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...
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New at SIGGRAPH 2018: Doctoral Consortium
11 May 2018 • by ACM SIGGRAPHACM SIGGRAPH, Conferences, Research
The SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium is a new initiative that will take place at SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver, BC, 11 August 2018. We chatted with Consortium Chair Maneesh Agrawala of the Stanford University Brown institute for Media Innovation to find out more about the...
#SIGGRAPHchat: The Future of Storytelling
19 April 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Conferences, Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Research, Virtual Reality, Visual Effects
Join SIGGRAPH for our first #SIGGRAPHchat of 2018 on Thursday, 26 April, at 2 pm ET (1 pm CT, 11 am PT) on Twitter. We will be using the hashtag #SIGGRAPHchat and our topic will be the future of storytelling. If you're a part of the storytelling experience, whether...
Research Preview: SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Papers
12 April 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesArt, Conferences, Design, Production, Research, Visual Effects
Image credit: "Augmented Fauna and Glass Mutations: A Dialogue Between Material and Technique in Glassblowing and 3D Printing" © 2018 City University of Hong Kong Artists, theorists, historians, and researchers alike submitted their contributions to the SIGGRAPH 2018...
SIGGRAPH 2018 is All About You
5 April 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences
SIGGRAPH 2018 is a five-day immersion into the latest innovations in computer graphics, animation, virtual reality, game development, digital art, mixed reality, augmented reality, emerging technologies, and more. Registration is open now! Experience research,...
A Talk with 2017 ACM Fellow, Ravi Ramamoorthi
13 February 2018 • by Barb HelferACM SIGGRAPH, Real-Time, Research
By Melanie A. Farmer For his pioneering contributions in the creation of realistic graphics and advances in computer vision, Ravi Ramamoorthi has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ramamoorthi is part of a newly elected class of...
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 10 – SIGGRAPH, Leonardo, and the Future of Art
22 December 2017 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesArt, Conferences, Design, Industry Leaders, Research
To celebrate the “generations” of SIGGRAPH and Leonardo/ISAST, Danielle Siembieda (Managing Director, Leonardo/ISAST) sat down with an expert panel to discuss Leonardo’s history with the SIGGRAPH conference, its upcoming 50th anniversary and where the future of art —...
SIGGRAPH 2018 Submissions: What You Should Know
21 November 2017 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Interactive Techniques, Research, Virtual Reality
"At SIGGRAPH 2018, we invite you to be a part of history in the making as we celebrate our 45th conference and the innovation that has always been at the core of SIGGRAPH. It is no accident that our theme this year is 'Generations.' Over the years, a long legacy of...
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 6 – Pixar’s Ed Catmull and Tony DeRose
27 October 2017 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Industry Leaders, Interactive Techniques, Research
This week on SIGGRAPH Spotlight, SIGGRAPH 2018 Technical Papers Chair Mathieu Desbrun is joined by Ed Catmull (co-founder, Pixar Animation Studios; president, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios) and Tony DeRose (senior scientist, Pixar Animation Studios) to talk...
2018 Conference Chair Roy C. Anthony Talks Future
22 September 2017 • by Roy C. AnthonyACM SIGGRAPH, Conferences, Industry Leaders
image credit: Tourism Vancouver Back in 1974, a group of artistically and technically inclined professionals got together at the first Special Interest Group GRAPHics conference. And the, now 45, annual SIGGRAPH conferences that have followed continue to shape our...
New Generations of Thai Researchers Part II
1 June 2017 • by Jamie HuangConferences
In the first article about a new generation of Thai researchers, we interviewed the Chair and Co-Chair of the Symposium on Visualizationthe. This week we speak with the Chair and Co-Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2017’s Symposium on Education, Miho Aoki of the University of...
Mind-Blowing Research at SIGGRAPH 2017
16 May 2017 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Research
2017 © California Institute of Technology, Technische Universität Berlin The SIGGRAPH 2017 Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly research in computer graphics and interactive techniques. At the conference, authors...