. Hence, we invite authors to submit innovative research via Special Issues in these journals.
ACM JOCCH’s Special Issue on “Visual Heritage” focuses on novel computing research for documenting, accessing and researching cultural heritage, including areas of computer graphics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, visualisation, human-computer interfaces, and other visual technologies. Short versions of these papers will be included in the EG proceedings, while the Special Issue will be published by December 2024. Authors may find this call at: https://dl.acm.org/journal/JOCCH/visualheritage.
Elsevier DAACH’ Special Issue on “Digital Restoration for Cultural Heritage Preservation” focuses on applications, design and advancements in 3D digitization, digital restoration, and visualization techniques specifically tailored for the preservation of cultural heritage. More details about the call will be released soon.
Types of Contributions for GCH 2024
Authors are invited to submit different types of contributions to GCH 2024 including:
- Full Research Papers: original and innovative research (max. 10 pages incl. refs.)
- Short Papers: research activities, applications or projects (max. 4 pages inc. refs.)
- Posters / Demo: overview of activities or national/international Interdisciplinary projects (2 pages)
Topics
Contributions are solicited within the following topics (but not limited to):
- Digitisation of CH resources (3D scanning, motion capture, multispectral imaging, X-ray, terahertz imaging, etc.)
- Material acquisition, reconstruction, preservation
- AI-based view synthesis for ad-hoc 2d and 3d reconstruction
- AI-based material reconstruction for rendering and presentation
- General AI technologies that could be beneficial for eXtended Reality CH environments
- Advanced image-based rendering techniques
- Collaborative interactive eXtended and hybrid environments
- Visualisation for CH applications
- eXtended reality applications in the field of CH
- Multi-modal analysis of CH data
- Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections
- Emotional and cognitive user experience design
- Interactive solutions and HCI design for CH applications
- Virtual Museums, Digital Technologies and Applications for Museums
- Digital fabrication, including 3D printing for tangible interfaces
- Semantic technologies for digital libraries
Program Chairs
- Arjan Kuijper, TU Darmstadt, email: arjan.kuijper@igd.fraunhofer.de
- Massimiliano Corsini, CNR ISTI, email: massimiliano.corsini@isti.cnr.it
Important Dates
| Deadline | Notification | Camera ready |
Papers to the Special Issues JOCCH Special Issue | May 17th | July 1st | August 15th (shortened versions) |
Tentative: DAACH Special Issue | May 17th | July 1st | August 15th (shortened versions) |
GCH Full Papers | May 30th | July 1st | August 15th |
GCH Short Papers | July 8th | August 1st | August 15th |
Posters / Interactive Demos | July 8th | August 1st | August 15th |
Support
GCH2024 is organised and supported by TU Darmstadt, Fraunhofer IGD, Landesmuseum Hessen, DFG, CNR ISPC & ISTI, and the PERCEIVE project.