Proceedings of the Symposium on Geometry Processing

Abstract

Geometry Processing is an emerging research field whose goal is to develop the new mathematical, computational, and engineering tools needed for efficient processing of 3D geometric information. This book contains the research papers presented at the Seventh Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing 2009 (SGP), held in Berlin, Germany July 15-17, 2009. SGP is the premier venue for disseminating new research ideas and cutting-edge results in computerized processing of geometric models. The research papers included in this book address diverse topics in Geometry Processing, including: shape analysis and matching, surface remeshing, reconstruction from samples, segmentation, triangulation, and compression. This year we received a total of 75 submissions. Because of the generally high quality of the submissions, the evaluation process has been very selective. After receiving all reviews and going through a short period of intensive discussion amongst the program committee members, we were able to accept 26 Full papers for SGP 2009. This year, the review period was extended to two weeks in order to allow authors the opportunity to carefully address reviewers' concerns. All accepted submissions were reviewed by at least four reviewers, and at least three of them members of the program committee. In addition to the technical paper presentations, the conference also hosted a poster session consisting of 7 posters. The two invited addresses given by Leo Guibas (Stanford) and Gunter M. Ziegler (TU Berlin) were the special highlight of the symposium. Both presentations tied into familiar disciplines of computational geometry, topology, and discrete geometry.