Symposium on Geometry Processing


Symposium on Geometry Processing is an annual symposium hosted by the European Association For Computer Graphics. 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.

Best Paper Awards

Each year up to three papers are recognized with a Best Paper Award.
YearAuthorTitle
2025Yousuf Soliman and Nicholas SharpThe Affine Heat Method
2025Kenji Tojo and Nobuyuki UmetaniGreenCloud: Volumetric Gradient Filtering via Regularized Green's Functions
2025Xavier Chermain et al.Atomizer: Beyond Non-Planar Slicing for Fused Filament Fabrication
2024Guillaume Coiffier and Louis Bethune1-Lipschitz Neural Distance Fields
2024Leonardo Sacht and Alec JacobsonCascading upper bounds for triangle soup Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance
2024Hendrik Brückler et al.Integer-Sheet-Pump Quantization for Hexahedral Meshing
2023Maximilian Kohlbrenner et al.Poisson Manifold Reconstruction - Beyond Co-dimension One
2023Shir Rorberg et al.BPM: Blended Piecewise Möbius Maps
2023Olga Guțan et al.Singularity-Free Frame Fields for Line Drawing Vectorization
2022Patrick Schmidt et al.TinyAD: Automatic Differentiation in Geometry Processing Made Simple
2022Payam Khanteimouri et al.Rational Bézier Guarding
2022Jinlin Yang et al.Precise High-order Meshing of 2D Domains with Rational Bézier Curves
2021Janis Born et al.Surface Map Homology Inference
2021Philipp Trettner et al.Geodesic Distance Computation via Virtual Source Propagation
2021Eamon Whalen et al.SimJEB: Simulated Jet Engine Bracket Dataset
2020Marc Alexa et al.Properties of Laplace Operators for Tetrahedral Meshes
2020Nicholas Sharp and Keenan CraneA Laplacian for Nonmanifold Triangle Meshes
2020Xuan 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
2019Meged 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 processing
2018Jingwei Huang et al.QuadFlow: A Scalable and Robust Method for Quadrangulation
2018Marc Comino et al.Sensor-aware Normal Estimation for Range Scan Point Clouds
2017Hamid Laga and Hedi TabiaModeling and Exploring Co-Variations in the Geometry and Configuration of Man-made 3D Shape Families
2017Max Budninskiy et al.Spectral Affine-Kernel Embeddings
2017Sebastian Claici et al.Isometry-Aware Preconditioning for Mesh Parameterization
2016Behrend Heeren et al.Splines in the Space of Shells
2016Or Litany et al.Non-Rigid Puzzles
2016Zeyun Shi et al.Symmetry and Orbit Detection via Lie-Algebra Voting
2015Itay Kezurer et al.Tight Relaxation of Quadratic Matching
2015Andrea Tagliasacchi et al.Robust Articulated-ICP for Real-Time Hand Tracking
2014Olga Diamanti et al.Designing N-PolyVector Fields with Complex Polynomials
2014Nicolas Mellado et al.Super 4PCS: Fast Global Pointcloud Registration via Smart Indexing
2013Qixing Huang and Leonidas GuibasConsistent Shape Maps via Semidefinite Programming
2013Simon Giraudot et al.Noise-Adaptive Shape Reconstruction from Raw Point Sets
2013Marcel Campen et al.Practical Anisotropic Geodesy
2012Ofir Weber et al.Computing Extremal Quasiconformal Maps
2012Amir VaxmanModeling Polyhedral Meshes with Affine Maps
2012Maik Schulze et al.Stream Surface Parametrization by Flow-Orthogonal Front Lines
2011Klaus Hildebrandt and Konrad PolthierOn approximation of the Laplace–Beltrami operator and the Willmore energy of surfaces
2011Ofir Weber et al.A Complex View of Barycentric Mappings
2011Raif M. RustamovMultiscale Biharmonic Kernels
2010Keenan Crane et al.Trivial Connections on Discrete Surfaces
2010Mirela Ben-Chen et al.On Discrete Killing Vector Fields and Patterns on Surfaces
2010Marcel Campen and Leif KobbeltPolygonal Boundary Evaluation of Minkowski Sums and Swept Volumes
2009Jian Sun et al.A Concise and Provably Informative Multi-scale Signature Based on Heat Diffusion
2009Fatemeh Abbasinejad et al.Rotating Scans for Systematic Error Removal
2009Ming Chuang et al.Estimating the Laplace-Beltrami Operator by Restricting 3D Functions
2008Ramsay Dyer et al.Surface sampling and the intrinsic Voronoi diagram
2008Sebastian Martin et al.Polyhedral Finite Elements Using Harmonic Basis Functions
2008Maks Ovsjanikov et al.Global Intrinsic Symmetries of Shapes
2007Pierre Alliez et al.Voronoi-based Variational Reconstruction for Unoriented Point Sets
2006Mario 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.
YearAuthorTitle
2025Silvia Sellan and Oded Stein, and other contributors
2024Marco Livesu
2023Bruno Lévy
2022Nicholas Sharp
2021Amir Vaxman
2020Wenzel Jakob et al.
2019Rohan Sawhney and Keenan Crane
2018Tyson Brochu and Robert Bridson
2017Nicolas Mellado, Dror Aiger, Niloy J. Mitra
2017Paolo CignoniMeshLab
2016David Coeurjolly, Jacques-Olivier Lachaud et al.
2015Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Olga Diamanti et al.
2014Marco Attene
2013Benoît Jacob and Gael GuennebaudEigen
2012Hang Si
2011Michael Kazhdan and Matthew Bolitho

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.
YearAuthorTitleYear of Publication
2025Sun Jian et al.A concise and provably informative multi‐scale signature based on heat diffusion2009
2024Olga Sorkine-Hornung et al.Laplacian Surface Editing2004
2023Max Wardetzky et al.Discrete Laplace operators: No Free Lunch2007
2022Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Marc AlexaAs-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling2007
2021Michael 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.
YearAuthorTitle
2021Matteo Bracci, Marco Tarini, Nico Pietroni, Marco Livesu, Paolo Cignoni
2020Angela Dai, Angel X. Chang, Manolis Savva, Maciej Halber, Thomas Funkhouser, Matthias Nießner
2019Sebastian Koch, Albert Matveev, Zhongshi Jiang, Francis Williams, Alexey Artemov, Evgeny Burnaev, Marc Alexa, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo
2018Angel 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
2017Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson
2016Federica Bogo, Javier Romero, Matthew Loper, Michael J. Black