Awards

Following its tradition, SGP 2026 presented three Best Paper Awards as well as a Software Award recognising the authors of an open-source software project that has greatly influenced the field.

Previous awardees are listed at https://awards.geometryprocessing.org/.

Software Award

This recognition is awarded to the authors who follow open source code principles and share their source code. The Software Award Committee 2026 consisted of Marco Livesu, Amir Vaxman, Pierre Alliez, and Daniele Panozzo.

The SGP Software Award 2026 comes with a prize sponsored by GeometryFactory.

Winner

RXMesh by Ahmed H. Mahmoud, Serban D. Porumbescu, and John D. Owens

A library for processing triangle mesh entirely on the GPU. It lets you write geometry processing applications (e.g., smoothing, remeshing, parameterization, simulation, and more) that run entirely on the GPU, without manually managing connectivity data structures, memory layouts, or kernel launch configurations.

Best Paper Awards

The SGP 2026 Best Paper awards consist of one Best Paper Award, and two runner-up Honorable Mentions. Both the scores from the review cycle and the quality of the presentation were evaluated.

The Best Paper Award Committee 2026 consisted of the conference co-chairs, technical program co-chairs, and the graduate school co-chairs.

Winner

Phong-Rodrigues Extrinsic Vector-Field Processing by Hongyi Liu, Oded Stein, Amir Vaxman, Mirela Ben-Chen, and Misha Kazhdan

Honorable Mentions

Strictly Conservative Neural Distance Fields by Ingmar Ludwig and Marcel Campen

Tangent Blow-Ups for Processing Non-Manifold Geometry by Alice Petrov, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Ana Dodik, and Justin Solomon

Test-of-time Award

Starting in 2021, a Test-of-time Award is given each year to a paper that was published at least 10 years prior and has generated the most impact. The Test-of-time Award is based on a vote by all technical papers committee members. The Test of Time Award Chair 2026 was Marc Alexa.

Winner

Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions for Deformation Invariant Shape Representation (SGP 2007) by Raif M. Rustamov