Symposium on Geometry Processing explained

Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) is an annual symposium hosted by the European Association For Computer Graphics (Eurographics). The goal of the symposium is to present and discuss new research ideas and results in geometry processing. The conference is geared toward the discussion of mathematical foundations and practical algorithms for the processing of complex geometric data sets, ranging from acquisition and editing all the way to animation, transmission and display. As such, it draws on many disciplines spanning pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering. The proceedings of SGP appear as a special issue of the Computer Graphics Forum, the International Journal of the Eurographics Association. Since 2011, SGP has held a two-day "graduate school" preceding the conference, typically composed of workshop-style courses from subfield experts.

Venues

Year Location Links Date Submitted Accepted Rate[1]
2024Cambridge, MA, USAWebpage24-26 Jun
2023Genova, ItalyWebpage1-2 Jul
2022VirtualWebpage2-3 Jul
2021Toronto, Canada (Virtual)Webpage12-14 Jul
2020Utrecht, The Netherlands (Virtual)Webpage Papers6-8 Jul592136%
2019Milan, Italy Webpage Papers8-10 Jul491530%
2018Paris, FranceWebpage Papers9-11 Jul672029%
2017London, UKWebpage Papers1-5 Jul501734%
2016Berlin, GermanyWebpage Papers20-24 Jul812632%
2015 Graz, Austria Webpage Papers6-8 Jul 72 22 31%
2014 Cardiff, UK Webpage Papers 9-11 Jul 89 28 31%
2013 Genova, Italy Webpage Papers 3-5 Jul 56 23 41%
2012 Tallinn, Estonia Webpage Papers 16-18 Jul 72 25 35%
2011 Lausanne, Switzerland Webpage Papers 20-22 Jul 77 23 30%
2010 Lyon, France Webpage Papers 5-7 Jul 70 24 34%
2009 Berlin, Germany Webpage Papers 15-17 Jul 75 26 35%
2008 Copenhagen, Denmark Webpage Papers 2-4 Jul 96 23 24%
2007 Barcelona, Spain Webpage Papers 4-6 Jul 74 21 28%
2006 Cagliari, Sardinia Webpage Papers 26-28 Jun 79 21 27%
2005 Vienna, Austria Webpage Papers4-6 Jul 87 22 25%
2004 Nice, France Webpage Papers8-10 Jul 85 25 29%
2003 Aachen, Germany Webpage Papers23-25 Jun 72 25 35%

Best Paper Awards

Each year up to three papers are recognized with a Best Paper Award.[2]

Year Author Title
2023Maximilian Kohlbrenner et al.Poisson Manifold Reconstruction - Beyond Co-dimension One
Shir Rorberg et al.BPM: Blended Piecewise Möbius Maps
Olga Guțan et al.Singularity-Free Frame Fields for Line Drawing Vectorization
2022Patrick Schmidt et al.TinyAD: Automatic Differentiation in Geometry Processing Made Simple
Payam Khanteimouri et al.Rational Bézier Guarding
Jinlin Yang et al.Precise High-order Meshing of 2D Domains with Rational Bézier Curves
2021Janis Born et al.Surface Map Homology Inference
Philipp Trettner et al. Geodesic Distance Computation via Virtual Source Propagation
Eamon Whalen et al. SimJEB: Simulated Jet Engine Bracket Dataset
2020Marc Alexa et al.Properties of Laplace Operators for Tetrahedral Meshes
Nicholas Sharp and Keenan Crane A Laplacian for Nonmanifold Triangle Meshes
Xuan Tang et al. EGGS: Sparsity-Specific Code Generation
2019Zhipel Yan and Scott SchaeferA Family of Barycentric Coordinates for Co-Dimension 1 Manifolds with Simplicial Facets
Meged Shoham et al. Hierarchical Functional Maps between Subdivision Surfaces
2018Zi Ye et al.A unified discrete framework for intrinsic and extrinsic Dirac operators for geometry processing
Jingwei Huang et al. QuadFlow: A Scalable and Robust Method for Quadrangulation
Marc Comino et al. Sensor-aware Normal Estimation for Range Scan Point Clouds
2017Hamid Laga and Hedi TabiaModeling and Exploring Co-Variations in the Geometry and Configuration of Man-made 3D Shape Families
Max Budninskiy et al.Spectral Affine-Kernel Embeddings
Sebastian Claici et al.Isometry-Aware Preconditioning for Mesh Parameterization
2016Behrend Heeren et al.Splines in the Space of Shells
Or Litany et al.Non-Rigid Puzzles
Zeyun Shi et al.Symmetry and Orbit Detection via Lie-Algebra Voting
2015 Itay Kezurer et al. Tight Relaxation of Quadratic Matching
Andrea Tagliasacchi et al. Robust Articulated-ICP for Real-Time Hand Tracking
2014 Olga Diamanti et al. Designing N-PolyVector Fields with Complex Polynomials
Nicolas Mellado et al. Super 4PCS: Fast Global Pointcloud Registration via Smart Indexing
2013 Qixing Huang and Leonidas Guibas Consistent Shape Maps via Semidefinite Programming
Simon Giraudot et al. Noise-Adaptive Shape Reconstruction from Raw Point Sets
Marcel Campen et al. Practical Anisotropic Geodesy
2012 Ofir Weber et al. Computing Extremal Quasiconformal Maps
Amir Vaxman Modeling Polyhedral Meshes with Affine Maps
Maik Schulze et al. Stream Surface Parametrization by Flow-Orthogonal Front Lines
2011 Klaus Hildebrandt and Konrad Polthier On approximation of the Laplace–Beltrami operator and the Willmore energy of surfaces
Ofir Weber et al. A Complex View of Barycentric Mappings
Raif M. Rustamov Multiscale Biharmonic Kernels
2010 Keenan Crane et al. Trivial Connections on Discrete Surfaces
Mirela Ben-Chen et al. On Discrete Killing Vector Fields and Patterns on Surfaces
Marcel Campen and Leif Kobbelt Polygonal Boundary Evaluation of Minkowski Sums and Swept Volumes
2009 Jian Sun et al. A Concise and Provably Informative Multi-scale Signature Based on Heat Diffusion
Fatemeh Abbasinejad et al. Rotating Scans for Systematic Error Removal
Ming Chuang et al. Estimating the Laplace-Beltrami Operator by Restricting 3D Functions
2008 Ramsay Dyer et al. Surface sampling and the intrinsic Voronoi diagram
Sebastian Martin et al. Polyhedral Finite Elements Using Harmonic Basis Functions (student paper)
Maks Ovsjanikov et al. Global Intrinsic Symmetries of Shapes (student paper)
2007 Pierre Alliez et al. Voronoi-based Variational Reconstruction for Unoriented Point Sets
2006 Mario Botsch et al. PriMo: Coupled Prisms for Intuitive Surface Modeling

SGP Software Award

Each year, since 2011, SGP also awards a prize for the best freely available software related to or useful for geometry processing.

Year Author Title
2023Bruno LévyGeogram
2022Nicholas SharpPolyscope
2021Amir VaxmanDirectional
2020Wenzel Jakob et al.Instant Meshes
2019Rohan Sawhney and Keenan CraneBoundary First Flattening
2018Tyson Brochu and Robert BridsonEl Topo
2017 Nicolas Mellado, Dror Aiger, Niloy J. Mitra Super4PCS
2017 Paolo Cignoni MeshLab
2016 David Coeurjolly, Jacques-Olivier Lachaud et al. DGtal
2015 Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Olga Diamanti et al. libigl
2014 Marco Attene MeshFix
2013 Benoît Jacob and Gael Guennebaud Eigen
2012 Hang Si TetGen
2011 Michael Kazhdan and Matthew Bolitho Poisson Surface Reconstruction

SGP Test of Time Award

Each year, since 2021, SGP has given a Test of Time award to a paper published at least ten years prior that continues to be impactful for both research and practice in geometry processing.

Year Author Title Year of Publication
2023Max Wardetzky et al.Discrete Laplace operators: No Free Lunch2007
2022Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Marc AlexaAs-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling2007
2021Michael Kazhdan et al.Poisson Surface Reconstruction2006

SGP Dataset Award

Each year, since 2016, SGP also awards a prize for the best freely available dataset related to or useful for geometry processing. The last such award was given in 2021.

Year Author Title
2021Matteo Bracci, Marco Tarini, Nico Pietroni, Marco Livesu, Paolo Cignoni HexaLab
2020Angela Dai, Angel X. Chang, Manolis Savva, Maciej Halber, Thomas Funkhouser, Matthias NießnerScanNet
2019Sebastian Koch, Albert Matveev, Zhongshi Jiang, Francis Williams, Alexey Artemov, Evgeny Burnaev, Marc Alexa, Denis Zorin, Daniele PanozzoABC Dataset
2018Angel X. Chang, Thomas Funkhouser, Leonidas Guibas, Pat Hanrahan, Qixing Huang, Zimo Li, Silvio Savarese, Manolis Savva, Shuran Song, Hao Su, Jianxiong Xiao, Li Yi, and Fisher Yu ShapeNet
2017 Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson Thingi10k
2016 FAUST

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Resource for Computer Graphics - Ke-Sen Huang's Home Page. kesen.realtimerendering.com. 2016-08-07.
  2. Web site: Symposium on Geometry Processing - Awards. awards.geometryprocessing.org.