ACM SIGGRAPH is delighted to present the 2017 Computer Graphics Achievement Award to Ramesh Raskar in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the fields of computational photography and light transport and for applying these technologies for social impact. https://www.siggraph.org/about/awards/2017-cg-achievement-award-ramesh-raskar/

1. Raskar, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab
Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar
Asso. Professor
MIT Media Lab
Siggraph +
Impact

2. Learn
Apply Impact
Activism

3. Geometry Rendering Animation
CAD
Imaging
Movies Games Photography
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4. G R A I
Games/Movies
Learn

5. ML
SP
Optics
Audio
Graphs
…
G R A I
Games/Movies
'Does this work contribute TO Siggraph techniques’
Learn
Apply

6. ML
SP
Optics
Audio
Graphs
…
G R A I
Games/Movies
?
'Does this work contribute Siggraph techniques TO ..’
Learn
Apply Impact

7. Thanks
PhD Co-advisors: Henry Fuchs, Greg Welch UNC Chapel Hill, MERL, MIT Media Lab, Facebook
Co-authors: Amit Agrawal, Daniel G Aliaga, Kavita Bala, Yosuke Bando, John Barnwell, Christopher Barsi,
Brian A. Barsky, Moungi Bawendi, Paul Beardsley, Philippe Bekaert, Shoshana Bernstein, Ayush Bhandari,
V. Michael Bove, Vlad Branzoi, Erich Bruns, Chris Buehler, Esteban Clua, Matt Cutts, Qionghai Dai, Bert
deBecker, Paul Dietz, Adrian Dorrington, Rogerio Feris, Clifton Forlines, Henry Fuchs, Martin Fuchs, Steven
J. Gortler, Michael D. Grossberg, Diego Gutierrez, Yuki Hashimoto, Felix Heide, Wolfgang Heidrich,
Matthew Hirsch, Shinsaku Hiura, Kazuhiro Hiwada, Fu-Chung Huang, Masahiko Inami, Adrian Jarabo,
Sundeep Jolly, Chinmaya Joshi, Achuta Kadambi, Yunhee Kim, Gurunandan Krishnan, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos,
Adam Lake, Douglas Lanman, Everett Lawson, Ik-Hyun Lee, Johnny Lee, Darren Leigh, Hendrik P. A. Lensch,
Yuanzhen Li, Aditi Majumder, Atsuto Maki, Kshitji Marwah, Belen Masia, Wojciech Matusik, Leonard
McMillan, Ankit Mohan, Dylan Moore, Nikhil Naik, Shree Nayar, Hideaki Nii, Michael Noland, Matthew
O'Toole, Manuel M. Oliveira, Vitor F. Pamplona, Erick B. Passos, Srikumar Ramalingam, Srinivas Rao,
Krishna Rastogi, Karin Roesch, Behzad Sajadi,, Hans-Peter Seidel, Quinn Smithwick, Lev Stesin, Lee
Streeter, Jay Summet, Tristan Swedish, Yuichi Taguchi, Kar-Han Tan, Gabriel Taubin, Jack Tumblin, Matthew
Turk, Jeroen van Baar , Ashok Veeraraghavan, Andreas Velten, Yao Wang Wang, Gregory Welch, Jonathan
Westhues, Refael Whyte, Thomas Willwacher, Cyrus A. Wilson, Grace Woo, Di Wu, Yi Xu, Genzhi Ye, Jingyi
Yu, Yong Zhao, Jan Zizka

8. New
VR/AR, Displays, Cameras, Fabrication, Perception, …
Emerging
Health, Drones, Transport, Materials, Food, Energy, …
Next
What visual computing can solve

18. EyeSelfie
Swedish et al, Siggraph 2015

19. Achuta Kadambi, Guy Satat, Ayush Bhandari, Raskar, Rajeev Gupta et al

21. Can you
read a
closed
book?
A. R. Sanchez, B. Heshmat, A. Aghasi, M. Zhang, S. Naqvi, J. Romberg, R. Raskar, NATURE Comms 2016

24. Insight
Persuasive
Creativity/Inspiring
Rigorous

25. SIGGRAPH
Draw
Measure
Record
View
Connect

26. SIGGRAPH
Draw
Measure
Record
View
Connect
G R A I
Learn
Apply Impact

27. Raskar, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab
Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar
Asso. Professor
MIT Media Lab
Siggraph +
Impact