A research paper titled “NeRFahedron: A Primitive for Animatable Neural Rendering with Interactive Speed” has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D 2023). This paper was the outcome of the collaboration between Dr Hong Va LEONG, our associate professor and associate head, Dr Peter NG, our assistant professor, and Dr Zackary SIN, our research assistant professor.   Neural renderi

7 Jun 2023

PolyU JUPAS Consultation Day was successfully held on 20 May 2023 at the university campus, offering up-to-date programme information to JUPAS applicants. The departmental event featured an info seminar, guided lab tours, and hands-on workshops.   During the info seminar, Dr LEONG Hong Va, Associate Professor and Associate Head of COMP, gave a detailed presentation on the bright prospect of the tech industry that benefited from the surge of gene

29 May 2023

PolyU has once again demonstrated its commitment to impactful innovation by winning a record-breaking number of accolades at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (Geneva Inventions Expo). The event is widely considered as one of the most important global events devoted exclusively to inventions. Among the awarded innovations, talents in COMP have won several awards at the event, including a Gold Medal for the Advanced Intellige

24 May 2023

We are delighted that Prof. Allen AU, our Professor; Dr Xingye LU, our Research Assistant Professor; Mengling LIU, our PhD student; and Chengru ZHANG, PhD student at HKU, have won the Plonk-DIZK GPU Acceleration Prize in the ZPrize Competition, receiving an award of $550,000 USD (approximately HKD 4,300,000). Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), which allow one to prove the validity of an assertion without revealing any other information, are consider

16 May 2023

PolyU is proud to recognise and honour the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of its alumni to the community through the establishment of the Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award (OPAA). The result of the departmental award this year is out after a rigorous selection process. We are delighted to announce that Mr Albert YIP, Chairman of Syndicate Capital, is the recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award. At the same time, Mr Sky TANG, Chair

9 May 2023

On 22 April 2023, our department organised an experiential learning programme for secondary school students themed on “Knowledge & Interactions: AI Workshop for Secondary School Students”, more than 50 students completed the whole-day programme. The morning workshop was held at the Solar Tower in Ma Wan Park, where participants received a comprehensive lecture about the knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI). The widespread availability of g

2 May 2023

We are excited to announce that Prof. ZHANG Lei, Chair Professor of Computer Vision and Image Analysis, has been ranked 1st in Asia and 30th in the world in the Best Computer Science Scientists ranking released by Research.com (formerly named Guide2Research) on 21 March 2023. He outranked 92 leading scientists from China on the top 1000 scientists list. Prof. ZHANG has a high Discipline H-index of 136 and the highest number of publications among

6 Apr 2023

The industrial collaborative paper entitled “Being Comes from Not-being: Open-vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation with Wordless Training” is selected as a highlight at the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2023. With more than nine thousand of submissions, only the top 2.5% of them are selected as highlights. This paper was the outcome of the collaboration between , Mr LIN Junfan, COMP Research Assistant and th

23 Mar 2023

We are proud to announce that five COMP academic staff members received the Faculty of Engineering (FENG) Research Grant Achievement Award for 2021. The award goes to Prof. AU Man Ho Allen, Prof. GUO Song, Prof. WANG Dan, Dr LUO Xiapu Daniel and Dr YANG Lei Ray. Their exceptional accomplishment in securing external competitive research grants from 2017 to 2021 returned in triumph. The awarded members are dedicated to diverse research fields, but

15 Mar 2023

Learning through peer groups is one of the key components of holistic education in PolyU. Not only could a student community foster active learning, but it also encourages positive peer communication. Aiming to congregate future tech talents and develop a global outlook, the inaugural iOS club in PolyU has landed at COMP. The person in charge, Dr Peter NG, our Assistant Professor, will lead seven enthusiastic undergraduate students to organise a

22 Feb 2023