Important Deadlines:
Stage 1, Submission Form
– Abstract Deadline: 5 May 2026
Stage 2, Full Submission
– Paper Deadline: 12 May 2026
– Upload Deadline: 13 May 2026
Submit To the Technical Papers program!
At SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, the Technical Papers program will have two integrated paper tracks: Journal (ACM Transactions on Graphics) and Conference.
- Journal Papers are expected to satisfy the ACM TOG criteria of excellence established over the years, and present novel, well-validated, and comprehensively described research advancing computer graphics and interactive techniques. Papers accepted to the Journal track will be published in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
- Conference Papers are expected to present novel research advancing computer graphics and interactive techniques. However, the evidence supporting these advances might not be as comprehensive as expected for Journal Papers. The length of papers accepted to this track is capped as outlined in the “Journal vs. Conference” table below. Papers accepted to the conference track will be published in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Conference Proceedings.
| JOURNAL-ONLY SUBMISSIONS | DUAL-TRACK SUBMISSIONS |
|---|---|
| The submitted work is expected to be novel and advance the state of the art. | |
| Ideas are extensively tried and tested, and the paper is complete and comprehensive. | The work can be less complete (e.g., have shorter validation and fewer comparisons). |
| When submitting, use the “acmtog” article style, double column. The file size of supplementary materials is limited to 500MB. | |
| No maximum (or minimum) page length. | Submissions are required to adhere to the following length constraints: Papers must be no longer than 7 pages excluding references and figures-only pages. There is no limit on the length of the reference section. Each paper can have at most two figures-only pages, placed at the end of the submission, after references. Figures-only pages can contain only figures and their captions (i.e., no tables). Authors can also include as many figures as they wish within the core 7 pages. Appendices are to be provided as supplemental material, and not as part of the paper itself. |
ACM OPEN ACCESS – new for 2026! Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. | |
| Published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) | If accepted as a Conference Paper: Published in SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Proceedings If accepted as a Journal Paper: Published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) |
Both tracks have an Abstract Submission Deadline of 5 May 2026, | |
Technical Papers Chair
Technical Papers Assistant Chair
Tuesday, 5 May 2026: Submission form deadline
Tuesday, 12 May 2026: Paper deadline
Wednesday, 13 May 2026: Upload deadline
- For case (A), the other work must be cited anonymously, as well as provided as anonymous supplementary material. The authors must convince the reviewers that the current submission is sufficiently different from the other work, which can be done using an anonymous cover letter that outlines the differences. Failure to follow this policy may lead to desk rejection without review.
- For case (B), these earlier or largely similar versions of the submission that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a technical report, etc.) should NOT be cited in the submission, as this would identify the authors. Instead, these prepublications must be listed in the appropriate field of the submission form, titled “Prepublication.” This field is not visible to reviewers.
Submission Format
Technical Papers authors should prepare their documents according to the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Publication Guidelines. All submissions should be prepared in ACM double-column format. For convenience, we recommend using the provided “acmtog” LaTeX Article Template Style, which is already in the correct format. The other templates (e.g., Word, Overleaf) might need adaptation to obtain double-column format. Please pay particular attention to the citation format for prior ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers, as specified in the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia publication guidelines, because the proper format varies depending on the year of publication.
If you use LaTeX, please anonymize your initial submission with the
following \documentclass command:
\documentclass[acmtog,anonymous,review]{acmart}
and add your assigned paper ID with:
\acmSubmissionID{paper ID}
Authors who use LaTeX must make certain that any packages they use in their paper are part of ACM’s list of accepted LaTeX packages – https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/accepted-latex-packages. TAPS will refuse submissions that use packages that are not part of this list. Authors can request that packages be added – see the documentation for information on that request process.
Please use the same formatting for both Journal and dual-track submissions. For dual-track submissions, please follow the instructions in the section below regarding paper length and organization. Papers that do not conform to these instructions will not be considered for the conference track and may be desk rejected.
Please ensure that you are using version 2.16 or higher of the “acmart” class; earlier versions of the article template will not produce a valid submission. Download the latest acmart class along with other necessary materials here. A LaTeX submission template is provided for your convenience.
Authors are required to submit fully formatted papers, with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for final publication, using the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia paper preparation guidelines. Be sure that all pages are numbered and contain your paper’s ID number. You should obtain this paper ID by completing the Online Submission Form before finalizing your paper. If your paper is accepted, you will receive instructions for formatting the final version, which will be different because, among other things, the authors’ names and affiliations will be included, and the pages will not be numbered.
Authors must submit their papers electronically. The only allowable format is Adobe PDF. The supplemental materials (anything except the paper) should also be submitted electronically. See How to Submit for more information. For videos, we strongly encourage MP4, and for still images, we strongly encourage JPG or PNG. If you use another format, you are not guaranteed that reviewers will view them. In preparing videos, please choose a reasonable frame size and rate, but be prepared to submit a higher-resolution video if a section of your video is selected for the Papers Preview section of the Electronic Theater. If your supplemental materials amount to more than 500 MB of data, you are not guaranteed that reviewers will download and view them.
Preserving Anonymity in the Submission
Remove any information from your submission materials (paper, video, images, data, code, etc.) that identifies you, any of the other authors, and any of your institutions or places of work. In addition to not listing your names and affiliations in the paper, omit acknowledgements (you will be able to add them back upon acceptance). If you are a well-known author with a possibly recognizable voice, do not narrate your video; get someone else to do it. You must reference all relevant work completely, including your own and that of the other authors. The detailed policy on how to cite these papers, including prepublications (arXiv, technical reports, etc.), theses, submitted work, and published work, is described in the “Citing Own Prior Art” section in the Submission Policy. Please read the instructions carefully before submitting your work.
We strongly discourage authors from including any URLs referring to websites that contain vital material for their submissions. We prefer that the code/data is submitted as part of the supplementary material. If this is not possible (e.g., a large data set beyond the capacity of the submission server), you may add a link to a fully anonymized code/data repository that provides a verifiable timestamp, which has to be before the submission deadline (e.g., a GitHub repository on a branch that is not modified after the deadline). SIGGRAPH Asia reviewers are instructed to ignore URLs in paper submissions unless the information is deemed absolutely necessary for their review. Such decisions are made completely at the reviewers’ discretion. Furthermore, if reviewers discover the identity of authors through such an external link or notice that the material has been modified after the deadline, the paper may be desk-rejected.
Please keep the PDF version anonymous; in particular, note that under some operating systems, the “properties” of a PDF file may contain the creator’s name. Also, Version 7 PDF files allow the inclusion of a script that will contact the author each time the file is opened. Do not include this script in your PDF file; if we find it, we will reject your paper without review. Make sure that no submitted files contain any information about the authors in the metadata.
Paper Length
Journal submissions have no maximum (or minimum) length. Have a look at previous proceedings to get a sense of the range of paper lengths,. For Journal Papers that are conditionally accepted, the final paper length may increase when approved by the primary reviewer.
Dual-track submissions are required to adhere to the following length constraints: Papers must be no longer than 7 pages excluding references and figures-only pages. There is no limit on the length of the reference section. Each paper can have at most two figures-only pages, placed at the end of the submission, after references. Figures-only pages can contain only figures and their captions (i.e., no tables). Authors can also include as many figures as they wish within the core 7 pages. Papers should not include appendices in the main document. Any appendix can only be included as supplementary material and not as part of the main paper. Papers will not be considered for conference publication if they exceed the page limit, are not submitted using the formatting described in the section “Submission Format,” or appear to alter the format to bypass the page limit. Post-acceptance, authors of papers accepted to the Conference track can add one additional page to the final-format papers to accommodate the author list, author affiliations, copyright, acknowledgements only, and in exceptional cases, changes requested by the reviewers. If a dual-track submission exceeds the page limit, the Technical Papers chair may, upon their discretion, decide to consider the paper for the Journal track instead of desk-rejecting it. In this case, the authors will be informed and given the option to withdraw the paper should they prefer to submit elsewhere.
The submitted paper should stand on its own, allowing evaluation of the main ideas without reliance on supplemental material. For example, the main results and discussion of the method must be in the submission; extra ablation studies, additional comparisons, implementation details, and similar material can be provided in the supplemental material. Animated results may be included as an accompanying video.
Clarity of writing is considered vital to a high-quality submission. Papers may be perceived as too long if they are repetitive or verbose or too short if they omit important details or neglect relevant prior art.
Companion Videos
Papers may be accompanied by a video that is five minutes or less in duration. In recent years, well over half of the accepted papers were accompanied by some kind of video material. To the extent possible, accepted papers should stand on their own, with the video providing supplementary information or visual confirmation of results. However, it is fine to refer to the video in the paper, in which case the video should be submitted under Supplementary Materials, part A in the submission form, as described below. A video should not be included in a submission unless substantively similar footage can later publicly appear in the ACM Digital Library. If your paper is accepted and you cannot comply with this requirement because of copyright or permission problems, your paper’s acceptance will be rescinded.
See also the Publication tab below that explains how the publication rights and licensing are handled for the companion videos.
Authors are invited, but not required, to include supplemental materials such as additional implementation details, ablations, comparisons, additional images or videos, related papers, derivations, or results, as well as code and data files (so that reviewers can reproduce results in the paper). These materials will be viewed only at the discretion of the reviewers, who are only obligated to read the paper itself and watch the main accompanying video. These materials must be anonymized, so that they can be made available to all reviewers. There are two separate parts in the online submission form for uploading supplementary materials:
- Anonymous supplemental materials that are considered part of the submission, and that you are committing to provide for the ACM Digital Library if your paper is accepted.
- Anonymous materials that you are submitting to help in the review process but do not plan to submit to the ACM Digital Library.
For instance, in addition to videos, A) may include some code, and a .zip archive containing result images and some text files, such as detailed user-study results or other appendices associated with your submission. B) may include anonymized versions of related papers from the same authors currently under review or in press elsewhere, together with an anonymous cover letter that outlines the differences between the submission and these other papers. In case of resubmission with reviewer continuity, the cover letter explaining how you took into account previous reviews and listing the improvements in your method should be there, too.
See also the Publication tab below that explains how the publication rights and licensing are handled for the supplemental materials.
Resubmissions
If your paper is a revision of a paper that has previously been submitted to a SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia conference, we recommend (but do not require) that when you fill out the submission form you identify it as a resubmission, and select the option that allows the previous review materials (reviews, reviewer discussions, summaries, etc.) to be made available to the Technical Papers Committee. Please indicate the latest conference that your paper was submitted to and its paper ID at the time. If you choose to use this option, your paper may be assigned to some or all of the previous reviewers, and all reviewers will have access to suitably anonymized versions of the prior review materials. We encourage you to choose this option if you consider the paper to be derived from the previous version, even if the paper has been substantially rewritten and authors have been added. It will result in more consistent reviews and decrease the chance that a new set of reviewers will want completely different changes than those you made in response to the reviews of your earlier submissions. This option also has the added benefit of reducing the overall burden on the volunteer reviewing community. Note, however, that simply responding to all earlier criticisms will not guarantee acceptance. If you resubmit with reviewer continuity, you should include a cover letter within the anonymous supplementary materials, part B, in order to explain the changes you made to the paper and how you improved your work and its exposition since the last review cycle. If you resubmit without continuity, you may still choose to submit a similar anonymous cover letter to make it easier for recurring reviewers to understand the changes that have been made since the previous submission.
The Technical Papers Committee and a set of external (i.e., tertiary) reviewers, both consisting of recognized experts, will review submitted papers. Then, at the committee meeting, the committee will select the papers to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 and published in either a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics or in the SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
The Technical Papers review process will be conducted by (1) the Technical Papers Chair, who was chosen by the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Conference Chair and approved by the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee and its Conference Advisory Group; (2) the Assistant Technical Papers Chair, chosen by the Technical Papers Chair; (3) the Technical Papers Advisory Board, consisting of past and future Technical Papers Chairs and other trusted and experienced advisors, chosen by the SIGGRAPH Asia 20265 Technical Papers Chair; (4) the Technical Papers Committee, chosen by the Technical Papers Chair with the assistance of the members of the Technical Papers Advisory Board, and consisting of about 130 people whose expertise spans the entire field. Both Journal-only and dual-track submissions will be reviewed by the same Technical Papers Committee. The Technical Papers Chair will work with the Technical Papers Committee and the tertiary reviewers to evaluate each valid submission.
The Review Process
- After the submission deadline, the Technical Papers Chair and several others selected by the Technical Papers Chair will conduct the paper sort. During this meeting, they assign each paper to two senior reviewers, called the primary and secondary reviewers, who are members of the Technical Papers Committee. All parties participating in the review process enter their conflict-of-interest data into the submission system ahead of time. The Technical Papers Chair does not make assignments or review papers. Rather, it is the job of the chair to facilitate the process. Papers that are inappropriate may be desk-rejected during this assignment process without being sent to any senior reviewers. Papers rejected at this stage would include those that are clearly off topic for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, discovered to have been published previously or to have been submitted simultaneously to another conference or journal, found to break anonymity or format requirements in the submission, or are clearly below the minimum quality standard of a SIGGRAPH paper. For more details, see Submission Policy and Frequently Asked Questions.
- The two assigned senior reviewers may, upon conferring with each other and the Technical Papers Chair, recommend a paper to be rejected without additional review. A paper will normally be rejected at this stage only if it falls into one of the categories listed in phase one, but this fact was not detected during the paper sort.
- Each paper is distributed to three or more additional experts, called tertiary reviewers. These reviewers are selected by the primary and the secondary reviewers. The identity of the authors is not revealed to any of the reviewers. The primary and the secondary reviewer are warned by the submission system, Linklings, if their selection of tertiary reviewers would result in a conflict of interest. For each reviewed paper, all tertiary reviewers and the secondary write full reviews (see the Review Form and Reviewer Instructions for the questions in the form). While the primary does not write a full review, they will still read the paper, all reviews, and rebuttal and will moderate the discussion among the four reviewers who wrote full reviews. Thus, at least four full reviews are written for each paper that has not been rejected during phases one and two, and two senior reviewers will actively monitor the discussion of every paper. In unusual cases, such as when a tertiary reviewer fails to deliver a review on time, papers may receive fewer than four reviews. However, if a paper receives fewer than four reviews, additional reviewers will be found, possibly from the committee. For more details, see the Review Process section in the Technical Papers FAQs.
- After all reviews are complete, the review system allows the authors access to the reviews and scores for their papers. Then, authors have a few days to enter rebuttals if they feel the reviewers have made substantive errors or to answer specific questions posed by the reviewers. The rebuttal is confined to 1,000 words in length (plain text) and must be self-contained. For instance, URLs to additional material are not allowed. The rebuttal period is for addressing factual errors in the reviews and answering specific reviewer questions, not for providing revised text or new results that do not directly address reviewer questions. Any such novel material will be ignored by the reviewers. For more details, see the Rebuttal Process section of the Technical Papers FAQs.
- Between the end of the rebuttal period and the committee meeting, the senior reviewers will read all the submitted reviews (at least four) as well as the author rebuttals, confer intensively about the paper, and prepare a recommendation for the committee meeting. The three tertiary reviewers will see the author rebuttals and will participate in discussions about the paper. Due to the double-blind review process, the authors must maintain anonymity in their rebuttals. In addition, the tertiary reviewers do not know each other’s identities, so they too must maintain anonymity during the discussion. The preliminary recommendation agreed on at this stage will be either “conditionally accepted” or “rejected.” If an agreement on the recommendation cannot be reached, a third option is to “table” the paper for further review and discussion during the Technical Papers Committee meeting.
- If a paper is tabled, the senior reviewers will select one or more other members of the Technical Papers Committee to write extra reviews of the paper and be prepared to discuss it in detail at the meeting. The extra reviews will be written during the week before the committee meeting. If consensus still cannot be reached, it is even possible that additional extra reviews will be assigned during the meeting itself. An extra review can also be written by the primary. This can happen at any point during the discussion phase if the primary has new insights that have not been raised by the other reviews. Any extra paper review will be provided to the authors after the meeting.
- The full Technical Papers Committee meets to finalize conditional acceptance or rejection of each paper. In cases where a consensus on a paper was not reached during the pre-meeting discussion phase, additional committee members may read the paper, and their evaluations will be taken into account in the decision. Submissions will be accepted either as a Journal Paper or a Conference Paper.
Possible Outcomes for a Paper
Email notifications of the Technical Papers Committee’s decisions will be sent following the committee meeting (see the Timeline below). The notifications will place each paper in one of the following categories.
- Conditionally accepted Journal Paper for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. The committee provides a list of required changes that must be made to the paper for the work to be published.
- Conditionally accepted Conference Paper for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. The committee provides a list of required changes that must be made to the paper for the work to be published, limited to changes that are satisfiable within the current page limits or the supplementary material.
- Rejected from SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. Submissions that were deemed not suitable for the conference, or too flawed or incomplete to be accepted, will be rejected. In some cases, the reviewers may find enough merit in the submission that they encourage the authors to consider resubmitting to either ACM Transactions on Graphics or a future SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia conference, with reviewer continuity. The review summary includes a set of suggested changes.
Notification
Notification of conditional acceptances and rejections will be sent to authors, along with any extra reviews and possibly a list of required changes (see Timeline below). A member of the Technical Papers Committee, typically the primary reviewer, will be assigned as shepherd for the revision cycle.
Title changes and 50-word summary
A few days after notification, any changes to the paper title along with a 50-word description of your paper suitable for the web site will be submitted in the “Stage 3 Program Material” form. Note: changes to the paper title must be approved by your referee/shepherd.
Revisions
Authors of papers conditionally accepted by the committee must revise their submission for the second round of reviewing and deliver that material to Linklings.
Camera Ready Final Version
Once the reviewers have approved the paper, authors will finalize the preparation of their camera-ready paper. The camera-ready materials are not uploaded to Linklings but are handled differently, depending on the paper track, as follows.
Conference-track papers
The authors may integrate figures included in the two figures-only pages of the submission into the main text, resulting in a total of at most 10 pages plus references. The authors should deliver the source of the paper to The ACM Production System (TAPS) for publication. TAPS accepts LaTeX or Word source documents and prepares the formatted PDF and HTML5 versions of one’s article for publication in the ACM Digital Library. Information on preparing and delivering materials to TAPS is here.
Journal-track papers
The authors should deliver the source material to Stephen Spencer, Publication Chair, who will deliver it to ACM for publication. This will be done using an email address that will be provided to the corresponding author upon acceptance.
Supplementary materials submission (both Conference and Journal papers)
After the submission of the publication rights form (eRights), a link will be provided to the corresponding author to upload the supplementary materials directly to ACM.
See also the Publication tab below that explains how the publication rights and licensing are handled.
Papers Fast Forward Session
For each accepted paper, one author is required to participate in the Papers Fast Forward session on-site in Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday, 1 December 2026. In addition to the material that is part of your publication, you will be asked to provide a short presentation for the Papers Fast Forward. The authors will be given a short amount of time to summarize the paper and entice attendees to attend their complete paper presentation during the conference week. The deadline for the Papers Fast Forward pre-recorded video is noted in the timeline below. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance
In-Person Presentation
For each accepted paper, one author is required to present in-person at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1-4 December 2026. The Technical Papers session will be livestreamed to virtual conference participants (with contributors’ permission). Following the oral presentations, the author is expected to participate in an interactive discussion poster session where they will have the opportunity to interact with participants in a more intimate setting. Additional information will be provided upon acceptance.
Presenter Recognition
Contributor Registration Benefit: One author per accepted Paper receives a 25% discount on Full Conference registration.
To present a Paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, the author must be registered at the Full Conference registration level.
You will receive an email by early September explaining how to access the registration discount code as well as instructions for registering. The author using the discount code is eligible for the early-bird registration rate regardless of when registration is completed. Any additional authors who will be presenting the paper are required to register at the appropriate registration level for the program, and prevailing registration rates will apply.
Technical Papers Preview Trailer
A Technical Papers Preview Trailer will be prepared from selected parts of the videos accompanying accepted papers. The preview will appear in the Electronic Theater at the conference and may also be used to publicize the Technical Papers program inside and outside the conference, like on the web. If a section of your video is selected, you will be asked to provide a high-quality rendering of that clip. Therefore, if you submit a video accompanying your paper, please keep your raw data available for that purpose.
Accepted Conference Papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and Journal Papers will be published as a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics.
See the ACM Publication Rights & Licensing Policy here.
ACM Rights Management Form
If your work is accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, you must complete the ACM Rights Management Form. The form will be sent to the corresponding author per accepted paper. If the corresponding author for an accepted paper is affiliated with an institution that is part of the ACM OPEN program, and their e-mail address is associated with that institution, their paper can be published Open Access without having to pay the APC (see more info under ACMs New Open Access Publishing Model). If you are the corresponding author for a paper and your institution is part of that program, make sure you are using your institution’s email address and not a personal email address for correspondence.
Third Party Material
You must have permission from the owner or copyright holder to use any images or video (or provide rationale for using them without permission) that you do not own in your submitted paper or supplementary material. ACM has a clear policy and procedures for handling Third-Party Material.
Permissions and Copyrights
If your submission is accepted, you will be asked to provide a signed rights form, which is required by ACM before your paper can be published. The contact author of each paper will receive an email message from ACM Rights Review containing instructions and a link to the rights form, which is completed online.
Authors of accepted Technical Papers are required to complete the ACM Rights Form prior to publication. They are also required to upload final versions of all public supplementary materials (Part A) that were originally part of their submission.
If the contact author for an accepted paper is affiliated with an institution that is part of the ACM OPEN program, and their e-mail address is associated with that institution, their paper can be published Open Access without having to pay the APC. If you are the contact author for a paper and your institution is part of that program, make sure you are using your institution’s email address and not a personal email address for correspondence.
Supplemental Materials
Any material that supports a paper’s acceptance for publication must be available as part of the final publication. Thus, all material uploaded for review in the “Anonymous Supplementary Materials, Part of Your Official Submission” section of the submission form, including supplementary text, images, and videos, are subject to the ACM copyright policy, and the required permission forms must be completed upon acceptance. If it subsequently becomes apparent that the necessary permissions cannot be given for publication of material that is substantially similar to that submitted for review, acceptance of the paper may be withdrawn. Upon acceptance, authors must deliver final versions of their papers and their supplementary material. The material will be made available in the ACM Digital Library from the paper’s landing page.”
For authors that promise to make code and data available, and/or where the release of this code/data is a condition of acceptance (regardless of whether or not it was originally included in submitted materials), that should also be included either in supplemental materials or on a publicly accessible website or repository. The deadline for this purpose is prior to the publication of the paper (see Timeline) and the paper may be withdrawn if the code/datasets are not available in time.
For authors that promise to make code and data available, and/or where the release of this code/data is a condition of acceptance (regardless of whether or not it was originally included in submitted materials), that should also be included either in supplemental materials or on a publicly accessible website or repository. The deadline for this purpose is prior to the publication of the paper (see Timeline) and the paper may be withdrawn if the code/datasets are not available in time.
ACMs New Open Access Publishing Model
Important Update on ACMs New Open Access Publishing Model for 2026 ACM Conferences!
Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 2,600 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 76%).
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/policy-on-discretionary-open-access-apc-waivers. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.
Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:
- $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
- $350 for non-members
This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period.
This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.
ORCID Mandate
ACM requires that all accepted journal authors register and provide ACM with valid ORCIDs prior to paper publication. Corresponding authors are responsible for collecting these ORCIDs from co-authors and providing them to ACM as part of the ACM eRights selection process. You and your co-authors can create and register your ORCIDs at https://orcid.org/register. ACM only requires you to complete the initial ORCID registration process. However, ACM encourages you to take the additional step to claim ownership of all of your published works via the ORCID site.
Promotional Use
Your representative image and text may be used for promotional purposes. Several SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 programs may prepare preview videos for pre-conference promotion of accepted content, which may include a portion of the video you submitted for review. You have the option to grant or deny us the ability to use the representative image and submitted video for these purposes.
New for 2026!
Authors of papers (conditionally) accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 may request deferring their in-person presentation to SIGGRAPH 2027 due to systemic hurdles associated with the Kuala Lumpur location, such as access constraints or substantiated safety concerns. See the full details of the new policy here [Link]. To be considered for a deferred presentation the request should be submitted by August 12th 2026. Decisions will be announced by August 26th 2026.
- Should I submit?
- Journal and Conference Paper Tracks
- Deadlines
- Double Submissions
- Prior Publication
- Supplementary Materials
- Resubmission
- Formatting
- Uploading Files
- Representative Image Guidelines
- Anonymity
- Review Process
- Rebuttal Process
- Presentations
- Referrals to TOG
- Patents and Confidentiality
- Technical Papers Committee
- Contacts
- Copyright
Should I submit?
Q1. What types of papers should be submitted to SIGGRAPH ASIA Asia 2026?
Q2. How do I decide whether to submit my work as a Technical Paper, a Technical Communications paper, or a Poster?
Q3. If I have previously presented a Technical Communication or Poster on my topic, or I have an online report about it already available on arXiv, can I then submit a full Technical Paper?
Q4. Can I submit a Technical Paper and submit the same work to the General Submission process or to Posters?
Journal and Conference Paper Tracks
Q1. Which track should I submit to?
Q2. My paper fits in 7 pages, but I would only be happy with journal publication. Can I submit to the Journal Papers track only?
Q3. What’s the difference in acceptance criteria between Journal and Conference Paper Tracks?
Q4. My paper is longer than 7 pages. Can I just move excess content to the supplemental material for dual-track submission?
Q5. If my paper is published in the Conference Papers track, will it later be possible to submit a revised version with new material to TOG or another journal?
Q6. Can I submit a revised and extended journal version of a previously published Conference Paper to the SIGGRAPH Asia Journal Papers track?
Q7. May I submit a dual-track paper in which the references are mixed in with the other content, but the paper would be 7 pages if the references were removed?
Q8. May I submit a dual-track paper in which the figure-only pages are mixed in with the other content, but the paper would be 7 pages if these figures were removed?
Q9. Can I submit the same work twice?
Q10. Can dual-track papers include appendices?
Deadlines
Q1. Please explain the different Technical Papers deadlines.
Q2. Submission Form and Conflicts Deadline (Stage 1), Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 23:59 AoE
Q3. Paper Deadline (Stage 2), Tuesday, 12 May 2026, 23:59 AoE
By the paper deadline, you must have completed the following requirements:
- All basic information about the submission (title, abstract, supplementary material, etc.) must be finalized.
- Either the submission materials (paper PDF, optional video, and optional supplemental materials) must be uploaded, or the MD5 checksums of all the submission materials must be provided. The MD5 option will be required in the final hours before the deadline to lighten the web server load.
Q4. Upload Deadline (Stage 3), Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 23:59 AoE
Q5. What is the deal with MD5 checksums?
We have tested the following MD5 calculators:
- Linux: md5sum command
- Mac: md5 command in Terminal
- Windows: FastSum
Q6. Can I submit after the paper deadline?
Q7. But my equipment has failed just before the deadline, and I have no control over such events!
Q8. But I was unable to upload my submission on time. The system was overloaded, and halfway through uploading my submission, the deadline passed.
Q9. Unfortunately, in our rush to meet the deadline, we incorrectly set the parameters for our video, resulting in a significantly lower quality result. I have since corrected the problem. May I substitute new videos for the ones I submitted? The video is identical, except for the gamma correction.
Q10. But I’m using the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 English Review Service, and they didn’t get back to me soon enough. So, it’s SIGGRAPH Asia’s fault that my paper isn’t ready.
Q11. Can I email my submission to the Technical Papers Chair 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 2026. Is this acceptable?
Q2. But I want my paper to be in SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. I promise that if it is accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, I will withdraw it from the other conference or journal.
Q3. I would like to submit my paper to conference X. Their submission deadline is after SIGGRAPH Asia 2026’s Technical Papers Committee meeting, but they require abstracts to be submitted before the meeting. May I submit the abstract?
Q4. We have submitted a paper about a pilot study to conference X, and now we would like to submit a paper about the full-blown user study to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. How should we go about that to avoid the perception that it is a dual submission?
Q5. I sent in a paper to workshop X with the understanding that it was for review purposes only, and the workshop would have no published proceedings. Now, four months later, they tell me that they are going to publish the proceedings and include it in the digital library. Unfortunately, there is a significant overlap between that paper and my submitted SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 paper. How should I handle this?
Q6. Can I submit the same work both as a Journal and a dual-track paper?
Prior Publication
Q1. I have a paper that was previously published in a little-known conference or in another language. Can I submit it to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026?
Q2. Can I submit a paper on my work that has previously appeared in my thesis, a tech report, a patent, and/or an abstract of a talk at another conference?
Q3. How do I reference an ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Talk, Poster, or Sketch on the same topic as the paper that I am writing?
Q4. A month after submitting our paper, we obtained much better results. Can we withdraw our paper from review and submit it elsewhere (or wait until next year)?
Q5. Will my submission be penalized if I put it on a repository like arXiv?
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Supplementary Materials
Q1. What supplemental material can be uploaded with my submission?
Q2. Do I have to submit code and data with my paper?
We encourage providing code and data in the supplemental material, but we understand that this may not always be possible. The reviewers will be instructed not to penalize submissions without code and data. In all cases, the paper should provide enough information for the code and data to be recreated by the readers.
Q3. What if I promise in the paper (or rebuttal) that I will submit code or/and data with the final version of my paper but change my mind?
Resubmission
Q1. My submission is a revision of a paper that I submitted to an earlier SIGGRAPH Asia conference. Will the reviewers get to see the earlier reviews?
Formatting
Q1. Do I have to prepare the paper in the final format?
Q2. What is the page limit for papers?
Q3. Can I provide a video with my paper?
Q4. What file formats are allowed?
The paper must be submitted in Adobe PDF format with embedded fonts, and the representative image must be JPEG. Please see the submission form for the allowed formats of the other materials. You can upload a .zip/.gzip file as supplemental material that contains any format. There is no guarantee that the referees will view supplemental materials, especially if they are available only in an obscure format.
Q5. What types of keywords should I include with my paper?
Q6. As a non-native English speaker, I would appreciate help to improve the text in my paper submission.
Q7. The details in my imagery are very subtle. I am concerned that the reviewers will not print my paper on a suitable printer or view my video with an appropriate codec.
Q8. Does the submitted video have to be of final quality? Or will people whose papers are accepted have the opportunity to prepare a more polished video?
Uploading Files
Q1. How do I upload my submission files?
Q2. Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute
Q3. Upload Early and Often
Q4. We Do Not Control the Internet
Q5. Do Not Try to Upload Too Much
Q6. Do Not Wait Until the Last Minute
Q7. MD5 Checksum of Uploaded Materials
Q8. What Do I Have to Do?
Q9. What Does an MD5 Checksum Look Like?
Q10. How do I calculate an MD5 checksum?
- Linux: md5sum command
- Mac: md5 command in Terminal
- Windows: FastSum
Q11. How Can I Test This Process?
Q12. What If I Do Not Want to Use MD5 Checksum?
Representative Image Guidelines
Q1. What are the image guidelines?
- Every submission must include at least one representative image.
- The image must be digital, of the highest quality possible, with a pixel resolution of at least 1500 x 1000, at least 300 dpi at 5 inches (12.7 cm) wide, with proportional height, or the highest possible resolution screen grab.
- Images must be 24-bit (RGB, 8 bits per channel) uncompressed, in the highest possible JPEG resolution.
- A standard ICC color profile of sRGB is also recommended and will be assumed if not specified.
- Horizontal (landscape) images are required. Vertical (portrait) images are not acceptable.
- Your image will appear in 3 x 2 ratio on the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026 website. Images that do not conform to this proportion will be cropped from the center.
- Avoid embedded rules, layers, tags, masks, color models (for example, CMYK), etc. If in doubt, use an image editor to paste into a new file.
- Please also specify copyright and image credits for each image. The file upload manager offers an input field for this optional information.
- If your work is accepted, your representative image will be used both as an identifying image during the jurying and selection process and in publications or for media purposes.
- Higher resolution images are often favored by media for publication use, so the minimum-resolution requirement is only a guideline.
- It is important that you have permission to use this image.
- If you are not sure how to best represent your work with an image, you may consider an image that conveys the appropriate area of computer graphics or interactive techniques.
Anonymity
Q1. What should I do to make my submission anonymous?
Q2. How do I include a reference to myself without identifying myself?
Q3. My SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 submission needs to cite one of our own web pages, which cannot easily be anonymized. Now what should I do?
Q4. My SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026 submission needs to cite another, concurrent SIGGRAPH Asia submission by our group. Now what should I do?
Q5. I know I am supposed to remove my name, company name, etc., from the document, but should I also remove names from the acknowledgements? If the paper is accepted, should I send another copy to you with this additional material?
Q6. I posted a version of my paper to arXiv. Can I share a link to my paper on Twitter?
Q7. But other people are linking to my arXiv paper! And I can think of ways to get around this policy.
Review Process
Q1. Can you give me some example reasons that my paper 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, Misrepresentation, and Falsification.
- The submission is a dual submission, that is if the submission is simultaneously under review for any other peer-reviewed conference or publication. For more details see the Prior Publication and Double Submissions sections.
- The paper is clearly below the minimum quality standard of a SIGGRAPH Asia paper.
- The paper focuses on the advertising of a company’s product(s).
- The paper 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).
- The paper misuses Generative AI/LLMs. Examples include but are not limited to fictitious references or injection of prompts seeking to manipulate reviewers or automated tools.
- It appears that the paper contains material for which the submitters have not secured the necessary copyrights.
- Most of the paper’s content was published previously.
Q2. Where can I find advice on how to write a paper?
Q3. Am I allowed to ask for my paper to not be reviewed by someone from whom I do not expect a fair review?
Q4. I am submitting a paper on topic X, which I know is an area of expertise for committee member Y. Can I ask that committee member Y be a senior reviewer of my paper?
Q5. I am submitting a paper on topic X, which I know is an area of expertise for committee member Y. Can I ask that committee member Y not be a senior reviewer of my paper, because committee member Y works for a competing company?
Q6. Who knows the identities of the authors, and how is that information used during the review process?
Q7. Isn’t the committee more likely to accept papers by committee members and other insiders? How do you prevent a conflict of interest?
Q8. Is there a quota for the number or percentage of papers accepted?
Q9. I am a SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026 reviewer, and I would like to show this paper to one of my students, who frankly knows more about the topic of this paper than I do. May I?
Yes, under certain strict conditions. You may show a paper under review to a small number of people, normally one or two, providing that you:
- List their name(s), title(s) (for example, “my Ph.D. student”), and affiliation(s) in the “Private Comments” section of the review form, which is only seen by the committee members.
- Clearly instruct them on the rules of confidentiality of the SIGGRAPH ASIA review process. “THIS IS IMPORTANT: Submissions are confidential!” For more information, see Ethics of Review.
Rebuttal Process
Q1. What is a rebuttal?
Q2. Should I write a rebuttal?
Q3. What should be included in the rebuttal?
Q4. Now that I have read the reviews of my paper, I see how to better organize it so it will be clear to the reader. Can I do this reorganization and upload the new version during the rebuttal period?
Q5. After the paper submission deadline, we have gotten some really cool new results for our paper. Can I upload those results during the rebuttal period? I am sure that they will make the reviewers realize the importance of our approach.
Q6. Reviewer No. 2 says that our collision-detection algorithm will not work on concave objects. But it will, as we just demonstrated with the lid of the teapot. Can we upload an image or movie showing this new result?
Q7. Reviewer No. 3 doubts that the method works on larger scenes, so we tested on the Sponza scene and it only takes 5ms, while Reviewer 2 asks about the PSNR values for our test scene, which I quickly computed. Can I include these results?
Q8. Reviewer No. 4 clearly did not read my paper carefully enough. Either that or this reviewer does not know anything about the field! How should I respond during the rebuttal period?
Q9. I uploaded a rebuttal but got no feedback. How can I be sure the reviewers received and actually read my rebuttal?
Q10. Why can’t we upload images and videos as was possible prior to 2009?
Q11. Will we use the BBS for discussion during the rebuttal period?
Presentations
Q1. Are papers merely published digitally, or is there a presentation as well?
Q2. Where can I get information about how ACM handles copyright transfers and publishing licenses? I need to show it to my employers before I submit.
Q3. My paper was just accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, and I am thrilled. But now my boss points out that I cannot use Bart Simpson as the example in my paper because I do not have the rights to use him. What do I do now?
Referrals to TOG
Q1. Is “referral to TOG” a possible outcome of the Technical Papers review process?
Patents and Continuity
Q1. When will my accepted paper become publicly available?
Q2. What information about my rejected paper will become publicly available?
Q3. What about patents and confidentiality? Are the two senior reviewers and the three tertiary reviewers under a confidentiality agreement to not disclose the contents of the paper to others? Some organizations like IEEE have all reviewers sign a confidentiality agreement. It is very important that I know for sure, since my employer may want to apply for a patent, and it affects when I may submit the paper to the SIGGRAPH Asia conference. Can I, for example, get a written guarantee of confidentiality?
Technical Papers Committee
Q1. Can I contact members of the Technical Papers Committee with questions?
Q2. I have been doing graphics for years. May I be on the Technical Papers Committee?
Q3. I have volunteered to be on the committee for three years now, and I’ve never been chosen. What’s up with that?
Q4. Just what sort of workload is involved in being on the Technical Papers Committee?
Q5. What do I get for all the work that I’ll be doing as a committee member?
Contacts
Q1. To whom should I send questions about the papers submission and review process?
Q2. Why not contact the Technical Papers Chair directly?
Copyright
Q1. I believe that images in a scientific publication fall under the umbrella of the fair use rule. Why do I have to clarify the copyright issues?
Q2. Can I use images in my submission with unclear copyright status and then secure the copyright or replace the images later if the paper is accepted?
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
Submission form Abstract deadline
No new submissions can be added after this deadline.
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Full Submission Paper deadline
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Full Submission Upload deadline
All authors must enter their complete and valid conflicts of interest and research expertise data in Linklings by this deadline.
