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Exploring Collaborative Drawing and Creative AI

Exploring Collaborative Drawing and Creative AI

This project trains a generative adversarial network (GAN) to produce children’s drawings. It explicitly juxtaposes human creativity (the thousands of children’s drawings) with machine creativity (the GAN).

Math, Robotics, and Deepfakes, Oh My! Meet the First Wave of Featured Speakers for SIGGRAPH 2021

Math, Robotics, and Deepfakes, Oh My! Meet the First Wave of Featured Speakers for SIGGRAPH 2021

Hot off the presses: the first wave of featured speakers for the upcoming virtual SIGGRAPH 2021 conference is here! Learn more about industry leaders Grant Sanderson, Dr. Kate Darling, and Hany Farid.

Inspired by Service Dogs: Inside Toyota’s Human Support Robot

Inspired by Service Dogs: Inside Toyota’s Human Support Robot

Akiyoshi Ochiai, a senior engineer at Toyota Research Institute, shares the development journey for his team’s Human Support Robot (HSR). A prototype of the robot was shown in the SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies venue.

25 SIGGRAPH 2018 Stories You May Have Missed

25 SIGGRAPH 2018 Stories You May Have Missed

photo by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Our recent trip to Vancouver yielded a wealth of new ideas, new experiences, and new innovations. ...And plenty of writers were there to capture it! We hope you enjoy this roundup of some of the biggest stories out of SIGGRAPH...

MetaLimbs 2.0: Exploring Telepresence

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,...

Balance and Harmony: Recapping SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

Balance and Harmony: Recapping SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

The Kobe Convention Center was bustling with activity as it played host to Asia’s premier graphics, animation, art and technology event. Held from 2 to 5 November 2015, the 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference and Exhibition brought together over 7,000 computer graphics...

SIGGRAPH 2014 Highlights from Vancouver

SIGGRAPH 2014 Highlights from Vancouver

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - SIGGRAPH 2014 returned to Vancouver, Canada, for its 41st conference and exhibition. From 10-14 August, 14,045 artists, research scientists, gaming experts and developers, filmmakers, students, and academics from 50 U.S. states and 75...