Welcome to the year 2017
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0 Ligang Liu, University of Science and Technology of China , China Amir Vaxman , Utrecht University, The Netherlands Yaron Lipman, Weizmann Institute of Science , Israel Marc Christie , University of Rennes 1, France Mathias Zwicker, University of Bern, Switzerland Bruno Levy, Inria, France Richard Zhang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Adrien Bousseau, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France Nobuyuki Umetani, Autodesk Research, Canada Matthew Kyan, York University, Canada Bochang Moon, Gwangju Institute of Science and Tech- nology , Korea Rémi Cozot, IRISA , University of Rennes 1, France Li Liu, National University of Defense Technology , China Zerrin Yumak , University of Utrecht, Netherlands Youyi Zheng , Shanghai Tech, China Nicolas Bonneel , Universite of Lyon , France
1 MIRALab-CUI, University of Geneva , Battelle, Building A, 7, Route de Drize, 1227 Carouge, Geneva , Switzerland
2 Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia , Plzen , Czech Republic Scott Schaefer , Texas A&M University, USA Eftychios Sifakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Dimitri Van De Ville, University of Geneva/Ecole Poly- technique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Gerald Farin, Arizona State University USA Sung-Eui Yoon, KAIST, Korea Hongbo Fu, City University of Hongkong , China Mark Grundland, Functional Elegance , UK
The Visual Computer Journal is progressing well. We have increased our Impact Factor, and we have received more than 550 submissions during the year. Our acceptance rate is about 23%. Each submitted paper is handled by an Associate Editor (AE) that finds at least 3 reviewers to review the paper. I take the opportunity to thank all of them for their tremendous and invaluable work. Throughout 2016, some Associate Editors have left the editorial board of the Visual Computer. I would like to thank them for their great work and contribution. Here is the list of the Associate Editors who have left the editorial board: A special thought goes to Gerald Farin. Gerald Farin passed away in January 2016. For the Visual Computer and of course for all colleagues and students, it is a real loss. Each time we had a complex paper to review in geometric modeling, I have sent it to him. I was then sure that the paper
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will be deeply reviewed and that I always could rely on his
judgment. He has served the Visual Computer Journal almost
since its beginning. We will miss him a lot, and I will always
be grateful to him for his tremendous contribution.
I would like to welcome the new Associate Editors who
have joined the editorial board during 2016:
The editorial board of the Visual Computer is renewed
regularly, and we are happy that these new AEs in various
fields will handle 3 to 5 papers a year in their field.
This year, we have introduced new topics and new
keywords for the Visual Computer: We expect more papers on
3D fabrication, social robotics, affective computing, and deep
learning algorithms. We invite the research community to
propose special issues in these topics. Our new list of
keywords allows a better dispatch of the papers. The author can
then choose more precise keywords as well as the Associate
Editors. We hope to improve the adequate selection of the
reviewers for each paper.
During 2017, the journal will publish the 35 best papers of
the Computer Graphics Conference (CGI’2017) that will be
held in Japan in June 2017. We will also publish the very few
best papers of other conferences as Cyberworlds, VS-Games,
and 3DOR.
I would like to thank the Editorial Assistants: Aryel Beck
and Jan Perhac, for their collaboration in the management
of the journal over the year 2016 and welcome to our new
Editorial Assistant Juzheng Zhang.
Since last year, the journal is managed with the
collaboration of three Associate-Editors-in-Chief: Daniele Panozzo,
from New York University in USA, Hyewon Seo, from CNRS
France and Hui Huang, from Shenzhen University in China.
I thank them for their tremendous support and collaboration.
With different know-how on board, the papers can be handled
more adequately.
Finally, this journal could not exist without the strong
support of our Editorial Director at Springer, Beverley Ford, as
well as Rachel Roberts, the Editor of the journal. Thank you
also to Beate Uhl, the Production Editor, and also to Sneha
Rahul for their continuous work and assistance. (...truncated)