SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) is an annual

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(CG) organized by the

ACM SIGGRAPH ACM SIGGRAPH is the international Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques based in New York. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam (its direct predecessor, ACM SICGRAPH was f ...

, starting in 1974. The main conference is held in

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; SIGGRAPH Asia, a second conference held annually, has been held since 2008 in countries throughout

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Overview

The conference incorporates both academic presentations as well as an industry trade show. Other events at the conference include educational courses and panel discussions on recent topics in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

SIGGRAPH Proceedings

The SIGGRAPH conference proceedings, which are published in the ACM Transactions on Graphics, has one of the highest impact factors among academic publications in the field of computer graphics. The paper acceptance rate for SIGGRAPH has historically been between 17% and 29%, with the average acceptance rate between 2015 and 2019 of 27%. The submitted papers are

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under a process that was historically single-blind, but was changed in 2018 to

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. The papers accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH are printed since 2003 in a special issue of the ''

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'' journal. Prior to 1992, SIGGRAPH papers were printed as part of the ''

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'' publication; between 1993 and 2001, there was a dedicated ''SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings'' series of publications.

Awards programs

SIGGRAPH has several awards programs to recognize contributions to computer graphics. The most prestigious is the

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Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. It has been awarded every two years since 1983 to recognize an individual's lifetime achievement in computer graphics.

Conference

The SIGGRAPH conference experienced significant growth starting in the 1970s, peaking around the turn of the century. A second conference, SIGGRAPH Asia, started in 2008.

References

External links

ACM SIGGRAPH website

ACM SIGGRAPH conference publications (ACM Digital Library)

ACM SIGGRAPH YouTube

SIGGRAPH 2017 Conference, Los Angeles, CA

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
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