Week-long Conference Also Recognizes "Best
of" Industry With Premier Awards
DENVER, Aug. 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- SIGGRAPH 2024 was a milestone conference
for many reasons. It was the first time the world's premier
conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques has
returned to Colorado since its
founding at The University of Colorado in
Boulder 51 years ago. The conference — which ran from 28
July through 1 August, 2024, at the
Colorado Convention Center —
brought together nearly 9,000 industry professionals from around
the world and was highlighted by a rare joint public appearance
with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO
Mark Zuckerberg.
Huang and Zuckerberg didn't just go viral swapping jackets on
stage. The tech giants' conversation exploring the transformative
potential of open source AI and AI assistants and Zuckerberg's
introduction of AI Studio at the top of the talk quickly made
international headlines (watch the livestream). The CEOs were two
of several world-class visionaries and leaders who gave Keynote
Presentations discussing the full scope of the impact of computer
graphics and interactive techniques from the cosmos to the
microscopic and everything in between. From Dr. Dava Newman with MIT Media Lab exploring the
macro discussing the "overview effect" from space that lets us
appreciate Earth's interconnected systems through supercomputer
data visualizations to Manu Prakash
of Stanford University speaking to the
micro end of the spectrum and how the use of frugal science can
impact social change.
At the conclusion of this year's event, SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference
Chair Andrés Burbano of the Open University of Catalonia said,
"SIGGRAPH 2024 was a unique experience marked by rich content and
vibrant interactions across the arts, science, and technology. The
thought-provoking sessions and dynamic dialogues have truly
fostered the idea of a desirable future of computer graphics and
interactive techniques in the industry and the conference itself.
Our commitment to international participation and engaging industry
leaders enhances the discussions and cross-cultural exchange taking
place at the conference, ultimately making our industry stronger
and more diverse. We are proud to have brought together global
perspectives, paving the way for the next 50 years of innovation in
the field."
SIGGRAPH 2024 played host to the latest innovations in art,
science, technology, and more throughout its five-day stay in
downtown Denver. It was attended
by an international audience hailing from 76 countries including
the United States, Canada, Japan, South
Korea, France, the
United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Nigeria, and more. The conference and
exhibition also played host to a variety of diverse exhibitors on
the show floor, each showcasing the latest in computer graphics and
interactive techniques, products, and services.
Other highlights include the 15th anniversary of Real-Time
Live!; the first-ever SIGGRAPH for Peace with humanitarian leader
Yves Daccord, former Director
General of the International Red Cross; the presentation of
more than 250 research papers; the Computer Animation Festival's
Electronic Theater and the return of Animation Theater Daytime
Selects; SIGGRAPH's Educator's Forum; Production Sessions focusing
on film, games, and TV, including a look at the VFX of "Dune: Part
Two" and the balance of animation in "Kung
Fu Panda 4"; and a Talk with Google sharing its framework
for "Project Starline"; Courses like Natalya Tatarchuk's fan-favorite "Advances in
Real-Time Rendering in Games"; and virtual reality storytelling in
the VR Theater. Attendees also enjoyed digital art installations
and emerging and immersive demonstrations within the Experience
Hall.
SIGGRAPH 2024 also celebrated this year's contributors by
honoring some "best of" from various programs, including:
Art Gallery
Best in
Show — "Rage Against the Archive"
Anshul Roy
Art Papers
Best Art Paper — "Critical Climate Machine:
A Visual and Musical Exploration of Climate Misinformation through
Machine Learning"
Gaëtan Robillard and Jérôme Nika
Computer Animation Festival: Electronic Theater
Best
in Show — "The Art of Weightlessness"
Moshe Mahler
Jury's Choice — "Patterns"
Alex Glawion
Best Student Project — "After Grandpa"
Juliette Michel, Swann Valenza, Florian
Gomes Freitas, Axel Sence,
and Victoria Leviaux
Audience Choice — "LUKI & the Lights"
Toby Cochran
Emerging Technologies
Best in Show — "A Live Demo of
Single-photon Imaging and Applications"
Sacha Jungerman, Varun Sundar, and Mohit
Gupta
Audience Choice — "The Malleable-Self Experience: Transforming
Body Image by Integrating Visual and Whole-body Haptic Stimuli"
Tanner Person, Nobuhisa Hanamitsu,
Danny Hynds, Sohei Wakisaka, Kota Isobe, Leonard Mochizuki, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and Kouta Minamizawa
Immersive Pavilion
Best in Show — "MOFA: Multiplayer
Onsite Fighting Arena"
Botao Amber Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Sizheng Hao, and Yilan Tao
Real-Time Live!
Best in Show and Audience Choice —
"Mesh Mortal Combat: Real-Time Voxelized Soft-Body Destruction"
Tim McGraw
Technical Papers
Best Paper
Awards
"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
VR Theater
Best in Show — "Emperor"
Oriane Hurard with Atlas V
SIGGRAPH 2024 Mobile and Virtual Access is available until
1 September 2024. To learn more and
register for access to on-demand conference content, visit
s2024.SIGGRAPH.org.
About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2024
ACM,
the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest
educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators,
researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share
resources, and address the field's challenges. ACM SIGGRAPH
is a special interest group within ACM that serves as an
interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology,
and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
The SIGGRAPH conference is the world's leading annual
interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in
computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2024,
the 51st annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place
live 28 July–1 August at the Colorado Convention Center, along with a
Virtual Access option.
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