Demetri Terzopoulos
About Demetri Terzopoulos
Affiliations
- New York University
- Seikei University
- University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science
Location
- Toronto, Ontario
Bio
SIGGRAPH 1995
Demetri Terzopoulos (Chair) (PhD ’84 EECS, MIT, MEng ’80 EE, BEng ’78 Hons EE, McGill U) is a full professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Visual Modeling Group, and is a Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. From 1985-92 he was affiliated with Schlumberger, Inc , serving as Program Leader at its research labs in Palo Alto, CA, and Austin, TX. During 1984-85 he was a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge, MA. He has published more than 150 scientific articles primarily in computer vision and graphics but also in computer-aided design, medical imaging, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, including the recent edited volumes “Real-Time Computer Vision” (Cambridge Univ Press ’94) and “Animation and Simulation” (Springer-Verlag ’95). He has been a SIGGRAPH course and panel organizer and has produced 7 SIGGRAPH technical papers in his eight years of graphics research. His graphics and vision work has been recognized with several awards, including 3 university Excellence Awards, an award from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1987 for his work on deformable models in vision, an award from the IEEE in 1987 for his work on active contours (snakes), an award from the Canadian Academy of Multimedia Arts and Sciences in 1994 and an award from Arts Electronica in 1995 both for his work on artificial animals. He serves on the editorial boards of Graphical Models and Image Processing and the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation and on advisory committees for the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Institutes of Health.
SIGGRAPH 1994
Demetri Terzopoulos (BEng EE 1978, MEng EE 1980, McGill University; PhD CS 1984 MIT) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. From 1985-92 he was affiliated with Schlumberger, Inc., serving as Program Leader at the Laboratory for Computer Science, Austin, TX, and at the former Palo Alto Research Laboratory. During 1984-85 he was a Research Scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. He has published numerous papers on computer graphics and computer vision. He has authored five SIGGRAPH technical papers, has lectured in five SIGGRAPH courses, and organized a SIGGRAPH panel. He has received several awards, including a Best Paper Award from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He serves on the editorial boards of CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing and the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation. Terzopoulos is a member of the IEEE, New York Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi.
SIGGRAPH 1991
Demetri Terzopoulos is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. For the past five years he has been affiliated with Schlumberger, Inc., serving as a program leader at the Laboratory for Computer Science, Austin, TX, and at the former Palo Alto Research Laboratory. Previously he was a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. His areas of interest include computer vision, computer animation, visualization and massively parallel computation. Terzopoulos received a PhD in artificial intelligence from MIT in 1984. He received an MEng in electrical engineering in 1980 and a BEng in honours electrical engineering in 1978, both from McGill University. He is a member of the editorial boards of CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing and the Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation and is a member of the IEEE, AAAI, NY Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2001: Technical Papers
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 1997: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
Experience Collaborations
Learning
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Courses
Panels
Posters
Talks-Sketches
Presenter(s):Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “Behavioral Modeling and Animation: Past, Present, and Future” by Reynolds, Joshi, Simpson and Perlin
- “Physically-Based Modeling: Past, Present, and Future” by Pittman, Barr, Zeltzer, Witkin, Blinn, et al. …
Courses Organized
- “Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality” by Blumberg, Prusinkiewicz, Reynolds, Thalmann and Terzopoulos
- “Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality” by Blumberg, Prusinkiewicz, Reynolds, Sims, Thalmann, et al. …
- “Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, and Virtual Reality” by Maes, Prusinkiewicz, Reynolds, Sims, Thalmann, et al. …
- “Facial Modeling and Animation” by Haber, Blanz, Borshukov, Williams and Terzopoulos
- “A Primer on Shapes: Curves and Surfaces” by Goshtasby, Rockwood and Terzopoulos
- “Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality” by Maes, Prusinkiewicz, Reynolds, Sims, Thalmann, et al. …
- “Object shape and reflectance modeling from observation” by Sato, Wheeler and Ikeuchi
Other Information
Roles
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
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