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September 15, 2026

SIGGRAPH Asia 2026: GrUVi Forecast

GrUVi is looking ahead to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from December 1 to 4, 2026. Our members will present four accepted technical papers and one poster and...

August 22, 2026

ECCV 2026: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 will take place in Malmö, Sweden, from September 8 to 12, 2026. GrUVi lab members are organizing workshops and giving invited talks, and will...

July 16, 2026

SIGGRAPH 2026: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

The ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference will take place in Los Angeles, California, from July 19 to 23, 2026. GrUVi lab members have seven SIGGRAPH 2026 and ACM TOG papers. Invited talk Prof....

June 3, 2026

CVPR 2026: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 is taking place in person at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, from June 3 to 7, 2026. GrUVi lab...

May 26, 2026

Ali Mahdavi-Amiri receives 2026 Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award

Congratulations to Prof. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri for receiving the 2026 CHCCS Early Career Researcher Award (Graphics) from Graphics Interface. The award recognizes his pioneering contributions to geometric modeling, digital fabrication, and generative 3D...

May 25, 2026

Eugene Fiume and Manolis Savva receive 2025 CS-CAN|INFO-CAN awards

Congratulations to Prof. Eugene Fiume and Prof. Manolis Savva, who were named among the 2025 CS-CAN|INFO-CAN award recipients. Prof. Fiume received the Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing computer scientists whose careers have had...

May 22, 2026

SFU hosts AI/CRV 2026

SFU Computing Science is hosting AI/CRV 2026 at the Burnaby campus from May 25 to May 29, bringing together the Canadian AI and Computer and Robot Vision communities. SFU Computing Science faculty...

May 21, 2026

Jason Peng and Ke Li named Canada CIFAR AI Chairs

Congratulations to Prof. Jason Peng and Prof. Ke Li, who were announced as new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs. The May 21 announcement from the Government of Canada and CIFAR appoints and renews...

May 1, 2026

SFU at Eurographics 2026!

The GrUVi lab is presenting the following papers at Eurographics 2026, which will be held in Aachen, Germany, from May 4 to May 8, 2026. Main papers: MultiCOIN: Multi-Modal COntrollable Video INbetweening...

April 13, 2026

Jason Peng launches MimicKit for motion imitation research

Prof. Xue Bin (Jason) Peng has launched MimicKit, an open-source framework for training robots and simulated characters to imitate human and animal motion. The framework brings together motion imitation and reinforcement learning...

March 18, 2026

3DV 2026 hosted in Vancouver!

This year, 3DV is held in Vancouver from March 20 to 23. Prof. Manolis Savva is serving as the general chair, and Prof. Ali Mahdavi-Amiri as program chair. Prof. Angel Xuan Chang...

December 14, 2025

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (Hong Kong, Dec 15th to Dec 18th) with 5 papers. ART-DECO: Arbitrary Text Guidance for 3D Detailizer Construction ASIA:...

October 19, 2025

ICCV 2025: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), the premier conference on computer vision, will be held in-person at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu from October 19-23, 2025. GrUVi lab will once...

August 7, 2025

SCA and SIGGRAPH 2025

SIGGRAPH, the premier conference and exhibition dedicated to computer graphics and interactive techniques, will be held in-person at the Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC from August 10–14, 2025. GrUVi lab will once...

June 9, 2025

CVPR 2025: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

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...

May 26, 2025

Graphics Interface (GI) 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...

May 14, 2025

Richard Zhang elected to the SIGGRAPH Academy

Congratulations to Prof. Richard 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...

March 30, 2025

SIGGRAPH 2025 TPC meeting

SIGGRAPH 2025 Technical Papers Committee meeting was held in Vancouver, at the SFU Harbour Centre, March 27-28. The post TPC meeting workshop was held on March 29 with more than 20 invited...

March 24, 2025

3DV 2025: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2025, the premier conference on 3D Vision, will be taking place in Singapore on March 25-28, 2025. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show...

December 3, 2024

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

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...

September 29, 2024

ECCV 2024: Spotlight on Workshops

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,...

September 29, 2024

ECCV 2024: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

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,...

July 28, 2024

SIGGRAPH 2024: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

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...

June 17, 2024

CVPR 2024: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

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...

June 13, 2024

Jason Peng receives the CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award

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...

April 22, 2024

Zhiqin Chen receives both the 2024 Alain Fournier Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation and 2024 Eurographics PhD Award for Best PhD Thesis

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....

April 22, 2024

Eurographics 2024: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

Eurographics, the premier conference on computer graphics, will be held in Limassol, Cyprus this year (April 22-26, 2024). GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at Eurographics 2024, with: Han-Hung...

March 18, 2024

3DV 2024: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

3D Vision (3DV), the premier conference on computer vision, will be held in-person in Davos, Switzerland on March 18-21, 2024. GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at 3DV 2024,...

February 23, 2024

VCR workshop for AAAI 2024

VCR seminar will hold a workshop for AAAI visitors from other universities. Below is the schedule for the talks. 11 am-11:40 am Levi Lelis (U of Alberta) 11:40 am-12:20 pm Vahid Babaei...

February 2, 2024

SFU-UBC Visual Computing Meeting

We are thrilled to announce that a special VCR event: the SFU-UBC Visual Computing Meeting will be held in SFU Burnaby campus (Feb 2nd from 10:00 am-3:00 pm). This special session will...

January 26, 2024

Talk by Dr. Jamie Shotton from Wayve

Title: FRONTIERS IN EMBODIED AI FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING Abstract: Over the last decade, fundamental advances in AI have driven unprecedented progress across many disciplines and applications. And yet, despite significant progress, autonomous...

January 15, 2024

Dr. Richard Zhang is recognized as a 2024 IEEE Fellow for advancing research in Visual Computing

Congratulations to Professor Richard Zhang on being recognized as a 2024 IEEE Fellow for his “contributions to shape analysis and synthesis in visual computing.” IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization...

November 11, 2023

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

SIGGRAPG Asia, the premier conference on computer graphics, will be held in Sydney, Australia this year (Dec 12-15). GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at SIGGRAPG Asia, with 5...

November 6, 2023

NeurIPS 2023: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

NeurIPS, the premier conference on machine learning, will be held in New Orleans this year (Dec 10-16). GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at NeurIPS, with 7 technical papers...

November 3, 2023

Talk by Dr. Taras Kucherenko from EA

Click this link to see the talk replay. Title: Co-speech gesture generation Abstract: Gestures accompanying speech are essential to natural and efficient embodied human communication. The automatic generation of such co-speech gestures...

October 27, 2023

Talk by Prof. Tat-Jun Chin from University of Adelaide

Click this link to see the talk replay. Title: Quantum Computing for Robust Fitting Abstract: Many computer vision applications need to recover structure from imperfect measurements of the real world. The task...

October 20, 2023

Talk by Prof. Leonid Sigal from UBC

Click this link to see the talk replay. Title: Efficient, Less-biased and Creative Visual Learning Abstract: In this talk I will discuss recent methods from my group that focus on addressing some...

October 13, 2023

Talk by Prof. Li Cheng from University of Alberta

Click this link to see the talk replay. Title: Visual Human Motion Analysis Abstract: Recent advancement of imaging sensors and deep learning techniques has opened door to many interesting applications for visual...

September 18, 2023

ICCV 2023: Spotlight on GrUVi Lab

ICCV, the premier conference on computer vision, will be held in Paris this year (Oct 2-6). GrUVi lab will once again have a good show at ICCV, with 6 technical papers, 3...

June 26, 2023

Talk by Mikaela Uy from Stanford

The recording is available at this link. Title: Towards Controllable 3D Content Creation by leveraging Geometric Priors Abstract: The growing popularity for extended realities pushes the demand for the automatic creation and...

August 4, 2023

A Trilogy of Character Animation Research in SIGGRAPH 2023

We are proud to highlight that three of Prof. Jason Peng's research papers will be presented in the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2023. These papers mark advances in physics-based character animation. Below are titles...

June 14, 2023

GrUVi making waves at CVPR 2023

CVPR, the premier conference on computer vision, will be held in Vancouver this year (June 18-22). GrUVi lab will once again have an incredible show at CVPR, with 12 technical papers, 6...

June 9, 2023

Talk by Prof. Emily Whiting from Boston University

Title: Computational Fabrication: Design of Geometry and Materials from Simulation to Physical Abstract: Advancements in rapid prototyping technologies are closing the gap between what we can simulate computationally and what we can...

June 2, 2023

Talk by Silvia Sellan from the University of Toronto

This week in the VCR seminar, we had a guest speaker Silvia Sellan from the University of Toronto who will give a talk on various geometry problems. See the recording here: https://stream.sfu.ca/Media/Play/10fc4229c5cf43e8b7f2efa29689cd241d...

May 26, 2023

Talk by Prof. Daniel Weiskopf from the University of Stuttgart

This week in the VCR seminar, we had a guest speaker Daniel Weiskopf from the University of Stuttgart who will give a talk on multidimensional visualization (please see below for information about...

May 18, 2023

Prof. Pat Hanrahan gave his Turing Award Lecture at SFU CS

The recording is available in this link (SFU account is needed).Here is some information about the lecture.Title:Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics SystemsAbstract:A major challenge in using computer graphics for...

May 15, 2023

Prof. Tagliasacchi Co-Chairs 3DV 2024: Papers Invitation Open

We are thrilled to share that Prof. Andrea Tagliasacchi will serve as co-chair for the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2024, alongside Prof. Siyu Tang from ETH and Federico Tombari from...

April 18, 2023

Talk by Karsten Kreis from NVIDIA

Record link is hereTitle: Diffusion Models: From Foundations to Image, Video and 3D Content CreationAbstract: Denoising diffusion-based generative models have led to multiple breakthroughs in deep generative learning. In this talk, I...

April 1, 2023

Visual and Interactive Computing Institute (VINCI) is Founded

We are delighted to announce the establishment of the Visual and Interactive Computing Institute (VINCI), co-directed by our esteemed Prof. Yasutaka Furukawa and Prof. Parmit Chilana. VINCI has been brought to life...

March 8, 2023

Prof. Furukawa Appointed as Program Chair for ICCV 2023

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Yasutaka Furukawa, one of our esteemed professors, has been appointed as the Program Chair for the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023. The ICCV,...

February 27, 2023

Gruviers have 10 Accepted Papers at CVPR 2023

Congratulations to all Gruviers who are publishing their work at CVPR 2023. Among the accepted papers, MobileNeRF is one of the 12 finalists for best paper award! Congrats for Zhiqin and Andrea...

Sep 14th, 2022

Gruviers Awarded with the inaugural CS Outstanding TA Award

Congratulations to Qimin Chen, Wallace Lira, and Sonia Raychaudhuri! They were selected as recipients for the inaugural CS Outstanding Teaching Assistent Award. This award recognizes exceptional TAs in the School of Computing...

Aug 7th, 2022

The First SFU Visual Computing Workshop was held in Vancouver

The first SFU Visual Computing Workshop was held on Aug 7th at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver, Canada. This workshop preceded SIGGRAPH 2022, so it was conceived as...

May 5th, 2022

Talk by Yotam Nitzan from Tel Aviv University

Title: MyStyle: A Personalized Generative Prior Time: Friday, May 6th at 11:00 AM PST Abstract: Deep generative models have proved to be successful for many image-to-image applications. Such models hallucinate information based on...

May 4th, 2022

Gruviers Receive Awards at Graphics Interface 2022.

Congratulations to Hao (Richard) Zhang and Manolis Savva for receiving awards at the Graphics Interface 2022. Richard has received the 2022 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. Richard has...

March 2nd, 2022

Gruviers have 12 Accepted Papers at CVPR 2022.

Congratulations to all Gruviers who are publishing their work at CVPR 2022. CVPR is the premier conference on computer vision and will be held in New Orleans this year. To learn more...

Dec 20th, 2021

We Wish Everyone a Very Happy New Year.

We wrap-up the year 2021 with great achievements and look forward to the new year ahead of us. In 2021, Gruviers were able to publish their work at many 1st tier conferences:...

Oct 19, 2021

Talk by Or Perel from Tel Aviv University

Title: SAPE: Spatially-Adaptive Progressive Encoding for Neural Optimization Time: Wednesday, Nov 3, 1:30 PM Abstract: Multilayer-perceptrons (MLP) are known to struggle with learning functions of high-frequencies, and in particular cases with wide frequency...

September 24th, 2021

Zhiqin Chen Receives Google PhD Fellowship.

Congratulations to Zhiqin Chen for receiving a PhD Fellowship from Google. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to...

August 31st, 2021

Akshay Gadi Patil Receives ICCV 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award.

Congratulations to Akshay for receiving the Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICCV 2021. To learn more about Akshay's work please visit here.

Aug 5, 2021

Talk by Tel Aviv students Or Patashnik and Yuval Alaluf

Title: Recent Advancements in StyleGAN Inversion Time: Wednesday, August 11, 10AM Abstract: StyleGAN has recently been established as the state-of-the-art unconditional generator, synthesizing images of phenomenal realism and fidelity. With its rich semantic...

July 23rd, 2021

Nelson Nauata Receives Borealis AI 2021 Fellowship.

Congratulations to Nelson Nauata for receiving a Borealis AI 2021 Fellowship. Only ten students from the top academic institutions in Canada received fellowships this year, all with the goal of contributing to...

Jun 19, 2021

GrUVi making waves at CVPR 2021

CVPR, the premier conference on computer vision, will be held virtually this year (June 19-25). GrUVi lab will once again have an incredible showing at CVPR, with 16 technical papers, 2 invited...

April 23, 2021

Talk by Yang Wang

Talk title: Self–Adaptive Visual Learning Time: April 23, from 3:30 to 4:30PM (PST) Abstract: There have been significant advances in computer vision in the past few years. Despite the success, current computer...

April 16, 2021

Talk by Unnat Jain

Talk title: AI Agents that can Collaborate and Communicate in Virtual Visual Worlds Time: April 16, from 3:30 to 4:30PM (PST) Abstract: The past decade in artificial intelligence, particularly computer vision, has...

April 9, 2021

Talk by Kwang Moo Yi

Talk title: Towards Machines that Understand Geometry Time: April 9, from 3:30 to 4:30PM (PST) Abstract: Understanding the how the worlds looks like and interacting with the environment is a core ability...

April 10, 2021

A. Chang is SGP21's Conference Chair

GrUVi is glad to announce that Angel Chang will serve as Conference Chair in the SGP 2021. The Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) is the flagship conference in geometry processing. To learn...

April 2, 2021

Talk by Kaichun Mo

Talk title: Learning 3D Shape Actionable Information from Simulated Interaction Time: April 2, from 3:30 to 4:30PM (PST) Abstract: We humans accomplish everyday tasks by interacting with a wide range of 3D...

March 19, 2021

Talk by Animesh Garg

Talk title: Building Blocks of Generalizable Autonomy in Robot Manipulation Time: March 19, from 3:30 to 4:30PM (PST) Abstract: My approach to Generalizable Autonomy posits that interactive learning across families of tasks...

December 3, 2020

Talk by Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Talk title: Generation by Decomposition Time: December 16, from 1:30 to 2:30PM (PST) Abstract: Deep learning has revolutionized our ability to generate novel images and 3D shapes. Neural networks are typically trained...

December 2, 2020

Graphics Interface 2021

GrUVi is glad to announce that Ali Mahdavi-Amiri and Manolis Savva will serve as general and program co-chair at the Graphics Interface 2021. Graphics Interface is the only conference for computer graphics...

October 10, 2020

Keynote and award at ChinaGraph'20

Richard Zhang will deliver one of the keynote talks (virtually) at ChinaGraph 2020 held in Xiamen, China, on October 23. ChinaGraph is a bi-annual conference on computer graphics in China, the most...

September 25, 2020

Gruviers Receive Funding from CFI

Congratulations to Angel Xuan Chang, Yasutaka Furukawa and Manolis Savva for receiving fundings form Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). This funding will allow our researchers to take their transformative discoveries to the...

September 23, 2020

Talk by He Wang

Title: Category-Level Object Perception for Physical InteractionTime: 1:30 - 2:30, Wednesday, September 23Abstract: Deep neural networks have shown great success both in semantic perception tasks, e.g. object recognition and semantic segmentation, and...

September 13, 2020

New SFU CS Adjunct Prof

Kevin (Kai) Xu, a former gruvier from 2008 to 2010, when he worked as a visiting Ph.D. student under the supervision of Richard Zhang, is now resuming his affiliation with GrUVi after...

July 8, 2020

Gruviers Won the SGP Dataset Award

Congratulations to Angel Xuan Chang and Manolis Savva, whose work ScanNet: Richly-annotated 3D Reconstructions of Indoor Scenes won the 2020 SGP dataset award. ScanNet is an RGB-D video dataset containing 2.5 million...

Jun 23, 2020

Gruviers Receive CVPR Awards

Visual computing researchers from SFU received multiple awards at the annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) this past week. CVPR is the premier conference in computer vision with the...

Jun 09, 2020

GrUVi making waves at CVPR 2020

CVPR, the premier conference on computer vision, will be held virtually next week (June 16-20). SFU Computing Science professor Greg Mori is front-n-center as a Program Chair of the major event! GrUVi...

Jun 07, 2020

GrUVi tackles COVID-19 using AI

SFU researchers helped to develop an AI system capable of assisting resident and less experienced doctors look over a data set and make a quick diagnosis before a senior doctor can step...

Oct 24, 2019

LOGAN - SIG Asia Press Release

Congratulations to Kangxue, whose work LOGAN: Unpaired Shape Transform in Latent Overcomplete Space will be featured for press release at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019!LOGAN is able to learn what shape features to preserve...

Jul 23, 2019

IGS'19 Organized by GrUVi

The International Geometry Summit (IGS) 2019, organized by Richard Zhang and Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, took place from 17th June to the 21th June 2019 at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, Canada. IGS 2019...

Jul 22, 2019

Richard's SGP Keynote Speech

Richard Zhang was featured in the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) as a keynote speaker! His speech was titled “Can Machines Learn to Generate 3D Shapes?”.In his talk, Richard highlighted the...

Jul 9, 2019

Xiaoming Liu Visits SFU

Dr. Xiaoming Liu visited SFU today following an invitation from Dr. Yasutaka Furukawa! His talk titled "Inverse Graphics for 3D Modeling and Reconstruction: from Face to Generic Objects" has the following abstract:...

Jul 3, 2019

Yağız Aksoy Joins GrUVi

GrUVi is glad to announce that Yagiz Aksoy will join our team this August. He is a PhD student of Marc Pollefeys at ETH Zurich. During his PhD, he spent a year...

Jun 3, 2019

Zhiqin's and Jon's Thesis Defense

The GrUVi team congratulates both Zhiqin and Jon for their successful MSc thesis defences!Jon's thesis is on A Qualitative and Localized Evaluation for 3D Indoor Scene SynthesisZhiqin's thesis is on IM-NET: Learning...

May 23, 2019

Kangxue Yin wins an Award!

The GrUVi team congratulates Kangxue Yin, whom received the prestigious Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad!This award was established in 2003 by the China Scholarship Council. The worldwide recipients are chosen...

May 1, 2019

Accepted Paper on CVPR

A paper by Zhiqin Chen and Hao Zhang on learning implicit fields for generative modeling of 3D shapes will be presented at CVPR 2019!It has also been invited to be presented at...

April 14, 2019

New and Returning Gruviers!

The GrUVi team would like to welcome three SFU undergrad students who are joining the lab for summer/visiting research: Leo Li - to start in the summer as a VPA USRA working...

October 2, 2018

5 SIG Asia 2018 papers

GrUVi members co-author five technical papers at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, which will be held at Tokyo in December 4-7. In particular, Wallace, Shuhua, Akshay, Manyi, Ali, and Han all got their very...

August 23, 2018

Gruviers Volunteered for SIG'2018

Two gruviers were student volunteers (SV) at the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference. While the attendees were certainly thankful for all the work that all the volunteers put in the event, our gruvi volunteers...

August 21, 2018

GrUVi presentations @ SIG'2018

SIGGRAPH 2018 was held in Vancouver from August 12 to 16, at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The majority of GrUVi members attended the conference, some as paper presenters and some as student...

August 21, 2018

Eugene's 60th Anniversary Celebrated

A special event honouring Professor Eugene Fiume, on the occasion of his 60-th birthday, was held at the SFU Harbour Centre on August 17, right after SIGGRAPH 2018. Many of Eugene's first-generation...

July 22, 2018

12 papers from SFU at ECCV 18

Congratulations to all SFU researchers that were able to have an impressive count of 12 papers accepted at the European Conference on Computer Vision 2018 (ECCV 2018)! ECCV is considered, together with...

May 18, 2018

Three new visiting Gruviers!

GrUVi welcomes three new visiting students this summer: Manas Bhargave, IIT Bombay undergrad and visiting under MITACS-IIT; Ruiqi Ni, an undergrad student from University of Science and Technology (USTC) China and Chen...

May 17, 2018

GrUVi co-authors three SIG'18 papers

Three papers co-authored by GrUVi members have been accepted at SIGGRAPH 2018: P2P-NET: Bidirectional Point Displacement Net for Shape Transform, Predictive and Generative Neural Networks for Object Functionality, and DSCarver: Decompose-and-Spiral-Carve for...

May 16, 2018

Two talks at SFU-ZJU Symposium

Richard and Ping give talks at "Third SFU-ZJU Joint Symposium on Big Data and Visual Computing". The Third Joint Symposium on Big Data and Visual Computing Research is a forum where researchers...

April 12, 2018

Kangkang's NSERC DAS Award

Congrats to Kangkang who has received a NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) for 2018. Each year 125 applicants to NSERC Discovery grants receive this award, which comes with $40K per year for...

April 10, 2018

Yasu's CS-Can/Info-Can Award

Congrats to Yasu who has received an Outstanding Young CS Researcher Award for 2017. These prizes recognize excellence in research, and are made to top young faculty members in Canadian Computer Science...

April 8, 2018

GI'18 to feature two GrUVi alumni

Graphics Interface 2018 (GI'18) will be held in York University, May 8-11. Two of our GrUVi alumni, Oliver van Kaick and Andrea Tagliasacchi, are invited speakers on the program! Graphics Interface is...

February 23, 2018

Yasu's 2018 Google Research Award

GrUVi congratulates Yasu Furukawa, who received a Google Research Award in the current cycle! Yasu's project is titled "Automatic Floorplan Generation from Tango", and is valued at $43,000 (USD). The works funded...

October 13, 2017

SIG Asia and ICCV 2017 papers

GrUVi members co-author two technical papers: "Learning to Predict Part Mobility from a Single Static Snapshot" and "Learning to Group Discrete Graphical Patterns"; and one course at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017, to be held...

October 13, 2017

GrUVi welcomes Jon Liu!

Jon Liu as GrUVi's new MSc student. Jon obtained his Master's degree from National Tsinghua University in computer graphics and since then, he has worked in the industry for many years. He...

October 1, 2017

Conference co-chairs

GrUVi faculty Yasu Furukawa will be a program co-chair for 3DV 2017, which will be held in Qingdao, China between October 10 and 12. Richard Zhang will also be a program co-chair...

September 19, 2017

Rui Ma's thesis "pass as is"

Rui has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Sub-Scene Level Analysis and Synthesis of 3D Indoor Scenes". The thesis and defence has been designated with a "pass as is" distinction by the...

August 27, 2017

Warunika wins best paper award

The paper "An Exquisite Corpse Tool for Collaborative 3D Shape Design", co-authored by Warunika, Parmit Chilana, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Richard Zhang won a best paper award at the recent CAD/Graphics conference. This...

August 26, 2017

GRASS featured at SIG'17

The paper "Generative Recursive Autoencoder for Shape Structures (GRASS)" co-authored by Prof. Richard Zhang and former GrUVi member Kai Xu, was selected as one of the six technical papers from SIGGRAPH 2017...

August 25, 2017

Richard keynote talk at CAD/Graphics

Richard Zhang gave a keynote talk on "Can Machines Learn to Generate 3D Shapes" at the Biannual International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Graphics (CAD/Graphics) in Zhangjiajie, China.

August 10, 2017

GrUVi co-authors three SIG'17 papers

Three papers co-authored by GrUVi members have been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2017: GRASS:Generative Recursive Autoencoders for Shape Structures, Time Slice Video Synthesis by Robust Video Alignment, and Deformation-Driven Shape Correspondence via Shape...

July 29, 2017

Zhaopeng goes to ETH

Zhaopeng, who successfully defended his PhD thesis earlier this month, will start his postdoc position at ETH. His thesis also received the rare distinction of "pass as is". Previous gruviers who received...

July 25, 2017

Zhiqin and Manyi are new Gruviers!

GrUVi welcomes two new members, Zhiqin Chen and Manyi Li, who will join our group during Fall 2017. Zhiqin is a new master student who obtained his bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiaotong...

July 22, 2017

Changqing Zou goes to UMIACS

Postdoc Changqing Zou will take up an Assistant Research Scientist position at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Congratulations Changqing!

May 9, 2017

Ibraheem speaks at KAUST

GrUVi alumni Ibraheem Alhashim, who was a PhD student supervised by Richard Zhang between 2011 and 2015, was recently invited to speak at the KAUST Visual Computing (KAUST RC-VC) “ Modeling and...

May 1, 2017

New GrUVi faculty Kangkang Yin

It is official! Prof. Kangkang Yin will be joining SFU CS as an Associate Professor starting July 2017. As one of the leading experts in computer animation and simulation, she will be...

December 23, 2016

Jaime's Successful MSc Thesis Defense

Congrats to Jaime for successfully defending his MSC thesis on "Towards Learning of a Joint Geometry-Structure Manifold for Shape Exploration". Here is the abstract of his thesis. We present a first attempt...

December 9, 2016

Warunika's Successful MSc Thesis Defense

Congrats to Warunika for successfully defending her MSc thesis on "ExquiMo: An Exquisite Corpse Tool for Co-Creative 3D Shape Modeling". The researchers would like to assure you that no person, dog, or any...

September 7, 2016

New students joining GrUVi

Nine new members are joining the GrUVi lab in the fall semester of 2016. We welcome: Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, a new postdoc to start in January 2017, who obtained his PhD from University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, his MSc from Sharif University of...

August 5, 2016

Richard keynote talk at CCCG'16

GrUVi faculty Richard Zhang was invited to give a keynote talk at the 2016 Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG). His talk is titled "New Geometry Problems in Computational Design and Fabrication"....

July 24, 2016

GrUVi co-authors three SIG papers

The three papers are: Learning How Objects Function via Co-Analysis of Interactions, Connected Fermat Spirals for Layered Fabrication, and Legible Compact Calligrams. The latter paper was led by Changqing Zou, a postdoc co-supervised by Ping...

May 19, 2016

Richard wins SFU service award

Richard Zhang completed his four-year term as the Graduate Program Director at the School of Computing Science on April 30, 2016. With his services and contributions, he was selected as the sole...

March 14, 2016

Ibraheem wins Alain Fournier Award

This award is given to the top computer graphics Ph.D. dissertation defended in a Canadian university in a given year and will be officially announced at Graphics Interface '16. The award recognizes...