Thursday, August 14, 2025
9:00am - 12:15pm PDT, Vancouver, Canada (Room 11, East Building at Siggraph)
Zoom Livestreaming: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92901931240?pwd=YZCGYYtvpROddXQElm9culxkKIgM9d.1
Lunch Gathering Registration: https://forms.gle/nvtkJcAetzbw2cir7
This workshop is for the 7th installment of the AI for Creative Visual Content Generation Editing and Understanding (CVEU), which follows its success on the previous launch at CVPR'25, CVPR'24, ICCV'23, ECCV'22, ICCV'21, a Generative Models Course at SIGGRAPH'24, 2023 Paris ShortFest AI Film Festival, and 2025 Hong Kong HKUST AI Film Festival.
It brings together researchers, artists and entrepreneurs working on computer graphics, human computer interaction, computer vision, machine learning, and cognitive research. It aims to bring awareness of recent advances in machine learning technologies to enable assisted creative visual content creation and understanding. Find more at the SIGGRAPH'25 official link.
Schedule | Vancouver Time 2025-08-14 |
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Warm-up Session | 8:50 AM - 9:00 AM |
Workshop Opening Remarks | 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM |
Session I - From Text to Image and Beyond: Mastering AI Tools for Visual Creation
• Keynote I - Mira Dontcheva (9:05 AM – 9:25 AM) Building AI-Driven Tools for the Creative Process of Video Editing • Keynote II - Maneesh Agrawala (9:25 AM – 9:45 AM) Making is Decision Making • Keynote III - Apolinário Passos (9:45 AM – 10:05 AM) Generative AI as a medium of expression: beyond AI as a tool • Roundtable Discussion (10:05 AM – 10:30 AM) |
9:05 AM - 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break | 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
Session II - Refine & Reveal: AI-Powered Creation and Editing Visual Content
• Keynote I - Niloy J. Mitra (10:45 AM – 11:05 AM) Towards Iterative and Predictable Workflows for Creative Authoring • Keynote II - Kuan-Chieh (Jackson) Wang (11:05 AM – 11:25 AM) Connecting Through Generation: Identity, Relationships, and Diffusion Models • Keynote III - Huamin Qu (11:25 AM – 11:45 AM) Human-AI Collaboration for Storytelling • Roundtable Discussion (11:45 AM – 12:10 AM) |
10:45 AM - 12:10 PM |
Closing Remarks | 12:10 PM - 12:15 PM |
If you want to explore with us more about how AI is shaping the future of filmmaking, we invite you to tune in to podcast Empowering Storytellers .
Governor, Asia-Pacific Region, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Senior 3D Generalist & Technical Advisor, Wētā Workshop
Art Director, Wētā Workshop
Dean, School of Film and Television, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
2D Animator & Motion Designer