SIGGRAPH 2025 Ignites Global AI Dialogue Across Art, Science, and Industry

Conference Unites Diverse Disciplines to Explore the Expanding Role of Artificial Intelligence in Creativity, Computation, and Connection.

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- From immersive installations and intelligent agents to generative pipelines and ethical design, SIGGRAPH 2025, is shaping the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) across every corner of its world-renowned conference. Coming to the Vancouver Convention Centre from Sunday, 10 August through Thursday, 14 August 2025, the 52nd annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques will showcase a wide range of AI-powered innovation that is revolutionizing how we create, communicate, and collaborate.

"From the Art Gallery to Technical Papers, Courses to the Educator's Forum, and everything in between, AI is not just a single topic at SIGGRAPH — it is the conversation itself," said Ginger Alford, SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Chair. "This year's conference features how AI is an incredibly powerful tool for creators and visual effects, provides AI-powered interactive experiences for attendees to engage in, and explores future directions in Spatial AI and Physical AI as we see our technology interacting more and more with the physical world we inhabit and further blurring the lines between physical and digital."

Exploring the AI Ecosystem at SIGGRAPH 2025

SIGGRAPH 2025 offers a sweeping cross-section of sessions and experiences exploring AI's impact:

• Technical Papers showcases 54 peer-reviewed contributions, many of which are focused on AI-driven design systems, presenting advances in asset extraction, motion verification, generative layout optimization, multi-agent video editing, and intelligent design copilots that enhance and support human creativity. Highlights include "CAST: Component-Aligned 3D Scene Reconstruction from an RGB Image", a method for reconstructing high-quality 3D scenes from a single RGB image with accurate object alignment and physical consistency; "Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans", which uses reinforcement learning to generate adaptive multi-robot assembly strategies; and "Transformer IMU Calibrator: Dynamic On-body IMU Calibration for Inertial Motion Capture," a dynamic calibration system that improves accuracy and usability in inertial motion capture.
  
  
• Frontiers turns the spotlight on emerging, cross-industry conversations at the nexus of technology and human society, including sessions on embodied intelligence, generative storytelling, and the future of human connection. A few highlights this year include "A Bottom-Up Approach to Intelligence", demonstrating how reinforcement and imitation learning enable Boston Dynamics' e-Atlas robot to perform lifeline motions, and "The Future of Storytelling in XR and AI", where presenter Loc Dao explores how immersive technologies challenge traditional ideas of authorship, memory, and consent. In the interactive workshop, "Hybrid Dance Xplorations: Artist-Centric XR/AI Sandbox for Co-Creation and Performance", participants co-create in an XR sandbox using motion capture, generative AI, and gesture-based interaction to reimagine performance through movement and play.
  
  
• Production Sessions illuminates how industry leaders and platforms like HBO and Metaphysic are using AI to elevate storytelling, from real-time co-streaming to facial synthesis and de-aging. Examples include "The Penguin", with AI-powered VFX bringing emotion and authenticity, and "Here", where Metaphysic's on-set face-swapping tools helped transform performances across decades. These sessions show how AI is opening up visual storytelling's creative frontiers.
  
  
• Courses and Talks explore fundamental theory and emerging applications of generative AI, stochastic modeling, and neural rendering, enabling attendees to develop both technical literacy and creative fluency. Highlights include courses on "Demystifying Noise: Role of Randomness in Generative AI", showcasing the role of randomness in generative modeling, and "Innovating With Generative AI: A Hands-On ComfyUI Workshop", a hands-on ComfyUI workshop for artists and educators. In Talks, there is "AI-Powered Real-Time VFX for Mobile", which uses GANs and GPU particles to bring cinematic fire and water effects to smartphones with real-time efficiency, and "GenAI and Immersive Theater: Moment Factory x Third Rail Projects", which co-creates a unique exploration blending human creativity with the power of generative artificial intelligence tools.
  
  
• From Technical Workshops to Appy Hour, SIGGRAPH 2025 invites hands-on exploration of emerging tools shaping digital creation. A highlight is "AI for Creative Visual Content Generation, Editing and Understanding", a workshop where artists and researchers collaborate on generative models for image and video creation, editing, and personalized content—while addressing real-world challenges like latency and scalability. Appy Hour amplifies this with an experiential exhibition of mobile media innovation, such as AI-powered projects like "AI3D Co-Create with AI3D Render", AI3D's intuitive 3D modeling platform, and "Tech Tales: Digital Storytelling with the Royal BC Museum", the Royal BC Museum's XR-based storytelling experience using conversational AI, where discovery intersects with practical applicability.
  
  
• Art Gallery, Art Papers, Immersive Pavilion, and Real-Time Live! push the boundaries of human-AI synergy, conveying how artists and technologists are co-creating new forms of expression, interaction, and worldbuilding. Highlights include "CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI", a poetic blend of 3D ice printing, macro photography, and AI-generated haiku, which capture's nature's evolving forms in dialogue with climate and place, "Digital F(r)ictions: Reimagining Colombian Art and its Territory", a bold reflection on Colombian art and AI's role in shaping cultural narratives and challenging singular perspectives; and "Blossoms Across Time: AI-Assisted Cultural Dialogue Through Diverse Artistic Expressions in VR Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience", a VR-AI system that transforms virtual floral design into expressive Xieyi paintings bridging intangible heritage with generative AI. In "Backseat Gaming Permitted: Meet the AI Co-Streamer from Streamlabs", Streamlabs and NVIDIA debut an AI co-streamer that acts as a live content producer, technical assistant, and co-host.
  
  
• Birds of a Feather and Educator's Forum sessions focus on integrating AI into curriculum, community, and cloud-based creative ecosystems. Highlights include "AI & Filmmaking: A Sandbox for Generative AI Experimentation in Computer Graphics Education", a case study on using AI to reenact historical events in student-created documentaries; "From Pixels to Possibilities: The AI Creative Cloud Journey", which explores how AI-powered cloud workflows are transforming visual effects, design, and digital doubles in studio pipelines; and "AI for 3D Special Interest Group (AI3D BOF #3)", an interactive gathering of creators experimenting with AI-native 3D workflows such as text-to-3D, neural fields, and sketch-based generation.

Whether you're coding the next neural rendering tool, curating AI-driven installations, or designing with intelligent systems, SIGGRAPH 2025 is where the global conversation on AI comes to life.

AI and the Future of Computer Graphics
As AI continues its rapid ascent, with the global AI market valued at $758 billion in 2025 and projected to reach $3.7 trillion by 2034, SIGGRAPH stands at the intersection of technology and creativity. The conference helps artists and developers learn how to use these tools to better communicate, create, and tell their stories.

Recent industry surveys indicate that 83% of creative professionals have now integrated generative AI tools into their workflows, with adoption spanning animation, design, real-time production, and beyond. SIGGRAPH is where artists and engineers, researchers, and practitioners come together to explore how AI can amplify imagination, reshape pipelines, and inspire entirely new modes of storytelling. As the creative potential of AI expands, SIGGRAPH remains the place where creators learn how to turn new tools into compelling narratives.

For deeper insight into the future of AI and graphics, read how NVIDIA research leaders are advancing the next generation of AI in this recent ACM SIGGRAPH Blog article, "NVIDIA Research Leaders on the Next Generation of AI". Explore the conference schedule to see the full AI lineup and register to attend SIGGRAPH 2025.

About ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH 2025
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM that serves as an interdisciplinary community for members in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The SIGGRAPH conference is the world's leading annual interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2025, the 52nd annual conference hosted by ACM SIGGRAPH, will take place live 10–14 August at the Vancouver Convention Centre, along with a Virtual Access option.

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