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.
September 29, 2024
The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), a biennial premier research conference in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, will be held from September 29, 2024 to October 4, 2024 in Mico Milano, Italy. In addition to all accepted papers, GrUVi lab will also stand out in organizing multiple workshops. Here are the information of workshops organized by our amazing professors: https://sites.google.com/view/cv4metaverse-2024/ - Organizers (Richard Zhang) https://3dv-in-ecommerce.github.io/ - Organizers (Richard Zhang, Angel Chang) https://ai3dcc.github.io/ - Organizers (Angel Chang, Manolis Savva) https://geo-lme.github.io/ - Speaker (Richard Zhang)
September 29, 2024
The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), a biennial premier research conference in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, will be held from September 29, 2024 to October 4, 2024 in Mico Milano, Italy. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at ECCV, with 9 technical papers. Congratulations to all the authors! And here are the 9 accepted papers: R3DS: Reality-linked 3D Scenes for Panoramic Scene Understanding DECOLLAGE: 3D Detailization by Controllable,Localized, and Learned Geometry Enhancement Generating Human Interaction Motions in Scenes with Text Control TC4D: Trajectory-Conditioned Text-to-4D Generation Lagrangian Hashing for Compressed Neural Field Representations Volumetric Rendering with Baked Quadrature Fields PointNeRF++: A multi-scale, point-based Neural Radiance Field SweepNet: Unsupervised Learning Shape Abstraction via Neural Sweepers Intrinsic Single-Image HDR Reconstruction
July 28, 2024
SIGGRAPH, the premier conference on computer graphics, will be held from July 28, 2024 to August 1, 2024 in Denver, United States. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at SIGGRAPG, with 6 technical papers. Congratulations to all the authors! And here are the 6 accepted papers: Scale-Invariant Monocular Depth Estimation via SSI Depth DAE-Net: Deforming Auto-Encoder for fine-grained shape co-segmentation Flexible Motion In-betweening with Diffusion Models SuperPADL: Scaling Language-Directed Physics-Based Control with Progressive Supervised Distillation Interactive Character Control with Auto-Regressive Motion Diffusion Models BrepGen: A B-rep Generative Diffusion Model with Structured Latent Geometry
June 17, 2024
The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), the premier conference on computer vision, will be held in-person in Seattle, washington on June 17-21, 2024. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at CVPR 2024, with 4 keynotes, 2 oral papers, 4 spotlights and 10 posters. For more details, please refer to SFU @ CVPR 2024 (Technical Participation) Congratulations!
June 13, 2024
Congratulations to Jason Peng for receiving the CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award. The CHCCS/SCDHM, Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award, aims to recognize, support and encourage outstanding early career faculty members in the fields related to the Graphics Interface conference, which covers all aspects of graphics, human-computer interaction, and visualization. The award is given annually to up to two individuals and presented at the annual Graphics Interface conference.
April 22, 2024
Congratulations to Zhiqin Chen for receiving both the 2024 Alain Fournier Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in computer graphics in Canada and the 2024 Eurographics PhD Award for Best PhD Thesis. The Alain Fournier Dissertation Award is given annually for an outstanding doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Computer Graphics. The award is named in honor of Alain Fournier, a Canadian researcher who did much to promote excellence, both within Canada and internationally, in the field of Computer Graphics. Eurographics PhD Award aims to recognize good thesis work, to incentivize young researchers, and to offer them the opportunity to publish the state of the art section of their thesis as a STAR in the Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics annually grants three PhD thesis awards. They are jointly sponsored by Eurographics and the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.