Vision, Image Computation, and Computer Graphics (VICG) Group

Working with Us

If you are interested in our research areas, please contact any of the staff whose interests match your own. For admission into VUW's postgraduate programme, please refer to our section on Postgraduate Study for details. The details for funding and other scholarship sources are also available there.

Staff

Computer Graphics

• Prof Neil Dodgson (Professor) - Computer Graphics, 3DTV, 3D modelling, including NURBS and subdivision surfaces, Design and Art
• A/Prof Taehyun Rhee (Associate Professor) - Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Virtual Human Modeling, Perceptually Based Rendering and Composition, Immersive Visualisation for AR/VR, Computer Vision, and Scientific Visualisation (e.g. Medical Image)
• Dr Zohar Levi (Lecturer) - Computer Graphics, Geometry Processing, Shape modeling and Animation; shape interpolation, shape registration, and surface reconstruction.
• Dr Fanglue Zhang (Lecturer) - Computer Graphics, computational photography, image and video analysis and editing

Image Processing

• Prof Bastiaan Kleijn (Professor) - Image Processing, signal processing, information theory, and audio and video signal processing
• A/Prof Marcus Frean (Senior Lecturer) -- Image Processing, Machine Learning
• Dr Christopher Hollitt (Senior Lecturer) - Image Processing, Computer Vision, machine perception, feature recognition, robot

Computer Vision

• A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu (Senior Lecturer) - Evolutionary Computer Vision, Image Processing, Ant Colony Optimisation, Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Electronics Optimisation and Processing
• Prof Mengjie Zhang (Professor) - Evolutionary Computer Vision, Edge Detection and Segmentation, Image Feature Extraction and Selection, Object Recognition, machine learning
• Prof Will Browne (Senior Lecturer) - Evolutionary Computer Vision, Learning Classifier Systems, Machine Learning, Applied Cognitive Systems

Information Visualisation

• Dr Stuart Marshall (Senior Lecturer) - Visualisation, mobile user interfaces, natural user interfaces (touch / gesture)
• Dr Craig Anslow (Lecturer) - Visualisation, HCI, Software Engineering

Adjunct Faculty

• Dr John Lewis (Adjunct, Weta Digital) - Computer Vision and machine learning for computer graphics, Character animation, Caricature, aesthetics, and perceptual research in graphics
• Wan-Chun Ma (Adjunct, Activision and ETH) - Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
• Miguel A._Sepulveda (Adjunct, Ubisoft) - Computer Graphics (Physics and Games)
• Jaewoo_Seo (Adjunct, Industrial Light & Magic) - Computer Graphics (Animation engines, Computer Vision)
• Yeongho_Seol (Adjunct, Weta Digital) - Computer Graphics (Facial motion capture and Animation)

Visitors

• Prof. Christopher Batty, University of Waterloo, August-October 2017
• Prof. Todd Zickler, Harvard University, January-July 2017
• Dr. Fabrice Neyret, CNRS/INRIA, and Weta textures researchers, 18 February 2016
• Dr. Ken Anjyo, OLM Digital, February 2013, February 2016
• Prof. Junho Kim, Kookmin University, 2015-current
• Prof. Neil Dodgson, University of Cambridge, April-June 2015
• Dr. Chongyang Ma, U. Southern California, 4 August 2014
• Prof. Hao Li, U. Southern California, 28 July 2014
• Prof. Seung-Hyun Yoon, Dongguk University, visiting in 2013-2014.
• Jonathan Dupuy, U. Universite Claude Bernard Lyon and U. Montreal, 8 May 2014
• Prof. Hiroyuki Ochiai, Kyushu University, 14 February 2014 (talk on Lie group applications in graphics)
• Ryan Anderson and Eugene Goh, Gameloft, 9 October 2013
• Dr. Wan-chun Alex Ma, Weta, 20 September 2013
• Dr. Patrice Delmas, U. Auckland, 19 June 2013
• Dr Andy Song, RMIT University, Australia. Visitor, 10 August - 9 December 2011.