News - 2025

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. Read more

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.

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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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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.  Read more

AMC Research Assistant Professor Xian Xu's research team has received the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award in the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) 2025. Published in March 2025, the paper presents the impact of virtual environments and collaboration on learning film lighting techniques in VR education, offering insights into optimizing VR environments to enhance learning outcomes in both individual and collaborative settings. Read more