SIGGRAPH Asia 25 Course Workshop

Generative Models for Visual Content Editing and Creation

Monday, December 15, 2025

xx:xx am - xx:xx pm HKT, Hongkong, China ( xxx room)
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About

This workshop is for the 8th installment of the AI for Creative Visual Content Generation Editing and Understanding (CVEU), which follows its success on the previous launch at SIGGRAPH'25, 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 ASIA'25 official link.

Detailed Program

Schedule Hong Kong Time
2025-12-15
Unit 1: Diffusion & Multimodal Foundations
• Latent diffusion, cross-attention, LoRA/ControlNet, image-text alignment
• Rapid Colab demo
Unit 2A: Prompt Craft & Style Control
• Prompt taxonomy (subject, camera, lighting, mood), negative prompts, classifier-free guidance
• Hands-on: multiple distinct shot styles
Unit 2B: Mixed-Initiative Tool-Chains & Lab
• Group task: build a six-shot sequence from a log-line
• Export contact sheet
Unit 3A: The Aesthetics of Noise in Generative AI
• Metastability, indexicality, multiplanarity; temporality in predictive generation
• Illustrated talk with case study
Unit 3B: VR Storytelling & AI Collaboration
• Cinematic VR virtual reality education, production workflow, emerging AI tools
• Comparative case discussion


Speakers

Zheng Wei
PHD @ HKUST
Xian Xu
Assistant Professor @ Lingnan University
Yuqing Liu
PHD @ HKU
Grace Han
PHD @ Stanford University
Anyi Rao
Assistant Professor @ HKUST

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OUR GUESTS INCLUDE

Tony Ngai

Governor, Asia-Pacific Region, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Chris Williamson

Senior 3D Generalist & Technical Advisor, Wētā Workshop

Jacky Zheng

Art Director, Wētā Workshop

Terry Lam

Dean, School of Film and Television, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Lucas Mariano

2D Animator & Motion Designer

More guests to be announced...