image002Derek Nowrouzezahrai

 

 

Lab: Dynamic Graphics Project

Office: 5173, Bahen Centre

Postal address:

  Department of Computer Science

  University of Toronto

  40 St. George Street

  Toronto, Ontario

  Canada M5S 2E4

Email:

  MY FIRST NAME {at} dgp {dot} toronto {dot} edu

Phone:

  +1 416 946 8427

 

 

Me

 

 

I am a Ph.D candidate in the Dynamic Graphics Project lab at the University of Toronto. I completed a BASc in Honours Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in May 2005 and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in October 2006. My research interests are realistic image synthesis, high-performance rendering using commodity graphics hardware and methods for real-time fluid simulation and animation. My supervisor is Dr. Eugene Fiume. I completed an internship at MSR Redmond in 2008 working on interactive global illumination effects under the supervision of Dr. John Snyder.

 

 

 

image018Publications

 

 

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Fast Global-Illumination on Dynamic Height Fields

D. Nowrouzezahrai and J. Snyder

 

Special Issue of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal:

Proceedings of 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 2009)

 

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Shadowing Dynamic Scenes with Arbitrary BRDFs

D. Nowrouzezahrai, E. Kalogerakis, E. Fiume

 

 

Special Issue of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal:

Proceedings of 2009 Eurographics Conference

 

 

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Real-time Line Drawing for Animated Surfaces

E. Kalogerakis, D. Nowrouzezahrai, P. Simari, J. McCrae, A. Hertzmann, K. Singh

 

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)  Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2009

To be presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference.

 

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Multi-objective shape segmentation and labelling

P. Simari, D. Nowrouzezahrai, E. Kalogerakis, K. Singh

 

Special Issue of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal:

Proceedings of 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2009)

 

[PDF] [Video] [Conference Slides]

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Extracting lines of curvature from noisy point clouds

E. Kalogerakis, D. Nowrouzezahrai, P. Simari, K. Singh

 

 

Elsevier Journal of Computer-Aided Design (CAD 2009) – To Appear

 

 

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Solving Radiance Transport as a Differential Equation

D. Nowrouzezahrai and C. Gonterman

 

 

University of Toronto Technical Report CSRG-588

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Fast Soft Self-Shadowing on Dynamic Height Fields

J. Snyder and D. Nowrouzezahrai

 

Special Issue of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal:

Proceedings of 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 2008)

(previously Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-77)

 

[Page] [PDF] [Video] [Conference Slides]

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Video browsing by direct manipulation

P. Dragicevic, G. Ramos, J. Bibliowicz, D. Nowrouzezahrai, R. Balakrishnan, K. Singh

 

Proceeding of CHI 2008 - ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

 

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Shadowed Relighting of Dynamic Geometry with 1D BRDFs

D. Nowrouzezahrai, E. Kalogerakis, P. Simari, E. Fiume

 

Proceedings of Eurographics 2008 Short Papers

 

[PDF] [Video]

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Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination

P-P. Sloan, N. Govindaraju, D. Nowrouzezahrai, J. Snyder

 

Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2007

 

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Compact and Efficient Generation of Radiance Transfer for Dynamically Articulated Characters

D. Nowrouzezahrai, P. Simari, E. Kalogerakis, K. Singh, E. Fiume

 

Proceedings of ACM Graphite 2007

(previously University of Toronto Technical Report CSRG-560)

 

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Eigentransport for Efficient and Accurate All-Frequency Relighting

D. Nowrouzezahrai, P. Simari, E. Kalogerakis, E. Fiume

 

Proceedings of ACM Graphite 2007 – Best Paper Award

(previously University of Toronto Technical Report CSRG-564)

 

[Page] [PDF] [Conference Slides]

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Robust statistical estimation of curvature on discretized surfaces

E. Kalogerakis, P. Simari, D. Nowrouzezahrai, K. Singh

 

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics

Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2007)

 

 

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Vortex Based Smoke Simulation and Control

D. Nowrouzezahrai

 

MSc Thesis – University of Toronto

 

 

 

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A Controllable, Fast and Stable Basis for Vortex Based Smoke Simulation

A. Angelidis, F. Neyret, K. Singh, D. Nowrouzezahrai

 

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics

Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2006)

 

 

[PDF]

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SULAM: GPU-based Visualization of  Lagrangian Simulations

C. Lessig, D. Nowrouzezahrai, K. Singh

 

Poster Session of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference

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High-Performance Double-Precision Cosine Generation

D. Nowrouzezahrai, B. Decker, W. Bishop

 

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Computer Design

(CDES 2005)

 

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image002Academic Service

·        Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Journal

·        Reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches

·        Reviewer for EUROGRAPHICS Conference

·        Reviewer for Graphics Interface Conference

·        Reviewer for Computers and Graphics Journal

·        Reviewer for High Performance Computing Symposium

·        Reviewer for Computers and Graphics Journal Special Edition on Natural Phenomena

·        Reviewer for Journal of Supercomputing

·        Active member of the ACM and EUROGRAPHICS