Karan Singh
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- JALI Research
Location:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bio:
Karan Singh is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, where he co-directs the graphics and human computer interaction lab, DGP. His research interests lie in artist-driven interactive graphics, spanning geometric shape design, character animation, and artistic rendering. He has been a lead architect on various commercial software systems, including Maya, and his interactive tools have been used on a number of film projects, including the 2005 Oscar-winning animated short Ryan.
Exhibition Category: Jury Member:
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Experience(s):
Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Face Extrusion Quad Meshes
Organizer(s): [Pandey] [BÆrentzen] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2022]
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Technical Papers]
Juxtaform: Interactive Visual Summarization for Exploratory Shape Design Presenter(s): [Pandey] [Chevalier] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Piecewise-smooth surface fitting onto unstructured 3D sketches Presenter(s): [Yu] [Arora] [BÆrentzen] [Singh] [Bousseau]
[SIGGRAPH 2022]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive modelling of volumetric musculoskeletal anatomy Presenter(s): [Abdrashitov] [Bang] [Levin] [Singh] [Jacobson]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Optimizing UI layouts for deformable face-rig manipulation Presenter(s): [Kim] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Type: [Technical Papers]
A System for Efficient 3D Printed Stop-motion Face Animation Presenter(s): [Abdrashitov] [Jacobson] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
JALI-Driven Expressive Facial Animation and Multilingual Speech in Cyberpunk 2077 Presenter(s): [Edwards] [Landreth] [Popławski] [Malinowski] [Watling] [Fiume] [Singh]
Entry No.: [60]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Nonlinear Color Triads for Approximation, Learning, and Direct Manipulation of Color Distributions Presenter(s): [Shugrina] [Kar] [Fidler] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
Type: [Technical Papers]
RigNet: Neural Rigging for Articulated Characters Presenter(s): [Xu] [Zhou] [Kalogerakis] [Landreth] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Visemenet: audio-driven animator-centric speech animation Presenter(s): [Zhou] [Xu] [Landreth] [Kalogerakis] [Maji] [Singh]
Entry No.: [161]
[SIGGRAPH 2018]
Type: [Panels]
AR And VR Futures Presenter(s): [Peña] [Rosenberg] [Feiner] [Singh]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Technical Papers]
JALI: an animator-centric viseme model for expressive lip synchronization Presenter(s): [Edwards] [Landreth] [Fiume] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2016]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Modeling Character Canvases From Cartoon Drawings Presenter(s): [Bessmeltsev] [Chang] [Vining] [Sheffer] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2016]
Type: [Technical Papers]
SecondSkin: sketch-based construction of layered 3D models Presenter(s): [Paoli] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2015]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Flow-Complex-Based Shape Reconstruction From 3D Curve Sketches Presenter(s): [Sadri] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Interactive shape modeling using a skeleton-mesh co-representation Presenter(s): [BÆrentzen] [Abdrashitov] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Type: [Technical Papers]
True2Form: 3D curve networks from 2D sketches via selective regularization Presenter(s): [Xu] [Chang] [Sheffer] [Singh] [Bousseau] [McCrae]
[SIGGRAPH 2014]
Type: [Technical Papers]
CrossShade: shading concept sketches using cross-section curves Presenter(s): [Shao] [Bousseau] [Sheffer] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2012]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning 3D mesh segmentation and labeling Presenter(s): [Kalogerakis] [Hertzmann] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
meshmixer: an interface for rapid mesh composition Presenter(s): [Schmidt] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
DirectCam: a gestural system for animatic creation Presenter(s): [Lockwood] [Simari] [Coleman] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Type: [Posters]
DirectCam: a gestural system for animatic creation Presenter(s): [Lockwood] [Simari] [Coleman] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Type: [Posters]
Interface techniques for 3D control of spatial keyframing Presenter(s): [Mordatch] [Coleman] [Singh] [Balakrishnan]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Type: [Posters]
GPU-accelerated ray casting of node-based implicits Presenter(s): [Lessig] [Nowrouzezahrai] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
Type: [Courses]
Interactive Shape Editing Organizer(s): [Alexa]
Presenter(s): [Cani] [Frisken] [Schkolne] [Singh] [Zorin]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
Type: [Posters]
CubeCam: a screen-space camera manipulation tool Presenter(s): [Sudarsanam] [Grimm] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Cords: Keyframe Control of Curves with Physical Properties Presenter(s): [Coleman] [Singh]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
Type: [Posters]
Sketching Non Linear Projections Presenter(s): [Grimm] [Barret] [Sudarsanam] [Singh] [Coleman]
Entry No.: [074]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Wires: a geometric deformation technique Presenter(s): [Singh] [Fiume]
[SIGGRAPH 1998]
Learning Category: Moderator:
Type: [Technical Papers]
DeepLoco: dynamic locomotion skills using hierarchical deep reinforcement learning Presenter(s): [Peng] [Berseth] [Yin] [Panne]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Discovering and synthesizing humanoid climbing movements Presenter(s): [Naderi] [Rajamäki] [Hämäläinen]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Learning to Schedule Control Fragments for Physics-Based Characters Using Deep Q-Learning Presenter(s): [Liu] [Hodgins]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Phase-functioned neural networks for character control Presenter(s): [Holden] [Komura] [Saito]
[SIGGRAPH 2017]
Role(s):
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Show Jury Member
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Technical Paper Presenter