A message from the program chairs

• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1087-8270; 2375-5326
• DOI: 10.1109/VR.2012.6180858

This year's program is made up of single track presentations. There are 15 full paper presentations, 13 short paper presentations, two panels, and one invited presentation for a paper appearing in a regular issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. In addition, the conference will feature a technical tour of University of California, Irvine, a poster session with 55 posters, 7 live demos, and an exhibition showcasing the latest technologies and products. The two days preceding the main conference are occupied with one full-day and four half-day workshops, two full-day and two half-day tutorials, and the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI). For the main program we received 137 submissions, similar to last year. Since 69.3% were full papers, there were proportionately more long papers than in previous years. The reason for this highest proportion of full submissions might be due to appeal of full papers appearing as a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Of the 95 full-paper submissions, 15 were accepted, an acceptance rate of 15.8%. Of the 42 short submissions, 4 were accepted, an acceptance rate of 9.5%. A further 9 full paper submissions (9.5%) were accepted in short format. All accepted full papers are published in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics journal. Both full and short papers have undergone a two-round review process. In the first round review, at least four expert reviewers reviewed the work. The paper chairs selected the primary and secondary reviewers from the international program committee, and the primary reviewer then recruited at least two external experts. After completion of all reviews, the primary reviewer led an online discussion, which resulted in an initial recommendation for conditional acceptance or rejection and a set of modifications that were deemed necessary for a conditionally accepted paper to be accepted. Based on this recommendation, the program committee, at the two-day online web-based meeting, selected an initial set of papers for conditional acceptance, which was further approved by the TVCG board. The authors of these papers were given the opportunity to refine and resubmit their work. In the second round review, IPC members checked whether the changes made were sufficient to warrant final acceptance. Based on their input, paper chairs made the final decisions for papers acceptance.