News and Events

1/8/2008

The UH Gaming Development (course) website is open. It collects various XNA video games delicately dveloped by UH students who took our gaming classes!

10/10/2007

Our gaming class and forthcoming Open House demo were reported on NSM communication newsletter!

1/11/2007

Our 10-camera Vicon Motion capture system was installed successfully!

25/10/2006

Website of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab sets up.

[08/16/08] As a co-PI, Prof. Deng was awarded a Grant from National Science Foundation to work on the project "Tablet PC-Based Indexed Captioned Searchable Videos for STEM Coursework" (PI: J. Subhlok).

[08/15/08] Prof. Daniel H. Kim from the Baylor College of Medicine visited the CGIM Lab and discussed possible research cooperations.

[07/27/08] As the PI, Prof. Deng was awarded a Seed Grant from the Methodist Hospital to work on the electronic medical record project, as a part of UH-TMH collaborative research initiative.

[07/18/08] As a co-PI, Prof. Deng was awarded a IBIS Seed Grant to work on the project "Systems bioinformatics and bioimaging approach for discovering target motifs", in collaboration with the Methodist Hospital Research Institute.

[06/25/08] The NHARP grant awarded to Prof. Deng was mentioned in the latest University of Houston research news "Research Nets $2.5 Million in Grants For UH Professors".

[06/23/08] Prof. Ergun Akleman from the visualization department of the Texas A&M University visited the CGIM Lab and discussed possible research cooperations.

[06/16/08] As the sole PI, Prof. Deng was awarded a UH FDIP grant to work on a cyber-enabled course project learning system through web-based collaboration.

[06/06/08] The "TeamAwesome" team consisting of four students in our inaugurated video gaming class and its game Nebulus made into the final Top 20 teams in the world in the Microsoft ImageCup 2008 Game competition. This Nebulus game was developed using Microsoft XNA Game Studio. Here is the NSM news link, "Computer Science Students Among International Gaming Finalists"

[05/29/08] Xiaohan Ma, a PhD student at CGIM Lab, was awarded a student travel grant to attend ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008 at Dublin, Ireland at July 7-9, 2008.

[05/23/08] Prof. Xiaoping Liu from the Hefei University of Technology visited the CGIM Lab and checked our recent research demos.

[05/16/08] Paper "Perceptually Guided Expressive Facial Animation" has been accepted into ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008 that will be held at Dublin, Ireland at July 7-9, 2008.

[05/12/08] Prof. Marcia O'Malley from the Rice University visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on haptic-based system research in her research group.

[05/09/08] The CGIM Lab will host the forthcoming TexGraph 2008 Conference at UH on May 15th, 2008. TexGraph conference is an annual gathering for Texas researchers in graphics, visualization, and interactive technique. Prof. Deng is the program chair for the TexGraph 2008.

[05/05/08] Prof. Lin Zhong from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Rice University visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on energy-efficient and mobile computing.

[05/05/08] Prof. Dimitris Metaxas from the Department of Computer Science at the Rutgers University visited the CGIM Lab.

[04/28/08] As the sole PI, Prof. Deng was awarded a research contract from the the Methodist Hospital Research Institute (THM-RI) to work on graphical algorithms for neuroImages.

[04/28/08] Prof. Wotao Yin from the Department of Computational and Applied Math at Rice University visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on compressive image algorithms.

[04/28/08] Prof. Christophe Collet from the University of Strasbourg (France) visited the CGIM Lab and checked out recent research results.

[04/24/08] As a part of the research team, Prof. Deng was awarded an international research and education grant from the Partner University Fund (PUF) of the France to work on computational surgery and its dual training (UH PI: M. Garbey). This grant is used to support the research and education collaboration efforts among the University of Houston, the Methodist Hospital, Strasbourg University (France), and the IRCAD (France). This PUF program funded 10 projects out of 67 proposals (its funded ratio is about 14.9%).

[04/24/08] As the sole PI, Prof. Deng was awarded a research grant from the Texas Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (NHARP) to work on facial animation. In computer science research area, the NHARP program funded 9 projects out of 130 proposals this year (about 5.2% funded ratio).

[04/24/08] Prof. Ian Parberry from the Recreational Computing Lab at the University of North Texas visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on the gaming education and research at UNT.

[04/21/08] Prof. Qianmei Feng from the UH Industrial Engineering Department visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on her research projects.

[04/14/08] Dr. Tianming Liu from the Methodist Hospital Research Institute visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on functional brain mapping.

[04/09/08] Paper "Compression of Human Motion Capture Data using Motion Pattern Indexing" was accepted into Computer Graphics Forum (CGF).

[04/07/08] Dr. Craig Fischer from the Methodist Hospital visited the UH CGIM Lab and discussed possible research cooperations in computational surgery.

[04/07/08] Paper "Expressive Speech Animation Synthesis with Phoneme-Level Control" was accepted into Computer Graphics Forum (CGF).

[03/17/08] Prof. Scott King from Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, visited the UH CGIM Lab and checked our latest research results and discussed possible research cooperations.

[03/11/08] Ten guests from Exxon Mobil Cooperation visited the UH CGIM Lab and checked our latest research results and demos.

[02/21/08] Paper "Interactive 3D Facial Expression Posing through 2D Portrait Manipulation" was accepted into Graphics Interface 2008 Conference that will held at Windsor, Ontario, Canada at May 2008.

[02/20/08] Dr. Brendan Godfrey, the Director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research visited the UH CGIM Lab and checked our latest research demos.

[02/14/08] Three guests including the CEO of TDK Inc. visited the CGIM Lab and discussed possible technology transfer opportunities.

[01/28/08] Dr. Stephen TC Wong, vice chair and chief of Medical Physics of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute visited the CGIM Lab and checked our latest research results and demos.

[01/08/08] The UH Gaming Development (course) website is open. It collects various XNA video games delicately dveloped by UH students who took our gaming class!

[11/19/07] Our paper "A Novel Visual System for Expressive Facial Motion Data Exploration" (by Sucontphunt, Yuan, Li, and Deng) was accepted into 2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium as a full paper and will be presented at the conference at Kyoto, Japan.

[10/30/07] Prof. Patrick Bordnick, Director of UH Virtual Reality Clinical Research Center, visited the CGIM Lab and discussed our collaboration in virtual reality research.

[10/20/07] On the annual open house day (Oct 20th, 2007) held by UH Computer Science Department, the CGIM Lab held two interactive demos: Motion Capture, Virtual Characters, and Facial animation, and Interactive Game Development demo that showcase selected video games developed by COSC 4397/6397 students. In the meantime, four graduate students in the Lab will present four research posters to participate in its research poster competition.

[10/15/07] Paper "Facial Motion Capture Editing by Automated Orthogonal Blendshape Construction and Weight Propagation" authored by Qing Li and Zhigang Deng, is accepted to IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) as a full paper.

[10/15/07] The new "Interactive Gaming class" offered by Prof. Deng and Prof. Johnson was reported at the NSM Breakthrough - A monthly communication letter produced by NSM. Here is its link: "New Class Lets Students Develop Video Games".

[10/10/07] Prof. Luc Soler , Research project manager at IRCAD (France) visited the CGIM Lab and discussed our forthcoming collaboration in medical imaging and augmented reality.

[10/09/07] Research at CGIM Lab was featured at the latest news article of UH College of Natural Science and Mathematics (NSM) "Open House Presents Computer Science's Most Exciting High-Tech Projects".

[10/1/07] Prof. John Keyser at Texas A&M University visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on his research "Interactive Physically-Based Simulation".

[09/26/07] Dr. Brian Dunkin at the Methodist hospital visited the CGIM Lab and discussed a collaborative project on using facial animation technologies for health care.

[09/24/07] Prof. Hong Qin at Stony Brook University visited the CGIM Lab and gave a talk on his research "Manifold Splines: From Points to Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology".

[08/20/07] Prof. David Francis at Psychology Department of the University of Houston, the Director of UH TIMES center, visited the CGIM Lab and discussed our possible collaboration projects.

[04/16/07] Our paper "Online Motion Capture Marker Labeling for Multiple Interacting Articulated Targets" is accepted to Eurographics 2007 as a full paper (oral presentation), which will be held at Prague, Czech Republic at September 2007.

[04/09/07] Three guests from the Methodist Hospital visited the CGIM Lab and discussed possible research opportunities in graphics simulation in medical applications.

[04/02/07] Prof. Bienenstock from UH college of Liberal Arts & Socience Sciences visit the CGIM Lab.

[03/29/07] Prof. Criner from the Texas Southern University visit the CGIM Lab and discussed possible cooperation opportunities in intelligent education systems.

[02/08/07] Three guests from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH) visit the CGIM Lab and discussed possible research cooperations.

[01/29/07] One of the facial animation projects is funded by the UH New Faculty Research Program.

[01/16/07] Ph.D. student Tanasai Sucontphunt joined the CGIM Lab from Thailand. Welcome, Tanasai!

[01/11/07] An optical motion capture system with 10 Vicon cameras were installed successfully!

[10/25/06] The website of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab at UH (graphics.cs.uh.edu) sets up.