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 Rate2027SingaporeWebpage21-25 Jun2026Bern, SwitzerlandWebpage1-3 Jul 12 + 84 22 22%2025Bilbao, SpainWebpage2-4 Jul 19 + 52 26 36%2024Cambridge, MA, USAWebpage24-26 Jun2023Genova, ItalyWebpage1-2 Jul2022VirtualWebpage2-3 Jul2021Toronto, Canada (Virtual)Webpage12-14 Jul2020Utrecht, 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 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 Title2026Hongyi Liu, Oded Stein, Amir Vaxman, Mirela Ben-Chen, and Misha KazhdanPhong-Rodrigues Extrinsic Vector-Field Processing Ingmar Ludwig and Marcel CampenStrictly Conservative Neural Distance FieldsAlice Petrov, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Ana Dodik, and Justin SolomonTangent Blow-Ups for Processing Non-Manifold Geometry2025Yousuf Soliman and Nicholas SharpThe Affine Heat MethodKenji Tojo and Nobuyuki Umetani GreenCloud: Volumetric Gradient Filtering via Regularized Green's FunctionsXavier Chermain et al.Atomizer: Beyond Non-Planar Slicing for Fused Filament Fabrication2024Guillaume Coiffier and Louis Bethune1-Lipschitz Neural Distance FieldsLeonardo Sacht and Alec JacobsonCascading upper bounds for triangle soup Pompeiu-Hausdorff distanceHendrik Brückler et al.Integer-Sheet-Pump Quantization for Hexahedral Meshing2023Maximilian Kohlbrenner et al.Poisson Manifold Reconstruction - Beyond Co-dimension OneShir Rorberg et al.BPM: Blended Piecewise Möbius MapsOlga Guțan et al.Singularity-Free Frame Fields for Line Drawing Vectorization2022Patrick Schmidt et al.TinyAD: Automatic Differentiation in Geometry Processing Made SimplePayam Khanteimouri et al.Rational Bézier GuardingJinlin Yang et al.Precise High-order Meshing of 2D Domains with Rational Bézier Curves2021Janis Born et al.Surface Map Homology InferencePhilipp 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 MeshesNicholas 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 processingJingwei Huang et al. QuadFlow: A Scalable and Robust Method for QuadrangulationMarc Comino et al. Sensor-aware Normal Estimation for Range Scan Point Clouds2017Hamid Laga and Hedi TabiaModeling and Exploring Co-Variations in the Geometry and Configuration of Man-made 3D Shape FamiliesMax Budninskiy et al.Spectral Affine-Kernel Embeddings Sebastian Claici et al.Isometry-Aware Preconditioning for Mesh Parameterization2016Behrend Heeren et al.Splines in the Space of ShellsOr Litany et al.Non-Rigid PuzzlesZeyun 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 Title2026Ahmed H. Mahmoud, Serban D. Porumbescu, John D. OwensRXMesh2025Silvia Sellan and Oded Stein, and other contributorsGPyToolbox2024Marco LivesuCinolib2023Bruno LévyGeogram2022Nicholas SharpPolyscope2021Amir VaxmanDirectional2020Wenzel Jakob et al.Instant Meshes2019Rohan Sawhney and Keenan CraneBoundary First Flattening2018Tyson 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 Publication2026Raif M. RustamovLaplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions for Deformation Invariant Shape Representation20072025Sun Jian et al.A concise and provably informative multi‐scale signature based on heat diffusion20092024Olga Sorkine-Hornung et al.Laplacian Surface Editing20042023Max Wardetzky et al.Discrete Laplace operators: No Free Lunch20072022Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Marc AlexaAs-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling20072021Michael 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 Title2021Matteo Bracci, Marco Tarini, Nico Pietroni, Marco Livesu, Paolo Cignoni HexaLab2020Angela Dai, Angel X. Chang, Manolis Savva, Maciej Halber, Thomas Funkhouser, Matthias NießnerScanNet2019Sebastian Koch, Albert Matveev, Zhongshi Jiang, Francis Williams, Alexey Artemov, Evgeny Burnaev, Marc Alexa, Denis Zorin, Daniele PanozzoABC Dataset2018Angel 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

SGP summer school presentation archive geometry processing course webpage, Alla Sheffer