Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics


The Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics is a constituency of IEEE Computer Society that oversees various technical activities related to visualization, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and interaction.. VGTC is one of the 26 technical committees/councils of IEEE-CS that covers various specializations of computer science and computer engineering.

Membership

Membership in VGTC is open and free of charge to researchers, practitioners and students. Membership in IEEE or the IEEE Computer Society is not required for membership, and members are eligible to serve in most positions including chairing annual conferences or serving on the executive committee. Members are also able to nominate others for technical awards.

Visualization Pioneers Group

The Visualization Pioneers Group is open to members after 20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization. Members commit to serving the visualization community, be it through conference or journal paper reviews, financial support for the mentoring program, or serving as a mentor. Members also pay USD $50 in dues per year.

Conferences

The VGTC has two flagship annual conferences. The annual executive committee meeting is held during the same week as IEEE Visualization.

IEEE Visualization

Also known, as VIS, the IEEE Visualization conference is considered one of the top-tier venues for presenting visualization research.
IEEE VIS is a combination of conferences and symposia:
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The VGTC also sponsors other related IEEE symposia:
The IEEE VGTC has run special issues of Computer and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, and is the sponsor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Awards

The IEEE VGTC grants awards for individuals who have made significant contributions to the community through their research and volunteer efforts. The Technical Achievement Awards are presented during the opening sessions of the annual Visualization and Virtual Reality conferences. Members who have given outstanding service are routinely awarded with the IEEE Certificate of Appreciation and IEEE Meritorious Service Awards. Graduate student members are eligible for the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award presented through the Visualization Pioneers Group annually at the IEEE VIS conference.

Visualization Technical Achievement Awards

The IEEE Visualization Academy was established in 2018 by the IEEE VGTC Executive Committee, with the inaugural "class" of inductees to include all the Visualization Career Awardees and all the Visualization Technical Achievement Awardees, from 2004 to 2019, for a total of 30 unique inductees. Induction into the Vis Academy is the highest and most prestigious honor in the field of visualization.

The Vis Academy is a prestigious academy, the "visualization technology hall of fame" or the "visualization fellows assembly", and will highlight the accomplishments of the research leaders of the field of visualization that will indirectly underscore the accomplishments of the entire field. In addition to being an honorary academy, the academy will be called upon to provide technical leadership, mentoring and fostering new talents, and other community services, as necessary.
Members include:
Stuart Card, Sheelagh Carpendale, John C. Dill, David S. Ebert, Thomas Ertl, Eduard Gröller, Markus Gross, Hans Hagen, Pat Hanrahan, Charles Hansen, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher R. Johnson, Ken Joy, Arie E. Kaufman, Daniel Keim, David Laidlaw, Kwan-Liu Ma, Bill Lorensen, Jock Mackinlay, Tamara Munzner, Gregory Nielson, Hanspeter Pfister, Frits Post, Lawrence Rosenblum, Ben Shneiderman, Claudio Silva, John Stasko, Amitabh Varshney, J.J. van Wijk, Anders Ynnerman

Leadership

Executive Committee