SIGGRAPH 2020 Program Content

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Monday, 24 August 2020 expand all · collapse all
Time Type Session / Presentation Contributors Location Tag Plan
8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a “Potpourri (Manic Monday) Day 1
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8:30am - 9am PST Talk
Talk Fluids 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
8:30am - 9am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Fluids
9am - 10am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
3D Creation Workflow – The Bigger Picture, Intel® Technologies in Action - Presented by Intel
Marc Potocnik
Arts & Design
Production & Animation
Rendering
Visual Effects
9am - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Introduction to the Vulkan Computer Graphics API 
Simulive 4
Research & Education
Augmented Reality
Scientific Visualization
VR
9am - 12pm PST Course
Course Introduction to the Vulkan Computer Graphics API
Research & Education
Augmented Reality
Rendering
Scientific Visualization
9am - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Moving Mobile Graphics 
Simulive 3
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
Rendering
9am - 12pm PST Course
Course Moving Mobile Graphics
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
Rendering
9am - 9:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Real-Time Rendering
9am - 9:30am PST Talk
Talk Real-Time Rendering 
Zoom 3
Research & Education
Rendering
9:30am - 10am PST Talk
Talk Artist Efficiency: Improvements to Workflow 
Zoom 2
Arts & Design
Production & Animation
Rendering
9:30am - 10am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Artist Efficiency: Improvements to Workflow
10am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Virtual Beings World Showcase 2020: New Play Together
Liudmila Bredikhina
Akihiko Shirai
Production & Animation
10am - 11am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
High Fidelity Rendering Unleashed with Intel – Tech Session - Presented by Intel
Jim Jeffers
Al Chien
Production & Animation
AI/Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Modeling
Rendering
Scientific Visualization
Visual Effects
10am - 10:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: Advances in Monte-Carlo Rendering: the Legacy of Jaroslav Krivanek 
AI/Machine Learning
Rendering
10am - 12pm PST
Technical Papers Fast Forward
Technical Papers Fast Forward
Technical Papers Fast Forward
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
A Journey through the SIGGRAPH Art Show Archives with Audience Participation
Jan Searleman
Bonnie Mitchell
Victoria Szabo
Arts & Design
10:30am - 11am PST
ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Award Presentations
10:30am - 11am PST ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Award ACM SIGGRAPH Award Presentations
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) Birds of a Feather
Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Research & Education
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Panel
Panel
Technologies in Immersive Experiential Marketing
Jordyn Curley
Lara Cawsey
John Canning
Stephanie Perea
Samuel Conlogue
Sophia Moshasha
Live Session
Research & Education
VR
11am - 1pm PST
ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks
11am - 12:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - London ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Life Drawing
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Synthetic 3D Indoor Scene Datasets: Needs and Opportunities
Daniel Ritchie
Angel X. Chang
Manolis Savva
AI/Machine Learning
11:30am - 12:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Finding Work and Networking in the Age of COVID: Dos and Don'ts of Interviewing, Presentation and Networking Skills
Sharon Eisenberg
Pamela Thompson
Production & Animation
11:30am - 12pm PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Rendering
11:30am - 12pm PST Talk
Talk Rendering 
Zoom 5
Production & Animation
Research & Education
Rendering
12pm - 1pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: S3 Resume & Reel Review Session 1
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
12pm - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Color Basics for Digital Media and Visualization 
Simulive 2
Arts & Design
12pm - 1pm PST Course
Course Color Basics for Digital Media and Visualization
12pm - 12:30pm PST
Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion
Immersive History
12pm - 1pm PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion Immersive History 
12pm - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Introduction to the Vulkan Computer Graphics API
Research & Education
Augmented Reality
Scientific Visualization
VR
12pm - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Moving Mobile Graphics
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
Rendering
12pm - 12:30pm PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Visualizing Worlds
12pm - 1pm PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
The Future of Immersive Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes at Intel Studios - Presented by Intel
Ilke Demir
Philip Krejov
New Technologies
Production & Animation
AI/Machine Learning
Augmented Reality
Visual Effects
VR
12pm - 12:30pm PST Talk
Talk Visualizing Worlds 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Scientific Visualization
12:30pm - 1pm PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion Q&A: Immersive History
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Academy Software Foundation: Open Source Software for Visual Effects & Animation
David Morin
Rob Bredow
Daniel Heckenberg
Rachel Rose
Carol Payne
Emily Olin
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Meeting and Information Session
VIctoria Szabo
Hye Yeon Nam
Arts & Design
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Professional and Student Chapters
ACM SIGGRAPH Professional & Student Chapters Committee
Kerry Kirkpatrick
1pm - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Color Basics for Digital Media and Visualization
1pm - 1:30pm PST Educators Forum
Educators Forum Q&A: Groovy Graphics Assignments 
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Academy Software Foundation: Open Source Project Updates
Ken Museth
Larry Gritz
Brian Cipriano
Nick Porcino
Kimball Thurston
Doug Walker
Production & Animation
2pm - 3:30pm PST Course
Course Computational Time-Resolved Imaging, Single-Photon Sensing, and Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging 
Simulive 3
Research & Education
2pm - 3pm PST Course
Course Computational Time-Resolved Imaging, Single-Photon Sensing, and Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
2pm - 3pm PST Educators Forum
Educators Forum Panel: Best Practices in Computer Classroom Layout
Zoom 3
2pm - 2:30pm PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion Q&A: Immersive Entertainment and Storytelling
2pm - 2:30pm PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion Q&A: Immersive Entertainment and Storytelling 
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: RGB++: Depth, 3D, and Light Fields
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper RGB++: Depth, 3D, and Light Fields 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Contact and Collisions 
Zoom 5
Research & Education
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Contact and Collisions
3pm - 4pm PST Production Session
Production Session ILM Presents: The Making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Simulive 2
Production & Animation
3pm - 4pm PST
Production Session
ILM Presents: The Making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (web)
Production Session
ILM Presents: The Making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Roger Guyett
Stacy Bissell
Paul Kavanagh
Production & Animation
3pm - 3:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Computational Time-Resolved Imaging, Single-Photon Sensing, and Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
4pm - 5pm PST
Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology
Beyond the Hands: Advances in Haptics
Adaptive Technology
Adaptability
4pm - 5:30pm PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Beyond the Hands: Advances in Haptics 
4pm - 4:30pm PST
Production Session
ILM Presents: The Making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (web)
Production Session
Q&A: ILM Presents: The Making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Production & Animation
4pm - 4:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session Q&A: ILM Presents: The Making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Production & Animation
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Through Digital Innovation Angle in Australasia
Tomasz Bednarz
Research & Education
4:30pm - 7:10pm PST Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater Electronic Theater Pre-show and Premiere 
Live Session
Production & Animation
4:30pm - 7:10pm PST Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater Electronic Theater Pre-show and Premiere
5pm - 5:30pm PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Q&A: Beyond the Hands: Advances in Haptics
Adaptive Technology
Adaptability
6pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
The CG industry, research and education in Asia
Miho Aoki
Rick Xu
Ayumi Kimura
Juyeon Hong
Hye Yeon Nam
June Kim
Research & Education
7pm - 7:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Networking Happy Hour - #MondayMotivation
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8pm - 9pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: The 33rd Yoichiro Kawaguchi’s CG Show and SAKE Party at SIGGRAPH 2020
Yoichiro Kawaguchi
Naomi Iwatani
Masaki Nakayama
Seiji Hori
Noriko Namikoshi
Miho Aoki
June Kim
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Tuesday, 25 August 2020 expand all · collapse all
Time Type Session / Presentation Contributors Location Tag Plan
8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a “Potpourri (Ever Changing Topics) Day 2
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a “Potpourri (Tech Tuesday) Day 2
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8am - 8:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Modeling and Synthesis 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
8am - 8:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Modeling and Synthesis
8:30am - 9am PST Talk
Talk Cool FX Stuff - Frozen 2 
Zoom 5
Arts & Design
Production & Animation
VR
8:30am - 9am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Geometric Deep Learning 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
8:30am - 9am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Cool FX Stuff - Frozen 2
8:30am - 9am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Geometric Deep Learning
9am - 10am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Advanced CAD Data Preparation - Presented by InstaLOD GmbH
Calvin E. Bacon
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Deep Learning
Modeling
Pipeline
Rendering
Visual Effects
9am - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 1 
Simulive 1
Gaming & Interactive
9am - 12pm PST Course
Course Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 1
9am - 9:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Deformation and Cloth 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
Modeling
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Going Cloud Native
Natasha Kelkar
Doug Sherman
Jeremy Smith
Gerald Tiu
Mark Turner
Production & Animation
9am - 10am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Mercenaries Engineering uplifts Guerilla Lighting & Render with Intel’s oneAPI - Presented by Intel
Philippe Llerena
Arts & Design
Production & Animation
Pipeline
Rendering
Visual Effects
9am - 10am PST Educators Forum
Educators Forum Panel: School to Industry: Preparing for the Change
Live Session
9am - 9:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Deformation and Cloth
9am - 9:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing with OptiX 7 
Zoom 3
Rendering
9am - 9:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing with OptiX 7
9:30am - 10:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Computer Graphics in the continent of Africa
Jihed Jaouabi
Gbenga Ajide
June Kim
Jamal Sullivan
Anoir Bennour
Hassan El Youbi Youbi
Augmented Reality
VR
9:30am - 10:30am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
LoUPE by Tangent Labs - A Fully Integrated CG Production Pipeline Management Tool - Presented by Tangent Labs
John Annis
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Deep Learning
Modeling
Pipeline
Rendering
Visual Effects
9:30am - 10am PST Course
Course Q&A: Deep Optics: Joint Design of Optics and Image Processing Algorithms for Domain Specific Cameras 
Zoom 4
9:30am - 10am PST Course
Course Q&A: Deep Optics: Joint Design of Optics and Image Processing Algorithms for Domain Specific Cameras
9:30am - 10am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Vector Graphics
9:30am - 10am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Vector Graphics 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Modeling
Rendering
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
4th Annual Bridging the Gap: VFX & Animation's Shift to a Remote Workforce Due to COVID-19, Production/Technology Discussion
Johanna and Joe D'Amato
Production & Animation
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward
M. Alex. O. Vasilescu
Eftychios Sifakis
Research & Education
10am - 10:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Capturing and Editing Faces 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
Rendering
10am - 10:30am PST Talk
Talk Character Animation 
Zoom 5
Production & Animation
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
10am - 11am PST Art Paper
Art Paper Culture and History Analytics 
Simulive 4
Arts & Design
AI/Machine Learning
10am - 11am PST
Art Paper
Art Paper
Culture and History Analytics
10am - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Fundamentals of Color Science 
Simulive 2
Arts & Design
Research & Education
10am - 1pm PST Course
Course Fundamentals of Color Science
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
MaterialX: An Open Standard for Network-Based CG Object Looks
Douglas B. Smythe
Production & Animation
10am - 11am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Optimizing Graphics Applications using Nsight Systems and Nsight Graphics - Presented by NVIDIA
Louis Bavoil
Andrew Allan
New Technologies
Rendering
10am - 10:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Capturing and Editing Faces
10am - 10:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Character Animation
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Secrets From A Lighting Artist
Michael Tanzillo
P. Jasmine Katatikarn
Production & Animation
10am - 11am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Virtual and Remote Production Panel - Presented by Microsoft
Hanno Basse
Dan Gregoire
Arjun Ramamurthy
Barry Goch
Joachim Zell
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Deep Learning
Rendering
10:30am - 11:30am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
AR/VR Workflows in Architecture Engineering and Construction and for safety training
Viveka Devadas
Production & Animation
10:30am - 11am PST Talk
Talk Crowds 
Zoom 4
Modeling
10:30am - 11am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Geometric Foundations 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Modeling
Rendering
10:30am - 11am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Crowds
10:30am - 11am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Geometric Foundations
11am - 12pm PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Pixels, Games, Humans, AI: Display Research at NVIDIA - Presented by NVIDIA
David Luebke
New Technologies
AI/Machine Learning
Rendering
11am - 11:30am PST Art Paper
Art Paper Q&A: Culture and History Analytics 
Zoom 2
Arts & Design
AI/Machine Learning
11am - 11:30am PST Educators Forum
Educators Forum Q&A: Educators Forum Talks 
Adaptive Technology
Adaptability
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
VFX Reference Platform - A Common Target for Building VFX Software
Nick Cannon
Francois Chardavoine
Production & Animation
11:30am - 12pm PST Talk
Talk Cool FX Stuff - CG Features 
Zoom 4
Production & Animation
Rendering
11:30am - 12pm PST Art Gallery
Art Gallery Fragmentation and Unity, the Dialogue of Analog and Virtual in Art 
Zoom 1
Arts & Design
11:30am - 12pm PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Cool FX Stuff - CG Features
11:30am - 12pm PST Art Gallery
Art Gallery Q&A: Fragmentation and Unity, the Dialogue of Analog and Virtual in Art
11:30am - 12:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session Quest for Magic: The Making of Pixar's Onward
Simulive 1
Production & Animation
11:30am - 12:30pm PST
Production Session
Quest for Magic: The Making of Pixar's Onward (web)
Production Session
Quest for Magic: The Making of Pixar's Onward
Tim Best
Renee Tam
Amy Allen
Paul Kanyuk
Jacob Brooks
Ana Lacaze
Sequoia Blankenship
Cody Harrington
Production & Animation
12pm - 1pm PST Art Paper
Art Paper Genealogical Visualization, Intimate AI, and VR 
Simulive 4
Arts & Design
Scientific Visualization
VR
12pm - 1pm PST
Art Paper
Art Paper
Genealogical Visualization, Intimate AI, and VR
12pm - 1pm PST Educators Forum
Educators Forum Panel: Educating the Next Generation of Animation Professionals
Zoom 3
12pm - 12:30pm PST Talk
Talk Pipeline 
Zoom 3
Production & Animation
AI/Machine Learning
12pm - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 1
12pm - 12:30pm PST Educators Forum
Educators Forum Q&A: An Interactive Introduction to WebGL 
12pm - 12:30pm PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Pipeline
12:30pm - 1pm PST Production Session
Production Session Q&A: Quest for Magic: The Making of Pixar's Onward
Production & Animation
12:30pm - 1pm PST
Production Session
Quest for Magic: The Making of Pixar's Onward (web)
Production Session
Q&A: Quest for Magic: The Making of Pixar's Onward Q&A
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Dynamic Simulation in Production
Mark A. McLaughlin
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Making a short film Automaton
Krzysztof Rost
Production & Animation
1pm - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Fundamentals of Color Science
1pm - 1:30pm PST Art Paper
Art Paper Q&A: Genealogical Visualization, Intimate AI, and VR 
Zoom 2
Arts & Design
AI/Machine Learning
1pm - 2pm PST
Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion
XR and Reality
1pm - 2:30pm PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion XR and Reality 
1:30pm - 2pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Geometry Processing 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
Modeling
Rendering
1:30pm - 2pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Geometry Processing
2pm - 3:30pm PST Course
Course A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics 
Simulive 2
Research & Education
2pm - 3pm PST Course
Course A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
DIGITAL POWER: Activism, Advocacy, and the Influence of Women Online
KathyRae Huffman
Hye Yeon Nam
Derick Ostrenko
Agatha Sunyoung Park
Charlotte Eifler
Leslie Labowitz Starus
Liliana Conlisk Gallegos
Victoria Szabo
Arts & Design
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Fluids 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
2pm - 3pm PST
Frontier Talk
Frontier Talk
From Special FX to Medical Simulation
Gregory J. Loan
Adaptive Technology
Adaptability
2pm - 3:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session More with Less: The State of the Art of CG In Advertising
Live Session
Production & Animation
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Fluids
2pm - 2:30pm PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion Q&A: XR and Reality
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Physically-Based Character Animation 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Physically-Based Character Animation
3pm - 4pm PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Consistent Neural Image and Video Synthesis with Conditional GANs - Presented by NVIDIA
Ming-Yu Liu
New Technologies
AI/Machine Learning
3pm - 3:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Optimization 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
VR
3pm - 3:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics
3pm - 3:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Optimization
4pm - 6pm PST Real-Time Live!
Real-Time Live! Real-Time Live! 
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
4pm - 6pm PST Real-Time Live!
Real-Time Live! Real-Time Live!
5pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - Drexel ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Exquisite Corpse
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Drexel ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Exquisite Corpse
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
6pm - 6:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Networking Happy Hour - #TechTuesday
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
6pm - 7:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
What is happening in Japanese CG research and industry now?
Bektur Ryskeldiev
Miho Aoki
Ayumi Kimura
June Kim
Research & Education
Wednesday, 26 August 2020 expand all · collapse all
Time Type Session / Presentation Contributors Location Tag Plan
8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a “Potpourri (Wellness Wednesday Soundscape) Day 3
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8am - 9am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Digital Content Creation on AWS Keynote - Presented by AWS
Olivia Ross
Colin Cupp
Production & Animation
Rendering
Visual Effects
8am - 8:30am PST Talk
Talk Hair and Fur 
Zoom 3
Production & Animation
Modeling
8am - 8:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Hair and Fur
8am - 8:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Tracking
8am - 8:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Tracking 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
VR
8:30am - 12pm PST Course
Course Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Structured Indoor Environments 
Simulive 2
Research & Education
Modeling
8:30am - 11:30am PST Course
Course Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Structured Indoor Environments
8:30am - 9am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Bubbles and Surface Tension 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Rendering
Scientific Visualization
8:30am - 9am PST
Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion
Engaging Experiences in VR
8:30am - 9am PST Immersive Pavilion
Immersive Pavilion Engaging Experiences in VR 
8:30am - 12pm PST Course
Course Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice 
Simulive 3
Gaming & Interactive
Rendering
8:30am - 11:30am PST Course
Course Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
8:30am - 9am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Bubbles and Surface Tension
8:30am - 9am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Shogun VFX Real-time Sign Language Finger Capture - Presented by Vicon
Tim Doubleday
Elicia Cobb
Adaptive Technology
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Adaptability
Pipeline
Rendering
Visual Effects
9am - 10am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Advanced Scan Data Processing - Presented by InstaLOD GmbH
Calvin E. Bacon
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Modeling
Pipeline
Rendering
Visual Effects
VR
9am - 9:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Characters and Rigid Bodies 
Zoom 1
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
VR
9am - 10am PST Art Paper
Art Paper Crafts, Waves, Robots, and Pixels 
Simulive 4
Arts & Design
VR
9am - 10am PST
Art Paper
Art Paper
Crafts, Waves, Robots, and Pixels
9am - 9:30am PST Talk
Talk Image Algorithms 
Zoom 4
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Rendering
9am - 10am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Industry firsts: How to launch a new creative studio, entirely on the cloud - Presented by AWS
OLivia Ross
Colin Cupp
Production & Animation
Rendering
Visual Effects
9am - 9:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Characters and Rigid Bodies
9am - 9:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Image Algorithms
9am - 9:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: Seeing Around Corners Using Time of Flight 
Zoom 3
AI/Machine Learning
9am - 9:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: Seeing Around Corners Using Time of Flight
9am - 10am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Streaming Data from Qualisys Track Manager into Unreal and Unity - Presented by Qualisys
Stephanie Knustrom
Martin Holmberg
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
VR
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Women in CG
Diana Arellano
Aruquia Peixoto
Hye Yeon Nam
Laura Morales
June Kim
9:30am - 10am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Mapping and Parameterization 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Modeling
9:30am - 10am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Mapping and Parameterization
10am - 10:30am PST Art Paper
Art Paper Q&A: Crafts, Waves, Robots, and Pixels 
Zoom 4
Arts & Design
VR
10am - 10:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Real-Time Rendering
10am - 11am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Ray Tracing in Unreal Engine 4 - Presented by NVIDIA
Richard Cowgill
New Technologies
Rendering
10am - 10:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Real-Time Rendering 
Zoom 1
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
Rendering
VR
10am - 11am PST
Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology
Seeing is Believing: XR Displays, Holograms, and Dyes
10am - 11:30am PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Seeing is Believing: XR Displays, Holograms, and Dyes 
10:30am - 11am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Face and Full Body Motion 
Zoom 2
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
VR
10:30am - 11am PST Talk
Talk Game Technology 
Zoom 3
Gaming & Interactive
Production & Animation
Research & Education
Rendering
Scientific Visualization
10:30am - 11am PST Art Gallery
Art Gallery Listen, Hear, Discern, Reflect - Experiential Approaches to Art, Data and Virtuality 
Zoom 5
Arts & Design
10:30am - 11am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Face and Full Body Motion
10:30am - 11am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Game Technology
10:30am - 11am PST Art Gallery
Art Gallery Q&A: Listen, Hear, Discern, Reflect - Experiential Approaches to Art, Data and Virtuality
10:30am - 11:30am PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Demo 
11am - 12pm PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Omniverse Platform Overview - Presented by NVIDIA
Jeff Kember
New Technologies
Production & Animation
AI/Machine Learning
Augmented Reality
Visual Effects
11am - 11:30am PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Q&A: Seeing is Believing: XR Displays, Holograms, and Dyes
11am - 12pm PST
Art Paper
Social Connections. Heritage, and Technological Realities
Art Paper
Social Connections, Heritage, and Technological Realities
11am - 12pm PST Art Paper
Art Paper Social Connections. Heritage, and Technological Realities 
Simulive 4
Arts & Design
AI/Machine Learning
Scientific Visualization
VR
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Volumetric Videos - transforming arts, entertainment and music industries
Hannah Bianchini
New Technologies
11:30am - 12pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Structured Indoor Environments
11:30am - 12pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
11:30am - 12pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs Q&A: SIGGRAPH Labs Demo 
12pm - 1pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Computer Graphics in Latin America
Aruquia Peixoto
Laura Morales
Gabriel Casique
Santiago Echeverry
June Kim
Research & Education
12pm - 1pm PST Production Session
Production Session ILM Presents: Making “The Irishman”
Simulive 1
Production & Animation
12pm - 1pm PST
Production Session
ILM Presents: Making “The Irishman” (web)
Production Session
ILM Presents: Making “The Irishman”
Pablo Helman
Leandro Estebecorena
Stephane Grabli
Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser
Production & Animation
12pm - 12:30pm PST Art Paper
Art Paper Q&A: Social Connections. Heritage, and Technological Realities 
Zoom 4
Arts & Design
AI/Machine Learning
Scientific Visualization
VR
12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: 2023: Celebrating SIGGRAPH50
Mary Whitton
David Kasik
12:30pm - 1pm PST Talk
Talk Cool FX Stuff - VR Features 
Zoom 3
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
Rendering
VR
12:30pm - 1pm PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Cool FX Stuff - VR Features
12:30pm - 2pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: Interactive Web-based Programming Through Game-based Methodologies - CANCELLED 
12:30pm - 1:30pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: Interactive Web-Based Programming Through Game-Based Methodologies- CANCELLED
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH: AI, Art and Social Justice: Understanding and Addressing Bias, Representation and Inclusive Practices in the Development of AI Systems
Andres Burbano
Ruth West
Valencia James
Vernelle A. A. Noel
Nettrice Gaskins
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
VIctoria Szabo
Arts & Design
1pm - 3:30pm PST Course
Course Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2 
Simulive 1
Gaming & Interactive
1pm - 3pm PST Course
Course Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2
1pm - 1:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Fabrication 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
Modeling
1pm - 1:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Fabrication
1pm - 1:30pm PST
Production Session
ILM Presents: Making “The Irishman” (web)
Production Session
Q&A: ILM Presents: Making "The Irishman"
Production & Animation
1pm - 1:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session Q&A: ILM Presents: Making “The Irishman”
Production & Animation
1pm - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Understanding Augmented Reality Inside and Out: Expanding Out into the World 
Zoom 4
Research & Education
Scientific Visualization
VR
1pm - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Understanding Augmented Reality Inside and Out: Expanding Out into the World
1:30pm - 2pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Appearance Acquisition and Inverse Rendering 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Rendering
1:30pm - 2pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Appearance Acquisition and Inverse Rendering
1:30pm - 2pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs Q&A: SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: Interactive Web-Based Programming Through Game-Based Methodologies - CANCELLED
1:30pm - 2:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session Venturing Into the Unknown - The Making of "Frozen 2"
Simulive 2
Production & Animation
1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Production Session
Production Session
Venturing Into the Unknown - The Making of "Frozen 2"
Sean D. Jenkins
Gregory Smith
Dale Mayeda
Steve Goldberg
Mohit Kallianpur
Production & Animation
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Cinematography 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Design Fiction Jam: Wondrous Wearables
Helen Oliver
Arts & Design
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Postcards from the Immersive Edge and Bloopers from the Virtual Classroom
Hye Yeon Nam
Miho Aoki
Research & Education
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Cinematography
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Sharing Ideas Teaching 3D Animation
Richard Lapidus
Research & Education
2pm - 2:30pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs - Installations 
2pm - 2:30pm PST
SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs - Installations (Scheduled Session)
SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs - Installations
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Women in Technology: Knocking Down Barriers
Sarah Counnas
Mike Day
Megha Davalath
John McStravick
Sarah Scialli
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Pattern and Color 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Pattern and Color
2:30pm - 3pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs Q&A: SIGGRAPH Labs - Installations
2:30pm - 3pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs Q&A: SIGGRAPH Labs - Installations 
2:30pm - 3pm PST Production Session
Production Session Q&A: Venturing Into the Unknown - The Making of "Frozen 2"
Production & Animation
2:30pm - 3pm PST
Production Session
Venturing Into the Unknown - The Making of "Frozen 2"
Production Session
Q&A: Venturing Into the Unknown - The Making of "Frozen 2"
Production & Animation
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Technical Papers
Sylvain Paris
Research & Education
3pm - 5pm PST Appy Hour
Appy Hour Appy Hour 
Simulive 3
Research & Education
3pm - 4pm PST Appy Hour
Appy Hour Appy Hour
3pm - 4pm PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Computing Light Transport Gradients using the Adjoint Method - Presented by NVIDIA
Jos Stam
New Technologies
Rendering
3pm - 3:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part 2
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
The XR Educators Survival Kit: Hidden Gems for Learning in a time of Remote Teaching
Marla Schweppe
Barbara Mones
Melissa Oldrin
Megan O'Connor
Nathan Thomas
Research & Education
3pm - 4pm PST Panel
Panel VR Theater Director's Panel - Part 1
4pm - 5pm PST
Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology
Enhancing Gameplay Through Haptic Feedback
4pm - 5:30pm PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Enhancing Gameplay Through Haptic Feedback 
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Exploring SocialXR as Education Laboratories for Experiential Learning (In AltspaceVR)
Christopher Stapleton
Thomas Furness III
Steve Lewis
Adaptive Technology
Research & Education
Adaptability
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
LA SIGGRAPH Chapters Gathering - ticket info
Joan Collins
New Technologies
4pm - 5pm PST Appy Hour
Appy Hour Q&A: Appy Hour
4:30pm - 5:30pm PST
Panel
Panel
Bringing VFX to the Table
Heath Hanlin
Shaina Holmes
Raqi Syed
Sunny Teich
Live Session
Production & Animation
Research & Education
5pm - 11pm PST
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters Party Room - LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a six-hour DJ-VJ set
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a six-hour DJ-VJ set
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - MTSU ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts SIGGRAPH Student Hangout
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 6pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Immersive and Interactive Experiences
Mark Billinghurst
Tomasz Bednarz
Bektur Ryskeldiev
June Kim
Augmented Reality
VR
5pm - 5:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Networking Happy Hour - #WisdomWednesday
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 5:30pm PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Q&A: Enhancing Gameplay Through Haptic Feedback
6pm - 8pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Virtual Escape Room -- NETWORKING
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Thursday, 27 August 2020 expand all · collapse all
Time Type Session / Presentation Contributors Location Tag Plan
8am - 9am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
A Look at Some Top Entries in the Houdini Houly Daily Art Challenge - Presented by SideFX
Paola Catano
Christopher Hebert
Production & Animation
Modeling
Pipeline
Rendering
Visual Effects
8am - 9am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts a “Potpourri (Throwback Thursday) Day 4
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
8am - 8:30am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Hive VFX: Automating virtual studio deployment on AWS - Presented by AWS
Olivia Ross
Colin Cupp
Visual Effects
8am - 8:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Simulating Natural Phenomena
8am - 8:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Simulating Natural Phenomena 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
VR
8:30am - 9am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Appearance Modeling 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Rendering
8:30am - 10am PST
Panel
Panel
NYIT Computer Graphics Lab Then and Now
Hank Grebe
Ed Catmull
Alvy Ray Smith
Theresa Ellis Rygiel
Dan Hopen
Pat Hanrahan
Rebecca Allen
Live Session
Research & Education
Rendering
8:30am - 9am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Appearance Modeling
8:30am - 9:15am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Virtual workstations: The new must-have studio essential - Presented by AWS
Olivia Ross
Colin Cupp
Production & Animation
Rendering
Visual Effects
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: ISEA International - Open Forum
sue Gollifer
Research & Education
9am - 10am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects: Annual Meeting
Miho Aoki
William Joel
Johannes DeYoung
Claudia Davis
Anna Ursyn
Research & Education
9am - 9:30am PST Talk
Talk Cool FX Stuff - Live Action VFX 
Zoom 3
Production & Animation
Modeling
9am - 9:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Haptics and Touch 
Zoom 1
Adaptive Technology
Research & Education
Adaptability
Modeling
Rendering
VR
9am - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: A Comprehensive Introduction 
Simulive 4
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
9am - 12pm PST Course
Course Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: A Comprehensive Introduction
9am - 9:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Cool FX Stuff - Live Action VFX
9am - 9:30am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Haptics and Touch
Adaptability
9am - 9:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: Intelligent Tools for Creative Graphics 
Zoom 4
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
9am - 9:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: Intelligent Tools for Creative Graphics
9am - 11:30am PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: //makeMeaning: Designing Objects With a Data Materialization Workflow 
9am - 10am PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: //makeMeaning: Designing Objects With a Data Materialization Workflow (Part 1 of 3)
9am - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Virtual Hands in VR: Motion Capture, Synthesis, and Perception 
Simulive 3
Research & Education
VR
9am - 12pm PST Course
Course Virtual Hands in VR: Motion Capture, Synthesis, and Perception
9:15am - 9:45am PST
Exhibitor Session
Exhibitor Session
Cinesite tells all: How cloud rendering can revolutionize VFX & feature animation workflows - Presented by AWS
Olivia Ross
Colin Cupp
Production & Animation
Rendering
Visual Effects
9:30am - 10am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Developing Geometry 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Modeling
9:30am - 10am PST Talk
Talk Game Technology in Engineering, Science and Society 
Zoom 5
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
VR
9:30am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Innovations in Creative Industries in Russia
Asiya Gizatulina
Bektur Ryskeldiev
Sergey Tsypsyn
Helena Nikonole
Arman Yahin
Maxim Zhestkov
Alexey Kalenchuk
New Technologies
9:30am - 10am PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Developing Geometry
9:30am - 10am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Game Technology in Engineering, Science and Society
10am - 11am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Evolving Graphics Hardware Beyond the Triangle: What does the next generation GPU Architecture look like?
Atif Zafar
Steve Brightfield
Jon Peddie
Andrew Gruber
Dave Shreiner
New Technologies
10am - 10:30am PST Talk
Talk Facial Animation 
Zoom 3
10am - 10:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: Facial Animation
10am - 11am PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: //makeMeaning: Designing Objects With a Data Materialization Workflow (Part 2 of 3)
10am - 11:30am PST Course
Course Troubleshooting and Cleanup Techniques for 3D Printing 
Simulive 2
Research & Education
Modeling
10am - 11am PST Course
Course Troubleshooting and Cleanup Techniques for 3D Printing
11am - 12pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Undergraduate Research Alliance
William Joel
Research & Education
11am - 12pm PST
Frontier Talk
Crowd Sleuths: Solving Mysteries with Crowdsourcing, Experts, and AI
Frontier Talk
Crowd Sleuths: Solving Mysteries with Crowdsourcing, Experts, and AI
Kurt Luther
11am - 11:30am PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs Q&A: SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: //makeMeaning: Designing Objects With a Data Materialization Workflow (Part 3 of 3)
11am - 11:30am PST Talk
Talk Q&A: The Last of Us 2
11am - 11:30am PST Course
Course Q&A: Troubleshooting and Cleanup Techniques for 3D Printing (CANCELLED)
11am - 11:30am PST Talk
Talk The Last of Us 2 
Zoom 2
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
Pipeline
11:30am - 12pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Crowds, Paths, and Puzzles 
Zoom 1
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Modeling
VR
11:30am - 12pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Crowds, Paths, and Puzzles
12pm - 1pm PST Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater Electronic Theater Director's Panel 
Live Session
Production & Animation
12pm - 1pm PST
Panel
Panel
Electronic Theater Director's Panel
12pm - 1pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Global VFX Pipelines
Fran Zandonella Benjamin
Alex Schworer
Rob Blau
Production & Animation
12pm - 12:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Image and Video Processing 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
12pm - 12:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Image and Video Processing
12pm - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: A Comprehensive Introduction
12pm - 12:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Virtual Hands in VR: Motion Capture, Synthesis, and Perception
12:30pm - 2pm PST Course
Course Eye-Based Interaction in Graphical Systems: 20 Years Later 
Simulive 1
Research & Education
12:30pm - 1:30pm PST Course
Course Eye-Based Interaction in Graphical Systems: 20 Years Later
12:30pm - 1pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Monte Carlo and Perception 
Zoom 1
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
Rendering
12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Overcoming production hurdles in CG industry in the age of social distancing
Asiya Gizatulina
June Kim
Christopher Bedrosian
JD Fievet
Alexis Wanneroy
Victoria Vong
Production & Animation
12:30pm - 1pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Monte Carlo and Perception
1pm - 1:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Smart Sampling
1pm - 1:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Smart Sampling 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
Rendering
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
State of Hair in the Industry
Megha Davalath
Production & Animation
1pm - 2pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Virtual Production in Education
Nick Jushchyshyn
Research & Education
1:30pm - 2pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Motion Matching and Retargeting 
Zoom 1
Gaming & Interactive
Research & Education
AI/Machine Learning
Rendering
1:30pm - 2pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Eye-Based Interaction in Graphical Systems: 20 Years Later
1:30pm - 2pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Motion Matching and Retargeting
1:30pm - 2:30pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: Story-Go-Round: Augmented Reality Storytelling in the Multidisciplinary Classroom
1:30pm - 3pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: Story-Go-Round: Augmented Reality Storytelling in the Multidisciplinary Classroom 
2pm - 3pm PST Production Session
Production Session ILM Presents "This is the Way" – The Making of Mandalorian
Simulive 1
Production & Animation
2pm - 3pm PST
Production Session
Production Session
ILM Presents "This is the Way" – The Making of Mandalorian
Richard Bluff
Landis Fields
Rachel Rose
Production & Animation
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: VR Hardware
2pm - 3pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
State of Rigging in the Industry
Valerie Bernard
Production & Animation
2pm - 5:30pm PST Course
Course Understanding Augmented Reality Inside and Out: A Solid Grounding 
Simulive 2
Augmented Reality
VR
2pm - 5pm PST Course
Course Understanding Augmented Reality Inside and Out: A Solid Grounding
2pm - 2:30pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper VR Hardware 
Zoom 2
Research & Education
VR
2:30pm - 3pm PST SIGGRAPH Labs
SIGGRAPH Labs Q&A: SIGGRAPH Labs Hands-On Class: Story-Go-Round: Augmented Reality Storytelling in the Multidisciplinary Classroom
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Q&A: Simulating With Points
2:30pm - 3pm PST Technical Paper
Technical Paper Simulating With Points 
Zoom 1
Research & Education
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Making XR a Reality for Teaching Culturally Relevant STEAM Concepts
Loretta Cheeks
Amon Millner
Kwaku Aning
Oyewole Oyekoya
Research & Education
3pm - 3:30pm PST
Production Session
ILM Presents "This is the Way" – The Making of Mandalorian
Production Session
Q&A: ILM Presents "This is the Way" - The Making of Mandalorian
Production & Animation
3pm - 3:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session Q&A: ILM Presents "This is the Way" – The Making of Mandalorian
Production & Animation
3pm - 4pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
State of Animation Tools in the Industry
Valerie Bernard
Production & Animation
3:30pm - 4:30pm PST Production Session
Production Session Spies in Disguise: the Art of Stealth and Sterling, Lance Sterling
Simulive 1
Production & Animation
3:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Production Session
Production Session
Spies in Disguise: the Art of Stealth and Sterling, Lance Sterling
Michael Knapp
Matt Simmons
Sabine Heller
James Williams
Elvira Pinkhas
Jeeyun Sung
Production & Animation
4pm - 5pm PST
Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology
Mapping the Future: New Techniques in Projection Technology
4pm - 5:30pm PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Mapping the Future: New Techniques in Projection Technology 
4pm - 5pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter
David Vega
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
4:30pm - 5pm PST Production Session
Production Session Q&A: Spies in Disguise: the Art of Stealth and Sterling, Lance Sterling
Production & Animation
4:30pm - 5pm PST
Production Session
Spies in Disguise: the Art of Stealth and Sterling, Lance Sterling
Production Session
Q&A: Spies in Disguise: The Art of Stealth and Sterling, Lance Sterling
Production & Animation
5pm - 7pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH BOF: Chapters Party Room - Bogota ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter hosts Magic Realism
ACM SIGGRAPH PSCC
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 5:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Networking Happy Hour - #ThrowbackThursday
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
5pm - 5:30pm PST Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology Q&A: Mapping the Future: New Techniques in Projection Technology
5pm - 5:30pm PST Course
Course Q&A: Understanding Augmented Reality Inside and Out: A Solid Grounding
5:30pm - 6:30pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Feedback on the Virtual Experience
Adam Bargteil
Mikki Rose
6pm - 8pm PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Virtual Trivia -- NETWORKING
Corinne Price
Social (Reunions/Alumni Events)
Friday, 28 August 2020 expand all · collapse all
Time Type Session / Presentation Contributors Location Tag Plan
5am - 6am PST
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
ACM SIGGRAPH Town Hall: Technical Papers II