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Impressive. Very impressive.

As you can see, I am again impressed by the annual SIGGRAPH conference that took place last August, and about which my colleagues reported. There were more than 28000 participants, and the acceptance ratio for the presented papers was below 20%. While the main focus of the conference is on computer graphics, it also includes a wide range of presentations on 3D, image and video enhancement, and image processing in general. Next to these technical sessions, there are also movie screenings, and a computer animation festival.

But, apart from the high quality and interesting mix of topics, I also really like the way papers are presented. Certainly for people like me, who did not attend the conference. Each paper starts off (after the title and author list) with a “telling illustration”, graphically illustrating the paper. Really nice to get a quick idea about the paper. Moreover, for most of those papers, the authors also have a nice video presenting their paper on their website. I have no idea whether that is mandatory, and whether one could find all those presentation videos on the ACM website. My colleagues also told me that all the presentations from this year’s SIGGRAPH conference would be recorded and made available online. I am curious! It’s still not the same as actually going there, but it is as close as I can get. For now.