Symmetries and Structures in Computer Vision and Graphics
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 366
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer graphics; computer geometry; computer animation; CAD; scientific visualization; virtual and augmented reality
Interests: human-computer interaction; computer graphics; multimedia systems; virtual and augmented reality systems; computer games and simulations
Interests: designed geometry; computer graphics; engineering graphics; computer animation; theory of mechanisms; computer geometry; simulations and motion analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetry and structural properties are central to understanding, modeling, and visualizing visual data in computer vision and computer graphics. Images, videos, and three-dimensional scenes often contain intrinsic geometric regularities and symmetries that can be explicitly leveraged to improve the robustness, efficiency, and interpretability of visual computing methods, particularly in complex 3D scenarios.
This Special Issue, “Symmetries and Structures in Computer Vision and Graphics”, will focus on symmetry-aware and structure-preserving approaches that bridge computer vision, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence. We invite contributions on invariant and equivariant representations, geometric and group-theoretic methods, and structured, geometry-aware machine learning models for image, video, and 3D data analysis. Strong emphasis will be placed on 3D vision and visualization, including 3D reconstruction and modeling, photogrammetry, neural rendering techniques such as Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), and the symmetry-guided visualization of complex scenes and objects.
The Special Issue welcomes both methodological and application-driven studies in areas such as object and scene understanding, cultural heritage digitization, medical and industrial imaging, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality. By combining perspectives from vision, graphics, machine learning, and visualization, this Special Issue aims to highlight how symmetry and structure serve as key enablers of advanced visual computing systems.
Prof. Dr. Ratko Obradović
Prof. Dr. Dragan Ivetić
Prof. Dr. Branislav Popkonstantinović
Dr. Ivana Vasiljević
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- computer vision and computer graphics
- symmetry and invariance
- structured and geometric representations
- pattern recognition and image analysis
- machine learning and AI
- 3D vision and visualization
- neural rendering and NeRF
- 3D reconstruction and photogrammetry
- visual computing
- VR and AR
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