Image credit: photo by Andreas Psaltis © 2024 ACM SIGGRAPH
As SIGGRAPH 2024 wraps up, we reflect on the incredible showcase that made this year’s event truly unforgettable. With the conference behind us, it’s time to celebrate the exceptional individuals and projects that took home the top honors. Discover the award winners who made a significant impact in the realm of computer graphics and interactive techniques. Dive deeper into the remarkable award-winning projects by exploring related stories on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog, tuning into SIGGRAPH Spotlight Podcast episodes, watching program trailers, and checking out past webinar recordings.
Best in Show: Art Gallery
- “Rage Against the Archive”
- Anshul Roy, Syracuse University
- WATCH: Anshul Roy was featured on the SIGGRAPH Now Webinar: “Art and Language”.
Best Art Paper
- “Critical Climate Machine: A Visual and Musical Exploration of Climate Misinformation Through Machine Learning”
- Gaëtan Robillard, Université Paris 8, Université Gustave Eiffel; and Jérôme NikaIrcam, Centre Pompidou
- READ: Learn more about the inspiration behind this award-winning Art Paper on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog.
Best in Show: Electronic Theater
- “The Art of Weightlessness”
- Moshe Mahler, Director, Carnegie Mellon University
- LISTEN: Catch up with Moshe Mahler on the SIGGRAPH Spotlight Podcast.
Jury’s Choice: Electronic Theater
- “Patterns”
- Alex Glawion, Director
- READ: Check out this deep-dive interview with Alex Glawion on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog. We have it translated to German, too!
Best Student Project: Electronic Theater
- “After Grandpa”
- Juliette Michel, Director, Ecole MoPA, Swann Valenza, Director, Ecole MoPA, Florian Gomes Freitas, Director, Ecole MoPA, Axel Sence, Director, Ecole MoPA, Victoria Leviaux, Director, Ecole MoPA
Audience Choice: Electronic Theater
- “LUKI & the Lights”
- Toby Cochran, Director
- LISTEN: Tune into this episode of SIGGRAPH Spotlight, featuring Toby Cochran.
Best in Show: Emerging Technologies
- “A Live Demo of Single-photon Imaging and Applications”
- Sacha Jungerman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Varun Sundar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mohit Gupta, University of Wisconsin Madison
Audience Choice: Emerging Technologies
- “The Malleable-Self Experience: Transforming Body Image by Integrating Visual and Whole-body Haptic Stimuli”
- Tanner Person, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Nobuhisa Hanamitsu, Enhance Experience Inc., Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Danny HyndsKeio University Graduate School of Media Design, Sohei WakisakaKeio University Graduate School of Media Design, Kota Isobe, Enhance Experience Inc., Leonard Mochizuki, Enhance Experience Inc., Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Enhance Experience Inc., Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Kouta Minamizawa, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
Best in Show: Immersive Pavilion
- “MOFA: Multiplayer Onsite Fighting Arena”
- Botao Amber Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Sizheng Hao, and Yilan Tao
Best in Show: Real-Time Live!
Audience Choice: Real-Time Live!
Best in Show: Technical Papers
- From Microfacets to Participating Media: A Unified Theory of Light Transport With Stochastic Geometry
- Dario Seyb, Eugene d’Eon, Benedikt Bitterli, and Wojciech Jarosz
- Walkin’ Robin: Walk on Stars With Robin Boundary Conditions
- Bailey Miller, Rohan Sawhney, Keenan Crane, Ioannis Gkioulekas
- Repulsive Shells
- Josua Sassen, Henrik Schumacher, Martin Rumpf, Keenan Crane
- Lightning-Fast Method of Fundamental Solutions
- Jiong Chen, Florian Schäfer, and Mathieu Desbrun
- Robust Containment Queries Over Collections of Rational Parametric Curves via Generalized Winding Numbers
- Jacob Spainhour, David Gunderman, and Kenneth Weiss
Test-of-Time Awards
- 3D Shape Regression for Real-Time Facial Animation (2013)
- Chen Cao, Yanlin Weng, Stephen Lin, Kun Zhou
- Femto-Photography: Capturing and Visualizing the Propagation of Light (2013)
- Andreas Velten, Di Wu, Adrián Jarabo, Belén Masiá, Christopher Barsi, Chinmaya Joshi, Everett Lawson, Moungi Bawendi, Diego Gutiérrez, Ramesh Raskar
- Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation Using Generalized Winding Numbers (2013)
- Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
- How do Humans Sketch Objects? (2012)
- Mathias Eitz, James Hays, Marc Alexa
As a bonus, check out all of the SIGGRAPH 2024 Technical Papers Best Papers, Honorable Mentions, and Test-of-Time awardees on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog.
Best in Show: VR Theater
- “Emperor”
- Oriane Hurard with Atlas V
Congratulations to all of the SIGGRAPH 2024 award winners! We can’t wait to see what awaits SIGGRAPH 2025 as we return to Vancouver. Submissions open in late 2024.
