SIGGRAPH 2011

Program	Date & Time	Focus
Full Conference Basic Conference Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies West Building, Ballroom B Details Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.	Wednesday, 10 August 9am-5:30 pm	Art Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies West Building, Ballroom B Details Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.	Tuesday, 9 August 9am-5:30 pm	Art Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies West Building, Ballroom B Details Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.	Monday, 8 August 9-11:00 pm	Art Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies West Building, Ballroom B Details Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.	Monday, 8 August 9am-5:30 pm	Art Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies West Building, Ballroom B Details Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.	Sunday, 7 August 2-5:30 pm	Art Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies West Building, Ballroom B Details Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.	Sunday, 7 August (All day)
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibition Exhibition West Building, Exhibit Hall C Details The world's leading providers of software, hardware, and services for computer graphics and interactive techniques.	Thursday, 11 August 9:30am-3:30 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibition Exhibition West Building, Exhibit Hall C Details The world's leading providers of software, hardware, and services for computer graphics and interactive techniques.	Wednesday, 10 August 9:30am-6:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibition Exhibition West Building, Exhibit Hall C Details The world's leading providers of software, hardware, and services for computer graphics and interactive techniques.	Tuesday, 9 August 9:30am-6:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: VFX Trendspotting: Unlocking GPU Performance West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August 1:45-3:00 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: Using the GPU to Create a Seamless Display From Multiple Projectors West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August 12:45-1:30 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: Tools for Mobile Photography and Vision West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August 3:15-4:15 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: Parallel Nsight 2.0 and CUDA 4.0 for The Win! West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August 11:30am-12:30 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: OpenGL & CUDA Based Tessellation West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August 10:15-11:15 am	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: GPU Ray Tracing West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August 4:30-5:30 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: Advanced Rendering Solutions West Building, Room 220 Details	Monday, 8 August (All day)	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions Intel Exhibitor Session: Unleash Visual Computing Performance - Intel Performance Optimization Tools and Strategies West Building, Room 216 Details	Wednesday, 10 August 4:30-5:30 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions Intel Exhibitor Session: Technical Objectives of the Intel Visual Computing Centers West Building, Room 216 Details	Wednesday, 10 August 9-10:00 am
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions Intel Exhibitor Session: MAXIS-mizing Darkspore Game Performance with Intel GPA 4.0! West Building, Room 216 Details	Wednesday, 10 August 3:15-4:15 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions Intel Exhibitor Session: Increase your FPS with CPU Onload West Building, Room 216 Details	Wednesday, 10 August 2-3:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitors Sessions Intel Exhibitor Session: Embree - High Performance Ray Tracing Kernels West Building, Room 216 Details	Wednesday, 10 August 10:45-11:45 am
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitor Tech Talks Xsens West Building, Hall C, Booth 801 Details How Much Animation Can You Do in a Day? This talk shows how to speed up your pipeline with the Xsens MVN animation tool. It also explains how to record a motion, edit the motion, and insert it into a scene in no time, or even real time, using the Xsens MVN system.	Wednesday, 10 August 2:15-3:15 pm	Education
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitor Tech Talks Web3D Consortium West Building, Hall C, Booth 801 Details X3D: 3D Anywhere! From mobile devices to enterprise workstations to immersive CAVEs, X3D is the only open-standard (ISO), royalty-free file format and run-time specification for interactive virtual environments. With multiple encodings and API bindings, it is compatible with numerous web and industry technologies and remains the most robust and versatile open standard for implementing high-integrity and high-capability 4D multimedia information spaces. New features and data integration (such as HTML5 and volume rendering) are rapidly expanding X3D 3.3's value in applications ranging from mobile to AR, CAD, and medical. This talk presents the innovative community of content and application developers that ensures the interoperability, longevity, and ownership of your content. See the latest real-world interactive 3D applications and find out how you can build and protect your content investment in this ever-changing competitive market.	Wednesday, 10 August 5:05-6:00 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitor Tech Talks The Bakery West Building, Hall C, Booth 801 Details Bakery Relight: Interactive Lighting, Shading, and Rendering for Pros Designed for the high-end feature film, television, industrial, automotive, and architectural design industries, Bakery Relight is the first interactive, all-in-one lighting, shading, and rendering solution. Born out of years of hands-on experience on top-grossing feature films, Relight supports the lighters’ and shaders’ iterative process with full-resolution feedback in seconds.	Tuesday, 9 August 3:45-4:40 pm
Full Conference Basic Conference Computer Animation Festival Exhibitor Tech Talks Organic Motion West Building, Hall C, Booth 801 Details Organic Motion Unveils the Latest Developments in Next-Generation Computer Vision Preview the building blocks of human-computer interaction.	Wednesday, 10 August 3:45-4:40 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Emerging Technologies

West Building, Ballroom B

Details

Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.

Wednesday, 10 August
9am-5:30 pm

Art

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Emerging Technologies

West Building, Ballroom B

Details

Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.

Monday, 8 August
9-11:00 pm

Art

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Emerging Technologies

West Building, Ballroom B

Details

Emerging Technologies presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.

Sunday, 7 August
2-5:30 pm

Art

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibition

West Building, Exhibit Hall C

Details

The world's leading providers of software, hardware, and services for computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Thursday, 11 August
9:30am-3:30 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibition

West Building, Exhibit Hall C

Details

The world's leading providers of software, hardware, and services for computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Tuesday, 9 August
9:30am-6:00 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitors Sessions

NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: Using the GPU to Create a Seamless Display From Multiple Projectors

West Building, Room 220

Details

Monday, 8 August
12:45-1:30 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitors Sessions

NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: Parallel Nsight 2.0 and CUDA 4.0 for The Win!

West Building, Room 220

Details

Monday, 8 August
11:30am-12:30 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitors Sessions

NVIDIA Exhibitor Session: GPU Ray Tracing

West Building, Room 220

Details

Monday, 8 August
4:30-5:30 pm

Education

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitors Sessions

Intel Exhibitor Session: Unleash Visual Computing Performance - Intel Performance Optimization Tools and Strategies

West Building, Room 216

Details

Wednesday, 10 August
4:30-5:30 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitors Sessions

Intel Exhibitor Session: MAXIS-mizing Darkspore Game Performance with Intel GPA 4.0!

West Building, Room 216

Details

Wednesday, 10 August
3:15-4:15 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitors Sessions

Intel Exhibitor Session: Embree - High Performance Ray Tracing Kernels

West Building, Room 216

Details

Wednesday, 10 August
10:45-11:45 am

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitor Tech Talks

Web3D Consortium

West Building, Hall C, Booth 801

Details

X3D: 3D Anywhere!

From mobile devices to enterprise workstations to immersive CAVEs, X3D is the only open-standard (ISO), royalty-free file format and run-time specification for interactive virtual environments. With multiple encodings and API bindings, it is compatible with numerous web and industry technologies and remains the most robust and versatile open standard for implementing high-integrity and high-capability 4D multimedia information spaces. New features and data integration (such as HTML5 and volume rendering) are rapidly expanding X3D 3.3's value in applications ranging from mobile to AR, CAD, and medical. This talk presents the innovative community of content and application developers that ensures the interoperability, longevity, and ownership of your content. See the latest real-world interactive 3D applications and find out how you can build and protect your content investment in this ever-changing competitive market.

Wednesday, 10 August
5:05-6:00 pm

Full Conference

Basic Conference

Computer Animation Festival

Exhibitor Tech Talks

Organic Motion

West Building, Hall C, Booth 801

Details

Organic Motion Unveils the Latest Developments in Next-Generation Computer Vision
Preview the building blocks of human-computer interaction.

Wednesday, 10 August
3:45-4:40 pm