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2024

• Amrita Ganguly and Chuan Yan's paper ShadowMagic: Designing Human-AI Collaborative Support for Comic Professionals’ Shadowing was accepted to UIST 2024. This is a collaboration with our friends John Joon Young Chung, Tong Steven Sun, Yoon Kiheon, and Ray Hong.
• Yotam Gingold and Rana Hanocka received an NSF Medium award (Untethered3D: In-Air 3D Modeling Using Non-Visual Feedback)
• Chuan Yan defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Yan! His next stop is a post-doc at Stanford with Maneesh Agrawala.
• Chuan Yan (and Yong Li)'s paper Deep Sketch Vectorization via Implicit Surface Extraction was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2024 and will appear in a special issue of TOG. This is a collaboration with our friends Deepali Aneja, Matthew Fisher, and Edgar Simo-Serra.
• Chuan Yan (and Yong Li)'s paper Deep Sketch Vectorization via Implicit Surface Extraction was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2024 and will appear in a special issue of TOG. This is a collaboration with our friends Deepali Aneja, Matthew Fisher, and Edgar Simo-Serra.
• Yong Li's paper I❤️MESH: A DSL for Mesh Processing was accepted to TOG and will appear at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. This is a collaboration with our friends Shoaib Kamil, Alec Jacobson, and Keenan Crane.
• Yong Li defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Li!
• Yotam Gingold gave a talk on Color, Shape, and Thought at the Brown Visual Computing Seminar.
• Yotam Gingold will serve on the 2024 SIGGRAPH North America, SGP, EGSR, and SMI program committees.

2023

• Joe Graus defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Graus!
• Jialin Huang's paper ShapeSonic: Sonifying Fingertip Interactions for Non-Visual Virtual Shape Perception was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. This is a collaboration with our friends Rana Hanocka and Alexa Siu.
• Yotam Gingold will serve on the Eurographics 2024 program committee.
• Ted Chao's paper ColorfulCurves: Palette-Aware Lightness Control and Color Editing via Sparse Optimization was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2023.
• Differentiable Heightfield Path Tracing with Accelerated Discontinuities was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2023. This is a collaboration with our friends Xiaochun Tong, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson.
• Image vectorization and editing via linear gradient layer decomposition was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2023. This is a collaboration with our friend Kun Xu's group.
• Ted Chao's paper LoCoPalettes: Local Control for Palette-based Image Editing was accepted to EGSR 2023.
• Matthew Yoon and Samantha Tone joined us for the summer.
• We received gift money from Adobe. Thank you!
• Capital Graphics 2023 was a success!
• Henro Kriel defended his Master's thesis on I❤️IQ: A Shader Graphing Calculator for Signed Distance Functions (SDFs).
• Yotam Gingold will serve on the SGP 2023 and SMI 2023 technical papers program committees.

2022

• Yong Li's paper H❤️rtDown: Document Processor for Executable Linear Algebra Papers was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. This is a collaboration with our friends Shoaib Kamil and Alec Jacobson.
• We held Capital Graphics 2022.
• Yotam Gingold became an associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum (CGF).
• Yotam Gingold was selected for a SIGGRAPH Member Profile.
• We received gift money from Adobe. Thank you!
• Yotam Gingold spoke at the Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design. Watch the recording.
• Chuan Yan's paper FlatMagic: Improving Flat Colorization through AI-driven Design for Digital Comic Professionals has been conditionally accepted to CHI 2022. This is a collaboration with our friends John Joon Young Chung, Yoon Kiheon, Eytan Adar, and Ray Hong.
• Yotam Gingold will serve on the SIGGRAPH North America 2022, Eurographics 2022, SGP 2022, EGSR 2022, and SMI 2022 technical papers program committees.

2021

• Yong Li gave a talk at the Toronto Geometry Colloquium on I❤️LA.
• Xue Yu gave a talk at the Toronto Geometry Colloquium on ScaffoldSketch.
• Yong Li's paper I❤️LA: Compilable Markdown for Linear Algebra was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. This is a collaboration with our friends Shoaib Kamil and Alec Jacobson.
• Xue Yu's paper ScaffoldSketch: Accurate Industrial Design Drawing in VR was accepted to UIST 2021. This is a collaboration with our friends Stephen DiVerdi and Akshay Sharma.
• Ted Chao's paper PosterChild: Blend-Aware Artistic Posterization was accepted to EGSR 2021. This is a collaboration with our friend Karan Singh.
• Yotam Gingold moderated the ``Structures and Scenery'' session at SIGGRAPH North America 2021.
• Jason Klein joined our group.
• Our paper Video Recoloring via Spatial-Temporal Geometric Palettes was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2021. This is a collaboration with our friend Kun Xu's group.
• Songrun Liu and Jianchao Tan's paper Hyperspectral Inverse Skinning was presented at Eurographics 2021.
• Gabriel Thomsen joined our group.
• Yotam Gingold is serving on the SIGGRAPH Research Career Development Committee.
• Yotam Gingold's 3-year term as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) came to an end.
• Yotam Gingold served on the program committees of SIGGRAPH North America 2021 (technical papers), SGP 2021, SMI 2021, and ICCV SHE 2021.

2020

• Chuan Yan's paper A Benchmark for Rough Sketch Cleanup has been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. This is a collaboration with our friend David Vanderhaeghe.
• We received gift money from Adobe. Thank you!
• Joe Graus's paper Interacting with Self-Similarity was accepted to the journal Computer-Aided Design.
• Yotam Gingold will be the moderator for the Pattern and Color (virtual) session at SIGGRAPH North America 2020.
• Josh Park is visiting us for the summer (virtually).
• Xue Yu is interning at Adobe Research (virtually).
• Songrun Liu and Jianchao Tan's paper Hyperspectral Inverse Skinning was accepted to Computer Graphics Forum.
• Yotam Gingold served on the program committees for SGP, SMI, and PG 2020.

2019

• Yotam Gingold visited Virginia Tech's School of Architecture and Design.
• Yotam Gingold is a Visiting Professor at Adobe Research for the 2019–2020 academic year.
• David Vanderhaeghe and his student Filippo Fanni visited for a month.
• Yotam Gingold visited the University of Toronto Dynamic Graphics Project and the Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication II.
• We organized Capital Graphics 2019.
• Dr. Jianchao Tan defended his PhD dissertation.
• Jianchao Tan was awarded the Computer Science department's Outstanding Graduate Student award.
• Yotam Gingold served on the program committees for SGP, SMI, and Expressive 2019.
• Yotam Gingold served on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 program committee.

2018

• Our collaborator Jose Echevarria presented our SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 paper on Efficient palette-based decomposition and recoloring of images via RGBXY-space geometry.
• Dr. Songrun Liu defended his PhD dissertation.
• Yotam Gingold served on the Eurographics 2019 PC.
• Yotam Gingold became an Associate Professor.
• Jianchao Tan presented our TVCG paper Pigmento at Expressive.
• Jianchao Tan presented in the SIGGRAPH Doctoral Symposium.
• Yotam Gingold became an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
• Yotam Gingold visited the INRIA group GraphDeco.
• We hosted Capital Graphics 2018.
• Yotam Gingold served on the SIGGRAPH 2018 PC.
• We received gift money from Adobe. Thank you!

2017

• Zachary Ferguson presented our SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 paper Seamless: Seam erasure and seam-aware decoupling of shape from mesh resolution.
• Adobe added the Puppet Warp tool to Adobe Illustrator, based on our work on Skinning Vector Graphics from SIGGRAPH Asia 2014.
• Jianchao Tan presented our TOG paper on Decomposing Images into Layers via RGB-space Geometry at SIGGRAPH.
• Our collaborator Eric Yao presented our TOG paper on Interactive Design and Stability Analysis of Decorative Joinery for Furniture at SIGGRAPH.
• Yotam Gingold served on the SIGGRAPH 2017 PC.