Data-driven Sketch Interpretation

Date: 21 Nov 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: LTC
Title: Data-driven Sketch Interpretation
Speaker: Dr. Hongbo Fu, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Abstract:

Freehand sketching provides an easy tool for communication between people. While human viewers can easily interpret the semantics of a freehand sketch, it is often difficult to teach machines understand sketches like we do, especially because of different levels of abstraction, drawing styles, and various sources of drawing errors. In this talk, we will introduce how data-driven approaches can help us address various sketch understanding tasks, including the beautification, classification, segmentation, animation, and 3D interpretation of freehand sketches.

Biography:

Hongbo Fu is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Before joining CityU, he had postdoctoral research trainings at the Imager Lab, University of British Columbia, Canada and the Department of Computer Graphics, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany. He received the PhD degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007 and the BS degree in information sciences from Peking University, China, in 2002. His primary research interests fall in the fields of computer graphics and human computer interaction. His research has led to more than 50 scientific publications, including over 10 technical papers presented at SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia. His recent works have received the Best Demo awards at the Emerging Technologies program, SIGGRAPH Asia in both 2013 and 2014, and the Best Paper award from CAD/Graphics 2015.

He was the Organization Co-Chair of Pacific Graphics 2012, the Program Chair/Co-chair of CAD/Graphics 2013, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 (Emerging Technologies), SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 (Workshops), CAD/Graphics 2015, Pacific Graphics 2018, Computational Visual Media 2019, and the Conference Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 and Expressive 2018. He has been on the SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group, Expressive conference steering committee, and Executive Committee of Asia Graphics Association. He has served as an Associate Editor of The Visual Computer (2013-2016), Computers & Graphics, and Computer Graphics Forum.