Preface to the 8th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2015

Seven years from its inception, the 3DOR workshop was organized for 2015 with the objective of pro- viding a broader forum of discussion for researchers working in this area. As a result of this effort, 3DOR was extended to a 2-day event in order to include a comprehensive program consisting of re- search paper presentations, poster presentations, 2 keynote speeches, relevant EU project presentations and networking as well as a round table discussion with industrial partners. In response to the call-for-papers, 19 research papers were submitted and reviewed by members of the IPC. Most papers received at least 3 reviews, based on which, 10 papers were selected for oral presen- tation at the workshop and 5 were accepted as posters. The papers comprise innovative results in many aspects of 3D Object Retrieval, including partial 3DOR, cross-modality 3DOR and facial analysis for 3DOR. 3DOR 2015 also hosts the 10th Shape Retrieval Contest (SHREC'15). The goal of the contest is to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D shape retrieval algorithms and to create public evaluation benchmarks, thus playing an important role in the evolution of practical 3D Object Retrieval research. SHREC'15 contributes to the proceedings with an impressive 7 track-report papers (out of 9 submissions) that detail the results of the contests. All track-report papers have been reviewed by the program chairs for quality and contribution.