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2025-08-01
On July 31, 2025, the CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Fund announced the list of selected scholars, Assistant Professor Prof. Anyi RAO of the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC) has been successfully selected, among over 300 distinguished scholars from top universities and institutes.
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2025-07-17
The Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is excited to announce our faculty contributions at the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2025, one of the world’s premier conference cum exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, scheduled to be held in Vancouver, Canada from 10-14 August, 2025.
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2025-07-09
The Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) proudly celebrates its contributions to the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025, one of the world’s premier conferences in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
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2025-07-04
[Media Coverage] Will a dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes?
In an article on the humanoid created by SZ-based AI Robotics, AMC Assistant Professor Harry YANG said while many robots are programmed for routine tasks, trends are shifting towards the use of embodied AI. As tasks become more complex and robots are required to understand and act based on different situations, he predicted that it will take about 5 to 10 years before humanoid robots can become truly useful in homes.
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AOL: Will a dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes?
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CNN: Will a dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes?
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Media coverage:
AOL: Will a dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes?
Yahoo News US: Will a dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes?
CNN: Will a dice-playing robot eventually make you tea and do your dishes?
(Image credit : CNN & AOL)
2025-06-30
AMC Acting Head and Professor Hongbo FU delivered a keynote speech titled "Towards More Accessible Tools for Content Creation" at the NICOGRAPH International 2025, a leading conference aiming at promoting the research combining science and art in computer graphics and related fields, as well as to advance the development of interactive media art.
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2025-06-26
[Media Coverage] 北大與清華：如何讓電腦像人眼一樣看懂物體表面的每一個細節
A research team including AMC Assistant Professor Anyi RAO has developed LINO-UniPS, a new system that works like a super detective with three assistants of different expertise. The assistants work together to accurately separate illumination and surface information of objects from complex images. The research was published at a top computer vision conference on June 23, 2025.
Media coverage:
新浪網: 北大與清華：如何讓電腦像人眼一樣看懂物體表面的每一個細節
科技行者: 北大與清華聯合突破！如何讓電腦像人眼一樣看懂物體表面的每一個細節
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Media coverage:
新浪網: 北大與清華：如何讓電腦像人眼一樣看懂物體表面的每一個細節
科技行者: 北大與清華聯合突破！如何讓電腦像人眼一樣看懂物體表面的每一個細節
(Image credit : 新浪網)
2025-06-10
AMC Associate Professor Wenhan LUO's research project, on the development of next-gen spatially intelligent 3D scene generation technology for high-precision, controllable, and editable 3D scenes, has been selected for the 2025 Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Focused Research Program.
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2025-05-15
The Division of Arts and Machine of Creativity is proud to announce that Prof. Anyi RAO, Assistant Professor of AMC, has been selected as one of the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2025 in the Healthcare & Science category.
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2025-04-23
The inaugural "AI Film Festival", organized by the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), recently concluded on April 19, 2025 with great success. The festival attracted over 700 fully AI-generated artworks from more than 80 countries and regions worldwide, with three outstanding pieces ultimately standing out and receiving multiple awards.
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2025-04-15
Over 700 filmmakers, including award-winning directors, Emmy-nominated storytellers, established and emerging producers from over 80 countries and regions, have submitted their fully-AI generated artworks to the first 100% AI-focused film festival hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The work of 35 finalists will be showcased in a screening on HKUST campus this Saturday (April 19), where the Best Film, Best Narrative, and Frontier Award will be announced.
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