About

The 20th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2012) will be held in Hong Kong, China on September 12-14, 2012.

Pacific Graphics (PG) is an annual international conference on computer graphics and applications. As a highly successful series, Pacific Graphics provides a premier forum for researchers, developers, practitioners in the Pacific Rim and around the world to present and discuss new problems, solutions, and technologies in computer graphics and related areas.

Paper submission

Original unpublished papers are invited in all areas of computer graphics and its applications. The topics include (but are not limited to) modeling, rendering, animation, and imaging, as well as visualization, human-computer interaction, and graphics systems and applications. Any interesting new ideas related to computer graphics and applications are welcome.

Paper publication

The conference will have a full paper track as well as a short paper track. The full papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear as a special issue of the Computer Graphics Forum. Papers that are not accepted to the full papers track may be invited to the short paper's track and published electronically though the EG Digital Library upon the authors' consent.

Call for papers

Call for Papers [pdf]

Original unpublished papers are invited in all areas of computer graphics and its applications. The topics include (but are not limited to) modeling, rendering, animation, and imaging, as well as visualization, human-computer interaction, and graphics systems and applications. Any interesting new ideas related to computer graphics and applications are welcome.

There will be a full paper track and a short paper track. The full papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear as a special issue of the Computer Graphics Forum. The short papers will be made available to the participants in electronic form through EG digital library.

Submission

All contributions submitted to Pacific Graphics 2012 must be original, unpublished work. Any work that has previously been published or simultaneously been submitted in a substantially similar form to any other conference or journal will be rejected. Contributions must be written and presented in English. The standard page limit for a submission is 8 pages. A submission is not allowed to be longer than 10 pages. The review process will be double blind. Please remove all personal data (like author, affiliation, etc.) from your submission!

Abstract submission due:
April 24, 2012 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)

Full paper submission due:
April 30, 2012 23:59 PDT (GMT-7)

Latex paper template [zip]

Detailed submission instructions

Submission system

Presentation

The standard equipment setup in Pacific Graphics 2012 venue includes screens, high-resolution projectors, microphones, and a notebook. We would prefer that you use the provided computer to avoid the problem of equipment setup. Each full/short paper has 25/10 min for presentation inclusive Q&A.

For Attendees

Registration

Registration fee
Category Early Registration
(on/before Aug. 7)
Pre-registration
(on/before Sep. 3)
On-site Registration
Regular 4700 HKD 5000 HKD 5500 HKD
Student 3000 HKD 3200 HKD 3400 HKD

Regular and student registration includes access to all conference sessions, proceedings (PG 2012 special issue of Computer Graphics Forum and PG 2012 Conference Short Paper Proceedings), lunches, coffee breaks, and banquet.

Cancellation Policy for Early Registration: Cancellations are required to be made up to 14 days (on/before Aug. 29) in advance. Otherwise, cancellations will lose all right of refund.

Venue

The conference will be held at The Langham Hotel Hong Kong. It is an award winning 5 star luxury hotel located in Tsimshatsui, a luxury shopping paradise. It provides outstanding restaurants, lounges, bars and other comprehensive leisure and fitness facilities.

The Langham Hotel Hong Kong outlook The Langham Hotel Hong Kong meeting room

Organizers

Committee

General chairs

Markus Gross ETH Zurich

Wenping Wang The University of Hong Kong

Program chairs

Chris Bregler New York University

Pedro Sander Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Michael Wimmer Vienna University of Technology

Industry Chair

Li-Yi Wei The University of Hong Kong

Organization chairs

Loretta Yi-King Choi The University of Hong Kong

Hongbo FU City University of Hong Kong

International Program Committee

Ken Anjyo OLM Digital, Japan

Oscar Au City University of HK, Hong Kong

Hujun Bao Zhejiang University, China

Alexander G. Belyaev Heriot-Watt University, UK

Volker Blanz Universität Siegen, Germany

Michael S. Brown National University of Singapore, Singapore

Pere Brunet Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya, Spain

Yong Cao Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Jinxiang Chai Texas A&M University, USA

Chun-Fa Chang National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Bing-Yu Chen National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Guoning Chen University of Utah, USA

Baoquan Chen Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China

Ming-Te Chi National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan

Jung-Hong Chuang National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Yung-Yu Chuang National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Daniel Cohen-Or Tel Aviv University, Israel

Carsten Dachsbacher Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Germany

Zhigang Deng University of Houston, USA

Yoshinori Dobashi Hokkaido University, Japan

Zhao Dong Cornell University, USA

Elmar Eisemanm Telecom ParisTech, France

Thomas Ertl Universität Stuttgar, Germany

Hongbo Fu City University of Hong Kong, China

Eric Galin LIRIS, France

Yotam Gingold Columbia Univ, USA

Xianfeng Gu Stony Brook University, USA

Xiaohu Guo University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Diego Gutierrez University de Zaragoza, Spain

Ralf Habel Disney Research Zürich, Switzerland

John C. Hart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Qiming Hou Zhejiang University, China

Shimin Hu Tsinghua University, China

Jing Hua Wayne State University, USA

Qi-Xing Huang Stanford University, USA

Insung Ihm Sogang University, Korea

Stefan Jeschke Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Leo Jiaya Jia The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Joaquim Jorge Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Henry Kang University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA

John Keyser Texas A&M University, USA

Changhun Kim Korea University, Korea

Theodore Kim University of California, Santa Barbara

Young J. Kim EWHA Womans University, Korea

Leif Kobbelt RWTH Aachen, Germany

Taku Komura University of Edinburgh, UK

Johannes Kopf Microsoft Research, USA

Shang-Hong Lai National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Yu-Kun Lai Cardiff University, UK

Jason Lawrence University of Virginia, USA

Seungyong Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Hendrik Lensch Uni Tübingen, Germany

Sergey Levine Stanford, USA

Bruno Levy INRIA, France

Hao Li Princeton Univ, USA

Yaron Lipman Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Feng Liu Portland State University, USA

Ligang Liu University of Science and Technology of China, China

Yongjiu Liu Tsinghua University, China

Xinguo Liu Zhejiang University, China

Kwan-Liu Ma University of California at Davis, USA

Marcus A. Magnor Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Dinesh Manocha University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Ralph Martin Cardiff University, UK

Oliver Mattausch Zürich University, Switzerland

Niloy Mitra UCL, UK

Diego Nehab IMPA, Brazil

Manuel M. Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Carol O’Sullivan University of Dublin, Ireland

Qunsheng Peng Zhejiang University, China

Julien Pettre INRIA/IRISA, France

Hong Qin Stony Brook University, USA

Holly Rushmeir Yale University, USA

Scott Schaefer Texas A&M University, USA

Daniel Scherzer MPI, Germany

Andrei Sharf Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Olga Sorkine ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Marc Stamminger University of Erlangen, Germany

Hiromasa Suzuki The University of Tokyo, Japan

Shigeo Takahashi The University of Tokyo, Japan

Marco Tarini CNR, Italy

Matthias Teschner University of Freiburg, Germany

Christian Theobalt MPI, Germany

Xin Tong Microsoft Research Asia, China

Yiying Tong Michigan State University, USA

Rui Wang University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Jack M. Wang Stanford University, USA

Jiaping Wang Microsoft Research Asia, China

Yu-Shuen Wang National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Li-Yi Wei Hong Kong University, China

Tien-Tsin Wong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Enhua Wu University of Macau, China

Lei Yang Bosch Research, USA

Sung-eui Yoon Korea Advanced Institute of Scienece Technology, Korea

Jingyi Yu University of Delaware, USA

Li Zhang University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Hao (Richard) Zhang Simon Fraser University, Canada

Kun Zhou Zhejiang University, China

Supporters

PG 2012 would like to thank the following sponsors:

Platinum

US$8000 or greater contribution

Gold

US$5000 or greater contribution

Silver

US$3500 or greater contribution

Bronze

US$2000 or greater contribution

Prior Conference

  1. Pacific Graphics 2011 - Kaohsiung
  2. Pacific Graphics 2010 - Hangzhou
  3. Pacific Graphics 2009 - Jeju
  4. Pacific Graphics 2008 - Tokyo
  5. Pacific Graphics 2007 - Maui
  6. Pacific Graphics 2006 - Taipei
  7. Pacific Graphics 2005 - Macau
  8. Pacific Graphics 2004 - Seoul
  9. Pacific Graphics 2003 - Canmore
  10. Pacific Graphics 2002 - Beijing
  11. Pacific Graphics 2001 - Tokyo
  12. Pacific Graphics 2000 - Hong Kong
  13. Pacific Graphics 1999 - Seoul
  14. Pacific Graphics 1998 - Singapore
  15. Pacific Graphics 1997 - Seoul
  16. Pacific Graphics 1996 - Taipei
  17. Pacific Graphics 1995 - Seoul
  18. Pacific Graphics 1994 - Beijing
  19. Pacific Graphics 1993 - Seoul