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Submission Deadline: 11 August 2024, 23:59 AoE (Closed)
A Technical Communication combines a short-format written document with an oral presentation where presenters can interact with leading international experts in academia and industry. We seek the best recent work in computer graphics research and development, including:
- Geometry and Modelling
- Animation, Performance Capture, and Motion Synthesis
- Lighting, Rendering and Material Representations
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Graphics
- Image and Video Processing Applications
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality
- Computer-Aided Design
- Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization
- Multimedia Applications
- Video Gaming
This year, under the theme of Curious Minds, we also particularly invite submissions related to:
- Innovation & Discovery
- Curiosity Across Disciplines
- Education and Lifelong Learning
Technical Communications & Posters Chair
Program Sponsor:
- Log in to the SIGGRAPH Asia Submission System
- Select “Begin a New Submission”
- Select “Create” for the Technical Communications submission form
We strongly encourage starting the submission form well before the deadline. Please make sure to check size limit on the submissions (main files, additional materials, etc.) described in the submission form before you prepare your submissions. Submit your work before the submission deadline 11 August 2024, 23:59 AoE. All forms must be completed, and all materials must be successfully uploaded by that time. The submission deadline will be strictly enforced. Please do not wait until the last minute to upload your files.
For more information about uploading files for your submission, please see Uploading Files
Sorting Topic
The Technical Communications Chair will use the Sorting Topic to assign your submission to reviewers who are best able to assess your work. Please be as accurate as possible when specifying it.
Dual submissions
The Technical Communications program is dedicated to presenting new, unpublished work. Work that is under review elsewhere (for example, to a journal or another conference) cannot be submitted to the Technical Communications program. Such dual submissions are widely considered unethical.
Submission
Your submission must include the following materials and information.
- A maximal four-page document describing your work (PDF): this self-contained document, formatted according to the SIGGRAPH Template For Technical Papers. It should explain your contribution, emphasize what is novel about it, and explain the concept or the technique, using appropriate figures, tables, results, and references.
- You will be assigned a Submission ID number when you create an Online Submission Form and this number will be used to identify your submission throughout the review process. In all other ways, the document must be in the final format. Submissions that are more than four-pages (Including the references) or that are improperly formatted will not be considered.
- One representative image (JPG) suitable for use on the conference website and promotional materials: All submissions shall include a representative digital image that shall be of the highest print quality possible, pixel resolution of at least 1500 x 1200 (at least 300 dpi at 5 inches wide, with depth proportional) or the highest possible screen grab. Images must be submitted in JPG format.
- One web image: In JPG or PNG format max. 200 KB for website publication. Up to three supplementary materials (OPTIONAL): The maximal four-page document must stand alone as an overview of the submission. But in many cases, providing extra material could help the jury to evaluate the work. Accordingly, authors may provide supporting material in the form of video, images, and/or further documentation:
- Images: Authors may provide high-resolution images to demonstrate their work. They must be in one of these formats: TIFF, JPEG. PNG, BMP, or GIF.
- Video: All submitters are encouraged to provide video demonstrations of their projects when available. The video may be uploaded in one or more separate files. We can only accommodate videos in QuickTime, MPEG-4, or DivX Version 5 (or later) formats. The total length of all videos should not exceed five minutes. Please make sure to check maximum allowed file size in the submission form.
- Please check size limit on the submissions (main files, additional materials, etc.) in the submission form before you prepare your submissions.
- Documentation: In some cases, results can best be conveyed as a document with images, graphs, charts, and so forth. Supporting documentation should be in PDF format, up to two pages long, and should contain mostly captioned figures or tables. Please refrain from submitting an expanded paper, as the jury will not have time to read it.
- We do not impose size limit on the submissions, but you are advised not to go beyond 100MB unless you really need to show high-resolution results in your submission since the reviewers may have hard time downloading your files.
English Review Service
If English is not your first language; you may use the English Review Service to help with the text of submissions. Please note that this takes time, so your submission should be sent to the English Review Service well before the final deadline.
Educator’s Resources Submission option
For more information about uploading files for your submission, please see Uploading Files. For additional submission information, please see the Submissions FAQs.
General Submission Policies
For more details on SIGGRAPH Asia’s General Submission Policies, please go to SIGGRAPH Asia’s Submission Information page.
All contributors to SIGGRAPH Asia Annual Conferences are now required to use ACM’s rights management system to grant rights to publish accepted content rather than through the SIGGRAPH Asia Submission System. Essentially, submission tracking, jury review, and acceptance remain the same, but now the rights management is through ACM, the parent organization of SIGGRAPH Asia.
You will be asked to complete an ACM rights management form, which includes permission to record and distribute the audio and video of your recorded presentation through official channels of ACM/SIGGRAPH Asia. For most content types, this will be a Permission and Release form, which allows authors to retain copyright.
As a contributor to an ACM-sponsored event, the following expectations apply to you, should your content be accepted for presentation:
- You have the permission to use everything that is in your presentation. This includes securing permission to use third-party material, and providing documentation of that permission to ACM.(More Information On The Proper Use Of Third-Party Material In Your Presentation)
- If you are using copyrighted musical compositions in your presentation, you must secure performing rights licenses
- You must have the authority to grant ACM the right to distribute your presentation
Acceptance
If your work is accepted, you will be required to prepare the final file following the specifications in the acceptance notification.
Please note: The schedule to provide your final material after receiving the acceptance notification is very tight. We reserve the right to reject late submission of camera-ready files. Please plan your personal schedule accordingly.
For instructions about preparation and delivery of your final content for publications, please carefully follow the instructions in the acceptance letter.
You will be able to update your basic submission information and any final materials so that it can be included in the conference program and web site. This information needs to be finalized two weeks after receipt of acceptance notifications. Please be prepared to deliver your final versions of your information and work on or before these dates.
Presentation
Technical Communications are scheduled oral presentations of about 8 minutes.
Presenter and Contributor Recognition
Presenters/Contributors of each accepted submission have to register for at least one conference pass. Please visit our registration page to view the various registration categories for each program.
Please see the Recognition Benefits for a summary of what you will receive if your work and/or proposal are accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia.
Technical Communications Digital Library
All accepted Technical Communications will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.
Publications
Should I Submit?
Q1. What types of communications should be submitted to SIGGRAPH Asia?
Q2. How do I decide whether to submit my work as a paper, technical communications, or a poster?
The Technical Papers program, which includes both Conference and Journal tracks, is the most competitive of these three. Technical Papers give you a chance to work out your ideas at greater length and describe them in a citable archive. Both Technical Communications and Posters programs, on the other hand, provide dynamic forums for new and thought-provoking ideas, which might be not suitable for Technical Papers or not yet fully-polished, novel applications that address interdisciplinarity, high-impact practical contributions, valuable know-how from production work, e.g., behind-the-scenes view of new commercial or artistic work, and other small projects, which are incomplete or not of sufficient extent to warrant a technical paper. The difference between Technical Communications and Posters is their presentation forms. Technical Communications papers are up to 4 pages in length and will be presented in a talk, while Posters are up to 2 pages and will be presented in the form of posters without talk.
Deadlines
Q1. Can I submit after the deadline? I was unable to upload my submission on time. The system was overloaded, and halfway through uploading my submission the deadline passed.
Q2. But I am using the SIGGRAPH Asia English Review Service, and they did not get back to me soon enough. So, it is SIGGRAPH Asia’s fault that my Technical Communication is not ready.
Q3. Can I email my submission to the Technical Communications Chairs if the online submission system is overloaded?
Double Submissions
Q1. I would like to submit my paper to conference X or journal Y as well as to SIGGRAPH Asia under Technical Communications.
Q2. But I want my Technical Communication to be in SIGGRAPH Asia. I promise that if it is accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia, I will withdraw it from the other conference or journal.
Q3. Once my submission gets accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia, can I extend it and submit to another conference or journal?
A Technical Communication is more like a short paper. It’s natural to have its extended version to submitted and published in a journal. But do note, it’s up to each journal to have their own policy whether they allow extended versions of previously published work or not, and how much novel content is required. Unfortunately, it is not something we can influence.
Note: ACM policy allows for a selection of a small percentage of accepted works – “best papers” – for such treatment, not all accepted works. It appears that this policy was followed.Supplemental Material
Q1. What supplemental material can be uploaded with my submission?
Q2. Can I provide a video with my Technical Communication submission?
Formatting
Q1. Do I have to prepare the Technical Communication in the final format?
Yes, please format your Technical Communication with reference to Author Instructions For Papers And Abstracts. It includes the LaTeX formatting template guidelines.
Q2. Should the pages of my Technical Communication be numbered?
You should number the pages in your submission, but not the final version.
Q3. What is the page limit for Technical Communications?
Q4. What file formats are allowed?
Q5. What types of keywords should I include with my Technical Communication?
Q6. As a non-native English speaker, I would appreciate help to improve the text in my Technical Communication submission.
Non-native English speakers may optionally use the English Review Service to help improve the text of submissions. Please note that this process takes time, so plan far ahead.
Q7. Does the video submitted by August have to be final quality? Or will people whose Technical Communications are accepted have the opportunity to prepare a more polished video?
Anonymity
Q1. Should I make my submission anonymous?
Yes. The review process will be double-blind and please make sure that all your submitted materials have been anonymized.
Q2. My SIGGRAPH Asia submission needs to cite a tech report or thesis that might be hard for reviewers to find. What should I do?
Review Process
Q1. Can you give me some example reasons that my Technical Communication would get rejected without review?
Submissions will be rejected without review if it is found that:
- The submission violates the ACM Policy And Procedures On Plagiarism.
- The submission is a dual submission; that is, if the submission is simultaneously under review for any other conference or publication. For more details, see the Prior Publication and the Double Submissions section of the FAQs.
- The Technical Communication is so incomplete or poorly written review is impossible.
- The Technical Communication focuses on advertising of a company’s product(s).
- The Technical Communication is on a topic clearly outside the scope of SIGGRAPH Asia.
- Electronic files have been submitted that have been designed to have side effects other than presenting the submitted work to reviewers and committee members (for example, a “phone home” script).
Q2. Am I allowed to ask for my Technical Communication not to be reviewed by someone from whom I do not expect a fair review?
Q3. I am submitting a Technical Communication on topic X, which I know is an area of expertise for committee member Y. Can I ask that Y be a senior reviewer of my Technical Communication?
Q4. Who knows the identities of the authors and how is that information used during the review process?
Presentations
Q1. Are Technical Communications merely published in print, or is there a presentation as well?
There is an oral presentation in a session.
Q2. Where can I get the ACM Copyright Form on the web? I need to show it to my employers before I submit.
Patents and Confidentiality
Q1. Can I, for example, get a written guarantee of confidentiality?
Contacts
Q1. To whom should I send questions about the Technical Communications submission and review process?
Use the Technical Communications Contact Form. Do not send email(s) directly to the Technical Communications Chairs.
4 August 2024
English Review Deadline
11 August 2024
Mid-August – End-September 2024
23 September 2024
9 October 2024
3 – 6 December 2024
4 – 6 December 2024
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.