Call for Papers - GCH 2026

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 23rd EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH 2026).

GCH 2026 serves as a premier forum for experts from both the ICT and Cultural Heritage (CH) sectors. The workshop aims to showcase how computer graphics, AI, and digital technologies are revolutionizing the research, preservation, and dissemination of cultural heritage. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions that foster collaboration between researchers, heritage professionals, and creative industries.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC CET.

Objectives & Topics

GCH 2026 seeks to promote the exchange of novel ideas and groundbreaking developments in (but not limited to):

• Digitisation: Digitisation of CH resources (3D scanning, motion capture, multispectral imaging, X-ray, terahertz imaging, etc.)
• Materials: Material acquisition, reconstruction, and preservation
• Visualisation: Visualisation for CH applications
• Rendering: Advanced rendering techniques
• XR: eXtended reality applications in the field of CH
• Collaboration: Collaborative interactive eXtended and hybrid environments
• AI: AI tools for CH applications
• Analysis: Multi-modal analysis of CH data
• Augmentation: Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections
• UX: Emotional and cognitive user experience design
• HCI: Interactive solutions and HCI design for CH applications
• Museums: Virtual museums, digital technologies and applications for museums
• Fabrication: Digital fabrication, including 3D printing for tangible interfaces
• Semantics: Semantic technologies for digital libraries
• Data: FAIR visual CH data, including large-scale datasets

Types of Contributions

• Full Research Papers: Original and innovative research (up to 10 pages).
• Short Papers: Ongoing research, applications, or project reports (up to 4 pages).
• Posters / Demos: Overview of interdisciplinary projects or technical demonstrations (2 pages).
• ECCCH Track: Original innovations related to visual media in the future ECCCH (Short papers up to 4 pages; Full papers up to 10 pages).

Special Track: ECCCH

Visual Computing in the Context of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage

This special track invites research and application papers aligned with the ECCCH. Submissions should explicitly connect to the ECCCH context (e.g., shared datasets, cloud workflows, heritage digital twins, or collaborative scenarios).

Topics of interest include (not exhaustive):

• Integration: Any of the general GCH topics listed above with a clear ECCCH connection.
• Cloud: Cloud-enabled visual pipelines and workflows, in the ECCCH context.
• Semantics: Semantic artifacts for visual heritage in the ECCCH (ontologies, controlled vocabularies, mappings, and annotation models supporting discovery/linking of visual content).
• Quality: Data quality assessment for visual media (such as 2D images and 3D models).
• Sustainability: Sustainable visual computing for the ECCCH (energy-aware pipelines for 2D/3D content, performance optimization, and methods to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of the cloud).

Journal Invitations & Special Issues

Journal Invitations

Works with a high innovation potential will receive a proposal to prepare an extended manuscript of their contribution (or extended version in case of Full Papers) to be submitted to a scientific journal. This year, GCH is establishing dedicated agreements with:

• ACM JOCCH (Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage)
• Elsevier DAACH (Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage)

ACM JOCCH Special Issue on “Visual Heritage”

GCH 2026 will host presentations for the separate track ACM JOCCH Special Issue on “Visual Heritage”.

• Note: The submission deadline for this track (March 2026) is independent of the GCH general call.
• Accepted papers will be presented at the conference, and short versions will be included in the EG proceedings. The full Special Issue will be published by December 2026.

Submission Guidelines

Detailed formatting guidelines and the submission portal link will be available here soon. However, all submissions must follow the Eurographics formatting instructions.

For any questions regarding submissions, please contact the corresponging Program Chairs.