August 7-9
Los Angeles, CA, USA

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ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2015

SCA 2015 was held August 7-9 on the USC campus in Los Angeles, CA, room SAL 101, just prior to SIGGRAPH 2015.

Best paper awards (all deemed equal, listed in arbitrary order)

• Kai Ding, Libin Liu, Michiel van de Panne, KangKang Yin:
  Learning Reduced-Order Feedback Policies for Motion Skills
• Benjamin Humberston, Dinesh Pai:
  Hands On: Interactive Animation of Precision Manipulation and Contact
• Omri Azencot, Orestis Vantzos, Max Wardetzky, Martin Rumpf, Mirela Ben-Chen:
  Functional Thin Films on Surfaces

What's new for SCA 2015

We are excited to introduce two additions to SCA's 2015 program:
 

• VFX Industry Panel: Bringing academia and industry together in identifying the research challenges for the VFX community. A panel of industry leaders from major VFX studios will highlight the long-term technical trends that the animation industry is anticipating. Confirmed panelist are:
  • James Jacobs, recipient of the 2013 Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for "Tissue" (Weta Digital) technology, CEO, Ziva Dynamics,
  • Ken Museth, recipient of the 2014 Technical Achievement Academy Award for the OpenVDB open source library, Manager of R&D and Senior Principal Engineer, Dreamworks,
  • Jose Villeta, Senior Director of Technology, Disney Interactive,
  • Cary Phillips, recipient of three Technical Achievement Academy Awards: ILM Shape Sculpting System (2014), ILM Creature Dynamics System (2001), and the Caricature Animation System (1998), R&D Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic.
• Words of Wisdom session (WoW): This new event will give the floor to experienced researchers who will speak up about important challenges of the field, discuss negative results, and dispense other hard-learned advice. Confirmed speakers are:
  • Robert Bridson, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, Senior Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk,
  • Eugene Fiume, Professor at University of Toronto,
  • Doug L. James, Professor at Stanford University,
  • Carol O'Sullivan, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research,
  • Dinesh Pai, Professor at University of British Columbia.
  We are delighted to announce extended partnerships with two journals: CGF and IEEE TVCG. Selected IEEE TVCG and CGF computer animation papers will be presented at SCA. Also, a significant portion of SCA 2015 papers (up to 12) will be invited to have extended versions submitted to special issues of the journals.
  
  SCA 2015 will feature two very exciting keynote speakers: Dr. Jessica Hodgins, and Dr. Robert Full.

  Dates

  All deadlines are 23:59 GMT.

  • 2015 April 15: Deadline for paper submissions.
  • 2015 end of May: Notification of acceptance for papers.
  • 2015 June 18: Camera-ready papers due.
  • 2015 May 30: Deadline for poster submissions.
  • 2015 mid June: Notification of acceptance for posters.
  • 2015 June 18: Camera-ready posters abstract due.
  • 2015 Aug 7-9: Symposium
  
  

  Organizers

  Conference Chairs:

  • Jernej Barbič, University of Southern California
  • Zhigang Deng, University of Houston

  Program Chairs:

  • Florence Bertails-Descoubes, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
  • Stelian Coros, Carnegie Mellon University

  Posters Chair:

  • Shinjiro Sueda, California Polytechnic State University
  
  

  Sponsors

  SCA 2015 gratefully acknowledges contributions from the following sponsors.