The conference incorporates both academic presentations as well as an industry trade show. Other events at the conference include educational courses and panel discussions on recent topics in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
SIGGRAPH Proceedings The SIGGRAPH conference proceedings, which are published in the
ACM Transactions on Graphics, has one of the highest impact factors among academic publications in the field of computer graphics. The paper acceptance rate for SIGGRAPH has historically been between 17% and 29%, with the average acceptance rate between 2015 and 2019 of 27%. The submitted papers are
peer-reviewed under a process that was historically
single-blind, but was changed in 2018 to
double-blind. The papers accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH are printed since 2003 in a special issue of the
ACM Transactions on Graphics journal. Prior to 1992, SIGGRAPH papers were printed as part of the
Computer Graphics publication; between 1993 and 2001, there was a dedicated
SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings series of publications.
Awards programs SIGGRAPH has several awards programs to recognize contributions to computer graphics. The most prestigious is the
Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. It has been awarded every two years since 1983 to recognize an individual's lifetime achievement in computer graphics. ==Conference==