Symposium on Geometry Processing

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
2024	Cambridge, MA, USA	Webpage	24-26 Jun
2023	Genova, Italy	Webpage	1-2 Jul
2022	Virtual	Webpage	2-3 Jul
2021	Toronto, Canada (Virtual)	Webpage	12-14 Jul
2020	Utrecht, The Netherlands (Virtual)	Webpage Papers	6-8 Jul	59	21	36%
2019	Milan, Italy	Webpage Papers	8-10 Jul	49	15	30%
2018	Paris, France	Webpage Papers	9-11 Jul	67	20	29%
2017	London, UK	Webpage Papers	1-5 Jul	50	17	34%
2016	Berlin, Germany	Webpage Papers	20-24 Jul	81	26	32%
2015	Graz, Austria	Webpage Papers	6-8 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 Papers	4-6 Jul	87	22	25%
2004	Nice, France	Webpage Papers	8-10 Jul	85	25	29%
2003	Aachen, Germany	Webpage Papers	23-25 Jun	72	25	35%

Best Paper Awards

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

Year	Author	Title
2023	Maximilian 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
2022	Patrick 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
2021	Janis 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
2020	Marc 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
2019	Zhipel Yan and Scott Schaefer	A Family of Barycentric Coordinates for Co-Dimension 1 Manifolds with Simplicial Facets
	Meged Shoham et al.	Hierarchical Functional Maps between Subdivision Surfaces
2018	Zi 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
2017	Hamid Laga and Hedi Tabia	Modeling 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
2016	Behrend 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
2023	Bruno Lévy	Geogram
2022	Nicholas Sharp	Polyscope
2021	Amir Vaxman	Directional
2020	Wenzel Jakob et al.	Instant Meshes
2019	Rohan Sawhney and Keenan Crane	Boundary First Flattening
2018	Tyson Brochu and Robert Bridson	El 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
2023	Max Wardetzky et al.	Discrete Laplace operators: No Free Lunch	2007
2022	Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Marc Alexa	As-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling	2007
2021	Michael Kazhdan et al.	Poisson Surface Reconstruction	2006

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
2021	Matteo Bracci, Marco Tarini, Nico Pietroni, Marco Livesu, Paolo Cignoni	HexaLab
2020	Angela Dai, Angel X. Chang, Manolis Savva, Maciej Halber, Thomas Funkhouser, Matthias Nießner	ScanNet
2019	Sebastian Koch, Albert Matveev, Zhongshi Jiang, Francis Williams, Alexey Artemov, Evgeny Burnaev, Marc Alexa, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo	ABC Dataset
2018	Angel 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	Federica Bogo, Javier Romero, Matthew Loper, Michael J. Black	FAUST

References

• geometry processing course webpage, Alla Sheffer
• EG digital library for SGP 2012