The 15th annual international conference "NICOGRAPH International 2016", Organized by The Society for Art and Science and Hangzhou Dianzi University will be held during 6-8 July 2016 in the beautiful city of Hangzhou, China.

NICOGRAPH has quarter-century history. Its foundation can be traced back to 1985. The time-honored annual conferences have been organized by the Society for Art and Science since 2000, which aims to promote the research topic combining science and art in computer graphics and related fields as well as to advance the development of interactive media art. In 2002 the first international conference NICOGRAPH International 2002 rose out of the domestic series, and since then NICOGRAPH international conference has been organized annually.

The international conference mainly aims to provide good opportunities for young researchers and students to present their works in English and exchange ideas with young colleagues from all over the world. Through this activity, the organizing committee and supporting members hope to raise the next generation of leaders in the interdisciplinary field combining academy, art and industry.

NICOGRAPH 2016 will be held in conjunction with Visual Computing Forum 2016, featuring 20 invited talks by the world leading researchers in the field of Computer Vision, Graphics and Visualization.

Submission categories include full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) and posters (1 page).

All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and submitted to the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. (To be approved)

Authors of all accepted full papers will be invited to submit a revised version to the special issue of Journal of The Society of Art and Science.