Awards
The Asiagraphics has been founded in 2016. The major goal of this association is to promote Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems as a fundamental as well as applied research field in academia and industry and to provide services and support to scientists working in this field. As part of these activities, Asiagraphics is planning to introduce a number of awards for individuals at different stages of their career in order to recognize the many significant achievements by Asian Computer Graphics researchers.
Life-Time Achievement Award
The Life-Time Achievement Award will be given every second year to an exceptionally distinguished scientist in the area of Computer Graphics. The awardee should be a renowned personality who has made significant scientific contributions over a long period of their scientific career and who has also been instrumental in promoting the field as a scientific discipline by creating international visibility through the organization of conferences or journals. Eligible are all individuals who worked most of their scientific career at a research institution (or company) in Asia.
Previous Winners are:
- Life Time Achievement Award 2021: Qunsheng Peng
- Life Time Achievement Award 2019: Sung Yong Shin
- Life Time Achievement Award 2017: Tomoyuki Nishita
Outstanding Technical Contributions Award
This award is to recognize an individual for an outstanding technical achievement in computer graphics, made in an Asiagraphics country, and will be given at most one per year. Asiagraphics members are invited to nominate individuals for awards by completing a nomination form and sending it to AG Award Committee Chair. Three endorsement letters are optional and self-nomination is acceptable. The nominee, nominator, and endorsers all need to be members of Asiagraphics.
Previous Winners are:
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2024: Xin Tong
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2023: Ariel Shamir
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2022: Kun Zhou
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2021: Wenping Wang
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2020: Takeo Igarashi
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2019: Hujun Bao
- Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2018: Baining Guo
Young Researcher Award
This award is to recognize young researchers early on in their career (not longer than 6 years after obtaining the PhD degree), who have made a recently, notable contribution to the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques, in an Asiagraphics country, and will be given at most one per year. Asiagraphics members are invited to nominate individuals for awards by completing a nomination form and sending it to AG Award Committee Chair. Three endorsement letters are optional and self-nomination is acceptable. The nominee, nominator, and endorsers all need to be members of Asiagraphics.
Previous Winners are: