By Jacquelyn Ford Morie, ACM SIGGRAPH Director-at-Large My first CES (Consumer Electronics Show) just happened in January 2015 in Las Vegas, NV. How could I have waited so long to actually attend one of these mythical events? I thought it would be much like the heady heydays of SIGGRAPH itself, though my mind knew that […]
ACM SIGGRAPH Presents Special Prize at DC Expo in Japan
ACM SIGGRAPH and the Digital Content Association of Japan (DCAJ) have a long-standing relationship, meeting each year at the SIGGRAPH Conference to share ideas and discuss their organizations’ activities. Recently, ACM SIGGRAPH and DCAJ augmented their relationship with a new agreement to exchange emerging technology exhibits between their respective conferences. ACM SIGGRAPH will select one […]
How to Build a Good Light Field Camera
Computational Photography Talk This talk by Chia-Kai Liang, PhD (Architect, Computational Photography at Lytro, Inc.) will describe a light transport framework for understanding the fundamental limits of light field camera resolution. The new framework includes many factors that were not included in existing models. For example, he shows that the 4D spatial-angular sensitivity profile of […]