Technical Papers

The SIGGRAPH 2018 Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating and discussing new scholarly work in computer graphics technology and interactive techniques.

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Showcasing Significant Scholarly Work

Submitted technical papers for SIGGRAPH 2018 adhere to the highest scientific standards and are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process. A prestigious international jury of scholars and scientists selects the most visionary, innovative and significant submissions for presentation. At the conference, Technical Paper authors provide brief overviews of their work in Technical Papers Fast Forward, and then get a chance to present their complete papers during one of the technical papers sessions.

Technical Papers are published as a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics. In addition to papers selected by the SIGGRAPH 2018 Technical Papers Jury, the conference presents papers that have been published in ACM Transactions on Graphics during the past year.

SIGGRAPH 2018 is a meeting of the most future-oriented tech minds, and the Technical Papers program is where the future truly begins to emerge. Come to learn, and come to present your own scholarly work — all are welcome to join the conversation!

 
Technical Papers First Pages
The first pages of all Technical Papers presented at SIGGRAPH 2018.

Technical Papers Program Chair

Mathieu Desbrun

Technical Papers

Monday, 13 August,
10:45 am-12:15 pm
and 2-3:30 pm

Tuesday, 14 August,
9 am-5:15 pm

Wednesday, 15 August,
9 am-5:15 pm

Thursday, 16 August,
9 am-5:15 pm

Technical Papers Fast Forward

Sunday, 12 August, 6-8 pm
West Building, Ballroom A/B

Technical Papers Fast Forward (Live Stream)

Interest Area Key

P&AProduction & Animation
R&EResearch & Education
A&DArts and Design
G&IGaming and Interactive
NTNew Technologies
Technical Paper, Technical Papers Fast Forward: Technical Papers Fast Forward
Event TypeTechnical Paper, Technical Papers Fast Forward
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TimeSunday, 12 August 20186pm - 8pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom AB, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionAn entertaining, illuminating summary of SIGGRAPH 2018 Technical Papers in an exciting two-hour session! The author(s) of each paper are allowed about 30 seconds to wow the crowd with their results and entice attendees to hear their complete paper presentation later in the week.
Technical Paper: (01) A Race to the Bottom (of the Geometric Energy Plot)
Session Chair
Jin Huang
Zhejiang University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeMonday, 13 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work.
Technical Paper: (02) An Immersion in Computational Geometry
Session Chair
Yiying Tong
Michigan State University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeMonday, 13 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work.
Technical Paper: (03) Computational Photography
Session Chair
Jean-Francois Lalonde
Université Laval
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeMonday, 13 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 301-305, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work.
Technical Paper: (04) Cloth Encounters of the Shirt Kind
Session Chair
Etienne Vouga
University of Texas at Austin
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeMonday, 13 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work.
Technical Paper: (05) Smart Integration for Real-Time Rendering
Session Chair
Christian Lessig
Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeMonday, 13 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work.
Technical Paper: (06) Virtually Human
Session Chair
Karen Liu
GA Tech
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeMonday, 13 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (07) Cleaning Up the Mesh We Made
Session Chair
David Bommes
RWTH Aachen University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (08) Computational Photos and Videos
Session Chair
Richard Szeliski
Facebook
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (09) Interaction/VR
Session Chair
Belen Masia
Universidad de Zaragoza
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (10) Image & Shape Analysis With CNNs
Session Chair
J. P. Lewis
SEED Electronic Arts
Victoria University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (11) Layers, Glints and Surface Microstructure
Session Chair
Diego Gutierrez
Universidad de Zaragoza
I3A
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (12) Cutting, Zipping and Folding Surfaces
Session Chair
Marc Alexa
TU Berlin
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (13) That's Elastic
Session Chair
Rahul Narain
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
University of Minnesota
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (14) Volume Rendering and Global Illumination
Session Chair
Steve Marschner
Cornell University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (15) Fluids 1: Raiders of the Lost Volume
Session Chair
Chris Wojtan
IST Austria
IST Austria
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183:45pm - 5:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (16) Taking Flight
Session Chair
Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Princeton University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeTuesday, 14 August 20183:45pm - 5:35pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (17) Fields and Remeshing
Session Chair
Eugene Zhang
Oregon State University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (18) Fluids 2: Vortex Boogaloo
Session Chair
Theodore Kim
Pixar Animation Studios
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (19) Sketching
Session Chair
Yotam Gingold
George Mason University
ygingold@gmu.edu
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (20) 3D Capture
Session Chair
Noah Snavely
Cornell University
Google Research
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (21) Flattening, Unflattening and Sampling
Session Chair
Fernando de Goes
Pixar Animation Studios
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (22) Sounds Good!
Session Chair
Jernej Barbic
University of Southern California
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (23) Computational Cameras
Session Chair
Ashok Veeraraghavan
Rice University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (24) Decision & Style
Session Chair
Kavita Bala
Cornell University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (25) Deep Thoughts on How Things Move
Session Chair
Alec Jacobson
University of Toronto
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (26) Perception & Haptics
Session Chair
Jehee Lee
Seoul National University
Movement Research Lab.
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20183:45pm - 5:15pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (27) Learning for Rendering and Material Acquisition
Session Chair
Wenzel Jakob
EPFL
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20183:45pm - 5:35pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (28) Textiles & Microstructures
Session Chair
Changxi Zheng
Columbia University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeWednesday, 15 August 20183:45pm - 5:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (29) Design
Session Chair
Ariel Shamir
The Interdisciplinary Center
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (30) New Additions (and Subtractions) to Fabrication
Session Chair
Emily Whiting
Boston University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (31) Pipelines and Languages for the GPU
Session Chair
Peter-Pike Sloan
Activision
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20189am - 10:30am
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (32) Animation Control
Session Chair
Doug James
Stanford University
Pixar Animation Studios
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (33) Disorder Matter: From Shells to Rods and Grains
Session Chair
Florence Bertails-Descoubes
Inria
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (34) Shape Analysis
Session Chair
Pooran Memari
CNRS - LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
Université Paris-Saclay
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 201810:45am - 12:35pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (35) An Atlas for the World and Other Surfaces
Session Chair
Tao Ju
Washington University in St. Louis
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 109-110, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (36) Fabrication for Color and Motion
Session Chair
Holly Rushmeier
Yale
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Room 211-214, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (37) Portraits & Speech
Session Chair
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
UW
Facebook
Event TypeTechnical Paper
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20182pm - 3:30pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
Technical Paper: (38) Bodies in Motion Human Performance Capture
Session Chair
KangKang Yin
Simon Fraser University
Event TypeTechnical Paper
Registration Levels
F
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TimeThursday, 16 August 20183:45pm - 5:15pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionPapers authors present their complete work. Session closes with a Q&A.
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