19th Eurographics Workshop on
Graphics and Cultural Heritage

About GCH

The EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH) aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to have a better understanding of the critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broader audience. The objective of the workshop is to present and showcase new developments within the overall process chain, from data acquisition, analysis and synthesis, 3D documentation, and data management, to new forms of interactive presentations and 3D printing solutions. Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, classification and interpretation of cultural artefacts are particularly relevant to the event.

Key Dates

The 19th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2021) will engage practitioners and researchers across the world working at the interface of novel 3D digital technologies and cultural heritage. This year, circumstances depending, EG GCH will be run in a hybrid format, organised by the University of Bournemouth, UK. This will allow those who are able to attend the conference in person to do so, while those that can’t, especially if the pandemic is still raging at the time of the conference, will also not miss out on this exciting event.

GCH 2021 welcomes presentations of new research, projects and applications that demonstrate how computer graphics and other digital technologies are impacting cultural heritage research, preservation and dissemination and promoting sustainable cultural tourism. Specific sessions will be organised for active networking to seek new challenges and projects involving different stakeholders of the Heritage ecosystem. Hence, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome to the event.

For the research community, GCH 2021 will provide, as always, an excellent scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and developments as well as to identify future research and application opportunities. For practitioners, GCH 2021 will provide a unique opportunity to feed into technical developments as well as to identify new techniques and ideas which can be transferred into practice.

The event seeks different types of contributions including:

1. Research papers: original and innovative research (maximum 10 pages)
2. Short papers: update of ongoing research activities or projects (maximum 4 pages)
3. Posters: overview of activities or national/international interdisciplinary projects (500 words abstract)
4. Panel sessions for multidisciplinary/industry-oriented projects
5. Special sessions on Interactive Digital Narratives

Topics
Topics Contributions are solicited (but not limited to) in the following topics:

• Digitisation of Cultural Heritage resources, such as 3D scanning, motion capture, multispectral imaging, X-ray, terahertz imaging
• Visual data analysis, processing and fusion
• Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
• Visualisation and virtual museums
• Multi-modal and interactive environments
• Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
• Digital fabrication, including subtractive and additive methods such as 3D printing
• Technologies for providing sustainable tourism solutions
• Interactive Digital Narratives - a new special session for GCH 2021, possible topics include:
• Cultural Heritage applications of Interactive Digital Narrative including locative narratives and "Culture Games"
• Storytelling Technology for Cultural Heritage including authoring tools and Procedural Narrative Generation
• Theoretical Frameworks of interactive narrative in the cultural heritage domain and evaluation methodologies

Please read carefully the submission instructions and pay attention to the key dates to make sure you don’t miss out on participating in GCH 2021

Organisation Committee

General Chair

Vedad Hulusic, Bournemouth University

Programme Chair

Alan Chalmers, University of Warwick

Industrial Session Chair

Christos Gatzidis, Bournemouth University

Local Organising Committee

Charlie Hargood, Bournemouth University
Michael Smith, Bournemouth University

Programme Committee

• Eike Anderson, Bournemouth University
• Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc
• Benedict Brown, Yale University
• Chiara Eva Catalano, CNR – IMATI
• Alan Chalmers, University of Warwick
• Christos Gatzidis, Bournemouth University
• Enrico Gobbetti, CRS4
• Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin
• Jassim Happa, Royal Holloway
• Sorin Hermon, The Cyprus Institute
• Charlie Hargood, Bournemouth University
• Vedad Hulusic, Bournemouth University
• Alfonso Ippolito, Università La Sapienza
• Stuart James, CHT – IIT
• Martin Kampel, TU Wien
• José Luis Lerma, Universitat Politècnica de València
• Fotis Liarokapis, Cyprus University of Technology
• Ricardo Marroquim, TU Delft
• Fabio Marton, CRS4
• Asla Medeiros, Fundaçao Getulio Vargas
• Michela Mortara, CNR-IMATI
• Sofia Pescarin, CNR-ISPC
• Patrick Reuter, University Bordeaux, Inria Bordeaux
• Selma Rizvic, University of Sarajevo
• Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, University of Brighton
• Holly Rushmeier, Yale University
• Pedro Santos, Fraunhofer IGD
• Tobias Schreck, TU Graz
• Roberto Scopigno, CNR-ISTI
• Michael Weinmann, University of Bonn
• Sebastian Zambanini, Computer Vision Lab, TU Wien