KAUST Computational Sciences

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: jango6324.github.io/woodstock/ 🌳🍄

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: helgewrede.github.io/firex/

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

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

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

📢 #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 🔗 cs.yale.edu/homes/che/proj…

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. arxiv.org/abs/2405.14239 @KAUST_News @Harvard

Ph.D. candidate Alejandro Amador @agrozamad discussed how our work @siggraph contributes to the advancement of climatology. blog.siggraph.org/2025/02/advanc…

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: agrosamad.github.io/AMS/ #HairSimulation #DigitalHair

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: agrosamad.github.io/AMS/ #AdobeResearch #HairSimulation #3DModeling

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

200,000 Trees Are Lit On Fire! (Simulation) youtu.be/ANFKHtqBqjQ

🎥 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) 🎟️bit.ly/sa24reg #CG #Tech

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: digital-salon.github.io @Adobe @KAUST_News @MPI_IS @Yale

🚀 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: digital-salon.github.io #AI #3DModeling #HairSimulation #DigitalArt #DigitalHuman #Adobe #NVIDIA

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: zhouyisjtu.github.io/project_hair/h… #3DModeling #HairRendering #ComputerGraphics #OpenSource #DigitalHair #DigitalHuman

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! cs.yale.edu/homes/che/proj… #AdobeFirefly #3DModeling #DigitalHair

Our paper #Scintilla on simulating combustible vegetation for #Wildfires is available now! 🌲🔥 Discover our novel simulator at #SIGGRAPH 2024. #EnvironmentalScience @KaustResearch Paper: storage.googleapis.com/pirk.io/projec…

Announcing our work with @BlueRiverTech on generating #SyntheticData for #ComputerVision applications in #Agriculture. A #ProceduralModel for agricultural scenes is presented focusing on #Soybean crops and weeds. #Agriculture-Vision @CVPR 2024 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2403.18351

Introducing #LAESI: #SyntheticData of 100k labeled #Leaf images with #SemanticMasks. Its generation demonstrates the inclusion of #GenAI in a #ProceduralGeneration pipeline resulting in highest performing #VisionModels. #SynData4CV @CVPR 2024 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2404.00593