…vehicles but also the sensors and the artificial intelligence (AI) on which they rely. One key question is how to assess the performance of AI drivers and ensure that the…
In Your Face: Academy Award Celebrates the Innovative Tech Behind Digital Faces
…to witness the Medusa Performance Capture System in action. The team of computer scientists responsible for bringing to life characters like Thanos and the Hulk on the big screen was…
ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Election Results
…award; and an Audi Production Award. Courtney Starrett is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the Visualization Program in the new School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at…
Meet SUE: a Super Uber Elemental
…her arms more as a leg, it didn’t really make sense for us to go that route and as a general rule we hand animated her performance. In terms of…
Interview With Luca Fascione, Head of Technology & Research at Weta Digital
…cinematography (performance capture and virtual stage workflows). Every few years we identify a project that demands a larger scope, often inspired by the upcoming productions slated for the studio, and…
Joe Letteri on the VFX of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
…Gollum’s performance. We got him on a motion capture stage and had to recreate the performances that he was doing with the actors that they were filming and that worked…
ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Award Winners
…architecture, design, and realization of high performance 3D graphics hardware systems. Marc Levoy: For pioneering work in rendering volumes without an intermediate surface representation. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz: For work in the modeling and visualizing of…
ACM SIGGRAPH Diversity and Inclusion Summit
…a one-dimensional graphics and data analysis tool. Kevin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis with research interests in Scientific Visualization and High-Performance Computing. His current research…
ACM SIGGRAPH Sunday Workshop: Truth in Images, Videos, and Graphics
…humans and capturing their performances for immersive communication and telepresence in virtual worlds. His research involves the development of novel geometry processing, data-driven, and deep learning algorithms. He is known…
How Do You Animate an Emoji?
…characters are going to behave comes mostly from the performances of the actors and the casting. We had really good casting for this movie. Once we get the voices, we…