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September 17, 2024

Xiaolong Wang Awarded 2024 J.K. Aggarwal Prize

Congratulations to Xiaolong Wang, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, on being awarded the 2024 J.K. Aggarwal Prize by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)! He will be presented with the prize at the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024), which will take place in Kolkata, India from December 1-5, 2024. Full Story


July 25, 2024

Computer Graphics Pioneer Ravi Ramamoorthi Earns His Second Frontiers of Science Award in Two Years

UC San Diego computer scientist Ravi Ramamoorthi earned a Frontiers of Science Award – his second in two years – at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) held in Beijing this month. The awards recognize groundbreaking papers published in the last 10 years. Full Story


July 12, 2024

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS SHED LIGHT ON SCENE RE-RENDERING, EARNING EGSR BEST PAPER AWARD

University of California San Diego researchers from the Jacobs School of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering have proposed a novel rendering technique that could increase rendering efficiency and produce more visually appealing images. The paper, Residual Path Integrals for Re-Rendering, received a best paper award at the 2024 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) held recently in London. Full Story


December 20, 2023

UC San Diego computer science faculty Tzu-Mao Li brings home best paper award from SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Tzu-Mao Li, an assistant professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received one of five best paper awards at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. The paper, “Warped-Area Reparametrization of Differential Path Integrals” was co-authored with researchers at MIT and UC Irvine.    Full Story


August 30, 2023

As SIGGRAPH CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF GRAPHICS RESEARCH, UC San Diego LEADs THE WAY IN RENDERING

UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing faculty are recognized as world leaders in graphics rendering in a new compilation of SIGGRAPH conference papers celebrating the 50th Anniversary of SIGGRAPH.  Full Story


July 25, 2023

UC San Diego computer science professor Ravi Ramamoorthi recognized for contributions to Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology

University of California San Diego computer science professor Ravi Ramamoorthi has received a Frontiers of Science Award at the 2023 International Congress of Basic Science. Ramamoorthi (along with his coauthors) is being honored for his contributions to the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology, as described in trend-setting papers at ECCV 2020 and CACM 2022. The NeRF technology is being recognized in the graphics and geometric computing category at the new conference.  Full Story


July 24, 2023

UC San Diego teams earn four of 18 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships in North America for 2023

Four UC San Diego teams have been awarded prestigious Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships for North America in 2023. The teams are affiliated with UC San Diego's Center for Visual Computing; Center for Wearable Sensors; and Contextual Robotics Institute.    Full Story


March 27, 2023

Faster Slo-Mo?

A new technique developed by UC San Diego computer scientists could have a far-reaching impact on the future of slow-motion video. In an effort to smooth out slow-motion video, they broke new ground in a technique for video processing known as video frame interpolation – a way of digitally “sandwiching” additional animation frames between existing ones while meanwhile evening out any blur to achieve a fluid effect. The new video frame interpolation framework is called FLAVR, or Flow-Agnostic Video Representations for Fast Frame Interpolation. The team is led by computer science professor Manmohan Chandraker.   Full Story


June 23, 2022

UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing celebrates a strong showing at SIGGRAPH 2022

UC San Diego faculty and research teams affiliated with the UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing are well represented, yet again, at SIGGRAPH 2022, which is the top academic venue for the computer graphics field. Full Story


June 13, 2022

An Zheng Awarded Chancellor's Dissertation Medal

An Zheng, a newly minted Ph.D. in UC San Diego’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering,  is among seven university students selected to receive the 2022 UC San Diego Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal. Zheng was co-advised by computer science professor Hao Su, who is a faculty member of the UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing.  Full Story


June 9, 2022

ACM Dissertation Honorable Mention

The ACM Dissertation Honorable Mention has been awarded to Pratul Srinivasan and Ben Mildenhall for their work on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Srinivasan is the last of UC San Diego Computer Science & Engineering professor Ravi Ramamoorthi's graduate students to graduate from UC Berkeley. Professor Ramamoorthi moved from UC Berkeley to UC San Diego in 2014. At UC San Diego, Ramamoorthi Directs the UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing. Full Story


May 17, 2022

Center faculty member Thomas A. DeFanti named to IEEE Virtual Reality Academy

UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing faculty member Thomas A. DeFanti has been inducted into the inagural class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy. Established in 2022 by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC), the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy recognizes significant contributions and highlights the accomplishments of the leaders in the fast-growing virtual reality field.  Full Story