Derek Nowrouzezahrai - Dynamics Graphics Project - University of Toronto

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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 illumination effects under the supervision of Dr. John Snyder. I will be conducting research at Disney Research Zurich as an intern during the summer of 2009 with Dr. Wojciech Jarosz.			e-mail: my first name@dgp.toronto.edu work phone: +1 (416) 946-8427

Publications

2009

	Title	Author(s)
	Fast Global Illumination on Dynamic Height Fields Special Issue of Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)	Nowrouzezahrai, Snyder
	Data-driven curvature for real-time line drawing of dynamic scenes ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - presented at ACM SIGGRAPH	Kalogerakis, Nowrouzezahrai, Simari, Mccrae, Hertzmann, Singh
	Shadowing Dynamic Scenes with Arbitrary BRDFs Special Issue of Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics Conference (EG)	Nowrouzezahrai, Kalogerakis, Fiume
	Multi-objective shape segmentation and labeling Special Issue of Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (SGP)	Simari, Nowrouzezahrai, Kalogerakis, Singh
	Extracting lines of curvature from noisy point clouds Journal of Computer Aided Design (CAD)	Kalogerakis, Nowrouzezahrai, Simari, Singh

2008

	Title	Author(s)
	Solving Radiance Transport as a Differential Equation	Nowrouzezahrai, Gonterman
	Fast Soft Self-Shadowing on Dynamic Height Fields Special Issue of Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)	Snyder, Nowrouzezahrai
	Shadowed Relighting of Dynamic Geometry with 1D BRDFs Eurographics Short Papers (EGsp)	Nowrouzezahrai, Kalogerakis, Simari, Fiume
	Video browsing by direct manipulation ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)	Dragicevic, Ramos, Bibliowicz, Nowrouzezahrai, Balakrishnan, Singh

2007

	Title	Author(s)
	Compact and efficient generation of radiance transfer for dynamically articulated characters GRAPHITE	Nowrouzezahrai, Simari, Kalogerakis, Singh, Fiume
	Eigentransport for efficient and accurate all-frequency relighting GRAPHITE Winner: Best paper award!	Nowrouzezahrai, Simari, Kalogerakis, Fiume
	Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination Pacific Graphics (PG)	Sloan, Govindaraju, Nowrouzezahrai, Snyder
	Robust statistical estimation of curvature on discretized surfaces Special Issue of Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (SGP)	Kalogerakis, Simari, Nowrouzezahrai, Singh

2006

	Title	Author(s)
	Vortex Based Smoke Simulation and Control	Nowrouzezahrai
	A controllable, fast and stable basis for vortex based smoke simulation Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)	Angelidis, Neyret, Singh, Nowrouzezahrai
	GPU-accelerated ray casting of node-based implicits ACM SIGGRAPH Poster	Lessig, Nowrouzezahrai, Singh

2005 and before

	Title	Author(s)
	High-Performance Double-Precision Cosine Generation International Conference on Computer Design (CDES)	Nowrouzezahrai, Decker, Bishop

Academic Service (Reviewing and Affiliations)
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Graphics Journal Reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches Reviewer for EUROGRAPHICS Conference Reviewer for Graphics Interface Conference Reviewer for Computers and Graphics (C&G) Journal	Reviewer for High Performance Computing Reviewer for C&G Spec. Ed. on Natural Phenomena Reviewer for Journal of Supercomputing Active member of the ACM and EUROGRAPHICS Member of the Dynamic Graphics Project

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