VISGRAF - News and Announcements

2012

Interview with Jacob Palis and Luiz Velho in Globo Educacao [webpage | pdf]
Alumni Adriana Schulz welcomes President Dilma at MIT. [photo | JN page]
VISGRAF's projects appear in FAPERJ's magazine article about INCTMat.
Lua receives the Front Line Award from Game Developer magazine.

2011

VISGRAF at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011: Tech Sketches and Papers (December/2011)
Participation at Workshop on Visual Computing - UNICAMP (December/2011)
Project integrarte-entregarte selected for Festival Cultura Digital, (December/2011)
Workshop on Computational Manifolds at IMPA, (November/2011)
Work of Barbara Castro at Kinect Hacks, (October/2011)
Advanced Seminar on Computational Manifolds at IMPA, (October/2011)
New Research Position in Visual Computing, (September/2011)
"Real-time Terrain Modeling using CPU-GPU Coupled Computation" receives the SIBGRAPI 2011 Best Technical Video award (August/2011)
VISGRAF at SIGGRAPH 2011, (August/2011)
Lua featured at Revista Veja, (August/2011)
Stephane Mallat visits IMPA, (August/2011)
VISGRAF Lab participates of SBPC Congress , (July/2011)
VISGRAF Lab cited in article "Ciencia Carioca de Primeiro Mundo" of O Dia , (June/2011)
INCTMat / VISGRAF Lab participate of Feira FAPERJ de Ciencia , (June/2011)
Animation research at IMPA cited in article "Novos Caminhos para a Animacao Experimental" - revista Filme Cultura , (May/2011)
VISGRAF Lab cited in article "Celeiro de Mentes que Brilham" of Voce S.A magazine , (May/2011)
BYU TV makes a program about research at the VISGRAF Lab, (April/2011)
Luiz Velho is a new member of the editorial board of IEEE CG&A . (April 2011)
Check out the new YouTube VISGRAF Channel (April 2011)
Cover article of Veja Rio about IMPA and VISGRAF Laboratory [ article | box ] (21 March/2011)
Announcement of Trimester Program on Computational Manifolds (March 2011)
IMPA is one of the reasons to love Rio. [ Veja | pdf ] (27 February/2011)
Event in commemoration of the 21 years of the VISGRAF Laboratory (January/2011)
New design of the VISGRAF website by Fernanda Groetaers, (January/2011)

2010

Visorama 2.0 featured in the 3D special issue of Veja [ pdf ] (11 December/2010)
Press Release of our collaboration with HKUST on gigapixel images [ web | local ] (08 December/2010)
Aldo Zang releases the software ARLuxrender [ webpage ] (30 November/2010)
IMPA / VISGRAF Lab hosts an event to commemorate the 60 years of Jorge Stolfi [ webpage ] (29 November/2010)
"Inconsciente Mecanico" by IMPA's alumni Otavio Schipper and Sergio Krakowski. [ o globo | card ] (24 November/2010)
Isto E' magazine publishes a note on our panorama "Sugar Loaf 0.15TP" [ Print ] (28/October/2010)
News clip about our panorama "Sugar Loaf, 0.15 TP" - Reporter Rio, TV Brasil. [ Video ] (22 October/2010)
Link, O Estado de Sao Paulo's technology section reports on our work on Gigapixel panoramas! [ Blog | Print ] (October/2010)
Rio-HK group breaks for the second time the record of the largest photograph in the world! [ Wikipedia page - 01/10/2010 local copy ] (October/2010)
CollecTable selected as one of the 10 finalists of the Conexoes Tecnologicas Festival (September/2010)
Leonardo Sacht receives the prize for best poster of the VI WVC (September/2010)
"TuioSketch" receives the SIBGRAPI 2010 Best Technical Video award from both the Jury and Public! (August/2010)
Website for the project RioHK is "up in the air" , (August/2010)
VISGRAF at SIGGRAPH 2010, (August/2010)
RioHK Connection breaks the record of the largest photograph in the world (July 22nd, 2010 )
Article about Visorama on Inovacao Tecnologica (July, 2010 )
Paulo Cezar Carvalho is promoted to Full Professor (August, 2010 )
"Dance to the Music / Play to the Motion" wins the first prize at the SIGMAD Animation Festival (4th of July, 2010 )
Marcelo Cicconet's "Guitar Leading Band" selected as a semifinalist in the ACM SRC (July, 2010 )
Aldo Zang's dissertation gets the second prize for CLTM 2010 !. ( July/2010 )
Prof. Davi Geiger from Courante Institute, NYU visits IMPA and VISGRAF ( July/2010 )
Sequel of Bruno's interview at Ciencia Hoje , ( July/2010 )
VISGRAF receives the visit of Prof. Pedro Sander , from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) ( July/2010 )
Our video Dance to the Music / Play to the Motion was accepted to the SIGMAD Animation Festival , Spain ( 01/July/2010 )
Interview with Bruno Madeira on the Technology of 3D Movie Projection , Ciencia Hoje ( June/2010 )
Visorama featured at Revista Digital , O Globo ( 07/June/2010 )
Review of Compressive Sensing Book on Zentralblatt Math ( June/2010 )
Math and Music by Jose Wilker ( June/2010 )
LUA featured on IT Pro ( May/2010 )
The new Visorama unveiled in Boletim da Faperj ( May/2010 )
Videos from VISGRAF Lab in YouTube ( May/2010 )
Luiz Velho receives the award Ordem Nacional do Merito Cientifico [ event fotos ], in ( May/2010 )
Diego Nehab joins the VISGRAF Laboratory , in ( May/2010 )
MS dissertation defense on "Content-Preserving Projections for Panoramas", Leonardo Koller Sacht, ( April / 2010 )
MS dissertation defense on "Normalshop: Modeling surface mesostructure", Thiago Pereira , [ the party ] ( March/2010 )
VISGRAF showcased in Globo Universidade , ( March/2010 )
MS dissertation defense on "A Hybrid Method for Computing Apparent Ridges", Eric Jardim (February/2010 )
Ricardo Motta , CTO from Pixim gives a talk on "The Future of Photograpy" ( February/2010 )
Adriana Schulz , receives the award Bolsa Nota 10 from FAPERJ ( February/2010 )
Lecture Series on Geometric Algebra , Leandro Fernandes, [webpage] ( January/2010 )