Live Streams

Schedule

All times are in PST (conference-local).

8:00am-9:00am	Registration & Breakfast Buffet	Friday July 17
9:00am-9:15am	Opening Remarks
9:15am-10:30am	Papers Session 1: Accelerated Ray Tracing Session chair: Viitanen, Timo Memory-Efficient Bounding Volume Hierarchies with Merged Nodes Haydel, Jacob; Kensler, Andrew; Yuksel, Cem; Brunvand, Erik Ray Tracing Massive Amounts of Animated Geometry Gruen, Holger; Benthin, Carsten; Kern, Michael; McAllister, David Common Subtree Merging Compressed Opacity Micromaps Chernaik, Thomas; Modisett, Jaina; Billeter, Markus
10:30am-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am-12:00pm	Hot3D Session 1 neural.slang: A Standard Module for Inline Neural Networks in Shaders Zhang, Kai Reliable Frame Profiling for Android Cooke, Simon
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch Buffet
1:30pm-1:35pm	Sponsor session
1:35pm-2:50pm	Papers Session 2: Real-Time Path Tracing & Denoising Session chair: Benthin, Carsten Real-time Path Tracing of Massive Dynamic Foliage van Antwerpen, Dietger; Gautron, Pascal; Biddulph, Edd; Kubisch, Christoph; Schmid, Jan; Stich, Martin Compatibility-Guided Neighbor Selection for ReSTIR Junkins, Orion; Kettunen, Markus; Lin, Daqi; Ramamoorthi, Ravi; Wyman, Chris Optimizing Vulkan Dispatch Schedules for Real-Time U-Net Denoising Sassie, Karl; Hanika, Johannes; Alber, Lucas; Dolp, Reiner; Dachsbacher, Carsten
2:50pm-3:20pm	Coffee Break
3:20pm-4:20pm	Keynote 1 Complex Models, Simple Solutions Cozzi, Patrick; Lilley, Sean
8:00am-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet	Saturday July 18
9:00am-10:15am	Papers Session 3: Radiance Fields Session chair: Zellmann, Stefan Warp-Level Culling for Efficient Blending in 3D Gaussian Splatting Yang, Kenneth; Drettakis, George; Bernstein, Gilbert Scalable Training and Rendering of 3D Gaussians for Large Scale Scientific Data Sewell, Andres; Han, Mengjiao; Wu, Qi; Petruzza, Steve Real-time 3D Visualization of Radiance Fields on Light Field Displays Kim, Jonghyun; Sun, Cheng; Stengel, Michael; Chan, Matthew; Russell, Andrew; Jung, Jaehyun; Braithwaite, Wil; Luebke, David; De Mello, Shalini
10:15am-11:00am	Coffee Break & Posters Session Leveraging Hardware-Based Compression for Gaussian Splatting Said, Amir (Qualcomm AI Research); Rauwendaal, Randall (Qualcomm Graphics Research) Borg (Bring yer Own GRaphics): An Open-Source Tile-Based GPU with Silicon Tapeout Andreas Wendleder (independent researcher) Fast Sampling of Dynamic 360° Environment Maps Using Video Codec Metadata Jose Aguerre (Evercast USA)
11:00am-12:00pm	Hot3D Session 2 Accelerating Real-Time Neural Rendering on Qualcomm Adreno GPUs Li, Zifeng RDNA4 architecture Tyagi, Kunal
12:00pm-1:15pm	Lunch Buffet
1:15pm-2:00pm	HPG Town Hall
2:00pm-3:15pm	Papers Session 4: Real-Time Rasterization Session chair: Bálint, Martin Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics Kilgard, Mark; Barran, Brian High-Performance Real-Time Implicit Strand-Based Hair Rendering via Software Rasterization Lipp, Lukas; Jarabo, Adrian; Wimmer, Michael; Bode, Lukas Environmental Volumetric Neural Shading of Clouds for Real-Time Rendering Olajos, Rikard; Doggett, Michael; Goswami, Prashant
3:15pm-3:45pm	Coffee Break
3:45pm-4:45pm	Keynote 2 Programmable Graphics Pipelines Lindholm, Erik
4:45pm-6:00pm	Free time
6:00pm-9:30pm	Conference Banquet
8:00am-9:00am	Breakfast Buffet	Sunday July 19
9:00am-10:00am	Hot3D Session 3 Sokatoa: A Multi-Frame Vulkan Profiling and Frame Debugging Platform for Android Steinberg, Chris A Game Rendering Manifesto Watson, Benjamin
10:00am-10:50am	Papers Session 5: Physics-Based Simulation Session chair: Stomakhin, Alexey Periodic Anderson Acceleration for GPU-based Elastic Body Simulation Yang, Youyi; Navkar, Nikhil; Deng, Zhigang Real-Time Dissectible Deformable Models Using High-Performance Breakable Shape Constraints Myers, Jack; McGraw, Tim
10:50am-11:20am	Coffee Break
11:20am-11:30am	Student Competition Presentation
11:30am-12:00pm	Awards & Wrap-Up(Best Paper, Student Competition Winners, Test of Time)
12:00pm-12:15pm	Closing Remarks & Hand-off to HPG 2027
12:15pm-1:00pm	Sandwich lunch to go

Thanks to Will Usher for taking photos. (Will was unfortunately absent for the Saturday sessions.)

Speakers

Patrick Cozzi

Patrick is the Chief Platform Officer at Bentley Systems and the founder and former CEO of Cesium. He has authored, edited, or contributed to 10 books, including 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes, OpenGL Insights, and WebGL Insights. Patrick has received multiple industry awards for his contributions to geospatial and 3D computer graphics open standards including 3D Tiles and glTF. He is the co-founder of CreateAccess, a nonprofit that increases technology opportunities for young people in under-resourced communities through exposure to 3D creation education. Patrick earned a Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also taught GPU Programming & Architecture for almost a decade.

Sean Lilley

Sean Lilley leads 3D software development at Cesium from data acquisition to visualization and analysis, including the Cesium ion 3D tiling pipelines and Cesium runtime engines. He is the co-editor of 3D Tiles and a contributor to glTF 2.1.

Erik Lindholm

Erik Lindholm held titles of Senior Distinguished Architect and Master Inventor at NVIDIA. He made key contributions to the invention and evolution of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), including co-architecting the first GPU, the GeForce 256, the first programmable GPU, the GeForce 3, and was lead architect for the GeForce 8's revolutionary unified shading architecture. His work has profoundly shaped GPU design enabling the AI revolution.

He holds 128 US patents covering fixed-function and programmable computer graphics architecture, multi-threaded scheduling, and advanced GPU queuing, among others. He received B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He was awarded the UBC Faculty of Applied Science Dean's Medal of Distinction in 2016, and a UBC Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, in 2025. He became a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2026.