
Ariel Shamir is a professor and the former Dean of Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at Reichman University in Israel (formerly the Interdisciplinary Center). Before joining the university, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Visualization Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Over the years he held visiting research positions at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Cambridge, MA), Disney Research, MIT, and Google.
Ariel Shamir has been one of the most prolific authors in computer graphics in the last decade, making several pioneering contributions in a wide array of topics, including image and video processing, shape analysis, 3D modeling, fabrication and animation. Many of his algorithms integrate and are guided by human perception models, mixing art and science and helping develop ready-to-use tools. He was the senior author in the original seam carving paper (and others that followed) which has been one of the most impactful papers in image editing in the last fifteen years, and which quickly established a line of research on the deceivingly simple problem of scaling images and adapting their content accordingly.
Ariel is well-known for many other works such as sketch2photo, a system that allowed users to compose realistic images from simple hand-made annotated sketches (roughly a decade before deep learning took off), algorithms to extract full 3D shapes from images, mesh segmentation, automatic video editing, stylization and abstraction, to name just a few. His recent work also advances machine learning techniques.
Ariel is a very active member of the community, regularly serving on major program committees and editorial boards of many leading journals. He was Chair of the SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Papers Programme in 2024. He has received many international awards, including being inducted in 2024 into the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy. He also maintains collaborations with several high-tech companies, both large and small, which highlights the practical angle that guides his research.
In summary, Ariel Shamir’s exceptional contributions to Computer Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction have left an indelible mark. His innovative research, numerous accolades, and leadership in academia exemplify his dedication to advancing research, technology and education.
EUROGRAPHICS is extremely pleased to recognize Ariel Shamir with the 2025 Outstanding Technical Contributions Award.