Wenjin Zhou, a first year Ph.D. student in computer science, received the first place award in the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Student Research Competition at the 2006 SIGGRAPH conference. Her award winning presentation, Perceptual Coloring and 2-D Sketching for Segmentation of Neural Pathways, utilizes scientific visualization to help doctors …
"Predicting 3D People from 2D Pictures" co-authored by Ph.D. candidate Leonid Sigal and Professor Michael Black, won the best paper award at the Forth International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO-e 2006) in Mallorca, Spain. Sigal's research focuses on building vision systems that can detect and track people …
Ph.D. candidate Dan Keefe’s work is featured on the ACM SIGGRAPH ARTS website as part of the Established Artist Introduces Emerging Artist (EA2) series. The article highlights Dan’s work with CavePainting, an artistic medium that uses a 3D analog of 2D brush strokes to create 3D works of art in …