Expressive 2025 : Expressive Symposium

Expressive 2025 (http://expressive.graphics/2025/) will take place in London, UK, on May 12th 2025 - co-located with Eurographics 2025.



The Expressive Symposium explores the capacity of computer graphics, animation, and computational media to be used in artistic, aesthetic, and creative ways. The field can be seen as encompassing problems in expressive understanding, expressive communication, and expressive interaction:

· Expressive understanding integrates aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied, and performing arts, investigating theoretical approaches that further our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning.

· Expressive communication focuses on imagery and motion, which is expressive rather than photorealistic, although it may incorporate realistic elements.

· Expressive interaction explores models, algorithms, and technologies for sketch-based and XR interfaces, particularly classifying and recognizing hand-drawn shapes as a way to create or edit digital models, text, mathematics, or 3D shapes.

Paper submissions are invited across the broad range of areas covered by Expressive. We welcome papers in several categories: Research: New algorithms, scientific studies, analysis, or data (i.e., traditional academic papers).

· Research papers must contain novel results that substantially contribute to the field.

· Production: Candid discussion of creating a work (e.g., film, image, game) or developing a tool (e.g., paint or CAD program, software library). We are equally interested in papers on using existing techniques combined in novel ways or their application in a new or unusual context.

· Creative: Descriptions of original creative projects or analyses of expressive techniques used in artworks, performances, or computational design projects. Creative papers should highlight artistic innovation, and we encourage artists submitting to the Expressive 2025 Art Exhibition also to submit a creative paper describing their project.

· Meta: Research statements that do not contain new results, e.g.: grand challenges, position papers, evaluation standards, surveys, and primers on art/aesthetics/psychophysics for a computer science audience. We welcome papers that discuss the challenges of bridging computational expression across disciplines.

Submissions can also overlap more than one of these categories.

At Expressive 2025, the Technical Papers program will have two integrated paper tracks: Journal (Elsevier Computers & Graphics) and Conference.



The papers can be submitted through:

- Elsevier Computers and Graphics submission portal (Link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/cag/default.aspx - Note: please select VSI: Expressive Media 2025). After reviews, the best papers will be retained for publication in the C&G journal, while other high-quality papers that do not reach the C&G bar will be redirected to the conference paper track. The submitted papers must be anonymous and formatted according to the C&G guidelines. There is no strict page limit, but the length should justify the contribution.

- SRM submission system (Link: https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/Expressive_WICED_2025) - The papers submitted through SRM will only be considered for the conference track. The conference proceedings will be made available online via Eurographics Digital Library. They will also be archived in the ACM Digital Library. The submitted papers must be anonymous and formatted in the template given here: https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/Expressive_WICED_2025/GetConferenceFile?fileID=17039



Important dates:

- Paper submission deadline: February 03, 2025

- First review notification (Possible outcomes: Conditionally accepted as a journal paper, Accepted as a conference paper, Reject): March 03, 2025

- Revised paper submission deadline (for Conditionally accepted journal papers): March 17, 2025

- Second review notification: March 31, 2025

- Camera-ready submission April 12, 2025



If you have any questions, please feel welcome to contact the Program chairs, Chiara Eva Catalano and Amal Dev Parakkat, at [email protected]



Submission topics Topics include but are not limited to:

· Analysis and modelling of creative behaviour (AI, A-life)

· Simulation of natural media, traditional styles, and novel artistic styles

· Analysis of image style and saliency (paintings, photographs, others)

· Visualisation techniques, Simplification and Abstraction techniques (e.g., sketching, indication)

· Empirically-based metrics of aesthetic attributes

· Applied visual perception

· Interaction techniques (e.g., sketch, gestural, multi-touch, multi-modal, XR)

· Sketch-parsing, classification, and recognition

· Novel interfaces for art creation, modelling, control, sketch input

· Study designs and methodologies for evaluating and validating sketch-based systems, aesthetic metrics, visual communication systems

· Advanced rendering techniques (e.g., volumetric, GPU, mobile, multi-modal)

· Applications in special domains, e.g., Medicine, Geology, Biology, Sociology, Cultural Heritage

· Sketch-based information retrieval

· Stylistic or aesthetic aspects of character animation and simulated physics

· Accounts of real productions (e.g., animated films, digital art) or applications in software products (e.g., modelling, visualisation, presentation software)

· Visual composition design, rendering, and evaluation of layouts for text and presentation graphics

· Example-based style transfer

· Deep learning and neural networks for expressive rendering (e.g., neural style transfer)

· Temporal and spatial coherence

· Aesthetic evaluation and stylistic rendering of visual effects such as motion blur, depth of field, and lighting

· Non-traditional camera models

· Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

· AI-assisted modelling, animation, and generation of 2D/3D content

· AI-enhanced visual effects and generative art

General Co-chairs

- Marc CHRISTIE - University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

- Fotis LIAROKAPIS - CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus



Program Co-chairs

- Chiara Eva CATALANO - CNR IMATI, Genova, Italy

- Amal Dev PARAKKAT - Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France



Posters & Demo Co-chairs

- Daniel BERIO - GOLDSMITHS, London, UK

- Alexandre BRUCKERT - University of Nantes, France



Publicity Chair

- Mona ZAVICHI, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal