Alec Jacobson
Associate Professor
Studies geometry processing, computer animation and computational fabrication.
Alec Jacobson's lab at Toronto works on geometry processing & modeling and physics-based simulation & animation. 36 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly SIGGRAPH Asia and CVPR. 16 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 42%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 16
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 3
- 11 papers2024 · T1 6
- 12 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, TOG, 3DV, ICCV
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Geometry processing & modeling4 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation1 paper
- computational fabrication0 papers
- computer animation0 papers
- fabrication0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- EurographicsDifferentiable Variable Fonts (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North America?GimmBO: Interactive Generative Image Model Merging via Bayesian Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- EurographicsMesh Processing Non-Meshes via Neural Displacement Fields (opens in a new tab)
- Symposium on Geometry ProcessingProgressive Convex Hull Simplification (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- Eurographics2D Neural Fields with Learned Discontinuities (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Medial Sphere Preconditioning for Knot Untangling and Volume-Filling Curves (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaPutting Rigid Bodies to Rest (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVRigid Body Adversarial Attacks (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)RoMo: Robust Motion Segmentation Improves Structure from Motion (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)SpotlessSplats: Ignoring Distractors in 3D Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaStochastic Preconditioning for Neural Field Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Symposium on Geometry ProcessingUniform Sampling of Surfaces by Casting Rays (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaVariational Green and Biharmonic Coordinates for 2D Polynomial Cages
202411 papers
- CVPR (T1)Bayes’ Rays: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry ProcessingCascading upper bounds for triangle soup Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North America “Talks”Gender Diversity of Graphics Conference Leadership (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)I❤️Mesh: A DSL for Mesh Processing (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry ProcessingOptimized Dual-Volumes for Tetrahedral Meshes (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Sharpening and Sparsifying with Surface Hessians (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaStabler Neo-Hookean Simulation: Absolute Eigenvalue Filtering for Projected Newton (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaSurface-Filling Curve Flows via Implicit Medial Axes (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Text-guided Controllable Mesh Refinement for Interactive 3D Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Trust-Region Eigenvalue Filtering for Projected Newton (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)An Adaptive Fast-Multipole-Accelerated Hybrid Boundary Integral Equation Method For Accurate Diffusion Curves (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Bézier Spline Simplification Using Locally Integrated Error Metrics
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Compact Neural Graphic Primitives with Learned Hash Probing
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Constructive Solid Geometry On Neural Signed Distance Fields (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaData-Free Learning of Reduced-Order Kinematics (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaDifferentiable Heightfield Path Tracing with Accelerated Discontinuities (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaFast Complementary Dynamics via Skinning Eigenmodes (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaNeural Progressive Meshes (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Neural Stochastic Screened Poisson Surface Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Pacific GraphicsOptCtrlPoints: Optimizing Control Points for Biharmonic 3D Shape Deformation (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Progressive Shell Quasistatics for Unstructured Meshes
- ACM SIGGRAPH North AmericaSurface Simplification using Intrinsic Error Metrics (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went16 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 4
Also to
- Columbia University
- Stanford University
- UC San Diego
Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
- Round
- Single round (Dec 1)
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL/IELTS if applicable
- Fee
- CAD 135
Confirmed on the program page.
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