[Ieee_vis] EuroVis 2026 - Call for State of the Art Reports (STARs)

[Marco Angelini]

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Dear colleagues,


apologies for cross-posting.


We invite submissions of high-quality State of the Art Reports (STAR) to 
be presented at the EuroVis 2026 conference (https://eurovis.org/) and 
published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal. The EuroVis 2026 
conference will be held in Nottingham, United Kingdom on June 8-12, 
2026; please see https://eurovis.org.uk/state-of-the-art-reports-stars/ 
<https://eurovis.org.uk/state-of-the-art-reports-stars/>for additional 
details.


The STAR submissions go through a two-stage process, and the deadline 
for the first stage, i.e., submissions of STAR sketches of two pages 
(+references, +bibliography), is on October 13, 2025.

We look forward to receiving your submissions, details below.


For any questions, please contact us at stars at eurovis.org 
<mailto:stars at eurovis.org>


Best wishes,

Alfie, Marco, and Bernhard


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  EuroVis 2026 - Call for State of the Art Reports (STARs)

State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and 
comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization 
research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that 
have not yet been covered in any recent STAR or other survey [1].

We welcome submissions that introduce emerging areas of research that 
are of relevance and interest to visualization research, as well as 
proposals on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome 
contributions from related disciplines and application areas 
demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of 
visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, visual 
communication, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, immersive 
visualization and virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, 
psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data 
analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, social 
science, sport. All accepted EuroVis STAR reports will be published in 
the Computer Graphics Forum journal 
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678659>.


    Important Dates

Submission of STAR Sketch:October 13, 2025 (two pages, +references, 
+bibliography)

Invitation for full STAR submission:November 5, 2025

Submission of full STAR: January 12, 2026

Full STAR notification:March 5, 2026

Second round submission:March 25, 2026

Second review notification:April 8, 2026

Camera-ready deadline:April 22, 2026

All deadlines are at23:59 AoEon the date indicated.


    Instructions

As part of the acceptance process for Computer Graphics Forum, STARs 
will undergo a multi-stage review processwhere authors first submit a 
2-page STAR Sketch which they receive preliminary feedback on, followed 
by a full STAR submission. Submission of the STAR Sketch and full report 
is mandatory and will be conducted using the Precision Conference System 
(PCS <https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>). For detailed 
paper preparation and submission instructions please refer to the 
submission guidelinesbelow.

Upon acceptance, we aim to schedule each STAR as an approximately 45 
minutes presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 
2026 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will be given a 
longer time slot than that of a full paper.


      STAR Sketch Submission

A STAR Sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, 
discussing its relevance to the visualization community, providing the 
planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key 
references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of a STAR 
Sketch main text is limited to two pages. To demonstrate the relevant 
expertise needed to produce the proposed STAR, brief biographies of all 
authors are required as supplementary material. References and short 
biographies are considered supplementary pages and are not counted 
within the two-page limit. Authors receive feedback on their sketches to 
help improve the submission and to inform their decisions whether to 
progress to the Full STAR submission stage.


    Full STAR Submission

In the next stage, authors are required to submit a full STAR. There is 
no strict maximum length for full submissions. However, it is unusual 
for STARs to exceed 20 pages (excluding references). Full STAR 
submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review process, 
similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer Graphics Forum, 
where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR.


    STAR Chairs

Alfie Abdul-Rahman,King's College London, United Kingdom

Marco Angelini, University of Rome, Italy

Bernhard Preim, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany

For any questions concerning State-of-the-Art Report submissions, please 
contact the STAR chairs at stars at eurovis.org <mailto:stars at eurovis.org>


    Submission Guidelines

Since all accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum, 
the submission process uses a multiple-stage reviewing process. The 
submission procedure is as follows:

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    Submit a STAR Sketch by October 13th, 2025.The length of a STAR
    Sketch main text is limited to 2 pages.

References and short biographies are considered supplementary pages and 
are not counted within the two-page limit. The format of the sketch 
should follow the format specified in the formatting instructions for 
the STAR below. STAR Sketches will be reviewed by the STAR IPC and 
comments on suitability and relevance will be provided on November 5th, 
2025.

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    According to the feedback given by the IPC members, the authors can
    submit a full STAR by January 12th, 2026.

The requirements for EuroVis 2026 STARs follow the EUROGRAPHICS policy 
on STAR length. We do not impose strict maximum lengths for submitted 
STARs.However, it is unusual for STARs to exceed 20 pages(in CGF latex 
style) including all figures and tables, but excluding references. There 
is no limit to the number of references or the number of pages for 
references. STARs should only be as long as their content justifies. 
Reviewers might rate a submission lower if it is perceived as being 
unnecessarily long. Authors are encouraged to use supplementary 
documents to provide extra content. To submit, please go to “submissions 
in progress” on PCS <https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>.

Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, two-stage review 
process, similar to that of regular papers submitted to Computer 
Graphics Forum, where 3-4 external experts on the respective topic will 
evaluate the STAR.

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    Once your full STAR submission has been accepted or conditionally
    accepted, submit your revised version together with a cover letter
    detailing your changes by March 25th, 2026. To do so, please go to
    “submissions in progress” in PCS
    <https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>. The camera-ready
    version is due on April 22nd, 2026.


      Formatting Instructions

The sketch, as well as the full version submission of the STAR, should 
be submitted as a PDF file using the EuroVis 2026 LaTeX2e Style 
template. The template is available at this link: 
https://eurovis.org.uk/author-guidelines/ 
<https://eurovis.org.uk/author-guidelines/>.On Overleaf, this template 
can be imported easily by selecting “New Project” -> “Upload Project” 
and uploading the zip file. Use EGauthorGuidelines-eurovis26-star.texfor 
your submission.

Please make sure that images embedded in your paper do not contain 
transparent pixels (i.e., an alpha channel of a transparent color), 
because this will lead to problems when the resulting PDF is displayed 
or printed.

Submissions can also include supplementary material such as videos or 
executable programs. The server will accept uploads of at most 200 MB, 
so multiple files of over 200 MB must be submitted separately. Please 
use only the most common video codecs (e.g., MP4 format using the H.264 
codec) to maximize the chances that the reviewers can see it.

STAR Sketches and full STARs are submitted using the Precision 
Conference Submission System (PCS 
<https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>).


        Camera Ready Version

In order to submit the camera-ready version to EuroVis 2026, authors 
should prepare their submissions as a PDF file using the EuroVis 2026 
LaTeX2e Style. Please ensure that the option \SpecialIssuePaper is used.

Authors of accepted papers are also requested to fill in the Exclusive 
License Agreement 
<https://www.eurovis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CGF_eELA_EuroVis2021.pdf>(one 
per paper) and send the signed document to s.behnke at eg.org.

Common mistakes when creating the final version of the paper are:

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    Headlines are too long:besides the running headlines, there has to
    be space for the page numbers. Please shorten the headline to
    accommodate for page numbers.

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    Formatting of figure captions:“Figure <number>:” should be bold, and
    the caption should be set in italics. This is often caused by
    overwriting the default settings when using the figure, caption, or
    subfigure packages. Try using\captionsetup{labelfont=bf,textfont=it})


      Author Guidelines

A state-of-the-art report submitted to EuroVis 2026 must be original, 
unpublished work. Any work that has previously been published or has 
simultaneously been submitted in a substantially similar form to any 
other conference or journal will be rejected.

All STARs accepted to EuroVis 2026 appear in a special issue of Computer 
Graphics Forum, containing the conference proceedings, and will appear 
at the same time in the Eurographics Digital Library.

At EuroVis 2026, the authors of a STAR will be invited to present their 
report at a level that also allows non-experts in the particular domain 
to follow. We plan to schedule each STAR as an approximate 45-minute 
presentation (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2026 
program, but ensuring that STAR presentations will be given a longer 
time slot than those of full papers). At least one author of an accepted 
paper must register and attend the conference to present the work, and 
authors will also be required to submit a 25-second video preview 
summarizing their work and eventually present a brief (less than 
one-minute) summary of their talk at the opening papers preview session 
(also called papers fast-forward).

Contributions must be written and presented in English.


    References

[1] L. McNabb and R.S. Laramee, A Survey of Surveys (SoS)-Mapping the 
Landscape of Survey Papers in Information Visualization, Computer 
Graphics Forum (CGF), Volume 36, Number 3, (June) 2017, pages 589-617.

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