GI 2021 is entirely virtual. There will be paper sessions in which recorded videos of accepted papers will be played and Q&A will take place right after. There are special sessions on Zoom to celebrate the annual gathering of the Canadian and international computer graphics, visualization, and human-computer interaction community along with talks by invited and keynote speakers. Please see below the schedule for the two-day virtual event (register to get the link).
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Paper presentations are pre-recorded, and will be available for viewing at any time on the Graphics Interface Youtube Channel.
Detailed schedule for paper sessions can be found here.
Thursday, May 27th
All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
| Time | Session |
| 8:00AM | Opening Remarks & Awards Announcements |
| 8:30AM | Keynote Speaker: Shumin Zhai (Google) |
| 9:30AM | PhD Dissertation Award Talk: Daniel J. Rea |
| 10:00AM | Break |
| 10:10AM | PhD Dissertation Award Talk: Maria (Masha) Shugrina |
| 10:40AM | Paper Session 1: Collaboration, education, moderation |
| 11:40AM | Break |
| 12:30PM | Paper Session 2: Design in 2D & 3D |
| 1:30PM | Paper Session 3: Input & devices |
| 2:30PM | Break |
| 2:40PM | Invited Speaker: Orit Shaer (Wellesley College) |
| 3:10PM | Invited Speaker: Adriana Schulz (University of Washington) |
| 3:40PM | Paper Session 4: Image synthesis & analysis |
Friday, May 28th
All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
| Time | Session |
| 8:00AM | Keynote Speaker: Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) |
| 9:00AM | Invited Speaker: Florian Alt (Bundeswehr University) |
| 9:30AM | Invited Speaker: Angela Dai (Technical University of Munich) |
| 10:00AM | Break |
| 10:10AM | CHCCS GI ECR Award Talk (G): David Levin |
| 10:40AM | CHCCS GI ECR Award Talk (I): Rita Orji |
| 11:10AM | Break |
| 12:00PM | Paper Session 5: Visualization & exploration |
| 1:00PM | Paper Session 6: VR, AR & 3D input |
| 1:50PM | Break |
| 2:00PM | Invited Speaker: Shamsi Iqbal (Microsoft Research) |
| 2:30PM | Invited Speaker: Kwang Moo Yi (University of British Columbia) |
| 3:00PM | CHCCS Achievement Award (G): Pierre Poulin |
| 3:30PM | CHCCS Achievement Award (I): Tamara Munzner |
| 4:00PM | Closing Remarks & CHCCS AGM |