The area of Visual Computing Group (VCG) , led by Zhiyong Su, spans research activities in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Visualization, Virtual and Augmented Reality, but also includes aspects of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Human Computer Interaction. These different areas all focus on the processing of visual information (mainly point clouds, meshes, images, and video). While computer graphics and visualization aim to generate visual information from models or data, computer vision and image processing focus on extracting information from visual data. Similarly, an important aspect of human-computer interaction consists of observing humans and their movements to facilitate interaction with machines. Machine learning and pattern recognition both have a tremendous impact on visual computing, and recent advances in deep learning have led to completely new ways of extracting information from visual data and modelling the world around us. Visual computing systems deal with one or more of the following aspect: acquisition, processing, analysis and rendering of visual information. Application areas include but are not restricted to quality control, medical image processing and visualization, autonomous robotics, multimedia systems, movie and television industries, and computer games.

Our work currently focuses on 1) 3D vison, 2) modeling and synthesis, 3) quality assessment of visual information, 4) virtual and augmented reality. Other aspects of our work include 1) security and privacy in AIGC, 2) image understanding and processing .