David Forsyth
Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign12
David Forsyth holds the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with research interests in computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. Forsyth's recent courses include Computer Vision (CS 543 / ECE 549), Optimization in Computer Vision, and autonomous vehicle system engineering. The school's news page notes that Forsyth received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ECCV 2024, has served as program or general co-chair of IEEE CVPR several times, and has served as Editor in Chief of IEEE TPAMI. Recent research includes Generative Blocks World (2025), a method for editing generated images by manipulating simple 3D primitives.123
Work
Generative Blocks World (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author (as D. A. Forsyth) of "Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures" (2025), which represents scenes as assemblies of convex 3D primitives that can be edited before the image is regenerated.3
Computer vision courses at Illinois (external site: siebelschool.illinois.edu)
The faculty page lists recent courses taught, including ECE 549 / CS 543 Computer Vision, CS 544 Optimization in Computer Vision, and CS 588 Autonomous Vehicle System Engineering.1
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