Proceedings of the Eighth Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the eighth instantiation of the annual academic gathering on "Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling." SBIM was initiated as a workshop in 2004 to provide a unique venue to discuss novel algorithms, interfaces, perspectives, and uses for sketch-based technologies. Since that time, SBIM has become a popular and respected symposium (in 2009) associated with both ACM SIGRGRAPH and Eurographics, and remains the top venue dedicated to the discussion and presentation of 2D or 3D sketch-based academic work representing recognition, interfaces, and modeling research perspective. SBIM is an international conference that alternates between North American and European locations. Last year, SBIM was located in Annecy, France for the second time, in conjunction with the Annecy Animation Film Festival. This year, SBIM is located in Vancouver, Canada for the first time. Additionally, this is the first year that SBIM is a joint and is co-located with SIGGRAPH and is joint with Computational Aesthetics and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering. We had 36 paper submissions this year, which matches the number we had last year. Each paper was double blind reviewed by at least four members of our international program committee and we were able to accept 18 of them for the symposium. As in previous years, the quality of the submitted papers was strong, resulting in a high acceptance rate, a testament to those researchers who work in this field. The papers in these proceedings present a mix of innovative ideas in sketch recognition, 3D modeling, and sketch-based interface usability.