Shape Modeling International (SMI) is a leading forum for research on the mathematical foundations, computational methods, and applications of digital shape representation, processing, and design. This page serves as the institutional home of SMI, documenting its organization, history, awards, governance, and conference record.
Shape Modeling International (SMI), also known as the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, is an international forum for the dissemination of new mathematical theories and computational techniques for modeling, simulating, and processing digital representations of shapes and their properties. It brings together researchers, developers, students, and practitioners from a wide range of fields. Initiated in 1997 by Tosiyasu L. Kunii and Bianca Falcidieno, the symposium became an annual event in 2001 after merging with the Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Workshop on Implicit Surfaces. The venue rotates among Asia, Europe, and America. Proceedings up to 2010 are available through DBLP, computer.org, and IEEE Xplore. Since 2009, SMI proceedings have been published by Elsevier as a special issue of the Computers & Graphics journal. The detailed by-laws of the Shape Modeling International organization are available here. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Computers & Graphics and SMI is available here.
We invite everyone interested in shape modeling to join the SMI community by subscribing to the SMI Community Google Group. The group serves as a platform for discussion, announcements, and collaboration.
Upcoming SMI Conference
SMI 2027
Location: Singapore
Dates: 2027-06-21 to 2027-06-25
SMI 2027 will be held as part of the 4th International Geometry Summit (IGS 2027), co-located with SGP, SPM, GMP, and SIAM GD.
Year-Round Shape Modeling Track
Since late 2025, Computers & Graphics and SMI have offered a year-round Shape Modeling track. Papers can be submitted at any time through the Computers & Graphics submission system by selecting the "Shape Modeling" article type. Accepted papers are presented at the next SMI or the following year's SMI, depending on the acceptance date.
Community Channel
The SMI Community Google Group is used for announcements, discussion, and community exchange.
SMI Organization
SMI Steering Committee
Current Committee
Ergun Akleman (Chair),
Silvia Biasotti,
Stefanie Hahmann
Joaquim A Jorge,
Yang Liu,
Jorg Peters
Hong Qin,
Ayellet Tal,
Zichun Zhong
Previous Committee
Bianca Falcidieno, Loic Barthe, Mohamed Daoudi
Giuseppe Patanè, Jarek Rossignac, Alexander
Pasko
Remco Veltkamp, Vadim Shapiro, Michela Spagnuolo
Tosiyasu Kunii, Brian Wyvill
Award Committee
Current Committee
Bianca Falcidieno (Chair),
Ergun Akleman, Stefanie Hahmann
Jorg
Peters
Previous Committee
SMI Awards
SMI recognizes research excellence, emerging researchers, and service to the community through a set of standing awards. Nominations are accepted on a rolling basis unless otherwise announced.
Tosiyasu L. Kunii Distinguished Researcher Award
In honor of Tosiyasu Kunii (1938-2020), the Distinguished Researcher Award was established in 2021 to recognize shape modeling researchers with distinguished careers.
Recipients
2026: Malcolm A. Sabin &
Jarek Rossignac
2025: Brian Wyvill & Hong Qin
[Interview]
2024: Gershon Elber
&
Stefanie Hahmann [Interview]
2023: Wenping Wang
2022: Marie-Paule
Cani [Interview]
2021: Bianca Falcidieno [Interview]
Young Investigator Award
The Young Investigator Award was established in 2021 to recognize young researchers who made significant contributions to shape modeling. Candidates must have received their Ph.D. degrees at most seven years ago.
Recipients
2026: Qiang Zou & Congyi Zhang
2025: Chiara Romanengo &
Guillaume Cordonnier [Interview]
2024: Gianmarco Cherchi &
Amal Dev Parakkat [Interview]
2023: Étienne Corman
2022: Teseo Schneider [Interview]
2021: Mélina Skouras [Interview]
Alexander Pasko Service Award
In honor of Alexander Pasko (1960-2022), the Service Award was established in 2023 to recognize people who made significant contributions to the organization of SMI conferences.
Recipients
2026: Silvia Biasotti
2025: Yang Liu [Interview]
2024: Ergun Akleman [Interview]
2023: Michela Spagnuolo
Award Nomination
Award recipients are selected by the SMI Awards Committee based on nominations from the shape modeling community. Nominations for all awards may be submitted as a formal letter, and self-nominations are also welcome. Each nomination letter should clearly describe the candidate's substantial contributions to the field or to the SMI community, as appropriate for the award. Nominations are accepted throughout the year. Awards are presented at the Shape Modeling Conference, and recipients are invited to give a keynote speech.
Please send nominations to the SMI Awards Committee by email using the following link: SMI Award Nomination.
Best Paper Awards
The Best Paper Awards recognize outstanding papers presented at SMI conferences. The recipients are selected by the Best Paper Awards Committee based on both peer reviews and conference presentations. The Replicability Stamp is a mandatory prerequisite for nomination.
2026
GravoTet: A fast multigrid hierarchy construction
for tetrahedral meshes
Marcel Padilla, Ruben Wiersma, Tim Huisman, Jackson Compolattaro, Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Klaus
Hildebrandt
Approximating Doo-Sabin limit surfaces using
geometrically continuous Bézier patches [Honorable
Mention]
Dimitrios Tolis, Michelangelo Marsala, Angelos Mantzaflaris and Bernard Mourrain
Data-driven inverse kinematics using Laban
movement
analysis
[Honorable
Mention]
Mehmet Akif Şahin, Sinan Sonlu and Uğur Güdükbay
2025
Conformable mechanisms on freeform
surfaces
Siqi Li, Haoyu Tang, Peng Song, Bailin Deng and Jianmin Zheng
SDLKF: Signed distance linear kernel function for
surface reconstruction [Honorable
Mention]
Hao-Xiang Chen, Xiao-Lei Li, Tai-Jiang Mu, Qunce Xu and Shi-Min Hu
Analyzing singular patterns in vector fields via
persistent path homology [Honorable
Mention]
Yu Chen and Hongwei Lin
2024
Computational design of custom-fit PAP
masks
Yukun Lu, Yuhang Wang, Peng Song, Hang Siang Wong, Yingjuan Mok and Ligang Liu
Neural inpainting of folded fabrics with
interactive
editing [Honorable
Mention]
Guillaume Gisbert, Raphaëlle Chaine and David Coeurjolly
2023
Neural skeleton: Implicit neural representation
away
from the surface
Mattéo Clémot and Julie Digne
Discrete orthogonal structures [Honorable
Mention]
Felix Dellinger, Xinye Li and Hui Wang
Inpainting holes in folded fabric meshes
[Honorable Mention]
Guillaume Gisbert, Raphaëlle Chaine and David Coeurjolly
2022
Query-replace operations
for topologically controlled 3D mesh editing
Guillaume Damiand, Vincent Nivoliers
2021
An improved refinement rule for multi-sided
faces
Kestutis Karciauskas, Jörg Peters
Synthesis of 3D jigsaw puzzles over freeform
2-manifolds [Honorable Mention]
Gershon Elber, Myung-Soo Kim
A multigrid approach for harmonic measured
foliations [Honorable Mention]
Shaodong Wang, Shuai Ma, Hui Zhao, Wencheng Wang
2020
Vectorization of persistence barcode with
applications
in pattern classification of porous structures
Zhetong Dong, Chuanfeng Hu, Chi Zhou, Hongwei Lin
Conjugate shape simplification via precise
algebraic
planar sweeps toward gear design [Honorable Mention]
Jinesh Machchhar, Gershon Elber, Henry Segerman
2019
A kernel for multi-parameter persistent
homology
Rene Corbet, Ulderico Fugacci, Michael Kerber, Claudia Landi, Bei Wang
Generalized volumetric foliation from inverted
viscous
flow
David Cohen, Mirela Ben-Chen
Partial correspondence of 3D shapes using
properties
of
the nearest-neighbour field
Nadav Yehonatan Arbel, Ayellet Tal, Lihi Zelnik-Manor
2018
Multi-sided Bézier surfaces over concave
polygonal
domains
Péter Salvi, Tamás Várady
A Delaunay triangulation based approach for
cleaning
rough sketches [Honorable Mention]
Amal DevParakkat, Uday Bondi Pundarikaksha, Ramanathan Muthuganapathy
2017
Shape from sensors: Curve networks on surfaces
from
3D
orientations
Tibor Stanko, Stefanie Hahmann, Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Nathalie Saguin-Sprynski
Unsharp masking geometry improves 3D
prints
Philipp Herholz, Sebastian Koch, Tamy Boubekeur, Marc Alexa
2016
Optimized subspaces for deformation-based
modeling
and
shape interpolation
Philipp von Radziewsky, Elmar Eisemann, Hans-Peter Seidel, Klaus Hildebrandt
Multi-material adaptive volume remesher
Noura Faraj, Jean-Marc Thiery, Tamy Boubekeur
2015
Surface-reconstructing growing neural gas: A
method
for online construction of textured triangle meshes
Tom Vierjahn, Klaus Hinrichs
3D-look shading from contours and hatching
strokes [Honorable Mention]
Bui Minh Tuan, Junho Kim, Yunjin Lee
Topologically-consistent simplification of
discrete
Morse complexes [Honorable Mention]
Federico Iuricich, Ulderico Fugacci, Leila De Floriani
2014
Combined shape and topology optimization of 3D
structures
Asger Nyman Christiansen, J. Andreas Bærentzen, Morten Nobel-Jørgensen, Niels Aage, Ole Sigmund
Efficient maximal Poisson-disk sampling and
remeshing
on surfaces [Honorable Mention]
Jianwei Guo, Dong-Ming Yan, Xiaohong Jia, Xiaopeng Zhang
Layered Reeb graphs for three-dimensional
manifolds
in
boundary representation [Honorable Mention]
Birgit Strodthoff, Bert Jüttler
2013
Efficient computation of constrained
parameterizations
on parallel platforms
Theodoros Athanasiadisa, Georgios Ziouposb, Ioannis Fudos
2004-2012
Information for 2004-2012 is currently unavailable. If you have this information or if you are an
awardee, please inform
us.
SMI Conferences
Forewords from previous conferences are available here.
SMI 2026 - Istanbul, Turkey [proceedings]
SMI 2024 - Detroit, USA [proceedings]
SMI 2022 - Singapore, (online) [proceedings A,B,C]
SMI 2020 - Strasbourg, France (online) [proceedings]
SMI 2018 - Lisbon, Portugal [proceedings]
SMI 2016 - Berlin, Germany [proceedings]
SMI 2014 - Hong Kong, China [proceedings]
SMI 2012 - College Station, USA [proceedings]
SMI 2010 - Aix-En Provence, France [proceedings]
SMI 2008 - Stony Brook, USA [proceedings]
SMI 2006 - Matsushima, Japan [proceedings]
SMI 2004 - Genova, Italy [proceedings]
SMI 2002 - Banff, Alberta, Canada [proceedings]
SMI 1999 - Aizuwakamatsu, Japan [proceedings]
SMI 2025 - Hangzhou, China [proceedings A,B,C]
SMI 2023 - Genova, Italy [proceedings]
SMI 2021 - Texas, USA (online) [proceedings]
SMI 2019 - Vancouver, Canada [proceedings]
SMI 2017 - Berkeley, USA [proceedings]
SMI 2015 - Lille, France [proceedings]
SMI 2013 - Bournemouth, UK [proceedings]
SMI 2011 - Herzliya, Israel [proceedings]
SMI 2009 - Beijing, China [proceedings]
SMI 2007 - Lyon, France [proceedings]
SMI 2005 - Cambridge, USA [proceedings]
SMI 2003 - Seoul, Korea [proceedings]
SMI 2001 - Genova, Italy [proceedings]
SMI 1997 - Aizuwakamatsu, Japan [proceedings]
Institutional Links
These links are primarily intended for SMI organizers and provide quick access to key institutional resources.
Governance
Current Information
Current conference website
Computers & Graphics
SMI
Community Google Group