State-of-the-Art in Computer Graphics
A public workshop following the ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Committee Meeting.
Schedule
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 | Real-Time Video Generation | Kfir Aberman (Decart) |
| 09:05 | Visible Difference Predictors: A Class of Metrics Based on Perception Science | Alexandre Chapiro (Meta) |
| 09:10 | Learning to synthesize programs, one node at a time | Tamy Boubekeur (Adobe) |
| 09:15 | 3D as Code: Interactive 3D Asset Creation | Rana Hanocka (University of Chicago) |
| 09:20 | RXMesh: A Unified GPU System for Modern Mesh Processing | Ahmed Mahmoud (MIT) |
| 09:25 | High-speed computational imaging | Adithya Pediredla (Dartmouth College) |
| 09:30 | Math Visualization: a Necessicity and an Opportunity | Eugene Zhang (Oregon State University) |
| 09:35 | Stochastic Estimation of Rendering Differentials | Tobias Ritschel (University College London) |
| 09:40 | The Affine Heat Method for Maps on Surfaces | Nicholas Sharp (NVIDIA) |
| 09:45 | Break | |
| 10:15 | A Decade of Thingi10K | Qingnan Zhou (Adobe) |
| 10:20 | Optimally transporting 1 billion galaxies far far away a long time ago | Bruno Levy (Inria) |
| 10:25 | Design for Descent | Adriana Schulz (Brown University) |
| 10:30 | Your implicit geometries can be more explicit | Stephanie Wang (Independent) |
| 10:35 | Verbal Reasoning about Complex Physical Systems | Kartic Subr (U. of Edinburgh) |
| 10:40 | Physical Inductive Biases for World Models | Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge) |
| 10:45 | From Personal to Populated Worlds | Yi Zhou (Roblox) |
| 10:50 | A Tale of Two Shapes for Controllable Generation | Hadar Elor (Cornell University) |
| 10:55 | Break | |
| 11:15 | Visual Abstraction with Generation Models | Min Lu (Shenzhen University) |
| 11:20 | Fun with Flats | Marc Alexa (TU Berlin) |
| 11:25 | Rethinking visual computing in the age of AI | Praneeth Chakravarthula (UNC Chapel Hill) |
| 11:30 | A Construction Time-Lapse | James McCann (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| 11:35 | Combining natural language and direct manipulation to author motion graphics | Li-Yi Wei (Adobe) |
| 11:40 | Computational Circular Design | Adrien Bousseau (Inria, Université Côte d'Azur) |
| 11:45 | Sub-Riemannian Geometry in Graphics | Oliver Gross (UCSD) |
| 11:50 | Foundation models of human and computer vision | Rafal Mantiuk (University of Cambridge) |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Papers scheduling session | Private to TPC members |
Sponsors
This workshop is possible thanks to the generous support of Google DeepMind, Meshy, Analog.Ai, Adobe, Decart, and the Tencent ARC Lab. We also extend special thanks to those TPC members who identified means of covering their own travel expenses and to the University of Chicago for hosting the event.