Karran Pandey

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I'm a third year CS Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto advised by Karan Singh. My research focuses on building novel creative tools to model, edit and understand artistic graphical representations (such as sketches, 3D models and images). I enjoy using machine learning and geometry processing algorithms to design creative computer graphics workflows that are convenient, intuitive and fun.

Current Interests: geometric modeling, creative interfaces, non-photorealistic rendering

Prior to beginning my Ph.D, I did my masters thesis and worked as a Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Science, with Vijay Natarajan. I graduated with an M.Sc. in Mathematics and a B.E. in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India in 2019.

In the past, I have interned at Adobe Research, working on designing intuitive edit handles for text-to-image diffusion models with an amazing team of collaborators in Paul Guerrero, Niloy Mitra, Matheus Gadelha and Yannick Hold-Geoffroy.
Publications

Diffusion Handles: 3D Edits for Diffusion Models by Lifting Activations to 3D
Karran Pandey, Paul Guerrero, Matheus Gadelha, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Karan Singh, Niloy Mitra
CVPR, 2024 (Highlight).
arxiv code video website

Juxtaform: interactive visual summarization for exploratory shape design
Karran Pandey, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh
ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2023.
pdf video website

Face Extrusion Quad Meshes
Karran Pandey, Jakob Andreas Baerentzen, Karan Singh
ACM SIGGRAPH North America, 2022.
pdf code video website

A GPU Parallel Algorithm for Computing Morse-Smale Complexes
Varshini Subhash, Karran Pandey, Vijay Natarajan
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2022.
pdf code

Morse Theory-based Segmentation and Fabric Quantification of Granular Materials
Karran Pandey, Talha Bin Masood, Saurabh Singh, Ingrid Hotz, Vijay Natarajan, Tejas G Murthy
Granular Matter, 2021.
pdf code

GPU Parallel Computation of Morse-Smale Complexes
Varshini Subhash, Karran Pandey, Vijay Natarajan
IEEE VIS, 2021.
pdf code video

An Integrated Geometric and Topological Approach for the Identification and Visual Analysis of Rossby Wave Packets
Karran Pandey, Joy Merwin Monteiro, Vijay Natarajan
Monthly Weather Review, 2020.
pdf code

BITS Pilani
2014 - 2019
Indian Institute of Science
2018 - 2021
University of Toronto
2021 - Present
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