90 – Kavita Bala and Hui Huang on Influential Computer Graphics Research

ABOUT THE EPISODE In this episode of SIGGRAPH Spotlight, SIGGRAPH 2025 Technical Papers Test-of-Time Awards Chair Sylvain Paris catches up with two of this year’s Test-of-Time award winners: Kavita Bala (“Learning Visual Similarity for Product Design With Convolutional Neural Networks”, 2015) and Hui Huang (“L1-Medial Skeleton of Point Cloud”, 2013). The guests share why they think their research has withstood the test of time, advancements in 3D graphics, and advice for other researchers who aspire to make lasting contributions to the body of computer graphics knowledge. MUSIC Podcast theme, "SIGGRAPH," composed by Julius Dobos. || LINKS *Episode* https://blog.siggraph.org/2025/06/siggraph-2025-technical-papers-awards-best-papers-honorable-mentions-and-test-of-time.html/ | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2766959 | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2461912.2461913 *Social Media* http://blog.siggraph.org/ | https://www.facebook.com/SIGGRAPHConferences | https://twitter.com/siggraph | https://www.youtube.com/user/ACMSIGGRAPH | https://www.instagram.com/acmsiggraph/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/acm-siggraph/ *Conference Website* https://s2025.siggraph.org/ | https://s2025.siggraph.org/register/ | https://s2025.conference-schedule.org/