STAR presentation

You will present the research evolution (or State of the Art Report) of a digital arts topic that you find fascinating. The presentation should be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion and questions.

Capture the evolution of your topic and identify main branches (and key papers) on its tree. Don't stress about hunting down every paper ever written on your topic. You should discuss at least 10 papers (from peer-reviewed sources) in your presentation. You may supplement these with non-peer-reviewed sources (e.g. arXiv, TED talks, news stories) if they explore an angle not covered by the other papers or are extremely recent (2019 or later). You should read every paper you cite (but I won't be collecting them).

You should also make tangents to explain key algorithms and insights in a digestible way. Your audience should be able to understand your presentation with no prior background knowledge on your topic.

The presentation format should roughly follow the format of existing STARs:

1. Introduce the topic, why people care about it, and why you care about it. Include some inspirational images.
2. Dive into different evolutionary branches.
   • Explain key algorithms and insights
   • Include images from papers (or elsewhere) that help illustrate your points
   • Cite papers (with links)
3. Conclude with open problems.

Luckily for us, digital arts is a very visual field, so I expect lots of pictures! You may also show a few brief (<30 sec) video clips.

You can browse a list of recent STARs in computer graphics here (Links to an external site.). You may not choose a topic for which there is a recent published STAR or SIGGRAPH course, which may require you to think out of the box.

Please choose something that you find really, really interesting. Who knows, maybe one day you will define the new state of the art!

Submit your presentation file here (Powerpoint, Keynote, PDF, etc.) by midnight on the day of your presentation.