news archive

Below are old news. Latest news are available on the IGL main page.

08.11.2022
Congratulations to Wang Yifan on winning the ETH Medal for her PhD thesis!
15.09.2022
Maria Korosteleva joins IGL as postdoctoral researcher, welcome!
13.09.2022
"Smooth Non-Rigid Shape Matching via Effective Dirichlet Energy Optimization" wins the Best Paper Award at 3DV 2022!
06.08.2022
Our SGP 2007 paper "As-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) surface modeling" (by Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Marc Alexa) won the Test of Time Award at SGP 2022.
25.05.2022
We have 4 new papers accepted to the SIGGRAPH 2022 journal paper track, as well as 2 ACM TOG papers that will also be presented at SIGGRAPH 2022. Check out our publications page for details!
16.05.2022
Aviv Segall joins IGL as PhD student, welcome!
15.12.2021
Jing Ren joins IGL as postdoctoral researcher, welcome!
20.11.2021
Olga Sorkine-Hornung is awarded the Golden Owl for excellence in teaching at ETH Zurich.
09.09.2021
Peizhuo Li joins IGL as PhD student (direct doctorate program), welcome!
01.06.2021
Alexandre Binninger joins IGL as PhD student, welcome!
10.05.2021
We have new papers at CHI, EUROGRAPHICS, CVPR and SIGGRAPH! Check out our publications page for details.
13.01.2021
Olga Sorkine-Hornung is named ACM Fellow.
10.12.2020
Katja Wolff successfully defended her PhD thesis, congratulations!
09.12.2020
Olga Sorkine-Hornung receives the ERC Consolidator Grant.
25.11.2020
Congratulations to Michael Rabinovich on winning the ETH Medal for his PhD thesis!
25.09.2020
We have 3 new papers to appear at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020! Check out our publications page for details.
08.07.2020
Two projects honored with awards at SGP 2020! Instant Meshes receives the SGP 2020 Software Award, and Properties of Laplace Operators for Tetrahedral Meshes receives the SGP 2020 Best Paper Award.
15.05.2020
We have a new paper "Skeleton-Aware Networks for Deep Motion Retargeting" to appear at SIGGRAPH 2020. Check out the codebase on GitHub!
13.03.2020
Our paper "Neural Cages for Detail-Preserving 3D Deformations" has been accepted as Oral to CVPR 2020.
13.03.2020
COVID-19 update: ETH Zurich has closed its doors in light of the pandemic. Stay home and stay safe!
16.12.2019
Michael Rabinovich successfully defended his PhD thesis, congratulations!!
18.10.2019
Oliver Glauser successfully defended his PhD thesis, congratulations!!
01.10.2019
joins IGL as PhD student, welcome!
25.09.2019
We will present three papers at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2019 and two at VMV 2019.
02.05.2019
We will present three papers at SIGGRAPH 2019 and one at CVPR 2019.
18.03.2019
Philipp Herholz joins IGL as postdoctoral researcher, welcome!
15.03.2019
Alexandra Ion joins IGL as postdoctoral researcher, welcome again!
01.11.2018
Floor Verhoeven joins IGL as PhD student, welcome!
18.10.2018
Christian Schüller successfully defended his PhD thesis, congratulations!!
04.09.2018
Alexandra Ion joined IGL as a visiting researcher, welcome!
01.08.2018
Shihao Wu joins IGL as postdoctoral researcher, welcome!
23.04.2018
Alla Sheffer visited IGL and spoke at the ETH Zurich Distinguished CS Colloquium.
20.04.2018
Our paper Packable Springs received an Honorable Mention at the Best Paper award ceremony at Eurographics 2018!
14.12.2017
Olga Sorkine-Hornung was promoted to Full Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.
18.09.2017
Olga Sorkine-Hornung accepted to serve as the Technical Papers Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2019.
18.09.2017
Olga Sorkine-Hornung accepted to serve on the ACM Turing Award Committee.
02.08.2017
Wang Yifan joins IGL as PhD student, welcome!
21.06.2017
Olga Sorkine-Hornung receives the Max Rössler Prize.
02.06.2017
Gerard Pons-Moll visits IGL and speaks at the Visual Computing Lunch.
27.05.2017
The ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017 Technical Papers sort takes place at IGL.
08.05.2017
Yaron Lipman visits IGL and speaks at the ETH Zurich Distinguished CS Colloquium.
24.04.2017
Olga Sorkine-Hornung receives the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award.
08.03.2017
We are honored to host Prof. Mario Botsch for his short sabbatical at ETH!
04.11.2016
Congratulations to Kaan Yücer on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
28.10.2016
Our paper "Depth from Gradients in Dense Light Fields for Object Reconstruction" won the Best Paper Award at 3DV 2016!
06.10.2016
Congratulations to Romain Prévost on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
03.05.2016
We have new publications available, including SIGGRAPH 2016 and TOG papers! Check out the publications page.
02.05.2016
Katja Wolff and Michael Rabinovich joined IGL. Welcome!
15.10.2015
Olga Diamanti has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Diamanti!
29.09.2015
We have two upcoming SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 papers, check them out!
01.09.2015
Roi Poranne and Changil Kim join IGL.
10.07.2015
Our open-source geometry processing library libigl wins the Software Award at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2015!
01.07.2015
Alex (Wan-Chun) Ma joins IGL.
09.06.2015
Two new books co-authored/co-edited by Olga Sorkine-Hornung! Check out "Digital Representations of the Real World: How to Capture, Model, and Render Visual Reality" and "A Sampler of Useful Computational Tools for Applied Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing". Especially the second one took many years to write, it was started when Olga was a PhD student and contains a lot of fun and useful wisdom for Visual Computing students and practitioners.
08.06.2015
We have a bunch of new publications this year, including 3 papers to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2015. Check out our publications page!
14.05.2015
Olga Sorkine-Hornung was named Fellow of the Eurographics Association. More...
04.05.2015
Daniele Panozzo wins the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award!
01.03.2015
An open postdoc position in facial animation is available, please send your application with a recent CV to our lab address or via e-mail.
07.02.2015
Olga Sorkine-Hornung was selected to serve on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics journal.
12.12.2014
Olga Sorkine-Hornung was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure :-) ETH news announcement...
27.11.2014
"Einstein" on SRF (Swiss Radio and Television) did a segment on our research, including the Tangible and Modular Animation Device! Check out the full show (in German), our part starts around 9:55.
05.11.2014
We have 2 new SIGGRAPH ASIA papers this year! Check out our publications page for more details.
01.10.2014
Oliver Glauser joins IGL.
20.08.2014
Last week at the ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies exhibition, we had the honor of presenting our "Puppet" articulation device to thousands of participants, including the Mayor of Vancouver (BC)! Here is a snapshot of the event and a media release about our project.
14.08.2014
CGAL releases a package that implements our As-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Deformation! Check it out!
14.08.2014
The source code for our paper "Content-Aware Surface Parameterization for Interactive Restoration of Historical Documents" is now available. Check it out!
11.07.2014
Our paper on Designing N-PolyVector Fields with Complex Polynomials presented at SGP 2014 has received the Best Paper award!
11.06.2014
We have 4 new SIGGRAPH papers this year, as well as two ACM TOG papers, to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2014. Check out our publications page for more details.
08.05.2014
A new, free iPad app called Animato implements our skinning method using Bounded Biharmonic Weights! The app allows users to animate their photos using an intuitive multitouch interface. Check it out at the Apple AppStore!
30.03.2014
Our SIGGRAPH 2011 paper "Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Deformation" is reprinted as a Research Highlight by the Communications of the ACM, with a foreword by Joe Warren.
25.03.2014
The new (2.7) version of Blender apparently contains a Laplacian Deform Modifier, based on our Laplacian Mesh Editing work! More...
17.03.2014
Alec Jacobson wins the Eurographics Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis. The award is given to the best PhD theses in Computer Graphics in Europe. Congratulations, Alec!
14-17.03.2014
Holly Rushmeier visits IGL and speaks at the Distinguished Computer Science Colloquium. More...
03.03.2014
Migros-magazin publishes an upbeat story featuring the so-called try-out study week (Schnupperstudium) of our Forum for Women in Computer Science. More...
27-28.02.2014
Tim Hoffmann visits IGL and gives a guest lecture in the group seminar.
24-25.02.2014
Detlef Mueller, senior manager of digital creation at Adidas, visits IGL.
03.02.2014
Check out our new EUROGRAPHICS 2014 and TOG papers! Among other things, we are working with colleagues at UCL to digitally restore historical parchments from The Great Parchment Book.
04.01.2014
Happy New Year! New this year, we added the Code section to our website, where we list all research software and code of our group. Note the public release of the libigl library! More...
04.12.2013
Congratulations to Wenzel Jakob for winning the ETH/Marie Curie Fellowship for his postdoctoral research!
07.11.2013
Alec Jacobson will be awarded the ETH Medal for his PhD thesis, titled "Algorithms and Interfaces for Real-Time Deformation of 2D and 3D Shapes". Congratulations again, Dr. Jacobson!
21.10.2013
Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins the Intel Early Career Faculty Award.
01.08.2013
Wenzel Jakob joins IGL.
29.07.2013
Daniel Cohen-Or is visiting IGL for a month.
16.07.2013
François Faure visits IGL. More...
08.07.2013
Yanir Kleiman and Oliver van Kaick from Tel Aviv University are visiting IGL for three months.
26.06.2013
We have three new SGP papers. The materials are now online.
30.05.2013
A free iOS app based on our Axis-Aligned Image Retargeting is out! It is called Refooormat, available on the AppStore for iPhone and iPad.
20.05.2013
Check out the ACM SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Preview! Around time 01:15 you can see snippets from two of our papers.
06.05.2013
Daniele Panozzo wins the 2013 EUROGRAPHICS Annual Award for Best PhD Thesis!
03.05.2013
Alec Jacobson successfully completed his PhD examination. Congratulations, Dr. Jacobson!
19.04.2013
We have five new SIGGRAPH papers. The materials are now online.
10.04.2013
Oliver van Kaick visits IGL. More...
02.04.2013
Romain Prévost joins IGL.
26.03.2013
nano on 3sat features a story about our research. More (in German)...
01.03.2013
Christian Schüller joins IGL.
14.12.2012
ETH Life publishes an article about Daniele Panozzo's and Olga Sorkine-Hornung's collaboration with Phonak. More...
19.11.2012
Tino Weinkauf and David Günther visit IGL for the week.
18.10.2012
We have two new SIGGRAPH ASIA papers. The materials are now online.
08.10.2012
Leo Guibas visits our group and gives the CS Colloquium. More...
03.10.2012
Sony visits the Institute of Visual Computing and IGL.
03.10.2012
Alec Jacobson wins the Intel Doctoral Student Honor Fellowship.
27.09.2012
Vizrt visits the Institute of Visual Computing and IGL.
17.09.2012
Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins the ETH Latsis Prize 2012.
17.09.2012
Leonardo Sacht (IMPA) joins IGL as a visiting PhD student and winner of a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.
16.08.2012
Olga Sorkine-Hornung is awarded the ERC Start-up Grant for the project "iModel: Intelligent Shape Modeling".
21.06.2012
Emily Whiting wins the ETH / COFUND Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
04.06.2012
Jernej Barbic visits our group. More...
10.05.2012
Our new SIGGRAPH paper materials are now online.
10.05.2012
Ofir Weber visits our group. More...
02.04.2012
Kenshi Takayama joins IGL.
29.03.2012
Mario Botsch visits our group. More...
02.01.2012
New master and bachelor thesis projects posted! See our student projects page (available only within the ETH network).
14.12.2011
Our paper on axis-aligned deformations for image retargeting has been accepted to EUROGRAPHICS 2012.
5-6.12.2011
Peter Schroeder visits our group.
15.11.2011
Ladislav Kavan and Emily Whiting join IGL.
3-7.11.2011
Marco Tarini visits our group.
01.11.2011
The Game Developer Magazine lists Olga Sorkine in the annual Top 50 persons who have made a signi cant impact on the game industry.
01.10.2011
Kaan Yücer joins IGL.
12.09.2011
We have three new SIGGRAPH ASIA papers, check out our publications webpage.
01.09.2011
Olga Diamanti and Daniele Panozzo join IGL.
17.08.2011
Olga Sorkine-Hornung is elected to the EUROGRAPHICS Executive Committee.
03.08.2011
Olga Sorkine-Hornung receives the 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.
23.05.2011
As-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling won a project slot at Google Summer of Code 2011 and will be implemented as part of CGAL over the summer. More...
10.05.2011
We have two new SIGGRAPH papers, check out our publications webpage.