The Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2026 will take place from Tuesday July 1st through Friday, July 3rd, in Bordeaux, France. This 37th event continues the series of highly successful Eurographics Symposia and Workshops on Rendering.
This year, EGSR again features two paper submission tracks: the Research Track and the Industry/Positions Track.
Research Track
All accepted research papers will be presented at EGSR 2026 and archived in the Eurographics digital library, as either conference papers, or journal papers published in an issue of the Computer Graphics Forum (CGF). Similar to the paper classification process employed by SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, there is no limit to the number of accepted research papers that will be given journal paper status. For each submission, the reviewers will independently determine the type of publication based on the magnitude of the contribution, and the thoroughness of the evaluation.
There is also no fixed minimum or maximum paper length. However, length must be proportional to contribution, and submissions over 12 pages in length will be treated as exceptional cases.
We are looking for work that shapes the future of rendering and image synthesis in computer graphics and related fields, such as human perception, mixed and augmented reality, machine learning, and computational photography and imaging.
For each submitted research paper, a minimum of four reviews will be provided to the authors, who will then be able to provide a rebuttal to clarify misunderstandings and answer the reviewers’ questions. The reviewers will then discuss and decide on acceptance to the EGSR 2026 program. In the event of acceptance, the authors will submit a revised version of their manuscript prior to the conference. For each accepted research paper, at least one author must register and present the paper in person.
Important dates (All times are midnight, 23:59 AoE)
- EGSR abstract deadline: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
- EGSR papers deadline: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
- Reviews released to authors: Monday, May 11, 2026
- Rebuttals due: Friday, May 15, 2026
- Accept/reject notification: Monday, May 25, 2026
- Final papers due: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
- CGF decision notification: Sunday, June 14, 2026
- EGSR conference: Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Topics of interest
We invite original contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related, but not limited, to:
- Physically based rendering and global illumination
- Monte Carlo sampling, reconstruction, and integration
- Real-time rendering, including ray tracing, acceleration structures, and GPU algorithms
- Rendering software and hardware systems
- Inverse and differentiable rendering
- Neural rendering, neural or 3D Gaussian representations for rendering
- Image processing and manipulation for rendering and compositing
- Machine learning for rendering, rendering for machine learning
- Generative models of image synthesis
- Material and scattering models
- Acquisition, modeling, and fabrication of geometry, appearance, and illumination
- Color science, spectral modeling, and rendering
- Face and human capture and rendering
- Computational photography, imaging, optics, and displays
- Image-based rendering (IBR), lightfields
- Expressive and non-photorealistic rendering (NPR)
- Vector graphics and other non-pixel-based rendering formats
- Procedural modeling and texturing
- Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, including rendering, input, and output technologies
- Other Monte Carlo algorithms, including simulation and geometry processing
- Human perception for rendering
- Scientific visualization, e.g. large-scale data visualization and volume rendering
- Audio and sound rendering
- Wave rendering and coherent effects
How to Submit Your Work
Instructions for submitting your work will be public soon.
Industry/Position Papers Track
EGSR 2026 includes an Industry/Positions Papers Track that features invited papers from our colleagues in industry that are on topics of interest to the general rendering community. One goal of this track is to provide an accessible venue for getting out ideas that have found practical use in industry and could impact the future of rendering research, but might not meet the standards of scientific evaluation expected in formal research papers. These papers will be curated by the paper co-chairs and will be presented in the conference alongside the research papers. We are looking for papers that present ideas in and applications of rendering (both off-line and real-time), as well as other aspects of image synthesis (e.g., image-based rendering, rendering for AR/VR, machine learning for rendering). Topics for possible Industry/Position papers include, but are not limited to:
- Position papers that provide a different perspective, broader view, or scholarly synthesis of a field of research
- Position papers that pose interesting problems found in industry rendering applications that should be more emphasized in academic research
- Novel rendering ideas that are interesting and already successfully used in practice but might not be developed to the point of a formal research paper
- Extensions or twists on existing rendering algorithms that have been found to produce better results in practice
- A description of a state-of-the-art rendering pipeline or software/hardware system
- A new dataset that would facilitate research in rendering
Papers accepted in this track will be published in the Eurographics Digital Library for archival purposes and presented at EGSR 2026. For each paper, at least one author must register and present the paper in person. Instructions for submitting your work to the Industry Track will be public soon.
Important dates (All times are midnight, 23:59 AoE)
- Industry Track papers deadline: Friday, May 22, 2026
- Author notification: Friday, June 5, 2026
- Final papers due: Friday, June 19, 2026
Submission Policy
Double Submissions
By submitting a manuscript to EGSR, authors acknowledge that the technical contributions they claim have not been previously published or accepted for publication in another peer-reviewed venue, and no manuscript substantially similar in content is currently under review or will be submitted to any peer-reviewed venue during the EGSR review period. Violations constitute grounds for immediate rejection. If you wish to submit revised or extended versions of conference or workshop papers, please directly submit to CGF instead of EGSR.
Plagiarism
A submission to EGSR should describe an original work of the authors. Authors must not use ideas or content originating from others without properly crediting their original sources. Such sources are not limited to peer-reviewed publications, but also include patents, textbooks, technical reports, theses, unpublished work posted on arXiv, as well as other posts on the World Wide Web. Failure to comply with this requirement will be considered plagiarism and result in rejection. See “Anonymity” below for instructions about unpublished work by the same authors.
Prior Art
Authors are expected to cite, discuss differences and novelty, and compare results, if applicable, with respect to relevant existing publications, provided they have been published in a peer-reviewed venue before the EGSR submission deadline. This policy also applies to patents, which also undergo a professional reviewing process. Authors are not required to discuss and compare their work with recent prepublications (arXiv, technical reports, theses, etc.), although they must properly cite those that inspired them (see “Plagiarism” above). We nevertheless encourage authors to mention all related works they are aware of, as good academic practice dictates. As new works are posted on arXiv on a daily basis, it is increasingly likely that reviewers might point out similarities between the submitted work and online reports that have been missed by the authors. In such cases, authors of conditionally accepted papers should be prepared to cite these prepublications in their final revision as concurrent work, without the burden of having to detail how their work compares to or differs from these prepublications.
Anonymity
The EGSR review process is fully double-blind: The reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. This anonymity is an integral part of an objective and fair review process, so authors are required to take all reasonable measures to preserve their anonymity. Below, we discuss specific situations in which authors may have to mention their own publications and how to handle such disclosures in the context of an EGSR submission.
Before Submission
When citing already published work by the same (or an overlapping) group of authors, the citation should refer to that work in the third person, just as it would refer to any other previously published work by a completely different set of authors. For other relevant work from the same author(s) as the submission, we distinguish between two cases: (A) works that have been submitted for publication elsewhere, but have some relevance to and/or overlap with the submission; and (B) largely overlapping prepublications that are available online at the time of submission (arXiv, technical report, thesis, etc.). For case (A), the other work should be cited anonymously, as well as provided as anonymous supplementary material. The authors must convince the reviewers that the current submission is sufficiently different from the other work, which can be done using an anonymous cover letter that outlines the differences. For case (B), the prepublications should NOT be cited in the submission, as doing so would identify the authors. Instead, these prepublications must be listed in the submission form, upload field “Preprint.” This field is not visible to reviewers.
After Submission
Blatant violations of anonymity are not acceptable. However, we also recognize that prepublications and talks have become part of the scientific discourse, and EGSR allows these means of communication. Specifically, before the final acceptance decision is made: Authors must not discuss the research described in submitted EGSR papers with the media. Media includes editors/journalists/writers/interviewers of newspapers, radio, television, magazines, as well as public relations and media arms of companies, universities, and other research institutions. After submitting to EGSR, authors may archive the submission without mentioning EGSR as an institutional technical report, on arXiv, or on some other similar service. Authors must not make any posts to social media or elsewhere that can be linked to a specific EGSR submission (e.g., mentioning the title of the submission, or details and content, and saying that it is an EGSR submission). Authors may talk about their work in a presentation without saying it is submitted to EGSR. Authors may mention their submission(s) as under review at EGSR as part of the written materials submitted for job and funding applications. Authors may talk about the research involved in their submission in talks given for these purposes as well, without mentioning EGSR.
Personal and human subjects data
If a paper makes use of data from human subjects, the collection and use of such data should have been conducted carefully and adhere to ethical standards for responsible research practice, as well as data protection regulations. In many countries and institutions, the collection and use of personally identifiable data or data from human subjects is subject to approval from an Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board (IRB, or equivalent). If the use of such data was approved by an IRB, stating so is sufficient. If the use of such data has not (yet) been approved by an IRB, authors should provide information on any pending approval process, how the data was obtained, as well as discuss if and how consent was obtained (or why it, perhaps, could not be obtained). This discussion can be included either in the main paper or in the supplementary material. If the authors use an existing, published dataset, we encourage (but do not require) them to check how data was collected and whether consent was obtained. *These guidelines have been adapted from the ICCV 2025 Authors Guidelines.
Generative AI Policy
Authors can utilize generative AI tools to assist with grammar corrections and other similar tasks while preparing their submissions. However, authors are fully responsible for the contents of their submission, including any misrepresentation, factual inaccuracy, or plagiarism in it. Papers containing citations of non-existent material or obvious factual inaccuracies will be rejected when found, and may be rejected without review. *These guidelines have been adapted from the EG 2026 Authors Guidelines.
Program chairs
- Ioannis Gkioulekas, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburg, US)
- Adrián Jarabo, Meta (Zaragoza, Spain)
Conference chair
- Romain Pacanowski, Inria (Bordeaux, France)