Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Computer Graphics Professor in the LIGUM group / Professeur d'infographie dans le groupe LIGUM
Derek Nowrouzezahrai 

Assistant Professor  —  Professeur adjoint
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO)
Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO)
University of Montreal  —  Université de Montréal

PhD/MSc Toronto 2010/2006   (Supervisor / Directeur: Dr. Eugene Fiume)
BASc Waterloo 2005                        (Supervisor / Directeur: Dr. William D. Bishop)

mbox{textsf{derek@iro.umontreal.ca}}
Phone / Téléphone: +1 (514) 343-6111 x.26949
Fax: +1 (514) 343-5834

Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
Office / Bureau: 2347
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7

Research Interests / Domaines de recherche

Students / Étudiants

In Progress / En cours

  • Thomas Houit (MSc 2011)
  • Thomas Siegrist (Msc 2011)
  • Marina Späni (MSc 2011)
  • Graduated / Diplômés

  • Benjamin Müller (MSc 2011)
  • Philipp Keller (MSc 2011)
  • Jan Novak (Intern 2011)
  • Rahul Muhki (Intern 2011)
  • Sebastien Milius (BSc 2011)
  • Stefan Geiger (MSc 2011)
  • Silvan Tschopp (MSc 2011)
  • Adrian Blumer (BSc 2011)
  • Philipp Simmler (MSc 2011)
  • Michael Morandi (MSc 2012)
  • Courses / Cours

    IFT3355 Computer Graphics (undergraduate) / Infographie (premier cycle) Winter 2012 / Hiver 2012

    Publications

    2012
    Learning Hatching for Pen-and-Ink Illustration of Surfaces
    Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Simon Breslav, Aaron Hertzmann
    ACM Transactions on Graphics - to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH
    Delta Radiance Transfer
    Bradford Loos, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Wojciech Jarosz, Peter-Pike Sloan
    ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D)
    Manufacturing Layered Attenuators for Multiple Prescribed Shadow Images
    Ilya Baran, Philipp Keller, Derek Bradley, Stelian Coros, Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Markus Gross
    Computer Graphics Forum: Eurographics Conference
    Irradiance Rigs
    Hong Yuan, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Peter-Pike Sloan
    Journal of Graphics, GPU, and Game Tools
    2011
    A Programmable System for Artistic Volumetric Lighting
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jared Johnson, Andrew Selle, Dylan Lacewell, Michael Kaschalk, Wojciech Jarosz
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH)
    Featured on Proceedings Back Cover and in Papers Fast Forward Video!
    Modular Radiance Transfer
    Bradford Loos, Lakulish Antani, Kenny Mitchell, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Wojciech Jarosz, Peter-Pike Sloan
    ACM Transactions on Graphics - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
    Featured in Papers Fast Forward Video!
    Progressive Photon Beams
    Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Robert Thomas, Peter-Pike Sloan, Matthias Zwicker
    ACM Transactions on Graphics - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
    Featured in the Proceedings Inside Cover and the Papers Fast Forward Video!
    Wrap Shading
    Peter-Pike Sloan, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Hong Yuan
    Journal of Graphics, GPU, and Game Tools
    Perceptually-Based Compensation of Light Pollution in Display Systems
    Jeroen van Baar, Steven Poulakos, Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Rasmus Tamstorf, Markus Gross
    Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
    Run-time Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer
    Bradford Loos, Lakulish Antani, Kenny Mitchell, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Wojciech Jarosz, Peter-Pike Sloan
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Talks
    Light Factorization for Mixed-Frequency Shadows in Augmented Reality
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Stefan Geiger, Kenny Mitchell, Robert Sumner, Wojciech Jarosz, Markus Gross
    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
    2010
    Irradiance rigs (sketch)
    Hong Yuan, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Peter-Pike Sloan
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Talks
    A Comprehensive Theory of Volumetric Radiance Estimation using Photon Points and Beams
    Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Iman Sadeghi, Henrik Wann Jensen
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Presented at SIGGRAPH
    2009
    Fast Global Illumination on Dynamic Height Fields
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, John Snyder
    Computer Graphics Forum: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Featured on Proceedings Back Cover!
    Data-driven curvature for real-time line drawing of dynamic scenes
    Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, James McCrae, Aaron Hertzmann, Karan Singh
    ACM Transactions on Graphics - Presented at SIGGRAPH
    Shadowing Dynamic Scenes with Arbitrary BRDFs
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Eugene Fiume
    Computer Graphics Forum: Eurographics Conference
    Robust statistical estimation of curvature on discretized surfaces
    Evangelos Kalogerakis, Patricio Simari, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Karan Singh
    Computer Graphics Forum: Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP)
    Multi-objective shape segmentation and labeling
    Patricio Simari, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Karan Singh
    Computer Graphics Forum: Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP)
    Extracting lines of curvature from noisy point clouds
    Evangelos Kalogerakis, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, Karan Singh
    Journal of Computer Aided Design (CAD)
    2008
    Video Browsing by Direct Manipulation
    Pierre Dragicevic, Gonzalo Ramos, Jacobo Bibliowicz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Ravin Balakrishnan, Karan Singh
    Proceeding of the 26th annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (SIGCHI)
    Fast Soft Self-Shadowing on Dynamic Height Fields
    John Snyder, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Computer Graphics Forum: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Shadowed Relighting of Dynamic Geometry with 1D BRDFs
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Patricio Simari, Eugene Fiume
    Proceedings of Eurographics Short Papers
    Solving Radiance Transport as a Differential Equation
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Chris Gonterman
    Department of Computer Science Tech Report CSRG-588 - University of Toronto
    2007
    Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination
    Peter-Pike Sloan, Naga K. Govindaraju, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, John Snyder
    Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG)
    Eigentransport for efficient and accurate all-frequency relighting
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Eugene Fiume
    GRAPHITE ’07: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australia and Southeast Asia

    Winner: Best paper award!

    Compact and efficient generation of radiance transfer for dynamically articulated characters
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Karan Singh, Eugene Fiume
    GRAPHITE ’07: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australia and Southeast Asia
    2006
    A controllable, fast and stable basis for vortex based smoke simulation
    Alexis Angelidis, Fabrice Neyret, Karan Singh, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation (SCA)
    GPU-accelerated ray casting of node-based implicits
    Christian Lessig, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Karan Singh
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Research posters
    Vortex Based Smoke Simulation and Control
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai
    Master Thesis - University of Toronto
    2005
    High-Performance Double-Precision Cosine Generation
    Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Brian Decker, William Bishop
    Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Computer Design

    Academic Service / Responsabilités académiques

    Reviewer for:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches
  • EUROGRAPHICS Conference
  • Graphics Interface Conference
  • Computers and Graphics
  • High Performance Computing
  • C&G Spec. Ed. on Natural Phenomena
  • Journal of Supercomputing
  • Companies I've worked for… / J'ai anciennement travaillé pour…

    Research in Motion Amazon.com Electronic Arts Canada Microsoft Microsoft Research Redmond Disney Research Zurich
    © Derek Nowrouzezahrai 2005 - 2012