Facebook Reality Labs and the Quest to Connect People
Discover how a team of researchers out of Pittsburgh is working to create authentic social presence through machine learning in virtual reality.
Contribute to What You Love: An Interview With the 2018 Student Research Graduate Winner
We caught up with SIGGRAPH 2018 first-place graduate winner Seungbae Bang to learn about his project and experience in Vancouver.
Achieving Body Realism with ‘The Human Touch’
What if there were a way to measure how objects, like clothing, wearables, or furniture, touch and interact with different parts of the human body?
Bookmark This: Top Research Stories of 2018
Photo of Technical Papers Fast Forward by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH As another year closes, we’re reflecting on the positives. Though 2018 brought about change across all of computer graphics, research once again takes the cake for capturing … Continued
A Reflection on Academic and Industry Partnerships in Business
Graphic Recording of the SIGGRAPH 2018 Business Symposium “Academic and Industry Partnership” panel by Jason Toal The SIGGRAPH 2018 Business Symposium “Academic and Industry Partnership” session was a combined panel and roundtable discussion, and consisted of panelists ranging from researchers … Continued
Explore the 2019 Vision: The Magic of Technical Papers
Image: An Implicit Frictional Contact Solver for Adaptive Cloth Simulation. Courtesy of the authors: Jie Li, Gilles Daviet, Rahul Narain, Florence Bertails-Descoubes, Matthew Overby, George E. Brown, Laurence Boissieux. Ⓒ 2018 The SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program recognizes and probes the most recent technical advances in … Continued
New Method Enables High Quality Speech Separation
Figure: Courtesy of Authors/Google Video stills: Courtesy of Team Coco/CONAN People have a natural knack for focusing on what a single person is saying, even when there are competing conversations in the background or other distracting sounds. For instance, people … Continued
SIGGRAPH 2018 Research Highlight: New Tool for Sketching Faces
Photo credit: Tiziano Protenier Across popular social media platforms, users are posting countless images every day. On Instagram alone, there are more than 40 billion uploaded photos – a figure that’s skyrocketing by 95 million daily. This presents a clear need … Continued
MetaLimbs 2.0: Exploring Telepresence
Image credit: Fusion: Full Body Surrogacy for Collaborative Communication © 2018 Keio University Graduate School of Design, The University of Tokyo The Emerging Technologies displayed at SIGGRAPH 2018 will push the boundaries of human experience, the sense of self, and the … Continued
Highlights from the SIGGRAPH 2018 Technical Papers Program
Image: DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills. Courtesy of the authors: Xue Bin Peng, Pieter Abbeel,Sergey Levine,Michiel van de Panne The SIGGRAPH 2018 Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating and discussing new … Continued