School of Computing Science
SFU Computing Science shines at leading international conferences
Researchers from SFU’s School of Computing Science’s Visual Computing group have made strong impacts at leading international computer science conferences.
From keynote presentations and symposium talks to award-winning papers, their contributions at top-tier international conferences including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Graphic Interface (GI), Conference on Robotics and Vision (CRV), Eurographics, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), and International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)—highlight the group’s continued excellence in research and innovation, and further reinforce SFU’s standing as Canada’s top-ranked institution in Visual Computing and a leader in computing science overall.
CVPR 2025
The IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), the premier international event in computer vision, was held in person at the Music City Center in Nashville from June 11–15, 2025.
SFU’s GrUVi Lab had a strong presence once again at CVPR 2025, contributing to the conference with one workshop, three poster presentations, one highlight paper, and seven invited talks.
Accepted Papers
- AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers
- PIAD: Pose and Illumination agnostic Anomaly Detection
- MoFlow: One-Step Flow Matching for Human Trajectory Forecasting via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation based Distillation
- ArcPro: Architectural Programs for Structured 3D Abstraction of Sparse Points
Invited Talks
- Workshop on Bridging Language, Vision and Action in 3D Environments by Angel Chang
- Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision by Angel Chang
- Workshop on 3D Vision Language Models (VLMs) for Robotic Manipulation by Angel Chang
- Workshop on 3D Scene Understanding for Vision, Graphics, and Robotics by Angel Chang
- Workshop on 3D Digital Twin by Richard Zhang
- Workshop on Ind3D: Enforcing Inductive Bias in 3D Generation by Richard Zhang
- Workshop on Humanoid Agents by Angelica Lim and Jason Peng
Photos from CVPR 2025
CRV & GI 2025
SFU researchers also participated in the 22nd CRV, held in Calgary from May 26–29, 2025. Professor Angel Chang delivered a symposium talk on the how by arranging and placing 3D objects we can create interactive 3D environments for vision and robotics.
At the GI 2025 conference, professors Parmit Chilana and Ali Mahdavi-Amiri delivered the keynote and invited talks, respectively, contributing to the dialogue on human-computer interaction and visual computing innovation. PhD student Afra Liu also won the Best Poster Award for her work "How artists navigate learning with generative image technologies".
Read more about their talks and works.
Photos from CRV & GI 2025
Eurographics 2025
Held in London from May 12–16 and hosted by University College London, the 46th Eurographics Annual Conference brought together experts in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Among SFU’s contributions, PhD student Jiayi Liu presented a State-of-the-Art Report (STAR) titled “Survey on Modeling of Human-made Articulated Objects.”
This report surveys recent developments in modeling articulated objects, which includes, everyday items like cabinets, drawers, and doors that play a critical role in enabling virtual agents to interact with simulated environments. Such research is foundational for advancing robotics, simulation, and digital twin technologies.
Photos from Eurographics 2025
ICLR 2025
The ICLR is one of the most prestigious gatherings for researchers in deep learning and artificial intelligence. Held in Singapore from April 24–28, 2025, this year’s edition featured 12 accepted papers from SFU’s Visual Computing group, showcasing advances in representation learning, machine learning models, and applications of AI.
12 accepted papers at ICLR 2025:
- Diffusion Models for 4D Novel View Synthesis
- SMITE: Segment Me In TimE
- VD3D: Taming Large Video Diffusion Transformers for 3D Camera Control
- SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
- Duoduo CLIP: Efficient 3D Understanding with Multi-View Images
- PuzzleFusion++: Auto-agglomerative 3D Fracture Assembly by Denoise and Verify
- CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale
- GALA: Geometry-Aware Local Adaptive Grids for Detailed 3D Generation
- Collapsed Language Models Promote Fairness
- Language-Guided Skill Discovery
- CLoSD: Closing the Loop between Simulation and Diffusion for multi-task character control
- MEGA-Bench: Scaling Multimodal Evaluation to over 500 Real-World Tasks
Photos from ICLR 2025
3DV 2025
At the 3DV 2025, held in Singapore from March 25–28, SFU’s Graphics Union Vision (GrUVi) Lab presented three technical papers. Among them, the paper titled “An object is worth 64x64 pixels: Generating 3D object via image diffusion” won the prestigious Best Paper Award.
The paper, presented by PhD student Xingguang Yan, introduces a novel method for generating realistic 3D models using “Object Images”—a 2D-based representation of 3D objects. This innovative approach allows researchers to apply popular 2D diffusion models directly to 3D generation, simplifying the traditionally separate tasks of modeling geometry and materials.
Since its inception in 2013, 3DV has been a leading venue for research in 3D computer vision and graphics, encompassing a wide range of topics, from sensors and signal processing to modeling, reconstruction, rendering, and interaction.
Next year, the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2026) will be hosted in Vancouver, with SFU computing science professors Manolis Savva and Ali Mahdavi-Amiri serving as Conference Chair and Program Chair respectively.
Accepted papers at 3DV 2025:
Photos from 3DV 2025
