Outreach¶
Research Hub¶
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We started a public Slack group dedicated to scientists researching computer graphics, human visual perception, computational photography and computational displays. We aim to build a single hub for everyone and provide all members with a gateway to:
- meet others in the field,
- find collaborators worldwide,
- introduce open-source tools for research,
- announce and plan events in major conferences (e.g., SIGGRAPH, CVPR, IEEE VR, SPIE PW),
- advertise opportunities for others (e.g., internships, jobs, initiatives, grants),
- promote their most recent research,
- find subjects for their experiments,
But most of all, the primary goal is to stay connected to sustain a healthy research field. To join our Slack channel and contribute to future conversations, please use the provided below link:
Please do not hesitate to share the invitation link with other people in your field. If you encounter any issue with the link, please do not hesitate to reach us using kaanaksit@kaanaksit.com.
Seminars¶
We organize a seminar series named High-Beams.
High-Beams seminar series is an exclusive event where we host experts across the industry and academia.
Overall, seminars are a blend of internal and external presenters.
Question
If you are wondering how to get an invitation to the next seminar series, please do not hesitate to email Kaan Akşit or subscribe yourself to our mailing list (open to public).
2024¶
These seminars are organized by Kaan Akşit.
Kenny Chen (New York University)¶
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Date: 13th November 2024
Presenter: Kenny Chen, Ph.D. student, New York University
Title: Perceptually-Inspired Algorithms for Power Optimization in XR Displays
Dongyeon Kim (University of Cambridge)¶
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Date: 30th October 2024
Presenter: Donyeon Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge
Title: Towards passing the visual Turing test with holographic displays
Cagatay Isil (University of California, Los Angeles)¶
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Date: 23rd October 2024
Presenter: Cagatay Isil, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Diffractive processors enable all-optical image denoising and super-resolution image display
Manu Gopakumar (Stanford University)¶
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Date: 16th October 2024
Presenter: Manu Gopakumar, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Title: Full-color 3D holographic augmented reality displays with metasurface waveguides
Guosheng Hu (University of Bristol)¶
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Date: 10th October 2024
Presenter: Guosheng Hu, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Title: Reduce AI’s Carbon Footprint
Binglun Wang (University College London)¶
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Date: 2nd October 2024
Presenter: Binglun Wang, Ph.D. candidate at University College London
Title: 3D Editings using Diffusion Models
Henry Fuchs (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)¶
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Date: 20th June 2024
Presenter: Henry Fuchs, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: Everyday Augmented Reality Glasses: Past Predictions, Present Problems, Future Possibilities
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Zian Wang (University of Toronto and NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 24th April 2024
Presenter: Zian Wang, PhD student at the University of Toronto
Title: Hybrid Rendering: Bridging Volumetric and Surface Representations for Efficient 3D Content Modeling
Litu Rout (The University of Texas Austin)¶
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Date: 10th April 2024
Presenter: Litu Rout, PhD student at the University of Texas, Austin
Title: On Solving Inverse Problems using Latent Diffusion
Yingsi Qin (Carnegie Mellon University)¶
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Date: 3rd April 2024
Presenter: Yingsi Qin, PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Split-Lohmann Multifocal Displays
Seung-Hwan Baek (Postech)¶
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Date: 20th March 2024
Presenter: Seung-Hwan Baek, Assistant Professor at POSTECH
Title: High-dimensional Visual Computing
Divya Kothandaraman (University of Maryland College Park)¶
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Date: 13th March 2024
Presenter: Divya Kothandaraman, PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park
Title: Text Controlled Aerial-View Synthesis from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
Cheng Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)¶
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Date: 6th March 2024
Presenter: Cheng Zheng, PhD student at Massachusetts
Title: Neural Lithography: Close the Design to Manufacturing Gap in Computational Optics
Taimoor Tariq (Università della Svizzera Italiana)¶
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Date: 28th February 2024
Presenter: Taimoor Tariq, PhD student at Università della Svizzera Italiana
Title: Its all in the Eyes: Towards Perceptually Optimized Real-Time VR
Mose Sakashita (Cornell University)¶
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Date: 21st February 2024
Presenter: Mose Sakashita, PhD student at Cornell University
Title: Enhancing Remote Design Collaboration through Motion-Controlled Telepresence Robots
Ruoshi Liu (Columbia University)¶
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Date: 14th February 2024
Presenter: Ruoshi Liu, PhD student at Columbia University
Title: Neural Network Inversion for Imaging, Vision, Robotics, and Beyond
Madalina Nicolae (Saarland University and Polytechnic Institute of Paris)¶
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Date: 7th February 2024
Presenter: Madalina Nicolae, PhD student at Saarland University and Polytechnic Institute of Paris
Title: Towards Digital Biofabrication and Sustainable Innovation
2023¶
These seminars are organized by Kaan Akşit. Simon Julier invited Stephen Ellis and moderated the session.
Daiseku Iwai (Osaka University)¶
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Date: 29th November 2023
Presenter: Daisuke Iwai, Associate Professor at Osaka University
Title: Computational displays in projection mapping
Lior Yariv (Weizmann Institute of Science)¶
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Date: 22nd November 2023
Presenter: Lior Yariv, PhD student at Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation
Ziya Erkoç (Technical University of Munich)¶
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Date: 15th November 2023
Presenter: Ziya Erkoç, PhD student at the Technical University of Munich
Title: Generative Modeling with Neural Field Weights
Guillaume Thekkadath (National Research Council of Canada)¶
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Date: 8th November 2023
Presenter: Guillaume Thekkadath, Postdoctoral Fellow at National Research Council of Canada
Title: Intensity correlation holography: applications in single photon and remote imaging
Kenan Bektas (University of Saint Gallen)¶
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Date: 1st November 2023
Presenter: Kenan Bektas, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Saint Gallen
Title: Gaze-Enabled Mixed Reality for Human Augmentation in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Koya Narumi (The University of Tokyo)¶
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Date: 25th October 2023
Presenter: Koya Narumi, Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo
Title: Computational Origami Fabrication
Stephen Ellis (NASA)¶
Simeng Qiu (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)¶
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Date: 4th October 2023
Presenter: Simeng Qiu, PhD Candidate at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Title: MoireTag: Angular Measurement and Tracking with a Passive Marker
Suyeon Choi (Stanford University)¶
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Date: 27th September 2023
Presenter: Suyeon Choi, PhD student at Stanford University
Title: Neural Holography for Next-generation Virtual and Augmented Reality Displays
Ulugbek Kamilov (University of Washington in Saint Louis)¶
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Date: 20th September 2023
Presenter: Ulugbek Kamilov, Associate Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Title: Plug-and-Play Models for Large-Scale Computational Imaging
Shariq Bhat (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)¶
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Date: 13th September 2023
Presenter: Shariq Bhat, PhD Student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Title: A Journey Towards State-of-the-art Monocular Depth Estimation Using Adaptive Bins
Congli Wang (University of California, Berkeley)¶
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Date: 6th September 2023
Presenter: Congli Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Title: Computational sensing with intelligent optical instruments
Silvia Sellán (University of Toronto)¶
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Date: 14th June 2023
Presenter: Silvia Sellán, PhD student at University Toronto
Title: Uncertain Surface Reconstruction
Omer Shapira (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 26th May 2023
Presenter: Omer Shapira, Engineer and Researcher at NVIDIA
Title: Cloud Computing Around the Body: Theoretical Limits and Practical Applications
Michael Fischer (University College London)¶
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Date: 17th May 2023
Presenter: Michael Fischer, PhD student at University College London
Title: Advanced Machine Learning for Rendering
Michael Proulx (Meta Reality Labs and University of Bath)¶
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Date: 3rd May 2023
Presenter: Michael Proulx, Reader at University of Bath and Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs
Title: Visual interactions in Extended Reality
İnci Ayhan (Bogazici University)¶
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Date: 26th April 2023
Presenter: İnci Ayhan, Associate Professor at Bogazici University
Title: Cognitive Embodiment and Affordance Perception in the Virtual Reality Environment
Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)¶
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Date: 12th April 2023
Presenter: Zerrin Yumak, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University
Title: AI-driven Virtual Humans with Non-verbal Communication Skills
Elia Gatti (University College London)¶
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Date: 5th April 2023
Presenter: Elia Gatti, Assistant Professor at University College London
Title: AI-driven Virtual Humans with Non-verbal Communication Skills
Yuhao Zhu (University of Rochester)¶
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Date: 29th March 2023
Presenter: Yuhao Zhu, University of Rochester
Title: Rethinking Imaging-Computing Interface
Taejun Kim (KAIST)¶
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Date: 22nd March 2023
Presenter: Taejun Kim, PhD Student at KAIST
Title: Interface Control with Eye Movement
Josef Spjut (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 15th March 2023
Presenter: Josef Spjut, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: Esports Rendering and Display: Psychophysical Experimentation
Ruth Rosenholtz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)¶
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Date: 1st March 2023
Presenter: Ruth Rosenholtz, Principal Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Human vision at a glance
Qi Sun (NYU)¶
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Date: 21st February 2023
Presenter: Qi Sun, Assistant Professor at NYU
Title: Co-Optimizing Human-System Performance in VR/AR
Towaki Takikawa (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 8th February 2023
Presenter: Towaki Takikawa, Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: Towards Volumetric Multimedia Compression and Transport with Neural Fields
2022¶
The seminar series of 2022 is conducted with the help of several key people at University College London. Many of these seminars are coordinated by Kaan Akşit. Kaan has received help from Simon Julier, Oliver Kingshott, Klara Brandstätter, and Felix Thiel for the moderation and organization of several of these events.
Ernst Kruijff (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences)¶
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Date: 29th November 2022
Presenter: Ernst Kruijff, Professor of Human Computer INteraction at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University
Title: Multi-sensory feedback for 3D User Interfaces
Aykut Erdem (Koç University)¶
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Date: 23th November 2022
Presenter: Aykut Erdem, Associate Professor at Koç University.
Title: Disentangling Content and Motion for Text-Based Neural Video Manipulation
Gül Varol (École des Ponts ParisTech)¶
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Date: 16th November 2022
Presenter: Gül Varol, Assistant Professor at École des Ponts ParisTech
Title: Controllable 3D human motion synthesis
Ana Serrano (Universidad de Zaragoza)¶
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Date: 2nd November 2022
Presenter: Ana Serrano, Universidad de Zaragoza
Title: Material Appearance Perception and Applications
Praneeth Chakravarthula (Princenton University)¶
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Date: 27th October 2022
Presenter: Praneeth Chakravarthula, Research Scholar at Princenton University
Title: The Present Developments and Future Challenges of Holographic Near-Eye Displays
Koki Nagano (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 12th October 2022
Presenter: Koki Nagano, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: Frontiers of Neural Human Synthesis
Peter Wonka (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)¶
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Date: 28th September 2022
Presenter: Peter Wonka, Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Interim Director of the Visual Computing Center (VCC)
Title: Recent Research Efforts for Building 3D GANs
Rob Lindeman (University of Canterbury)¶
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Date: 21st September 2022
Presenter: Rob Lindeman, Professor at the University of Canterbury
Title: Comfortable VR: Supporting Regular and Long-term Immersion
Felix Heide (Princenton University)¶
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Date: 7th September 2022
Presenter: Felix Heide, Assistant Professor at Princeton University and Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of self-driving vehicle startup Algolux
Title: Neural Nanophotonic Cameras
Yulia Gryaditskaya (Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artifical Intelligence)¶
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Date: 1st June 2022
Presenter: Yulia Gryadistkaya, Assistant Professor at CVSSP and Surrey Institute for People-Centered Artifical Intelligence
Title: Amateur Sketches
Michael Bauer (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 25th May 2022
Presenter: Michael Bauer, Principal Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: Running Unmodified NumPy Programs on Hundreds of GPUs with cuNumeric
Mark Pauly (EPFL)¶
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Date: 18th May 2022
Presenter: Mark Pauly, Professor of Computer Graphics at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Title: Computational Inverse Design of Deployable Structures
Tuanfeng Wang (Adobe)¶
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Date: 11th May 2022
Presenter: Tuanfeng Wang, Research Scientist at Adobe
Title: Synthesizing dynamic human appearance
Tim Weyrich (FAU and UCL)¶
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Date: 4th May 2022
Presenter: Tim Weyrich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Professor of Visual Computing at University College London
Title: Digital Reality: Visual Computing Interacting With The Real World
Sanjeev Muralikrishnan (UCL)¶
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Date: 27th April 2022
Presenter: Sanjeev Muralikrishnan, PhD student at UCL
Title: GLASS: Geometric Latent Augmentation For Shape Spaces
Valentin Deschaintre (Adobe)¶
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Date: 20th April 2022
Presenter: Valentin Deschaintre, Research Scientist at Adobe
Title: Material Creation for Virtual Environments
Dan Archer (University College London) and Animesh Karnewar (University College London)¶
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Date: 23rd March 2022
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- Dan Archer, PhD Student at University College London
- Animesh Karnewar, Phd Student at University College London
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- Optimizing Performance through Stress and Embodiment Levels in Virtual Reality Using Autonomic Responses
- ReLU Fields: The Little Non-linearity That Could ...
Oya Celiktutan (King's College London)¶
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Date: 23rd March 2022
Presenter: Oya Celiktutan, Assistant Professor at King's College London
Title: Towards Building Socially Informed and Adaptive Robotic Systems
Iuri Frosio (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 17th March 2022
Presenter: Iuri Frosio, Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: Research & videogames @ NVIDIA – the cases of saliency estimation and cheating prevention
Avi Bar-Zeev (RealityPrime)¶
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Date: 9th March 2022
Presenter: Avi Bar-Zeev
Title: Beyond Meta - AR and the Road Ahead
Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (British Broadcasting Corporation)¶
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Date: 2nd March 2022
Presenter: Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Researcher at British Broadcasting Corporation
Title: Designing for the Future: Exploring the Impact of (Immersive) Experiences on BBC Audiences
Lauria Waller (University of California, Berkeley)¶
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Date: 23rd February 2022
Presenter: Laura Waller, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Computational Microscopy
Doğa Doğan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)¶
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Date: 16th February 2022
Presenter: Doğa Doğan, Phd Candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Unobtrusive Machine-Readable Tags for Seamless Ineractions with Real-World Objects
Anthony Steed (University College London)¶
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Date: 2nd February 2022
Presenter: Anthony Steed, Professor at University College London
Title: So you want to build a Metaverse
2021¶
The seminar series of 2021 is conducted with the help of several key people at University College London. Many of these seminars are coordinated by Kaan Akşit. Kaan has received help from Klara Brandstätter, Felix Thiel, Oliver Kingshott, Tobias Ritschel, Tim Weyrich and Anthony Steed for moderation and organization of several of these events.
Sebastian Friston (University College London)¶
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Date: 24th November 2021
Presenter: Sebastian Friston, Research Associate at University College London
Title: Ubiq
Wolfgang Stürzlinger (Simon Fraser University)¶
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Date: 17th November 2021
Presenter: Wolfgang Stürzlinger, Professor at Simon Fraser University
Title: Current Challenges and Solutions for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Nels Numan (University College London) and Koray Kavaklı (Koç University)¶
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Date: 10th November 2021
Presenters:
- Koray Kavaklı, MSc student at Koç University
- Nels Numan, PhD student at University College London
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- Learned Holographic Light Transport
- Asymmetric Collaborative Mixed Reality
David Swapp (University College London)¶
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Date: 3th November 2021
Presenters: David Swapp, PhDSenior Research Fellow at University College London
Title: Who are VR systems designed for?
Katharina Krösl (VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality and Visualisierung)¶
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Date: 20th October 2021
Presenters: Katharina Krösl, Researcher at VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung
Title: Simulating Vision Impairments in XR
Morgan Mcguire (Roblox)¶
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Date: 14th October 2021
Presenters: Morgan Mcguire, Chief Scientist at Roblox
Title: Metaverse Research
Wenzel Jakob (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)¶
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Date: 6th October 2021
Presenters: Wenzel Jakob, Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Title: Differentiable Simulation of Light
Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford University)¶
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Date: 29th September 2021
Presenters: Gordon Wetzstein, Associate Professor at Stanford University
Title: Towards Neural Signal Processing and Imaging
Anjul Patney (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 22nd September 2021
Presenters: Anjul Patney, Principal Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: Peripheral Perception & Pixels
Douglas Lanman (Facebook)¶
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Date: 15th September 2021
Presenters: Douglas Lanman, Director of Display Systems Research at Facebook Reality Labs, Affiliate Instructor at University of Washington
Title: How to Pass the Visual Turing Test with AR/VR Displays
Sylvia Xueni Pan (Gold Smiths, University of London)¶
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Date: 8th September 2021
Presenters: Sylvia Xueni Pan, Lecturer in Graphics, Gold Smiths, University of London
Title: Virtual Social Interaction in VR
Duygu Ceylan (Adobe)¶
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Date: 28th July 2021
Presenters: Duygu Ceylan, Senior Research Scientist, Adobe
Title: Neural Dynamic Characters
Oliver Kingshott and Michael Fischer (University College London)¶
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Date: 21th July 2021
Presenters:
- Oliver Kingshott, MSc student at University College London
- Michael Fischer, PhD student at University College London
Title:
- Lensless Learning
- Learning to Overfit
Yuta Itoh (Tokyo Institute of Technology)¶
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Date: 14th July 2021
Presenters: Yuta Itoh, Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo
Title: Vision Augmentation: overwriting our visual world via computation
Kaan Akşit (University College London)¶
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Date: 7th July 2021
Presenters: Kaan Akşit, Associate Professor at University College London
Title: Towards remote pixelless displays
Cengiz Öztireli (University of Cambridge, Google)¶
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Date: 28th June 2021
Presenters: Cengiz Öztireli, Associate Professor at University of Cambridge, Senior Researcher at Google
Title: 3D Digital Reality - Modeling for Perception
Paul Linton (City, University of London)¶
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Date: 23rd June 2021
Presenters: Paul Linton, Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City, University of London
Title: Size and Distance Perception for Virtual Reality
Luca Morreale and Lisa Izzouzi (University College London)¶
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Date: 16th June 2021
Presenters:
- Luca Morreale, PhD student at University College London
- Lisa Izzouzi, Phd student at University College London
Title: - Interpretable Neural Surface Maps - Meaningful meetups in Virtual Reality
Rafał Mantiuk (Cambridge University)¶
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Date: 9th June 2021
Presenter: Rafał Mantiuk, Reader in Graphics and Displays at the University of Cambridge
Title: Modelling the quality of high frame-rate graphics for adaptive refresh rate and resolution
Peter Shirley (NVIDIA)¶
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Date: 2nd June 2021
Presenter: Peter Shirley, Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Title: A tour of the rapidly moving target of computer graphics
David Walton and Rafel Kuffner dos Anjos (University College London)¶
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Date: 26th May 2021
Presenters:
- David Walton, Postdoctoral researcher at University College London
- Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, Postdoctoral researcher at University College London
Title:
- Beyond Blur: Ventral Metamers for Foveated Rendering
- Metameric Inpainting for Image Warping
Tobias Ritschel (University College London)¶
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Date: 19th May 2021
Presenters: Tobias Ritschel, Professor of Computer Graphics at University College London
Title: Blue noise plots
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Philip Henzler and David Griffiths (University College London)¶
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Date: 12th May 2021
Presenters:
- Philip Henzler, PhD student at University College London
- David Griffiths, PhD student at University College London
Title:
- Generative Modelling of BRDF Textures from Flash Images
- 3D object detection without scene labels
Klara Brandstätter and Felix Thiel (University College London)¶
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Date: 5th May 2021
Presenters:
- Klara Brandstätter, PhD student at University College London
- Felix Thiel, PhD student at University College London
Title:
- Creating Lively Interactive Populated Environments
- You have control. I have control
Victoria Rege and Alex Titterton (Graphcore)¶
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Date: 28th April 2021
Presenters:
- Victoria Rege, Director, Alliances & Strategic Partnerships at Graphcore
- Alex Titterton, Field Engineer at Graphcore (and former CERN Physicist)
Title: Next in Machine Intelligence