
Dr. Yulia Gryaditskaya
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Artificial Intelligence
CVSSP and
Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, UK
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About
Yulia Gryaditskaya is Assistant Professor at CVSSP and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, where she leads the Computational Creativity and Modeling Lab (CCMLab) and is a co-director of the SketchX group. Her main research interests lie in AI, sketching and CAD for creation and creativity.
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 in 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 Operation Research and System Analysis from the most prestigious university in Russia: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics.
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, CVPR and IEEE 3DV. She also co-authored an international patent, based on her CGF publication.
She frequently serves as a reviewer, program committee member, area chair and organizer in a large range of journals and conferences. In particular, she served as a program committee member (area chair) for SIGGRAPH Asia 2021,2022 and SIGGRAPH 2022,2023.
She led the organization of the popular Sketching for Human Expressivity Workshop Series (ICCV’21 and ECCV’22). She is frequently invited as a speaker. Among others she gave keynote talks at the ECCV 2022 workshop: "Drawings and abstract Imagery: Representations and Analysis" (DIRA) and CogSci 2022 workshop "From Images to Symbols: Drawing as a Window into the Mind".
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Released datasets

Pinaki Nath Chowdhury, Aneeshan Sain, Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Tao Xiang, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Yi-Zhe Song
ECCV, 2022.

Ling Luo, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Yongxin Yang, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
Proceedings of International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2021.

Ayan Kumar Bhunia, Ayan Das, Umar Riaz Muhammad, Yongxin Yang, Timothy Hospedales, Tao Xiang, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Yi-Zhe Song
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.

Yue Zhong, Yonggang Qi, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Honggang Zhang, Yi-Zhe Song
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2020.

Yue Zhong, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Honggang Zhang, Yi-Zhe Song
Proceedings of International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) - (Spotlight), 2020.

Ling Luo, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Yongxin Yang, Tao Xiang, Yi-Zhe Song
Proceedings of International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) - (Oral), 2020.

Yulia Gryaditskaya, Felix Hähnlein, Chenxi Liu, Alla Sheffer, Adrien Bousseau
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020.

Yulia Gryaditskaya, Mark Sypesteyn, Jan Willem Hoftijzer, Sylvia Pont, Frédo Durand, Adrien Bousseau
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019.

Yulia Gryaditskaya, Foteini Tania Pouli, Erik Reinhard, Hans-Peter Seidel
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2014.
Students
PhD Students (ongoing):
- 2022, October - 2026, September Ahmed Bourouis (coadvised with Yi-Zhe Song, Judith Fan) -- primary advisor
- 2022, October - 2026, September Alexander Ashcroft (coadvised with Yi-Zhe Song, ) -- secondary advisor
- 2022, December - ongoing, Gizem Esra Ünlü (advised by Gabriel Brostow) -- external collaborator
- 2020 -- ongoing, Ling Luo (coadvised with Yi-Zhe Song) -- primary advisor
PhD Students (past):
- 2022 - 2023 (internship advisor) Gianluca Berardi visiting PhD student from the University of Bologna,
Defended his PhD thesis on 5th July 2023 - 2021 -- 2022 (collaborator/advisor) Pinaki Nath Chowdhury (advised by Yi-Zhe Song)
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2019 -- 2022 (collaborator/advisor)
Felix Hahnlein
(primary advisor
Adrien Bousseau),
Defended his PhD thesis on 2nd December 2022 - 2020 -- 2022 (primary advisor),
Yue Zhong
(coadvised with Yi-Zhe Song)
Defended her PhD thesis on 27 September 2022 - 2020 -- 2021 (primary advisor)
Anran Qi
(coadvised with Yi-Zhe Song)
Defended her PhD thesis on 8th November 2021
Master students (ongoing):
- 2023, Sam Gouhary
- 2023, Yaswanth Morisetty
- 2023, Rutwik Shete
- 2023, Kodai Toyoki
- 2023, Sanket Jadhav
- 2023, Aishwarya Jayanthraj
Master students (past):
- 2022, Harichander Singaravelu: "Perceptual losses for skecthes"
- 2022, Praveen Kumaran Velliangiri: "GANs for sketch to image translation task"
- 2022, Gavin Croft: "Conditional Generative Flow for 3D Shape Generation"
- 2019, Felix Hahnlein (coadvised with Adrien Bousseau) Research Internship: 'Sketch segmentation with geometric deep learning'
- 2018, Adele Saint-Denis (coadvised with Adrien Bousseau) Research Internship: 'Non-photorealistic rendering'
- 2017, Marina Menghetti (main advisor Adrien Bousseau) Research Internship: 'Strokes extraction from input video'
Under graduate students (ongoing):
- 2023, Rongqing Yuan
Under graduate students (past):
- 2015, Juliette Pelletier Engineering Internship: 'HDR Video Capture on a Mobile Device'
Professional Activities
2022-2023 Rising Stars in Computer Graphics Mentor
Area Chair/Technical Papers Committee Member:
Organizer:
- Solving CAD History and pArameters Recovery from Point clouds and 3D scans (SHARP), ICCV 2023
- 2nd Workshop on Sketching for Human Expressivity (SHE), ECCV 2022
- CVMP 2022: Short papers and demos chair
- 1st Workshop on Sketching for Human Expressivity (SHE), ICCV 2021
- Weekly SketchX group meetings, 2021-2023
Reviewer:
Program/Paper Committee Member:
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 2022),
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022, 2023),
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021),
- International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2021),
- International Conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM 2020)
Conferences:
SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, VMVJournals:
ACM TOG, CAVW, Computers & Graphics, JEI, JVIP, Multimedia Systems, TCSVT, TIP, TVCG
Invited talks
05/2023 Art and Science of Seeing Symposium, London -- "From 2D to 3D concept sketches by relying on sketching principles and visual cues"05/2023 CVI2 Research Group, Luxembourg -- "Do you speak sketch?"
05/2023 The University of Tokyo -- "Do you speak sketch?"
04/2023 Graphics and Imaging Lab - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain -- "Do you speak sketch?"
02/2023 Durham University, UK -- "Do you speak sketch?"
12/2022 Inria Sophia Antipolis workshop -- "Do you speak sketch?"
10/2022 ECCV 2022 workshop: "Drawings and abstract Imagery: Representations and Analysis" (DIRA) -- "Do you speak sketch?"
07/2022 CogSci 2022 workshop "From Images to Symbols: Drawing as a Window into the Mind"
06/2022 Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics' (VECG's) seminar series at UCL, London, UK
06/2021 Autodesk, London, UK
02/2021 University of Bath, UK
12/2020 Christmas Colloquium on Computer Vision, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia
11/2018 MIT CSAIL, Boston, US
Academic activities
Teaching:
- 2023 Semester 1, VR/AR and Metaverse, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey
- 2022 Semester 2, EEE2041 Computer Vision and Graphics, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey
- 2015,2016, Realistic Image Synthesis : HDR & Tone Mapping at Saarland University
PhD examiner/jury member (External)
- 2022, Felix Hähnlein, Inria, Universite C´ ote d’Azur, France. PhD thesis: "Binary Optimization for the Analysis and Synthesis of Concept Sketches"
- 2022, Tarek Ben Charrada, École Nationale Supérieure de l’Électronique et de ses Applications CY University, France. PhD thesis: "3D Reconstruction from Single RGB Images"
Masters examiner (Internal)
- 2023: Hadeel Alsadoun, Sooraj Biju
- 2022: Alejandro Hernandez Dıaz, Gavin Croft
Undergraduates examiner (Internal)
- 2023: Alfie Walding, Alp Orgun, Charley Watts
Grants
- CoSTAR Creative Industries R&D National Lab, Collaborative grant, £51m
Hobbies
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Sketching and painting (personal page), architecture, city planning, traveling, hiking, sports.