We are an inter-disciplinary team of researchers working in visual computing, in particular, computer graphics and computer vision. Current areas of focus include 3D and robotic vision, 3D printing and content creation, animation, AR/VR, generative AI, geometric and image-based modelling, language and 3D, machine learning, natural phenomenon, and shape analysis. Our research works frequently appear in top venues such as SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and ICCV (we rank #14 in the world in terms of top publications in visual computing, as of 6/2023) and we collaborate widely with the industry and academia (e.g., Adobe Research, Amazon, Autodesk, Google, MSRA, Princeton, Stanford, Tel Aviv, and Washington). Our faculty and students have won numerous honours and awards, including FRSC, SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Alain Fournier Best Thesis Award, CS|InfoGAN Researcher Award, Google Faculty Award, Google PhD Fellowship, Borealis AI Fellowship, TR35@Singapore, CHCCS Achievement and Early Career Researcher Awards, NSERC Discovery Accelerator Awards, and several best paper awards from CVPR, ECCV, SCA, SGP, etc. Gruvi alumni went on to take up faculty positions in Canada, the US, and Asia, while others now work at companies including Amazon, Apple, EA, Facebook (Meta), Google, IBM, and Microsoft.
June 9, 2025
The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), the premier conference on computer vision, will be held in-person at the Music City Center, Nashville on June 11-15, 2025. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at CVPR 2025, with 1 workshop, 3 posters and 1 highlight paper, and 7 invited talks. Here are the details of the accepted papers: AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers PIAD: Pose and Illumination agnostic Anomaly Detection MoFlow: One-Step Flow Matching for Human Trajectory Forecasting via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation based Distillation ArcPro: Architectural Programs for Structured 3D Abstraction of Sparse Points Here are the details of the invited talks: Prof. Angel Chang will give a talk at Workshop on Bridging Language, Vision and Action in 3D Environments Prof. Angel Chang will give a talk at Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision Prof. Angel Chang will give a talk at Workshop on 3D Vision Language Models (VLMs) for Robotic Manipulation Prof. Angel Chang will give a talk at Workshop on 3D Scene Understanding for Vision, Graphics, and Robotics Prof. Richard Zhang will give a talk at Workshop on 3D Digital Twin Prof. Richard Zhang will give a talk at Workshop on Ind3D: Enforcing Inductive Bias in 3D Generation Prof. Angelica Lim and Prof. Jason Peng will give talks at Workshop on Humanoid Agents
May 26, 2025
Graphics Interface (GI) is a unique conference for computer graphics and human-computer interaction. GI 2025 will be held in Kelowna, British Columbia, from May 26 to May 29, 2025. Prof. Parmit Chilana and Prof. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri are invited to give a talk in the conference. https://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2025/speakers/
May 14, 2025
Congratulations to Prof. Richang Zhang for being elected to the SIGGRAPH academy for technical contributions in spectral and learning-based methods for geometric modeling. The ACM SIGGRAPH Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of computer graphics. Please find the official announcement here: https://www.siggraph.org/award-winners/announcing-the-2025-award-winners
March 30, 2025
SIGGRAPH 2025 Technical Papers Committee meeting was held in Vancouver, at the SFU Harbour Center, March 27-28. The post TPC meeting workshop was held on March 29 with more than 20 invited speakers! Thank you to all the committee members and volunteers!
March 24, 2025
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2025, the premier conference on 3D Visiob, will be taking place in Singapore on March 25-28, 2025. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at 3DV with 3 technical papers and “An object is worth 64x64 pixels: Generating 3d object via image diffusion” wining the best paper award! 3DV 2026 will be held in Vancouver. Prof. Manolis Savva will be serving as Conference Chair and Prof. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri will be the Program Chair. Congratulations to all the authors! Here are the accepted papers: SceneMotifCoder: Example-driven Visual Program Learning for Generating 3D Object Arrangements An object is worth 64x64 pixels: Generating 3d object via image diffusion (3DV 2025 Best paper award) NoKSR: Kernel-Free Neural Surface Reconstruction via Point Cloud Serialization
December 3, 2024
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, the premier conference on computer graphics, will be taking place from 3 – 6 December 2024 at the Tokyo International Forum (TIF), Tokyo, Japan. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at SIGGRAPH Asia with 2 technical papers and Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild winning an SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention. Prof. Richard Zhang will be serving as Technical Papers Assistant Chair. Congratulations to all the authors! And here is the accepted paper: MaskedMimic: Unified Physics-Based Character Control Through Masked Motion Inpainting Colorful Diffuse Intrinsic Image Decomposition in the Wild