Post Undergrad Comp. Graphics Studies in the U.S.?

AliParr asks: "Having just completed my first degree, BSc Hons Visualization at Teesside University in England, I am considering continuing on to Post-Graduate study. While courses in the United Kingdom are fine, I have always fancied studying abroad, or more specifically, in the states. Finding a course/university seems an overwhelming process however and I'm struggling to know where to start. My interests are Computer Science and Graphics based, with my first degree centering on C++/OpenGL/DirectX and general graphics algorithms. I was wondering if fellow Slashdot readers could give guide me as to the best places to look, and maybe shed some light on their experiences."

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Georgia Tech

[secondsun]

Try the Georgia Institue of Technology. The College of Computing has an awesome graphics graduate program. People you should contact are Jarek Rossignac and Greg Turk. Those are the two professors who I am most familar with, but there are more.

Those are the links to each's homepages. From there you can browse out to their works, papers, projects, etc. Feel free to drop them a line.

Hope the best

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[cecille]

While I'm not sure where the focus of the poster's prgram was, I'm not sure it's fair to say that it can't be spun into an interesting and relevant grad degree.

At my university (U of Guelph in Ontario, Canada), there were several profs doing research in imaging. For my final year project I worked on 3D image reconstruction worked with a prof whose research is in imaging and signal processing. His work is in a number of different areas, working mostly with adaptive or frozen neural netowrks for compression and also for medical imaging (working with the vet school and some hospitals). There's also a lot of work being done with 3D image reconstruction from single-camera sources, doing work on underwater wreckage and pearl harbour video, if I recall correctly. There were also a number of profs (I believe) doing work in medical imaging (the school has a biomedical eng program as well, so it works nicely).

My suggestion would first be to determine what kind of reserach you want to do, and then find a prof who is doing something in your field that you find really interesting. Then contact the prof and say you're interested and want to know if they're looking for students. Then take a good hard look at the policy that the school has in place for international students to make sure that it's actually going to be feasible to go there because grad school in the states (anywhere really) can get expensive if you're coming from out of the country.