Bio

Yulia Gryaditskaya is an Assistant Professor at CVSSP and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI. She will be leaving her current role to join Adobe Research as a Senior Research Scientist in February 2025.

Before joining CVSSP, she was a postdoctoral researcher (2017-2020) at Inria, GraphDeco, under Dr. Adrien Bousseau, where she studied concept sketching techniques and worked on problems of sketch understanding and sketch-based modeling. She received her PhD in 2017 from MPI Informatik, Germany, advised by Prof. Karol Myszkowski and Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel. Her PhD focused on High Dynamic Range (HDR) image calibration, capturing HDR video on a mobile device, tone mapping of HDR content, structured light fields, and editing materials in such light fields.

While working on her PhD, she spent half a year in the Color and HDR group at Technicolor R&D, Rennes, France, under the guidance of Dr. Erik Reinhard. She received a degree (2007-2012) in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science with a specialization in Operations Research and System Analysis from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Yulia’s work has been published in top graphics and vision journals and conferences: including multiple publications in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), ACM SIGGRAPH, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, CVPR and IEEE 3DV. She also co-authored an international patent, based on her CGF publication.

Interview at ICCV Daily

Research Interests

Yulia's main research interests lie in controllable 2D and 3D generative AI, focusing on the intersection of creativity and technology.

• Sketch-Based Modeling
• Sketch-Based Image Generation
• Spatial Guidance in the Generative Process
• Image Editing and Manipulation
• Semantic Understanding