News
Congratulations to Our Recent Graduates
gigl-admin — August 29, 2017 - 9:13am
Congratulations to Ramin Modarresiyazdi and Carlos Aviles. Both Ramin and Carlos have submitted a Masters thesis and are recent graduates of our lab. Ramin's thesis is entitled Procedural 2D Cumulus Clouds Using Snaxels, and Carlos thesis is entitled Image Stylization using Depth Information for Hatching and Engraving effects. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Our Recent Graduates
gigl-admin — June 16, 2016 - 12:16am
Congratulations to Ehren Choy, Ziyi Hu, and Ling Xu for being recent graduates of our lab. Ehren has submitted his Masters thesis entitled Smooth Signed Distance Field Textures, and Ling Xu has submitted her doctoral thesis entitled Abstract and Realistic Tree Modeling. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ling on Completing Her PhD!
gigl-admin — January 15, 2016 - 12:00am
Congratulations to Ling for submitting her PhD thesis entitled Abstract and Realistic Tree Modeling. Her work presents novel methods for both abstract and realistic tree modeling. Ling has now taken a position at the University of Houston-Downtown.
GIGL Open House
gigl-admin — September 24, 2015 - 12:22pm
The Graphics, Imaging, and Games Lab is holding an open house on Thursday, Oct 1, from 1:30 to 3:30. All are welcome! Come by to see informal demos of our ongoing research related to computer graphics, image processing, and computer games, meet current graduate students in the lab, and talk with computer graphics professors about future honors projects or graduate studies. There might be cookies. You can find us in HP 5317.
Congratulations to Jay on Completing His Masters!
gigl-admin — September 24, 2015 - 7:58am
Lab member Jiayu Li recently submitted Masters thesis entitled Edge-preserving Image Upsampling and Image Warping. His work focuses on the reconstruction of sharp edges on upsampled image plane through filtering-based techniques and pixel migration. He also proposed a warping mechanism for painterly rendering.
Welcome to Benjamin, Our Newest Lab Baby
gigl-admin — April 7, 2015 - 12:05pm
A warm welcome to our newest lab baby, Benjamin! He was born on March 30, 2015 weighing 3.657 kg and sporting a full head of hair and even a white beard. Congratulations to Oliver and Hisako.
Welcome to Our Newest Students
gigl-admin — January 8, 2015 - 5:23pm
GIGL welcomed Masters students Carlos Aviles, Kevin Xiao, and Ramin Modarresiyazdi this past fall, and PhD student Rosa Azami this January. All students are interested in computer graphics and image processing.
GIGL Welcomes Assistant Professor Oliver van Kaick
gigl-admin — September 30, 2014 - 12:00am
GIGL welcomed Assistant Professor Oliver van Kaick, who joined Carleton University as a faculty in the Fall of 2014. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Tel Aviv University and Simon Fraser University. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in 2011. Oliver's research interests lie in computer graphics, including topics such as shape analysis, shape matching, and geometric modeling.
GIGL at Graphics Interface
gigl-admin — May 20, 2014 - 2:48pm
Present and former GIGL members attended Graphics Interface 2014 in Montreal. Hua Li received the Alain Fournier award, previously announced; Chujia Wei presented her paper on coordinated particle systems; and Maryam Ariyan's poster was recognized with the Best Graphics Poster award and a prize of a Dell tablet. Also of interest was the CHCCS lifetime achievement award, given this year to Eugene Fiume; Eugene was David Mould's PhD supervisor.
Lab Member Hua Wins Best Thesis Award
gigl-admin — March 24, 2014 - 9:44am
GIGL graduate Hua Li is the recipient of the prestigious Alain Fournier award for the best computer graphics dissertation in Canada in 2013. The award will be presented at Graphics Interface 2014 in Montreal in May. Hua's work concentrated on image stylization, producing beautiful halftoning, stippling, and line drawing effects (see her thesis here). Hua previously won the Michael A. J. Sweeney award for best student paper at Graphics Interface in 2010, and her paper on continuous-line drawing was an honorable mention for the best paper award at ARTECH 2012.
Official announcement
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