NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH

Illuminating the Future of Graphics

NVIDIA Special Address at SIGGRAPH 2022

Watch NVIDIA’s CEO and senior leaders’ special address from this year’s SIGGRAPH to get a glimpse into the future of AI-infused virtual worlds. Discover the research and technology that power these worlds and how they open new frontiers for artistic expression and creativity or perfectly replicate nature’s systems.

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Watch the stunning demos from the special address to see some of our most exciting work in action - from realistic virtual worlds to new AI-powered solutions.

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Virtual Assistants and Digital Humans on Pace to Ace Turing Test With New NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine

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NVIDIA and Partners Build Out Universal Scene Description to Accelerate Industrial Metaverse and Next Wave of AI

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NVIDIA Announces Major Release of Omniverse With New USD Connectors and Tools, Simulation Technologies and Developer Frameworks

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SIGGRAPH 2022 was a resounding success for NVIDIA with our breakthrough research in computer graphics and AI. Creators, researchers, students, and other professionals explored how our technologies drive innovations in simulation, collaboration, and design across many industries. If you’ve enjoyed our content from this event, be sure to register for our next GTC, the developer conference for the era of AI and the metaverse. Register for free.

On-Demand Sessions

We brought over 25 sessions to SIGGRAPH this year. Explore the topics below and catch up on the latest sessions.

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  • Building 3D Virtual Worlds

    Learn how Universal Scene Description (USD), the common language of the metaverse, is used to build 3D virtual worlds, and explore new resources to support its evolution.

    Wed, Aug 10
    1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT

    The Next Evolution of Universal Scene Description (USD) for Building Virtual Worlds

    Aaron Luk, Sr. Engineering Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

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    OmniGraph: Real-time Procedural Graph Engine for USD

    Ken Xu, Director of Simulation Technology, NVIDIA
    Chris Grebeldinger, Sr. Engineer, Omniverse, NVIDIA
    Seth Freeman, Sr. Software Engineer, Omniverse, NVIDIA

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    Virtual

    Warp: Accelerate Python Frameworks for Simulation and Graphics utilizing Multi-GPU Technology

    Miles Macklin, Director of Engineering, Simulation Technology, NVIDIA

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  • Powering the Metaverse

    Deep dive into NVIDIA Omniverse, the computing platform for virtual worlds. Learn how it accelerates complex 3D workflows, and enables ground-breaking new ways to visualize, simulate, and code.

    Mon, Aug 8
    2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PDT

    Powering the Next Generation of XR and Gaming Applications with Speech AI

    David Weinstein, Director of XR, NVIDIA

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    Mon, Aug 8
    2:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m. PDT

    Conversational AI for Design Review in XR

    Greg Jones, Director of XR Product Management & Business Development, NVIDIA

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    Mon, Aug 8
    5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. PDT

    Real-time Collaboration in Ray-traced VR

    Omer Shapira, Sr. Engineer, Omniverse, NVIDIA

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    Thurs, Aug 11
    9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PDT

    Material Workflows in Omniverse

    Frankie Liu, Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA
    Lutz Kettner, Director, Rendering Technology and Material Definition, NVIDIA

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  • Exploring Neural Graphics Research

    Explore how Neural Graphics, the unification of AI and graphics, is enabling the ability to perceive, create and experience virtual worlds.

    Tues, Aug 9
    11:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. PDT

    Building on NVDiffrec and Instant NeRF for Production-ready Free-viewpoint Video of People and Places

    Mike Pelton, Chief Scientist, Dimension

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    Tues, Aug 9
    1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT

    Introducing NVIDIA Kaolin Wisp - A Common Library for Neural Field Research

    Masha Shugrina, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
    Clement Fuji Tsang, Sr. Research Engineer, NVIDIA
    Or Perel, Research Scientist, NVIDIA
    Towaki Takikawa, Research Scientist, NVIDIA

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    Tues, Aug 9
    2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT

    Meet the Researchers: How to Use NVIDIA Kaolin in Your 3D Deep Learning Workflows

    Masha Shugrina, Sr. Research Scientist, NVIDIA
    Clement Fuji Tsang, Sr. Research Engineer, NVIDIA
    Or Perel, Research Scientist, NVIDIA
    Towaki Takikawa, Research Scientist, NVIDIA

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    Tues, Aug 9
    3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. PDT

    NVIDIA Instant NeRF - Getting Started with Neural Radiance Fields

    Thomas Müller, Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA

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    Introduction to Omniverse: Student 3D Artist Track

    Frankie Liu, Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA,
    Lutz Kettner, Director, Rendering Technology and Material Definition, NVIDIA

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    Introduction to Omniverse: Student Developer Track

    Paul Cutsinger, Director, Omniverse Exchange, NVIDIA

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  • Accelerating Industries

    From cloud production to the future of extended reality, gain insight on the latest technologies transforming industries.

    Mon, Aug 8
    4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT

    ILM Presents: Leveraging AI in Visual Effects and StageCraft Virtual Production

    Landis Fields, Real-Time Principal Creative, Industrial Light & Magic

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    Tues, Aug 9
    10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PDT

    The Future of Extended Reality: How Immersion Will Change Everything

    Christina Heller, CEO, Metastage
    David Weinstein, Director of XR, NVIDIA
    Greg Jones, Director of XR Product Management & Business Development, NVIDIA (moderator)
    Lisa Watts, VP of Product Marketing, Magic Leap

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    Thurs, Aug 11
    10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. PDT

    The Role of Networking in Real-time Production

    Phil Galler, CTO, NEP Virtual Studios

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    Thurs, Aug 11
    11:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. PDT

    From Script to Screen: Virtual Production for LED Filmmaking

    Steve Read, Head of Studio, Versatile Media
    Raphael Gaudin, Virtual Production Supervisor, Versatile Media

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    Thurs, Aug 11
    2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PDT

    Preymaker: Content and Experiences Crafted in the Cloud

    Angus Kneale, Founder & Chief Creative, Preymaker

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    Thurs, Aug 11
    3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. PDT

    Globally Connected Immersive Experiences: A Case Study of Magnopus's Expo Dubai Xplorer

    Daisy Leak, Executive Producer, Magnopus

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    Untold Studios: Pioneering the Studio in the Cloud

    Sam Reid, Head of Technology, Untold Studios

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  • Next Wave of Graphics Innovations

    From leading film studios to cutting-edge startups, discover how companies across the graphics industry are building and powering their technologies with NVIDIA solutions.

    Mon, Aug 8
    11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. PDT

    Unleashing the Power of the Artist with Machine Learning

    Mairéad Grogan, Research Engineer, Foundry

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    Mon, Aug 8
    1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT

    The Future of Markerless Motion Capture With AI

    Dr. Nikos Zikos, CTO, move.ai
    Dr. Marcos Alves, Head of R&D, move.ai
    Niall Hendry, Head of Partnerships & Delivery, move.ai
    Vincent Hung, Animation Director, Electronic Arts

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    Tues, Aug 9
    4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PDT

    Streaming of XR Applications with Dimenco Simulated Reality Devices

    Silvino Presa, VP of Applications and Services, Dimenco

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    Tues, Aug 9
    5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PDT

    Close & Virtual: Heavenue Live Actors in CloudXR

    Alex Coulombe, CEO, Heavenue / Agile Lens

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    Wed, Aug 10
    9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PDT

    Cloud & Viz, Making AR/VR Collaboration Ubiquitous

    Thomas Serrurier, Sales and Marketing Director, TechViz
    Martin Boisse, Pre Sales Engineer, TechViz

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    Thurs, Aug 11
    1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT

    Metaphysic - Creating Hyper-real Avatars and Synthetic Humans for web3 and Feature Films

    Jo Plaete, Director, Product Innovation, Metaphysic

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In the Spotlight

The Art of Collaboration: NVIDIA, Omniverse, and GTC

The Art of Collaboration: NVIDIA, Omniverse, and GTC

Go behind the scenes of the 2022 Spring GTC and discover how NVIDIA’s creative, engineering, and research teams pushed the limits of NVIDIA GPUs, AI, USD, and Omniverse to deliver our most watched GTC ever. Watch Trailer >

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SIGGRAPH Omniverse Community Livestream

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SIGGRAPH Omniverse Community Livestream

Watch the replay of our community livestream to get the latest on what's happening at SIGGRAPH, hear from our experts, plus we'll announce the winners of the #MadeInMachinima contest!

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SIGGRAPH Events

In-person and virtual retrospective panels, meetups, and more for conference attendees.

Mon, Aug 8, Live

Pioneers in Computer Graphics

Join this panel to hear about career journeys and industry and academic viewpoints that have contributed to the historic advancements in computer graphics and learn what opportunities are on the horizon for women in the technology community.

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Tue, Aug 9, 2:00 p.m. PDT

Birds of a Feather

Join the discussion with the developers and users of Universal Scene Description (USD), Hydra and OpenSubdiv, along with many other vendors and practitioners who will showcase the work done in the past year and the plans ahead.

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Wed, Aug 10, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Watch and Vote

Join us for the Real-Time Live! session where we will perform the Instant Neural Radiance Fields (Instant NeRF) demo in real time. You will be able to view other demos and vote on your favorite one.

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Lighting the Way

SIGGRAPH Research Presentations

More innovations are coming as top academic researchers collaborate with NVIDIA to tackle the greatest challenges in graphics and AI. Our 17 accepted technical papers span advancements in neural content creation tools, display and human perception, the mathematical foundations of computer graphics, and neural rendering.

Instant Neural Graphics Primitives

Best Paper Award

Instant Neural Graphics Primitives With a Multiresolution Hash Encoding

Thomas Müller | Alex Evans | Christoph Schied | Alexander Keller

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Variable Bitrate Neural Fields

Variable Bitrate Neural Fields

Towaki Takikawa | Alex Evans | Jonathan Tremblay | Thomas Müller | Morgan McGuire | Alec Jacobson | Sanja Fidler

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Editing Implicit Shapes

SPAGHETTI: Editing Implicit Shapes Through Part Aware Generation

Amir Hertz | Or Perel | Raja Giryes | Olga Sorkine-Hornung | Daniel Cohen-O

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Probabilistic Perceptual Model

Best Paper Award

Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency

Budmonde Duinkharjav | Praneeth Chakravarthula | Rachel Brown | Anjul Patney | Qi Sun

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Physically Simulated Characters

ASE: Large-Scale Reusable Adversarial Skill Embeddings for Physically Simulated Characters

Xue Bin Peng | Yunrong Guo | Lina Halper | Sergey Levine | Sanja Fidler

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Foundations of ReSTIR

Generalized Resampled Importance Sampling: Foundations of ReSTIR

Daqi Linc | Markus Kettunen | Benedikt Bitterli | Jacopo Pantaleoni | Cem Yuksel | Chris Wyman

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Vector Sketch Continuity

Detecting Viewer-Perceived Intended Vector Sketch Continuity

Jerry Yin | Chenxi Liu | Rebecca Lin | Nicholas Vining | Helge Rhodin | Alla Sheffer

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Effects in Time-Lapse Sequences

Disentangling Random and Cyclic Effects in Time-Lapse Sequences

Erik Härkönen | Miika Aittala |Tuomas Kynkäänniemi | Samuli Laine |Timo Aila | Jaakko Lehtinen

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Image Generators

StyleGAN-NADA: CLIP-Guided Domain Adaptation of Image Generators

Rinon Gal | Or Patashnik | Haggai Maron | Gal Chechik | Daniel Cohen-Or

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Reshaping Vector Clip-Art

As-Locally-Uniform-as-Possible Reshaping of Vector Clip-Art

Chrystiano Araujo | Giorgio Gori | Nicholas Vining | Alla Sheffer

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Neural Functions via Lipschitz Regularization

Learning Smooth Neural Functions via Lipschitz Regularization

Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu | Francis Williams | Alec Jacobson | Sanja Fidler | Or Litany

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Sampling Uniformity Over Projections

MatBuilder: Mastering Sampling Uniformity Over Projections

Loïs Paulin | David Coeurjolly | Jean-Claude Iehl | Nicolas Bonneel | Alexander Keller | Victor Ostromoukhov

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Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality

Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality

Jonghyun Kim | Manu Gopakumar | Suyeon Choi | Yifan Peng | Ward Lopes | Gordon Wetzstein

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Framework for Holographic Near-Eye Displays

Time-Multiplexed Neural Holography: A Flexible Framework for Holographic Near-Eye Displays With Fast Heavily-Quantized Spatial Light Modulators

Suyeon Choi | Manu Gopakumar | Yifan Peng | Jonghyun Kim | Matthew O'Toole | Gordon Wetzstein

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Rendering Using Biased Estimators

Unbiased and Consistent Rendering Using Biased Estimators

Zack Misso | Benedikt Bitterli | Iliyan Georgiev | Wojciech Jarosz

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Unbiased Inverse Volume Rendering

Unbiased Inverse Volume Rendering

Merlin Nimier-David | Thomas Müller | Alexander Keller | Wenzel Jakob

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Studying FPS Esports Aiming

FirstPersonScience: An Open Source Tool for Studying FPS Esports Aiming

Ben Boudaoud | Josef Spjut | Pyarelal Knowles | Arjun Madhusudan | Joohwan Kim

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Labs

NVIDIA Training at SIGGRAPH

Free in person hands-on training from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI).

Mon, Aug 8
1:00 p.m. -  2:00 p.m. PDT

International Resources: Metaverse for International Educators

Learn how to get started with Omniverse in an educational setting Programs for Educators and other resources available through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and the NVIDIA Studio Education Partner Program.

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Build Beautiful, Custom UI for 3D Tools on NVIDIA Omniverse​

Become a master in UI with a hands-on deep dive into NVIDIA Omniverse Kit’s powerful omni.ui suite of tools and frameworks. In this session, you’ll build your own custom UI for workflows in Omniverse with Python script.

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Easily Develop Advanced 3D Layout Tools on NVIDIA Omniverse​

See how to easily create your own custom scene layout tools with the modular Omniverse platform with a few lines of Python script. In this session, you’ll build your own custom scene layout in Omniverse using Python.​​

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How to Build Custom 3D Scene Manipulator Tools on NVIDIA Omniverse

See how you can build advanced tools on the modular, easily extensible Omniverse platform. You’ll learn from the Omniverse developer ecosystem team how you can extend and enhance the 3D tools you know and love today.​

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Learn How To Use NVIDIA Nsight Tools To Debug and Profile Ray Tracing Applications

In this workshop, you'll learn how to utilize NVIDIA Nsight Graphics and Nsight Systems to profile and optimize 3D applications that are using ray tracing.

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Omniverse for Creators: Collaborative 3D Workflows with Autodesk 3ds Max and Adobe Substance 3D Painter (or Maya)

Working on NVIDIA Studio workstations that are purpose-built for 3D workflows, artists are invited to join this 101 workshop to learn how to connect and collaborate between multiple apps, accelerated by RTX.

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Watch this multi-chapter series on digital human creation highlighting every step from inspiration to reality—from the basics of system requirements and project setup, to in-depth model preparation of hair, eyes, skin, and makeup detailing—and further, to cameras, lighting, final render, and post process workflow.

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