This year during SIGGRAPH 2024 in Denver, Colorado, Prof. Ariel Shamir was selected for induction into the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy for pioneering work in algorithms for image, video, and geometry processing that are driven by models of human perception.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of computer graphics. These are principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the disciplines and/or industry and led the research and/or innovation in computer graphics and interactive techniques. This prize is given yearly during SIGGRAPH conference, which is the premier venue for research and development in computer graphics field.
Prof. Shamir’s research over the years covered 3D shape analysis, modeling and fabrication, animation, image and video processing, and even spans into typography and art. Some of his most notable works include “seam-carving for image resizing”, which was included in the list of seminal graphics papers of the last 25 years, “sketch-to-photo” that presented a method to convert sketches to photographs before the deep learning era, “3Sweep” that provided a tool to convert images of objects to 3D models using simple sweep gestures interface. More recently, a best papers award was presented in SIGGRAPH 2022 to CLIPasso, a method that allows converting images to sketches in multiple level of abstractions, a best papers award honorable mention in SIGGRAPH 2023 for Word-as-Image, a method that allows automatic creation of semantic illustrations of words while keeping their shape, typographic-style and legibility, and a best paper award in SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 for Concept Decomposition for Visual Exploration and Inspiration, a method that decomposes a set of images of a concept to different aspects of shape, color and textures.
Prof. Shamir was also the recipient of the Outstanding Technical Contributions Award of AsiaGraphics association for 2023.
We congratulating Prof. Ariel Shamir on this remarkable achievement, which places Reichman University at the forefront of Computer Graphics worldwide.
