SIGGRAPH 2012: 39th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Location:
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Dates:
August 5-9, 2012
Website:
http://s2012.siggraph.org/
Conference Theme:
I am Art / I am Science
Acknowledgements and Awards Announced During the Conference:
Awards:

SIGGRAPH 2012 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Turk
Type: [Computer Graphics Achievement Award]
Awardee(s): [Turk]
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SIGGRAPH 2012 Distinguished Artist Award: Hébert
Type: [Distinguished Artist Award]
Awardee(s): [Hébert]
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SIGGRAPH 2012 Electronic Theater Best in Show: Limet
Type: [Electronic Theater Best in Show]
Awarded Work: [Réflexion]
Awardee(s): [Limet]
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SIGGRAPH 2012 Electronic Theater Best Student Project: Call
Type: [Electronic Theater Best Student Project]
Awarded Work: [Estefan]
Awardee(s): [Call]
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SIGGRAPH 2012 Electronic Theater Jurys Choice: Oh
Type: [Electronic Theater Jurys Choice]
Awarded Work: [How to Eat Your Apple]
Awardee(s): [Oh]
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SIGGRAPH 2012 Outstanding Service Award: Kasik
Type: [Outstanding Service Award]
Awardee(s): [Kasik]
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SIGGRAPH Videos Reviews Containing Conference Content:
Animations Shown at the Conference:
Art Show Entries:
Art Show Entries:
Experience Entries:
Appy Hour:
Birds of a Feather:
Emerging Technology:

Type: [E-Tech]
3D Capturing using Multi-Camera Rigs, Real-time Depth Estimation and Depth-based Content Creation for Multi-view and Light-field Auto-Stereoscopic Displays
Organizer(s): [Kovacs] [Zilly]
Entry No.: [01]
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Type: [E-Tech]
A Colloidal Display: membrane screen that combines transparency, BRDF and 3D volume
Organizer(s): [Ochiai] [Oyama] [Toyoshima]
Entry No.: [02]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Augmented Reflection of Reality
Organizer(s): [LI] [FU]
Entry No.: [03]
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Type: [E-Tech]
BOTANICUS INTERACTICUS: Interactive Plants Technology
Organizer(s): [Poupyrev] [Schoessler] [Loh] [Sato]
Entry No.: [04]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Chilly Chair: Facilitating an Emotional Feeling with Artificial Piloerection
Organizer(s): [Fukushima] [Kajimoto]
Entry No.: [05]
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Type: [E-Tech]
ClaytricSurface:An Interactive Surface with Dynamic Softness Control Capability
Organizer(s): [Matoba] [Sato] [Takahashi] [Koike]
Entry No.: [06]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Combiform: a Combinable Social Gaming Platform
Organizer(s): [Yee] [Joiner] [Dang] [Uehara]
Entry No.: [07]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Drum On : Interactive Personal Instrument Learning System
Organizer(s): [Bae] [Lee] [Cho] [Heo] [Bang]
Entry No.: [08]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Gocen: a Handwritten Notational Interface for Musical Performance and Learning Music
Organizer(s): [Baba] [Kikukawa] [Yoshiike] [Suzuki] [Shoji] [Kushiyama] [Aoki]
Entry No.: [09]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Hand-rewriting: Automatic Rewriting like Natural Handwriting
Organizer(s): [Hashida] [Nishimura] [Naemura]
Entry No.: [10]
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Type: [E-Tech]
HDRchitecture: Real-time Stereoscopic HDR Imaging for Extreme Dynamic Range
Organizer(s): [Mann] [Lo] [Huang] [Rampersad] [Janzen]
Entry No.: [11]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Interactive Light Field Painting
Organizer(s): [Tompkin] [Muff] [Jakuschevskij] [McCann] [Kautz] [Alexa] [Matusik]
Entry No.: [12]
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Type: [E-Tech]
JUKE Cylinder: a device to metamorphose hands to a musical instrument
Organizer(s): [Ueta] [Hoshuyama] [Narumi] [Tanikawa] [Hirose]
Entry No.: [13]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Magic Pot: Interactive Metamorphosis of the Perceived Shape
Organizer(s): [Ban] [Narumi] [Tanikawa] [Hirose]
Entry No.: [14]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Mood Meter: Large-Scale and Long-Term Smile Monitoring System
Organizer(s): [Hernandez] [Hoque] [Picard]
Entry No.: [15]
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Type: [E-Tech]
REVEL: Tactile Feedback Technology for Augmented Reality
Organizer(s): [Bau] [Poupyrev] [Goc] [Galliot] [Glisson]
Entry No.: [17]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Shader Printer
Organizer(s): [Saakes] [Inami] [Igarashi] [Koizumi] [Raskar]
Entry No.: [18]
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Type: [E-Tech]
SplashDisplay: Volumetric Projection using Projectile Beads
Organizer(s): [Matoba] [Tokui] [Sato] [Sato] [Koike]
Entry No.: [19]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Stuffed Toys Alive! : Cuddly Robots from Fantasy World
Organizer(s): [Yamashita] [Ishikawa] [Mitake] [Takase] [Kato] [Susa] [Hasegawa] [Sato]
Entry No.: [20]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Tavola: Holographic User Experience
Organizer(s): [Fei] [Kryze] [Melle]
Entry No.: [21]
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Type: [E-Tech]
TECHTILE toolkit - A prototyping tool for designing haptic media -
Organizer(s): [Minamizawa] [Kakehi] [Nakatani] [Mihara] [Tachi]
Entry No.: [22]
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Type: [E-Tech]
TELESAR V: TELExistence Surrogate Anthropomorphic Robot
Organizer(s): [Fernando] [Furukawa] [Kurogi] [Hirota] [Kamuro] [Sato] [Minamizawa] [Tachi]
Entry No.: [23]
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Type: [E-Tech]
Tensor Displays
Organizer(s): [Hirsch] [Lanman] [Wetzstein] [Raskar]
Entry No.: [24]
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Fjorg!:
Games:
International Center Talks & SIGGRAPH Theater:
Real-Time Live!:

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
ARCADE: A System for Augmenting Gesture-Based Computer Graphic Presentations
Developer(s): [Stein] [Xiao] [Tompson] [Hendee] [Perlin] [Ishii]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Beauty: Real-Time Visuals
Developer(s): [Jeremias-Vila] [Quilez]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Brigade: Real-Time Photorealistic Rendering with GPU Path Tracing
Developer(s): [Lapere] [Schijndel] [Urbach] [Wyatt] [Taylor]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Leo
Developer(s): [Wiley] [McKee] [Ali] [Harada] [Heath] [Hensley] [Hillesland] [Roeger] [Yang]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Luminous Studio Tech Demo
Developer(s): [Hashimoto] [Driancourt] [Iwata] [Iwasaki]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Separable Subsurface Scattering
Developer(s): [Jimenez] [Jarabo] [Gutierrez]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Uncharted 3 Visual Effects
Developer(s): [Ikram] [Holder] [Ikram]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
UNIGINE Engine Render: Flexible Cross-API Technologies
Developer(s): [Shergin] [Zaprjagaev]
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Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Unreal Engine 4 Elemental
Developer(s): [Oliver] [Scheidecker] [Mittring] [Cowley] [Stover]
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Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs):
VR Experiences:
Learning Entries:
Art Papers & Presentations:
Entr’acte
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Art Paper/Presentation Type:
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From Wunderkammern to Kinect – The Creation of Shadow Worlds
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Soundspheres: Resonant Chamber
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Translation + Pendaphonics = Movement Modulated Media
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Within an Ocean of Light: Creating Volumetric Lightscapes
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Courses:

Type: [Courses]
Advanced (Quasi) Monte Carlo Methods for Image Synthesis
Organizer(s): [Grünschloß]
Presenter(s): [Grünschloß] [Premoze] [Raab]
Entry No.: [23]
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Type: [Courses]
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part I
Organizer(s): [Tatarchuk]
Presenter(s): [Tatarchuk] [Malan] [Hennessy] [Yang] [Bowles] [Acton]
Entry No.: [19]
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Type: [Courses]
Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Part II
Organizer(s): [Tatarchuk]
Presenter(s): [Tatarchuk] [Mittring] [Hill] [Baker] [Edwards]
Entry No.: [21]
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Type: [Courses]
Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization
Organizer(s): [Rhyne]
Presenter(s): [Rhyne]
Entry No.: [17]
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Type: [Courses]
Beyond Programmable Shading
Organizer(s): [Lefohn]
Presenter(s): [Lefohn] [Houston] [Andersson] [Lauritzen] [Crassin] [Ribble]
Entry No.: [12]
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Type: [Courses]
Character Rigging and Creature Wrangling in Game, Feature Animation, and Visual Effects Production
Organizer(s): [McLaughlin]
Presenter(s): [McLaughlin] [Tooley] [Cloward]
Entry No.: [16]
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Type: [Courses]
Cinematic Color: From Your Monitor to the Big Screen
Organizer(s): [Selan]
Presenter(s): [Selan]
Entry No.: [13]
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Type: [Courses]
Color Transfer
Organizer(s): [Pouli]
Presenter(s): [Pouli] [Reinhard]
Entry No.: [27]
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Type: [Courses]
Computational Aesthetic Evaluation: Steps Toward Machine Creativity
Organizer(s): [Galanter]
Presenter(s): [Galanter]
Entry No.: [08]
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Type: [Courses]
Computational Displays
Organizer(s): [Wetzstein]
Presenter(s): [Gutierrez] [Hirsch] [Lanman]
Entry No.: [01]
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Type: [Courses]
Computational Plenoptic Imaging
Presenter(s): [Ihrke] [Lanman] [Heidrich] [Akeley]
Entry No.: [09]
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Type: [Courses]
Data-Driven Simulation Methods in Computer Graphics: Cloth, Tissue, and Faces
Organizer(s): [Otaduy]
Presenter(s): [Otaduy] [Bickel] [Bradley] [Wang]
Entry No.: [14]
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Type: [Courses]
Delivering Creative Feedback: A Workshop on Critique
Organizer(s): [Hirsch]
Presenter(s): [Hirsch]
Entry No.: [18]
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Type: [Courses]
Efficient Real-Time Shadows
Organizer(s): [Eisemann]
Presenter(s): [Eisemann] [Assarsson] [Schwarz] [Valient] [Wimmer]
Entry No.: [24]
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Type: [Courses]
FEM Simulation of 3D Deformable Solids: A Practitioner's Guide to Theory, Discretization, and Model Reduction
Organizer(s): [Sifakis]
Presenter(s): [Sifakis]
Entry No.: [20]
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Type: [Courses]
Graphics Programming for the Web
Organizer(s): [Joshi]
Presenter(s): [Joshi] [Bourges-Sevenier] [Russell] [Mo]
Entry No.: [25]
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Type: [Courses]
Introduction to Modern OpenGL
Organizer(s): [Angel]
Presenter(s): [Angel] [Shreiner]
Entry No.: [10]
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Type: [Courses]
Optimizing Realistic Rendering With Many-Light Methods
Organizer(s): [Křivánek] [Hasan]
Presenter(s): [Křivánek] [Hasan] [Arbree] [Dachsbacher] [Walter]
Entry No.: [02]
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Type: [Courses]
Practical Physically-Based Shading in Film and Game Production
Organizer(s): [Hill] [McAuley]
Presenter(s): [Hill] [McAuley] [Burley] [Gotanda] [Smits]
Entry No.: [15]
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Type: [Courses]
Principles of Animation Physics
Organizer(s): [Garcia]
Presenter(s): [Garcia]
Entry No.: [03]
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Type: [Courses]
State of the Art in Photon-Density Estimation
Organizer(s): [Hachisuka] [Jarosz]
Presenter(s): [Hachisuka] [Jarosz] [Bouchard] [Christensen] [Frisvad] [Jakob] [Jensen] [Kaschalk] [Knaus] [Selle] [Spencer]
Entry No.: [26]
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Type: [Courses]
State-of-the-Art Stereoscopic Visual Effects: Stereoscopy and Conversion are "More than Meets the Eye"
Organizer(s): [Karafin]
Presenter(s): [Karafin]
Entry No.: [04]
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Type: [Courses]
Storytelling With a Camera and a Computer: Q&A With Cinematographer Roger Deakins
Entry No.: [07]
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Type: [Courses]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy of Mathematical Tools for Shape Analysis
Organizer(s): [Biasotti]
Presenter(s): [Biasotti] [Falcidieno] [Giorgi] [Spagnuolo]
Entry No.: [05]
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Type: [Courses]
The Invisible Art: The History of Matte Painting Through the Digital Age
Entry No.: [06]
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Educator’s Forum:
Exhibitor Sessions:
Keynote:
Panels:
Posters:
SIGKids:
Talks (Sketches):

Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Creating Vast Game Worlds - Experiences From Avalanche Studios
Presenter(s): [Persson]
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Technical Papers: