Each year, ACM SIGGRAPH celebrates exceptional contributions to the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques at the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference. The prestigious awards highlight innovative achievements, with winners selected by the respective Program chairs, an international panel of experts, and conference visitors.
The 2025 SIGGRAPH Asia award categories included:
- Computer Animation Festival Awards
- Educator’s Forum Awards
- Emerging Technologies Awards
- Posters Awards
- Computer Animation Festival Awards
- Technical Papers Awards
- XR (Extended Reality) Awards
- Real-Time Live! Awards
1. Computer Animation Festival Awards
- Best Student Film Award: A Sparrow’s Song
- Directors: Tobias Eckerlin & Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
- Producer: Tobias Eckerlin
- Trailer: Watch the Trailer here
2. Educator’s Forum Awards
- Best Education Paper Awards: Revolutionizing Education: Integrating Metaverse and the First AI Lecturers in Cross-Campus Higher Education
- Authors: Ching Christie Pang, Yawei Zhao, Zhizhuo yin, Jia Sun, Yuk Hang Tsui, Shan Jin, Pan Hui
- Honorable Mention Award: Designing Purposeful Computer Graphics Projects using the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Real-World Data
- Authors: Steffan Hooper
3. Emerging Technologies Awards
- Best Demo in Show Award: Experience Sharing Box: A Platform for Capturing, Storing, and Playback of Multisensory Memory
- Contributors: Haruomi Higashi, Yufan Zhu, Jack Brophy, Ismael rasa, Jinsuke Morita, Arata Horie, Takatoshi Yoshida, Kouta Minamizawa
- Audience Choice Award: ChewBit: Enhancing Haptic Feedback with an On-Face Pneumatic Interface for Realistic Food Texture in VR
- Contributors: Qingqin Liu, Ziqi Fang, Jiayi Wu, Shaoyu Cai, Jianhui Yan, Tiande Mo, Shuk Ching Chan, Kening Zhu
- Honorable Mention Award: Enchanted Touch: Delivering Vibrotactile and Thermal Feedback Without Fingerpad Contact
- Contributors: Takumi Hamazaki, Tomosuke Maeda, Hideki Deguchi, Shun Taguchi, Hiroyuki Sakai
4. Posters Awards
- Audience Choice Award: SofiBuddy: A Soft Mobile Interface for On-Body Interaction
- Contributors: Yixuan Li, Jie Yu, Chenwan Halley Zhong, Zhaowen Deng, Teng Han, Yi Cai, Xin Tong
- Jury’s Choice Award:AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation
- Contributors: Lisai Zhang, Baohan Xu, Siqian Yang, Mingyu Yin, Jing Liu, Chao Xu, Siqi Wang, Yidi Wu, Yuxin Hong, Zihao Zhang, Yanzhang Liang, Yudong Jiang
5. Real Time Live! Awards
- Jury’s Choice Award: All-at-Once: Modular 4D Gaussian Worldbuilding and RealityFX for Live Music Performance
- Contributors: Nix Liu Xin, Jingyuan Wu
- Best of Show Award: Let There Be Light: Learning Lights from In-The-Wild Character Images
- Contributors: Yanni Zhang, Chong Guan, Junchen Zhou, Jinxu Xiang, Alan Zhao, Ran Zhang
6. Technical Communications Awards
- Best Communications Awards: SketchRodGS: Sketch-based Extraction of Slender Geometries for Animating Gaussian Splatting Scenes
- Contributors: Haato Watanabe, Nobuyuki Umetani
- Best Communications Award Honorable Mention: Geometric Queries on Closed Implicit Surfaces for Walk on Stars
- Contributors: Tianyu Huang
7. Technical Papers Awards
- Best Paper Award: Fovea Stacking: Imaging with Dynamic Localized Aberration Correction
- Authors: Shin Mao, Yogesgwar Nath Mishra, Wolfgang Heidrich
- Best Paper Award: BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in loglinear time
- Authors: Baptiste Genest, Nicholas Bonneel, Vincent Nivoliers
- Best Paper Award: Automatic Sampling for Discontinuities in Differentiable Shaders
- Authors: Yash Belhe, Wesley Chang, Michael Gharbi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu-Mao Li
- Best Paper Award: Control Operators for Interactive Character Animation
- Authors: Ruiyu Gou, Michiel Van De Panne, Daniel Holden
- Best Paper Award: Curve-Based Slicer for Multi-Axis DLP 3D Printing
- Authors: Chengkai Dai, Liu Tao, Dezhao Guo, Binzhi Sun, Guoxin Fang, Yeung Yam, Charlie C.L. Wang
- Honorable Mention Award: A Highly-Efficient Hybrid Simulation System for Flight Controller Design and Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Authors: Jiwei Wang, Wenbin Song, Yicheng Fan, Yang Wang, Xiaopei Liu
- Honorable Mention Award: Scattering-Aware Color Calibration for 3D Printers Using a Simple Calibration Target
- Authors: Tomas Iser, Tobias Ritting, Alexander Wilkie
- Honorable Mention Award: Gaussian Integral Linear Operators for Precomputed Graphics
- Authors: Haolin Lu, Yash Belhe, Tzu-Mao Li, Toshiya Hachisuka
- Honorable Mention Award: MILO: A Lightweight Perceptual Quality Metric for Image and Latent-Space Optimization
- Authors: Ugur Cogalan, Mojitaba Bemana, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Colin Groth
- Honorable Mention Award: Efficient and Scalable Spatial Regularization of Optimal Transport
- Authors: Lucas Brifault, David Cohen-Steiner, Mathieu Desbrun
- Test of Time Award: Fast Simulation of Mass-Spring Systems
- Authors: Tiantian Liu, Adam W. Bargteil, James F.O’Brien, Ladislav Kavan
- Test of Time Award: Instant field-aligned meshes
- Authors: Wenzel Jakob, Marco Tarini, Daniele Panozzo, Olga Sorkine-Hornung
- Test of Time Award: Near-eye light field displays
- Authors: Douglas Lanman, David Luebke
- Test of Time Award: SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model
- Authors: Matthew Loper, Naureeen Mahmood, Javier Romero, Gerard Pons-Moll, Micahel J.Black
8. XR [Extended Reality] Awards
- Best Demo in Show Award: Bulb-in-Hand Initiation: An Illusory Altered In-Head Sensation via Colored Hemispheres, Audio Panning, and Head Tapping
- Contributors: Kaho Kagami, Kenri Kodaka
- Audience Choice: Best Demo Award: CosmicStride: Space-Efficient VR Exploration for LBE Venues
- Contributors: Chen-Qi Jia
9. SIGGRAPH ASIA
- Visionary Lifetime Achievement: Richard Chuang
