SCA 2024 - ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation

Paper Presentation and Poster Awards

Best paper and best paper presentation awards were selected by the program chairs and awards chairs: Mélina Skouras, He Wang, Yin Yang, and Anne-Hélène Olivier. Best posters were selected by popular vote at the posters reception.

Best Paper

Generalized eXtended Finite Element Method for Deformable Cutting via Boolean Operations
Quoc-Minh Ton-That, Paul Kry, Sheldon Andrews

Best Paper, Honourable Mention

Unerosion: Simulating Terrain Evolution Back in Time
Zhanyu Yang, Guillaume Cordonnier, Marie-Paule Cani, Christian Perrenoud, Bedrich Benes

Best Paper Presentation

VMP: Versatile Motion Priors for Robustly Tracking Motion on Physical Characters
Agon Serifi, Ruben Grandia, Espen Knoop, Markus Gross, Moritz Bächer

Best Paper Presentation, Honourable Mentions

PartwiseMPC: Interactive Control of Contact-Guided Motions
Niloofar Khoshsiyar, Ruiyu Gou, Tianhong Zhou, Sheldon Andrews, Michiel van de Panne

Reactive Gaze during Locomotion in Natural Environments
Julia Melgaré, Damien Rohmer, Soraia Musse, Marie-Paule Cani

Best Poster Award (3 way tie)

Art-directable expressive oscillation behavior for rigged characters
Karim Salem, Damien Rohmer, Niranjan Kalyanasundaram, Victor Zordan

A Differentiable Material Point Method Framework for Shape Morphing
Michael Xu, Changyong Song, David Levin, David Hyde

Neural Implicit Reduced Fluid Simulation
Yuanyuan Tao, Ivan Puhachov, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Paul Kry

Early Career Researcher Award

Awarded to Minchen Li

The SCA Early Career Researcher Award highlights a junior researcher who has made a recent, significant contribution to the field of computer animation. The awardee should have received their Ph.D. or the equivalent up to five years ago, excluding eligible leaves for maternity, illness, and parental duties. The intent is to recognize people who have already made a notable contribution very early in their careers and are likely to make more. Self-nominations are accepted.

Submission Materials (send to sca2024awards@gmail.com by ~~June 10~~ June 24, 2024)

Research statement (max 1 page)
CV, including a complete list of publications
Brief nomination letter or email (optional)

Doctoral Dissertation Award

Awarded to Zachary Ferguson

The SCA Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes a recent doctoral candidate who has successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertation in an area related to computer animation. This award recognizes graduating or newly graduated Ph.D. students who show strong potential to land impactful and innovative contributions in their further careers.

The dissertation must have been defended in the year prior to the given SCA year (e.g., Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2023). The key criteria used to evaluate the nominations include technical depth, significance of the research contribution, and potential impact on theory and practice.