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2026

Performance, Rendering, and Interaction in Competitive Esports (PRICE)
Josef Spjut, Benjamin Watson, Madison Klarkowski, Rulon Raymond, Mark Claypool, Paul Ritaldato
CTRL-G: Controllable Generative Graphics for Games
Josef Spjut, Arnav Jhala, Anjul Patney, Michael Lentine, Monde Duinkharjav
Understanding Emergent Non-Verbal Communication in the Delta Force Competitive Video Game through Multimodal AI Analysis
Jinyuan Guo, Josef Spjut
Clustered Codebook Quantization for 2D Gaussian-based Image Compression
Runze Cheng, Yicheng Zhan, Josef Spjut, Kaan Akşit
Towards Field Experiments in Esports Competition
Arjun Madhusudan, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Benjamin Watson
Impact of Graphical Fidelity and Frame-Time Stutter in a First-Person Shooter Game
Samin Shahriar Tokey, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Peter Xenopoulos, Mark Claypool

2025

Play4D: Accelerated and Interactive Free-viewpoint Video Streaming for Virtual Reality and Light Field Displays
Jonghyun Kim, Michael Stengel, Amrita Mazumdar, Tianye Li, Cheng Sun, David Luebke, Shalini De Mello
Assessing Learned Models for Phase-only Hologram Compression
Zicong Peng, Yicheng Zhan, Josef Spjut, Kaan Akşit
GAIA: Generative Animatable Interactive Avatars with Expression-conditioned Gaussians
Zhengming Yu, Tianye Li, Jingxiang Sun, Omer Shapira, Seonwook Park, Michael Stengel, Matthew Chan, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, Koki Nagano, Shalini De Mello
Esports Rendering: Industry and Player Perspectives
Josef Spjut, Benjamin Watson
Generative Detail Enhancement for Physically Based Materials
Saeed Hadadan, Benedikt Bitterli, Tizian Zeltner, Jan Novák, Fabrice Rousselle, Jacob Munkberg, Jon Hasselgren, Bart Wronski, Matthias Zwicker
Radiance Surfaces: Optimizing Surface Representations with a 5D Radiance Field Loss
Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, Thomas Müller, Tizian Zeltner, Merlin Nimier-David, Fabrice Rousselle, Wenzel Jakob
Adaptive Algebraic Reuse of Reordering in Cholesky Factorizations with Dynamic Sparsity Patterns
Behrooz Zarebavani, Danny Kaufman, David Levin, Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

2024

MaskedMimic: Unified Physics-Based Character Control Through Masked Motion Inpainting
Chen Tessler, Kelly Guo, Ofir Nabati, Gal Chechik, Jason Peng
Large Étendue 3D Holographic Display with Content-adpative Dynamic Fourier Modulation
Brian Chao, Manu Gopakumar, Suyeon Choi, Liang Shi, Jonghyun Kim, Gordon Wetzstein
SpecTrack: Learned Multi-Rotation Tracking via Speckle Imaging
Ziyang Chen, Doğa Doğan, Josef Spjut, Kaan Akşit
Honorable Mention
Appearance Modeling of Iridescent Feathers with Diverse Nanostructures
Yunchen Yu, Andrea Weidlich, Bruce Walter, Eugene d'Eon, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Best Paper Award
Reconstructing Translucent Thin Objects from Photos
Xi Deng, Lifan Wu, Bruce Walter, Eugene d'Eon, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Steve Marschner, Andrea Weidlich
TurboEdit: Text-Based Image Editing Using Few-Step Diffusion Models
Gilad Deutch, Rinon Gal, Daniel Garibi, Or Patashnik, Daniel Cohen-Or
Studying Esports Competition: Piloting Methodology for User Studies During Tournaments
Arjun Madhusudan, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Benjamin Watson
On Smoothly Varying Frame Timing in First-Person Gaming
UC Santa Barbara and NVIDIA, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence: Programming Pathfinding Algorithms in C++ with Unreal Engine 5
Deborah Yuen, Josef Spjut
fVDB: A Deep-Learning Framework for Sparse, Large-Scale, and High-Performance Spatial Intelligence
Francis Williams, Jiahui Huang, Jonathan Swartz, Gergely Klar, Vijay Thakkar, Matthew Cong, Xuanchi Ren, Ruilong Li, Clement Fuji-Tsang, Sanja Fidler, Eftychios Sifakis, Ken Museth
Decorrelating ReSTIR Samplers via MCMC Mutations
Rohan Sawhney, Daqi Lin, Markus Kettunen, Benedikt Bitterli, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Chris Wyman, Matt Pharr
Simplicits: Mesh-Free, Geometry-Agnostic, Elastic Simulation
Vismay Modi, Nicholas Sharp, Or Perel, Shinjiro Sueda, David I. W. Levin
Modeling Hair Strands with Roving Capsules
Alexander Reshetov, David Hart
Fluid Control with Laplacian Eigenfunctions
Yixin Chen, David Levin, Timothy Langlois
Path-space Differentiable Rendering of Implicit Surfaces
Siwei Zhou, Youngha Chang, Nobuhiko Mukai, Hiroaki Santo, Fumio Okura, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Shuang Zhao
Surface-Filling Curve Flows via Implicit Medial Axes
Yuta Noma, Silvia Sellan, Nicholas Sharp, Karan Singh, Alec Jacobson
Walkin’ Robin: Walk on Stars with Robin Boundary Conditions
Bailey Miller, Rohan Sawhney, Keenan Crane, Ioannis Gkioulekas
SIGGRAPH 2024 Best Paper Award
Area ReSTIR: Resampling for Real-Time Defocus and Antialiasing
Song Zhang, Daqi Lin, Markus Kettunen, Cem Yuksel, Chris Wyman
From Microfacets to Participating Media: A Unified Theory of Light Transport with Stochastic Geometry
Dario Seyb, Eugene d'Eon, Benedikt Bitterli, Wojciech Jarosz
SIGGRAPH 2024 Best Paper Award