SIGGRAPH 2008: 35th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Chair(s):
- Jacquelyn A. Martino
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- IBM Corporation
Location:
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Dates:
August 11-15, 2008
Experience Overview(s):
Learning Overview(s):
Video:
Acknowledgments and Awards Announced During the Conference:
Awards

Type: [Computer Graphics Achievement Award]
SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Perlin
Awardee(s): [Perlin]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Electronic Theater Audience Choice]
SIGGRAPH 2008 Electronic Theater Audience Choice: Bocabeille, Chanioux, Delabarre, Marchland, Marmier, et al. …
Awarded Work: [Oktapodi]
Awardee(s): [Bocabeille] [Chanioux] [Delabarre] [Marchland] [Marmier] [Mokhberi]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Electronic Theater Best in Show]
SIGGRAPH 2008 Electronic Theater Best in Show: Bocabeille, Chanioux, Delabarre, Marchland, Marmier, et al. …
Awarded Work: [Oktapodi]
Awardee(s): [Bocabeille] [Chanioux] [Delabarre] [Marchland] [Marmier] [Mokhberi]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Electronic Theater Best Student Project]
SIGGRAPH 2008 Electronic Theater Best Student Project: Toubal, D’Incau, Castellani and Renaudin
Awarded Work: [893]
Awardee(s): [Toubal] [D'Incau] [Castellani] [Renaudin]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Electronic Theater Jurys Choice]
SIGGRAPH 2008 Electronic Theater Jurys Choice: Lafay
Awarded Work: [Mauvais Rôle]
Awardee(s): [Lafay]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Outstanding Service Award]
SIGGRAPH 2008 Outstanding Service Award: Spencer
Awardee(s): [Spencer]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
SIGGRAPH Videos Reviews Containing Conference Content:
Animations Shown at the Conference:
Animations

Carbon Footprint (Discovery Networks EMEA/Jellyfish Pictures)
Director(s): [Lambert]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

L’Homme à Tête de Poule
Director(s): [Jorget] [Morales] [Rodriguez]
Studio(s): [Premium Films Distribution]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

APPLESEED: EX MACHINA
Director(s): [Aramaki]
Studio(s): [Digital Frontier Corporation]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #162, Track #01]

Do Penguins Fly?
Director(s): [Lelièvre]
Studio(s): [PlanKtoon]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #01]

Knoll’s Computer Class: The BRDF
Director(s): [Parchettka]
Studio(s): [Fachhochschule Duesseldorf]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #01]

Hugh
Director(s): [Nouveau] [Navarro] [Turbé] [Pommiez]
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #02]

3deluxe Motion Showreel 2008
Director(s): [Lauhoff]
Studio(s): [3deluxe motion]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #03]

Anima Facta Est
Director(s): [Arnissolle] [Gourmelen] [Ordonia] [Rivière] [Vuillemin]
Studio(s): [Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #03]

Family Portrait
Director(s): [Strixner]
Studio(s): [Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #03]

Renkan
Director(s): [Takahashi]
Studio(s): [Nagoya City University]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #04]

Towers in the Tempest
Director(s): [Shirah]
Studio(s): [GST – NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #04]

Blind Spot
Director(s): [Bessiere] [Clert] [Dubois Herry] [Jardel] [Rouby]
Studio(s): [Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #05]

Simulating Cloth at the Yarn Level
Studio(s): [Cornell University]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #05]

Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection
Studio(s): [The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #06]

Nature “Tzu-jan”
Director(s): [Rubenstein]
Studio(s): [Curv Studios]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #06]

Rhythm & Hues 2007 Feature Film Work
Studio(s): [Rhythm & Hues Studios]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #06]

The VFX of “Dai Nipponjin”
Director(s): [Matumoto]
Studio(s): [Casio Entertainment, Inc.]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #07]

Mister Sandman
Director(s): [Vien] [Faugaret] [Akhdar]
Studio(s): [Supinfocom Valenciennes]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #08]

Team Fortress 2: “Meet The Engineer”
Studio(s): [Valve Corporation]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #08]

Al Dente
Director(s): [Barthelemy] [François] [Leon Ortiz]
Studio(s): [Supinfocom Valenciennes]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #09]

Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft IICinematic Teaser: “Building a Better Marine”
Director(s): [Carpenter]
Studio(s): [Blizzard Entertainment]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #09]

Box Racer
Director(s): [Anderson]
Studio(s): [Ringling College of Art + Design]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #09]

Chronos 1.0
Director(s): [Boutaleb] [Boyer] [Mahé] [Mangyoku]
Studio(s): [Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #10]

Dual Scattering for Real-TimeMultiple Scattering in Hair
Studio(s): [Texas A&M University]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #10]

Heavy Duty
Director(s): [Chiou] [Yang]
Studio(s): [Digimax, Inc.]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #10]

Fanboy
Director(s): [Cashman]
Studio(s): [Nickelodeon Animation]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #11]

Mauvais Rôle
Studio(s): [École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #11]

Oktapodi
Director(s): [Bocabeille] [Chanioux] [Delabarre] [Marchland] [Marmier] [Mokhberi]
Studio(s): [Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #11]

Morula
Director(s): [Labusga]
Studio(s): [Stuttgart Media University]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #12]

My Little Angel
Director(s): [Larson]
Studio(s): [Flurry Animation Studios]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #12]

Chrysalis
Director(s): [Leclercq]
Studio(s): [La Maison]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #13]

Confine(s)
Director(s): [Yabuki]
Studio(s): [TANGRAM Co., Ltd.]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #13]

Environ: A Visualization System Aimedat Massive CAD Models
Director(s): [Santos]
Studio(s): [Instituto Tecgraf, PUC-Rio] [Petrobras]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #13]

IBM Web Campaign: What Makes You Special?
Director(s): [de Beek] [Fries]
Studio(s): [Little Fluffy Clouds LLC]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #14]

Jungle Jail
Director(s): [Lan Bruce]
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #14]

The Moment
Director(s): [Fels] [Letay]
Studio(s): [Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #14]

Emile and the Fabulous Small Gentlemen
Director(s): [Arnoux] [Haugomat] [Lefebvre] [Tardivier]
Studio(s): [Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #15]

Little Huntress
Director(s): [Findeisen]
Studio(s): [Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #15]

Fight For Life (BBC/DCTP/Discovery/VFX – Jellyfish Pictures)
Studio(s): [Jellyfish Pictures]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #16]

Mindplotter
Director(s): [Bitzer] [Brunck] [Weber]
Studio(s): [Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #16]

Bärenbraut
Director(s): [Roczen]
Studio(s): [Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #17]

Rua das Tulipas
Director(s): [Camargo]
Studio(s): [OZI Escola de Audiovisual de Brasília]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #159, Track #17]

Snowtime
Director(s): [Dorian]
Studio(s): [Axis Animation]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #17]

Goobees
Director(s): [Losure]
Studio(s): [Texas A&M University]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #18]

Now Look What You Did – Cigarette
Director(s): [Ibele] [Robashkin]
Studio(s): [Cigarette — MAKE]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #161, Track #18]

Bridgestone: Scream
Director(s): [Usher]
Studio(s): [Method Studios]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
[SVR Issue #160, Track #19]
Art Show Entries:
Experience Entries:
Appy Hour
Overview
Birds of a Feather
Overview
Emerging Technology
Overview
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Type: [E-Tech]
/ed [sæ∫t]
Organizer(s): [Ooshima] [Fukuzawa] [Hashimoto] [Ando] [Watanabe] [Kajimoto]
Entry No.: [14]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display
Organizer(s): [Iwamoto] [Tatezono] [Hoshi] [Shinoda]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Animatronics for control of countenance muscles in face using Moving-Units
Organizer(s): [Kwon] [Genda] [Matsunaga]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Ants in the Pants
Organizer(s): [Sato] [Sato] [Sato] [Fukushima] [Okano] [Matsuo] [Ooshima] [Kojima] [Matsue] [Nakata] [Hashimoto] [Kajimoto]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
ARScope
Organizer(s): [Yoshida] [Kuroki] [Nii] [Kawakami] [Tachi]
Entry No.: [04]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Artifacts of Research: On Singularities
Organizer(s): [Chertok]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Atta texana leafcutting ant colony: a view underground
Organizer(s): [Lafayette] [Parke] [Pierce] [Nakamura] [Simpson]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Bellows: Bringing Digital Animation into the Physical World
Organizer(s): [Dyer]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Confucius Computer: Transforming the Future through Ancient Philosophy
Organizer(s): [Cheok] [Khoo] [Liu] [Hu] [Marini] [Zhang]
Entry No.: [10]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Copycat Arm
Organizer(s): [Hoshino] [Tomida] [Tamaki]
Entry No.: [11]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Diamond Road Online: a user-guided documentary experience
Organizer(s): [Lachman]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Digital Sports Using the “Bouncing Star” Rubber Ball Comprising IR and Full-color LEDs and an Acceleration Sensor
Organizer(s): [Izuta] [Nakamura] [Sato] [Kodama] [Koike] [Fukuchi] [Shibasaki] [Mamiya]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
FingerSight: Fingertip Control and Haptic Sensing of the Visual Environment
Organizer(s): [Galeotti] [Horvath] [Klatzky] [Nichol] [Siegel] [Stetten]
Entry No.: [16]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
ForceTile: Tabletop Tangible Interface with Vision-based Force Distribution Sensing
Organizer(s): [Kakehi] [Jo] [Sato] [Minamizawa] [Nii] [Kawakami] [Naemura] [Tachi]
Entry No.: [17]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
GhostGlove: Haptic Existence of the Virtual World
Organizer(s): [Minamizawa] [Kamuro] [Fukamachi] [Kawakami] [Tachi]
Entry No.: [18]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
IncreTable, Bridging the gap between real and virtual worlds
Organizer(s): [Leitner] [Brandl] [Haller] [Seifried] [Yun] [Woo] [Sugimoto] [Inami]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Landscape Bartender: Landscape Generation Using a Cocktail Analogy
Organizer(s): [Noda] [Nomura] [Komuro] [Zheng] [Yang] [Miyata]
Entry No.: [21]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Maglev Haptics: Butterfly Haptic's New User Interface Technology
Organizer(s): [Hollis]
Entry No.: [23]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Matsumoto -jo: A Virtual 16th Century Japanese Castle
Organizer(s): [Amakawa]
Entry No.: [24]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
MDS (Mobile-Dexterous-Social) Robot for Human-Robot Teamwork
Organizer(s): [Breazeal] [Siegel] [Berlin] [Gray] [Grupen] [Deegan] [Weber] [Narendran] [McBean]
Entry No.: [25]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
MeisterGRIP: Cylindrical Interface for Intuitional Robot Manipulation
Organizer(s): [Komeiji] [Sato] [Minamizawa] [Nii] [Kawakami] [Tachi]
Entry No.: [26]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
mHashup: Fast Visual Music Discovery via Locality Sensitive Hashing
Organizer(s): [Magas] [Casey] [Rhodes]
Entry No.: [27]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Multi-Focal Compound Eye: Liquid Lens Array for Computational Photography
Organizer(s): [Ueda] [Lee] [Koike] [Takahashi] [Naemura]
Entry No.: [28]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Optical Tone - dynamic color composition
Organizer(s): [Mutoh]
Entry No.: [30]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Origami Optics
Organizer(s): [Tremblay] [Ford] [Stack] [Morrison]
Entry No.: [31]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Perception-based High Definition Haptic Rendering
Organizer(s): [Susa] [Ikeda] [Tokizaki] [Mitake] [Sato] [Hasegawa]
Entry No.: [32]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Personal Robot with a Sense of Taste
Organizer(s): [Hashimoto] [Shimazu] [Kobayashi] [Kameoka]
Entry No.: [34]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Rome Reborn
Organizer(s): [Frischer] [Abernathy] [Guidi] [Myers] [Thibodeau] [Salvemini] [Müller] [Hofstee] [Minor]
Entry No.: [35]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Stop Motion Goggle
Organizer(s): [Nagaya] [Siang] [Furukawa] [Tokiwa] [Sugimoto] [Inami]
Entry No.: [36]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Superimposing Dynamic Range
Organizer(s): [Bimber] [Iwai] [Iwai]
Entry No.: [37]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
tangible workbench "TW" – with changeable markers
Organizer(s): [Kienzl] [Marsche] [Kapeller] [Gokcezade]
Entry No.: [38]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
The Programming of Robots by Haptic Means
Organizer(s): [Teh] [Kato] [Kunieda] [Yamada]
Entry No.: [33]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Traversing Complex Environments Using Time-Indexed High Dynamic Range Panoramas
Organizer(s): [Hui] [Martinez] [Cain]
Entry No.: [39]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [E-Tech]
Two–Dimensional Communication
Organizer(s): [Nakatsuma] [Makino] [Shinoda] [Itai]
Entry No.: [40]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Fjorg!
Overview
Games
Overview
International Center Talks & SIGGRAPH Theater
Overview
Real-Time Live!
Overview
Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)
Overview

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Acquire
Organizer(s): [Hamon] [Randlette] [Willenskomer] [Nutty] [Iskra] [Akker] [Kabot] [Peterson] [Gould]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Artists In Residence Program
Organizer(s): [Nelipovich] [Buyssens] [Dollens] [Sherman] [Sabin] [Shlian] [Schmitt]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
VR Experiences
Overview
Learning Entries:
Art Papers & Presentations
Overview
![RealSnailMail [RSM]](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2008_boredomresearch_RealSnailMail-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Art Papers & Presentations]
RealSnailMail [RSM] Presenter(s): [Isley] [Smith]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Art Papers & Presentations]
The Life and Death of Energy-Autonomous Objects Presenter(s): [Jain] [Taylor]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Courses
Overview

Type: [Courses]
A Gentle Introduction to Bilateral Filtering and its Applications Presenter(s): [Paris] [Kornprobst] [Tumblin] [Durand]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Advanced Global Illumination Using Photon Mapping Presenter(s): [Jarosz] [Jensen] [Donner]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Advanced Material Appearance Modeling Presenter(s): [Rushmeier] [Dorsey] [Sillion]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games: Part 1 Presenter(s): [Tatarchuk] [Oat] [Evans] [Chen] [Liu] [Boulton] [Filion] [McNaughton] [Mittring]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games: Part 2 Presenter(s): [Tatarchuk] [Oat] [Evans] [Chen] [Liu] [Boulton] [Filion] [McNaughton] [Mittring]
Entry No.: [04]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading: Fundamentals Organizer(s): [Lefohn] [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Boyd] [Fatahalian] [Forsyth] [Luebke] [Owens]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading: In Action Organizer(s): [Lefohn] [Houston]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Luebke] [Olick] [Pellacini]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
CGAL - The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library Organizer(s): [Fabri]
Presenter(s): [Fabri] [Fogel] [Alliez]
Entry No.: [08]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Computation & Journalism Presenter(s): [Essa] [Stenger] [Ulken] [Koetter] [Agrawala] [Heer]
Entry No.: [10]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Computational Photography: Advanced Topics Presenter(s): [Tumblin]
Entry No.: [09]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Don't be a WIMP: A 60-Second Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality Presenter(s): [Behr] [Reiners]
Entry No.: [11]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Flow Simulations Using Particles: Bridging Computer Graphics and CFD Presenter(s): [Koumoutsakos] [Cottet] [Rossinelli]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Get the Job You Want in Computer Graphics Organizer(s): [Thompson]
Presenter(s): [Thompson] [Szymanski] [Zandonella]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
High Dynamic-Range Imaging & Image-Based Lighting Presenter(s): [Ward] [Reinhard]
Entry No.: [15]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
High Dynamic-Range Imaging for Artists Organizer(s): [Witte]
Presenter(s): [Witte] [Bloch] [Koch] [Andersson] [Davis]
Entry No.: [14]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Introduction to Computer Graphics: The Big Picture Organizer(s): [Glassner]
Presenter(s): [Glassner]
Entry No.: [17]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Know Your Rights: A Legal Primer for Software Developers, Artists and Content Creators Presenter(s): [Irizarry] [Silberman] [Gupta]
Entry No.: [18]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Line Drawings from 3D Models Organizer(s): [Rusinkiewicz]
Presenter(s): [Cole] [DeCarlo] [Finkelstein]
Entry No.: [19]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Massive Model Visualization Techniques Organizer(s): [Kasik]
Presenter(s): [Kasik] [Dietrich] [Gobbetti] [Marton] [Manocha] [Slusallek] [Yoon]
Entry No.: [20]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Motion Planning and Autonomy for Virtual Humans Organizer(s): [Pettre] [Kallmann]
Presenter(s): [Pettre] [Kallmann] [Kuffner] [Gleicher] [Esteves] [Laumond]
Entry No.: [21]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
OpenGL: What's Coming Down the Graphics Pipeline Presenter(s): [Shreiner] [Angel] [Licea-Kane] [Hart]
Entry No.: [22]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Practical Global Illumination With Irradiance Caching Organizer(s): [Křivánek] [Gautron]
Presenter(s): [Ward] [Jensen] [Christensen] [Tabellion]
Entry No.: [23]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Principles of Appearance Acquisition and Representation Presenter(s): [Weyrich] [Lawrence] [Lensch] [Rusinkiewicz] [Zickler]
Entry No.: [24]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Projectors for Graphics Presenter(s): [Majumder] [Lensch]
Entry No.: [25]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Psychophysics 101: How to Run Perception Experiments in Computer Graphics Organizer(s): [Ferwerda]
Presenter(s): [Ferwerda]
Entry No.: [26]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Real Time Physics Presenter(s): [Müller-Fischer] [Stam] [James] [Thuerey]
Entry No.: [28]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Realistic Hair Simulation: Animation and Rendering Organizer(s): [Bertails-Descoubes]
Presenter(s): [Bertails-Descoubes] [Hadap] [Cani] [Kim] [Marschner] [Ward] [Kačić-Alesić]
Entry No.: [27]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Computer Graphics Applications Organizer(s): [Samet]
Presenter(s): [Samet]
Entry No.: [29]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
The Art of Proposal Writing Organizer(s): [Helfer]
Presenter(s): [Cunningham] [McGrath] [Rosenblum]
Entry No.: [30]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Tile-Based Methods for Interactive Applications Organizer(s): [Lagae]
Presenter(s): [Lagae] [Kaplan] [Fu] [Ostromoukhov] [Deussen]
Entry No.: [31]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Courses]
Visual Thinking Via Shape Grammars Presenter(s): [Özkar] [Kotsopoulos]
Entry No.: [33]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Educator’s Forum
Overview
Exhibitor Sessions
Overview
Keynotes & Featured Speakers
Overview

Type: [Keynote]
Giving Technology Emotion: From the Artist's Mind to "U2 3D" Presenter(s): [Owens]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Keynote]
My Personal Take on the Last 30 Years in Robotics and Vision Presenter(s): [Kanade]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Panels
Overview

Type: [Panels]
35 Years of Computer Graphics: The Game Show! Presenter(s): [Masson]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Panels]
As the World Turns: Debating & Examining Online Digital Earth Technologies Presenter(s): [Rhyne] [Johnson] [Brutzman] [Kim] [Jones] [Leberl]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Panels]
Games Evolving on an Order of Magnitude Presenter(s): [Hall] [Walker] [Theodore] [Sullivan] [Lander]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Panels]
Studio Views of Student Demo Reels Presenter(s): [Durinski]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Panels]
Teaching Computer Animation for Results Presenter(s): [Caldwell] [Sullivan] [Geiger] [Lew]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Panels]
The Convergence of IP Law and Business Presenter(s): [Hoberman]
Entry No.: [04]
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Posters
Overview

Type: [Posters]
Beat Story: Life-Log System of Subjective Time using Heart Beat Rate Presenter(s): [Nozawa] [Narumi] [Nishimura] [Hirose]
Entry No.: [0011]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Posters]
Efficient Local Texture Regularity Estimation Presenter(s): [Chris] [Hofman]
Entry No.: [0019]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Posters]
Ephemeral Melody : Music Played with Wind and Bubbles Presenter(s): [Suzuki] [Suzuki] [Ariga] [Iida] [Arakawa]
Entry No.: [0009]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Posters]
Motion Capture for Everyone Presenter(s): [Ortega-Carrillo]
Entry No.: [0004]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Production Sessions
Overview

Type: [Production Sessions]
"Speed Racer": How Digital Domain, ILM, and Sony Pictures Imageworks Transformed a Vintage Anime Into a Wild Ride for the 21st Century Presenter(s): [Gaeta] [Glass] [Leo] [Libreri] [Knoll] [Mack]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Production Sessions]
Great Failed Ideas in Production Presenter(s): [Dykstra] [Knoll] [Shah] [Westenhofer]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
SIGKids
Overview
Talks (Sketches)
Overview

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Extracting Higher-Level Information From Facial Mocap Presenter(s): [Lewis] [Anjyo]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Technical Papers
Overview

Type: [Technical Papers]
3D unsharp masking for scene coherent enhancement Presenter(s): [Ritschel] [Smith] [Ihrke] [Grosch] [Myszkowski] [Seidel]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
3D-modeling by ortho-image generation from image sequences Presenter(s): [Thormählen] [Seidel]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
4-points congruent sets for robust pairwise surface registration Presenter(s): [Aiger] [Mitra] [Cohen-Or]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A mass spring model for hair simulation Presenter(s): [Selle] [Lentine] [Fedkiw]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A meshless hierarchical representation for light transport Presenter(s): [Lehtinen] [Zwicker] [Turquin] [Kontkanen] [Durand] [Sillion] [Aila]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A perception-based color space for illumination-invariant image processing Presenter(s): [Chong] [Gortler] [Zickler]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A perceptually validated model for surface depth hallucination Presenter(s): [Glencross] [Melendez] [Jay] [Liu] [Hubbold]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
A system for high-volume acquisition and matching of fresco fragments: reassembling Theran wall paintings Presenter(s): [Brown] [Toler-Franklin] [Nehab] [Burns] [Dobkin] [Vlachopoulos] [Doumas] [Rusinkiewicz] [Weyrich]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Animating developable surfaces using nonconforming elements Presenter(s): [English] [Bridson]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Animating oscillatory motion with overlap: wiggly splines Presenter(s): [Kass] [Anderson]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Anisotropic noise Presenter(s): [Goldberg] [Zwicker] [Durand]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
AppProp: all-pairs appearance-space edit propagation Presenter(s): [An] [Pellacini]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Articulated mesh animation from multi-view silhouettes Presenter(s): [Vlasic] [Baran] [Matusik] [Popović]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Automated generation of interactive 3D exploded view diagrams Presenter(s): [Li] [Agrawala] [Curless] [Salesin]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Automatic generation of tourist maps Presenter(s): [Grabler] [Agrawala] [Sumner] [Pauly]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Backward steps in rigid body simulation Presenter(s): [Twigg] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
BSGP: bulk-synchronous GPU programming Presenter(s): [Hou] [Zhou] [Guo]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Clone attack! Perception of crowd variety Presenter(s): [McDonnell] [Larkin] [Dobbyn] [Collins] [O'Sullivan]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Computing geometry-aware handle and tunnel loops in 3D models Presenter(s): [Dey] [Li] [Sun] [Cohen-Steiner]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Conformal equivalence of triangle meshes Presenter(s): [Springborn] [Schröder] [Pinkall]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Continuation methods for adapting simulated skills Presenter(s): [Yin] [Coros] [Beaudoin] [Panne]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Curved folding Presenter(s): [Kilian] [Flöry] [Chen] [Mitra] [Sheffer] [Pottmann]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness Presenter(s): [Leyvand] [Cohen-Or] [Dror] [Lischinski]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Data-driven modeling of skin and muscle deformation Presenter(s): [Park] [Hodgins]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Diffusion curves: a vector representation for smooth-shaded images Presenter(s): [Orzan] [Bousseau] [Winnemöller] [Barla] [Thollot] [Salesin]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Discovering structural regularity in 3D geometry Presenter(s): [Pauly] [Mitra] [Wallner] [Pottmann] [Guibas]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Discrete elastic rods Presenter(s): [Bergou] [Wardetzky] [Robinson] [Audoly] [Grinspun]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Display adaptive tone mapping Presenter(s): [Mantiuk] [Daly] [Kerofsky]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Dual scattering approximation for fast multiple scattering in hair Presenter(s): [Zinke] [Yuksel] [Weber] [Keyser]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Dynamic range independent image quality assessment Presenter(s): [Aydin] [Mantiuk] [Myszkowski] [Seidel]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Edge-preserving decompositions for multi-scale tone and detail manipulation Presenter(s): [Farbman] [Fattal] [Lischinski] [Szeliski]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Efficient multiple scattering in hair using spherical harmonics Presenter(s): [Moon] [Walter] [Marschner]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Example-based dynamic skinning in real time Presenter(s): [Shi] [Zhou] [Tong] [Desbrun] [Bao] [Guo]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Face swapping: automatically replacing faces in photographs Presenter(s): [Bitouk] [Kumar] [Dhillon] [Belhumeur] [Nayar]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Factoring repeated content within and among images Presenter(s): [Wang] [Wexler] [Ofek] [Hoppe]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Fast modal sounds with scalable frequency-domain synthesis Presenter(s): [Bonneel] [Drettakis] [Tsingos] [Viaud-Delmon] [James]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Fast viscoelastic behavior with thin features Presenter(s): [Wojtan] [Turk]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Feedback control of cumuliform cloud formation based on computational fluid dynamics Presenter(s): [Dobashi] [Kusumoto] [Nishita] [Yamamoto]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Finding paths through the world's photos Presenter(s): [Snavely] [Garg] [Seitz] [Szeliski]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Fluorescent immersion range scanning Presenter(s): [Hullin] [Fuchs] [Ihrke] [Seidel] [Lensch]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Freeform surfaces from single curved panels Presenter(s): [Pottmann] [Schiftner] [Bo] [Schmiedhofer] [Wang] [Baldassini] [Wallner]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Glare aware photography: 4D ray sampling for reducing glare effects of camera lenses Presenter(s): [Raskar] [Agrawal] [Wilson] [Veeraraghavan]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Green Coordinates Presenter(s): [Lipman] [Levin] [Cohen-Or]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Group motion editing Presenter(s): [Kwon] [Lee] [Lee] [Takahashi]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Hair photobooth: geometric and photometric acquisition of real hairstyles Presenter(s): [Paris] [Chang] [Kozhushnyan] [Jarosz] [Matusik] [Zwicker] [Durand]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
High-quality motion deblurring from a single image Presenter(s): [Shan] [Jia] [Agarwala]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Improved seam carving for video retargeting Presenter(s): [Rubinstein] [Shamir] [Avidan]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive procedural street modeling Presenter(s): [Chen] [Esch] [Wonka] [Müller] [Zhang]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive relighting of dynamic refractive objects Presenter(s): [Sun] [Zhou] [Stollnitz] [Shi] [Guo]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive simulation of stylized human locomotion Presenter(s): [da Silva] [Abe] [Popović]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive visual editing of grammars for procedural architecture Presenter(s): [Lipp] [Wonka] [Wimmer]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Inverse texture synthesis Presenter(s): [Wei] [Han] [Zhou] [Bao] [Guo] [Shum]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Lapped solid textures: filling a model with anisotropic textures Presenter(s): [Takayama] [Okabe] [Ijiri] [Igarashi]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Larrabee: a many-core x86 architecture for visual computing Presenter(s): [Seiler] [Carmean] [Sprangle] [Forsyth] [Abrash] [Dubey] [Junkins] [Lake] [Sugerman] [Cavin] [Espasa] [Grochowski] [Juan] [Hanrahan]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Light field transfer: global illumination between real and synthetic objects Presenter(s): [Cossairt] [Nayar] [Ramamoorthi]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Light mixture estimation for spatially varying white balance Presenter(s): [Hsu] [Mertens] [Paris] [Avidan] [Durand]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Markerless garment capture Presenter(s): [Bradley] [Popa] [Sheffer] [Heidrich] [Boubekeur]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Modeling anisotropic surface reflectance with example-based microfacet synthesis Presenter(s): [Wang] [Zhao] [Tong] [Snyder] [Guo]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Motion-invariant photography Presenter(s): [Levin] [Sand] [Sang Cho] [Durand] [Freeman]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Multidimensional adaptive sampling and reconstruction for ray tracing Presenter(s): [Hachisuka] [Jarosz] [Weistroffer] [Dale] [Humphreys] [Zwicker] [Jensen]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Multiscale texture synthesis Presenter(s): [Han] [Risser] [Ramamoorthi] [Grinspun]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Musculotendon simulation for hand animation Presenter(s): [Sueda] [Kaufman] [Pai]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Perception of complex aggregates Presenter(s): [Ramanarayanan] [Bala] [Ferwerda]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Performance capture from sparse multi-view video Presenter(s): [de Aguiar] [Stoll] [Theobalt] [Ahmed] [Seidel] [Thrun]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Porous flow in particle-based fluid simulations Presenter(s): [Lenaerts] [Adams] [Dutré]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Programmable aperture photography: multiplexed light field acquisition Presenter(s): [Liang] [Lin] [Wong] [Liu] [Chen]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Progressive inter-scale and intra-scale non-blind image deconvolution Presenter(s): [Yuan] [Sun] [Quan] [Shum]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Real-time data driven deformation using kernel canonical correlation analysis Presenter(s): [Feng] [Kim] [Yu]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Real-time gradient-domain painting Presenter(s): [McCann] [Pollard]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Real-time motion retargeting to highly varied user-created morphologies Presenter(s): [Hecker] [Raabe] [Enslow] [DeWeese] [Maynard] [Prooijen]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]

Type: [Technical Papers]
Real-time smoke rendering using compensated ray marching Presenter(s): [Zhou] [Ren] [Lin] [Bao] [Guo] [Shum]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]