SIGGRAPH Asia 25 Course and Workshop

AI for Visual Content Generation Editing and Understanding

December 16-18, 2025

Art Tech BoF Workshop : 2025-12-16 5:00pm – 6:00pm (HKT)

AICG Course : 2025-12-18 1:00pm – 4:45pm (HKT)

AIGC BoF Workshop : 2025-12-18 1:00pm – 2:00pm (HKT)

Hong Kong, China


About

The AI for Creative Visual Content Generation, Editing and Understanding (CVEU) returns for its 8th edition with three sessions: a course, an AIGC focused BoF and an Art Tech focused BoF that together explore the evolving dialogue between machine intelligence and human creativity. Evolving from its successful editions 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. CVEU has become a platform where art, research, and technology meet.

With over 3,000 participants worldwide, CVEU continues to foster a vibrant global community of artists, researchers, curators, and technologists. The Course "Generative Models for Visual Content Editing and Creation" uses an "Explain, Show and Do" approach to help creators and developers master AI tools for storyboarding and pre-visualization while maintaining creative control.

The AIGC Birds of a Feather and Art Tech Birds of a Feather investigate how machines signal intent and legibility, how authorship and agency are co-negotiated in human–machine creation, and how ethics and audience care inform the curation and presentation of AI-driven art.

Course & BoF Workshop Program

BoF Workshop Program
Myth, Motion, and Machine Intent in Artistic Co-Creation
Hong Kong Time
2025-12-16
Meeting Room S222, Level 2
Session: Artistic Co-Creation & Machine Intent
• Art-led perspectives on how machines express intent and legibility
• Negotiating agency and authorship in human–machine co-creation
• Ethical considerations and audience care in exhibition making
• Curatorial strategies, commissioning models, and supportive infrastructures
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Course Program & BoF Workshop
Generative AI for Visual Content Editing and Creation
Hong Kong Time
2025-12-18
Meeting Room S425, Level 4
Opening
• Prof. Anyi RAO & Prof. Xian XU
1:00pm – 1:10pm
Unit 1: AI Generative Models & Foundations
• AI generative models and foundational concepts
• Speaker: Zheng WEI (introduced by Prof. Anyi RAO)
1:10pm – 1:25pm
Unit 1A: Agentic AI & HCI Systems
• Building HCI systems and Agentic AI systems based on AI models
• Speaker: Zheng WEI
1:25pm – 1:40pm
Unit 1B: AI Series/Film Production & Festivals
• AI-based production for AI series/films
• Related AI film festivals
• Speakers: Tianyi ZHANG & Shiqin HOU
1:40pm – 2:00pm
Unit 1C: Guest Sharing
Prof. Emilie Yueh Yu YEH (Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Lingnan University)
Prof. Jiajian Min (MIT Film Chair)
HOST Prof. Anyi RAO & Prof. Xian XU
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Tea Break 2:30pm – 3:00pm
Unit 2: VR Education Systems
• Virtual reality education systems for film and arts education
• Speaker: Prof. Xian XU
3:00pm – 3:20pm
Unit 2A: AI Tools in VR & Case Study
• Application of AI Tools in VR, combined with case analysis
• Speaker: Yuqing LIU
3:20pm – 3:40pm
Unit 2B: Aesthetics of Noise in Generative AI
• The aesthetics of noise in generative AI, using an artist's example
• Speaker: Grace HAN (Zoom)
3:40pm – 4:00pm


Participants from






Organizers

Zheng Wei
HKUST
Grace Han
Stanford University
Tony Zhang
HKUST
Shiqin Hou
HKUST
Zhuli Pan
HKUST
Xuyi Yang
WHU
Baoyang Chen
HKUST
Harry Yang
HKUST
Xian Xu
Lingnan University
Anyi Rao
HKUST



Advisory Committee

Maneesh Agrawala
Stanford University
Huamin Qu
HKUST
James Evans
University of Chicago
Shane Denson
Stanford University
Xian Xu
Lingnan University
Anyi Rao
HKUST

Podcast

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 .

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...