GrUVi faculty and students, 2026
The GrUVi community · 2026

About

GrUVi is an interdisciplinary team of researchers in visual computing, computer graphics and computer vision, in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.

Professor Tom Calvert founded the lab in 1992. His work in human animation led to the LifeForms software and the startup Credo Interactive. Today the lab’s infrastructure is supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grants and NSERC Research Tools and Instruments grants.

TASC 8004 · Burnaby campus

Research

Current areas of focus

  • 3D and robotic vision
  • 3D printing and content creation
  • Animation
  • AR/VR
  • Computational photography
  • Generative AI
  • Geometric and image-based modelling
  • Language and 3D
  • Machine learning
  • Natural phenomena
  • Shape analysis

Where our work appears

  • SIGGRAPH
  • SIGGRAPH Asia
  • CVPR
  • ICCV
  • ECCV
  • Eurographics
#14

in the world for top publications in visual computing.CSRankings, June 2023 ↗

Collaborators

  • Adobe Research
  • Amazon
  • Autodesk
  • Google
  • MSRA
  • Princeton
  • Stanford
  • Tel Aviv University
  • University of Washington

Honours

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
  • SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • Alain Fournier Best Thesis Award
  • CS-Can|Info-Can Researcher Award
  • Google Faculty Award and Google PhD Fellowship
  • Borealis AI Fellowship
  • TR35@Singapore
  • CHCCS Achievement and Early Career Researcher Awards
  • NSERC Discovery Accelerator Awards
  • Best paper awards at CVPR, ECCV, SCA, SGP, and more

Alumni

GrUVi alumni hold faculty positions across Canada, the United States, and Asia, and research roles at companies including:

  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • EA
  • Google
  • IBM
  • Meta
  • Microsoft

Contact

GrUVi Lab

TASC Building, Room 8004
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
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