Earlier this month, fifty Googlers from offices spanning North America to Zurich geared up to take on SIGGRAPH 2011, the world's premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Thousands of creative professionals converged August 7-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia to participate in the five-day interdisciplinary educational experience.
Several members of Google’s technical staff appeared on panels and talks. Paul Strauss led the “Out of Core” session that featured Google Body: an intuitive 3D context for learning and discussing human anatomy on a browser, smartphone or tablet. Steve Seitz and Google intern Rahul Garg presented their paper Exploring Photobios, which details a method for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person by computing an optimized, aligned subsequence. It’s the basis for the Face Movie feature in Picasa Web Albums. Their paper made a key contribution to the field in proving why the cross dissolve produces a strong motion effect.
With the conference theme “Make it Home,” we invited attendees to be our guests in our living room at SIGGRAPH. Many sat by the fireplace to chat with Google engineers and designers as well as watch demos showcasing WebGL in Chrome, Picnik, Google+, 3D Warehouse and Sketchup. Those interested in more action took up challenges in SVNGR: 443 attendees completed 4,924 challenges to snag Google goodies, from Android collectible dolls, to t-shirts, to a Samsung Galaxy tablet.
We’re looking forward to fireside chats with many more members of the technical community at our future events and conferences.
Google making the creative minds of the computer graphics
community feel at home at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, B.C.
Posted by the Industry Outreach team
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