Networking & Key Events

Technical Papers Fast Forward
Date/Time: 27 November 2017, 06:00pm - 08:00pm
Venue: GH 202&203
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: An entertaining, illuminating summary of SIGGRAPH Asia's 2017 Technical Papers in an exciting two-hour session! The author(s) of each paper are allowed a little less than a minute to wow the crowd with their results and entice attendees to hear their complete paper presentation later in the week. Technical Papers Chair Dani Lischinski Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Access to the following Categories: Full Conference Pass, Full Conference 1 Day Pass, Basic Conference Pass, Exhibitor Pass

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SIGGRAPH Asia Opening & Awards Ceremony
Date/Time: 28 November 2017, 11:00am - 11:30am
Venue: GH 202&203
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: The Opening of SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 by the Conference Chair - Surapong Lertsithichai and Jessica Hodgins ACM SIGGRAPH President. A awards ceremony to the the award winners of the Computer Animation Festival submissions. Access to the following Categories: Full Conference Pass, Full Conference 1 Day Pass, Basic Conference Pass, Exhibitor Pass

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Seeing A Human Frontier
Date/Time: 28 November 2017, 11:00am - 12:45pm
Venue: GH 202&203
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: From Mongolia to Guatemala to China Albert has spent his career merging satellite, aerial, and geophysical sensing with immersive virtual reality visualizations to explore some of humanity's greatest archaeological stories. In 2016 a car accident resulted in the loss of his right leg. The subsequent months were spent navigating onsets of phantom limb pain, an exploratory process in which he collaborated with the famed neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to apply multiple visual tools to "remap his brain". Born from this experience was the Center for Human Frontiers at UC San Diego, which explores the boundaries of distributed cognition in a sensor driven and visualized world along with the future of the human machine interface. This talk follows Lin's unexpected journey, in which expeditions in cyber archaeology have led to tools which can be applied to the exploration of the human frontier. Albert Yu-Min Lin Research Scientist & Explorer, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology @ UC San Diego, National Geographic Society Albert is an award winning Explorer of the National Geographic Society, serial entrepreneur, UCSD scientist, and storyteller. From the remote highlands of Mongolia to the jungles of Guatemala he has applied an innovator's approach to exploration. Access to the following Categories: Full Conference Pass, Full Conference 1 Day Pass, Basic Conference Pass, Exhibitor Pass

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SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Reception
Date/Time: 28 November 2017, 06:30pm - 08:30pm
Venue: EH 107, Ground Level
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: We invite you to attend the official SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Reception. Mingle with the SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 community. Greet old friends, share a toast with colleagues, and meet the thinkers from Asia and around the world who are shaping the future of computer graphics and interactive techniques. The location of the venue is walk-able through a connecting walkway from Level 3 of Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC) BITEC Ground Floor, EH 107. Additional and/or stand-alone tickets can be purchased online and on-site. Tickets are limited and it is recommended to purchase them online.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Reception will be held at: Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC) BITEC Ground Floor, EH 107 Tuesday, 28 November 2017 6:30PM - 8:30PM *Access by Ticket Only
Access to the following Categories: Full Conference Pass (One Reception ticket is included in Full Conference (FC) Pass), Reception Ticket

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Still in Motion
Date/Time: 29 November 2017, 11:00am - 12:45pm
Venue: GH 202&203
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: In this talk I will take us through my personal path from an artist to a computer scientist to a mix between art and science. Touching on parts of my own work, I will discuss how computer graphics and computational photography has progressed from obviously non-real scenes, to realistic ones, to more expressive or subjective uses of imagining technology. In much the same way, our historic understanding of media has progressed from providing artistic impressions of reality, to objectively recording reality, and has now arrived at a state where we do not know what is real and what is not, with all its implications for art and technology. Michael Cohen Director of the Computational Photography Group at Facebook Michael is the director of the Computational Photography Group at Facebook and is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. He arrived at Facebook after two decades at Microsoft Research. Previously he served on the faculties at Princeton and Cornell Universities. Access to the following Categories: Full Conference Pass, Full Conference 1 Day Pass, Basic Conference Pass, Exhibitor Pass

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Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Reunion
Date/Time: 29 November 2017, 04:30pm - 07:00pm
Venue: MR 210
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: ACM SIGGRAPH Taipei Chapter Party, for attendees from Taiwan and everyone interested in graphics in Taiwan. By Invitation Only

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Closing Session Of SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 & Opening To SIGGRAPH Asia 2018
Date/Time: 30 November 2017, 11:00am - 11:30am
Venue: GH 202&203
Location: Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC)
Summary: A closing session by the SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Chair - Surapong Lertsithichai and "the passing of the torch" to next year's SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Chair - Ken Anjyo. Access to the following Categories: Full Conference Pass, Full Conference 1 Day Pass, Basic Conference Pass, Exhibitor Pass