Honoring Innovation: Meet the SIGGRAPH 2025 Award Winners

Image Credit: photo by Matthias von Loebell © 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH

Even through SIGGRAPH 2025 has come and gone, the excitement and impact of this year’s event continue to resonate. The conference brought together awe-inspiring ideas, unforgettable experiences, and a community pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Now, we celebrate the exceptional individuals and projects honored with this year’s top awards. Revisit their inspiring work through stories on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog, SIGGRAPH Spotlight Podcast episodes, program trailers, and past videos.

Best in Show: Art Gallery

• “AI in the Sky”
  • Laura Cinti

Best Art Paper

• “PoeSpin: A Human-AI Dance to Poetry System for Movement-Based Verse Generation”
  • Yihua Li, Hongyue Chen, Yiqing Li, and Yetong Xin
  • READ: Learn how “PoeSpin” transforms pole dance into poetic verse, challenges cultural assumptions, and reimagines the possibilities of human–AI collaboration.

Best in Show: Electronic Theater

• “Trash”
  • Maxime Crançon, Fanny Vecchie, Margaux Lutz, Romain Fleischer, Alexis Le Ral, Grégory Bouzid, Robin Delaporte, and Mattéo Durant with École Supérieure Des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA)

Audience Choice Winner: Electronic Theater

• “Wednesdays with Gramps”
  • Chris Copeland, Justin Copeland, and Shabrayia Cleaver

Best Student Project: Electronic Theater

• “The Mooning“
  • Mason Klesch and Vivian Osness with Ringling College of Art and Design

Best Student Project: Electronic Theater

• “Jour de vent“
  • Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, and Camille Truding with École des Nouvelles Images (ENSI)

Best in Show: Emerging Technologies

• “DreamPrinting: Volumetric Printing Primitives for High-Fidelity 3D Printing”
  • Youjia Wang, Ruixiang Cao, Teng Xu, Yifei Liu, Dong Zhang, Yiwen Wu, Jingyi Yu

Audience Choice: Emerging Technologies

• “Handoid: Inter-morphologic Robotic Hand Avatar for Multi Presence”
  • Hideki Shimobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Masaharu Hirose, Eiichi Yoshida, Masahiko Inami
  • WATCH: Hear from SIGGRAPH 2025 Contributors Hideki Shimobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, and Masaharu Hirose on their Emerging Technologies program contribution “Handoid: Inter-morphologic Robotic Hand Avatar for Multi Presence.”

Best in Show: Immersive Pavilion

• “Palace Immersive Goong”
  • Rene Hyewon Lee
  • READ: “Palace Immersive Goong” offers an unforgettable location-based VR experience that brings to life the grand royal banquet of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty — an event that was planned but never realized.

Best in Show: Real-Time Live!

•  “InfiniteStudio: 4D Volumetric Capture for Film Making and Beyond”
  • Jiaming Sun, Siyu Zhang, Yu Zhang, Zhi Wang, Yuke Ding, Zhen Xu, Xiaowei Zhou

Audience Choice: Real-Time Live!

• “Crazy Fast Physics! Augmented Vertex Block Descent in Action!”
  • Chris Giles, Elie Diaz, and Cem Yuksel

Best in Show: Technical Papers

• “Shape Space Spectra”
  • Yue Chang, Otman Benchekroun, Maurizio M. Chiaramonte, Peter Yichen Chen, Eitan Grinspun
• “CAST: Component-Aligned 3D Scene Reconstruction From an RGB Image”
  • Kaixin Yao, Longwen Zhang, Xinhao Yan, Yan Zeng, Qixuan Zhang, Jiayuan Gu, Wei Yang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu
  • READ: 3D Generative AI Transforms How We Create, Design, Interact With Digital Content
• “TokenVerse: Versatile Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space”
  • Daniel Garibi, Shahar Yadin, Roni Paiss, Omer Tov, Shiran Zada, Ariel Ephrat, Tomer Michaeli, Inbar Mosseri, Tali Dekel
• “Vector-Valued Monte Carlo Integration Using Ratio Control Variates”
  • Haolin Lu, Delio Vicini, Wesley Chang, Tzu-Mao Li
• “Transformer IMU Calibrator: Dynamic On-Body IMU Calibration for Inertial Motion Capture”
  • Chengxu Zuo, Jiawei Huang, Xiao Jiang, Yuan Yao, Xiangren Shi, Rui Cao, Xinyu Yi, Feng Xu, Shihui Guo, Yipeng Qin
    

Test-of-Time Awards

• “Unified Particle Physics for Real-Time Applications” (2014)
  • Miles Macklin, Matthias Müller, Nuttapong Chentanez, Tae-Yong Kim
• “Learning Visual Similarity for Product Design With Convolutional Neural Networks” (2015)
  • Sean Bell, Kavita Bala
  • Listen: SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 90 – Kavita Bala and Hui Huang on Influential Computer Graphics Research
• “L1-Medial Skeleton of Point Cloud” (2013)
  • Hui Huang, Shihao Wu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Minglun Gong, Hao Zhang, Guiqing Li, Baoquan Chen
  • Listen: SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 90 – Kavita Bala and Hui Huang on Influential Computer Graphics Research
• “Embree: A Kernel Framework for Efficient CPU Ray Tracing” (2014)
  • Ingo Wald, Sven Woop, Carsten Benthin, Gregory S. Johnson, Manfred Ernst
    

Congratulations to all of the SIGGRAPH 2025 award winners! We can’t wait to see what awaits SIGGRAPH 2026 as we return to Los Angeles. Submissions open in late 2025.