Award Winners

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Awards submissions from various programs. Recognizing individuals who have made exceptional effort in their community through their research, teaching, service, or writing.

Computer Animation Festival Award Winners

  • Jury Special (2)
  • Best in Show
  • Best Student Film

Emerging Technologies Award Winners

  • Best Demo Voted by Attendees
    ET Best Demo by Attendees

    OptRod: Operating Multiple Various Actuators Simultaneously by Projected Images, by Ryo Shirai, Yuichi Itoh, Taichi Fukamachi, Mayu Yamashita, Takao Onoye from Graduate School Of Information Science And Technology, Osaka University. Click here for more information.

  • Best Demo Voted by Committee
    ET Best Demo by Committee

    Mobius Walker: Pitch And Roll Redirected Walking, by Tatsuki Yamamoto, Jumpei Shimatani, Isamu Ohashi, Keigo Matsumoto, Takuji Narumi, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Michitaka Hirose from The University of Tokyo. Click here for more information.


Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications Award Winners

  • Best Paper
    MGIA BestPaper

    ProsumerFX: Mobile Design of Image Stylization Components, by Tobias Dürschmid, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam, Maximilian Söchting, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam, Amir Semmo, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam, Matthias Trapp, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam and Jürgen Döllner, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam. Click here for more information.

  • Best Paper (Runner-up)
    MGIA BestPaper RU

    Mixed Reality Collaboration through Sharing a Live Panorama, by Gun Lee, University of South Australia, Theophilus Teo, University of South Australia Seungwon Kim, University of South Australia and Mark Billinghurst, University of South Australia. Click here for more information.

  • Best Demo
    MGIA BestDemo

    Pictory - Neural Style Transfer and Editing with CoreML, by Sebastian Pasewaldt, Digital Masterpieces GmbH, Amir Semmo, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam, Mandy Klingbeil, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam and Jürgen Döllner, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam. Click here for more information.

  • Best Demo (Runner-up)
    MGIA BestDemo RU

    Mobile Augmented Reality Illustrations that Entertain and Inform with the Hololens, by Christian Zimmer, Michael Bertram, Fabian Büntig, UDaniel Drochtert and Christian Geiger, University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf. Click here for more information.


Symposium on Visualization Award Winners

  • Best Paper
    Symp on Viz BestPaper

    Smooth Animation of Structure Evolution in Time-Varying Graphs with Pattern Matching, by Yunzhe WANG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Click here for more information.

  • Honourable Mention (2)
    Symp on Viz HM 30Nov

    Winding Angle Assisted Particle Tracing in Distribution-Based Vector Field, by Cheng Li and Han-Wei Shen, The Ohio State University. Click here for more information.

    Symp on Viz HM 29Nov

    Visual Exploration of Ionosphere Disturbances for Earthquake Research, by Fan Hong, Peking University, Siming Chen, Peking University, Hanqi Guo, Argonne National Laboratory, Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University, Jian Huang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Yongxian Zhang, China Earthquake Networks Center. Click here for more information.