Interest
Education
Employment
Teaching
Publications
Talks
Service
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Awards
Media
Research Interests
• Computer Graphics
• Computer Animation
• Virtual Humans
• Human Computer Conversation
• Human-AI Interaction
• Graphics Computing for Surgery and Biomedical Informatics
education
2006
2004
2000
1997
employment
09/06 - Present
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Moores Professor (9/2021 - ), Computer Science Department
Director of Graduate Studies (08/2015 - ), Computer Science Department
Founding Director (9/2006 - ),
UH Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab
Full Professor (9/2016 - 8/2021), Computer Science Department
Associate Professor (09/2012 - 08/2016), Computer Science Department
Assistant Professor (09/2006 - 08/2012), Computer Science Department
04/14 - 8/16
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics
06/13 - 09/13
Qualcomm Inc.
San Diego, CA
R&D Consultant
06/06 - 08/06
AT&T Research Lab
Florham Park, NJ
Summer Research Intern
09/01 - 05/06
01/01 - 05/01
Leyou.com Inc.,
Beijing, China
Software Engineer
07/00 - 01/01
09/97 - 06/00
Peking University
Beijing, China
Graduate Student Researcher
teaching
Computer Animation and Simulation (COSC6356, University of Houston)
offered at: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Spring 2007
Advanced Game Development (COSC4397/6397, University of Houston)
offered at: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
co-teaching with C. Yun.
Introduction to Game Development (COSC4358/6358, University of Houston)
offered at: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
co-teaching with C. Yun.
3D Computer Graphics (COSC6372, University of Houston)
offered at: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
Introduction to Computer Graphics (COSC4370, University of Houston)
offered at: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics and Animation (COSC7397, University of Houston)
offered at: Fall 2009
Ubiquitous Computing (COSC4397, University of Houston)
offered at: Fall 2006
co-teaching with I. Pavlidis.
Publications
Summary
A total of
178 peer-refereed papers (
98 journal papers +
80 conference papers) include
46 papers published on ACM/IEEE transactions and journals,
9 TOG/SIGGRAPH,
3 CHI,
14 TVCG,
18 EG/CGF/SGP/PG,
15 SCA/I3D,
7 ICMI/ISMAR/VR/VRST,
8 ICCV/ECCV/AAAI/MM/MICCAI,
4 ICRA/IROS, etc.
The public profile of my Google Scholar Citations
My DBLP Entry
Edited Book/Proceedings or Journal Special Issues
The Visual Computer, Special Issue on CGI 2024, Guest Editors: Nadia M. Thalmann, Jinman Kim, Bin Sheng, Jian Zhang, Zhigang Deng, Enrico Gobbetti, Ping Li, Daniel Thalmann, 40(7), July 2024, Springer Press.
Computer Graphics Forum, 42(7), Special Issue on Pacific Graphics 2023, Editors: Raphaelle Chaine, Zhigang Deng, and Min H. Kim, Wiley Press, October 2023.
Computer & Graphics, Special Issue on MIG 2022, Guest Editors: Aniket Bera, Claudia Esteves, Aline Normoyle, and Zhigang Deng, Volume 110, Jan 2023, Elsevier Press.
Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (MIG) 2022, Editors: Aniket Bera, Claudia Esteves, Aline Normoyle, and Zhigang Deng, ACM Press, November 2022.
Handbook of Human Motion, Editors: Bertram Muller, Sebastian I. Wolf, Gert-Peter Bruggemann, Zhigang Deng, Andrew S. McIntosh, Freeman Miller, W. Scott Selbie, Springer Press, April 2018, total 3 volumes, 2500+ pages.
Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2015, Editors: Jernej Barbic, Zhigang Deng, Stelian Coros, and Florence Bertails-Descoubes, ACM Press, August 2015.
Advances in Visual Computing (Proceeding of International Symposium on Visual Computing 2014), Editors: George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Ryan McMahan, Jason Jerald, Hui Zhang, Steven M. Drucker, Chandra Kambhamettu, Maha El Choubassi, Zhigang Deng, Springer Press, Dec 2014.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 25(3-4), Special Issue for CASA 2014, Editors: Zhigang Deng, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, John P. Lewis, Pierre Poulin, and Daniel Thalmann, Wiley Press, May 2014.
Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Expressive Talking Avatar Synthesis and Animation, Guest Editors: Lei Xie, Jia Jia, Helen Meng, Zhigang Deng, and Lijun Wang, Springer Press, January 2015.
Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Multimodal Joint Information Processing in Human Machine Interaction: Recent Advances, Guest Editors: Lei Xie, Zhigang Deng, and Stephen Cox, Springer Press, Nov 2013.
Refereed Journal Papers
CMPB
• A Holographic Telementoring System Depicting Surgical Instrument Movements for Real-time Guidance in Open Surgeries, Malek Anabtawi, Dehlela Shabir, Jhasketan Padhan, Abdulla Al Ansari, Omar M Aboumarzouk, Zhigang Deng, Nikhil V. Navkar,
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB), Elsevier Press, [accepted in August 2024].
TOG/SIGGRAPH ASIA
• Large Scale Farm Scene Modeling from Remote Sensing Imagery, Zhiqi Xiao, Hao Jiang, Zhigang Deng, Wenwei Han, Ran Li, and Zhaoqi Wang,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Special Issue for ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Journal Papers, 43(6), Article 260, 12 pages, December 2024, ACM Press..
TAP
• Color Theme Evaluation through User Aesthetic Preference Modeling, Bailin Yang, Tianxiang Wei, Xiaohui Liang, Frederick W. B. Li, Zhigang Deng, and Yili Fang,
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 21(3), July 2024, Article 12, pages 12:1 - 12:35, ACM Press.
TVC
TVCG
CVM
APIN
• Learning Facial Expression-aware Global-to-local Representation for Robust Action Unit Detection, Rudong An, Wei Zhang, Hao Zeng, Wei Chen, Zhigang Deng, and Yu Ding,
Applied Intelligence, 54(2), 1405-1425, 2024, Spring press.
PRESENCE
CVM
• Fuzzy-based Indoor Scene Modeling with Differentiated Examples, Qiang Fu, Hongbo Fu, Bin Zhou, Xueming Li, and Zhigang Deng, Computational Visual Media, 9(4), 2023, pp. 717-732, Springer Press.
TCSVT
• Detecting Facial Action Units from Global-Local Fine-grained Expressions, Wei Zhang, Lincheng Li, Yu Ding, Wei Chen, Zhigang Deng, Xin Yu, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 34(2), 2024, pp. 983 - 994.
IJHCS
• Effects of Spatial Constraints and Ages on Children's Upper Limb Performance in Mid-air Gesture Interaction, Fei Lyu, Huijing Li, Qiang Fu, Yujie Liu, Jin Huang, Zhigang Deng,
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Feb 2023, Volume 170, 202952, Elsevier press.
TOG
• A Practical Model for Realistic Butterfly Flight Simulation, Qiang Chen, Tingsong Lu, Yang Tong, Guoliang Luo, Xiaogang Jin, and Zhigang Deng,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 41(3), June 2022, Article 31, pages 31:1 - 31:12, ACM Press . (presented on ACM SIGGRAPH 2022)
TVCG
• A Music-driven Deep Generative Model for Guzheng Playing Animation, Jiali Chen, Changjie Fan, Zhimeng Zhang, Gongzheng Li, Zeng Zhao, Jiajun Bu, Zhigang Deng, Yu Ding, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 29(2), Feb 2023, pp. 1400-1414.
TVCG
• Plausible 3D Face Wrinkle Generation Using Variational Autoencoders, Qixin Deng, Luming Ma, Aobo Jin, Huikun Bi, Binh Huy Le, and Zhigang Deng,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 28(9), September 2022, pages 3113-3125.
CAVW
MRCAS
• Evaluation of User-Interfaces for Controlling Movements of Virtual Minimally Invasive Surgical Instruments, Dehlela Shabir, Malek Anbatawi, Jhasketan Padhan, Shidin Balakrishnan, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Julien Abinahed, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Elias Yaacoub, Amr Mohammed, Zhigang Deng, Nikhil V. Navkar,
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS), 18(5), October 2022, Wiley press.
SEJ
• Preliminary Design and Evaluation of a Remote Tele-Mentoring System for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Dehlela Shabir, Nihal Abdurahiman, Jhasketan Padhan, Malek Anbatawi, May Trinh, Shidin Balakrishnan, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Elias Yaacoub, Zhigang Deng, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohammed, Nikhil V. Navkar, Surgical Endoscopy, 36(5), May 2022, Springer Press, pp. 3663-3674.
JSHS
• Teen Reactions to a Self-representational Avatar: A Qualitative Exploration, Emily Baysden, Ninna Mendoza, Chishinga Callender, Zhigang Deng, Debora Thompson, Journal of Sport and Health Science (JSHS), 11(2), March 2022, pages 157-163, Elsevier press.
SCIS
TVCG
• Motion Planning for Convertible Indoor Scene Layout Design,, Guoming Xiong, Qiang Fu, Hongbo Fu, Bin Zhou, Guoliang Luo, and Zhigang Deng,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 27(12), December 2021, pp. 4413 - 4424.
TITS
• Emotion-based Crowd Simulation Model Based on Physical Strength Consumption for Emergency Scenarios,, Mingliang Xu, Chaochao Li, Pei Lv, Wei Chen, Zhigang Deng, Bing Zhou, and Dinesh Manocha, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 22(11), Nov 2021, pp. 6977 - 6991.
TSMC
• Crowd Behavior Simulation with Emotional Contagion in Unexpected Multi-hazard Situations, Mingliang Xu, Xiaozheng Xie, Pei Lv, Hua Wang, Yibo Guo, Zhigang Deng, and Bing Zhou,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC), March 2021, 51(3), pp. 1567- 1581.
MRCAS
• Towards Development of a Tele-Mentoring Framework for Minmally Invasive Surgeries,Dehlela Shabir, Nihal Abdurahiman, Jhasketan Padhan, May Trinh, Shidin Balakrishnan, Mohamed Kurer, Omar Ali, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Elias Yaccoub, Zhigang Deng, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohammed, Nikhil V. Navkar,
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS), 17(5), October 2021, e2305, Wiley press.
CAVW
TVCG
CGF
• Curve Skeleton Extraction from 3D Point Clouds through Hybrid Feature Point Shifting and Clustering, Hailong Hu, Zhong Li, Xiaogang Jin, Zhigang Deng, Yi Shen, and Minhong Chen,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 39(6), September 2020, pp. 111-132.
CGF
• Hyperspectral Inverse Skinning, Songrun Liu, Jianchao Tan, Zhigang Deng, and Yotam Gingold,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 39(6), September 2020, pp. 49-65.
TOMM
• Spatio-temporal Segmentation based Adaptive Compression of Dynamic Mesh Sequences, Guoliang Luo, Zhigang Deng, Xiaogang Jin, Xin Zhao, Wei Zeng, Wenqiang Xie, and Hyewon Seo,
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communication Applications (TOMM), March 2020, 16(1), Article No. 14, pp. 14:1-14:24.
CAVW
• Sketch-based Shape Constrained Fireworks Simulation in Head Mounted Virtual Reality, Xiaoyu Cui, Ruifan Cai, Xiangjun Tang, Zhigang Deng, and Xiaogang Jin,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 31(2), March/April 2020, e1920.
[Featured Cover Article]
TIST
• Motion-aware Compression and Transmission of Mesh Animation Sequences, Bailin Yang, Luhong Zhang, Frederick Li, Xiaoheng Jiang, Zhigang Deng, Meng Wang, and Mingliang Xu,
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 10(3), April 2019, article 25, pages 25:1-25:21.
TVCG
• Dictionary-based Fidelity Measure for Virtual Traffic, Qianwen Chao, Zhigang Deng, Yangxi Xiao, Bangdun He, Qiguang Miao, and Xiaogang Jin,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 26(3), March 2020, pp. 1490-1501.
TAC
CGF
• A Survey on Visual Traffic Simulation: Models, Evaluations, and Applications in Autonomous Driving, Qianwen Chao, Huikun Bi, Weizi Li, Tianlu Mao, Zhaoqi Wang, Ming C. Lin, and Zhigang Deng,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 39(1), Feb 2020, pp. 287-308.
[Top 10% downloaded CGF Paper 2018-2019]
CVIU
• 3D Articulated Skeleton Extraction Using a Single Consumer-Grade Depth Camera, Xuequan Lu, Zhigang Deng, Wenzi Chen, Sai-Kit Yeung, Jun Luo, and Ying He,
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 188, November 2019, Article 102792.
CGF/PG
• A Color-Pair Based Approach for Accurate Color Harmony Estimation, Bailin Yang, Tianxiang Wei, Xianyong Fang, Zhigang Deng, Frederick w.b. Li, Xiaohui Liang, Yun Ling, and Xun Wang,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Special Issue for Pacific Graphics (PG) 2019, 38(7), Oct 2019, pp. 481-490.
PACM/SCA
• A Deep Learning based Model for Head and Eye Motion Generation in Three-party Conversations, Aobo Jin, Qixin Deng, Yuting Zhang, and Zhigang Deng,
Proceeding of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (PACM-CGIT), Special Issue for ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2019, July 2019. Volume 2, Issue 2, Article 9, pages 9:1-9:19, ACM press.
CAVW
• Screwing Assembly Oriented Interactive Model Segmentation in HMD VR Environment, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Lei Song, Nan Wang, Ruiheng Zhang, Shenshuai Chen, Xiangyang Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Lihua You, Zhigang Deng, and Xiaogang Jin,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal (CAVW), special issue for CASA'19, 30(3-4), July/August 2019, e1880.
CAVW
• Shape-constrained Flying Insects Animation, Qiang Chen, Guoliang Luo, Yang Tong, Xiaogang Jin, and Zhigang Deng,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal (CAVW), special issue for CASA'19, 30(3-4), July/August 2019, e1902.
GMOD
• Efficient and Realistic Character Animation through Analytical Physics-based Skin Deformation, Shaojun Bian, Zhigang Deng, Ehtzaz Chaudhry, Lihua You, Xiaosong Yang, Lei Guo, Hassan Ugail, Xiaogang Jin, Zhidong Xiao, and Jian Jun Zhang,
Graphical Models (GMOD), Elsevier, July 2019, Volume 104, article 101035.
AMHP
• Inter-session Reliability and Within-session Stability of a Novel Perception-Action Coupling Task, Chris Connaboy, Caleb D. Johnson, Alice D. LaGoy, Gert-Jan Pepping, Ricard J. Simpson, Zhigang Deng, Luming Ma, Joanne L. Bower, Shawn R. Eagle, Shawn D. Flanagan, Candice A. Alfano,
Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance (AMHP), Volume 90, Number 2, Feb 2019, pages 77-83.
CAVW
CGF
TVCG
CGF/PG
• Online Global Non-rigid Registration for 3D Object Reconstruction Using Consumer-level Depth Cameras, Jiamin Xu, Weiwei Xu, Yin Yang, Zhigang Deng, and Hujun Bao,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) , Special Issue for Pacific Graphics 2018, 37(7), Oct 2018, pp. 1-12.
CAVW
ACCESS
CAVW
GFH
• Photorealistic Avatar and Teen Physical Activity: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy, Deborah Thompson, Dora Cantu, Chishinga Callender, Yan Liu, Madhur Rajendran, Mayur Rajendran, Yuting Zhang, and Zhigang Deng,
Games for Health Journal (GFH), Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publisher, Volume 7, Number 2, April 2018, pp. 143-150.
C&G
• Shadow Traffic: A Unified Model for Abnormal Traffic Behavior Simulation, Hua Wang, Mingliang Xu, Fubao Zhu, Zhigang Deng, Yafei Li, and Bin Zhou,
Computer & Graphics (C&G), Special issue for CAD/Graphics'17, Volume 70, Feb 2018, pp. 235-241.
TOG/SIGGRAPH ASIA
• Robust Structure Simplification for Hex Re-meshing, Xifeng Gao, Daniele Panozzo, Wenping Wang, Zhigang Deng, and Guoning Chen,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Papers, 36(6), November 2017, Article 185, 13 pages.
[The
source code of this work can be found in this
PROJECT PAGE.]
TVCG
CAD&CG
• Rigging and Fabricating Creative Characters, Xuekun Guo, Hao Chen, Tian Qiu, Juncong Lin, Zhigang Deng, Yangxi Xiao, and Xiaogang Jin,
Journal of Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD&CG), 29(7), July 2017, pp. 1177-1185.
CGF/SGP
• Evaluating Hex-mesh Quality Metrics via Correlation Analysis, Xifeng Gao, Jin Huang, Kaoji Xu, Zherong Pan, Zhigang Deng, and Guoning Chen,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Special issue for SGP'17, 36(5), August 2017, pp. 105-116 .
[The
source code of this work can be found in this
LINK.]
[The
dataset of this work can be found in this
LINK.]
CGF
CAVW
• Topologically Consistent Leafy Tree Morphing, Yutong Wang, Xiaowei Yue, Xiaogang Jin, and Zhigang Deng,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), Special issue for CASA'17, 28(3-4), May/August 2017, 13 pages, e1761.
[Best Paper Award]
OLEN
TOG/SIGGRAPH ASIA
• Interactive Mechanism Modeling from Multi-view Images, Mingliang Xu, Mingyuan Li, Weiwei Xu, Zhigang Deng, Yin Yang, and Kun Zhou,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Papers, 35(6), Nov 2016, article 236, pages 236:1 - 236:13.
TVCG
TVCG
• Structured Volume Decomposition via Generalized Sweeping, Xifeng Gao, Tobias Martin, Sai Deng, Elaine Cohen, Zhigang Deng, and Guoning Chen,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 22(7), July 2016, pp. 1899-1911.
GFH
• Development of A Teen-Focused Exergame, Deborah Thompson, Dora Cantu, Madhur Rajendran, Mayur Rajendran, Tanay Bhargava, Yuting Zhang, Cheng Chen, Yan Liu, and Zhigang Deng,
Games for Health Journal (GFH), 5(5), Oct 2016, pp. 342-356.
[Editor's Choice High Impact Paper]
TOG/SIGGRAPH
CG&A
TVC
CGF
• Collective Crowd Formation Transform with Mutual Information based Runtime Feedback, Mingliang Xu, Yunpeng Wu, Yangdong Ye, Illes Farkas, Hao Jiang, and Zhigang Deng,
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 34(1), 2015, pp. 60-73.
CAVW
CAVW
JCST
• Spectral Animation Compression,Yang Liu, Chao Wang, Xiaohu Guo, Zichun Zhong, Binh H. Le, and Zhigang Deng,
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Special Issue for CVM'15, 30(3), May 2015, pp. 540-552, Springer press.
TOG/SIGGRAPH
JCST
• Crowd Simulation and Its Applications: Recent Advances, Mingliang Xu, Hao Jiang, Xiaogang Jin, and Zhigang Deng,
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Springer Press, 29(5), September 2014, pp. 740-750.
[invited article]
[One of most cited JCST papers published in the past five years, according to Google Scholar Metrics in 2019 (snapshot)]
CGF
CG&A
CAVW
CAVW
• A Personality Model for Animating Heterogeneous Traffic Behaviors, Xuequan Lu, Mingliang Xu, Wenzhi Chen, Zonghui Wang, and Zhigang Deng,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal (CAVW), CASA 2014 special issue, 25(3-4), May-August 2014, pp. 363-373.
CAVW
• AA-FVDM: An Accident-Avoidance Full Velocity Difference Model for Animating Realistic Street-Level Traffic in Rural Scenes, Xuequan Lu, Wenzhi Chen, Mingliang Xu, Zonghui Wang, Zhigang Deng, and Yangdong Ye,
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal (CAVW), 25(1), 2014, pp. 85-97.
CIE
TOG/SIGGRAPH
TVCG
CG&A
THMS
Computer
TBME
TOG/SIGRAPH ASIA
TVCG
TIP
TVCG
TOMM
•
A Robust High Capacity Affine-Transformation-Invariant Scheme for Watermarking 3D Geometric Models,
Xifeng Gao, Caiming Zhang, Yan Huang, and Zhigang Deng,
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM),
volume 8, number 2S, Article 34, pages 1-21, September 2012.
TMI
• A Global Spatial Similarity Optimization Scheme to Track Large Numbers of Dendritic Spines in Time-lapse Confocal Microscopy,
Qing Li, Zhigang Deng, Yong Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, U. Valentin Nagerl, and Stephen TC Wong,
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI),
30(3), March 2011, pp. 632-641.
CG&A
TVC
CGF
CIE
CG&A
CGF
TASLP
• Rigid Head Motion in Expressive Facial Animation: Analysis and Synthesis,
Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Michael Grimm, Ulrich Neumann, Shrikanth Narayanan,
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 15(3),
March 2007, pp. 1075-1086.
CGF/EG
TVCG
• Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning Speech Co-Articulation and Expression Spaces,
Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, J.P. Lewis, Tae-Yong Kim, Murtaza Bulut, Shri Narayanan,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12(6),
Nov/Dec 2006, pp. 1523-1534.
CG&A
CAVW
Refereed Conference Papers
PG
• Dense Crowd Motion Prediction through Density and Trend Maps, Tingting Wang, Qiang Fu, Minggang Wang, Huikun Bi, Qixin Deng, and Zhigang Deng,
Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2024 (PG), Huangshan, China, Oct 13-16, 2024.
ICMI
ISMAR
IVA
SIGGRAPH
• Real-time Wing Deformation Simulations for Flying Insects, Qiang Chen, Zhigang Deng, Feng Li, Yuming Fang, Tingsong Lu, Yang Tong, Yifan Zuo,
Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers, Denver, CO, July 28 - August 1, 2024. [in press]
MM
• Double Doodles: Sketching Animation in Immersive Environment with 3+6 DOFs Motion Gestures, Ruizhao Chen, Ye Pan, Zhigang Deng, Lili Wang, and Lizhuang Ma,
Proceeding of the 31th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2023, Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2023, Ottawa, Canada.
ICMI
ECBIOS
• Acquisition and Remote Transfer of Operative Field View During Open Surgery, Malek Anabtawi, Jhasketan Padhan, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Zhigang Deng, Elias Yaacoub, Amr Mohammed, Nikhil V Navkar,
Proceeding of IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS) 2023, Tainan, Taiwan, June 2023, pp. 119-122.
ECBIOS
• Telementoring System Assessment Integrated with Laparoscopic Surgical Simulators, Dehlela Shabir, Sarra Kharbech, Jhasketan Padhan, Elias Yaacoub, Amr Mohammed, Zhigang Deng, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Nikhil V Navkar,
Proceeding of IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS) 2023, Tainan, Taiwan, June 2023, pp. 200-203.
CBMS
• Tele-Mentoring Using Augmented Reality: A Feasibility Study to Assess Teaching of Laparoscopic Suturing Skills, Dehlela Shabir, Shidin Balakrishnan, Jhasketan Padhan, Julien Abinahed, Elias Yaacoub, Amr Mohammed, Zhigang Deng, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis and Nikhil Navkar,
Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2023, June 22 - 24, 2023, L'Aquila, Italy.
[IEEE TCCLS Best Paper Award]
SeGAH
• Evaluating a Remote Tele-mentoring Gameplay Setup for Teaching Laparoscopic Suturing Skills, Dehlela Shabir, Shidin Balakrishnan, Jhasketan Padhan, Elias Yaacoub, Amr Mohammed, Zhigang Deng, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis and Nikhil Navkar,
Proceeding of IEEE 11th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health 2023 (SeGAH), Athens, Greece, August 28 - 30, 2023.
MM
BIBE
BIBE
• Benchmarking Network Performance of Augmented Reality Based Surgical Telementoring Systems, Dehlela Shabir, Malik Anbatawi, Nihal Abdurahiman, May Trinh, Jhasketan Padhan, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Julien Abinahed, Zhigang Deng, Elias Yaacoub, Amr Mohammed, and Nikhil V. Navkar,
Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) 2022, November 2022, Taichung, Taiwan.
BIBE
• Dynamic Guidance Virtual Fixtures for Guiding Robotic Interventions: Intraoperative MRI-guided Transapical Cardiac Intervention Paradigm, Jhasketan Padhan, Nikolaos Tsekos, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Julien Abinahed, Zhigang Deng, and Nikhil V. Navkar,
Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) 2022, November 2022, Taichung, Taiwan.
MIG
• S2M-Net: Speech Driven Three-party Conversational Motion Synthesis Networks, Aobo Jin, Qixin Deng, and Zhigang Deng,
Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (MIG) 2022, Guanajuato, Mexico, Nov 3-5, 2022, ACM Press, Article 2, pages 2:1 - 2:10.
MIG
• A Practical Method for Butterfly Motion Capture, Qiang Chen, Tingsong Lu,Yang Tong,Yuming Fang, and Zhigng Deng,
Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (MIG) 2022, Guanajuato, Mexico, Nov 3-5, 2022, ACM Press, Article 8, pages 8:1 - 8:9.
[The
dataset of this work can be found in this
PROJECT PAGE.]
AVI
ISMR
• Preliminary Design and Evaluation of an Interfacing Mechanism for Maneuvering Virtual Minimally Invasive Surgical Instruments, Mai Trinh, Jhasketan Padhan, Nikhil V. Navkar, and Zhigang Deng,
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) 2022, Atlanta, GA, April 13-15, 2022, pages 1 - 7.
ECCV
I3D
• Contour-based 3D Modeling through Joint Embedding of Shapes and Contours, Aobo Jin, Qiang Fu, and Zhigang Deng,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2020, San Francisco, CA, May 2020, Article 9, pages 9:1 - 9:10.
I3D
• Real-time Face Video Swapping From A Single Portrait, Luming Ma, and Zhigang Deng,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2020, San Francisco, CA, May 2020, Article 3, pages 3:1 - 3:10.
ICCV
• Joint Prediction for Kinematic Trajectories in Vehicle-Pedestrian-Mixed Scenes, Huikun Bi, Zhong Fang, Tianlu Mao, Zhaoqi Wang, and Zhigang Deng,
Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019, Seoul, Korea, Oct 2019, pages 10383 - 10392.
I3D
• 3D Mesh Animation Compression based on Adaptive Spatio-temporal Segmentation, Guoliang Luo, Zhigang Deng, Wei Zeng, Xin Zhao, Xiaogang Jin, Hyewon Seo, and Wenqiang Xie,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2019, Montreal, Canada, May 2019, article 10, pages 10:1-10:10.
I3D
VRST
• Single RGB-D Fitting: Total Human Modeling with a RGB-D Shot, Xianyong Fang, Jikui Yang, Jie Rao, Linbo Wang, and Zhigang Deng,
Proceeding of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2019, Sydney, Australia, Nov 2019, Article 24, pages 24:1 - 24:11.
[The
source code of this work can be found in this
PROJECT PAGE.]
CGI
• ODE-driven Sketch-based Organic Modeling, Ouwen Lee, Zhigang Deng, Shaojun Bian, Ismail Kazmi, Xiaogang Jin, Lihua You, and Jian Jun Zhang,
Proc. of Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2019, Calgary, Canada, June 2019, pp. 453-460.
I3D
• An Emotion Evolution based Model for Group Behavior Simulation, Hao Jiang, Zhigang Deng, Mingliang Xu, Xiangjun He, Tianlu Mao, and Zhaoqi Wang,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2018 (I3D), May 2018, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 10:1-10:6.
AAAI
• Unsupervised Articulated Skeleton Learning from Point Set Sequences Captured by a Single Depth Camera, Xuequan Lu, Honghua Chen, Sai-Kit Yeung, Zhigang Deng, Wenzi Chen,
Proc. of Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018 (AAAI), Feb 2018, New Orleans, LA, pp. 7226-7234.
PCM
• Blur Measurement for Partially Blurred Images
with Saliency Constrained Global Refinement, Xianyong Fang, Qingqing Guo, Cheng Ding, Linbo Wang, and Zhigang Deng,
Proc. of Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2018 , September 2018, Hefei, China, pp. 338-349.
CHI
I3D
ACII
SCA
• A Data-driven Model for Lane-changing in Traffic Simulation, Huikun Bi, Tianlu Mao, Zhaoqi Wang, and Zhigang Deng,
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2016 (SCA), July 2016, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 149-158.
[One of most cited SCA papers published in the past five years, according to Google Scholar Metrics in 2022 (snapshot)]
SIGCSE
CASA-W
• An Evaluation of the Quality of Hexahedral Meshes via Modal Analysis,
Xifeng Gao, Jin Huang, Siwang Li, Zhigang Deng, and Guoning Chen,
Proceeding of the CASA 2014 Workshop on Structured Meshing: Theory, Applications, and Evaluation,
co-located with CASA 2014 conference, Houston, TX, May 26th, 2014.
ICRA
• Implementation of a Force-Feedback Interface for Fixed-Access Point Interventions with real time MRI guidance,
Nick von Sternberg, Atilla Kilicarslan, Nikhil Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Karolos Grigoriadis, and Nikos V. Tsekos,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013, pp. 4869-4874.
ICRA
• Visual and Force-Feedback Guidance for Robot-Assisted Interventions in the Beating Heart with Real-Time MRI,
Nikhil V. Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Dipan J. Shah, Kostas Bekris, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos,
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2012,
St Paul, MN, May 14-18, 2012, pp. 689-694.
[Best Medical Robotics Paper Award Runner-up]
SCA
BIBE
• Intraoperative Registration of Preoperative 4D Cardiac Anatomy with real-time MR images,
Xifeng Gao, Nikhil V. Navkar, Dipan J. Shah, Nikos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng,
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE) 2012,
Larnaca, Cyprus, Nov 11-13, 2012, pp. 583-588.
MICCAI
BIOROB
• Robot-Assisted Mechanical Scanning and Co-Registration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Light-Induced Flurescence,
Ahmet E. Sonmez, William M. Spees, Alpay Ozcan, Zhigang Deng, Andrew Webb, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos,
Proc. of Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2012,
Rome, Italy, June 24-28, 2012, pp. 775-780.
[Best Student Paper Award Finalist]
ICRA
• Magnetic Resonance Based Control of A Robotic Manipulator for Interventions in the Beating Heart,
Erol yeniaras, Johann Lamaury, Nikhil Navkar, Dipan J. Shah, Karen Chin, Zhigang Deng, Nikolaos Tsekos,
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011,
Shanghai, China, May 2011, pp. 6270-6275.
CHI
MICCAI
• MR-based Real Time Path Planning for Cardiac Operations with Transapical Access,
Erol Yeniaras, Nikhil Navkar, Ahmet Sonmez, Dipan J. Shah, Zhigang Deng, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos.
Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2011,
Toronto, Canada, Sep 2011, pp. 25-32.
GI
BIOENG
ISBI
• Extracting Geometric Features of Aortic-Valve Annulus Motion from Dynamic Cardiac MRI for Guiding Interventions,
Nikhil Navkar, Erol Yeniaras, Dipan J. Shah, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng,
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2011,
Chicago, IL, March 2011, pp. 1302-1305.
MMVR
•
A Novel Virtual Reality Environment for Preoperative Planning and Simulation of Image Guided Intracardiac Surgeries with Robotic Manipulators,
Erol Yeniaras, Zhigang Deng, Mushabbar A. Syed, Mark Davies, and Nikolaos V.Tsekos,
in Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011 Conference (MMVR),
Long Beach, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 716-722.
MMVR
•
Comparison of Reaching Kinematics during Mirror and Parallel Robotic Movements,
Zahra Kadivar, Cynthia Sung, Zachary Thompson, Marcia O'Malley, Michael Liebschner, and Zhigang Deng,
in Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011 Conference(MMVR),
Long Beach, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 247-253.
VRST
GI
•
Crafting 3D Faces Using Free Form Portrait Sketching and Plausible Texture Inference,
Tanasai Sucontphunt, Borom Tunwattanapong, Zhigang Deng, and Ulrich Neumann,
in Proc. of Graphics Interface (GI) 2010,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May-June 2010, pp. 209-216.
IPCAI
• Visualization and Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions with Straight Access,
Nikhil Navkar, Nikolaos Tsekos, Jason Stafford, Jeffery Weinberg, and Zhigang Deng,
in Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Intervention (IPCAI) 2010,
Geneva, Switzerland, June 2010, pp. 1-11.
ITAB
SandBox
•
PADS: Enhancing Gaming Experience Using Profile-Based Adaptive Difficulty System,
Chang Yun, Philip Trevino, William Holtkamp, and Zhigang Deng,
in Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games (SandBox) 2010,
Los Angeles, CA, July 2010, pp. 31-36.
[Highlighted in SIGGRAPH 2010 News Letter (June 2010 issue), (archived)]
SCA
I3D
IROS
VR
MICCAI
• An Interactive Geometric Technique for Upper and Lower Teeth Segmentation,
Binh H. Le, Zhigang Deng, James Xia, Yu-Bing Chang, Xiaobo Zhou,
in Proc. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009,
London, UK, Oct 2009, pp. 968-975.
CHI
• O' Game, Can You Feel My Frustration?: Improving User's Gaming Experience via StressCam,
Chang Yun, Dvijesh Shastri, Ioannis Pavlidis, Zhigang Deng,
Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009 (CHI),
Boston, MA, April 2009, pp. 2195-2204.
ISBI
• A Novel Surface-based Geometric Approach for 3D Dentritic Spline Detection From Multi-Photon Excitation Microscopy Images,
Qing Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Zhigang Deng, Matthew Baron, Merilee A. Teylan, Yong Kim, Stephen T.C. Wong,
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2009,
Boston, MA, June 2009, pp. 1255-1258.
VR
HotPower
SCA
GI
• Interactive 3D Facial Expression Posing through 2D Portrait Manipulation,
Tanasai Sucontphunt, Zhenyao Mo, Ulrich Neumann, Zhigang Deng,
Proc. Graphics Interface (GI) 2008,
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 2008, pp. 177-184.
[One of most cited GI papers published in the past five years, according to Google Scholar Metrics in 2013 (snapshot)]
PacVis
RESNA
SCA
I3D
IVA
I3D
CGI
ICMI
• Analysis of Emotion Recognition using Facial Expressions, Speech and Multimodal Information,
Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee,
Ulrich Neumann, Shrikanth Narayanan,
Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI) 2004,
State College, PA, Oct 2004, pp. 205-211.
[Ten Year Technical Impact Award] (for "a seminal paper published in ICMI (or previous events that evolved into ICMI) with the largest influence in an area within multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems, and published 10 years or more in the past")
CASA
ETP
ICSLP
• Acoustic Study of Emotions Expressed in Speech,
Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan
Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2004,
Jeju Island, Korean, Oct 2004, pp. 2193-2196.
ICSLP
• Emotion Recognition based on Phoneme Classes,
Chul Min Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Abe Kazemzadeh, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan
Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2004,
Jeju Island, Korean, Oct 2004, pp. 889-892.
SIG Sketch
Conference Tutorials/Courses/STAR
SIGGRAPH
• Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,
Alec Jacobson, Zhigang Deng, Ladislav Kavan, and John P. Lewis,
ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Course,
Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2014, (95 pages).
EG STAR
CASA
• Real-time Skinning and Deformation,
Daniel Thalmann, Zhigang Deng, and Binh Huy Le,
CASA 2024 Conference Course,
Houston, Texas, May 2014.
Refereed Conference Posters
• One-shot Learning for Human Action Recognition,
Hao Jiang, Zhigang Deng, Sijia Wang, Chang Gao, Chengyi Wei and Zhaoqi Wang,
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2018, Research Poster, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2018.
• Aperture Ratio Influences Action Boundary Perception Accuracy Performance,
C. Connaboy, C.D. Johnson, A.D. LaGoy, G-J. Pepping, R.J. Simpson, Z. Deng, L. Ma(s), J. Bower, C.A. Alfano,
NASA 2018 Human Research Program (HRP) Meeting, Conference Abstract, Galveston, TX, Jan 2018.
• Sleep Deprivation May Influence Overall Performance in An Affordance-based Task,
A.M. Sinnott, C. Connaboy, A.D. LaGoy, G-J Pepping, R.J. Simpson, Z. Deng, L. Ma(s), J.L. Bower, C.A. Alfano,
NASA 2018 Human Research Program (HRP) Meeting, Conference Abstract, Galveston, TX, Jan 2018.
• A Method for Planning Interventions in the Brain with Straight Access Paths,
Nikhil Navkar, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, Jason Stafford, Jeffrey Weinberg, and Zhigang Deng.
Conference Abstract 7162, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2010 Annual
Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.
• An Approach for MRI based Pre-operative Planning of Cardiac Interventions via Trans-apical Access,
Erol Yeniaras, Nikhil Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Mushabbar A. Syed, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos.
Conference Abstract 4422, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2010 Annual
Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.
• Movement Intermittency and Variability in Human Arm Movements,
Ozkan Celik, Qin Gu, Zhigang Deng, Marcia O'Malley,
Conference Abstracts, 2009 RSS Hand Worshop: Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation, co-located with Robotics: Sciences and Systems (RSS), Seattle, WA, June 2009.
• Coregistration and Visualization of Regional Perfusion from First-Pass Multislice Sets based on Independent Components Analysis,
A. Sonmez, J. Milles, Z. Deng, N. V. Tsekos.
Conference Abstracts, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2009 Annual
Meeting, Honolulu, USA, April 2009.
• A Methodology for Mapping Mental Spaces of Game Gentres,
JP Lewis, P. Fox, Z. Deng,
Poster, SandBox: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games 2006,
Boston, MA, July 2006.
Unrefereed Preprints
• Facial Action Units Detection Aided by Global-Local Expression Embedding,
Zhipeng Hu, Wei Zhang, Lincheng Li, Yu Ding, Wei Chen, Zhigang Deng, Xin Yu,
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2210.13718, Oct 2022.
• Crowd Behavior Simulation with Emotional Contagion in Unexpected Multi-hazard Situations,
Mingliang Xu, Xiaozheng Xie, Pei Lv, Jiangwei Niu, Hua Wang, Chaochao Li, Ruijie Zhu, Zhigang Deng, Bing Zhou,
arXiv preprint, arXiv:1801.10000, Jan 2018.
• Crowd Simulation Model Integrating ``Physiology-Psychology-Physics" Factors,
Mingliang Xu, Chaochao Li, Pei Lv, Wei Chen, Dinesh Manocha, Zhigang Deng, Bing Zhou,
arXiv preprint, arXiv:1801.00216, Dec 2017.
Dissertations
• Data-Driven Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning From Facial Motion
Capture Data,
Zhigang Deng. Doctoral Dissertation,
University of Southern California, May 2006.
• Design of 2D Vector Animation Algorithms for Hypermedia Authoring Systems,
Zhigang Deng. Master Thesis,
Peking University, China, June 2000.
invited talks
22 February 2023
University of California, Riverside, CA.
20 November 2022
China VR Conference 2022, Kunming, China, (online)
24 October 2020
IEEE AIVR 2020 Conference, Japan, (online)
7 October 2020
University of Houston, USA, (online)
2 July 2020
Peking University, China, (online)
2 February 2018
AAAI 2018 Conference, New Orleans, LA
1 December 2017
National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand
20 Sept 2017
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
20 June 2017
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
16 June 2017
Nanchang University, Jiangxi, China
25 Feb 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH Sym. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, San Francisco, CA
12 Dec 2016
East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
9 Dec 2016
Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
19 July 2016
Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
30 March 2015
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
31 Dec 2014
East China Jiaotong University, China
25 Dec 2014
Zhengzhou University, China
17 October 2014
Florida International University, FL.
7 October 2014
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
12 August 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
26 June 2014
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China.
25 June 2014
Zhejiang University, China.
4 April 2014
Department of ECE, University of Houston, TX.
27 Mar 2014
Rutgers University, NJ.
20 Jan 2014
Zhengzhou University, China.
19 Nov 2013
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
30 Oct 2013
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX.
15 April 2013
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
15 June 2012
Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China.
11 June 2012
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
9 May 2012
Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA.
27 April 2012
Washington University, St Louis, MO.
1 Sept 2011
Banff 2011 International Workshop on "Geometry for Anatomy", Alberta, Canada.
11 May 2011
CHI 2011 Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
6 May 2011
SHARP Research Lab of America, Camas, WA.
5 May 2011
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
4 May 2011
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
6 April 2011
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
5 April 2011
IBM Alameden Research Center, San Jose, CA.
4 April 2011
Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA.
7 Dec 2010
University of California, Irvine, CA.
4 Oct 2010
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
4 June 2010
Shandong University, China.
18 June 2010
Zhejiang University, China.
17 April 2010
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
17 March 2009
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference. Lafayette, LA.
1 Mar 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Boston, MA.
17 Oct 2008
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
7 July 2008
ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation, Dublin, Ireland.
29 May 2008
Graphics Interface Conference, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
16 May 2008
Rice University, Houston, TX.
4 Dec 2007
Academy for Science & Health Professions, Houston, TX.
6 Sep 2007
Eurographics 2007 Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
30 May 2007
Zhejiang University. Hangzhou, China.
11 May 2007
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
10 May 2007
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
10 May 2007
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
9 May 2007
Peking University, Beijing, China.
27 April 2007
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
6 Nov 2006
University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.
28 Sep 2006
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.
21 Aug 2006
Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference, Marina Del Rey, CA.
30 March 2006
University of Houston, Houston, TX.
27 March 2006
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
15 March 2006
ACM SIGGRAPH Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics, Redwood, CA.
24 Feb 2006
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
17 Feb 2006
University of Denver, Denver, CO.
10 Feb 2006
University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
22 June 2005
Computer Graphics International Conference, Stony Brook, NY.
2 May 2005
First Annual USC Graphics Symp, University of Southern California.
10 April 2005
Annual IMSC Student Conference, University of Southern California.
12 Feb 2005
IMSC Lecture Series, University of Southern California.
4 Sep 2003
User Interface Technology Symp, IBM Watson Research Center, NY.
22 July 2003
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA.
10 July 2003
Walt-Disney Feature Animation, Burbank, CA.
Grants and Funding
Summary
Up to 2023, I have received a total of 27 grants and contracts as the PI or co-PI, with the total amount >$8.2M, including 5 NSF, 2 NIH, 1 NASA, 1 DoD, 1 NHARP, 2 QNRF, and various industry funding/contracts (from Google, Honda, Electronic Arts, Nokia, etc).
professional activities
Journal Editing
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 5/2021 -
Associate Editor, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal (Wiley), 5/2013 -
Guest Co-Editor, Computer & Graphics, special issue on MIG 2022, 2022
Associate Editor, Computer Graphics Forum, 4/2014 - 3/2018
Associate Editor, ACM Computer In Entertainment, 2008 - 2018
Guest co-Editor, Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), special issue on "Expressive Talking Avatar Synthesis and Animation", 2015
Guest co-Editor, Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), special issue on "Multimodal Joint Information Processing in Human-Machine Interaction", 2013
Associate Editor, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009 - 2014
Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2011 - 2012
Steering Committee
Steering Committee Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games, 2021 - 2025.
Steering Committee Member, Computer Graphics Society, 2016 - 2019.
Steering Committee Member, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2015 - 2020.
Steering Committee Member, International Chinese Association of Human Computer Interaction, 2012 - 2014.
Conference Chairing
Program Co-Chair, Computer Graphics International (CGI) Conference 2024, Geneva, Switzerland.
Program Co-Chair, Pacific Graphics (PG) Conference 2023, Daejeon, Korea.
Program Co-Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games (MIG) 2022, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization 2017, Zhengzhou, China.
General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Science & Education 2017, Houston.
General Co-Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2015, Los Angeles.
Program Co-Chair (Computer Graphics Area), International Symposium on Visual Computing 2014, Las Vegas.
General Co-Chair, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2014, Houston.
General Chair, TexGraph Conference 2008, Houston, Texas.
Conference Program Committee
PG, SCA, EG, CASA, CGI, MIG, VRST, Siggraph Asia (Technical Brief),
ACII, AIVR, CAD/Graphics, ICME, ISVC, IVA, VR, etc.
Frequent Paper Reviewer
ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
ACM Transaction on Graphics
Nature Machine Intelligence
ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
ACM Computer In Entertainment
IEEE Transaction on Image Processing
IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics
IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing
IEEE Transaction on Signal and Audio Processing (TSAP)
IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (TMM)
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Eurographics
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Computer Graphics Forum
Graphical Models
Computer & Graphics
Image and Vision Computing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The Visual Computer
Computer Aided Design
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
ACM Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI)
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Comuter Animation (SCA)
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference
IEEE Computer Animation and Social Agents
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interface for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems
European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par)
Pacific Graphics
Graphics Interface
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT)
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology (IJIST)
Computer Graphics International (CGI)
APSIPA Annual Summit Conference
Other Invited Reviewers or Panelists
Invited Proposal Reviewers, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada, 2021
Invited Proposal Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2019
Invited Reviewer, Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award, 2018/2017
Invited Reviewer, Ignaz L. Lieben Award, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, 2016
Invited Reviewer, Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award, China, 2015
NSF Panelist/reviewer, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2010
Invited grant proposal reviewer, agency for Science, Research & Technology (A*STAR), Singapore, 2014
Invited grant proposal reviewer, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2007
Other Committee Services
Graduate Studies Committee, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, UH, 2016 -
Graduate Admission Committee, Computer Science Department, UH, 2016 -
Executive Committee, Computer Science Department, UH, 2016 -
Faculty Merit Review Committee, Computer Science Department, UH, 2016 -
Graduate Studies Committee (ex officio), Computer Science Department, UH, 2015 -
Web and Publicity Committee Member, Computer Science Department, UH, 2012 - 2014
Graduate Studies Committee Member, Computer Science Department, UH, 2009 - 2013
Industry Advisory Committee Member,Computer Science Department, UH, 2009 - 2011
Faculty Search Committee Member, Computer Science Department, UH, 2010 - 2012
Graduate Student Recruiting Committee Chair, Computer Science Department, UH, 2008 - 2009
Curriculum Committee Member, Computer Science Department, UH, 2006 - 2009
Executive Committee Member, Chinese Student and Scholar Association, USC, 2002-2004
Memberships
Distinguished Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Mentoring
[Statistics: 3 students won department "Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award", 7 students won department "Outstanding/Best PhD Student Award", 1 student won department "Outstanding/Best Junior PhD Student Award", 1 student won "Best MS Student Award".]
Current PhD Students
· Meng-Chen Lee (University of Houston), Fall 2020 -
· Youyi Yang (University of Houston), Fall 2023 -
· Saba Khan (University of Houston), Fall 2023 -
Current Undergraduate Students
· Huiying Xu (University of Houston), Fall 2024 -
· Senliang Deng (University of Houston), Fall 2024 -
Former Mentored PostDocs
(total: 2)
· Qiang Fu (University of Houston), 8/2018 - 8/2019
⇒ First employment: Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Post and Communications, China.
· Yu Ding (University of Houston), 3/2016 - 3/2018
⇒ First employment: Research Lead, NetEase, China.
Advised PhD Graduates
(total: 10)
· Qixin Deng (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in March 2023
PhD Dissertation: "3D Facial Modeling with Geometric Wrinkles from Images"
* Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (UH CS Department), 2023
* Outstanding PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2022
⇒ First employment: Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor, Wabash College, USA.
· Aobo Jin (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in July 2021
PhD Dissertation: "Object Oriented 3D Modeling from a Single View Sketch"
⇒ First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Houston at Victoria, USA.
· Luming Ma (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in April 2020
PhD Dissertation: "Real Time Facial Performance Capture and Manipulation"
* Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (UH CS Department), 2020
* Outstanding PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2019
⇒ First employment: Research Engineer, Meta Reality Lab, USA.
· Xifeng Gao (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in April 2016
PhD Dissertation: "Towards High Quality Hexahedral Meshes: Generation, Optimization, and Evaluation"
* Outstanding Junior PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2013
* Outstanding PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2015
* Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (UH CS Department), 2016
⇒ First employment: PostDoc (New York University).
Last known position: Principal Research Scientist (Tencent America).
· Binh H. Le (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in April 2014
PhD Dissertation: "Example-based Rigging and Real-time Animation of Characters with Linear Skinning Models"
* Friends of NSM Fellowship, 2013
* Outstanding PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2013
* VEF Fellowship (2008-2010)
⇒ First employment: PostDoc (Disney Research Pittsburgh).
Last known position: Principal Research Scientist (AMD).
· Nikhil Navkar (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in Nov 2012
PhD Dissertation: "Visual Force-Feedback Interfacing for Image-Guided Telemanipulated Robotic Surgical System"
* Friends of NSM Fellowship, 2012
* Outstanding PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2012
* Runner-up of Best Medical Robotics Paper Award, ICRA 2012
⇒ First employment: Qatar Robotic Surgery Center, Doha, Qatar.
Last known position: Senior Research Scientist (Hamad Medical Cooperation, Qatar)
· Xiaohan Ma (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in April 2012
PhD Dissertation: "Perceptual Analysis and Modeling of Facial Animation"
* Outstanding PhD Student Award (UH CS Department), 2012
* PhD Student of the Year Award (UH CS Department), 2010
⇒ First employment: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), USA.
· Qing Li (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in May 2011
PhD Dissertation: "Algorithms for Dendritic Spine Detection and Tracking in Time-Lapse Microscopy Neuron Images"
* Excellence of PhD Studies Award (UH CS Department), 2011
⇒ First employment: Xignite, USA
· Qin Gu (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in May 2011
PhD Dissertation: "Agent-based Approaches for Stylizing Motion Variations and Formations in Crowd Simulation"
⇒ First employment: Pixar Animation Studio, USA.
Last known position: Senior Software Engineer, NVidia, USA.
· Chang Yun (University of Houston), PhD Dissertation defended in May 2009.
PhD Dissertation: "Improving Gaming Experience Using Real-Time, Adaptive Game Difficulty Adjustments by Utilizing Physiological Feedback"
⇒ First employment: Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Houston, USA.
Advised MSc-Thesis Graduates
(total: 12)
· Kunpeng Zhang (University of Houston), April 2022
MSc Thesis: "An Internet-based Telepresence Robotic Avatar System for Real-time Mediated Interpersonal Communication."
⇒ First employment: BioTex, USA.
· Mayur Rajendran (University of Houston), April 2016
MSc Thesis: "Academia Arcana: A Gamified and Game-based Review Tool."
⇒ First employment: Cerner, USA.
· Madhur Rajendran (University of Houston), April 2016
MSc Thesis: "Nightmare Runner: A Personalized Avatar and Physical Activity Game."
⇒ First employment: Cerner, USA.
· Cheng Chen (University of Houston), April 2014.
MSc Thesis: "Avatar Creation and Customization for Health Games."
⇒ First employment: Midnight Game Studio, USA.
· Xiao Cheng (University of Houston), November 2013.
MSc Thesis: "GPU-accelerated Crowd Simulation with User-Guidance and Multi-level Uncertainty."
⇒ First employment: CGGVeritas, USA.
· Harsha Nyshadham (University of Houston), July 2013.
MSc Thesis: "Visual Comparison Models for Transportation Data of the Great Britain."
⇒ First employment: Ford Motor, USA.
· Chrysanthi Chaleva Ntina (University of Houston), April 2013.
MSc Thesis: "Stereo Calibration of Depth Sensors with 3D Correspondences and Smooth Interpolants."
* Best MSc Thesis Student Award (UH CS Department), 2013.
⇒ First employment: Catalina Marketing, USA.
· Mario Rincon (University of Houston), Nov 2011.
MSc Thesis: "Cost-based Workload Balancing for Ray Tracing on a Heterogeneous Platform."
⇒ First employment: Nokia, Germany.
· Michael R. Jahn (University of Houston), April 2011.
MSc Thesis: "Real time Human Animation Control Using Tri-Axis Accelerometers"
⇒ First employment: TimeGate Game Studios, USA.
· Nikhil Navkar (University of Houston), Oct 2009.
MSc Thesis: "Virtual Environment for Planning Surgical Incision with Straight Access"
⇒ First employment: Continue PhD study at UH.
· Qing Li (University of Houston), Nov 2008.
MSc Thesis: "Facial Motion Capture Editing by Automated Orthogonal Blendshape Construction and Weight Propagation"
⇒ First employment: Continue PhD study at UH.
· Qin Gu (University of Houston), April 2008.
MSc Thesis: "Compression of Human Motion Capture Data Using Motion Pattern Indexing Technology"
⇒ First employment: Continue PhD study at UH.
Advised Non-thesis MSc Graduates
· Bhasura Gunawardhana (University of Houston), Summer 2024.
· Mai Trinh (University of Houston), August 2023.
· Yuting Zhang (University of Houston), Dec 2018.
⇒ First employment: Expedia Group, USA.
· Mingxuan Luo (University of Houston), May 2018.
⇒ First employment: Zhengzhou University, China.
· Tanay Bhargava (University of Houston), May 2015.
⇒ First employment: Amazon, USA.
Additional Mentoring Activities
Irec Tabios (University of Houston), 1/2018 - 12/2018
Duy Lai (University of Houston), Spring 17 - Fall 19
Irec Tabios (University of Houston), Spring 18 - Fall 19
Xin Zhou (University of Houston), Spring 16 - Summer 18.
Harold Owens (USMA/ARL Summer Intern), 6/15 -8/15.
Erinn Gentry (USMA/ARL Summer Intern), 6/15 -8/15.
Ashley Balkum (Rice University), NSF REU student, 05/15 - 7/15.
Richard Giliam (University of Houston), NSF REU student, 9/10-5/11.
Reuben Rodriguez (University of Houston-Downtown), AGEP undergrad student, summer/08.
Faculty Mentor of independent study program of the Clear Lake High School at Houston, 2009
Faculty Mentor for summer undergraduate research students of the NSF AGP program (Alliance for minority Graduate Education and the Professoriate), University of Houston, 2008
Graduate Student Mentor, Merit-based Undergraduate Research Program, USC, 2003-2005
honors and awards
2023
IEEE TCCLS Best Paper Award 2023
2021
ACM Distinguished Member
2021
University of Houston John and Rebecca Moores Professorship
2018
CASA 2018 Best Paper Award Runner-up
2017
CASA 2017 Best Paper Award
2015
ACM Recognition of Service Award
2015
ACM Senior Member
2014
ACM ICMI 2014 Ten Year Technical Impact Award
2013
University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award
2012
IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob 2012 Best Student Paper Award Finalist
2012
IEEE ICRA 2012 Best Medical Robotics Paper Award Runner-up
2011
IEEE Senior Member
2010
Google Faculty Research Award
2004
USC Academic Achievement Award
1999
Peking University Kodak Fellowship
1998
Peking University Guang-Hua Fellowship
News and Media Coverage
Dec. 2021
Sep. 2021
Deng Awarded Moores Professorship.
UH Department of Computer Science News, September 21st, 2021.
Jan. 2020
Apr. 2017
Apr. 2017
Mar. 2017
Quantifying Eye Contact During Conversations.
UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics News, March 2nd, 2017.
July 2014
Nov. 2013
Oct. 2013
Augmented reality turns animation into oil business tool.
Fuelfix.com (a daily news service website for energy business).
Apr. 2013
NSM Faculty Honored at UH Evening of Faculty Excellence.
UH NSM News (News of UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics).
Feb. 2011
Dec. 2010
Dec. 2010
June 2010
Apr. 2010
July 2008
June 2008
June 2008
Oct. 2007
Oct. 2007
Open House Presents Computer Science Exciting High-Tech Projects.
UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Communications.
May 2005
Researchers Develop New Eye-Animation Method.
NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) Research Achievement Showcase.
June 2004
Eye-Motion Commotion.
USC Engineer Magazine.