SIGGRAPH 2022 announced the winners of the Best Paper Awards along with honoring some "Best of" from other programs featured at this year's conference.
The in-person part of SIGGRAPH 2022, an annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, has come to an end. It was held from August 8 to 11 in Canadian Vancouver. This year's conference was attended by over 11,700 graphics professionals and had more than 90 exhibitors from 16 countries.
SIGGRAPH 2022 offered various panels and sessions with a number of featured speakers as well as multiple programs including Technical Papers, Talks, Roundtables, Courses, and Production Sessions. This year's conference also introduced the new program – Conference Papers, where some emerging ideas were presented in a shorter format than traditional Technical Papers.
Technical Papers showcased the latest industry advancements and scientific contributions. Out of a record-high number of submissions, 247 papers were selected by organizers, with five "Best of" honors being awarded.
Here is the list of Best Paper Awards:
"Instant Neural Graphics Primitives With a Multiresolution Hash Encoding" by Thomas Müller, Alex Evans, Christoph Schied, and Alexander Keller, NVIDIA;
"DeepPhase: Periodic Autoencoders for Learning Motion Phase Manifolds" by Sebastian Starke, University of Edinburgh/Electronic Arts; Ian Mason, University of Edinburgh; and Taku Komura, University of Hong Kong;
"Spelunking the Deep: Guaranteed Queries on General Neural Implicit Surfaces via Range Analysis" by Nicholas Sharp, University of Toronto; Alec Jacobson, University of Toronto/Adobe;
"Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency" by Budmonde Duinkharjav, New York University; Praneeth Chakravarthula, Princeton University/UNC Chapel Hill; Rachel Brown, NVIDIA Research; Anjul Patney, NVIDIA Research; and Qi Sun, New York University;
"CLIPasso: Semantically Aware Object Sketching" by Yael Vinker, Tel Aviv University/École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Ehsan Pajouheshgar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Jessica Y. Bo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne/ETH; Roman Christian Bachmann, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Amit Bermano, Tel Aviv University; Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University; Amir Zamir, EPFL; and Ariel Shamir, Reichman University.
SIGGRAPH 2022 also honored a number of other this year's contributors by giving several "Best of" awards to participants from various programs, including:
- Best Student Project – "Yallah!" by Nayla Nassar, Rubika (France);
- Audience Choice – "Alternate Mesozoic" by Lucie Laudrin, ESMA (France);
Although the in-person portion of the conference is now closed, the virtual component of SIGGRAPH 2022 will be available until 31 October 2022. You can learn more and register for the virtual conference here.
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