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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!

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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
adriana

Adriana Schulz (Brown University)

Design by & for optimization

11:00am-11:15am

Coffee Break

11:15am-12:00pm
dhawal

Dhawal Sirikonda (Dartmouth College)

From Rendering to Imaging: Controlling Light with Sound


ningnawang

Ningna Wang (Columbia University)

Inside Shapes: Understanding Shapes through Medial Geometry
12:00pm-1:00pm

Lunch
1:00pm-2:00pm

Keynote

fredo

Frédo Durand (MIT)

Can academic research compete with industry?
A historical perspective from Computer Graphics

2:00pm-2:15pm

Coffee Break

2:15pm-3:15pm
ted

Theodore Kim (Yale University)

The Dynamics of Race and Power in Computer Graphics

3:15pm-4:00pm

Poster Session

  • Unified Brain Surface and Volume Registration (Mazdak Abulnaga, MIT & MGH)
  • Contouring Signed Distance Data (Xiana Carrera, Columbia University)
  • Kalman Path Guiding: Playing with Bayesian Filters for Importance Sampling (Caz Cherniko, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
  • Residual Primitive Fitting of 3D Shapes with SuperFrusta (Aditya Ganeshan, Brown University)
  • Afro vision: Improving Hair Segmentation for Curly and Afro Textured Hair (Pamela Sanchez Hernandez, Laney College)
  • An Undergraduate Research Initiative: Lessons Learned (William Joel, Computer Graphics & Animation Research Projects )
  • A Monte Carlo Rendering Framework for Simulating Optical Heterodyne Detection (Juhyeon Kim, Dartmouth College)
  • Wave-Coupled Material Point Method for Acoustic-Structure Interaction (Jin Woo Lee, MIT)
  • Bandwidth Limited Imaging via Sparse Scanning and Generative Priors (Peiran Li, Dartmouth College)
  • Transient Programs for Modeling User Intent in Direct Manipulation-based Visual Design (Xiaoyi Liu, Brown University)
  • Surface Power Diagrams for Knit Singularity Placement (Rahul Mitra, Boston University)
  • MatClaw (Abishek Muralikrishna, University of New Hampshire)
  • Tangent Blow-Ups for Processing Non-Manifold Geometry (Alice Petrov, MIT)
  • Hyper-Dimensional Deformation Simulation (Alvin Shi, Yale University)
  • From on shot generation to progressive co creation (Zoe De Simone, MIT )
  • MCMC Methods for Terrain Generation (Hridhay Suresh, Yale University)
  • Clara- No form. No Stress. Anywhere (Rishika Thulasi)
  • Variational Support Functions (Anh Truong, MIT)
  • Practical Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces with Sparse Convolutions (Kehan Xu, Dartmouth College )
  • Coffee: Controllable Diffusion Fine-tuning (Ziyao Zeng, Yale University)
  • Harmonic Caching for Walk on Spheres (Zihong Zhou, Dartmouth College)

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    4:00pm-4:45pm
    arman

    Arman Maesumi (Brown University)

    Monte Carlo Geometric Operators for Large-Scale Learning on Meshes


    grace

    Grace Guo (Harvard University)

    Concepts and Counterfactuals: Strategies for Auditing Text-to-Image Models
    4:45pm-5:00pm

    Closing Remarks

    Organizers

    Ana Dodik
    Ahmed Mahmoud
    Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh
    Leticia Mattos Da Silva
    Justin Solomon

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