Research interests: computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning
Edgar Simo-Serra is currently an associate professor at Waseda University. He obtained his Industrial Engineering degree from BarcelonaTech in 2011 and his Ph.D. in 2015 from the same university. From 2015 to 2018 he was at Waseda University as a junior researcher (assistant professor), and during 2018 he was a JST Presto Researcher, befor rejoining Waseda. His general research interests are in the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning with applications to large-scale real world problems.
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Jan, 2024I have been awarded the 2023 Waseda Research Award
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Dec, 20231 paper accepted to appear in WACV 2024
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Sep, 2023Texture synthesis paper accepted to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023
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Aug, 20231 paper accepted to appear in Pacific Graphics 2023
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May, 20232 papers accepted to appear in CVPR 2023
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Aug, 20211 paper accepted to appear in Pacific Graphics 2021
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Jul, 20211 paper accepted to appear in ACM Multimedia 2021
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May, 20211 paper accepted to appear in Conference on Games 2021
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Apr, 2021Line art vectorization paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2021
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Apr, 20213 papers accepted to appear in CVPR Workshops 2021
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Apr, 2021I have become an Associate Professor.
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Mar, 20211 paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2021
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Sep, 20201 paper accepted to appear in SMC 2020
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Aug, 2020I have been introduced in Mirai Book (Japanese)
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Jul, 20202 papers accepted to appear in MICCAI 2020
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Apr, 20201 paper accepted to appear in CVPR Workshops 2020
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Jan, 2020Our paper on doing digital painting lighting effects is accepted to Transactions on Graphics (TOG) and will be presented at SIGGRAPH2020!
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Nov, 2019I was interviewed in STI Horizon!
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Sep, 2019I will be giving a tutorial on "Deep Learning for Image Transformation" at ICIP2019
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Sep, 20191 paper accepted to appear in SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
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Aug, 20192 papers accepted to appear in ICCV Workshops 2019
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Aug, 20191 paper accepted to appear in MICCAI Workshops 2019
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May, 20192 papers accepted to appear in 画像の認識・理解シンポジウム (MIRU2019)
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May, 20191 paper accepted to appear in Visual Computing 2019
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Apr, 20192 papers accepted to appear in CVPR Workshops 2019
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Mar, 20192 papers accepted to appear in MVA 2019
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Feb, 2019Site renewal and created Laboratory webpage
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Feb, 2019I will be giving an invited talk at the JST CREST HCI for Machine Learning Symposium
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Feb, 2019I will be giving an invited talk at the CGVI 第173回研究発表会
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Nov, 2018I have been selected as a ナイスステップな研究者 by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP).
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Sep, 2018I have joined Waseda University as an Assistant Professor.
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Aug, 2018I have recieved the MIRU2018 outstanding reviewer award.
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Jun, 2018Da Vinci dataset made public.
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May, 20182 papers accepted to appear in 画像の認識・理解シンポジウム (MIRU2018)
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May, 2018I will be giving invited talks on sketch simplification and inking at the Visual Computing 2018
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Apr, 2018Smart Inker accepted to SIGGRAPH 2018
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Apr, 2018I have become a JST Sakigake Researcher.
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Mar, 20181 paper accepted to appear in CGI 2018
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Feb, 2018Image completion source code released
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Jan, 2018I will be giving an invited talk at the The Deep Learning Workshop 2018
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Jan, 2018Mastering Sketching accepted to Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
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Jan, 2018I will be giving an invited talk at the 3D Forum
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Oct, 2017Best paper award at ICCV-CVF 2017
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Sep, 2017I have been selected for JST PRESTO
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Sep, 2017Awarded the BarcelonaTech 2017 Special Doctoral Award
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Aug, 20171 paper accepted to appear in ACPR 2017
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Aug, 20173 papers accepted to appear in ICCV Computer Vision For Fashion Workshop
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Jun, 2017Inpainting work featured in TV TOKYO World Business Satellite (Japanese)
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May, 20171 paper accepted to appear in 画像の認識・理解シンポジウム (MIRU2017)
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May, 2017I will be giving an invited talk at the Workshop on E-Commerce and Entertainment Computing (ECEC)
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May, 20171 paper accepted to appear in ICIP 2017
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May, 20172 papers accepted to appear in Visual Computing / グラフィクスとCAD 合同シンポジウム
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Apr, 2017Image completion paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2017
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Apr, 2017I will be giving an tutorial at 42nd Optical Symposium
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Mar, 2017I will be giving an tutorial at Computer Graphics International 2017
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Feb, 20171 paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2017
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Feb, 20171 paper accepted to appear in MVA 2017
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Nov, 2016I have been selected for JST ACT-I
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Nov, 2016Colorization work featured in Fuji TV's Tokudane! (Japanese)
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Oct, 2016Image colorization demo made public
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Oct, 2016Colorization research awarded the Innovative Technologies2016 CULTURE Award
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Oct, 2016I will be giving an invited talk at the 3rd Fall Meeting of Federation of Imaging Societies
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Oct, 2016
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Sep, 2016Colorization work has been selected at Innovative Technologies 2016
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Sep, 2016Sketch simplification demo made public
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Aug, 2016
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Aug, 2016Colorization work featured in TV TOKYO World Business Satellite (Japanese)
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Jul, 2016I will be giving an invited talk at the DCAJ Presentation session at SIGGRAPH 2016
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Jul, 20163 papers accepted to appear in ICPR 2016
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Jun, 2016Fashion in 128 floats source code released
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Jun, 2016Colorization model employed in the Yomiuri Shimbun 50 Year Beatles Concert website (Japanese)
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Jun, 2016Colorization work featured on the first page of the Nikkei Newspaper (Japanese)
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Jun, 2016Colorization work featured in Nippon TV NEWS24 (Japanese)
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Jun, 2016Colorization work featured in Fuji Television Minna no News
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Jun, 2016I will be giving an invited talk at MIRU2016
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May, 2016Our research has been featured on the Waseda University homepage (Japanese)
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May, 2016My fashion research has been featured in the Sensors Magazine (Japanese)
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May, 2016I will be giving an invited talk at Visual Computing 2016
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Apr, 2016Colorization source code released
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Mar, 2016Sketch simplification paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2016
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Mar, 2016Colorization paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2016
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Mar, 20161 paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2016
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Mar, 20161 paper accepted to appear in NAACL-HLT 2016
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Feb, 2016Deep descriptor source code released
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Oct, 2015
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Sep, 2015Fashion144k dataset released
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Sep, 20151 paper accepted to appear in ICCV 2015
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Aug, 2015I have joined Waseda University as a junior researcher
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Jul, 2015I have successfully defended my PhD thesis
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Jun, 2015Our work on fashionability has been picked up by New Scientist
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May, 2015Best paper award at MVA 2015
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Mar, 20151 paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2015
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Feb, 20151 paper accepted to appear in MVA 2015
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Jan, 20151 paper accepted to appear in ICRA 2015
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Jan, 2015I will spend 4 months this spring (2015) at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Yoshihiko Nakamura
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Jan, 2015DaLI descriptor accepted to International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and source code released
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Dec, 2014Clothes parsing source code released
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Sep, 2014GFMM source code released
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Sep, 20141 paper accepted to appear in ACCV 2014
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Jul, 20141 paper accepted to appear in BMVC 2014
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Jan, 2014I will spend 4 months this summer (2014) at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Raquel Urtasun
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Dec, 2013Kinematic Synthesis project completed with the acceptance of our paper in MAMT
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Mar, 20131 paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2013
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Mar, 2013I will spend 2 months this summer (2013) at the TTIC under the supervision of Raquel Urtasun
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Mar, 20121 paper accepted to appear in CVPR 2012