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✨ Bringing the New England computer graphics and vision research community together for a day of networking, technical talks, and exchanging ideas. ✨


Registration

Secure your spot at New England Symposium on Graphics by registering here. Space is limited, so don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity!

Looking for details from past events? Visit the 2020 NESG page.


Location

This year, the New England Symposium on Graphics will be hosted at: MIT - Building 34, Room 101.

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Schedule

Time Event
9:45am-10:00am

Opening
10:00am-11:00am
Speaker

James Tompkin (Brown University)

Lights, Camera, Action!
Active Illumination and Differentiable Rendering for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

11:00am-11:15am

Coffee Break

11:15am-12:00pm
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Ticha Sethapakdi (MIT)

Design and Fabrication Systems for Dynamic Media
12:00pm-1:00pm

Lunch
1:00pm-2:00pm

Keynote

Keynote Speaker

Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College)

Monte Carlo, from Movies to PDEs

2:00pm-2:15pm

Coffee Break

2:15pm-3:00pm
Speaker

Mengqi (Mandy) Xia (Yale University)

Unveiling Reality Through Multiscale Optical Simulations and Inverse Rendering

3:00pm-4:00pm

Poster Session

  • Volume Scattering Probability Guiding (Kehan Xu, Dartmouth College)
  • Curl Quantization for Automatic Placement of Knit Singularities (Rahul Mitra, Boston University)
  • Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly-Coiled Hair (Alvin Shi, Yale University)
  • Mean-Shift Distillation for Diffusion Mode Seeking (Vikas Thamizharasan, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Faraday Cage Estimation of Normals for Point Clouds and Ribbon Sketches (Daniel Scrivener, Boston University)
  • Event fields: Capturing light fields at high speed, resolution, and dynamic range (Quinton Qu, Dartmouth College)
  • Time of the Flight of the Gaussians: Optimizing Depth Indirectly in Dynamic Radiance Fields (Runfeng Li, Brown University)
  • Into the Portal: Directable Fractal Self-Similarity (Alexa Schor, Yale University)
  • TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression (Guodong Chen, Northeastern University)
  • NeST: Neural Stress Tensor Tomography by leveraging 3D Photoelasticity (Akshat Dave, MIT)
  • Doppler Time-of-Flight Rendering (Juhyeon Kim, Dartmouth College)
  • Addressing Flicker Problems in Active Area Labels for Augmented Reality (Hojung (Ashley) Kwon, Boston University)
  • Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation (Kumail Al Hamoud, MIT)
  • Real-time Procedural Point Cloud Morphing in Virtual Reality (Suwan Kim, MIT)
  • ShapeSonic: Sonifying Fingertip Interactions for Non-Visual Virtual Shape Perception (Jialin Huang, George Mason University)
  • Snapshot Lidar: Fourier embedding of amplitude and phase for single-image depth reconstruction (Sarah Friday, Dartmouth College)
  • A Manifold Perspective on the Statistical Generalization of Graph Neural Networks (Juan Cervino, MIT)
  • Geometry ⇌ Learning: From augmenting feature spaces to learning on surfaces (Arman Maesumi, Brown University)
  • Structured Geometry: Infer, Edit, Fabricate (Aditya Ganeshan, Brown University)
  • SynthLight: Portrait Relighting with Diffusion Model by Learning to Re-render Synthetic Faces (Sumit Chaturvedi, Yale University)

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    4:00pm-5:00pm
    Speaker

    Edward Chien (Boston University) & Benjamin Jones (MIT)

    Computational Knitting: Foliations & Parametric Models

    5:00pm-5:15pm

    Closing Remarks

    Parking

    Limited number of metered parking spot are available along Vassar and Main Streets. Several public parking garages are also nearby.

    Organizers

    Ana Dodik
    Ahmed Mahmoud
    Leticia Mattos Da Silva
    Justin Solomon

    MIT photo by Thomas Hawk. Header photo by Mohan Nannapaneni.