Karan Singh
Professor
Studies shape modelling, character and facial animation, and sketch-based interfaces.
Karan Singh's lab at Toronto works on physics-based simulation & animation, geometry processing & modeling and interfaces & interaction techniques. 15 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly SIGGRAPH and CHI. 5 PhD students. 35 alumni, most often to Google and Amazon. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 53%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 35
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 5
- 5 papers2024 · T1 0
- 2 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGGRAPH, CHI, CVPR, SIGGRAPH Asia, TVCG
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Physics-based simulation & animation4 papers
- facial2 papers
- Geometry processing & modeling1 paper
- sketch-based1 paper
- Interfaces & interaction techniques0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- CHI (T1)FAME: Exploring Expressive Facial Avatars for Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Music Visualization for d/Deaf individuals
- EurographicsMesh Processing Non-Meshes via Neural Displacement Fields
20256 papers
- TVCGHead-EyeK: Head-eye Coordination and Control Learned in Virtual Reality
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Medial Sphere Preconditioning for Knot Untangling and Volume-Filling Curves
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Model See Model Do: Speech-Driven Facial Animation with Style Control
- CVPR (T1)Motion Modes: What Could Happen Next?
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Painting with 3D Gaussian Splat Brushes
- UIST (T1)Squidgets: Sketch-based Widget Design for Scene Manipulation
20245 papers
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPH3D-Layers: Bringing Layer-Based Color Editing to VR Painting
- CVPR - HighlightDiffusion Handles: Enabling 3D Edits for Diffusion Models by Lifting Activations to 3D
- ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)ProInterAR: A Visual Programming Platform for Creating Immersive AR Interactions
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPHS3: Speech, Script and Scene driven Head and Eye Animation
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), presented at SIGGRAPHSurface-Filling Curve Flows via Implicit Medial Axes
20232 papers
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Juxtaform: interactive visual summarization for exploratory shape design
- VR (T1)MAGIC: Manipulating Avatars and Gestures to Improve Remote Collaboration
Where alumni went35 listed, 89% to industry
Industry 8Academia 1
Most often to
- Amazon
- co-sup with Daniel Wigdor
Also to
- Stanford University
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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