The Dynamic Graphics Project (commonly referred to as dgp) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the

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devoted to projects involving

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, and

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. The lab began as the computer graphics research group of

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Professor in 1967. Mezei invited Bill Buxton, a pioneer of

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to join. In 1972,

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, another HCI pioneer joined dgp, establishing dgp as the first Canadian university group focused on computer graphics and human-computer interaction. According to csrankings.org, for the combined subfields of

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, HCI, and

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the dgp is the number one research institution in the world. Since then, dgp has hosted many well known faculty and students in computer graphics, computer vision and HCI (e.g., Alain Fournier,

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, Jos Stam, Demetri Terzopoulos, Marilyn Tremaine). dgp also occasionally hosts

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(e.g.,

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-winner Chris Landreth). Many past and current researchers at

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(and before that Alias Wavefront) graduated after working at dgp. dgp is located in the St. George Campus of University of Toronto in the

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. dgp researchers regularly publish at

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, ACM SIGCHI and ICCV. dgp hosts the Toronto User Experience (TUX) Speaker Series and the Sanders Series Lectures.

Notable alumni

* Bill Buxton (MS 1978) * James McCrae (PhD 2013) * Dimitris Metaxas (PhD 1992) *

(MS 1976, Ph.D. 1980) * Jos Stam (MS 1991, Ph.D. 1995)

References

{{reflist Computer graphics Computer vision Human–computer interaction University of Toronto