The symposium topics include:

• Computationally and data intensive rendering

• Scientific visualization (volume rendering, flow, and tensor visualization)

• Information visualization and visual analytics

• In-situ analytics and in-situ visualization

• Simulations for virtual environments (physics-based animation, collision detection, acoustics)

• Mesh processing, level-of-detail, and geometric methods

• Visual computing (image- and video-based rendering, image processing and exploitation, segmentation)

• Scheduling, memory management and data coherence

• Distributed, parallel or multi-threaded approaches

• MapReduce-based and database-related methods, algorithms or approaches, query based visualization

• Advanced hardware for data handling or visualization

• Large and high resolution displays, virtual environments

• Scientific, engineering, and industrial applications