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Karan Singh
Professor
email:karan[at]dgp.toronto.edu
voice: (416) 978-7201
fax: (416) 978-4765
office: Room BA5258, Bahen Center
postal mailing address:
Karan Singh, Computer Science,
Univ. of Toronto, 40 St. George Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E4.
Often called “natural” approaches to interactive design, inherent limitations in human motor control, artistic skill, perceptual bias, and ambiguities of inference, make it challenging to design sketch/sculpt interfaces. Over the past decade our research has produced a number of groundbreaking systems ilovesketch, meshmixer, crossshade, true2form, and neobarok.
Interactive Character Animation (INCA)
Character setup leaves an animator unencumbered, like a puppeteer, to focus on the formidable task of bringing a character to life. I designed and developed character and facial animation tools for Maya 1.0, with long time collaborator and friend Chris Landreth, and am also part of the Parametric Human Project. My work is focused is on the most expressive parts of our anatomy: face and hands, with a strong recent emphasis on faces through our start-up JALI Research used to drive the face and neck animation of every character in Cyberpunk 2077.
Mathematical Surface Representations for Conceptual Design
From 2003-2012 (the duration of the MITACS NCE), I led a project on the mathematics of shape representation that produced over 100 publications, numerous best paper and technology transfer awards.
Artistic Projection and Rendering
My interest in this area is to use non-photo realism as a tool for self-expression, as a visual manifestation of Nin's observation
"we dont see things as they are, we see them as we are".
In 1994 I was fortunate to work on the first virtual space tele-conferencing system (left) at ATR. My interests in AR/VR today go beyond an augmented world, to one where reality is subtracted, transformed, or more generally transcended. JanusXR is a step in that direction.