Kun Zhou

About Kun Zhou

Affiliations

Zhejiang University

Microsoft, Microsoft Research Asia

State Key Lab of CAD&CG (Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics)

Location

Hangzhou, China

Bio

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

Kun Zhou is a Cheung Kong Professor in the Computer Science Department of Zhejiang University and a member of the State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG. He received his PhD from Zhejiang University in 2003. After graduation, he joined Microsoft Research Asia as an associate researcher and was a lead researcher of the graphics group before moving to Zhejiang University. His research concentrates on geometry, texture, and real-time computer graphics.

Awards and Recognition

SIGGRAPH 2024 Technical Paper Test-of-Time Award

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Committee Member

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015: Courses

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Technical Papers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015: Technical Papers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2018: Technical Papers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024: Technical Papers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022: Technical Papers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Technical Papers

Jury Member

SIGGRAPH 2012: Technical Papers

Conference Contributions

Presentations

A Locality-based Neural Solver for Optical Motion Capture

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiaoyu Pan
• Bowen Zheng
• Xinwei Jiang
• Guanglong Xu
• Xianli Gu
• Jingxiang Li
• Qilong Kou
• He Wang
• Tianjia Shao
• Kun Zhou
• Xiaogang Jin

Differentiable Dynamic Visible-Light Tomography

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kaizhang Kang
• Zoubin Bi
• Xiang Feng
• Yican Dong
• Kun Zhou
• Hongzhi Wu

OpenSVBRDF: A Database of Measured Spatially-Varying Reflectance

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiaohe Ma
• Xianmin Xu
• Leyao Zhang
• Kun Zhou
• Hongzhi Wu

DeepMVSHair: Deep Hair Modeling from Sparse Views

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Zhiyi Kuang
• Yiyang Chen
• Hongbo Fu
• Kun Zhou
• Youyi Zheng

Motion In-Betweening via Two-Stage Transformers

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Jia Qin
• Youyi Zheng
• Kun Zhou

EyelashNet: a dataset and a baseline method for eyelash matting

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Qinjie Xiao
• Hanyuan Zhang
• Zhaorui Zhang
• Yiqian Wu
• Luyuan Wang
• Xiaogang Jin
• Xinwei Jiang
• Yong-Liang Yang
• Tianjia Shao
• Kun Zhou

iOrthoPredictor: model-guided deep prediction of teeth alignment

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lingchen Yang
• Zefeng Shi
• Yiqian Wu
• Xiang Li
• Kun Zhou
• Hongbo Fu
• Youyi Zheng

Dynamic hair modeling from monocular videos using deep neural networks

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lingchen Yang
• Zefeng Shi
• Youyi Zheng
• Kun Zhou

Learning efficient illumination multiplexing for joint capture of reflectance and shape

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kaizhang Kang
• Cihui Xie
• Chengan He
• Mingqi Yi
• Minyi Gu
• Zimin Chen
• Kun Zhou
• Hongzhi Wu

Modeling hair from an RGB-D camera

SIGGRAPH Asia 2018

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Meng Zhang
• Pan Wu
• Hongzhi Wu
• Yanlin Weng
• Youyi Zheng
• Kun Zhou

Warp-guided GANs for single-photo facial animation

SIGGRAPH Asia 2018

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Jiahao Geng
• Tianjia Shao
• Youyi Zheng
• Yanlin Weng
• Kun Zhou

Computational design and fabrication of soft pneumatic objects with desired deformations

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Li-Ke Ma
• Yizhonc Zhang
• Yang Liu
• Kun Zhou
• Xin Tong

Dynamic furniture modeling through assembly instructions

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tianjia Shao
• Dongping Li
• Yuliang Rong
• Changxi Zheng
• Kun Zhou

Efficient GPU path rendering using scanline rasterization

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Rui Li
• Qiming Hou
• Kun Zhou

Interactive mechanism modeling from multi-view images

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Mingliang Xu
• Mingyuan Li
• Weiwei Xu
• Zhigang Deng
• Yin Yang
• Kun Zhou

Interactive sound propagation with bidirectional path tracing

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chunxiao Cao
• Zhong Ren
• Carl Schissler
• Dinesh Manocha
• Kun Zhou

High-quality hair modeling from a single portrait photo

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Menglei Chai
• Linjie Luo
• Kalyan Sunkavalli
• Nathan Carr
• Sunil Hadap
• Kun Zhou

Unbiased photon gathering for light transport simulation

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Hao Qin
• Xin Sun
• Qiming Hou
• Baining Guo
• Kun Zhou

Bridging the Gap Between Research and Industry

SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

[Courses]

Presenter(s):

• Peter-Pike Sloan
• Aseem Agarwala
• Hao Chen
• Kun Zhou
• Nafees Bin Zafar

Imagining the unseen: stability-based cuboid arrangements for scene understanding

SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tianjia Shao
• Aron Monszpart
• Youyi Zheng
• Bongjin Koo
• Weiwei Xu
• Kun Zhou
• Niloy J. Mitra

GPU-based out-of-core many-lights rendering

SIGGRAPH Asia 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Rui Wang
• Yuchi Huo
• Yazhen Yuan
• Kun Zhou
• Wei Hua
• Hujun Bao

An interactive approach to semantic modeling of indoor scenes with an RGBD camera

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tianjia Shao
• Weiwei Xu
• Kun Zhou
• Jingdong Wang
• Dongping Li
• Baining Guo

A shading reuse method for efficient micropolygon ray tracing

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Qiming Hou
• Kun Zhou

Multiscale vector volumes

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lvdi Wang
• Yizhou Yu
• Kun Zhou
• Baining Guo

Debugging GPU stream programs through automatic dataflow recording and visualization

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Qiming Hou
• Kun Zhou
• Baining Guo

Motion field texture synthesis

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chongyang Ma
• Li-Yi Wei
• Baining Guo
• Kun Zhou

Out-of-core multigrid solver for streaming meshes

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiaohan Shi
• Hujun Bao
• Kun Zhou

RenderAnts: interactive Reyes rendering on GPUs

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Qiming Hou
• Zhong Ren
• Minmin Gong
• Xin Sun
• Baining Guo

Parallel Computing for Graphics: Beyond Programmable Shading

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

[Courses]

Presenter(s):

• Jason C. Yang
• Justin Hensley
• Tim Foley
• Anselmo A. Lastra
• Pedro V. Sander
• Jeremy Shopf
• Kun Zhou
• Mark J. Harris
• Anjul Patney

Real-time KD-tree construction on graphics hardware

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Qiming Hou
• Rui Wang
• Baining Guo

3D Gaussian Blendshapes for Head Avatar Animation

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Shengjie Ma
• Yanlin Weng
• Tianjia Shao
• Kun Zhou

3D Gaussian Splatting With Deferred Reflection

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Keyang Ye
• Qiming Hou
• Kun Zhou

RTG-SLAM: Real-time 3D Reconstruction at Scale Using Gaussian Splatting

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Zhexi Peng
• Tianjia Shao
• Jingke Zhou
• Yin Yang
• Jingdong Wang
• Kun Zhou

X-SLAM: Scalable Dense SLAM for Task-aware Optimization Using CSFD

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Zhexi Peng
• Yin Yang
• Tianjia Shao
• Chenfanfu Jiang
• Kun Zhou

Adaptive Local Basis Functions for Shape Completion

SIGGRAPH 2023

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Hui-Chu Ying
• Tianjia Shao
• He Wang
• Yin Yang
• Kun Zhou

Fast GPU-based Two-way Continuous Collision Handling

SIGGRAPH 2023

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tianyu Wang
• Jiong Chen
• Dongping Li
• Xiaowei Liu
• Huamin Wang
• Kun Zhou

Free-form scanning of non-planar appearance with neural trace photography

SIGGRAPH 2021

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiaohe Ma
• Kaizhang Kang
• Ruisheng Zhu
• Hongzhi Wu
• Kun Zhou

High-order differentiable autoencoder for nonlinear model reduction

SIGGRAPH 2021

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Siyuan Shen
• Yin Yang
• Tianjia Shao
• He Wang
• Chenfanfu Jiang
• Lei Lan
• Kun Zhou

NeuroSkinning: automatic skin binding for production characters with deep graph networks

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lijuan Liu
• Youyi Zheng
• Di Tang
• Yi Yuan
• Changjie Fan
• Kun Zhou

Efficient reflectance capture using an autoencoder

SIGGRAPH 2018

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kaizhang Kang
• Jiaping Wang
• Kun Zhou
• Hongzhi Wu
• Zimin Chen

Entry #: 127

Learning Optimal Lighting Patterns for Efficient SVBRDF Acquisition

SIGGRAPH 2018

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Kaizhang Kang
• Jiaping Wang
• Kun Zhou
• Hongzhi Wu
• Zimin Chen

Entry #: 47

A data-driven approach to four-view image-based hair modeling

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Meng Zhang
• Menglei Chai
• Hongzhi Wu
• Hao Yang
• Kun Zhou

An anatomically-constrained local deformation model for monocular face capture

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chenglei Wu
• Tianjia Shao
• Hongzhi Wu
• Yanlin Weng
• Kun Zhou

Crowd-driven mid-scale layout design

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tian (Frank) Feng
• Lap-Fai Yu
• Sai-Kit Yeung
• Kang Kang Yin
• Kun Zhou

Real-time facial animation with image-based dynamic avatars

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chen Cao
• Hongzhi Wu
• Yanlin Weng
• Tianjia Shao
• Kun Zhou

Computational hydrographic printing

SIGGRAPH 2015

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yizhong Zhang
• Chunji Yin
• Kun Zhou

Real-time high-fidelity facial performance capture

SIGGRAPH 2015

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chen Cao
• Derek Bradley
• Kun Zhou
• Thabo Beeler

A reduced model for interactive hairs

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Menglei Chai
• Changxi Zheng
• Kun Zhou

An asymptotic numerical method for inverse elastic shape design

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiang Anthony Chen
• Changxi Zheng
• Weiwei Xu
• Kun Zhou

Displaced dynamic expression regression for real-time facial tracking and animation

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chen Cao
• Qiming Hou
• Kun Zhou

3D shape regression for real-time facial animation

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Chen Cao
• Yanlin Weng
• Steve Lin
• Kun Zhou

Dynamic hair manipulation in images and videos

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Menglei Chai
• Lvdi Wang
• Yanlin Weng
• Xiaogang Jin
• Kun Zhou

Interpreting concept sketches

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Tianjia Shao
• Wilmot Li
• Kun Zhou
• Weiwei Xu
• Baining Guo
• Niloy J. Mitra

Line segment sampling with blue-noise properties

SIGGRAPH 2013

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xin Sun
• Kun Zhou
• Jie Guo
• Guofu Xie
• Jingui Pan
• Wencheng Wang

Interactive images: cuboid proxies for smart image manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Youyi Zheng
• Xiang Anthony Chen
• Ming-Ming Cheng
• Kun Zhou
• Shi-Min Hu
• Niloy J. Mitra

Single-view hair modeling for portrait manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Menglei Chai
• Lvdi Wang
• Yanlin Weng
• Yizhou Yu
• Baining Guo
• Kun Zhou

Interactive hair rendering under environment lighting

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Zhong Ren
• Kun Zhou
• Tengfei Li
• Wei Hua
• Baining Guo

Line space gathering for single scattering in large scenes

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xin Sun
• Kun Zhou
• Stephen Lin
• Baining Guo

Micropolygon ray tracing with defocus and motion blur

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Qiming Hou
• Hao Qin
• Wenyao Li
• Baining Guo
• Kun Zhou

Vector solid textures

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lvdi Wang
• Kun Zhou
• Yizhou Yu
• Baining Guo

An efficient GPU-based approach for interactive global illumination

SIGGRAPH 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Rui Wang
• Kun Zhou
• Minghao Pan
• Hujun Bao

Example-based hair geometry synthesis

SIGGRAPH 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Lvdi Wang
• Yizhou Yu
• Kun Zhou
• Baining Guo

Joint-aware manipulation of deformable models

SIGGRAPH 2009

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Weiwei Xu
• Jun Wang
• Kang Kang Yin
• Kun Zhou
• Michiel van de Panne
• Falai Chen
• Baining Guo

BSGP: bulk-synchronous GPU programming

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Qiming Hou
• Kun Zhou
• Baining Guo

Example-based dynamic skinning in real time

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiaohan Shi
• Kun Zhou
• Yiying Tong
• Mathieu Desbrun
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo

Interactive relighting of dynamic refractive objects

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xin Sun
• Kun Zhou
• Eric Stollnitz
• Jiaoying Shi
• Baining Guo

Inverse texture synthesis

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Li-Yi Wei
• Jianwei Han
• Kun Zhou
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Real-time smoke rendering using compensated ray marching

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Zhong Ren
• Stephen Lin
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Direct manipulation of subdivision surfaces on GPUs

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Xin Huang
• Weiwei Xu
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Gradient domain editing of deforming mesh sequences

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Weiwei Xu
• Kun Zhou
• Yizhou Yu
• Qifeng Tan
• Qun-Sheng Peng
• Baining Guo

High dynamic range image hallucination

SIGGRAPH 2007

Presenter(s):

• Lvdi Wang
• Li-Yi Wei
• Kun Zhou
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Interactive relighting with dynamic BRDFs

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xin Sun
• Kun Zhou
• Yanyun Chen
• Stephen Lin
• Jiaoying Shi
• Baining Guo

Mesh Parameterization: Theory and Practice

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Courses]

Organizer(s):

• Alla Sheffer
• Kai Hormann
• Bruno Lévy

Presenter(s):

• Mathieu Desbrun
• Kun Zhou

Entry #: 02

Mesh puppetry: cascading optimization of mesh deformation with inverse kinematics

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Xiaohan Shi
• Kun Zhou
• Yiying Tong
• Mathieu Desbrun
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo

Mesh quilting for geometric texture synthesis

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Xin Huang
• Xi Wang
• Yiying Tong
• Mathieu Desbrun
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Real-time soft shadows in dynamic scenes using spherical harmonic exponentiation

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Zhong Ren
• Rui Wang
• John M. Snyder
• Kun Zhou
• Xinguo Liu
• Bo Sun
• Peter-Pike Sloan
• Hujun Bao
• Qun-Sheng Peng
• Baining Guo

Subspace gradient domain mesh deformation

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Jin Huang
• Xiaohan Shi
• Xinguo Liu
• Kun Zhou
• Li-Yi Wei
• Shang-Hua Teng
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Large mesh deformation using the volumetric graph Laplacian

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Jin Huang
• John M. Snyder
• Xinguo Liu
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Precomputed shadow fields for dynamic scenes

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Yaohua Hu
• Stephen Lin
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

TextureMontage

SIGGRAPH 2005

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Xi Wang
• Yiying Tong
• Mathieu Desbrun
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Mesh editing with poisson-based gradient field manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2004

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yizhou Yu
• Kun Zhou
• Dong Xu
• Xiaohan Shi
• Hujun Bao
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

Synthesis of progressively-variant textures on arbitrary surfaces

SIGGRAPH 2003

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Kun Zhou
• Jingdan Zhang
• Luiz Velho
• Baining Guo
• Heung-Yeung Shum

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Technical Paper Presenter

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