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ISMAR - The IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, displays, sensors, to name just some of the most important influences. MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications. Since 1998, ISMAR and its forerunner events, IWAR/ISAR and ISMR, have been the premier forums in this vital field.

Upcoming symposium 2013

ISMAR 2013, Adelaide, Australia

Past Symposiums (2002 - 2012)

ISMAR 2012, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Chairs:

• General Chairs: Blair MacIntyre, Greg Welch
• S&T Program Chairs: Gerhard Reitmayr, Maribeth Gandy, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
• AMH Program Chairs: Sean White, Jay Bolter, Henry Duh

Proceedings:

• coming soon

Keynotes:

• Portable Reality: Expanding Available Space
  Perry Hoberman, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• A New Era of Human Computer Interaction
  Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Awards:

• 10 YEAR LAST IMPACT AWARD
  Marker Tracking and HMD Calibration for a Video-Based Augmented Reality Conferencing System
  Hirokazu Kato, Mark Billinghurst
• BEST PAPER AWARD
  Live Tracking and Mapping From Both General and Rotation-Only Camera Motion
  Steffen Gauglitz, Chris Sweeney, Jonathan Ventura, Matthew Turk, Tobias Hollere
• BEST PAPER RUNNER UP AWARD
  Kinectrack: Agile 6-DoF Tracking Using a Projected Dot Pattern
  Paul Mcilroy, Shahram Izadi, Andrew Fitzgibbon
• BEST POSTER AWARD
  Interface Design for an Inexpensive Hands-Free Collaborative Videoconferencing System
  Nicolas H. Lehment, Katharina Erhardt, Gerhard Rigoll
  Willing to be Fooled: Security and Autoamputation in Augmented Reality
  Bo Brinkman
• BEST POSTER RUNNER UP AWARD
  Toward a Practical Wall See-Through System for Drivers: How Simple Can It Be?
  Hiroshi Yasuda, Yoshihiro Ohama
  ClonAR: Rapid Redesign of Real-World Objects
  Michael Csongei, Liem Hoang, Ulrich Eck, Christian Sandor
• BEST DEMO AWARD
  The augmented painting
  Wim van Eck, Yolande Kolstee

Contests:

• TRACKING CONTEST WINNER
  Fraunhofer IGD, Germany

ISMAR 2011, Basel, Switzerland
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Chairs:

• General Chairs: Martin Wiedmer, Vincent Lepetit
• S&T Program Chairs: Jun Park, Gerhard Reitmayr, Greg Welch
• AMH Program Chairs: Raphael Grasset, Jan-Lewe Torpus, Mark Podlaseck

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library): 141 papers submitted, 26 papers accepted, 18% acceptance rate.
• AMH (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library): 45 papers submitted, 14 papers accepted, 31% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• Will We Ever Become Used To Immersion? Art History and Image Science
  Oliver Grau, Donau-Universität Krems, Krems, Austria
• Surface/Space
  Mark Bolas, Institue for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• Multi Modal Sensory Human Communication in the Internet Society
  Adrian David Cheok, Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Awards:

• BEST S&T PAPER AWARD
  KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking
  Richard A. Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, David Kim, Andrew J. Davison, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, Andrew Fitzgibbon
• BEST S&T STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  Interactive Visualization Technique for Truthful Color Reproduction in Spatial Augmented Reality Applications
  Christoffer Menk, Reinhard Koch
  Augmented Reality in the Psychomotor Phase of a Procedural Task
  Steven J. Henderson, Steven K. Feiner
• BEST AMH PAPER AWARD
  Pre-Patterns for Designing Embodied Interactions in Handheld Augmented Reality Games
  Yan Xu, Evan Barba, Iulian Radu, Maribeth Gandy, Richard Shemaka, Brian Schrank, Tony Tseng, Blair MacIntyre
• BEST POSTER AWARD
  Virtual Transparency: Introducing Parallax View into Video See-through AR
  Alex Hill, Jacob Schiefer, Jeff Wilson, Brian Davidson, Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre
• BEST DEMO AWARD
  BurnAR: Feel the Heat
  Matt Swoboda, Thanh Nguyen, Ulrich Eck, Gerhard Reitmayr, Stefan Hauswiesner, Rene Ranftl, Christian Sandor

Contests:

• TRACKING CONTEST WINNER
  Metaio GmbH, Germany Thomas Olszamowski
• VIDEO CONTEST WINNER
  Simple as Drinking Water
  Amir Baradaran
• VIDEO CONTEST RUNNER UP
  AR Visor Concept - Medley
  Mattias Wozniak, Björn Svensson, Klas Hermodsson

ISMAR 2010, Seoul, Korea

Chairs:

• General Chairs: Gerry Kim, Heedong Ko
• S&T Program Chairs: Tobias Hollerer, Vincent Lepetit, Jun Park
• AMH Program Chairs: Raphael Grasset, Soh Yeong Roh, Julian Stadon

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEEXplore): 107 papers submitted, 24 papers accepted, 22% acceptance rate.
• AMH (IEEEXplore): 18 papers submitted, 8 papers accepted, 44% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• Augmenting Reality for Medecine, Training, Presence and Telepresence
  Henry Fuchs, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
• Augmented Dreams
  Boris Debackere, V2, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Awards:

• BEST S&T PAPER AWARD
  Differential Instant Radiosity for Mixed Reality
  Martin Knecht, Christoph Traxler, Oliver Mattausch, Werner Purgathofer, and Michael Wimmer
• BEST S&T STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects
  Brett Jones, Rajinder Sodhi, Roy Campbell, Guy Garnett, and Brian Bailey
• BEST POSTER AWARD
  Light-Weight Marker Hiding for Augmented Reality
  Otto Korkalo, Miika Aittala, Sanni Siltanen
• BEST DEMO AWARD
  A Web Service Platform Dedicated to Building Mixed Reality Solutions
  Petros Belimpasakis, Petri Selonen, Yu You

ISMAR 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA

Chairs:

• General Chairs: Jannick Rolland, Chris Stapleton
• S&T Program Chairs: Hideo Saito, Gudrun Klinker, Tobias hollerer
• AMH Program Chairs: Raphael Grasset, Jay Bolter, Jarrell Pair

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library): : 124 papers submitted, 24 papers accepted, 19% acceptance rate.
• AMH (IEEEXplore): 19 papers+posters submitted, 9 papers accepted, 47% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• Mixing reality and magic at Disney theme parks
  Mark Mine, Technical Concept Design, Disney Imagineering, USA
• UPWAKE: Art performance fusing dreams and technology
  Natasha Tsakos
• SixthSense: Integrating information and the real world
  Pattie Maes, Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  Evaluating the benefits of augmented reality for task localization in maintenance of an armored personnel carrier turret
  Steven Henderson and Steven Feiner
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  Shape recognition and pose estimation for mobile augmented reality
  Nate Hagbi, Oriel Bergig, Jihad El-Sana, and Mark Billinghurst
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Using AR to support cross-organisational collaboration in dynamic tasks
  Susanna Nilsson, Björn Johansson, and Arne Jönsson

Contests:

• TRACKING CONTEST WINNER
  

ISMAR 2008, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Chairs:

• General Chairs:Tom Drummond, Simon Julier
• S&T Program Chairs: Mark Livingston, Oliver Bimber, Hideo Saito

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library):: 104 papers submitted, 26 papers accepted, 25% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• Hawk-Eye
  Paul Mcllroy, Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd, UK
• Near-Eye Displays - a Look into the Christmas Ball
  Rolf R. Hainich, Hainich&Partner, Berlin, Germany

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  Pose Tracking from Natural Features on Mobile Phones
  Daniel Wagner, Gerhard Reitmayr, Alessandro Mulloni, Tom Drummond, Dieter Schmalstieg
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  An Optical See-Through Head Mounted Display with Addressable Focal Planes
  Sheng Liu, Dewen Cheng, Hong Hua
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Compositing For Small Cameras
  Georg Klein and David Murray

Contests:

• TRACKING CONTEST WINNER
  University of Oxford George Klein

ISMAR 2007, Nara, Japan
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Chairs:

• General Chairs:Haruo Takemura
• S&T Program Chairs: Hirokazu Kato, Tom Drummond, Mark Livingston

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library):: 121 papers submitted, 38 papers accepted, 31% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• Upscaling and Downscaling Augmented Reality
  Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
• Mixed and Augmented Reality in Broadcasting
  Seiki Inoue, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
• Where's the Reality in Augmented Reality? (Dinner Talk)
  Mark Billinghurst, HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces
  Georg Klein and David Murray
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  Interactive Focus and Context Visualization for Augmented Reality
  Denis Kalkofen, Erick Mendez, and Dieter Schmalstieg
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  An Evaluation of Graphical Context as a Means for Ameliorating the Effects of Registration Error
  Cindy M. Robertson and Blair MacIntyre

ISMAR 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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Chairs:

• General Chairs:Tobias hollerer, Wayne Piekarski
• S&T Program Chairs: Dieter Schmalstieg, Hirokazu Kato, Ulrich Neumann

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library):: 105 papers submitted, 30 papers accepted, 28% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• The Poor Man's Palace: Special Effects in the Real World
  Ramesh Raskar, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA
• Do We Have Six Brains?
  Tom Furness, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  
  
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  Spatial Relationship Patterns: Elements of Reusable Tracking and Calibration Systems Daniel Pustka, Manuel Huber, Martin Bauer, Gudrun Klinker
  

ISMAR 2005, Vienna, Austria
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Chairs:

• General Chairs:Nassir Navab, Wolfgang Birkfellner
• S&T Program Chairs: Ronald Azuma, Oliver Bimber, Kosuke Sato

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library):: 107 papers submitted, 24 papers accepted, 22% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• Mixed Reality Research: The European Dimension
  Eric Badiqué, European Commission
• The Art of Technology and the Future of MR: Integrating an Artistic Approach to Transform the Next Generation of Mixed and Augmented Reality
  Christopher Stapleton, Media Convergence Laboratory, University of Central Florida, , USA

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  
  
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  
  

ISMAR 2004, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Chairs:

• General Chairs:Mark Billinghurst, Yohan Baillot
• S&T Program Chairs: Gudrun Klinker, Jannick Rolland, Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library): 120 papers submitted, 24 papers accepted, 20% acceptance rate.

Keynotes:

• The Transcendent Greek
  Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Augmenting This..Augmenting That: Maximizing Human Performance
  Dylan Schmorrow, DARPA and the Office of Naval Research, USA

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  
  
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  
  

ISMAR 2003, Tokyo, Japan

Chairs:

• General Chairs: Hideyuki Tamura, Naokazu Yokoya
• S&T Program Chairs: Blair MacIntyre, Dieter Schmalstieg, Haruo Takemura

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library): 90 papers+posters submitted, 25 papers accepted.

Keynotes:

• Industrial Augmented Reality(IAR): Challenges in Design and Commercialization of Killer Apps
  Nassir Navab, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany
• The Great Buddha Project: Modeling Cultural Heritage for VR Systems through Observation
  Katsushi Icheuchi, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  
  
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  
  

ISMAR 2002, Darmstadt, Germany
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Chairs:

• General Chairs:Didier Stricker, Stefan Müller, Dieter Schmlastieg
• S&T Program Chairs: Haruo Takemura, Ron Azuma, Holger Regenbrecht

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library)

Keynotes:

• ARVIKA - Augmented Reality for Development, Production and Service
  Wolfgang Friedrich, Siemens, Germany
• Tangible Bits: Designing the Seamless Interface between People, Bits, and Atoms
  Hiroshii Ishii, Tangible Media Group, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  

Awards:

• BEST PAPER AWARD
  
  
• BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
  
  
• HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
  
  

ISMAR Predecessors Symposiums (2001-1999)

ISMR 2001, Yokohama, Japan

Chairs:

• General Chairs: Michitaka Hirose
• S&T Program Chairs: Yuichi Ohta, Steven Feiner

Proceedings:

• S&T (web proceedings)

ISAR 2001, New York, New York, USA
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Chairs:

• General Chairs: Nassir Navab and Steve Feiner
• S&T Program Chairs: Ronald Azuma, Gudrun Klinker, Hideyuki Tamura

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library)

Keynotes:

• Microscope Assisted Guided Interventions (MAGI) – An Application of Augmented Reality in Image Guided Surgery
  David J. Hawkes, Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London School of Medicine, London, UK
• AR Out of the Box
  Ulrich Neumann, Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Living in a Computer Augmented Environment
  Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratories
• Immersion and Tele-immersion in the Office of the Future (Dinner Talk)
  Henry Fuchs, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

ISAR 2000, Munich, Germany
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Chairs:

• General Chairs: Gudrun Klinker, Reinhold Behringer
• S&T Program Chairs: Nassir Navab, David Mizell

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library)

Keynotes:

• AR Applications in Architecture and Construction: Intelligent Buildings
  Volker Hartkopf, Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• AR Applications at Boeing
  David Mizell, The Boeing Company, USA
• What Happens at the Border of Real and Virtual Worlds ? the MR Project and Other Research Activities in Japan
  Hideyuki Tamura, Mixed Reality Systems Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan

ISMR 1999, Yokohama, Japan

Chairs:

• General Chairs: Yuichi Ohta, Hideyuki Tamura
• S&T Program Chairs: Michitaka Hirose, Kosuke Sato

Proceedings:

• S&T (Ohmsha-Springer-Verlag)

IWAR 1999, San Francisco, California, USA
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Chairs:

• General Chairs: Reinhold Behringer, David Mizell
• S&T Program Chairs: Gudrun Klinker

Proceedings:

• S&T (IEEE Computer Society Digital Library), S&T (web proceedings)

Keynotes:

• The Importance of Being Mobile: Some Social Consequences of Wearable Augmented Reality Systems (Dinner Talk)
  Steven Feiner, Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, Columbia University, New York, USA

IWAR 1998, San Francisco, California, USA
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Chairs:

• General Chair: Reinhold Behringer, David Mizell
• Organizing Committee: Gudrun Klinker, Reinhold Behringer

Proceedings:

• S&T (A K Peters Ltd, now part of CRS Press)

Steering Committee

Statistics

Bibliometrics
ISMAR Conference bibliometrics information updated December 2012:

• Google Scholar: h5-index: 25, h5-median: 44 (link)
• Microsoft Academic Research: h-index: 41, publications: 754, citation count: 7514 (link)

Submission/Acceptance rates
Find below the statistics for the ISMAR Science and Technology (S&T) Program since 2004: number of accepted/rejected papers and acceptance rate (%).
We didn't compile any overall statistics for the AMH program (2009 inaugural program), please refer to the specific year in the Past Symposium Section. Please note that number of accepted papers may differ from presented papers due to withdrawal from some authors after notification.

Past Keynotes (2002 - 2012)

Past Chairs (2002 - 2012)

Past Awards