KAUST Computational Sciences

Computational Sciences Group @KAUST_News
headed by Prof. Dominik L. Michels
#Algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificComputing #Simulation #VisualComputing

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

🌳 How do you plant a city park for shade, quiet and beauty, all at once?
Our new paper #GreenScapes, to appear at #SIGGRAPHAsia2026, pairs a vision-language model with CMA-ES optimization to design 3D urban vegetation, from flower beds to trees. It balances shade, acoustic screening and aesthetics.
🔗 https://t.co/LqkwMeljt2
#ComputerGraphics #UrbanPlanning #AI

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Our work on #DeepHadad – AI-based restoration of damaged ancient inscriptions using synthetic erosion data – has been highlighted in Communications of the ACM (@CACMmag).
📄 Paper (ACM JOCCH): https://t.co/iJvIYHUzF8
📰 Article: https://t.co/UBJuzkKt6T
#AI #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #KAUST

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Excited to share that our paper '#Woodstock: Interactive Modeling of Fungal Wood Decay' has been accepted to #SIGGRAPH2026 (ACM TOG)!

We present a #simulator for the complex biophysical process of #wood decay capturing #fungal colonization, chemical defense, moisture dynamics, and structural failure in a unified volumetric framework.

Project page: https://t.co/pcVwkAFZOO

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[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Excited to see our #SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper "Fire-X: Extinguishing #Fire with Stoichiometric Heat Release" featured as the cover image of ACM Transactions on Graphics!
Check out Fire-X to simulate fire across solids, liquids, and gase.
Project Page: https://t.co/e0Vwzao7Iy

[KAUST CEMSE @KAUST_CEMSE]

Join us in celebrating the 2024–2025 Dean's List honorees from the @KAUST_CEMSE Division.

These students have gone above and beyond, demonstrating the exceptional drive, curiosity and perseverance that define our community. Earning this distinction is a testament to their passion, hard work and commitment to academic excellence.

Their distinction is not only a personal milestone but also a reflection of the vibrant academic environment we cultivate—one that encourages curiosity, innovation and continuous growth.

Congratulations to all honorees for this well-deserved recognition. You make our community proud!

#KAUST #CEMSE #DeansList #AcademicExcellence #HigherEducation #STEM #StudentSuccess

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Excited to share our #ICCV25 paper presenting an Augmented Mass-Spring (AMS) model for real-time dense #HairSimulation!
AMS adds biphasic coupling to traditional mass-spring systems → better stability, global preservation and non-Hookean effects — efficiently.
@KAUST_News @Adobe

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Our #FlameForge simulator for #Wood #Combustion presented at @SympCompAnim 2025 is featured as the cover image of the 'Proceedings of the ACM on #ComputerGraphics and Interactive Techniques'. @KaustResearch

[Kuroko @_c_he_]

📢 #ICLR2025 I'll be presenting our spotlight paper "Perm: A Parametric Representation for Multi-Style 3D Hair Modeling". Swing by and let's talk about hair! #Adobe #AdobeResearch #Yale

⏰ Friday, April 25 | 10am - 12:30pm SGT
📍 Hall 3 | Poster #90
🔗 https://t.co/VNgZEzfVDR

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Excited to share #Harmony: A joint self-supervised and weakly-supervised method learning generalized visual features from web-scraped data. It outperforms #CLIP/#SigLIP/MaskCLIP/SLIP/iBOT/MAE on classification/segmentation/detection.
https://t.co/FuQVQN0sGd
@KAUST_News @Harvard

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Ph.D. candidate Alejandro Amador @agrozamad discussed how our work @siggraph contributes to the advancement of climatology.
https://t.co/okvd64RRK0

[Alejandro Amador @agrozamad]

Here’s our state-of-the-art hair simulator in action! It seamlessly handles complex hair-object interactions in real time, ensuring stability and enhanced realism. 💈✨

Want to give it a try? It’s open source! 🎉 Dive in: https://t.co/ul80Oer2dO

#HairSimulation #DigitalHair

[Alejandro Amador @agrozamad]

We have designed a cutting edge hair simulator for animating thousands of strands in real time, enabling dynamic editing and interactions with breathtaking details! Oh, and it’s open source! 💇‍♀️📷 Check it out: https://t.co/ul80Oer2dO

#AdobeResearch #HairSimulation #3DModeling

[Kuroko @_c_he_]

Looking for the perfect hairstyle for the upcoming holidays?🎄✨ Join us this Friday at Real-Time Live! for our demo Digital Salon, an interactive hair grooming and simulation tool (Friday 4pm, Hall C 4F). Swing by if you’re interested! #SIGGRAPHAsia2024 #AdobeResearch #Adobe

[Two Minute Papers @twominutepapers]

200,000 Trees Are Lit On Fire! (Simulation)
https://t.co/JetZJXhawt

[SIGGRAPH Asia ➡️ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia @SIGGRAPHAsia]

🎥 Watch the Real-Time Live! trailer for an exclusive look at the most cutting-edge real-time graphics hitting the stage at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024! Witness live demos that redefine innovation.

Real-Time Live! Chair: Takahito Tejima (@gishicho)

🎟️https://t.co/D4oyQNiq7c

#CG #Tech

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Happy to announce the code release of #DigitalSalon: Our AI and Physics-Driven #RealTime 3D #HairSimulation and Grooming tool @SIGGRAPHAsia 2024. Step-by-step instructions and example scenes are provided.
Project and Code: https://t.co/fPhnZAsm2R
@Adobe @KAUST_News @MPI_IS @Yale

[Yi Zhou @Papagina_Yi]

🚀 Debut "Digital Salon: An AI and Physics-Driven Tool for 3D Hair Grooming and Simulation"! Generate detailed hairstyles, combine text-based creation, interactive editing, and AI rendering—all in one. With real-time simulation of 10,000 to 80,000 strands on an NVIDIA Laptop GPU, Digital Salon streamlines advanced hair design for everyone. Explore it here: https://t.co/uiFKylguQZ #AI #3DModeling #HairSimulation #DigitalArt #DigitalHuman #Adobe #NVIDIA

[Yi Zhou @Papagina_Yi]

Along with Perm, we release Hair20K—a large-scale public 3D hairstyle database featuring strand-based hair models! Dive into the dataset and explore its potential for your projects! Check it out here: https://t.co/991HAKnwSP #3DModeling #HairRendering #ComputerGraphics #OpenSource #DigitalHair #DigitalHuman

[Yi Zhou @Papagina_Yi]

Sharing "Perm: A Parametric Representation for Multi-Style 3D Hair Modeling"! Aiming to be the SMPL for 3D hair, it has disentangled parameters to control hair cut types and curl patterns, a generic prior for single-view reconstruction and hair-conditioned image generation. We've released the code, the trained model on 20k public hair data, and by popular demand, the data itself! https://t.co/4JERcfUhqJ #AdobeFirefly #3DModeling #DigitalHair

[KAUST Computational Sciences @csgKAUST]

Our paper #Scintilla on simulating combustible vegetation for #Wildfires is available now! 🌲🔥
Discover our novel simulator at #SIGGRAPH 2024.
#EnvironmentalScience @KaustResearch
Paper: https://t.co/eWTczNtvqQ