Eurographics

Call for Papers

15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
Graz, Austria, September 27-29, 2017
http://gch17.tugraz.at/

Full Paper Deadline: May 05, 2017

The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2017) aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broad audience. The objective of the workshop is to introduce and showcase new techniques and applications for supporting Cultural Heritage information ranging from data acquisition, analysis and synthesis, 3D documentation, and data management, to new forms of interactive presentation and 3D printing solutions. Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, classification and interpretation of cultural artefacts are particularly relevant to the event. GCH 2017 provides a scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and techniques in research, education and dissemination of Cultural Heritage information, to transfer them into practice, and identify future research and application opportunities. To advance the dialogue between ICT and CH experts, GCH 2017 will be held in close cooperation with the Museumsakademie of the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, providing opportunity for exchange between the domains.

We seek original, innovative and previously unpublished contributions in the computer graphics area applied to digital cultural heritage, challenging the state of the art solutions and leveraging new ideas for future developments. Equally, original contributions in the cultural heritage field of relevance to computer graphics are welcome. Specific workshop sessions will be devoted to reports on applications, experiences and projects in this domain. Contributions are solicited (but not limited to) in the following areas:

• 2/3/4D data acquisition and processing in Cultural Heritage
• Multispectral imaging and data fusion
• Digital acquisition, representation and communication of intangible heritage
• Material acquisition analysis
• Heterogeneous data collection, integration and management
• 3D printing of cultural assets
• Shape analysis and interpretation
• Similarity search of digital artefacts
• Visualization and Virtual Museums including storytelling and design of heritage communications
• Multi-modal and interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
• Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
• Semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation)
• Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
• Standards and documentation
• Serious games in Cultural Heritage
• Organizational aspects of cooperation between ICT and CH experts for project development
• Best practices for deployment of novel ICT solution in the CH domain, including budgeting and maintenance
• User demand and reception of ICT solutions in CH institutions

In cooperation with the Museumsakademie Joanneum, GCH is also planning for a half-day tutorial program, addressing practices and challenges in the important areas of acquisition and presentation of CH content.

IMPORTANT DATES

05 May Full Papers Deadline
30 June Notification Full Paper
14 July Short Papers + Posters
15 Aug Notification Short Papers + Posters
03 Sept Camera Ready Deadline

27-29 Sept Event takes place

Proceedings

All accepted papers will be published by the Eurographics Association and archived in the EG Digital Library. The authors of 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/).

GCH'17: EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2017) is organized by the Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, Graz University of Technology and by Fraunhofer Austria. It aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to ad...

Spring Conference on Computer Graphics is the oldest annual meeting of computer graphics researchers in Central Europe with 33 years of tradition. It is a highly successful venue for sharing ideas and research results among computer graphics researchers and practitioners from Europe and around the world. The philosophy of SCCG is to put together top experts with young researchers and to support a good communication channel for East-West exchange of prospective ideas.

We invite the authors to submit their original scientific papers to the conference. The conference topics include: rendering, modeling, animation, image processing, vision, visualization, interaction, digital fabrication, and virtual reality.

All submission will be made through the new PCS conference management system (new.precisionconference.com). After the first review round the international program committee will nominate the papers adhering to high quality standards for a publication in a special issue of Elsevier’s Computers and Graphics journal. The second review cycle for these papers will be handled through the Elsevier editorial system.

The remaining accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings that will be part of the ACM Digital Library. We also welcome posters covering your recent research work, late-breaking technical results, and work in progress. The posters will be part of posters proceedings.

**Keynote speakers**
Niloy Mitra (University College London)
Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California at Davis) Daniel Sykora (Czech Technical University in Prague)

**Important dates for papers**
Paper submission: **March 1, 2017(extended deadline)** First decision: April 5, 2017 Revised version due: April 19, 2017 Final decision: April 26, 2017 Camera ready: May 3, 2017

**Important dates for posters**
Poster submission: April 12, 2017
Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2017

**Conference Info**

Date: May 15-17, 2017
Conference chair: Pavel Zemcik
Program chairs: Jiri Bittner, Ivan Viola Poster chair: Vítezslav Beran Organization
Co-chairs: Vítezslav Beran, Andrej Ferko Elsevier C&G: Joaquim Jorge

Location: hotel Galant, Mikulov, Czech Republic (about 100 km from Vienna airport) Web site: http://www.sccg.sk

**Organizers**
Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic The Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia The Slovak Society for Computer Science

In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS.