{"id":107,"date":"2009-07-06T19:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T01:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2009-07-06T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T01:41:30","slug":"graphics-conference-paper-acceptance-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/graphics-conference-paper-acceptance-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphics Conference Paper Acceptance Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/web.cs.wpi.edu\/~gogo\/hive\/AcceptanceRates\/#GRAPHICS\">this link<\/a> to acceptance rates for papers in graphics conferences.\u00a0 The SIGGRAPH chart has some missing years (including the first four), presumably because data was not available.\u00a0 Graphing the trends yields some interesting information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/graph1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109\" title=\"SIGGRAPH Acceptance Graph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/graph1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/graph1.png 956w, https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/graph1-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excluding years before 1985 (when the conference was still &#8220;finding its legs&#8221; and acceptance rates were very high), the acceptance rate has hovered between 14.9% (1998) and 23.7% (2007).\u00a0 The long-term trend appears to be that the acceptance rate is flat, and the number of submitted and accepted papers steadily increase.\u00a0 In the shorter term, submitted papers appear to be flat or even declining after 2003, with accepted papers following suit (2009 has the lowest number of accepted papers since 2002).\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why that is; a 2003 flattening seems too late to be attributable to the dot-com collapse and too early to be related to the big graphics conference restructuring of 2008 (where Eurographics was moved to spring and SIGGRAPH Asia was introduced).\u00a0 If anyone has a good guess, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t bother graphing the other conferences.\u00a0 The Eurographics table only has information from 1998 (the conference has existed since 1979, only five years less than SIGGRAPH).\u00a0 From 2002 on the acceptance rate has been similar to SIGGRAPH (before that it was significantly higher).\u00a0 The I3D table is pretty complete; it shows consistently high acceptance rates, between 25% (1999) and 42% (2008).\u00a0 Graphics Interface and EGSR (EGWR in earlier years) have similarly high acceptance rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across this link to acceptance rates for papers in graphics conferences.\u00a0 The SIGGRAPH chart has some missing years (including the first four), presumably because data was not available.\u00a0 Graphing the trends yields some interesting information: Excluding years before 1985 (when the conference was still &#8220;finding its legs&#8221; and acceptance rates were very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,9,76],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-papers","tag-siggraph","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}