What Computer Graphics Society does

The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) is an international, professional non-profit association registered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1992 by Prof. Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Prof. Rae Earnshaw, Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, and Prof. Daniel Thalmann. Its stated mission is to promote advances in computer graphics by facilitating the exchange of ideas among researchers and finding innovative solutions in the field. The society is run by volunteers under the governance of an International Steering Committee and serves academic researchers worldwide working in computer graphics, vision, imaging, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction.

CGS's core offerings are its conferences and academic journals. The society has founded four conferences — Computer Graphics International (CGI, dating to 1983), Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA, founded 1988), Pacific Graphics (PG), and MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) — and currently organizes CGI and CASA on an annual rotating international basis. It supports two journals: The Visual Computer (published by Springer Verlag, edited by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann) and Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (published by Wiley, co-edited by Daniel Thalmann and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann), covering geometric modeling, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality, rendering, and animation research.

As a non-profit scholarly society, CGS does not generate disclosed revenue and operates without publicly disclosed pricing for memberships or registration. Its go-to-market motion is direct to the global academic research community via its website (cgs-network.org) and through partnerships with host universities and major academic publishers.

Name

Computer Graphics Society

Legal name

Computer Graphics Society

Website

https://cgs-network.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) is a Geneva-based international non-profit academic society that promotes computer graphics research by organizing annual international conferences (CGI and CASA) and supporting two academic journals published by Springer and Wiley, serving researchers worldwide in graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality.

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Academic Professional Association Services

NAICS

Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Motion Picture and Video Production (512110)

SIC

Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

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Keywords

• Computer graphics conferences
• Academic society publications
• Virtual reality research
• Scientific visualization conferences
• Computer animation conferences

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Offering type

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Core offering

CGS is an international non-profit professional association that promotes advances in computer graphics by organizing international academic conferences and supporting peer-reviewed journals. It runs two annual conferences—Computer Graphics International (CGI) and Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA)—and two journals—The Visual Computer and Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds—serving researchers in computer graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality worldwide.

Product overview

The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) is an international professional non-profit organization that promotes advances in computer graphics through conferences and academic journals. The society operates as a conference-organizing body with four founding conferences: Computer Graphics International (CGI), Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Pacific Graphics (PG), and MultiMedia Modeling (MMM). Currently, two major annual conferences are organized - CGI and CASA. CGS also supports two academic journals: The Visual Computer (published by Springer Verlag) and Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (published by Wiley), which serve as official publications for disseminating research in graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality.

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Products and services

• Computer Graphics International (CGI) Conference Annual international conference covering computer graphics, human-computer interaction, rendering techniques, geometric computing, virtual and augmented reality, computer vision, scientific visualization, and machine learning for graphics. Organized by CGS and hosted in rotating international locations (e.g., Geneva 2024, Shanghai 2023).
• Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) Conference Annual international conference focused on computer animation and social agents, considered the oldest international conference in this field. Held every year in a different country (e.g., Wuhan 2024, Limassol 2023).
• The Visual Computer (Journal) Official journal of the Computer Graphics Society, published by Springer Verlag. Editor-in-Chief: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. Dedicated to reporting on state-of-the-art research in graphics, vision, imaging, and virtual reality, including geometric modeling, computer vision, visualization, computer animation, dynamic modeling, motion capture and synthesis, virtual reality, rendering models, texturing, image-based rendering, and non-photorealistic rendering.
• Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (Journal) Peer-reviewed journal co-edited by Daniel Thalmann and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, published by Wiley. Covers developments in virtual worlds, real-time computer animation and simulation, games, and virtual reality devices and interaction.

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Direct peers

• IS&T (Society for Imaging Science and Technology): An international scientific society for imaging science, organizing conferences and publishing journals. Comparable to CGS as a non-profit scientific society covering graphics and imaging research topics with overlapping scope on rendering and imaging.
• Eurographics: The European Association for Computer Graphics, organizing Eurographics conferences and publishing Computer Graphics Forum (Wiley). Directly comparable to CGS as a regional/international academic CG society with closely overlapping conference and journal activities.
• ACM SIGGRAPH: The largest and most prestigious international society for computer graphics and interactive techniques, organizing the flagship SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia conferences. Most directly comparable to CGS as an academic society hosting CG research conferences and serving the same researcher community worldwide.
• The Eurographics Association: Closely comparable European academic society for computer graphics, organizing Eurographics conferences and workshops. Overlaps with CGS in researcher community and journal publishing activity.

Broad incumbents

• IEEE Computer Society: A much larger umbrella organization covering all of computer science, including technical committees on CG and visualization. Comparable to CGS as a publisher of journals and organizer of conferences, but vastly broader in scope and resources.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): The world's largest computing society, with multiple special interest groups covering CG and visualization. Comparable to CGS as a publisher of journals and proceedings for the same research community.
• IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): Organizes IEEE VIS and related visualization conferences. Comparable to CGS as a community organizer for CG/visualization research, with significantly larger attendance and conference portfolio.

Regional players

• Brazilian Computer Graphics Society (SIBGRAPI): A regional CG academic society and conference (SIBGRAPI) organized primarily in Brazil. Comparable to CGS as a national/regional academic society hosting CG research conferences, but limited geographically.
• The Visualization Society of Japan / NICOGRAPH: Japan-based CG and visualization academic society, organizing NICOGRAPH and related conferences. Comparable to CGS as a national academic society covering CG research, with historical ties to CGS co-founder Prof. Kunii.

Others

• Computer Graphics World (magazine): An industry trade publication covering computer graphics applications and technology. Comparable to CGS only in subject-matter coverage; not a peer in academic society or non-profit publishing model.

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