CGIT researchers presented work on Siggraph 2004

[Aug,2004]

At ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 (Los Angeles), CGIT researchers presented one paper "VisualIDs: Automatic Distinctive Icons for Desktop Interfaces" (J.P.Lewis, R. Rosehnoltz, N. Fong, U. Neumann) and one technical sketch "Improved Automatic Caricature by Feature Normalization and Exaggeration" (Z. Mo, J.P. Lewis, and U. Neumann).

Graduate student attended 2003 IBM UIT Student Symposium

[Sep 20,2003]

Zhigang Deng,a Ph.D. student in CGIT Lab, was invited to attend 2003 IBM User Interface Technology (UIT) Student Symposium at IBM T.J. Waston Research Center on Sep 15,2003. And in this symposium, Deng gave a talk on practical eye movement model using texture synthesis.

New York Times report facial animation research in CGIT

[Sep 4,2003]

Dr. Ulrich Neumann, director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at U.S.C. in NY Times article. Integrated Media Systems Center research to classify and quantify characteristic human expression will let Hollywood directors fill screens with virtual actors.
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Three new Ph.D. students joined into our Lab.

[Sep 1,2003]

Three new Ph.D. students (Ismail Oner Sebe,Taehyun Rhee and Kyung-Kook Park) joined in to our Lab, starting from 2003 Fall.

AVE system installed at Northrup Grumman

[Aug,2003]

In August of 2003, CGIT researchers Ulrich Neumann, Suya You, Jinhui Hu, Ismail Oner Sebe, and Bolan Jiang developed and installed an AVE demonstration system at Northrup Grumman in Carson. The Augmented Virtual Environment (AVE) system will be used for demonstrations of video stream visualization for security applications.

NSF Report Fasttrack: Behind the Blockbusters--Special Effects Tool Locks Characters onto Film

[July 31,2003]

IMSC has developed exciting new software which allows for faster and easier integration of special effects into movies. The notable effects house Rhythm & Hues used this software with great success on several recent blockbuster films, including Daredevil and X-Men 2.
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Recent visitors to CGIT Lab

Aug 13, 2004 Prof. Yizhou Yu from UIUC visited CGIT lab, and gave a talk on image registration for graphics applications. Specifically, He presented his latest work on "feature-guided texture synthesis" and "video morphing".

Jun 11 2003 Aaron D'Souza visited from the machine learning group at USC, to tell us about... machine learning

Apr 16 2003 Philippos Mordohai from the IRIS lab of USC gave a talk on tensor voting

Nov 27 2002 Armin Bruderlin from Sony Pictures Imageworks talked about rendring fur and other things

July 8 2002 Nickson Fong (ESC) presented his work on HDR image lighting

Jun 19 2002 Chris Bregler and Erika Cheung from Stanford University visited; Erika showed her work on emotion mapping

Jun 15 2002 Ben Cheung from Walt-Disney Feature Animation (ex Square) talked about modeling topics on Final Fantasy

Mar 20 2002 Eric Enderton from Dreamworks lead a discussion of computer graphics pipeline issues. Always a snappy dresser, Enderton was wearing an all-black ensemble with a matching bolo tie made of walrus tusk.