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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

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3 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE 

29 STUDIO 

4 REASONS TO ATTEND 

31 TALKS 

5 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW 

37 TECHNICAL PAPERS 

7 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

50 VR VILLAGE 

11 APPY HOUR 

53 BIRDS OF A FEATHER 

12 ART GALLERY: DATA MATERIALITIES 

54 ACM SIGGRAPH THEATER EVENTS 

14 ART PAPERS 

55 EXHIBITION 

15 COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL 

56 EXHIBITOR SESSIONS 

16 COURSES 

57 JOB FAIR 

20 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES 

58 GENERAL INFORMATION 

23 PANELS 

59 REGISTRATION FEE INFORMATION 

24 PRODUCTION SESSIONS 

60 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 

27 REAL-TIME LIVE! 

61 CO-LOCATED EVENTS 

INVITED CONTENT 

SIGGRAPH 2016 offers several events and sessions that are individually 

chosen by program chairs to address specific topics in computer graphics 

and interactive techniques. Invited Content is not selected through the 

regular channels of a comprehensive jury. 

Focus Areas 

Many SIGGRAPH 2016 programs and events are assigned to focused 

areas of interest in computer graphics and interactive techniques, and 

some are especially appropriate for first-time attendees. 

ART FIRST-TIMER FOR EDUCATORS AR/VR MOBILE 

RESEARCH ANIMATION & VFX GAMES PRODUCTION 

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CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE 

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CONFERENCE 

REGISTRATION CATEGORIES 

FP Full Conference Platinum 

F Full Conference 

S Select Conference 

EP Exhibits Plus 

EO Exhibits Only 

E Exhibitors 

ONE-DAY REGISTRATION 

Full Conference One Day registration 

is available. Includes admission to 

conference programs and events for 

the day purchased and the Exhibition 

(Tuesday-Thursday). 

It does NOT include Computer 

Animation Festival – Electronic Theater 

or Reception. 

 

Schedule subject to change. 

Look for an updated version of the 

Advance Program at the end of June. 

Visit s2016.siggraph.org. 

Saturday, 23 July 

registration hours: 4-6 pm. 

24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 

Registration/Merchandise Pickup 8 am - 6 pm 8:30 am - 6 pm 8:30 am - 6 pm 8:30 am - 6 pm 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 

Center/SIGGRAPH Store 

FP F S ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks 2 - 3:30 pm 

FP F S EP ACM Student Research 3:45 - 5:15 pm 

Competition Final Presentation 

FP F S EP E Appy Hour 5 - 7 pm 

FP F S EP E Art Gallery noon - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 1 pm 

FP F S Art Papers 3:45 - 5:35 pm 

FP F S EP E Birds of a Feather All week 

FP F S Computer Animation Festival 10 am-5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 

Daytime Selects 

FP F Computer Animation Festival 6 - 8 pm 8 - 10 pm 

Electronic Theater 

FP F Courses 10:45 am - 5:15 pm 9 am - 5:15 pm 9 am - 5:15 pm 9 am - 5:15 pm 9 am - 5:15 pm 

FP F S EP E Emerging Technologies noon - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 1 pm 

FP F S EP EO E Exhibition 9:30 am - 6 pm 9:30 am - 6 pm 9:30 am - 3:30 pm 

FP F S EP EO E Exhibitor Sessions 9:30 am - 6 pm 9:30 am - 6 pm 9:30 am - 3:30 pm 

FP F S EP EO E Exhibits Fast Forward 3:45 - 5:15 pm 

FP F S EP E Experience Presentations 2 - 3:30 pm 9 - 10:30 am 10:45 am - 3:30 pm 9 am - 12:15 pm 

(Art Gallery, Emerging 

2 - 3:30 pm 

Technologies, Studio, VR Village) 

FP F S EP E International Center 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 3:30 pm 

FP F S EP EO E Job Fair 9:30 am - 6 pm 9:30 am - 6 pm 9:30 am - 3:30 pm 

FP F S Keynote Session *11 am - 12:45 pm 

FP F Panels 9 - 10:30 am 2 - 3:30 pm 9 - 10:30 am 

FP F S EP E Posters noon - 5:30 pm 9 am - 5:30 pm 9 am - 5:30 pm 9 am - 5:30 pm 9 am - 5:30 pm 

FP F S EP E Poster Sessions 12:15 - 1:15 pm 12:15 - 1:15 pm 

FP F S Production Sessions 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 2 - 3:30 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 10:45 am - 5:15 pm 10:45 am - 5:15 pm 

3:45 - 5:15 pm 

FP F S Real-Time Live! 5:30 - 7:15 pm 

FP F Reception 8 - 10 pm 

FP F S EP E Studio noon - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 1 pm 

FP F S EP E Studio Workshops 2 - 5:15 pm 2 - 5:15 pm 10:45 am - 3:30 pm 10:45 am - 5:15 pm 

FP F Talks 10:45 am - 5:15 pm 9 - 10:30 am 9 am - 5:15 pm 2 - 5:15 pm 9 - 10:30 am 

2 - 5:35 pm 2 - 5:15 pm 

FP F Technical Papers 9 - 10:30 am 9 am - 5:35 pm 9 am - 5:35 pm 9 am - 5:35 pm 

3:45 - 5:35 pm 

FP F Technical Papers Fast Forward 6 - 8 pm 

FP F S EP E VR Village noon - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 5:30 pm 10 am - 1 pm 

*The ACM SIGGRAPH Award Presentation immediately precedes the Keynote Session 


REASONS TO ATTEND 

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Why SIGGRAPH? 

While you could add to your skill set in your spare time — studying and navigating industry 

trends from your home or office computer — there is nothing quite like immersing yourself 

in a world of cutting-edge computer graphics and interactive techniques. Whether you’re 

in animation, research, product development, or fine arts and design, SIGGRAPH has you 

covered. See below to find out how you, and your employer, can benefit from attending this 

year’s conference. 

LEARNING 

A relaxed yet effective educational atmosphere, SIGGRAPH 2016 is jam-packed 

with informative courses, talks, sessions, panels, etc. 

“An opportunity to meet and explore the possibilities of technological advancements in 

the industry from around the world.” 

INSPIRATION 

SIGGRAPH 2016 is where creative blocks vanish. Be inspired! 

“Besides the fact that you get to learn, test, and discover the newest technologies and 

software, SIGGRAPH gives you a huge inspiration boost. It makes you want to go and 

do something amazing.” 

EXPERTISE 

Major companies and studios. Genius academics and engineers. Researchers 

and innovators. 

“It helped me define a direction in my career. The opportunity to meet creators and 

professionals and see how they work was the most effective way to learn.” 

ENGAGEMENT 

At SIGGRAPH 2016, you won’t be just a casual observer. 

“Think of everything that has ever made you geek out and feel so passionate about 

something in your whole life and put it into one feeling...That, my friend, is the feeling 

you get when being at SIGGRAPH.” 

EXCLUSIVE 

Not only will you discover amazing content at SIGGRAPH 2016 that you won’t find 

anywhere else, but you can also make this conference uniquely your own by simply 

following your interests. 

“It’s like stepping into the future. Nothing is impossible.” 

COMMUNITY 

Thousands of international researchers, educators, animators, students, and pioneers 

in computer graphics and interactive techniques congregate at this exciting event. 

“Immersing yourself among such diversity, united by common ideals, is an experience 

that cannot be replicated or accurately quantified. Its key benefit is leaving thinking if 

they can, I can!” 


CONFERENCE OVERVIEW 

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SIGGRAPH 2016 is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience, featuring the 

world’s most prestigious forum for computer graphics research, creative adventures 

in digital media, immersive realities, emerging interactive technologies, advanced 

mobile systems, and hands-on opportunities for creative collaboration. 

CONFERENCE 







E Exhibitors 


Full Conference One Day registration 

is available. Includes admission to 

conference programs and events for 

the day purchased and the Exhibition 


It does NOT include Computer 

Animation Festival – Electronic Theater 

or Reception. 

FP F S 

KEYNOTE SESSION 

The Keynote Session presents a 

prestigious, sometimes provocative, 

speaker who surveys the technology 

landscape and offers guidance 

to the future of human-machine 

collaboration. 

FP F 

RECEPTION 

Monday, 25 July, 8-10 pm 

Grand Plaza, Anaheim Convention Center 

Mix and mingle at the international 

SIGGRAPH community’s annual social 

and intellectual soirée. Drink a toast to 

your colleagues’ achievements, and 

your own. Share a convivial evening 

with people you haven’t seen since 

SIGGRAPH 2015. And meet the people 

you need to know for another year of 

professional success and adventure. 

FP F S 

ACM SIGGRAPH AWARDS 

PRESENTATIONS 

(Immediately preceding the Keynote Session) 

ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Award Recipients 

The Computer Graphics 

Achievement Award 

Frédo Durand 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

The Significant New Researcher Award 

Chris Wojtan 

IST Austria 

ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding 

Service Award 

Alain Chesnais 

TrendSpottr 

Outstanding Doctoral 

Dissertation Award 

Eduardo Simões Lopes Gastal 

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 

The Distinguished Artist Award for 

Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art 

Steina Vasulka 

FP F S 

ACM SIGGRAPH AWARD TALKS 

The Computer Graphics 

Achievement Award 

Awarded annually to recognize a major 

accomplishment that: provided a significant 

advance in the state of the art of computer 

graphics and is still significant and apparent. 

The Significant New Researcher Award 

Awarded annually to a researcher who has made 

a recent significant contribution to the field of 

computer graphics and is new to the field. 

ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding 

Service Award 

This award is given annually to recognize 

outstanding service to ACM SIGGRAPH by a 

volunteer over a significant period of time. 

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation 

Award (New) 

Awarded annually to recognize young researchers 

who have already made a notable contribution 

very early during their doctoral study. 

The Distinguished Artist Award for 

Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art 

Awarded annually to an artist who has created 

a substantial and important body of work that 

significantly advances aesthetic content in the field 

of digital art. 

FP F S EP 

ACM STUDENT RESEARCH 

COMPETITION FINAL 

PRESENTATION 

Fifteen student posters are selected for judging at 

SIGGRAPH 2016. A panel of distinguished judges 

selects three semi-finalists in each category 

(undergraduate and graduate), who present their 

work to SIGGRAPH 2016 attendees. 


CONFERENCE OVERVIEW (continued) 

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FP F S EP E 

APPY HOUR 

Meet the next generation of mobile applications 

and their creators at Appy Hour. Interact with 

the developers, and experience tomorrow’s 

mobile media. 

FP F S EP E 

ART GALLERY: 

DATA MATERIALITIES 

The SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery exposes a 

plethora of data and transforms it to incarnations 

of tangibility that not only showcase their 

complexity, but also allow us to relate to them on 

a human scale. 

FP F S 

ART PAPERS 

The processes and theoretical frameworks for 

making art and contextualizing its place in society. 

FP F S EP E 

BIRDS OF A FEATHER (BOF) 

Informal presentations, discussions, and 

demonstrations, designed by and for people 

who share interests, goals, technologies, 

environments, or backgrounds. 

COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL 

FP F S – Daytime Selects 

FP F – Electronic Theater 

High-tech projection of the finest achievements 

in animated feature and short films, games, 

advertising, visual effects, real-time effects, realtime 

graphics, and scientific visualization. 

FP F 

COURSES 

Essential skills and insider knowledge delivered 

by world-class experts. Courses range from 

an introduction to the foundations of computer 

graphics and interactive techniques for those new 

to the field to advanced instruction on the most 

current techniques and topics. 

FP F S EP E 

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES 

Test-drive the latest interactive and graphic 

technologies before they transform the way we live 

and work. Emerging Technologies presents handson 

demonstrations of research from a wide variety 

of disciplines, including automotive systems, 

displays, input devices, and wearable technology. 

FP F S EP EO E 

EXHIBITION 

This year’s largest, most comprehensive exhibition 

of hardware systems, software tools, and creative 

services in the computer graphics and interactive 

techniques marketplace. Established industry 

leaders and emerging challengers display, 

discuss, and demonstrate the products, systems, 

techniques, ideas, and inspiration that are creating 

the digital future. 


EXHIBITOR SESSIONS 

SIGGRAPH 2016 exhibitors demonstrate 

software, hardware, and systems; answer 

questions; and host one-on-one conversations 

about how their applications improve professional 

and technical performance. 


EXHIBITS FAST FORWARD 

A preview of the products and announcements 

that companies plan to make during the Exhibition 

in a fast-paced, entertaining session before the 

Exhibition opens. 

FP F S EP E 

EXPERIENCE PRESENTATIONS 

Informal presentations on new ideas that 

are applicable to techniques, concepts, and 

strategies related to the Experience Hall 

programs: Art Gallery, Emerging Technologies, 

Studio, and VR Village. 

FP F S EP E 

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES 

Learn how the industry is evolving worldwide 

and collaborative with attendees from five 

continents. The International Center offers informal 

translation services and space for meetings, talks, 

and demonstrations. 


JOB FAIR 

Looking for opportunity? Interested in meeting 

with some inspiring companies? Discover your 

future at SIGGRAPH 2016. In the Job Fair, 

attendees connect with employers before, during, 

and after the conference via the CreativeHeads. 

net job board and candidate profiling system. 

FP F 

PANELS 

Expert panelists share experiences, opinions, 

insights, speculation, disagreement, and 

controversy with each other and the audience. 

FP F S EP E 

POSTERS 

In-progress research, student projects, and 

late-breaking work ranging from applications 

of computer graphics to in-depth analysis of a 

specific subject. During Poster Presentations, 

authors discuss their work with attendees. 

FP F S 

PRODUCTION SESSIONS 

Hear how the most elite and talented computer 

graphic experts and creative geniuses explain 

their processes and techniques for creating 

compelling content. 

FP F S 

REAL-TIME LIVE! 

An interactive extravaganza that celebrates realtime 

achievements at the intersection of ingenious 

technical skills and creative beauty, Real-Time 

Live! showcases the latest trends and techniques 

for pushing the boundaries of interactive visuals. 

FP F S EP E 

STUDIO 

Explore new tools, applications, and methods 

to create, craft, build, and share. New this year: 

“Feuding Cities”, a physical and virtual game that 

plays out in both worlds and allows attendees 

the chance to work (and play) together to create 

something special. Attend Studio Workshops that 

educate attendees on state-of-the-art processes 

and workflow pipelines. 

FP F 

TALKS 

Explore the latest in-progress developments 

and how they will be implemented in graphics 

production or other fields. 

FP F 

TECHNICAL PAPERS 

These prestigious juried presentations are the 

most influential international scientific events in 

computer graphics and interactive techniques. 

FP F 

TECHNICAL PAPERS FAST FORWARD 

The world’s leading experts in computer graphics 

and interactive techniques preview the Technical 

Papers in provocative, sometimes hilarious 

summaries of the field’s evolution. 

FP F S EP E 

VR VILLAGE 

Explore real-time immersion in tomorrow’s virtual 

and augmented realities for telling stories, engaging 

audiences, and powering real–world applications in 

health, education, design, and gaming. 


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

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REGISTRATION/MERCHANDISE PICKUP CENTER/SIGGRAPH STORE 

Saturday, 23 July 

4-6 pm 

Sunday, 24 July 

8 am-6 pm 

Monday, 25 July 

8:30 am-6 pm 

Tuesday, 26 July 

8:30 am-6 pm 

Wednesday, 27 July 

8:30 am-6 pm 

Thursday, 28 July 

8:30 am-3:30 pm 

 

Schedule is subject to change. 

SUNDAY, 24 JULY 

9:30-10:30 am 

Panel: Ready, Steady ... SIGGRAPH!!!! 

9 am-6 pm 

International Center 

10-11:30 am 

ACM SIGGRAPH Theater Event: 

BOF: International Collegiate Virtual Reality 

Contest (IVRC) 

10 am-5:30 pm 

Computer Animation Festival – 


10:45 am-12:15 pm 

Course: Fundamentals Seminar 

Course: Haptic Technologies for Direct 

Touch in Virtual Reality 

Production Sessions: The Making of 

Pearl, a Google Spotlight Story 

Talks: Too Hot to Handle 

Talks: Van Gogh Would be Proud 

Talks: Get in Shape 

11:30 am-12:30 pm 


CG in Australasia 

Noon-5:30 pm 

Art Gallery 

Emerging Technologies 

Posters 

Studio 

VR Village 

2-3 pm 


Overview of SIGGRAPH (with 

Japanese Interpreter) 

2-3:30 pm 

Course: An Elementary Introduction to 

Matrix Exponential for CG 

Course: Story: It’s Not Just for Writers 

Anymore 

Experience Presentations: Studio 

Studio Workshop 

Talks: Life is Shorts 

2-5:15 pm 

Course: Augmented Reality – Principles 

and Practice 

Course: Moving Mobile Graphics 

Course: Physically Based Shading in 

Theory and Practice 

3-4:30 pm 


ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community 

3:45-5:15 pm 

Course: Troubleshooting and Cleanup 

Techniques for 3D Printing 

Course: Capturing the Human Body: From 

VR, Consumer, to Health Applications 


3:45-5:35 pm 

Talks: Dark Hides the Light 

6-8 pm 

Technical Papers Fast Forward 

MONDAY, 25 JULY 

9-10:30 am 

Course: Human-Centered Design for 

VR Interactions 

Experience Presentations: Art Gallery 


Experience Presentations: VR Village 

Talks: Dancing Trees 

Technical Papers: Computational 

Cameras 

Technical Papers: Rigging & Skinning 

Technical Papers: Geometry 

9-11 am 

ACM SIGGRAPH Theater Event: BOF: 

Immersive Visualization for Science, 

Research and Art – International 

9 am-12:15 pm 

Special Session: Advances in Real-Time 

Rendering, Part I 

9 am-5:30 pm 

Posters 

9 am-6 pm 


10 am-5:30 pm 

Art Gallery 


Studio 

VR Village 

11 am-12:45 pm 

Keynote Session 

1:30-3 pm 


ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization 


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (continued) 

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Monday, 25 July Continued 

2-3:30 pm 

ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks 

Course: HDR Content Creation: Creative 

and Technical Challenges 

Experience Presentations: Art Gallery 


Production Session: “Kubo and the 

Two Strings”: One Giant Skeleton, One 

Colossal Undertaking 


Talks: Angry Effects Salad 

2-5:15 pm 

Course: Vector-Field Processing on 

Triangle Meshes 

Special Session: Advances in Real-Time 

Rendering, Part II 

3:30-4:30 pm 


CG in Asia 

3:45-5:15 pm 

Exhibits Fast Forward 


3:45-5:35 pm 

Talks: Face Off 

Technical Papers: Efficient Sampling 

& Rendering 

Technical Papers: Fabricating Structure 

& Appearance 

Technical Papers: Shape Analysis 

6-8 pm 



8-10 pm 

Reception 

TUESDAY, 26 JULY 

9-10 am 


International Khronos Chapters Program 

9-10:30 am 

Course: Computational Geometry 

Algorithms Library 

Talks: Icing on the Cake 

Talks: Roll the Dice 

Technical Papers: Cloth 

Technical Papers: Perception of Shapes 

and People 

9 am-12:15 pm 

Course: Inverse Procedural Modeling of 3D 

Models for Virtual Worlds 

Course: The Quest for the Ray Tracing API 

9 am-5:30 pm 

Posters 

9 am-6 pm 


9:30 am-6 pm 

Exhibition 

Exhibitor Sessions 

Job Fair 

10 am-5:30 pm 

Art Gallery 




Studio 

VR Village 

10:30-11:30 am 

Exhibitor Session: Nokia – Nokia OZO 

Ecosystem: The State of Art in VR 

10:45 am-12:15 pm 


ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts 

Community – Science of the Unseen: 

Digital Art Perspecives 

Production Session: The Making of 

Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” 


Talks: A Tall Drink of Water 

Talks: UIST Reprise at SIGGRAPH 2016 

Technical Papers: Rendering of 

Complex Microstructure 

Technical Papers: Computational Display 

Technical Papers: Camera Control & VR 

12:15-1:15 pm 

Poster Sessions 

1-2 pm 


50-50: Women in CG 

2-3 pm 

Exhibitor Session: Microsoft – Why You 

Should be Rendering on the Cloud 

2-3:30 pm 


BOF: CCIFF, Art and Entertainment 

Technoogy Film Festival 

Panel: A Vision for Computer Vision: 


Reception: Leonardo, Art Papers, and 

Art Gallery 


Talks: Building Character 

Talks: IEEE TVCG Session on Virtual and 

Augmented Reality 

Technical Papers: Materials 

Technical Papers: Display Software 

2-5:15 pm 

Special Session: Open Problems in 

Real-Time Rendering 

3:30-4:30 pm 

ACM SIGGRAPH Theater Event: CG in 

Latin America: “Encontro dos brasileiros” – 

Brazillian Meeting 

3:45-5:15 pm 

Art Papers Session 

Production Sessions: The VFX of Disney’s 

“The Jungle Book” 

Talks: IEEE TVCG Session on Advances in 

Data Visualization 

Talks: Brain & Brawn 

3:45-5:35 pm 

Technical Papers: Correspondence 

& Mapping 

Technical Papers: Fluids Simulation 

Technical Papers: Motion Control 

4:30-5:30 pm 


Latin America 

5:30-7:15 pm 

Real-Time Live! 

6-8 pm 

Pioneer Reception 



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WEDNESDAY, 27 JULY 

9-10 am 

ACM SIGGRAPH Theater Event: ACM 

SIGGRAPH Chapters Business Meeting 

Exhibitor Session: Avere Systems – 

Compute Cloud for Rendering – Big Studio 

Results on a Small Studio Budget 

9-10:30 am 

Course: Geometric and Discrete-Path 

Planning for Interactive Virtual Worlds 

Course: A Practical Introduction to 

Frequency Analysis of Light Transport 

Panel: What Makes a Production 

Renderer in 2016 

Technical Papers: Optimizing 

Image Processing 

Technical Papers: Computational Design 

of Structures, Shapes and Sound 

Technical Papers: Deformable 

Surface Design 

9 am-12:15 pm 

Course: An Introduction to Graphics 

Programming Using WebGL 

9 am-5:30 pm 

Posters 

9 am-6 pm 


9:30 am-6 pm 

Exhibition 

Exhibitor Sessions 

Job Fair 

10-11 am 


Professional and Student Chapters 

Startup Meeting 

10 am-5:30 pm 

Art Gallery 


Studio 

VR Village 

10:30-11:30 am 

Exhibitor Session: Bournemouth 

University – Dr. Inventor Your Personal, 

Creative Research Assistant 

10:45 am-12:15 pm 

Course: Fourier Analysis of Numerical 

Integration in Monte Carlo Rendering: 

Theory and Practice 


Production Sessions: Under the Sea – 

The Making of “Finding Dory” 


Technical Papers: Image & 

Shape Manipulation 

Technical Papers: Sound, Fluids, 

and Boundaries 

Technical Papers: Curve & Strut 

Networks for Fabrication 

10:45 am-12:35 pm 

Technical Papers: Image & Shape 

Manipulation 

11 am-Noon 


DCAJ Presentation “Industrial Application of 

Content Technology in Japan” 

12:15-1:15 pm 

Poster Sessions 

12:30-1:30 pm 

Exhibitor Session: Google – 3D 

Reconstruction With Google’s Project Tango 

12:30-2 pm 


ISEA International – Open Forum 

2-3 pm 


USA and Canada 

Exhibitor Session: Qumulo – Why Media & 

Entertainment Companies are Moving Away 

From Legacy Storage Solutions? 

2-3:30 pm 

Experience Presentation: VR Village 

Production Session: “Star Wars 

Battlefront” – Game Development in the 

Star Wars Universe! 

Talks: Bouncing 

Technical Papers: Physical Phenomena 

Technical Papers: Mappings 

Technical Papers: Intrinsic Images 

2-5:15 pm 

Course: Physically Based Sound 

for Computer Animation and Virtual 

Environments 

Studio Workshop: Stereo Haptics: 

A Haptic interaction Toolkit for Tangible 

Virtual Experiences 

3-4 pm 


Europe + Russia 

3:30-4:30 pm 

Exhibitor Session: Binary Alchemy – 15 

Years Render Farm Manager Royal Render 

3:45-5:15 pm 

ACM Student Research Competition 

Final Presentation 

Production Session: Deadpool + 

Colossus Our Favorite (Anti) Superheroes 

Talks: Playing God 

3:45-5:35 pm 

Technical Papers: Sketching & Writing 

3:45-5:55 pm 

Technical Papers: Rendering & Simulation 

With GPUs 

Technical Papers: Capturing Humans 

4-5 pm 


Africa + Middle East 

5-7 pm 

Appy Hour 

8-10 pm 





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THURSDAY, 28 JULY 

9-10:30 am 


Talks: It’s Crowded in Here! 

Talks: The Technical Art of “Uncharted 4” 

Technical Papers: Meshes 

Technical Papers: Faces & Portraits 

Technical Papers: Procedural Modeling 

9 am-12:15 pm 

Course: Computational Tools for 

3D Printing 

9 am-3:30 pm 


9 am-5:30 pm 

Posters 

9:30 am-3:30 pm 

Exhibition 

Exhibitor Tech Talks 

Job Fair 

10 am-1 pm 

Art Gallery 


Studio 

VR Village 

10 am-5:30 pm 



10:45 am-12:15 pm 

Course: The Material-Point Method for 

Simulating Continuum Materials 


Experience Presentations: VR Village 

Production Session: From Armadillo to 

Zebra: Creating the Diverse Characters and 

World of “Zootopia” 

Technical Papers: Meshes & Fields 

Technical Papers: Shape Signature 

Technical Papers: Plants & Humans 

11 am-Noon 

Join the IRC in 2016! 

2-3:30 pm 

Production Session: Developing 

“Mass Effect: New Earth” A 4D 

Holographic Adventure 

Talks: The 7 Deadly Sims 

Technical Papers: Texture 

Technical Papers: User Interfaces 

Technical Papers: Expressive Animation 

2-5:15 pm 

Course: Learning Human Body Shapes 

in Motion 

3:45-5:15 pm 

Course: Modeling Plant Life in 

Computer Graphics 

Production Session: Industrial Light & 

Magic Presents the Visual Effects of “Star 

Wars: The Force Awakens” 

Talks: Scratching the Surface 

Talks: Organic Farming 

Talks: The Making of “The Little Prince” 

Technical Papers: Photo Organization 

& Manipulation 


APPY HOUR 

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FP F S EP E #SIGGRAPH2016 

Wednesday, 27 July, 5-7 pm 

Appy Hour is a techno-social soirée that celebrates innovation, creativity, and 

know-how, where attendees interact with the developers and experience the next 

generation of mobile media. 

A preliminary list of Appy Hour. Visit s2016.siggraph.org for updates. 

Image Credit: Virtual Interior Stylization © 2016 Tony Tung, Tomoyuki Mukasa, Rakuten, Inc.; 

Shintaro Murakami, The University of Tokyo. 

AR/VR FIRST-TIMER GAMES MOBILE 

Battle Z 

The first multiplayer and customizable VR 

experience for smartphones. Players enter 

medieval time with their friends to defeat 

zombies rising from their graves. The 

game includes a level editor so players can 

customize their own defense fortresses. 

Fangwei Lee 

Realiteer Corp. 

ART FIRST-TIMER MOBILE 

BeCasso: Image Stylization by 

Interactive Oil-Paint Filtering on 

Mobile Devices 

This mobile app combines state-of-the-art 

nonlinear image-filtering techniques with 

a novel brush-based painting interface to 

interactively transform photos into an oil-paint 

look in real time and with creative control. 

Amir Semmo 

Hasso-Plattner-Institut 

Jürgen Zöllner 

Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam 

Frank Schlegel 

Digital Masterpieces GmbH 

AR/VR FIRST-TIMER MOBILE 

Motion Graphix 

Motion Graphix is an intuitive but powerful 

multi-layer 2.5D animation creator. Using 

keyframe and path animation, elements 

are animated over stills or video. With 2.5D 

animation and stereoscopic output, Motion 

Graphix is the first iPad app that can add 

titles and effects to stereo and VR images 

and videos. 

Frances Dose 

Arnie Cachelin 

Pixel Splincher 


Olhar 3D 

Olhar 3D is the app for the exhibit Um Olhar 

nos Espaços de Dimensão 3 at MAST - 

Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio 

de Janeiro. 

Luiz Velho 

IMPA 

Mariana Duprat 

Stanford University 


Rebelle - Real Watercolor and Acrylic 

Painting Software 

Rebelle is a one-of-a-kind real watercolor 

and acrylic painting program created by 

Escape Motions. Its watercolor simulation is 

based on real-world color mixing, blending, 

wet-diffusion, and drying. 

Peter Blaškovič 

Michal Fapšo 

Escape Motions 

AR/VR FIRST-TIMER MOBILE 

Virtual Interior Stylization 

Dive into an augmented/virtual reality world 

and enrich your daily life with virtual interior 

stylization using only your mobile phone. 

Tony Tung 

Tomoyuki Mukasa 

Rakuten, Inc. 

Shintaro Murakami 

The University of Tokyo 


ART FIRST-TIMER INVITED CONTENT 

ART GALLERY: DATA MATERIALITIES 

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The SIGGRAH 2016 Art Gallery exposes a plethora of data and transforms it to 

incarnations of tangibility that not only showcase their complexity, but also allow us 

to relate to them on a human scale. By injecting humor and kinetic energy to their 

exposition, the gallery makes light of these data platforms and presents them on a 

grand scale to reveal their ubiquity. 

A special issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology includes visual 

documentation of the works exhibited in the Art Gallery. Publication of this eighth special issue coincides with SIGGRAPH 2016. 

ART GALLERY HOURS 






noon-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-1 pm 

 

Attend the Art Gallery Experience Presentations for discussion with the artists. 

Monday, 25 July, 9-10:30 am and 2-3:30 pm 

Image Credit: Metaphase Sound Machine © 2016 Dmitry Morozov. 

ART 

FIRST-TIMER 

FP F S EP E 

RECEPTION: LEONARDO, ART 

PAPERS, AND ART GALLERY 

Tuesday, 26 July, 2-3:30 pm 

Mix and mingle with the artists, 

designers, and authors whose works 

were selected for SIGGRAPH 2016. 

Meet the Leonardo team and the 

SIGGRAPH 2016 committee member 

who organized this year’s Art Gallery. 

Sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST and 

The MIT Press 

Crime Scene 

This installation portrays illegal Internet 

activity in physical space and examines the 

legal restrictions of file sharing. 

Mogens Jacobsen 

Doors 

Doors is a portal that takes on the middle 

ground between virtual and physical space. 

Sensors surrounding the structure of an 

actual door track visitors’ movements 

and change the portal on the screen’s 

perspective in an anamorphic system that 

adjusts to their visual angle in real time. 

David-Alexandre Chanel 

Romain Constant 

THÉORIZ Studio 

Facebook Demetricator 

The Facebook interface is filled with 

numbers. Facebook Demetricator is a web 

browser add-on that hides these metrics 

and invites Facebook users to try the 

system without the numbers, to see how 

their experience is changed by the absence 

of metrics. 

Benjamin Grosser 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Flower 

Flower reacts to the idea of the “gaze” in 

digital space, where people online are always 

vying for more views, likes, and mentions. 

Viktor Jan 

Grafikdemo 

Grafikdemo is a physical wireframe of the 

quintessential 3D model, the standard 

“teapot”, built inside the frame of a classic 

Commodore CBM. Viewers use only the 

analog keys of the antiquated keyboard to 

manipulate the object inside, thus exposing 

the mechanical aspects of the project. 

Niklas Roy 

The Kinetic Story Teller 

In this playful environment for social 

interaction, a pair of illuminated swing sets 

face each other. As participants swing on 

the structure, they are connected to a data 

stream of the networked landscape around 

them, specifically the social media banter 

of Twitter. 

Tine Bech 


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Metaphase Sound Machine 

Metaphase Sound Machine, inspired by 

physicist Nick Herbert’s work, exploits our 

increasing dependency on the information 

and electronic noise that permeates our 

everyday lives. 

Dmitry Morozov 

Pixelbots 

Pixelbots represent a new form of 

empathetic display that explores the 

evolution of how information will manifest 

itself in the near future. The screen 

itself becomes a fluid entity that can be 

harnessed and remixed into any shape, 

color, or manifestation one desires. 

Tejaswi Digumarti 

Disney Research and ETH 

Javier Alonso Mora 

(Formerly) Disney Research and ETH 

Roland Siegwart 

ETH 

Paul Beardsley 

Disney Research 

Plinko Poetry 

Plinko Poetry is a networked installation 

that uses the Plinko Game of the American 

game show “The Price is Right” to create 

real-time poetry from constantly updated 

Twitter feeds. 

Deqing Sun 

Peiqi Su 

New York University 

Submergence 

Submergence is a walkthrough environment 

consisting of 8,064 individually addressable 

LEDs suspended from a ceiling to create 

feelings of presence, movement, and 

envelopment when one is interacting with it. 

Anthony Rowe 

Gaz Bushell 

Liam Birtles 

Chris Bennewith 

Oliver Bown 

Squidsoup 


ART 

RESEARCH 

ART PAPERS 

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FP F S #SIGGRAPH2016 

Art Papers illuminate the processes and theoretical frameworks for making art and 

contextualizing its place in our increasingly global, networked and technologically 

mediated world. 

In collaboration with Leonardo/ISAST, the papers are published in a special 

issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, 

Sciences and Technology. 

The issue also includes visual documentation of the works exhibited in the 

Art Gallery. Publications of this special issue coincide with SIGGRAPH 2016. 

Image Credit: Raised on YouTube: Cultural Data Materialization Using Plants © 2016 Misha Rabinovich, 

University of Massachusetts Lowell 

ART 

FIRST-TIMER 

FP F S EP E 

RECEPTION: LEONARDO, ART 

PAPERS, AND ART GALLERY 


Mix and mingle with the artists, 

designers, and authors whose works 

were selected for SIGGRAPH 2016. 

Meet the Leonardo team and the 

SIGGRAPH 2016 committee member 

who organized this year's Art Gallery. 

Sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST and 

The MIT Press 

ART PAPERS SESSION 

Tuesday, 26 July, 3:45-5:15 pm 

Session Chairs: Edward A. Shanken, Rhode 

Island School of Design and Ruth West, University 

of North Texas 

Perceptual Cells: James Turrell’s Vision 

Machines Between Two Paracinemas 

This historical and phenomenological 

analysis of James Turrell's perceptual 

cells focuses on their combination of 

stroboscopic effects and edgeless 

projection to generate virtual animated 

sequences rendered by the viewer's own 

neurophysiological apparatus. 

Alla Gadassik 

Emily Carr University of Art + Design 

Pulse Shape 22: Audio/Visual 

Performance and Data Transmutation 

Pulse Shape 22 is an improvisational audio/ 

visual performance featuring shortwave 

radio transmissions as the sole source 

material for real-time audio processing 

alongside video of the sun captured 

and projected through cast glass lenses 

designed specifically for the piece. 

Mark Cetilia 

Brown University 

Deletion Process_Only You Can See 

My History: Investigating Digital 

Privacy, Digital Oblivion, and Control of 

Personal Data Through an Interactive 

Art Installation 

This paper describes the author's artwork, 

Deletion Process_Only you can see my 

history, an interactive art installation based 

on her eight-year-long personal search 

history in the Google search engine. 

Kyriaki Goni 

Visual History With Choson 

Dynasty Annals 

Data visualization artworks of three historical 

events taken from the Annals of the Choson 

Dynasty that represent dramatic and tragic 

stories about parents and their sons. 

Jin Wan Park 

Seongkuk Park 

Eunju Lee 

Chung-Ang University 

Raised on YouTube: Cultural Data 

Materialization Using Plants 

Raised on YouTube is a game that grows 

plants with only the light of projected video, 

crowdsources video analysis, and makes 

ecology legible by inviting players to reflect 

on the effects of long-term exposure to 

contemporary media data flows. 

Misha Rabinovich 

University of Massachusetts Lowell 


ANIMATION & VFX 

FIRST-TIMER 

COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL 

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#SIGGRAPHcaf 

The leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, 

and amazing digital film and video creators. The Computer Animation Festival is 

recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying 

festival. Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation 

Festival have been nominated for or have received a “Best Animated Short” 

Academy Award. 

A preliminary Electronic Theater listing. Visit s2016.siggraph.org for updates. 

Image Credit: Escargore © 2016 Oliver Hilbert, Media Design School. 

FP F 

ELECTRONIC THEATER 

Monday, 25 July, 6-8 pm 


Accidents, Blunders and Calamities 

New Zealand 

Alike 

Spain 

Borrowed Time 

USA 

Citipati 

United Kingdom 

Cosmos Laundromat 

Netherlands 

Crabe-Phare 

France 

Escargore 

New Zealand 

Ghost Recon Wildlands 

France 

Glass Half 

Netherlands 

League of Legends: Project Overdrive 


Les marmottes – Mariachi 

France 

Lichtspiel 

Germany 

Mafia III 

USA 

Natural Attraction 

Germany 

None of That 

USA 

Shell V-Power “Shapeshifter” 


Solar Superstorms – Visualization 

Excerpts 

USA 

Taking Flight 

USA 

TEA TIME 

France 

Terminator Genisys 


The Universe of Final Fantasy XV 

Japan 

TOKYO COSMO 

Japan 

FP F S 

DAYTIME SELECTS 

Sunday, 24 July, 10 am-5:30 pm 

Tuesday, 26 July, 10 am-5:30 pm 

Thursday, 28 July, 10 am-5:30 pm 

Break It Down 

A behind-the-scenes look at the techniques and 

technology used to make today’s most stunning 

visual effects. Break It Down shows in-depth, 

technical shot breakdowns from some of this 

year's greatest commercial work, games, and 

feature films. It not only highlights groundbreaking 

new techniques, but also shows a glimpse of how 

some standard techniques can be used in new and 

interesting ways to create innovative visual effects. 

>DEMOSCENE_ 

The demoscene is an international computer 

art subculture that specializes in creating selfcontained 

programs that produce audio-visual 

presentations. The main goal of a demo is to 

exhibit programming, artistic, and musical skills 

within highly constrained limitations (for example, 

restricting the executable file to just 64k in size). 

Yes, you read that correctly: 64k. Quite honestly, 

you won’t believe what you’re seeing. 

The Arcade 

A new bespoke audience experience focusing on 

games from concept art through technology and 

implementation in cinematic and real time. 

Winners Circle 

Winners Circle celebrates the most impressive, 

original, and amusing award winners from the 

SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival over 

the last seven years. Compiled as a compact and 

highly entertaining show, student and commercial 

projects sit side-by-side in this incredible recap of 

festival highlights. 


COURSES 

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FP F #SIGGRAPH2016 

Instruction, insight, and inspiration from academic and industry experts. SIGGRAPH 

2016 Courses deliver invaluable learning opportunities in three levels of difficulty 

(introductory, intermediate, and advanced). 

Full Conference Platinum and Full Conference registration allows attendees 

access to all SIGGRAPH 2016 Courses. Also visit the Studio Workshops 

(formerly Studio Courses), which are open to: FP F S EP E. 

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Please arrive early for the Courses you wish to attend. 

Image Credit: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice © 2016 

Stephen McAuley, Stephen Hill, Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. 

GAMES 

SPECIAL SESSIONS 


Advances in Real-Time 

Rendering, Part I 

Monday, 25 July, 9 am-12:15 pm 

INTERMEDIATE 

Modern video games employ a variety of 

sophisticated algorithms to produce groundbreaking 

3D rendering that pushes the visual 

boundaries and interactive experience of rich 

environments. This course presents stateof-the-art 

and production-proven rendering 

techniques for fast, interactive rendering of 

complex an engaging virtual worlds. 

Natalya Tatarchuk 

Bungie, Inc. 

Advances in Real-Time 

Rendering, Part II 

Monday, 25 July, 2-5:15 pm 

INTERMEDIATE 

Phase Two of a course on state-of-theart 

and production-proven rendering 

techniques for fast, interactive rendering of 

complex and engaging virtual worlds. 


Bungie, Inc. 

Open Problems in Real-Time 

Rendering 


INTERMEDIATE 

Leading industry experts and researchers 

discuss the top unsolved problems in realtime 

rendering, why current solutions don’t 

work in-practice, the desired ideal solution, 

and the problems that need to be solved to 

work toward that ideal. 


Bungie, Inc. 

Aaron Lefohn 

NVIDIA Corporation 


FIRST-TIMER 

FOR EDUCATORS 

FUNDAMENTALS SEMINAR 

Sunday, 24 July, 10:45 am-12:15 pm 

INTRODUCTORY 

The Fundamentals Seminar provides a 

basic background in the concepts and 

terminology of computer graphics and 

interactive techniques. 

Mike Bailey 

Oregon State University 

AR/VR 

FOR EDUCATORS 

HAPTIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR 

DIRECT TOUCH IN VIRTUAL REALITY 


INTRODUCTORY 

This course reviews recent advances 

in haptic technologies in the computer 

graphics community. It provides initial 

training on these technologies to 

prepare computer graphics researchers 

and developers for development of 

computational methods and immersive 

VR/AR applications with direct touch. 

Miguel A. Otaduy 

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 

Allison Okamura 


Sriram Subramanian 

University of Sussex 

FOR EDUCATORS 

AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION 

TO MATRIX EXPONENTIAL FOR CG 

Sunday, 24 July, 2-3:30 pm 

INTRODUCTORY 

This intuitive and visual introduction to 

mathematical concepts in computer 

graphics basics begins with 2D translation 

and rotation, then describes 3D affine 

transformation, quaternions, dual 

quaternions, and more. These concepts are 

explained via the mathematical concept of 

matrix exponential and illustrated with a few 

simple animation examples. 

Hiroyuki Ochiai 

IMI Kyushu University 

Ken Anjyo 

Ayumi Kimura 

OLM Digital, Inc. 


AR/VR 

FOR EDUCATORS GAMES PRODUCTION 

STORY: IT'S NOT JUST FOR 

WRITERS ANYMORE 


INTRODUCTORY 

An introduction to classic story structure 

with numerous visual examples. These 

elements, normally found in many 

screenwriting courses, are organized 

specifically for computer scientists, technical 

artists, and game and VR designers who 

make animation, VFX, VR, and interactive 

games come to life. 

Craig Caldwell 

University of Utah 


COURSES (continued) 

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GAMES MOBILE PRODUCTION 

MOVING MOBILE GRAPHICS 


INTERMEDIATE 

Leading practitioners present a half-day 

technical introduction to the state of the 

art in mobile graphics: best practices in 

real-time rendering, GPU compute for 

image processing, and recent advances in 

graphics APIs and rendering techniques. 

Sam Martin 

Marius Bjørge 

ARM Ltd. 

Niklas Smedberg 

Epic Games, Inc. 

Andrew Gerrard 

Samsung R&D Institute UK 

Ray Tran 

CCP hf 

Case Everitt 

Oculus VR, LLC 

Jay Yun 

Qualcomm Inc. 

GAMES PRODUCTION RESEARCH 

PHYSICALLY BASED SHADING IN 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 


INTERMEDIATE 

Using examples from film and games, this 

course presents advances in physically 

based shading in both theory and 

production practices, demonstrating how it 

enhances realism and leads to more intuitive 

and faster art creation. 

Stephen McAuley 

Stephen Hill 

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. 

FOR EDUCATORS 

TROUBLESHOOTING AND CLEANUP 

TECHNIQUES FOR 3D PRINTING 

Sunday, 24 July, 3:45-5:15 pm 

INTRODUCTORY 

Learn hands-on techniques for identifying 

and cleaning up geometry in 3D printing. 

Explore the most commonly encountered 

problems that creators and print vendors 

face. Discover how these problems arise 

and develop a fluent understanding of how 

to solve and avoid them. 

Lance Winkel 

University of Southern California 

RESEARCH 

CAPTURING THE HUMAN BODY: 

FROM VR, CONSUMER, TO 

HEALTH APPLICATIONS 


INTRODUCTORY 

In computer graphics, modeling the human 

body is of special interest for creating 

“virtual humans”, but material and optical 

properties of biological tissues are complex 

and not easily captured. This course covers 

the major topics and challenges in using 

image acquisition to model the human body. 

Hao Li 

Lingyu Wei 


Anshuman Das 

Tristan Swedish 

Pratik Shah 

Ramesh Raskar 



AR/VR FOR EDUCATORS RESEARCH 

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN FOR 

VR INTERACTIONS 

Monday, 25 July, 9-10:30 am 

INTERMEDIATE 

When VR is done well, the experience can 

be brilliant and pleasurable, but when it 

is done badly, it can generate frustration, 

fatigue, and sickness. This course 

discusses the most essential concepts of 

perception, action, comfort, input device 

classes, design tradeoffs, hand interaction, 

and patterns that influence successful VR 

interaction design. 

Jason Jerald 

Digital ArtForms 

Sixense Entertainment 

NextGen Interactions 

Waterford Institute of Technology 

Burnout Game Ventures 

CI Dynamics 

Richard Marks 

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. 

FOR EDUCATORS 

PRODUCTION 

HDR CONTENT CREATION: 

CREATIVE AND TECHNICAL 

CHALLENGES 


INTRODUCTORY 

This course explores the challenges 

faced by creative professionals in 

creating and preparing content for 

high-dynamic-range displays. 

Tania Pouli 

Joshua Pines 

Technicolor S.A. 

AR/VR FOR EDUCATORS RESEARCH 

AUGMENTED REALITY – 

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE 


INTERMEDIATE 

Augmented reality is finally shifting from pure 

research to real applications. New products 

such as Hololens make AR accessible for 

everyone. This course enables attendees to 

understand the technology behind AR; how 

it is different from games, virtual reality, and 

mobile computing; and how they can start 

developing AR systems. 

Dieter Schmalstieg 

Technische Universität Graz 

Tobias Höllerer 

University of California, Santa Barbara 



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RESEARCH 

VECTOR-FIELD PROCESSING ON 

TRIANGLE MESHES 


INTERMEDIATE 

This course reviews the various representations 

of tangent-vector fields on triangulated 

surfaces and their associated discrete 

differential operators (curl, divergence, 

covariant derivative, etc). It emphasizes the 

tradeoffs among simplicity, efficiency, and 

accuracy of these geometry-processing 

tools for applications ranging from texture 

synthesis to meshing. 

Fernando de Goes 

Pixar Animation Studios 

Mathieu Desbrun 

California Institute of Technology 

Yiying Tong 

Michigan State University 


RESEARCH 

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY 

ALGORITHMS LIBRARY 

Tuesday, 26 July, 9-10:30 am 

INTERMEDIATE 

Discover the geometric algorithms and 

data structures that the CGAL C++ library 

offers to application developers in the 

fields of point-set processing, polygonmesh 

processing, and mesh generation. 

Understand the techniques that make CGAL 

reliable, efficient, and easy to integrate in 

existing software. 

Pierre Alliez 

Inria 

Andreas Fabri 

Laurent Rineau 

GeometryFactory 

RESEARCH 

INVERSE PROCEDURAL MODELING 

OF 3D MODELS FOR VIRTUAL 

WORLDS 


INTERMEDIATE 

A summary of recent state-of-the-art 

approaches for inverse procedural 

modeling of 3D models and their use in 

various domains. 

Daniel Aliaga 

Ilke Demir 

Bedrich Benes 

Purdue University 

Michael Wand 

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 

GAMES MOBILE PRODUCTION 

THE QUEST FOR THE RAY 

TRACING API 


INTERMEDIATE 

Ray tracing has become a commodity in 

rendering as the first ray tracing hardware 

emerges. This course reviews current efforts 

and abstractions in the quest for a ray tracing 

API, especially the interaction of rasterization 

and ray tracing, cross-platform challenges, 

real-time constraints, and enabling 

applications that go beyond image synthesis. 

Alexander Keller 


Ingo Wald 

Intel Corporation 

Takahiro Harada 

Dmitry Kozlov 

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 

Ralf Karrenberg 


Luke Peterson 

Tobias Hector 

Imagination Technologies Limited 


AR/VR 

GAMES 

GEOMETRIC AND DISCRETE-PATH 

PLANNING FOR INTERACTIVE 

VIRTUAL WORLDS 

Wednesday, 27 July, 9-10:30 am 

INTERMEDIATE 

An overview of algorithms and 

representations for achieving real-time 

dynamic navigation for the next generation 

of multi-agent simulations and computer 

games. Topics range from classical 

techniques in computational geometry and 

discrete search to recent methods in 

real-time planning and navigation meshes. 

Marcelo Kallmann 

University of California, Merced 

Mubbasir Kapadia 

Rutgers University 

FOR EDUCATORS 

RESEARCH 

A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION 

TO FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF 

LIGHT TRANSPORT 


INTERMEDIATE 

This course presents frequency analysis 

of light transport, a generic framework 

for analyzing and building more efficient 

rendering algorithms. It applies a practical, 

implementation-driven method to 

introduce the theoretical aspect of 

frequency analysis and reviews various 

applications of the framework. 

Laurent Belcour 

Unity Technologies SF 

FOR EDUCATORS 

AN INTRODUCTION TO GRAPHICS 

PROGRAMMING USING WebGL 

Wednesday, 27 July, 9 am-12:15 pm 

INTRODUCTORY 

An introduction to graphics-application 

programming using WebGL, the JavaScript 

implementation of OpenGL ES 2.0 that is 

supported by all recent desktop and mobile 

web browsers, and how to integrate it with 

the HTML5 framework. 

Edward Angel 

University of New Mexico 



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RESEARCH 

FOURIER ANALYSIS OF 

NUMERICAL INTEGRATION IN 

MONTE CARLO RENDERING: 

THEORY AND PRACTICE 

Wednesday, 27 July, 10:45 am-12:15 pm 

INTERMEDIATE 

This is a survey of recent developments 

in Fourier analyses of Monte Carlo (MC) 

integration to study errors in MC rendering. 

It also provides a historical perspective 

of Fourier analysis in graphics, reviews 

necessary mathematical background, 

discusses practical implications of MC 

rendering algorithms, and identifies 

research problems. 

Karmic Subr 

Heriot Watt University 

Gurprit Singh 

Dartmouth College 

Wojciech Jarosz 


Disney Research Zürich 

University of California, San Diego 

AR/VR GAMES RESEARCH 

PHYSICALLY BASED SOUND FOR 

COMPUTER ANIMATION AND 

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS 

Wednesday, 27 July, 2-5:15 pm 

ADVANCED 

Physically based sound is an important 

emerging approach for computer synthesis 

of realistic synchronized sounds for 

physically based animation and real-time 

virtual environments. This course covers 

sound models for various animated 

phenomena and applies a hands-on 

approach to implementing practical systems. 

Doug James 


Cornell University 

PIxar Animation Studios 

Changxi Zheng 

Columbia University 

Timothy Langlois 


Ravish Mehra 

Oculus Research 


FOR EDUCATORS 

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR 

3D PRINTING 

Thursday, 28 July, 9 am-12:15 pm 

INTERMEDIATE 

This course reviews current 3D printing 

hardware and software pipelines, and then 

focuses on computational specifications 

for shape and material fabrication. Two 

approaches are presented: automatic 

methods (inverse modeling) and interactive 

methods that keep the designer in the loop. 

Ariel Shamir 

Disney Research, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya 

Bernd Bickel 

Institute of Science and Technology Austria 

Wojciech Matusik 

MIT CSAIL 

PRODUCTION 

RESEARCH 

THE MATERIAL-POINT 

METHOD FOR SIMULATING 

CONTINUUM MATERIALS 

Thursday, 28 July, 10:45 am-12:15 pm 

INTRODUCTORY 

The material-point method has been used 

in a number of recent papers for simulating 

various materials including elastic objects, 

snow, lava, sand, and viscoelastic fluids. It 

is also highly integrated into the production 

framework of Walt Disney Animation 

Studios. This course is an introduction to 

MPM for simulating continuum materials. 

Chenfanfu Jiang 

Craig Schroeder 

University of California, Los Angeles 

Alexey Stomaching 

Andrew Selle 

Walt Disney Animation Studios 

Joseph Teran 



LEARNING HUMAN BODY SHAPES 

IN MOTION 

Thursday, 28 July, 2-5:15 pm 

INTERMEDIATE 

Accurately representing and animating the 

human body in 3D is critical for games, VFX, 

and virtual reality. Previously, this required 

extensive hand animation. Today realistic 

3D avatars can be learned from thousands 

of 3D scans. This course teaches the 

process of learning and using high-quality 

3D models. 

Michael Black 

Javier Romero 

Gerard Pons-Moll 

Naureen Mahmood 

Federica Bogo 

Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme 

PRODUCTION 

RESEARCH 

MODELING PLANT LIFE IN 

COMPUTER GRAPHICS 

Thursday, 28 July, 3:45-5:15 pm 

INTRODUCTORY 

An introduction to modeling trees and 

plants with a focus on recent advances 

and applications in computer graphics. 

The course focuses on procedural and 

inverse-procedural modeling, biologically 

based approaches, data-driven modeling, 

and user-assisted methods. 

Soren Pirk 


Bedrich Benes 


Oliver Deussen 

Universität Konstanz 

Radomir Mech 

Adobe Systems, Inc. 

Baoquan Chen 

Shandong University 

Takashi Ijiri 

Ritsumeikan University 


AR/VR FIRST-TIMER RESEARCH 


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See, learn, touch, and try the state of the art in human-computer interaction and 

robotics. Emerging Technologies presents work from many sub-disciplines of 

interactive techniques, with a special emphasis on projects that explore science, 

high-resolution digital-cinema technologies, and interactive art-science narratives. 

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES HOURS 


noon-5:30 pm 


10 am-5:30 pm 


10 am-5:30 pm 

Wednesday, 27 July 10 am-5:30 pm 


10 am-1 pm 

A preliminary list of Emerging Technologies installations. 

Visit s2016.siggraph.org for updates. 

Image Credit: HapticWave: Directional Surface Vibrations Using Wave-Field Synthesis © 2016 Ravish Mehra, 

Oculus VR; Sean Keller, David Perek, Christoph Hohnerlein, Elia Gatti, Riccardo DeSalvo, Oculus Research. 

AnyLight: An Integral Illumination Device 

A novel programmable lighting device that 

can mimic the illumination effects of a wide 

range of lighting sources (spotlight, candle, 

natural light, etc.) using the principle of 

integral imaging. 

Yuichiro Takeuchi 

Shunichi Suwa 

Kunihiko Nagamine 

Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. 

Big Robot Mk.1A 

This tall robot with two wheeled legs 

positions a human pilot five meters above 

the ground. The pilot controls the robot’s 

movement with foot motions as it follows the 

path of a five-meter-tall tall humanoid. 

Hiroo Iwata 

Yu-ta Kimura 

Hikaru Takatori 

Yu-uki Enzaki 

University of Tsukuba 

Computational Focus-Tunable 

Near-Eye Display 

This focus-tunable near-eye display is 

capable of reproducing multiple 

emerging display modes for augmented 

and virtual reality. 

Robert Konrad 

Nitish Padmanaban 


Emily Cooper 


Gordon Wetzstein 


Demo of Face2Face: Real-Time 

Face Capture and Reenactment 

of RGB Videos 

A novel approach for real-time facial 

reenactment of a monocular target-video 

sequence, where the goal is to animate the 

facial expressions of the target video with a 

source actor and re-render the manipulated 

output video in a photo-realistic fashion. 

Justus Thies 

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg 

Michael Zollhöfer 

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik 

Marc Stamminger 

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg 

Christian Theobalt 


Matthias Nießner 


Enjoy 360° Vision With FlyVIZ 

FlyVIZ is a novel, compact, lightweight 

display device that enables artificial 

omnidirectional vision, so users can see 

“with eyes behind the back”. 

Guillermo Andrade-Barroso 

Irisa/Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique 

Jerome Ardouin 

Florian Nouviale 

Anatole Lecuyer 

Maud Marchal 

Eric Marchand 

Irisa/Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique 

FinGAR: Combination of Electrical 

and Mechanical Stimulation for 

High-Fidelity Tactile Presentation 

FinGAR is a finger-glove tactile display 

that combines electrical and mechanical 

stimulation to reproduce high-fidelity tactile 

sensation on a finger-pad. Combining virtual 

scenes and a hand motion capture system, 

users experience various textures in the 

virtual world. 

Vibol Yem 

Ryuta Okazaki 

Hiroyuki Kajimoto 

Erika Oishi 

Junko Ikuta 

The University of Electro-Communications 


EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (continued) 

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Guidance Field: Vector Field for Implicit 

Guidance in Virtual Environments 

This new guidance method implicitly 

leads users to pre-defined points in virtual 

environments while allowing free exploration 

by altering users’ inputs according to a kind 

of vector field (guidance field). 

Ryohei Tanaka 

Takuji Narumi 

Tomohiro Tanikawa 

Michitaka Hirose 


HALUX: Projection-Based Interactive 

Skin for Digital Sports 

HALUX places phototransistors and 

vibrators on the body, and drives them with 

projector light to eliminate latency derived 

from communication. 

Haruya Uematsu 

Daichi Ogawa 

Ryuta Okazaki 

Taku Hachisu 


Takahiro Shitara 

Keisuke Hoshino 

Khurelbaatar Sugarragchaa 


HapticWave: Directional Surface 

Vibrations Using Wave-Field Synthesis 

HapticWave is a novel haptic technology 

that delivers directional haptic sensations 

generated on a flat surface, without 

requiring users to wear a physical device. 

Ravish Mehra 

Oculus VR 

Sean Keller 

David Perek 

Christoph Hohnerlein 

Elia Gatti 

Riccardo DeSalvo 

Oculus Research 

HapTONE: Haptic Instrument for 

Enriched Musical Play 

HapTONE delivers high-fidelity vibrotactile 

sensations, not only at the moment of 

key input, but also as keys are pressed. 

The instrument can reproduce the touch 

sensations of a keyboard, stringed, 

percussion, or non-musical instrument. 

Daichi Ogawa 

Kenta Tanabe 

Vibol Yem 


Taku Hachisu 



Akifumi Takahashi 

Ayaka Nishi 


Layered Telepresence: Simultaneous 

Multi-Presence Experience Using 

Eye-Gaze-Based Perceptual 

Awareness Blending 

Layered Telepresence allows a viewer 

to experience simultaneous multipresence 

by blending eye gaze and 

perceptual awareness of real-time audio/ 

visual information received from multiple 

telepresence robots. 

MHD Yamen Saraiji 

Shota Sugimoto 

Charith Fernando 

Kouta Minamizawa 

Keio University 

Susumu Tachi 


LiDARMAN: Reprogramming Reality 

With Egocentric Laser Depth Scanning 

LiDARMAN reprograms reality by substituting 

visual perception. Using a Light Detection 

And Ranging (LiDAR) sensor to provide 

altered vision, the system can provide a novel 

3D reconstructed view from outside the body 

and enables novel applications. 

Takashi Miyaki 


Jun Rekimoto 

The University of Tokyo, Sony Computer Science 

Laboratories, Inc. 

LightAir: a Novel System for 

Tangible Communication With 

Quadcopters Using Foot Gestures 

and Projected Images 

This new paradigm of human-drone 

interaction combines foot gestures with 

images projected on the road. The 

system allows creation of a new type 

of tangible interaction with drones for 

augmented sports. 

Dzmitry Tsetserukou 

Mikhail Matrosov 

Olga Volkova 

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology 

Perceptually Based Foveated 

Virtual Reality 

This installation allows attendees to 

compare several perceptually based 

foveated rendering techniques running 

live inside a virtual reality headset with 

integrated eye-tracking. 

Anjul Patney 

Joohwan Kim 

Marco Salvi 

Anton Kaplanyan 

Chris Wyman 

Nir Benty 

Aaron Lefohn 

David Luebke 


Phyxel: Realistic Display Using Physical 

Objects With High-speed Spatially 

Pixelated Lighting 

This project explores computational 

display of shape and appearance. Based 

on persistence of vision, the system 

coordinates high-speed adaptive lighting 

and periodic motion of physical materials. 

Takatoshi Yoshida 

Yoshihiro Watanabe 

Masatoshi Ishikawa 


Ratchair: Furniture That Learns to 

Move Itself With Vibration 

This project presents a strategy for displacing 

big objects by attaching relatively small 

vibration sources. After learning how several 

random bursts of vibration affect its pose, an 

optimization algorithm discovers the optimal 

sequence of vibration patterns required to 

move the object to a specified position. 

Tetiana Pershakova 

Minjoo Cho Korea 

Alvaro Casinelli 

Daniel Saakes 

Korea Advanced Institute of Science 

and Technology 

Unlimited Corridor: Redirected 

Walking Techniques Using 

Visuo-Haptic Interaction 

Unlimited Corridor enables users to 

walk freely around virtual environments 

by touching walls, although in current 

reality they are walking around circular 

walls within a limited space. Attendees 

experience a VR search for confidential 

information in a skyscraper. 

Keigo Matsumoto 


Yuki Ban 

Takuji Narumi 


Yohei Yanase 


Tomohiro Tanikawa 

Michitaka Hirose 


X-SectionScope: Cross-Section 

Projection in Light-Field Clone Image 

A novel interactive 3D informationvisualization 

display that superimposes 

a cross-sectional image on an aerial 

volumetric image of a real object. 

Yoshikazu Furuyama 

Atsushi Matsubayashi 

Yasutoshi Makino 

Hiroyuki Shinoda 



EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (continued) 

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Yadori: Mask-Type User Interface for 

Manipulation of Puppets 

This system for animatronics storytelling 

enables performers to manipulate 

puppets by wearing a mask-type device 

that allows easier and more intuitive 

manipulation of puppets. 

Mose Sakashita 

Keisuke Kawahara 

Amy Koike 

Kenta Suzuki 

Ippei Suzuki 

Yoichi Ochiai 


ZoeMatrope: A System for Physical 

Material Design 

This project introduces ZoeMatrope: a 

material display that can present and 

animate realistic material by compositing 

real objects. 

Leo Miyashita 


Kota Ishihara 

PKSHA Technology Inc. 





PANELS 

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Invaluable opportunities for attendees to share opinions, insights, disagreement 

with the leading experts in computer graphics and interactive techniques. 

Full Conference Platinum and Full Conference Access registration allows attendees access to all SIGGRAPH 2016 Panels. 

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early for the Panel you wish to attend. 




FIRST-TIMER 

FOR EDUCATORS 

READY, STEADY ... SIGGRAPH!!!! 

Sunday, 24 July, 9:30-10:30 am 


Not sure how to plan your time at 

SIGGRAPH 2016? This panel of seasoned 

attendees and program chairs explains how 

to maximize your conference experience, 

select the “don’t-miss” sessions, and 

decipher the convention center’s layout. 

Moderator 

Mashhuda Glencross 

Loughborough University 

MOBILE 

PRODUCTION 

A VISION FOR COMPUTER VISION: 




Computer vision is a rapidly evolving 

discipline. It includes methods for acquiring, 

processing, and understanding still 

images and video to model, replicate, and 

sometimes, exceed human vision and 

perform useful tasks. 

As the technology develops, computer 

vision will be commonly used for a broad 

range of services in upcoming devices and 

implemented in movies, smart phones, 

cameras, drones, and more. Demand for 

the technology is driving the evolution 

of image sensors, mobile processors, 

operating systems, application software, 

and device form factors in order to meet the 

needs of applications and services that will 

benefit from computer vision. 

Panelists 

Jon Peddie 

Jon Peddie Research 

Kurt Akeley 

Lytro, Inc. 

Paul Debevec 

USC Institute for Creative Technologies 

Erik Fonseka 

Dacha Inc. 

Michael Mangan 

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 

Michael Raphael 

Direct Dimensions, Inc. 

Renato Sales-Moreno 

Oculus VR 

PRODUCTION 

WHAT MAKES A PRODUCTION 

RENDERER IN 2016 


Many systems call themselves “production 

renderers”. Some are relatively unknown. 

Others are well known, high-quality 

renderers. And many large studios have 

invested significant time and money to 

develop their own proprietary renderers. 

This panel explores the technical and 

non-technical issues involved in introducing 

a renderer into the contemporary production 

environment, and maintaining it as the 

technology evolves. Topics include: the 

capabilities that are absolutely necessary 

(and those that are not), the importance of 

technological and creative control, team 

size and composition, how utilization of 

open-source components has affected 

development, and the potential disruption 

of new research results on the development 

process. The session includes panelists 

who are creating the state of the art in 

advanced renderer development. 

Panelists 

Michael Reed 

Big Sky Studios 

Brent Burley 


Marcos Fajardo 

Solid Angle S.L. 


NVIDIA Research 

Philippe Leprince 


Maurice van Swaaij 

Blue Sky Studios 

Eric Tabellion 

DreamWorks Animation 


ANIMATION & VFX FIRST-TIMER PRODUCTION INVITED CONTENT 

PRODUCTION SESSIONS 

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SIGGRAPH 2016 hosts Production Sessions, where the world's most elite and 

talented computer graphic experts and creative geniuses explain their processes and 

techniques for creating compelling content. Following each presentation, attendees 

ask questions about the challenges and issues associated with complex productions. 


THE MAKING OF “PEARL”, A GOOGLE 

SPOTLIGHT STORY 


“Pearl” is a Spotlight Story directed by 

Oscar-winning animator Patrick Osborne. 

Conceived from the beginning as a 360º 

experience, “Pearl” takes place entirely in 

a car and explores the gifts we inherit from 

our parents, both tangible and intangible. 

The challenge: create a 360º interactive 

animated film with a strongly art-directed, 

highly stylized non-photorealistic look, 

with naturalistic character animation tightly 

synchronized with an original song, and a 

story that collapses decades into minutes 

through montage, and make it run on a wide 

range of devices, from mobile phones to VR 

headgear, in real time. 

Panelists 

Patrick Osborne, Director 

Rachid El Guerrab, Spotlight Stories Project Lead 

David Eisenmann, Producer 

Cassidy Curtis, Tech Art Lead 

Google 


“KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS”: 

ONE GIANT SKELETON, ONE 

COLOSSAL UNDERTAKING 


For “Kubo and the Two Strings”, (in theaters 

19 August), LAIKA launched an immensely 

powerful puppet – to scale. The result: 

a giant (18-foot) skeleton with a 24-foot 

wingspan from finger to finger. With realworld 

materials including dense CNC foam, 

paper, paint, and a steel armature, the 

Giant Skeleton was a massive undertaking, 

involving LAIKA's notoriously interdependent 

and collaborative crew. And when the 

puppet was finished, the challenges began. 

Panelists 

Steve Emerson, VFX Supervisor 

Steve Switaj, Engineer, Camera and 

Motion Control 

LAIKA 


THE MAKING OF MARVEL’S 

“CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR” 

Tuesday, 26 July, 10:45 am-12:15 pm 

In “Captain America: Civil War”, Steve 

Rogers leads the newly formed team of 

Avengers in their continued efforts to 

safeguard humanity. But after another 

incident involving the Avengers results in 

collateral damage, political pressure mounts 

to install a system of accountability, headed 

by a governing body to oversee and direct 

the team. The new status quo fractures 

the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one 

led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the 

Avengers to remain free to defend humanity 

without government interference, and the 

other following Tony Stark’s surprising 

decision to support government oversight 

and accountability. Marvel Studios, ILM, 

Rise FX, and Method Studios show 

attendees how they created some of the 

movie’s most heart-stopping moments. 

Panelists 

Victoria Alonso, Executive Vice President, 

Physical Production 

Dan Deleeuw, VFX Supervisor 

Jen Underdahl, VFX Producer 

Marvel Studios 

Russell Earl, VFX Supervisor 

Industrial Light & Magic 

Greg Steele, VFX Supervisor 

Method Studios 


PRODUCTION SESSIONS (continued) 

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THE VFX OF DISNEY’S “THE 

JUNGLE BOOK” 


The visual effects team behind Jon 

Favreau’s live-action adaptation of “The 

Jungle Book” discusses the creative and 

technical challenges behind bringing the 

story's characters and stunning full CG 

environments to life. A team of over 800 CG 

artists led by Production VFX Supervisor 

Rob Legato, MPC VFX Supervisor Adam 

Valdez, Animation Supervisor Andy Jones, 

and Weta Digital VFX Supervisor Keith 

Miller, worked for two years to animate over 

60 species of animal; craft the mountain 

temple, trees, rocks, and vines; and simulate 

earth, fire, and water. 

Panelists 

Rob Legato, Production VFX Supervisor 

Andy Jones, Animation Supervisor 

Walt Disney Animation 

Adam Valdez, VFX Supervisor 

Moving Picture Company 

Keith Miller, Digital VFX Supervisor 

Weta Digital 


UNDER THE SEA – THE MAKING OF 

“FINDING DORY” 


How Pixar artists created the studio’s 

latest feature film, “Finding Dory”. Top 

animators and technical artists deliver 

a deep dive into the process of creating 

the summer hit, which required adoption 

of an entirely new back-end pipeline and 

cutting-edge technology. From character 

design and animation to lighting, CG water 

like you’ve never seen before and, perhaps 

most crucially, RenderMan REYES, and 

RIS, come find out how “Finding Dory” 

revolutionized Pixar Animation Studios from 

sea-level up. 

Panelists 

Steve Pilcher 

Jeremie Talbot 

Jim Brown 

Masha Ellsworth 

Chris Burrows 

Chris Chapman 

Ian Megibben 

John Halstead 


“STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT” – 

GAME DEVELOPMENT IN THE STAR 

WARS UNIVERSE! 


The DICE team reveals some of the work 

that went into “Star Wars: Battlefront,” their 

award-winning, visually stunning game. They 

share challenges they faced, discuss their 

approach to overcoming those challenges, 

and offer a candid, open conversation about 

their process. Specific topics include PBR, 

photogrammetry, vertex shading, fragment 

shading, Enlighten, tessellation, and 

optimizations. Attendees learn how DICE 

works; explore the challenges developers 

face when dealing with high-profile assets 

such as iconic characters, planets and 

weapons; understand the solutions to those 

challenges, and engage the creators in a 

panel discussion. 

Panelists 

Kenneth Brown, Technical Art Director 

Jonas Andersson, Visual Effects Artist 

Pontus Ryman, Senior Environment Artist 

Anders Egleus, Senior Visual Effects Artist 

Oscar Carlén, Senior Lighting Artist 

Electronic Arts Digital Illusions Creative 

Entertainment AB 

“DEADPOOL” + COLOSSUS OUR 

FAVORITE (ANTI) SUPERHEROES 

Wednesday, 27 July, 3:45-5:15 pm 

Digital Domain worked on the three 

main aspects of “Deadpool”: Colossus, 

Deadpool interacting with Colossus, and the 

Helicarrier. Creation of Colossus required 

five different actors: a motion-capture 

actor, a taller actor on the principle shoot, 

a voice-over actor, fa ace model, and a 

Mova/facial-capture actor. The team used a 

proprietary real-time system to capture the 

facial movement of one actor and redirect 

to the Colossus character with perfect 1:1 

geometry of usable data. They created the 

digi-double of Deadpool that was usable 

by all vendors on the project. And they 

created the Helicarrier; which is similar to 

Marvel’s X-Men carrier, but a bit more rustic 

looking in this anti-hero film. Blur Studio 

created the film’s opening title sequence, 

provided previsualization for several action 

sequences, delivered an additional 37 VFX 

shots for two key scenes, and made the 

low-fi animated end titles. Blur also provided 

previsualization for the main car chase, the 

subsequent bullet-counting sequence, and 

the final fight scene. Previsualization was 

critical for staging the flow of each scene 

and determining which shots would work 

best in advance. One of the main tasks 

in Blur’s 37 VFX shots was integrating a 

fully CG version of a damaged Colossus, 

building on Digital Domain’s “clean” 

Colossus model. Blur developed an identical 

clean Colossus, which required extensive 

full-body and facial motion capture, and 

incorporated heat damage, scrapes, and 

other flaws. 

Panelists 

Jan Philip Cramer, Animation Director 

Scott Edelstein, CG Supervisor 

Digital Domain, Inc. 

Franck Balson, Previsualization Supervisor 

Sebastien “Zeb” Chort, CG Supervisor 

Blur Studio 


PRODUCTION SESSIONS (continued) 

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FROM ARMADILLO TO ZEBRA: 

CREATING THE DIVERSE 

CHARACTERS AND WORLD 

OF “ZOOTOPIA” 


The world of “Zootopia” is a vast, multiscale, 

multi-climate city that represents the 

biomes of the tundra, desert, rainforest, 

and grasslands. It is also a place where 

humans never existed and animals have 

evolved to be anthropomorphic, clothed, 

city-dwellers. Walt Disney Animation Studios 

pushed the artistic boundaries of all aspects 

of the production process to create vastly 

different environments filled with hundreds 

of unique and detailed characters. The scale 

difference of the animals, from a mouse to 

giraffe (95:1), required creation of a world 

that could be inhabited by characters of all 

shapes and sizes while depicting thousands 

of furred and clothed animals. 

Panelists 

Ernest Petti 

Nicholas Burkard 

Brian Leach 

Sean Palmer 

Michelle Robinson 

Hans-Joerg Keim 


DEVELOPING “MASS EFFECT: 

NEW EARTH” – A 4D 

HOLOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE 


This session focuses on development of 

“Mass Effect: New Earth,” a first-of-its kind 

theme-park attraction at California’s Great 

America in Santa Clara. The experience 

features “holographic 3D”, using the world’s 

largest and highest-resolution 3D LED 

screens combined with cutting-edge mixedfield 

sound technology, motion seats, and 

4D effects such as leg ticklers, air blasts, 

transducers, and CO 2 . The panel discusses 

the technology used in the attraction 

and how multiple partners including 

BioWare, Cedar Fair, 3D Live, and Halon 

Entertainment collaborated to build it. 

Panelists 

Robert deMontarnal, Business Development 

BioWare 

Christian Dieckmann, VP Strategic Growth 

Howard Newstate, Executive Producer 

Media Networks Cedar Fair 

Entertainment Company 

Clint Reagan, Previs Supervisor 

Halon Entertainment LLC 

Nathan Huber, Co-Founder and CEO 

3D Live 

INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC 

PRESENTS THE VISUAL EFFECTS OF 

“STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS” 


The ILM team discusses the range of 

challenges presented by bringing the latest 

installment in the storied “Star Wars” series 

to life. Utilizing a seamless blend of practical 

effects, sets, locations, and cutting-edge 

digital animation and visual effects, the team 

summarizes how they created an array of 

the film’s 2100 visual-effects shots. 

Panelists 

Roger Guyett, VFX Supervisor/2nd Unit Director 

Patrick Tubach, VFX Supervisor 

Paul Kavanagh, Animation Supervisor 

Polly Ing, CG Supervisor 



AR/VR FIRST-TIMER GAMES 


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An interactive extravaganza that celebrates the real-time achievements within the 

intersection of genius technical skills and creative beauty. Real-Time Live! shows off 

the latest trends and techniques for pushing the boundaries of interactive visuals. 

Image Credit: Quill, VR Drawing in the Production of Oculus Story Studio’s New Movie © 2016 

Inigo Quilez, Wesley Allsbrook, Oculus Story Studio. 

BEST REAL-TIME GRAPHICS 

AND INTERACTIVITY AWARD 

Developers create and showcase the 

best real-time graphics and interactivity 

applications possible using today’s 

technologies. 

The winning team is announced from 

the Real-Time Live! stage. 

Last year’s award winner was: 

Pushing Photorealism in “A Boy 

and His Kite,” Epic Games 

Adam 

“Adam” is a real-time rendered short film 

created with the Unity game engine. 

Veselin Efremov 

Zdravko Pavlov 


Bound 

Bound is an innovative 3D platformer game 

with dynamic procedural environments 

inspired by the works of the demoscene. 

Procedural aspects of the game 

environment enabled solutions to some of 

the hardest problems of VR gaming. 

Michal Staniszewski 

Plastic 

Character Shading of Uncharted 4 

The challenges of character shading in 

Uncharted 4: volumetric feeling of the 

hair, using shader packages for different 

surfaces, performance for main characters 

and crowds, dynamic wear and tear. 

Yibing Jiang 

Naughty Dog, Inc. 

From Previs to Final in Five 

Minutes: a Breakthrough in Live 

Performance Capture 

Epic Games teamed up with Ninja Theory, 

Cubic Motion, and 3Lateral to create the 

world's first believable human driven live by 

an actress within an Unreal Engine game 

world. In this demonstration, body, face, and 

voice are all captured live in real time and 

recorded to create a real-time scene. 

Tameem Antoniades 

Ninja Theory Ltd. 

Kim Libreri 


Steve Caulkin 

Cubic Motion Ltd 

Vladmir Mastilovic 

3Lateral Studio 

Gary the Gull 

Gary the Gull is an interactive VR character 

that responds to voice, gestures, and 

distance in a short interactive VR film. It 

was built by an ex-Pixar, ex-Bungie team to 

demonstrate a new form of storytelling in VR 

that bridges games and film. 

Tom Sanocki 

Limitless Ltd 

Mark Walsh 

Motional LLC 

ILMxLAB Augmented Reality Experience 

Using an iPad, Vive motion tracking system, 

ILM's Zeno application framework, and 

hardware-accelerated video encoding, 

Industrial Light & Magic has created an 

augmented reality experience that allows 

users to interact with a digital character, 

which allows easy prototyping of augmented 

reality experiences. 

Nick Rasmussen 

Kevin Wooley 

Sheila Santos 

Rachel Rose 




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Immersive Augmented Reality in 

Minutes with Meta 2 

This presentation builds an interactive 

augmented reality application with Meta 2 

live, on stage in minutes. It demonstrates 

a content-creation workflow that no longer 

only exists in a panel, but live within our 

world, where we can directly engage it with 

our hands. 

Raymond Lo 

Duncan McRoberts 

Meta Company 

Project Tango 

Project Tango technology gives a mobile 

device the ability to navigate the physical 

world similar to how we do as humans. It 

brings a new kind of spatial perception to 

the Android platform by adding advanced 

computer vision, image processing, and 

special vision sensors. 

Eitan Marder-Eppstein 

Google Inc. 

Quill: VR Drawing in the Production of 

Oculus Story Studio’s New Movie 

The Oculus Story Studio, the team behind 

the pioneering VR short films “Lost” and 

“Henry”, demonstrates the art of their 

newest film, “Dear Angelica”, which has a 

unique illustrative look created with a tool 

that allows artists to paint scenes in VR 

using Oculus Touch. 

Inigo Quilez 

Wesley Allsbrook 

Oculus Story Studio 

Real-Time Graphics in Pixar 

Film Production 

This live demo of Pixar’s Presto 

animation software shows how real-time 

graphics techniques are used to create 

performances with characters like Woody, 

Buzz, Dory, and Butch from “The Good 

Dinosaur”. Techniques demonstrated 

include displacement, shadows, ambient 

occlusion, depth of field, and physically 

based GLSL shading. 

Dirk Van Gelder 


Real-Time Simulation of Solids with 

Large Viscoplastic Deformation 

The first demonstration of real-time 

solid simulation that can handle large 

plastic deformation. The new algorithm is 

implemented in NVIDIA Gameworks. This 

demo includes cutting, manipulating, and 

even blowing up dough of various shapes 

with several virtual tools controlled with a 

hand-tracking device. 

Nuttapong Chentanez 

Matthias Müller 

Miles Macklin 


Real-Time Technologies of FINAL 

FANTASY XV Battles 

This presentation showcases several realtime 

technologies implemented for FINAL 

FANTASY XV’s epic battle between heroes 

and monsters: 

• AI systems that control companions 

and monsters 

• Dynamic weather systems and lighting 

• Visual effects for magic that affects 

the environment 

Isamu Hasegawa 

Remi Driancourt 

Hiromitsu Sasaki 

Wan Hazmer 

SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. 

The Afterpulse: State-of-the-Art 

Rendering on Mobile GPUs 

Afterpulse is a game for mobile devices 

that uses the latest version of the Karisma 

engine, which implements state-of-the-art 

graphics algorithms typically used in 

console and desktop games. The engine 

and tools were developed in-house with 

almost no external dependencies. 

Unai Landa 

Sergi Royo 

Digital Legends Entertainment 


AR/VR FIRST-TIMER GAMES MOBILE 

STUDIO 

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The Studio explores altered reality, the virtual made physical, and creations that 

cross these spaces. 

STUDIO HOURS 






noon-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-1 pm 

A preliminary list of Studio Workshops and Projects. 



Please arrive early for the Studio Workshops you wish to attend. 

Image Credit: Do-it-Yourself Virtual Reality Experiences on Networked 

Mobile Devices © 2016 Fangwei Lee, Realiteer. 

FEUDING CITIES: 

WHO WANTS TO PLAY? 

The Studio presents Feuding Cities, a 

physical and virtual game that is played 

out in both worlds. The game allows 

attendees to work (and play!) together 

to create something special. 

For more information. 

STUDIO WORKSHOPS 

E-CANNONS AND OTHER WEAPONS 


Monday, 25 July, 2-3:30 pm (Repeated) 

In this workshop, attendees learn how 

to build a cannon that shoots 3/4-inch 

nylon balls, like a tennis-ball machine. 

After attendees assemble the cannon’s 

microcontrollers, sensors, and servomotors, 

they program it for accurate operation and 

design a ball hopper to feed the cannon 

more ammunition. The cannons will be used 

in the the Feuding Cities game. 

Andrew Besmer 

Winthrop University 

AR/VR FOR EDUCATORS PRODUCTION 

STEREO HAPTICS: A HAPTIC 

INTERACTION TOOLKIT FOR 

TANGIBLE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES 


The purpose of this Studio Workshop is 

to introduce Stereo Haptics, a toolkit that 

uses existing audio-based tools (hardware 

and software) to generate, modify and 

playback dynamic haptic media, and to 

guide attendees to generate haptic content 

to enrich multisensory experience in virtual 

reality settings. 

Ali Israr 


Siyan Zhao 

Carnegie Mellon University 

Kyna McIntosh 

Zachary Schwemler 

Adam Fritz 

John Mars 


Christian Frisson 

University of Mons, numediart Institute 

Ivan Huerta 

Maggie Kosek 

Charalampos Koniaris 

Kenny Mitchell 



STUDIO (continued) 

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STUDIO PROJECTS 

Do-it-Yourself Virtual Reality 

Experiences on Networked 

Mobile Devices 

Realiteer Corp. is creating an authoring 

platform that enables everyone to create 

and share unique VR experiences, from 

building customizable VR equipment 

to generating unique VR content on 

smartphones and sharing with friends in 

real time. 

Fangwei Lee 

Realiteer Corp. 

E-Cannons and Other Weapons 

In this project, attendees learn how to build 

a cannon that shoots 3/4-inch nylon balls, 

like a tennis-ball machine. After attendees 

assemble the cannon’s microcontrollers, 

sensors, and servomotors, they program 

it for accurate operation and design a 

ball hopper to feed the cannon more 

ammunition. The cannons will be used in the 

the Feuding Cities game. 

Lumio3D: Rapid 3D Geometry 

and Reflectance Acquisition from 

Continuous Spherical Illumination 

Lumio3D captures both high-fidelity 3D 

geometry and reflectance from 48 

viewpoints around the object with 

continuous spherical illumination created 

by 15,000 programmable LEDs in less than 

one minute. 

Borom Tunwattanapong 

Ratchathani University 

Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn 

Wichayut Eaksarayut 

Chulalongkorn University 

MakeVR: An Immersive Content- 

Creation Experience 

MakeVR is a professional-grade CAD 

modeling system with a natural 

two-handed interface. 

Paul Mlyniec 

Digital ArtForms, Inc. 

Tom Farinella 

MiragePrinter: Interactive Fabrication 

on a 3D Printer With a Mid-Air Display 

MiragePrinter is a fabrication device that 

combines a 3D printer and a mid-air floating 

image display to seamlessly connect users’ 

digital works and physical works. With this 

system, users can design, modify, and print 

object models on the 3D printer’s stage 

while viewing floating images overlapped 

with it. 

Junichi Yamaoka 

Yasuaki Kakehi 


Zushiki Light Art: Form Finding and 

Making Through Paper Folding 

This project demonstrates a practical 

application of paper folding (the art of 

origami) to seek innovative ways of form 

finding and making in product design. 

Jiangmei Wu 

Indiana University 

Lumii: DIY Light-Field Prints 

Create a hologram-like 3D image of your 

own face on a thin printed surface using a 

standard inkjet printer coupled to Lumii’s 

light-field engine. 

Matthew Hirsch 

Daniel Leithinger 

Thomas Baran 

Lumii Inc. 


TALKS 

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Talks highlight the latest developments before publication, present ideas that are 

still in progress, or showcase how computer graphics and interactive techniques are 

actually implemented and used, in graphics production or other fields. 

Full Conference Platinum and Full Conference registration 

allows attendees access to all SIGGRAPH 2016 Talks. 

The following invited content is also open to Select Conference: 

* UIST Reprise at SIGGRAPH 2016 

* IEEE TVCG Session on Virtual and Augmented Reality 

* IEEE TVCG Session on Advances in Data Visualization 


Please arrive early for the Talk session you wish to attend. 

Image Credit: Bringing Google Earth to Virtual Reality © 2016 Dominik Kaeser, Google. 


PRODUCTION 

TOO HOT TO HANDLE 


Session Chair: Ali Israr, Disney Research 

Wham! Building the Freeway Chase 

in “Deadpool” 

William Muto 

Nico Sanghrajka 

Marc-Antoine Paquin 

Stuart Gordon 

Atomic Fiction 

Monique Bradshaw 

ConductorIO 

Rudy Grossman 

Laurent Taillefer 

Atomic Fiction 

Delivering Doomsday: The Meteor FX 

of “Ice Age: Collision Course” 

David Quirus 

Matthew Roach 


Directed Volcano: Getting the Most Out 

of Your Simulations 

Gregory Ecker 

Ravindra Dwivedi 

Ilan Gabai 


ART 

MOBILE 

VAN GOGH WOULD BE PROUD 


Session Chair: Brittany Ransom, California State 

University, Long Beach 

Digital Painting Classroom: Learning 

Oil Painting Using a Tablet 

Tuur Stuyck 

Philip Dutré 

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 

Sunil Hadap 

Adobe Research 

Painting With Turbulence 

Chuqiao Wang 

Sam Wang 

Robert Geist 

Clemson University 

Loving Vincent: Guiding Painters 

Through 64,000 Frames 

Francho Meléndez 

Uniwersytet Wrocławski 

Łukasz Mackiewicz 

Audiovisual Technology Center 

ART PRODUCTION RESEARCH 

GET IN SHAPE 


Session Chair: Mashhuda Glencross, 


AutoSpline: Animation Controls Only 

When and Where You Need Them 

Mark Hessler 



SuperD: SubD Without Subdivision 

Alyn Rockwood 

Kun Gao 

Boulder Graphics LLC 

Michael Farrell 

Verto Studio 

Physical Mesh Data Structures 

Ergun Akleman 

Shenyao Ke 

You Wu 

Texas A&M University 

Mesh Colors With Hardware 

Texture Filtering 

Cem Yuksel 



TALKS (continued) 

32 

PRODUCTION 

LIFE IS SHORTS 



The Making of “Inner Workings” 

Sean Lurie 

Leo Matsuda 

Josh Staub 


Creating Piper – Pixar’s Latest 

Short Film 

Brett Levin 

Alan Barillaro 

Jason Beamer 

Ferdi Schemers 

Erik Smitt 



DARK HIDES THE LIGHT 


Session Chair: Makai Smith, Bentley Systems 

HFTS: Hybrid Frustum-Traced Shadows 

in The Division 

Jon Story 

Chris Wyman 


Sparse Shadow Tree 

Kevin Myers 

Activision Blizzard, Inc. 

LightCraft – Extract Light Position and 

Information From On-Set Photography 

Alex Suter 

Victor Schutz 

Dan Lobl 

Brian Gee 

Lucasfilm Ltd. 

Rendering Fast & Furious: Supercharged 

in Stereo for a 400-Foot Curved Screen 

Rob Pieké 

Technicolor, Moving Picture Company 

Luma HDRv: An Open-Source 

High-Dynamic-RangeVvideo Codec 

Optimized by Large-Scale Testing 

Gabriel Eilertsen 

Linköpings universitet 

Rafał‚ K. Mantiuk 

University of Cambridge 

Jonas Unger 



PRODUCTION 

DANCING TREES 


Session Chair: Maryann Simmons, Walt Disney 

Animation Studios 

Art-Directable Procedural Vegetation in 

Disney's “Zootopia” 

Sara Drakeley 

Maryann Simmons 

Hans Keim 

Jared Reisweber 

Daniel Teece 


Vegetation Choreography in 

“The Good Dinosaur” 

Olivier Soares 

Magic Leap, Inc. 

Thomas Moser 

Frank Aalbers 

Gordon Cameron 


Can't See the Jungle for the Trees 

Tom Melson 


The Trees of “The Jungle Book” 

Alexander Schwank 

Callum James 

Tony Micilotta 


GAMES 

PRODUCTION 

ANGRY EFFECTS SALAD 


Session Chair: Peter Hall, University of Bath 

Sea Surface Visualization in World 

of Warships 

Yury Kryachko 

Wargaming Public Co Ltd 

Visual Effects of Final Fantasy XV: 

Concept, Environment, 

and Implementation 

Isamu Hasegawa 

Ryota Nozoe 

Teppei Ono 

Masahiko Koyama 

Taku Ishida 


The Effects of “The Jungle Book” 

Oliver Winwood 

Rob Hopper 

Kai Wolter 


Delicious Looking Ice Cream Effects 

With Non-Simulation Approaches 

Dong Joo Byun 

James Mansfield 

Cesar Velazquez 



FACE OFF 

PRODUCTION 

Monday, 25 July, 3:45-5:35 pm 

Session Chair: Kenny Mitchell, Disney Research 

ILM Facial Performance Capture 

Brian Cantwell 

Paige Warner 

Michael Koperwas 


Kiran Bhat 

LoomAi 

“Kung Fu Panda 3”: Mandarin Lip-Sync 

Reanimation Process and Pipeline 

Mark Edwards 


Robert Armstrong 

mattermark 

Alvin Ho Tsun Chuen 

Oriental DreamWorks 

Shape-Analysis-Driven 

Surface Correction 

Claude Levastre 

ON Animation Studio 

As-Rigid-As-Possible Deformation 

Transfer for Facial Animation 

David Corral 

Doug Roble 

Lucio Moser 

Digital Domain 3.0, Inc. 

Warping With Accumulated 

Motion Vectors 

Stephen Willey 

Gregory Keech 

Double Negative 



33 



ICING ON THE CAKE 

PRODUCTION 


Session Chair: Gavin Miller, Adobe Systems 

HairCraft: Spells and Incantations for 

Digital Hair 

Stephen Bowline 

Andrew Johnson 

Ryan Gillis 


Artist-Friendly Level-of-Detail in a 

Fur-Filled World 

Kendall Litaker 

Sean Palmer 


Pyramid Coordinates for Deformation 

With Collision Handling 

Gene Lin 


Nafees Bin Zafar 



Flesh, Flab, and Fascia Simulation 

on “Zootopia” 

Andy Milne 

Mark McLaughlin 

Rasmus Tamstorf 

Alexey Stomakhin 

Nicholas Burkard 

Mitch Counsell 

Jesus Canal 

David Komorowski 

Evan Goldberg 


PRODUCTION 

ROLL THE DICE 

RESEARCH 


Session Chair: Ginger Alford, Trinity Valley School/ 

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History 

Blue-Noise Dithered Sampling 

Iliyan Georgiev 

Marcos Fajardo 

Solid Angle S.L. 

Cache-Friendly Micro-Jittered Sampling 

Arthur Dufay 

Technicolor, LP2N (CNRS) 

Pascal Lecocq 

Jean-Eudes Marvie 

Technicolor 

Romain Pacanowski 

Xavier Granier 

LP2N (CNRS) 

Stochastic Layered Alpha Blending 

Chris Wyman 


Quantum Supersampling 

Eric Johnston 

University of Bristol, Solid Angle 


PRODUCTION 

A TALL DRINK OF WATER 


Session Chair: Mark Elendt, Side Effects 

Software Inc. 

Lapping Water Effects in “Piper” 

Vincent Serritella 

Hosuk Chang 

Leon Park 

Ferdi Scheepers 

Brett Levin 

PIxar Animation Studios 

Simulating Rivers in 


Jon Reisch 

Stephen Marshall 

Magnus Wrenninge 

Tolga Göktekin 

Michael Hall 

Michael O'Brien 

Jason Johnston 

Jordan Rempel 

Andy Lin 

Jon Reisch 


Spatially Adaptive FLIP Fluid 

Simulations in Bifrost 

Michael Nielsen 

Robert Bridson 

Autodesk Inc. 

Inside Houdini’s Distributed 

Solver System 

Jeff Lait 

Side Effects Software, Inc. 

FP F S 

RESEARCH 

UIST REPRISE AT SIGGRAPH 2016 



Webstrates: Shareable Dynamic Media 

Clemens N. Klokmose 

Aarhus Universitet 

James R. Eagan 

Télécom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI UMR 5141 

Siemen Baader 


Wendy Mackay 

Inria, Université Paris-Sud 

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon 

Université Paris-Sud, CNRS 

GelTouch: Localized Tactile Feedback 

Through Thin, Programmable Gel 

Viktor Miruchna 

Robert Walter 

David Lindlbauer 

Maren Lehmann 

Regine von Klitzing 

Technische Universität Berlin 

Jörg Müller 


Orbits: Gaze Interaction for Smart 

Watches Using Smooth-Pursuit 

Eye Movements 

Augusto Esteves 

Eduardo Velloso 

Lancaster University 

Andreas Bulling 


Hans Gellersen 


Foldio: Digital Fabrication of Interactive 

and Shape-Changing Objects With 

Foldable Printed Electronics 

Simon Olberding 

Sergio Soto Ortega 

Klaus Hildebrandt 

Jürgen Steimle 


Gaze Shifting: Direct-Indirect Input With 

Pen and Touch Modulated by Gaze 

Ken Pfeuffer 

Jason Alexander 

Ming Ki Chong 

Yanxia Zhang 

Hans Gellersen 




34 


PRODUCTION 

BUILDING CHARACTER 


Session Chair: Akshay Agarwal, Google Inc. 

Designing an Interaction With 

an Octopus 


Mark Piretti 

Kevin Singleton 

Mark Hessler 


“Warcraft’s Durotan: Hero, Complex” 

Victor Schutz 

Paul Giacoppo 

Chase Cooper 


Character Workflow of Final Fantasy XV 

Kazutaka Kurosaka 

Eitaro Iwabuchi 


A Flexible Rigging Framework for VFX 

and Feature Animation 

Jesus Nieto 

Theodore Facey 

Sylvain Brugnot 

Double Negative 

FP F S 

AR/VR 

RESEARCH 

IEEE TVCG SESSION ON VIRTUAL 

AND AUGMENTED REALITY 



Lift-Off: Using Reference Imagery 

and Freehand Sketching to Create 3D 

Models in VR 

Bret Jackson 

Macalester College 

Daniel Keefe 

University of Minnesota 

SoftAR: Visually Manipulating Haptic 

Softness Perception in Spatial 


Parinya Punpongsanon 

Daisuke Iwai 

Kosuke Sato 

University of Osaka 

Latency in Distributed Acquisition and 

Rendering for Telepresence Systems 

Stephan Ohl 

Malte Willert 

Oliver Staadt 

Universität Rostock 

From Motion to Photons in 80 

Microseconds: Towards Minimal 

Latency for Virtual and 


Peter Lincoln 

Alex Blate 

Montek Singh 

Turner Whitted 

Andrei State 

Anselmo Lastra 

Henry Fuchs 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

FP F S 

RESEARCH 

IEEE TVCG SESSION ON ADVANCES 

IN DATA VISUALIZATION 



Reducing Snapshots to Points: A 

Visual-Analytics Approach to Dynamic 

Network Exploration 

Stef van den Elzen 

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, SynerScope B.V. 

Danny Holten 

Jorik Blaas 

SynerScope B.V. 

Jarke van Wijk 

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven 

HOLA: Human-Like Orthogonal 

Network Layout 

Steve Kieffer 

Tim Dwyer 

Kim Marriott 

Michael Wybrow 

Monash University 

Visualization-by-Sketching: An Artist’s 

Interface for Creating Multivariate 

Time-Varying Data 

David Schroeder 

Gonzaga University 

Daniel Keefe 

University of Minnesota 

Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via 

Faceted Browsing of Visualization 

Recommendations 

Kanit Wongsuphasawat 

Dominik Moritz 

University of Washington 

Anushka Anand 

Jock Mackinlay 

Tableau Software 

Bill Howe 

Jeffrey Heer 




35 

GAMES 

PRODUCTION 

BRAIN & BRAWN 


Session Chair: Chris Wyman, NVIDIA Corporation 

Final Fantasy XV: Pulse and Traction 

of Characters 

Noriyuki Imamura 

Youji Shirakami 

Kousuke Namiki 

Prasert Prasertvithyakarn 

Takanori Yokoyama 

Youichiro Miyake 


Rendering Techniques of Final Fantasy XV 

Jean-Normand Bucci 

SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD., IO-Interactive, 

Eidos Montréal 

Sharif Elcott 

Metaaphanon Napaporn 

Miyamoto Masayoshi 

Kay Chang 



PRODUCTION 

RESEARCH 

BOUNCING AROUND 


Session Chair: Turner Whitted, NVIDIA Corporation 

Practical and Controllable Subsurface 

Scattering for Production-Path Tracing 

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang 


Circle Tracing for Subsurface Scattering 

Benjamin Legros 

Mercenaries Engineering SARL 

Differential Appearance Editing for 

Measured BRDFs 

Apostolia Tsirikoglou 

Joel Kronander 

Per Larsson 

Tanaboon Tongbuasirilai 

Jonas Unger 

Andrew Gardner 


Embree Ray Tracing Kernels: Overview 

and New Features 

Attila Áfra 

Ingo Wald 

Carsten Benthin 

Sven Woop 


PRODUCTION 

PLAYING GOD 


Session Chair: Kristy Pron, 

Walt Disney Imagineering 

Constructing the Underwater World of 

“Finding Dory” 

Nathan Fariss 

Antony Carysforth 


Procedural Terrains on Pixar’s 


Lane Pertusi 


Íñigo Quilez 

Oculus Story Studio 

Noah Klocek 


Environment Workflow of Final 

Fantasy XV 

Hiromitsu Sasaki 

Norihito Ueno 

Junichi Miyajima 

Eitaro Iwabuchi 




PRODUCTION 

IT'S CROWDED IN HERE! 

Thursday, 28 July, 9-10:30 am 

Session Chair: Mark Elendt, Side Effects Software 

MURE: Fast Agent-Based Crowd 

Simulation for VFX and Animation 

Stephen Gustafson 

Paul Kanyuk 

Hemagiri Arumugam 

Michael Lorenzen 


“Warcraft”: Raising a Horde 

Chase Cooper 

Eileen Bai 

Brian Paik 

Vick Schutz 


“The Jungle Book”: Management, 

Caching, and Preview of Many Animals 

Marco Romeo 

Ryan Chan 

Jeren Chen 

Greg Fisher 


“Zootopia” Crowd Pipeline 

Moe El-Ali 

Le Tong Walt 

Josh Richards 

Tuan Nguyen 

Alberto Luceno Ros 

Norman Moses Joseph 


PRODUCTION 

THE TECHNICAL ART OF 

“UNCHARTED” 4 



Waylon Brinck 

Andrew Maximum 

Yibing Jiang 

Naughty Dog, Inc. 



36 

PRODUCTION 

THE 7 DEADLY SIMS 


Session Chair: Glo Minaya, ReelFX Creative Studio 

Finding Hank: Or How To Sim 

An Octopus 

William Wise 


Finding Particulate in “Finding Dory” 

Stephen Gustafson 

Daniel Chang 

Aaron Conover 


Volume-Modeling Techniques in 



Michael Rice 


Making a Dinosaur Seem Small: 

Cloudscapes in “The Good Dinosaur” 

Matthew Webb 


Jordan Rempel 

Cody Harrington 


PRODUCTION 

THE MAKING OF “THE 

LITTLE PRINCE” 



Mark Osborne 

Happy Product, Inc. 

Jamie Caliri 

Dragonframe 

PRODUCTION 

RESEARCH 

SCRATCHING THE SURFACE 


Session Chair: Chris Wyman, NVIDIA Corporation 

Estimating Local Beckmann 

Roughness for Complex BSDFs 

Nicolas Holzschuch 

INRIA Grenoble, LJK-CNRS, Grenoble University 

Anton Kaplanyan 

NVIDIA Research 

Johannes Hannika 

Carsten Dachsbacher 

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie 

A Practical Stochastic Algorithm for 

Rendering Mirror-Like Flakes 

Asen Atanasov 

Vladimir Koylazov 

Chaos Group 

Practical Analytic 2D Signed-Distance 

Field Generation 

Wasim Abbas 

Chris Doran 

ARM Ltd. 

GI Next: Global Illumination for 

Production Rendering on GPUs 

Enzo Catalano 

Rajko Yasui-Schöffel 

Ken Dahm 

Nikolaus Binder 



PRODUCTION 

ORGANIC FARMING 


Session Chair: Mashhuda Glencross, 


Rapid, High-Quality Dailies With 

RenderFlow for “The Jungle Book” 

Jared Auty 

Marlene Chazot 

Ruben Diaz Hernandez 

Marco Romeo 


Coda: The Cultural Effects of Queueing 

at Disney Animation 

Marc Jordan 

Kevin Constantine 


A Fully Cloud-Based Global Visual 

Effects Studio 

James Vanns 

Aaron Carey 


MapD: A GPU-Powered Big-Data 

Analytics and Visualization Platform 

Christopher Root 

Todd Mostak 

MapD Technologies, Inc. 


RESEARCH 

TECHNICAL PAPERS 

37 


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Institute of Technology, Steffen Weißmann, Google. 


COMPUTATIONAL CAMERAS 


Session Chair: Jiaya Jia, The Chinese University 

of Hong Kong 

The Diffractive Achromat: 

Full-Spectrum Computational 

Imaging With Diffractive Optics 

Yifan Peng 

The University of British Columbia 

Qiang Fu 

King Abdullah University of Science and 

Technology 

Oliver van Kaick 

Tel Aviv University 

Felix Heide 


Wolfgang Heidrich 

King Abdullah University of Science And 

Technology 

Practical Multispectral 

Lighting Reproduction 

Chloe LeGendre 

Xueming Yu 

Dai Liu 

Jay Busch 

Andrew Jones 


Sumanta Pattanaik 

University of Central Florida 

Paul Debevec 


Computational Imaging With 

Multi-Camera Time-of-Flight Systems 

Shikhar Shrestha 

Felix Heide 




Technology 



Occluded Imaging With 

Time-of-Flight Sensors 

Achuta Kadambi 


Hang Zhao 

MIT Media Lab 

Boxin Shi 

Nanyang Technological University 

Ramesh Raskar 

MIT Media Lab 

RIGGING & SKINNING 


Session Chair: Paul Kry, McGill University 

Example-Based Plastic Deformation 

of Rigid Bodies 

Nils Thuerey 

Technische Universität München 

Ben Jones 

University of Denver 

Adam Bargteil 

University of Maryland, Baltimore County 

Tamar Shinar 

University of California, Riverside 


TECHNICAL PAPERS (continued) 

38 

Pose-Space Subspace Dynamics 

Hongyi Xu 


Jernej Barbič 


Efficient Dynamic Skinning with 

Low-Rank Helper Bone Controllers 

Tomohiko Mukai 

Tokai University 

Shigeru Kuriyama 

Toyohashi University of Technology 

Real-Time Skeletal Skinning With 

Optimized Centers of Rotation 

Binh Le 

Disney Research Pittsburgh 

Jessica Hodgins 

Disney Research Los Angeles, Disney 

Research Pittsburgh 

GEOMETRY 


Session Chair: Pierre Alliez, Inria 

Erosion Thickness on Medial Axes 

of 3D Shapes 

Yajie Yan 

Washington University in St. Louis 

Kyle Sykes 

Erin Chambers 

David Letscher 

St. Louis University 

Tao Ju 

Washington University in St. Louis 

Q-MAT: Computing Medial 

Axis Transform By Quadratic 

Error Minimization 

Pan Li 

Bin Wang 

Tsinghua University 

Feng Sun 

Pennsylvania State University 

Xiaohu Guo 

University of Texas at Dallas 

Caiming Zhang 

Shangdong University 

Wenping Wang 

University of Hong Kong 

Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry 

Qingnan Zhou 


Eitan Grinspun 


Denis Zorin 


Alec Jacobson 


Animated Mesh Approximation With 

Sphere-Meshes 

Jean-Marc Thiery 

Technische Universiteit Delft 

Emilie Guy 

Tamy Boubekeur 

Télécom ParisTech, Centre national de la 

recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Saclay 

Elmar Eisemann 

Technische Universiteit Delft 

EFFICIENT SAMPLING 

& RENDERING 


Session Chair: Peter-Pike Sloan, Activision, Inc. 

Integration With Stochastic 

Point Processes 

Cengiz Oztireli 

ETHZ, ETH 

Fast 4D Sheared Filtering for Interactive 

Rendering of Distribution Effects 

Ling-Qi Yan 

Soham Uday Mehta 

Ravi Ramamoorthi 

University of California, Berkeley 

Frédo Durand 


Adaptive Polynomial Rendering 

Bochang Moon 

Steven McDonagh 


Markus Gross 

The Walt Disney Company 

Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading 

With Linearly Transformed Cosines 

Eric Heitz 

Jonathan Dupuy 

Unity Technologies 

Stephen Hill 

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A 

David Neubelt 

Ready at Dawn Studios 

Adjoint-Driven Russian Roulette and 

Splitting in Light-Transport Simulation 

Jiri Vorba 

Weta Digital Ltd, Charles University in Prague 

Jaroslav Křivánek 

Charles University in Prague 

FABRICATING STRUCTURE 

& APPEARANCE 


Session Chair: Wojciech Matusik, Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology 

Computational Thermoforming 

Christian Schüller 

Daniele Panozzo 

ETH Zürich 

Anselm Grundhöfer 

Henning Zimmer 


Evgeni Sorkine 

Olga Sorkine-Hornung 

ETH Zürich 

Procedural Voronoi Foams for 

Additive Manufacturing 

Jonàs Martínez 

Jérémie Dumas 

Sylvain Lefebvre 

Inria 

Printed Perforated Lampshades for 

Continuous Projective Images 

Haisen Zhao 

Lin Lu 

Yuan Wei 


Dani Lischinski 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Andrei Sharf 

Ben-Gurion University 

Daniel Cohen-Or 


Baoquan Chen 


Pushing the Limits of 3D Color 

Printing: Error Diffusion With 

Translucent Materials 

Alan Brunton 

Can Ates Arikan 

Philipp Urban 

Fraunhofer IGD 

CofiFab: Coarse-to-Fine Fabrication 

of Large 3D Objects 

Peng Song 

University of Science and Technology of China 

Bailin Deng 

University of Hull 

Ziqi Wang 

Zhichao Dong 

Wei Li 


Chi-wing Fu 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Ligang Liu 




39 

SHAPE ANALYSIS 


Session Chair: Misha Kazhdan, The Johns 

Hopkins University 

RAID: A Relation-Augmented 

Image Descriptor 

Paul Guerrero 

University College London, King Abdullah 

University of Science and Technology 

Niloy Mitra 

University College London 

Peter Wonka 

King Abdullah University of Science 


Learning How Objects Function via 

Co-Analysis of Interactions 

Ruizhen Hu 

Shenzhen University 

Oliver van Kaick 

Carleton University 

Bojian Wu 

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology 

Hui Huang 

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Institute of 

Advanced Technology 

Ariel Shamir 

Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya 

Hao Zhang 

Simon Fraser University 

PATEX : Exploring Pattern Variations 

Paul Guerrero 


Gilbert Bernstein 


Wilmot Li 


Niloy Mitra 


3D Mesh Labeling via Deep 

Convolutional Neural Networks 

Kan Guo 

Beihang University 

Dongqing Zou 

Beijing Samsung R&D Center 

Xiaowu Chen 

BeiHang University 

Efficient 3D Object Segmentation From 

Densely Sampled Light Fields With 

Applications to 3D Reconstruction 

Kaan Yücer 

The Walt Disney Company, ETH Zürich 

Alexander Sorkine-Hornung 


Oliver Wang 



ETH Zürich 


CLOTH 


Session Chair: Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Université 

of Montréal 

A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting 

James McCann 

Carnegie Mellon University, The Walt 

Disney Company 

Lea Albaugh 

Vidya Narayanan 

The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research 

April Grow 

University of California, Santa Cruz, The Walt 

Disney Company, Disney Research 



Jennifer Mankoff 

Disney Research Pittsburgh, Carnegie 

Mellon University 

Jessica Hodgins 

Carnegie Mellon University, The Walt Disney 

Company, Disney Research 

Physics-Driven Pattern Adjustment for 

Direct 3D Garment Editing 

Aric Bartle 


Vladimir Kim 

Danny Kaufman 


Alla Sheffer 


Floraine Berthouzoz 


Nicholas Vining 


Matching Real Fabrics With 

Micro-Appearance Models 

Pramook Khungurn 


Daniel Schroeder 

Google 

Shuang Zhao 

University of California, Irvine 

Kavita Bala 

Steve Marshier 


Fitting Procedural Yarn Models for 

Realistic Cloth Rendering 

Shuang Zhao 

University of California, Irvine 

Fujun Luan 

Kavita Bala 


PERCEPTION OF SHAPES 

AND PEOPLE 


Session Chair: Michiel van de Panne, 


Tactile Mesh Saliency 

Manfred Lau 

Kapil Dev 


Weiqi Shi 

Julie Dorsey 

Holly Rushmeier 

Yale University 

Perceptual Effect of Shoulder Motions 

on Crowd Animations 

Ludovic Hoyet 

Inria 

Anne-Hélène Olivier 

Richard Kulpa 

Université Rennes 2 

Julien Pettré 

Inria 

Body Talk: Crowd Shaping Realistic 

3D Avatars With Words 

Stephan Streuber 


M. Alejandra Quiros-Ramirez 


Matthew Q. Hill 

Carina A. Hahn 


Silvia Zuffi 

Istituto per le tecnologie della costruzione 

Alice O’Toole 


Michael Black 


An Interaction-Aware Perceptual Model 

for Non-Linear Elastic Objects 

Michal Piovarči 

Univerzita Komenského, Universität 

des Saarlandes 

David Levin 


Jason Rebello 

Harvard University 

Desai Chen 


Roman Ďurikovič 

Univerzita Komenského 

Hanspeter Pfister 

Harvard University 



Piotr Didyk 

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik and Universität 

des Saarlandes, MMCI 



40 

RENDERING OF COMPLEX 

MICROSTRUCTURE 


Session Chair: Wenzel Jakob, École 

Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 

Position-Normal Distributions for 

Efficient Rendering of Specular 

Microstructure 

Ling-Qi Yan 


Milos Hasan 

Autodesk, Inc. 

Steve Marschner 


Ravi Ramamoorthi 

University of California, San Diego 

Multi-Scale Rendering of Scratched 

Materials Using a Structured 

SV-BRDF Model 

Boris Raymond 

Université de Bordeaux 

Gael Guennebaud 

Pascal Barla 

INRIA 

Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs 

With the Smith Model 

Eric Heitz 


Johannes Hanika 


Eugene d’Eon 

Weta Digital, Ltd 

Carsten Dachsbacher 


Predicting Appearance From Measured 

Microgeometry of Metal Surfaces 

Zhao Dong 


Bruce Walter 


Donald Greenberg 


COMPUTATIONAL DISPLAY 


Session Chair: Shahram Izadi, Microsoft 

Corporation, Microsoft Research 

Cinema 3D: Large-Scale 

Automultiscopic Display 

Netalee Efrat 

Weizmann Institute of Science 

Piotr Didyk 



Mike Foshey 


MIT CSAIL 

Anat Levin 


High Brightness HDR Projection Using 

Dynamic Freeform Lensing 

Gerwin Damberg 

James Gregson 




Technology 

Additive Light-Field Displays: 

Realization of Augmented Reality With 

Holographic Optical Elements 

Seungjae Lee 

Changwon Jang 

Seokil Moon 

Jaebum Cho 

Byoungho Lee 

Seoul National University 

Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial 

and Volumetric Graphics Rendered 

by a Focused Femtosecond Laser 

Combined With Computational 

Holographic Fields 

Yoichi Ochiai 


Kota Kumagai 

Utsunomiya University 

Takayuki Hoshi 

Nagoya Institute of Technology 

Jun Rekimoto 

University of Tokyo, Sony CSL 

Satoshi Hasegawa 

Yoshio Hayasaki 

Utsunomiya University 

CAMERA CONTROL & VR 


Session Chair: Hao Li, University of 

Southern California 

Generating Dynamically Feasible 

Trajectories for Quad-Rotor Cameras 

Mike Roberts 

Pat Hanrahan 


Roto++: Accelerating Professional 

Rotoscoping Using Shape Manifolds 

Wenbin Li 


Fabio Viola 

Google 

Jonathan Starck 

The Foundry 

Gabriel Brostow 


Neill Campbell 

University of Bath, University College London 

Rich360: Optimized Spherical 

Representation From Structured 

Panoramic Camera Arrays 

Jungjin Lee 

Bumki Kim 

Kyehyun Kim 



Younghui Kim 

KAI Co., Ltd. 

Junyong Noh 



Mapping Virtual and Physical Reality 

Qi Sun 

Stony Brook University 

Li-Yi Wei 


Arie Kaufman 




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MATERIALS 


Session Chair: Szymon Rusinkiewicz, 

Princeton University 

A Non-Parametric-Factor Microfacet 

Model for Isotropic BRDFs 

Derek Nowrouzezahrai 

Université de Montréal 

Mohammed Bagher 

Mahdi Microsoft Research 

John Snyder 

Microsoft Research 

Reflectance Modeling by Neural 

Texture Synthesis 

Miika Aittala 

Aalto University 

Timo Aila 


Jaakko Lehtinen 

NVIDIA Corporation, Aalto University 

ZoeMatrope: A System for Physical 

Material Design 

Leo Miyashita 

University of Tokyo 

Kota Ishihara 

PKSHA Technology Inc. 



University of Tokyo 

DISPLAY SOFTWARE 


Session Chair: Wolfgang Heidrich, King Abdullah 

University of Science and Technology, University 

of British Columbia 

Emulating Displays With Continuously 

Varying Frame Rates 

Krzysztof Templin 


Piotr Didyk 



Karol Myszkowski 

Hans-Peter Seidel 


GazeStereo3D: Seamless 

Disparity Manipulations 

Petr Kellnhofer 

MIT CSAIL, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik 

Piotr Didyk 



Karol Myszkowski 


Mohamed M. Hefeeda 

QCRI 

Hans-Peter Seidel 



MIT CSAIL 

Binary-Continuous Image 

Decomposition for Multi-View Display 

Gou Koutaki 

Kumamoto University 

Seamless Visual Sharing With 

Color-Vision Deficiencies 

Wuyao Shen 

Xiangyu Mao 

Xinghong Hu 

Tien-Tsin Wong 


CORRESPONDENCE & MAPPING 


Session Chair: Mark Meyer, 


Wasserstein Barycentric 

Coordinates: Histogram Regression 

Using Optimal Transport 

Nicolas Bonneel 

Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et 

Systèmes d’information 

Gabriel Peyré 

Centre national de la recherche scientifique 

Marco Cuturi 

Kyoto University 

Entropic Metric Alignment for 

Correspondence Problems 

Justin Solomon 


Gabriel Peyre 

Université Paris-Dauphine 

Vladimir Kim 


Suvrit Sra 


Point Registration via Efficient 

Convex Relaxation 

Haggai Maron 

Nadav Dym 

Itay Kezurer 

Shahar Kovalsky 

Yaron Lipman 


Bijective Maps From Simplicial Foliations 

Marcel Campen 

Claudio T. Silva 

Denis Zorin 


Globally Optimal Toon Tracking 

Haichao Zhu 

Xueting Liu 

Tien-Tsin Wong 

Pheng-Ann Heng 


FLUIDS SIMULATION 


Session Chair: Craig Schroeder, University of 

California, Los Angeles 

Resolving Fluid Boundary Layers 

With Particle-Strength Exchange and 

Weak Adaptivity 

Xinxin Zhang 

Minchen Li 


Robert Bridson 

Autodesk, Inc., The University of British Columbia 

Schrödinger’s Smoke 

Albert Chern 


Felix Knöppel 

Ulrich Pinkall 

Technischen Universität Berlin 

Peter Schröder 


Steffen Weißmann 

Google 

Surface-Only Liquids 

Fang Da 


David Hahn 


Christopher Batty 

University of Waterloo 

Chris Wojtan 

IST Austria 



Efficient Fluid Simulation on the 

Surface of a Sphere 

David Hill 


Ronald D. Henderson 

Google 



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Multiphase SPH Simulation for 

Interactive Fluids and Solids 

Xiao Yan 

Yun-Tao Jiang 


Chen-Feng Li 

Swansea University 

Ralph R. Martin 

Cardiff University 

Shi-Min Hu 


MOTION CONTROL 


Session Chair: Jernej Barbić, University of 

Southern California 

Unified Motion Planner for Fishes With 

Various Swimming Styles 

Daiki Satoi 

Mikihiro Hagiwara 

Akira Uemoto 

Hisanao Nakadai 

Junichi Hoshino 


Guided Learning of Control Graphs for 

Physics-Based Characters 

Libin Liu 

Disney Research Pittsburgh 

Michiel van de Panne 


KangKang Yin 

National University of Singapore 

Terrain-Adaptive Locomotion Skills 

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 

Xue Bin Peng 

Glen Berseth 



Task-Based Locomotion 

Shailen Agrawal 




OPTIMIZING IMAGE PROCESSING 


Session Chair: James Hays, Georgia Institute of 

Technology, Brown University 

Image Perforation: Automatically 

Accelerating Image Pipelines by 

Intelligently Skipping Samples 

Liming Lou 

University of Virginia, Shandong University 

Paul Nguyen 

Jason Lawrence 

Connelly Barnes 

University of Virginia 

Automatically Scheduling Halide 

Image-Processing Pipelines 

Ravi Mullapudi 


Andrew Adams 

Dillon Sharlet 

Google 

Jonathan Ragan-Kelley 


Kayvon Fatahalian 


ProxImaL: Efficient Image Optimization 

Using Proximal Algorithms 

Felix Heide 

Steven Diamond 







Technology 



Rigel: Flexible Multi-Rate Image 

Processing Hardware 

James Hegarty 

Zachary DeVito 


Pat Hanrahan 

Ross Daly 

Mark Horowitz 


COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF 

STRUCTURES, SHAPES, AND SOUND 


Session Chair: David Levin, Walt Disney, 


Reconciling Elastic and Equilibrium 

Methods for Static Analysis 

Hijung Shin 

Christopher F. Porst 


Etienne Vouga 

University of Texas at Austin 

John Ochsendorf 

Frédo Durand 


Computational Design of Stable 

Planar-Rod Structures 

Eder Miguel Villalba 

Mathias Lepoutre 

Bernd Bickel 


Non-Linear Shape Optimization Using 

Local Subspace Projections 

Przemyslaw Musialski 

Christian Hafner 

Florian Rist 

Michael Birsak 

Michael Wimmer 

Technische Universität Wien 

Leif Kobbelt 

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische 

Hochschule Aachen 

Acoustic Voxels: Computational 

Optimization of Modular 

Acoustic Filters 

Dingzeyu Li 

Changxi Zheng 


David Levin 






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DEFORMABLE SURFACE DESIGN 


Session Chair: Yaron Lipman, Weizmann Institute 

of Science 

Beyond Developable: 

Computational Design and 

Fabrication With Auxetic Materials 

Mark Pauly 

Mina Konakovic 

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne 

Keenan Crane 


Sofien Bouaziz 

Bailin Deng 

University of Hull 

Daniel Piker 

Interactive Design of 

Developable Surfaces 

Chengcheng Tang 


Technology 

Pengbo Bo Harbin 

Institute of Technology at Weihai 

Johannes Wallner 

Technische Universität Graz 

Helmut Pottmann 

Technische Universität Wien 

Computational Design 

of Reconfigurables 

Akash Garg 

Alec Jacobson 



Efficient and Flexible Deformation 

Representation for Data-Driven 

Surface Modeling 

Lin Gao 

Chinese Academy of Sciences 

Yu-Kun Lai 

Cardiff University 

Dun Liang 


Shu-Yu Chen 

Shihong Xia 


SOUND, FLUIDS, AND BOUNDARIES 


Session Chair: Nikunj Raghuvanshi, 

Microsoft Corporation 

Interactive Acoustic Transfer 

Approximation for Modal Sound 

Dingzeyu Li 

Yun Fei 

Changxi Zheng Columbia University 

Toward Animating Water With Complex 

Acoustic Bubbles 

Timothy Langlois 


Changxi Zheng 


Doug James 


Generalized Non-Reflecting 

Boundaries for Fluid Re-Simulation 

Morten Bojsen-Hansen 

Chris Wojtan 


Preserving Geometry and Topology for 

Fluid Flows With Thin Obstacles and 

Narrow Gaps 

Vinicius Azevedo 


Christopher Batty 

University of Waterloo 

Manuel Oliveira 


CURVE & STRUT NETWORKS 

FOR FABRICATION 


Session Chair: Niloy Mitra, University 

College London 

Synthesis of Filigrees for Digital 

Fabrication 

Weikai Chen 

Xiaolong Zhang 


Shiqing Xin 

Ningbo University 

Yang Xia 

Dalian University of Technology 

Sylvain Lefebvre 

Inria 

Wenping Wang 


Designing Structurally Sound 

Ornamental Curve Networks 

Jonas Zehnder 


Stelian Coros 


Bernhard Thomaszewski 


Connected Fermat Spirals for 

Layered Fabrication 

Haisen Zhao 

Fanglin Gu 


Qi-xing Huang 

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago 

Jorge Garcia 


Yong Chen 


Changhe Tu 


Bedrich Benes 


Hao Zhang 




Baoquan Chen 


Printing Arbitrary Meshes With a 5DOF 

Wireframe Printer 

Rundong Wu 

Huaishu Peng 

François Guimbretière 





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IMAGE & SHAPE MANIPULATION 


Session Chair: Connelly Barnes, University 

of Virginia 

cSculpt: A System for 

Collaborative Sculpting 

Claudio Calabrese 

Gabriele Salvati 

Sapienza – Università di Roma 

Marco Tarini 

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria 

Fabio Pellacini 

Sapienza – Università di Roma 

StyLit: Illumination-Guided 

Example-Based Stylization of 

3D Renderings 

Jakub Fišer 

Ondřej Jamriška 

Michal Lukáč 

Czech Technical University in Prague 

Eli Shechtman 

Paul Asente 

Jingwan Lu 


Daniel Sykora 

Czech Technical University in Prague 

Flow-Guided Warping for Image-Based 

Shape Manipulation 

Romain Vergne 

Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre national de la 

recherche scientifique, INRIA 

Pascal Barla 

INRIA 

Georges-Pierre Bonneau 

Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre national de la 

recherche scientifique, INRIA 

Roland W. Fleming 

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 

Transfiguring Portraits 

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman 


Band-Sifting Decomposition for 

Image-Based Material Editing 

Ivaylo Boyadzhiev 

Kavita Bala 


Sylvain Paris 


Edward Adelson 


PHYSICAL PHENOMENA 


Session Chair: Adam Bargteil, University of 

Maryland Baltimore County 

A Semi-Implicit Material-Point 

Method for Continuum Simulation 

of Granular Materials 

Gilles Daviet 

INRIA 

Florence Bertails-Descoubes 

INRIA Grenoble 

Drucker-Prager Elastoplasticity for 

Sand Animation 

Gergely Klar 

Theodore Gast 

Andre Pradhana 

Chuyuan Fu 

Craig Schroeder 

Chenfanfu Jiang 


Joseph Teran 

University of California, Los Angeles, Walt Disney 

Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, 


Non-Smooth Developable 

Geometry for Interactively 

Animating Paper Crumpling 

Camille Schreck 

Centre national de la recherche scientifique 

Damien Rohmer 

CPE Lyon, Centre national de la recherche 

scientifique, INRIA, Université Grenoble-Alpes 

& Lyon 

Stefanie Hahmann 

Université Grenoble-Alpes & Lyon, Centre national 

de la recherche scientifique, INRIA 

Marie-Paule Cani 

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 

INRIA, Université Grenoble-Alpes 

Shuo Jin 

Charlie C.L. Wang 


Jean-Francis Bloch 

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 

Université Grenoble-Alpes 

Fast Approximations for 

Boundary-Element-Based Brittle 

Fracture Simulation 

David Hahn 

Chris Wojtan 

IST Austria 

MAPPINGS 


Session Chair: Justin Solomon, Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology 

Bounded Distortion Harmonic 

Shape Interpolation 

Edward Chien 

Bar-Ilan University 

Renjie Chen 


Ofir Weber 


On the Convexity and Feasibility of 

the Bounded Distortion Harmonic 

Mapping Problem 

Zohar Levi 

Victoria University of Wellington 

Ofir Weber 


Volume-Encoded UV Maps 

Marco Tarini 

Université degli Studi dell’Insubria 

Motion Graphs for Unstructured 

Textured Meshes 

Fabian Prada 

Michael Kazhdan 

The Johns Hopkins University 

Ming Chuang 

Alvaro Collet 

Hugues Hoppe 

Microsoft Corporation 

INTRINSIC IMAGES 


Session Chair: Piotr Didyk, Saarland University, 

Max Planck Institute for Computer Science 

Live Intrinsic Video 

Abhimitra Meka 

Michael Zollhoefer 

Christian Richardt 



Multi-View Intrinsic Images of Outdoors 

Scenes With an Application to Relighting 

Sylvain Duchêne 

Clement Riant 

Gaurav Chaurasia 

Jorge Lopez-Moreno 

INRIA 

Pierre-Yves Laffont 

ETH Zürich 

Stefan Popov 

Adrien Bousseau 

George Drettakis 

INRIA 



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Let There Be Color!: Joint End-to-End 

Learning of Global and Local Image 

Priors for Automatic Image Colorization 

With Simultaneous Classification 

Satoshi Iizuka 

Edgar Simo-Serra 

Hiroshi Ishikawa 

Waseda University 

Approximate Translational Building 

Blocks for Image Decomposition 

and Synthesis 

Chuan Li Johannes 

Michael Wand 


SKETCHING & WRITING 


Session Chair: Karan Singh, University of Toronto 

The Sketchy Database: Learning to 

Retrieve Badly Drawn Bunnies 

Patsorn Sangkloy 

Georgia Institute of Technology 

Nate Burnell 

Brown University 

Cusuh Ham 

James Hays 


Fidelity vs. Simplicity: a Global 

Approach to Line-Drawing Vectorization 

Jean-Dominique Favreau 

Florent Lafarge 


INRIA Sophia Antipolis 

Learning to Simplify: Fully 

Convolutional Networks for Rough 

Sketch Cleanup 

Edgar Simo-Serra 

Satoshi Iizuka 

Kazuma Sasaki 

Hiroshi Ishikawa 

Waseda University 

Legible Compact Calligrams 

Changqing Zou 

Hengyang Normal University, Simon 

Fraser University 

Junjie Cao 

Dalian University of Technology, Simon 


Warunika Ranaweera 

Ibraheem Alhashim 


Ping Tan 


Alla Sheffer 


Hao Zhang 


My Text in Your Handwriting 

Tom Haines 

Oisin Mac Aodha 

Gabriel Brostow 


RENDERING & SIMULATION 

WITH GPUs 


Session Chair: Oliver Wang, Adobe Systems Inc. 

Rendering on A Power Budget: A 

Power-Optimal Rendering Framework 

Rui Wang 

Bowen Yu 

Zhejiang University 

Julio Marco 

Universidad de Zaragoza 

Tianlei Hu 


Diego Gutierrez 

Universidad de Zaragoza 

Hujun Bao 


A System for Rapid Exploration of 

Shader Optimization Choices 

Yong He 


Tim Foley 


Kayvon Fatahalian 


Efficient GPU Rendering of Subdivision 

Surfaces Using Adaptive Quadtrees 

Wade Brainerd 

Activision Blizzard, Inc. 

Tim Foley 

Manuel Kraemer 

Henry Moreton 




Ebb: A DSL for Physical Simulation on 

CPUs and GPUs 

Gilbert Bernstein 

Chinmayee Shah 

Crystal Lemire 

Zachery DeVito 

Matthew Fisher 

Philip Levis 

Pat Hanrahan 


Simit: A Language for 

Physical Simulation 

Fredrik Kjolstad 


Shoaib Kamil 

Adobe Systems Incorporated 



David I.W. Levin 


Shinjiro Sueda 

California Polytechnic State University 

Desai Chen 


Etienne Vouga 

University of Texas at Austin 

Danny M. Kaufman 


Gurtej Kanwar 


Saman Amarasinghe 


Parallel Inverse Kinematics for 

Multithreaded Architectures 

Pawan Harish 

Mentar Mahmudi 


Benoît Le Callennec 

Moka Studio 

Ronan Boulic 


CAPTURING HUMANS 


Session Chair: Richard Szeliski, Facebook, 


Fusion4D: Real-Time Performance 

Capture of Challenging Scenes 

Mingsong Dou 

Sameh Khamis 

Yury Degtyarev 

Philip Davidson 

Sean Ryan Fanello 

Adarsh Kowdle 

Sergio Orts Escolano 

Christoph Rhemann 

David Kim 

Jonathan Taylor 

Pushmeet Kohli 

Vladimir Tankovich 


Shahram Izadi 

Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation 



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An Anatomically Constrained Local 

Deformation Model for Monocular 

Face Capture 

Chenglei Wu 

ETH Zürich 

Derek Bradley 

Disney Resarch 

Markus Gross 

Disney Resarch, ETH Zürich 

Thabo Beeler 

The Walt Disney Company, Disney Research 

AutoHair: Fully Automatic Hair 

Modeling From A Single Image 

Menglei Chai 

Tianjia Shao 

Hongzhi Wu 

Yanlin Weng 

Kun Zhou 


Lightweight Eye Capture Using a 

Parametric Model 

Pascal Berard 

ETH Zürich, Disney Research 

Derek Bradley 


Markus Gross 

ETH Zürich Disney Research 

Thabo Beeler 


Reconstruction of Personalized 3D 

Face Rigs From Monocular Video 

Pablo Garrido 

Michael Zollhöfer 

Dan Casas 

Levi Valgaerts 


Kiran Varanasi 

Patrick Perez 

Technicolor SA 



Real-Time 3D Eye Gaze Animation 

Using a Single RGB Camera 

Congyi Wang 


Fuhao Shi 


Shihong Xia 


Jinxiang Chai 



MESHES 


Session Chair: Daniele Panozzo, ETH Zurich, 

ETHZ, ETH, Courant Institute of Mathematical 

Sciences, New York University 

HexEx: Robust Hexahedral 

Mesh Extraction 

Max Lyon 

David Bommes 

Leif Kobbelt 

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische 

Hochschule Aachen 

All-Hex Meshing Using Closed 

Form-Induced Polycubes 

Xianzhong Fang 

Weiwei Xu 

Hujun Bao 

Jin Huang 


Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic 

Computation Based on Triangle- 

Oriented Wavefront Propagation 

Yipeng Qin 

Bournemouth University 

Xiaoguang Han 

The University of Hong Kong 

Hongchuan Yu 


Yizhou Yu 

The University of Hong Kong 

Jian Jun Zhang 


Interactively Cutting and 

Constraining Vertices in Meshes 

Using Augmented Matrices 

Yu Hong Yeung 


Jessica Crouch 

Old Dominion University 

Alex Pothen 


FACES & PORTRAITS 


Session Chair: Sylvain Paris, Adobe Systems, Inc; 


Real-Time Facial Animation With 

Image-Based Dynamic Avatars 

Chen Cao 

Hongzhi Wu 

Yanlin Weng 

Tianjia Shao 

Kun Zhou 


JALI: An Animator-Centric Viseme Model 

for Expressive Lip Synchronization 

Pif Edwards 

Chris Landreth 

University of Toronto 

Eugene Fiume 


Karan Singh University of Toronto 

Perspective-Aware Manipulation of 

Portrait Photos 

Ohad Fried 


Eli Shechtman 

Dan Goldman 


Adam Finkelstein 


Painting Style Transfer for Head 

Portraits Using Convolutional 

Neural Networks 

Ahmed Selim 

Trinity College Dublin 

Mohamed Elgharib Qatar 

Computing Research Institute 

Linda Doyle 

Trinity College Dublin 



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PROCEDURAL MODELING 


Session Chair: Wenping Wang, University of 

Hong Kong 

Interactive Sketching of Urban 

Procedural Models 

Gen Nishida 

Ignacio Garcia-Dorado 

Daniel Aliaga 

Bedrich Benes 



INRIA 

Computational Network Design From 

Functional Specifications 

Chi-han Peng 

Arizona State University 

Niloy Mitra 


Yongliang Yang 

University of Bath 

Fan Bao 


Daniel Fink 

Urban Agency 

Dongming Yan 


Technology 

Peter Wonka 

Arizona State University, King Abdullah University 

of Science and Technology 

Crowd-Driven Mid-Scale Layout Design 

Tian Feng 

Singapore University of Technology and Design 

Lap-Fai Yu 

University of Massachusetts Boston 

Sai-Kit Yeung 

Singapore University of Technology and Design 

KangKang Yin 

National University of Singapore 

Kun Zhou 


A Probabilistic Model for Exteriors of 

Residential Buildings 

Lubin Fan 


Technology 

Peter Wonka 


MESHES & FIELDS 


Session Chair: Etienne Vouga, University of Texas 

Discrete Connection and Covariant 

Derivative for Vector-Field Analysis 

and Design 

Beibei Liu 




Yiying Tong 

Michigan State University 



Subdivision Exterior Calculus for 

Geometry Processing 





Mark Meyer 

Tony DeRose 


Accelerated Quadratic Proxy for 

Geometric Optimization 

Shahar Kovalsky 

Meirav Galun 

Yaron Lipman 


G1 Non-Uniform Catmull-Clark Surfaces 

Xin Li 


G. Thomas Finnigan 


Thomas Sederberg 

Brigham Young University 

SHAPE SIGNATURE 


Session Chair: Scott Schaefer, 


Construction of Manifolds via 

Compatible Sparse Representations 

Ruimin Wang 

Ligang Liu 

Zhouwang Yang 

Kang Wang 

Wen Shan 

Jiansong Deng 

Falai Chen 


Intrinsic Girth Function for Shape 

Processing 

Shi-Qing Xin 


Wenping Wang 


Shuangmin Chen 

Jieyu Zhao 


Zhenyu Shu 

Zhejiang University, Ningbo Institute of Technology 

SemanticPaint: Interactive Segmentation 

and Learning of 3D Worlds 

Julien Valentin 

Oxford University 

Vibhav Vineet 

Intel Labs 

Ming-Ming Cheng 

Nankai University 

David Kim 

Jamie Shotton 





Antonio Criminisi 

Shahram Izadi 


Philip Torr 

Oxford University 

Detail-Preserving Mesh Unfolding for 

Non-Rigid Shape Retrieval 

Yusuf Sahillioglu 

Middle East Technical University 

Ladislav Kavan 




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PLANTS & HUMANS 


Session Chair: Richard (Hao) Zhang, Simon 


Modeling Dense Inflorescences 

Andrew Owens 

Mikolaj Cieslak 

Jeremy Hart 

University of Calgary 

Regine Classen-Bockhoff 


Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz 

University of Calgary 

Spectral Style Transfer for Human 

Motion Between Independent Actions 

Mehmet Ersin Yumer 


Niloy Mitra 


A Deep Learning Framework for 

Character Motion Synthesis and Editing 

Daniel Holden 

University of Edinburgh 

Jun Saito 

Marza Animation Planet Inc. 

Taku Komura 

University of Edinburgh 

PiGraphs: Learning Interaction 

Snapshots From Observations 

Manolis Savva 

Angel Chang 

Pat Hanrahan 

Matthew Fisher 



TEXTURE 


Session Chair: Sylvain Lefebvre, Inria 

Multi-Scale Label-Map Extraction for 

Texture Synthesis 

Yitzchak Lockerman 


Basile Sauvage 

Remi Allegre 

Jean-Michel Dischler 

Université De Strasbourg 

Julie Dorsey 

Holly Rushmeier 


Time-Varying Weathering in 

Texture Space 

Rachele Bellini 

Yanir Kleiman 



Vector-Regression Functions for 

Texture Compression 

Jiaping Wang 

Aiur 

Ying Song 

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University 

Liyi Wei 

Dragoniac 

Wencheng Wang 

State Key Laboratory of Computer Science 

Multiway K-Clustered Tensor 

Approximation: Toward High- 

Performance Photorealistic 

Data-Driven Rendering 

Yu-Ting Tsai 

Yuan Ze University 

USER INTERFACES 


Session Chair: Maneesh Agrawala, 


DisCo: Display-Camera Communication 

Using Rolling Shutter Sensors 

Kensei Jo 

Sony Corporation 

Mohit Gupta 

University of Wisconsin – Madison 

Shree K. Nayar 


Soli: Ubiquitous Gesture Sensing With 

Millimeter Wave Radar 

Mustafa Karagozler 

Ivan Poupyrev 

Jaime Lien 

Carsten Schwesig 

Nick Gillian 

Patrick Amihood 

Hakim Raja 

Erik Olson 

Google 

Efficient and Precise Interactive 

Hand Tracking Through Joint, 

Continuous Optimization of Pose 

and Correspondences 

Jonathan Taylor 

Lucas Bordeaux 

Tom Cashman 

Bob Corish 

Cem Keskin 

Toby Sharp 


Eduardo Soto 

Microsoft Research, McMaster University 

David Sweeney 


Julien Valentin 

Oxford University, Microsoft Research 

Benjamin Luff 

Aaron Topalian 

Microsoft Research, Abertay University 

Erroll Wood 

University of Cambridge, Microsoft Research 

Sameh Khamis 


Shahram Izadi 

Richard Banks 

Andrew Fitzgibbon 

Jamie Shotton 




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Rig Animation With a Tangible and 

Modular Input Device 

Oliver Glauser 

Wan-Chun Ma 

ETH Zürich 

Daniele Panozzo 

ETH Zürich and New York University 

Alec Jacobson 


Otmar Hilliges 


ETH Zürich 

EXPRESSIVE ANIMATION 


Session Chair: Marie-Paule Cani, Inria, 

Grenoble Universities 

Artist-Directed Dynamics for 

2D Animation 

Yunfei Bai 


Danny Kaufman 


C. Karen Liu 


Jovan Popović 


Modeling Character Canvases From 

Cartoon Drawings 

Mikhail Bessmeltsev 

Will Chang 

Nicholas Vining 

Alla Sheffer 


Karan Singh 


SketchiMo: Sketch-Based Motion 

Editing for Articulated Characters 

Byungkuk Choi 

Roger Blanco i Ribera 



J.P. Lewis 

Yeongho Seol 

Weta Digital Ltd 

Seokpyo Hong 

Haegwang Eom 

Sunjin Jung 

Junyong Noh 



PHOTO ORGANIZATION & 

MANIPULATION 


Session Chair: Ping Tan, Simon Fraser University 

Automatic Triage for a Photo Series 

Huiwen Chang 

Fisher Yu 


Jue Wang 


Douglas Ashley 

Adam Finkelstein 


Automatic Photo Adjustment Using 

Deep Neural Networks 

Zhicheng Yan 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Hao Zhang 


Baoyuan Wang 


Sylvain Paris 


Yizhou Yu 

University of Hong Kong, University of Illinois 

at Urbana-Champaign 

EyeOpener: Editing Eyes in the Wild 

Zhixin Shu 


Eli Shechtman 


Dimitris Samaras 


Sunil Hadap 


Sky is Not the Limit: Semantic-Aware 

Sky Replacement 

Yi-Hsuan Tsai 


Xiaohui Shen 

Zhe Lin 

Kalyan Sunkavalli 


Ming-Hsuan Yang 


Shadow Theatre: Discovering Human 

Motion From a Sequence of Silhouettes 

Jungdam Won 

Jehee Lee 

Seoul National University 


AR/VR 

FIRST-TIMER 

VR VILLAGE 

50 


Real-time immersion in tomorrow’s virtual and augmented realities: 

• Stand-up/sit-down VR and tabletop AR 

• Nomadic VR (untethered head-mounted displays or AR) 

• Demos 

VR VILLAGE HOURS 






Noon-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-5:30 pm 

10 am-1 pm 

A preliminary list of VR Projects. 


Throughout the week at SIGGRAPH 2016, attendees can explore the fascinating 

potential of these new formats for telling stories, engaging audiences, and powering 

real-world applications in health, education, design, and gaming. 

Image credit: “Parallel Eyes”: Exploring Human Capability and Behaviors With Paralleled First-Person View 

Sharing © 2016 Shunichi Kasahara, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; Mitsuhito Ando, Kiyoshi 

Suganuma; Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media; Jun Rekimoto; Sony Computer Science Laboratories, 

Inc., The University of Tokyo. 

“Garden”: A Mixed Reality Experience 

Garden uses Google Project Tango’s 

depth-sensing capability to transform the 

real world into an identical voxel world. By 

putting the Tango on a VR headset, players 

can walk around and interact with objects 

in a completely untethered experience, 

unlocking new possibilities in long-range VR. 

Keng Hua Sing 

Wei Xie 

Nigel Randall 

Vivek Vidyasagaran 

Tsung-Han Lee 


Graphical Manipulation of Human 

Walking Direction With Visual Illusion 

This installation presents a novel method 

that uses a visual illusion to enable 

pedestrian guidance without referring to 

information provided by a navigation system. 

Akira Ishii 

Ippei Suzuki 

Shinji Sakamoto 

Keita Kanai 

Kazuki Takazawa 

Hiraku Doi 

Yoichi Ochiai 


“Imago”: Presence and Narrative in 

Virtual Reality 

“Imago”, a live-action virtual reality film 

narrative told through drama, dance, and 

abstract CG, is designed to explore the 

presence of a viewer in the virtual space and 

the impact this has on emotional immersion. 

Jaehee Cho 


Tsung-Han Lee 

Carnegie Mellon University/Project Hypnos 

Joel Ogden 

Amy Stewart 

Tsung-Yu Tsai 

Junwen Chen 

Ralph Vituccio 


Immersive and Interactive Procedure- 

Training Simulator for High-Risk 

Power-Line Maintenance 

This procedure-training simulator, targeted 

at the operation and maintenance of 

overland power lines, are implemented 

using VR goggles (Oculus Rift) and a real 

scenario matched perfectly with its virtual 

reality counterpart. 

Eduardo Zilles Borba 

Marcio Cabral 

Andre Montes 

Olavo Belloc 

Marcelo Zuffo 

Universidade de São Paulo 

Injustice – Interactive Live Action 

Virtual Reality Experience 

In this interactive VR experience about 

racially motivated police brutality, users 

witness an act of racial discrimination 

and are forced to make moral and ethical 

decisions on the spot. 

Jaehee Cho 

Atit Kothari 

Martin Ding 

Yeongmin Won 

Stephanie Fawaz 

Tiffa Cheng 



VR VILLAGE (continued) 

51 

GAMES 

Inner Activity 

Inner Activity is a multi-sensory virtual reality 

art installation that explores the potential 

therapeutic applications of immersive virtual 

reality entertainment. It is a combination 

of interactive game technologies, vibroacoustic 

therapy practices, physical set 

design, and concepts from meditation 

and spirituality. 

Anshul Pendse 

Natalie Gravier 

USC School of Cinematic Arts and Institute for 

Creative Technologies 

David Deedwania 

Marientina Gotsis 

Mike Patterson 

Sagar Ramesh 

Zekia Zhan 

Chanel Summers 

USC School of Cinematic Arts and Institute for 

Creative Technologies 


Invasion! Exploring Empathy and 

Agency in VR 

This narrative-driven interactive VR animation, 

in real time, directed by Eric Darnell, 

director and writer of all four “Madagascar” 

films, represents a unique combination of 

artistry and technology. 

Eric Darnell 

Maureen Fan 

Maciej Gilwa 

Michael Hutchinson 

Baobab Studios Inc. 

IRIDiuM: Immersive Rendered 

Interactive Deep Media 

Attendees are invited to enter the first 

movie-quality graphics environment with the 

ability to move and interact with characters. 

This "deep media" solution allows motion 

parallax within pre-rendered graphics, 

while sparse-sensor motion capture solving 

allows unobtrusive embodiment within 

animated virtual worlds. 

Babis Koniaris 

Ivan Huerta 

Maggie Kosek 

Karen Darragh 

Charles Malleson 

Joanna Jamrozy 

Nick Swafford 

Jose Guitian 

Bochang Moon 

Ali Israr 



Disney Research, The Walt Disney Company, 

Edinburgh Napier University 

Kanju: Integrating HCI to Tell Better 

Stories in Immersive Environments 


To advance the language of storytelling in 

immersive environments, content creators 

must look beyond traditional theater and 

film techniques. Incorporating humancomputer 

interaction techniques and basic 

design principles will be key to the future of 

narrative experiences. 

Stephanie Riggs 

Sunchaser Entertainment 

Longing for Wilderness 

This virtual ride from a noisy city through 

a slowly transforming forest toward a calm 

and airy landscape seeks to express our 

innate longing to experience nature in its 

rawest forms. 

Marc Zimmermann 

Epicscapes 

Volker Helzle 

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 

MechVR: Interactive VR Motion 

Simulation of “Mech” Biped Robot 

MechVR is an experimental, entertainmentbased 

immersive VR application that invites 

its rider to experience a virtual adventure 

upon a giant biped robot under the rider's 

own control. 

Saurabh Hindlekar 

Victor Zordan 

Emerson Smith 

John Welter 

William Mckay 

Clemson University 

“OoEs”: Playing in the Immersive Game 

With Augmented Haptics 

Orb of Elements, a new haptic technology 

that augments multiple tactile sensations in 

an immersive game, enhances the player 

experience by combining motors, thermal 

actuators, and an electric fan to simulate the 

natural elements: water, fire, earth, and air. 

Ping-Hsuan Han 

Yang-Sheng Chen 

National Taiwan University 

Chiao-En Hsieh 

National Taipei University of Education 

Yu-Jie Huang 


Hung-Chih Lin 

Peng-Wen Tong 

National Taipei University of Education 

Kuan-Yin Lu 

Yi-Ping Hung 


GAMES 

“Parallel Eyes”: Exploring Human 

Capability and Behaviors With 

Paralleled First-Person View Sharing 

This system explores how humans 

understand and develop viewing behaviors 

with mutual paralleled first-person view 

sharing, in which the user can see others' 

first-person video perspectives as well as 

their own perspectives in real time. 

Shunichi Kasahara 

Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. 

Mitsuhito Ando 

Kiyoshi Suganuma 

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media 

Jun Rekimoto 

Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., 


GAMES 

Ruckus Ridge 

Ruckus Ridge is the first four-player 

local-multiplayer party game built for VR. 

Participants take turns using one headset 

while the other players control characters 

using traditional game-pad controllers, 

following the action from top-down view on 

a TV or computer display. 

Sacha Reihani 

Jacob Haigh 

Roland Synnestvedt 

Thomas Angelopolous 

Josh Alpert 

ForeignVR 


“Sent”: A Virtual Reality Short Film 

This five-minute, 40-second VR short from 

Light Chaser Animation tells the story of an 

emoji “Goodbye” who embarks on a magical 

journey that turns things in surprising ways 

for all. 

Gary Wang 

Li Mi Light 

Lei Han Light 

Di Cui Light 

Chaser Animation Studios 


VR VILLAGE (continued) 

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“Synesthesia Suit”: The Full-Body 

Immersive Experience 

The Synesthesia Suit provides and 

immersive embodied experience in a 

virtual reality environment with vibro-tactile 

sensations on the entire body. Each vibrotactile 

actuator provides more than a simple 

vibration. It delivers haptic sensations based 

on TECHTILE technology. 

Yukari Konishi 

Nobuhisa Hanamistu 



Ayahiko Sato 

Rhizomatiks Research 

Tetsuya Mizuguchi 


U2 – “Song for Someone” 

Chris Milk and U2 come together once 

again to create a revolutionary new visual 

interpretation of U2’s “Song for Someone”. 

Annie Parker 

Carolyn Reynolds 

Vrse Inc. 

VR Model to Explore Archaeological 

Sites in a Non-Destructive Way 

This work presents a fully immersive virtual 

environment that simulates the Brazilian 

archaeological site at Itapeva, São Paulo. 

Eduardo Zilles Borba 

Marcio Cabral 

Roseli Lopes 

Marcelo Zuffo 

Universidade de São Paulo 

Regis Kopper 

Duke University 

“VR Planet”: Interface for Meta-View 

and Feet Interaction of VR Content 

VR Planet shows both immersive and planet 

views of the environment, and it allows 

users to easily locate events in all directions, 

which is difficult in standard VR due to 

limited fields of view. 

Kevin Fan 

Daiya Kato 


Megumi Isogai 

Daisuke Ochi 

Yutaka Kunita 

NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories 

Liwei Chan 



Masahiko Inami 



ANIMATION & VFX ART FIRST-TIMER FOR EDUCATORS PRODUCTION RESEARCH 

BIRDS OF A FEATHER 

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Informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share 

interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds. 

For additional information, days, and times for these 

presentations, visit s2016.siggraph.org/birds-feather. 

A PRELIMINARY LIST OF 

BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS: 

3D Graphics With Khronos Vulkan, 

OpenGL, and OpenGL ES 

3D Web Graphics With Khronos 

WebGL & gITF 

Accelerating Vision Processing with 

Khronos OpenVX and OpenCL 

*ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic 

Visualization (Carto) 

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators 

Forum asks: How is Virtual Reality 

changing the way we teach? 

Education Committee Open Forum 

Education Committee Town Hall 

Educators Forum 

Blender Foundation – Community 

Meeting 

Blender Spotlight 

*BOF: International Collegiate Virtual 

Reality Contest (IVRC) 

Can Fabrication Build Bridges? 

*CCIFF: Art and Entertainment 

Technology Film Festival 

Computer Graphics for Simuation 

CS + X Cross Campus Collaborations 

*DCAJ Presentation: Industrial 

Application of Content Technology 

in Japan 

Digital Thought Within the Division of 

Experimental and Foundation Studies 

at RISD 

Harvest4D – Harvesting Dynamic 

3D Worlds From Commodity 

Sensor Clouds 

Heterogeneous Computing With 

Khronos OpenCL, SYCL, and SPIR-V 

*Immersive Visualization for Science, 

Research, and Art 

*International Khronos Chapters 

Program 

*ISEA International Open Forum 

LASig Activities 

Leonardo Education and Art 

Forum (LEAF) 

Maker Movement Meets Formal 

Education 

OpenSceneGraph 

Production Pipeline Fundamentals for 

Film, Games, and TV 

Program in Empowerment Informatics 

at the University of Tsukuba 

Render Farming 

Shader Languages, Compilers, 

and Effects 

Teaching Computer Graphics Inside a 

Browser: WebGL and three.js 

The Computer and Conceptual Art 

Practices in the 1960s and 70s 

Undergraduate Research Alliance 

VES All-Sections SIGGRAPH Party 

Virtual Globes Using WebGL 

and Cesium 

VFX Union – Crafting Your 

VFX Workplace 

*presented in the ACM SIGGRAPH Theater 


AR/VR FOR EDUCATORS FIRST-TIMER 

ACM SIGGRAPH THEATER EVENTS 

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Informative international sessions on the current state of computer graphics around 

the world, organized by representatives of ACM SIGGRAPH and affiliated societies. 

For additional information, days, and times for these 

international sessions visit s2016.siggraph.org. 

A PRELIMINARY LIST OF ACM 

SIGGRAPH THEATER EVENTS: 

50-50: Women in CG 

ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters 

Business Meeting 


Community 


Community – Science of the 

Unseen: Digital Art Perspectives 

CG in Africa + Middle East 

CG in Asia 

CG in Australasia 

CG in Europe + Russia 

CG in Latin America 

CG in Latin America: “Encontro dos 

brasileiros” – Brazilian Meeting 

CG in USA and Canada 

Join the IRC in 2016! 

Overview of SIGGRAPH 

(with Japanese interpreter) 

Professional and Student Chapters 

Startup Meeting 


ANIMATION & VFX FIRST-TIMER FOR EDUCATORS GAMES MOBILE 

EXHIBITION (as of 20 May) 

FP F S EP EO E #SIGGRAPH2016 

PRODUCTION 

RESEARCH 

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EXHIBITION HOURS 




9:30 am-6 pm 

9:30 am-6 pm 

9:30 am-3:30 pm 

Children under 16 are not permitted in the Exhibition. Age verification is required. 


GAMES 

MOBILE 

FIRST-TIMER 


EXHIBITS FAST FORWARD 


A sneak peek of the products and 

announcements that companies plan 

to make during the exhibition in a fast 

paced, entertaining session. 

3D Systems 

3dMD 

Aberdeen LLC 

Academy of Art University 

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 

American Cinematographer 

American Express OPEN 

Animation Magazine 

Association for Computing Machinery 

Autodesk Canada Co. 

Avere Systems 

B&H Photo, Video & Pro Audio 

Binary Alchemy 

Blackmagic Design 

BOXX Technologies, Inc. 

Cap Digital - France 

CGAL – The Computational Geometry 

Algorithms Library 

Computer Graphics World 

CyberGlove Systems 

DigiPen Institute of Technology 

Dimensional Imaging 

Drexel University 

Eizo Inc. 

Esri 

Fabric Software 

Faceware Technologies 

FacioMetrics LLC 

ForgeFX Training Simulations 

Formlabs Inc. 

The Foundry Visionmongers 

ftrack 

Goggle Tech 

Google 

HGST 

HoloDigilog Human Media Research Center 

IATSE 

Imagineer Systems/Boris FX 

Infinite Trading Inc 

Innobright Technologies Inc. 


Intervoke Technologies 

Isotropix 

KAI 

Lightworks 

Live2D Inc. 

Luxion, Inc. 

Mantis Vision 

MAXON 

Mayabious Art LLP 

Meta 

Microsoft Corp. 

Motion Analysis Corporation 

MSI Computer Corp. 

Mura 

NCCA, Bournemouth University, Uk 

Newsight Japan, Ltd. 

NorPix Inc. 


OptiTrack 

Original Force Animation 


Pixel Plow 

Pluralsight 

PNY Technologies 

Pragma Solutions Pte Ltd 

Presence Pictures 

Puget Systems 


Purple Platypus 

Qualcomm Incorporated 

Quantum Corporation 

Qumulo 

RebusFarm GmbH 

Redshift 

Ringling College of Art and Design 

River Studios 

Rokoko 

SCAD 

Sensel 

SensoMotoric Instruments, Inc. 

Shapeways 

Sharecg.com 

Side Effects Software 

Simlens 

Sketchfab Inc. 

Skolkovo Foundation 

Smith Micro Software 

SpeedTree 

Stratasys 3D Printers & Production Systems 

Synertial 

Tardis 3D Technologies 

Taylor Francis/CRC/Focal Press 

TechViz 

Thinkbox Software Inc. 

Umbra 

United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 IATSE 


The University of the Arts 

uSens Inc. 

VanArts 

Vancouver Film School 

Vicon 

Visual Computing Center at KAUST 

Wacom Technology 

Web3D Consortium 

Wolfram Research, Inc. 

XIMMERSE 

X-Rite Pantone 

Xsens 

Yost Labs, Inc. 


EXHIBITOR SESSIONS (as of 5 May) 

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Comprehensive summaries of the latest technologies in computer graphics and 

interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2016 exhibitors demonstrate software, hardware, 

and systems; answer questions; and host one-on-one conversations about how 

their applications improve professional and technical performance. 

EXHIBITOR MEETING ROOMS 

NVIDIA Room 210D 

Sunday, 24 July, 9 am-6 pm 

Monday, 25 July, 9 am-6 pm 

NVIDIA Best of GTC Talks 

Join us for two days of deep-dive, technical 

sessions from NVIDIA engineers and other 

GPU experts. 

Chaos Group Room 205A 



V-Ray Days 

Focusing on artists, V-Ray Days returns with 

exclusive tech breakdowns of indie passion 

projects and this year’s blockbusters. 

Advancing VR and breakthroughs in cloud 

rendering are also discussed. 

Intel Room 213A 

Tuesday, 26 July, 9 am-6 pm 

Wednesday, 27 July, 9 am-6 pm 

Thursday, 28 July, 9 am-6 pm 

Intel Exhibitor Sessions 

Smart people giving insightful and 

entertaining presentations: Join us in room 

213A for technical topics from graphics to 

gaming and beyond. 

Disney Room 211A 



Fabric Software Room 201B 

Tuesday, 26 July, 10 am-6 pm 

Fabric Engine User Group 

Autodesk Room 207D 



Autodesk Vision Series 


NOKIA 

Tuesday, 26 July, 10:30-11:30 am 

Nokia OZO Ecosystem: The State of 

Art in VR 

MICROSOFT 

Tuesday, 26 July, 2-3 pm 

Why You Should be Rendering on 

the Cloud 

Learn how you can run large-scale 

rendering workloads in the public cloud with 

Teradici’s PColP technologies, NVIDA’s 

GPU virtual machines in Microsoft’s Azure, 

and more. 


AVERE SYSTEMS 

Wednesday, 27 July, 9-10 am 

Compute Cloud for Rendering – 

Big-Studio Results on a Small- 

Studio Budget 

Presented by Google, Moonbot Studios, 

and Avere Systems. 

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY 

Wednesday, 27 July, 10:30-11:30 am 

Dr. Inventor Your Personal, Creative 

Research Assistant 

How to create novel and useful research 

ideas by uncovering latent analogies 

between publications in computer graphics 

using the Dr. Inventor creativity support tool. 

GOOGLE 


3D Reconstruction with Google’s 

Project Tango 

QUMULO, INC. 


Why Media & Entertainment 

Companies Are Moving Away From 

Legacy Storage Solutions 

Several thousand data-storage 

professionals shared their current datastorage 

challenges, priorities, and 

requirements. Now hear their answers 

and discuss. 

BINARY ALCHEMY 


Royal Render 

Over the last 15 years, Royal Render has 

become a useful tool in solving production 

challenges and keeping projects on 

schedule. Royal Render: helping to keep 

designers and animators on task, on time, 

and within budget. 



JOB FAIR 

FIRST-TIMER 

GAMES 

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JOB FAIR HOURS 




9:30 am-6 pm 

9:30 am-6 pm 

9:30 am-3:30 pm 

The Job Fair is absolutely the best place at SIGGRAPH 2016 for employers to meet 

with thousands of job seekers from around the globe! 

Job Fair Exhibitors post their jobs on the CreativeHeads.net and ACM SIGGRAPH job 

boards one month prior to the conference. This allows SIGGRAPH 2016 attendees to 

connect with employers before the conference, during the conference via the Job 

Fair, and after the conference via the CreativeHeads.net job board and candidate 

profiling system. 

CreativeHeads.net provides the most comprehensive recruitment software 

solution for the VFX, animation, video game, TV, film, and 3D technology and 

software tools industries, for employers searching for talent or job seekers 

looking to secure the “right” job. 

JOB SEEKERS 

The Job Fair IS THE BEST PLACE 

to be if you are: 

• Actively looking for a job 

• Passively networking to see what 

opportunities are available 

• Interested in getting acquainted with 

some great companies 

• Hoping to broaden your horizons and 

possibly switch industries 

• Looking for career development tips 

• Wanting to learn about the latest CG 

and interactive techniques 

EMPLOYERS 

The Job Fair IS THE BEST PLACE 

to be if you want to: 

• Meet with seasoned professionals 

• Hire “right-brain” talent 

• Reach an extremely diverse and 

experienced group of creative 

professionals working across multiple 

creative industries 

JOB FAIR PARTICIPANTS (as of 20 May) 

Animal Logic 

Booth 17 

Axis Animation 

Recruitment Package 

Blizzard Entertainment 

Booth 3 

Brown Bag Films 

Booth 14 

Digital Domain 

Booth 7 

Double Negative Visual Effects 


Esri 

Booth 12 

IGT 

Booth 10 

Legend3D 

Booth 4 

Method Studios 

Booth 8 

NHTV Breda University of 

Applied Sciences 

Booth 13 



Rodeo FX 

Booth 18 

Snapchat 

Booth 19 

Sony Pictures Imageworks 

Booth 15 

The Third Floor 

Booth 5 

Weta Digital 

Booth 16 


GENERAL INFORMATION 

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Airport Shuttle Bus Discounts 

SIGGRAPH 2016 has partnered with Super 

Shuttle to offer transportation to and from 

John Wayne Airport (SNA) and Los Angeles 

International Airport (LAX). 

To/From John Wayne Airport (SNA): 

Shared Ride Van: $8 per passenger 

(up to 9 passengers) 

Town Car Service: $65 per sedan 


To/From Los Angeles International 

Airport (LAX): 

Shared Ride Van: $14 per passenger 


Town Car Service: $102 per sedan 


These discounted rates are valid from five 

days before the conference to five days after 

it closes. 

If you book your shuttle reservation through 

the SIGGRAPH 2016 web site, you can earn 

miles on American Airlines, United Airlines 

and Delta. 

Book by phone at: 

800.258.3826 

To receive the discount, you must mention 

the SIGGRAPH 2016 discount code: 

PK7AU. Or you can book directly on the 

Super Shuttle website. 

Bookstore 

BreakPoint Books offers the latest and 

greatest books, CDs, and DVDs on 

computer animation, graphic design, 

gaming, 3D graphics, modeling, and digital 

artistry. The bookstore features recent 

books by SIGGRAPH 2016 speakers and 

award winners. To suggest books, CDs, 

or DVDs that should be available in the 

bookstore, contact: 

Breakpoint Books 

hemsath@msn.com 

Camera and Recording Policies 

No cameras or recording devices are 

permitted at SIGGRAPH 2016. Abuse of this 

policy will result in the loss of the individual’s 

registration credentials. SIGGRAPH 2016 

employs a professional photographer and 

reserves the right to use all images that this 

photographer takes during the conference 

for publication and promotion of future ACM 

SIGGRAPH events. 

Children at the Conference 

Please be aware that parts of the 

Conference may contain adult content, 

graphic images, or violence. 

There are no age-based restrictions at 

the Conference with the exception of 

the SIGGRAPH Exhibition. Registered 

attendees under 16 years of age may enter 

the SIGGRAPH Exhibition Halls only under 

one of the following circumstances: as 

“wearable” infants/toddlers (those being 

carried in a sling or backpack carrier) 

or as children that are part of an official 

SIGGRAPH guided tour event. 

Hotel Reservations 

Visit the SIGGRAPH 2016 website to access 

the easy-to-use online hotel reservation 

system, which includes complete 

information on housing policies, procedures, 

and rates: 

S2016.siggraph.org 

Or contact: 

onPeak 

SIGGRAPH 2016 Housing Provider 

+1.855.416.6073 (US and Canada) 

+1.312.527.7300 (International) 

SIGGRAPH 2016 has negotiated discount 

rates for hotels in Anaheim. These discounts 

are available to SIGGRAPH 2016 attendees 

only. Reservations made after Monday, 

27 June are based on availability only, and 

rates may increase. 

SIGGRAPH 2016 hotel rates can only be 

booked through onPeak, SIGGRAPH 2016’s 

Housing Partner. If you are contacted by any 

other companies to make hotel reservations 

for SIGGRAPH 2016, be aware they may 

not be reputable companies or endorsed by 

SIGGRAPH 2016. 

Anaheim Convention Center 

800 West Katella Avenue 

Anaheim, CA 92802 

Accessibility 

The convention center is handicap 

accessible. If you have special needs or 

requirements, please call Conference 

Management at: 

+1.312.673.5868. 

Food Services 

A variety of food truck vendors and 

concessions are available throughout the 

convention center and outdoor plaza space. 

Internet Access 

Free wireless access is available during 

SIGGRAPH 2016 in all conference locations 

within the Anaheim Convention Center 

[except in the Exhibit Hall]. 

Parking 

+1.714.765.8950 

SIGGRAPH 2016 attendees can park at 

the Anaheim Convention Center parking 

lot. Parking is $15 per entry (no overnight 

parking available). 

Luggage and Coat Check 

Luggage and coat-check services ($5 

per item) are available at the Anaheim 

Convention Center from Sunday, 24 July 

through Thursday, 28 July. 

Special Policies 

Lost badges cannot be replaced. If you 

lose your badge, you must purchase a new 

registration. Technical materials included 

with your registration must be picked up at 

the SIGGRAPH 2016 Merchandise Pickup 

Center. Lost merchandise will not 

be replaced. 

Reception Access 

To be admitted to the Reception, you 

must have a ticket. Your badge does not 

provide access. 


REGISTRATION FEE INFORMATION 

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CONFERENCE 







E 

Exhibitors 


Full Conference One Day registration is available. 

Includes admission to conference programs and 

events for the day purchased and the Exhibition 


It does NOT include Computer Animation Festival 

– Electronic Theater or Reception. 

*RECEPTION TICKET 

To be admitted to the Reception, you must 

have a ticket. Your registration badge does not 

provide access. 

REFUND AND CANCELLATION 

DEADLINES 

Cancellation requests for refunds must be made 

in writing and received on or before 1 July. No 

refunds will be issued after this date. There is a 

refund processing fee of $US75. 

 

Lost badges cannot be replaced. 

If you lose your badge, you must 

purchase a new registration. 

X Included in registration FP F S EP EO 

Full Full Full Select Exhibits Exhibits 

Conference Conference Conference Conference Plus Only 

Platinum 

One-Day 

Member 

By 3 June $1,200 $950 $450 $450 $150 $50 

By 1 July $1,400 $1,150 $550 $550 $200 $50 

2 July and After $1,600 $1,350 $650 $650 $250 $50 

Non-Member 

By 3 June $1,400* $1,150* $550 $550 $150 $50 

By 1 July $1,600* $1,350* $650 $650 $200 $50 

2 July and After $1,800* $1,550* $750 $750 $250 $50 

Student 

By 3 June $650 $400 $300 $300 $150 $50 

By 1 July $700 $450 $350 $350 $200 $50 

2 July and After $750 $500 $400 $400 $250 $50 

ACM SIGGRAPH Award Presentation X X M X 

ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks X X M X 

ACM Student Research Competition – X X W X X 

Final Presentation 

Appy Hour X X W X X 

Art Gallery X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 

Birds of a Feather X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 

Computer Animation Festival – Daytime Selects X X Su, T, Th X 

Computer Animation Festival – Electronic Theater M or W M or W 

Courses X X Su, M, T, W, Th 

Emerging Technologies X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 

Exhibition X X T, W, Th X X X 

Exhibitor Sessions X X T, W, Th X X X 

Exhibits Fast Forward X X M X X X 

Experience Presentations (Art Gallery, Emerging X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 

Technologies, Studio, VR Village) 

International Center X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 

Job Fair X X T, W, Th X X X 

Keynote Session X X M X 

Panels X X Su, T, W 

Posters X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 

Poster Sessions X X T, W X X 

Production Sessions X X Su, M, T, W, Th X 

Real-Time Live! X X T X 

Reception X X 

Studio Workshops X X Su, M, T, W X X 

Talks X X Su, M, T, W, Th 

Technical Papers X X M, T, W, Th 

Technical Papers Fast Forward X X Su 

VR Village X X Su, M, T, W, Th X X 


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 

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SIGGRAPH 2016 Conference Chair 

Mona Kasra 

University of Virginia 

General Submissions Chair 

Mashhuda Glencross 


Student Volunteer Program Chair 

Christian Wittorf 

Rock Solid Internet Systems 

Art Gallery Chair 

Jonah Brucker-Cohen 

Lehman College, City University of New York 

Art Papers Chair 

Edward A. Shanken 

Rhode Island School of Design 

Audio/Visual Support 

Freeman Audio Visual Solutions 

Computer Animation Festival Chair 

Roy C. Anthony 

Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. 

Conference Administration, Conference 

Management, Marketing and Media 

SmithBucklin Corporation 

Courses Chair 



Education Liaison 

Ginger Alford 

Trinity Valley School 

Emerging Technologies Chair 

Masahiko Inami 


Exhibition Management 

Hall-Erickson, Inc. 

Experience Hall Manager 

Kristy Pron 

Walt Disney Imagineering 

Games Chair 

Jerry Edsall 

Black Tusk Studios 

Graphic Design, Editing, Web Site 

Q LTD 

GraphicsNet Chair 

Swaroop Samek 


Housing Provider 

onPeak 

International Resources Chair 

Jacky Bibliowicz 

Autodesk Canada 

Mobile Chair 

Akshay Agarwal 

Google Inc. 

Operations Director 

Benny Garcia 

Benstudios 

Posters Coordinator 

Rachel Albert 


Production Sessions Chair 

Mikki Rose 


Publications 

Stephen N. Spencer, ACM SIGGRAPH 

Publications Committee Chair 


Real-Time Live! Chair 

Pol Jeremias 


Registration 

RCS 

Studio Chair 

Gerry Derksen 

Winthrop University 

Technical Papers Chair 

John Snyder 


VR Village Chair 

Denise Quesnel 


Web Programming 

The OPAL Group 

General Services 

Freeman Decorating Company 

SIGGRAPH 2017 Conference Chair 

Jerome Solomon 

Cogswell Polytechnical College 


CO-LOCATED EVENTS 

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Presented in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, these small symposia are related to 

important aspects of computer graphics and interactive techniques. 

DIGIPRO 

29 July 2016 

Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa 

1600 South Disneyland Drive 

Anaheim, California, 92802 USA 

dp2016.digiproconf.org 

SAP 

22-23 July 2016 

DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Anaheim Resort – Convention Center 

2085 South Harbor Boulevard 


sap.acm.org/2016 

WEB3D 

22-24 July 2016 

Hilton Anaheim (Next to the Anaheim Convention Center) 

777 Convention Way 


web3d2016.web3d.org

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