The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

GRAPP 2019

Best Paper Award

Character Motion in Function Space
Innfarn Yoo, Marek Fišer, Kaimo Hu and Bedrich Benes

Best Student Paper Award

A Unified Curvature-driven Approach for Weathering and Hydraulic Erosion Simulation on Triangular Meshes
Věra Skorkovská, Ivana Kolingerová and Petr Vaněček

Best Poster Award

Novel View Synthesis using Feature-preserving Depth Map Resampling
Duo Chen, Jie Feng and Bingfeng Zhou

HUCAPP 2019

Best Paper Award

Specification of a UX Process Reference Model towards the Strategic Planning of UX Activities
Suzanne Kieffer, Luka Rukonic, Vincent Kervyn de Meerendré and Jean Vanderdonckt

Best Poster Award

Empathic Interaction: Design Guidelines to Induce Flow States in Gestural Interfaces
Loup Vuarnesson

IVAPP 2019

Best Paper Award

Visual Analytics of Multidimensional Projections for Constructing Classifier Decision Boundary Maps
Mateus Espadoto, Francisco M. Rodrigues and Alexandru C. Telea

Best Student Paper Award

Grid-based Exploration of OCT Thickness Data of Intraretinal Layers
Martin Röhlig, Jörg Stüwe, Christoph Schmidt, Ruby K. Prakasam, Oliver Stachs and Heidrun Schumann

Best Poster Award

TypeVis: Visualization of Keystrokes and Typing Patterns based on Time Series Analysis
Kinga Enyedi and Roland Kunkli

VISAPP 2019

Best Paper Award

Camera Tampering Detection using Generative Reference Model and Deep Learned Features
Pranav Mantini and Shishir K. Shah

Best Student Paper Award

Semantic Image Inpainting through Improved Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks
Patricia Vitoria, Joan Sintes and Coloma Ballester

Best Poster Award

Object Detection, Classification and Localization by Infrastructural Stereo Cameras
Christian Hofmann, Florian Particke, Markus Hiller and Jörn Thielecke

GRAPP 2018

Best Paper Award

Accelerated Simulation of Brittle Objects for Interactive Applications
Philippe Meseure, Xavier Skapin, Emmanuelle Darles and Guilhem Delaitre

Best Student Paper Award

Transformation of the Beta Distribution for Color Transfer
Hristina Hristova, Olivier Le Meur, Rémi Cozot and Kadi Bouatouch

HUCAPP 2018

Best Paper Award

The Role of Haptics in User Input for Simple 3D Interaction Tasks - An Analysis of Interaction Performance and User Experience
Mirjam Augstein, Thomas Neumayr, Stephan Vrecer, Werner Kurschl and Josef Altmann

Best Student Paper Award

A Multimodal Positive Computing System for Public Speaking - Evaluating User Responses to Avatar and Video Speaker Representations
Fiona Dermody and Alistair Sutherland

IVAPP 2018

Best Paper Award

Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality When Clustering Multivariate Volume Data
Vladimir Molchanov and Lars Linsen

Best Student Paper Award

An Evolutionary Algorithm for an Optimization Model of Edge Bundling
Joelma Ferreira, Hugo Nascimento and Les Foulds

VISAPP 2018

Best Student Paper Award

Towards Image Colorization with Random Forests
Helge Mohn, Mark Gaebelein, Ronny Hänsch and Olaf Hellwich

Image Restoration using Autoencoding Priors
Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli and Matthias Zwicker

GRAPP 2017

Best Paper Award

Transposition Based Blendshape Direct Manipulation
Ozan Cetinaslan, John Lewis and Verónica Orvalho

Best Student Paper Award

Fast Capture of Spectral Image Series
Sebastian Merzbach, Michael Weinmann, Martin Rump and Reinhard Klein

HUCAPP 2017

Best Paper Award

Comparing Usability of User Interfaces for Robotic Telepresence
Federica Bazzano, Fabrizio Lamberti, Andrea Sanna, Gianluca Paravati and Marco Gaspardone

IVAPP 2017

Best Paper Award

Visual-Interactive Similarity Search for Complex Objects by Example of Soccer Player Analysis
Jürgen Bernard, Christian Ritter, David Sessler, Matthias Zeppelzauer, Jörn Kohlhammer and Dieter Fellner

Best Student Paper Award

Interpretation of Dimensionally-reduced Crime Data: A Study with Untrained Domain Experts
Dominik Jäckle, Florian Stoffel, Sebastian Mittelstädt, Daniel A. Keim and Harald Reiterer

VISAPP 2017

Best Paper Award

Pose Interpolation for Rolling Shutter Cameras using Non Uniformly Time-Sampled B-splines
Bertrand Vandeportaele, Philippe-Antoine Gohard, Michel Devy and Benjamin Coudrin

Best Student Paper Award

Restoration of Temporal Image Sequence from a Single Image Captured by a Correlation Image Sensor
Kohei Kawade, Akihiro Wakita, Tastuya Yokota, Hidekata Hontani and Shigeru Ando

GRAPP 2016

Best Paper Award

Generating Straight Outlines of 2D Point Sets and Holes using Dominant Directions or Orthogonal Projections
Melanie Pohl and Dirk Feldmann

Best Student Paper Award

Fast Screen Space Curvature Estimation on GPU
Martin Prantl, Libor Váša and Ivana Kolingerová

IVAPP 2016

Best Paper Award

Improved Identification of Data Correlations through Correlation Coordinate Plots
Hoa Nguyen and Paul Rosen

Best Student Paper Award

VESPa: A Pattern-based Visual Query Language for Event Sequences
Florian Haag, Robert Krüger and Thomas Ertl

VISAPP 2016

Best Paper Award

Direct Stereo Visual Odometry based on Lines
Thomas Holzmann, Friedrich Fraundorfer and Horst Bischof

Best Student Paper Award

Leveraging Gabor Phase for Face Identification in Controlled Scenarios
Yang Zhong and Haibo Li

VISIGRAPP 2016

Best PhD Project Award

Data Scalable Approach for Identifying Correlation in Large and Muti-dimensional Data
Hoa Nguyen and Paul Rosen

GRAPP 2015

Best Paper Award

The Influence of Gravity-adapted Target Resizing on Direct Augmented Reality Pointing under Simulated Hypergravity
Daniela Markov-Vetter, Vanja Zander, Joachim Latsch and Oliver Staadt

Best Student Paper Award

A Particle-based Dissolution Model using Chemical Collision Energy
Min Jiang, Richard Southern and Jian Jun Zhang

IVAPP 2015

Best Paper Award

The Visual Exploration of Aggregate Similarity for Multi-dimensional Clustering
James Twellmeyer, Marco Hutter, Michael Behrisch, Jörn Kohlhammer and Tobias Schreck

Best Student Paper Award

Leaf Glyph - Visualizing Multi-dimensional Data with Environmental Cues
Johannes Fuchs, Dominik Jäckle, Niklas Weiler and Tobias Schreck

VISAPP 2015

Best Paper Award

A Comprehensive Approach for Evaluation of Stereo Correspondence Solutions in Augmented Reality
Bahar Pourazar and Oscar Meruvia-Pastor

Best Student Paper Award

A Unified Framework for Coarse-to-Fine Recognition of Traffic Signs using Bayesian Network and Visual Attributes
Hamed Habibi Aghdam, Elnaz Jahani Heravi and Domenec Puig

VISIGRAPP 2015

Best PhD Project Award

Monoscopic Automotive Ego-motion Estimation and Cyclist Tracking
Johannes Gräter and Martin Lauer

GRAPP 2014

Best Paper Award

Shape Transformation of Multidimensional Density Functions using Distribution Interpolation of the Radon Transforms
Márton József Tóth and Balázs Csébfavi

Best Student Paper Award

Floor Plan Generation and Room Labeling of Indoor Environments from Laser Range Data
Eric Turner and Avideh Zakhor

IVAPP 2014

Best Paper Award

Fine-Grained Provenance of Users’ Interpretations in a Collaborative Visualization Architecture
Aqeel Al-Naser, Masroor Rasheed, Duncan Irving and John Brooke

Best Student Paper Award

An Inverse Distance-based Potential Field Function for Overlapping Point Set Visualization
Jevgenijs Vihrovs, Krišjānis Prūsis, Kārlis Freivalds, Pēteris Ručevskis and Valdis Krebs

VISAPP 2014

Best Paper Award

On the Usage of Sensor Pattern Noise for Picture-to-Identity Linking through Social Network Accounts
Riccardo Satta and Pasquale Stirparo

Fast Segmentation for Texture-based Cartography of whole Slide Images
Grégory Apou, Benoît Naegel, Germain Forestier, Friedrich Feuerhake and Cédric Wemmert

Can 3D Shape of the Face Reveal your Age?
Baiqiang Xia, Boulbaba Ben Amor, Mohamed Daoudi and Hassen Drira

Active Contour Segmentation with Affine Coordinate-based Parametrization
Q. Xue, L. Igual, A. Berenguel, M. Guerrieri and L. Garrido

Image-based Modelling of Ocean Surface Circulation from Satellite Acquisitions
Dominique Béréziat and Isabelle Herlin

Best Student Paper Award

A Bayesian Framework for Enhanced Geometric Reconstruction of Complex Objects by Helmholtz Stereopsis
Nadejda Roubtsova and Jean-Yves Guillemaut

GRAPP 2013

Best Paper Award

Rotationally Invariant 3D Shape Contexts using Asymmetry Patterns
Federico M. Sukno, John L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan

Best Student Paper Award

DAAPMed: A Data-aware Anchor Point Selection Tool for Medical Models in VR Environments
Eva Monclús Lahoya, Pere-Pau Vázquez and Isabel Navazo Álvaro

IVAPP 2013

Best Paper Award

MolMap - Visualizing Molecule Libraries as Topographic Maps
Martin Gronemann, Michael Jünger, Nils Kriege and Petra Mutzel

VISAPP 2013

Best Paper Award

Social Cues in Group Formation and Local Interactions for Collective Activity Analysis
Khai N. Tran, Apurva Bedagkar-Gala, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris and Shishir K. Shah

Best Student Paper Award

Automated Classification of Therapeutic Face Exercises using the Kinect
Cornelia Lanz, Birant Sibel Olgay, Joachim Denzler and Horst-Michael Gross

GRAPP 2012

Best Paper Award

AN OCCLUSION-AWARE AR AUTHORING TOOL FOR ASSEMBLY AND REPAIR TASKS
Jesús Gimeno, Pedro Morillo, Juan Manuel Orduña and Marcos Fernández

Best Student Paper Award

VISUAL SIMULATION OF MAGNETIC FLUIDS
Tomokazu Ishikawa, Yonghao Yue, Kei Iwasaki, Yoshinori Dobashi and Tomoyuki Nishita

IVAPP 2012

Best Paper Award

SCAFFOLD HUNTER - Visual Analysis of Chemical Compound Databases
Karsten Klein, Nils Kriege and Petra Mutzel

Best Student Paper Award

COMPARATIVE VISUALIZATION OF GEOSPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA
Stefan Jänicke, Christian Heine, Ralf Stockmann and Gerik Scheuermann

VISAPP 2012

Best Paper Award

ORIENTATION-BASED SEGMENTATION OF TEXTURED IMAGES BY ENERGY MINIMIZATION
Maria Sagrebin-Mitzel and Til Aach

DETECTOR OF FACIAL LANDMARKS LEARNED BY THE STRUCTURED OUTPUT SVM
Michal Uřičař, Vojtěch Franc and Václav Hlaváč

Best Student Paper Award

STATIC POSE ESTIMATION FROM DEPTH IMAGES USING RANDOM REGRESSION FORESTS AND HOUGH VOTING
Brian Holt and Richard Bowden

GRAPP 2011

Best Paper Award

OUTDOOR ILLUMINATION ESTIMATION IN IMAGE SEQUENCES FOR AUGMENTED REALITY
Claus B. Madsen and Brajesh B. Lal

IMAGAPP 2011

Best Paper Award

INTERACTIVE POINT SPREAD FUNCTION SIMULATION WITH DIFFRACTION AND INTERFERENCE EFFECTS
Tom Cuypers, Tom Mertens, Philippe Bekaert, Se Baek Oh and Ramesh Raskar

IVAPP 2011

Best Paper Award

MULTI-LAYER DISTORTED 1D NAVIGATION
Michael Wörner and Thomas Ertl

Best Student Paper Award

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND EVALUATION OF THE ONTOLOGY VISUALIZATION TOOL KNOOCKS - A Case Study
Simone Kriglstein and Günter Wallner

VISAPP 2011

Best Paper Award

THE SPIRAL FACETS - A Unified Framework for the Analysis and Description of 3D Facial Mesh Surfaces
Naoufel Werghi, Harish Bhaskar, Youssef Meguebli and Haykel Boukadida

Best Student Paper Award

FAST LEARNABLE OBJECT TRACKING AND DETECTION IN HIGH-RESOLUTION OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGES
David Hurych, Karel Zimmermann and Tomáš Svoboda

GRAPP 2010

Best Paper Award

PROJECTED GAUSS–SEIDEL SUBSPACE MINIMIZATION METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE RIGID BODY DYNAMICS - Improving Animation Quality using a Projected Gauss–Seidel Subspace Minimization Method

Best Student Paper Award

CHANGE-POINT DETECTION ON THE LIE GROUP SE(3) FOR SEGMENTING GESTURE-DEFINED SPATIAL RIGID MOTION

VISAPP 2010

Best Paper Award

FAST DUAL MINIMIZATION OF WEIGHTED TV + L1-NORM FOR SALT AND PEPPER NOISE REMOVAL

Best Student Paper Award

GRAPH CUTS AND APPROXIMATION OF THE EUCLIDEAN METRIC ON ANISOTROPIC GRIDS

GRAPP 2009

Best Paper Award

AN INVERSE PROBLEM APPROACH TO BRDF MODELING

Best Student Paper Award

FACIAL NORMAL MAP CAPTURE USING FOUR LIGHTS - An Effective and Inexpensive Method of Capturing the Fine Scale Detail of Human Faces using Four Point Lights

VISAPP 2009