Welcome to CESCG 2014!

This website contains the proceedings of the 18th Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics, short CESCG, which continues a history of very successful seminars. Again this year, CESCG proceedings have an ISBN (978-3-9502533-6-8) and will therefore remain retrievable as long as there are libraries!

The long history of CESCG has started in 1997 in a medium-sized lecture room in Bratislava, bringing together students from Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Graz, Prague, and Vienna. The idea found wide appraisal and the seminar moved to the beautiful castle of Budmerice, where it was held for 8 consecutive years, constantly growing in size and attraction. It was just in the 10th anniversary year 2006 that CESCG had to take a detour to move to Častá-Papiernička Centre, while it was back in Budmerice castle since 2007. Unfortunately, since 2011 the Budmerice castle is not available for scientific activities. After spending the one year in Viničné, in 2012 we moved to the beautiful castle in Smolenice.

Who are the CESCG heroes who made this year's seminar happen? In no particular order -- because many people were involved equally -- we would like to thank the organizers from Vienna: Michael Wimmer, Anita Mayerhofer, Werner Purgathofer, Katharina Krösl and Bernhard Steiner. Special thanks goes to Martin Ilčík for taking care of the complete reviewing process and scientific program preparation. We are very thankful to the CESCG organizers from Bratislava, mainly Andrej Ferko, always an inspiration to CESCG; and Ela Šikudová, Janka Běhal Dadová, David Běhal and Ivka Varhaníková for the excellent preparations and on-site organization.

The main idea of CESCG is to bring students of computer graphics together across boundaries of universities and countries. Therefore we are proud to state that we have achieved again a very high number of 10 participating institutions and a very tight time schedule of 20 valuable student works and two invited talks. We welcome groups from Bratislava (UK and STU), Slovakia; Brno (VUT and MU) and Prague (CTU), Czech Republic; Budapest, Hungary; Graz and Vienna (TU), Austria; Szczecin, Poland; and Maribor, Slovenia.

We assembled a large International Program Committee of 16 members, allowing us to have each paper reviewed by three IPC members during the informal reviewing process. We would like to thank the members of the IPC for their contribution to the reviewing process. The IPC of CESCG 2014 consists of:

The first invited talk "The Role of Perception in Graphics" will be held by Rafał Mantiuk from Research Institute of Visual Computing of the School of Computer Science of Bangor University, United Kingdom. The second invited talk by Roberto Scopigno from Visual Computing Lab of the Institute of Information Science and Technology of National Research Council of Italy, Italy, will be about "Visual Media for Cultural Heritage: An Opportunity for Assessing, Finding Limitations and Enhancing Technologies".

The seminar is is co-organized with the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG), which takes place right after the seminar.

The organization of a seminar where there are only low expenses for the students requires funding. We are very thankful to the sponsors of CESCG 2014:

• Disney Research, Innovations in Entertainment Technologies
• NVidia, The Way It's Meant to Be Played
• VRVis, Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization
• OCG, The Austrian Computer Association
• SISp, Slovak Society for Computer Science
• Eurographics, The European Association for Computer Graphics

Please note that the electronic version of these proceedings is also available at http://www.cescg.org/CESCG-2014/.

Please refer to the final program.