Zheng's Horadric Cube
- about-me
- a final-year Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara, working with Prof. Lingqi Yan
- previously worked with
- Daqi Lin, Markus Kettunen, Chris Wyman, Lifan Wu, and Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi at NVIDIA Real-time Graphics Research
- Miloš Hašan, Valentin Deschaintre, Iliyan Georgiev, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Yiwei Hu, and Fujun Luan at Adobe Research
- Edward Liu at NVIDIA Applied Deep Learning Research
- Professors Lu Wang, Yanning Xu, and Beibei Wang at SDU
- research goal: ultimate photorealism at minimal cost
- regular-reading
- principles of effective research - Michael A. Nielsen
- the craft of writing effectively - Larry McEnerney
- the importance of deconstruction - Kilian Q. Weinberger
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- publications
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restir pg: path guiding with spatiotemporally resampled paths
"restir gives you ideal guiding distributions for free (?)"ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (Conference Track) -
diffusion-guided relighting for single-image svbrdf estimation
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (Conference Track) -
reshadable level of detail impostors for fast distant objects rendering
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2025 (CGF Track) -
rgb↔x: image decomposition and synthesis using material- and lighting-aware diffusion models
"diffusion models can eliminate/simulate gi"Zheng Zeng, Valentin Deschaintre, Iliyan Georgiev, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Yiwei Hu, Fujun Luan, Ling-Qi Yan, Miloš HašanACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (Conference Track) -
extrass: a framework for joint spatial super sampling and frame extrapolation
"you can jointly upsample & extrapolate frames"Songyin Wu, Sungye Kim, Zheng Zeng, Deepak Vembar, Sangeeta Jha, Anton Kaplanyan, Ling-Qi YanACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 (Conference Track) -
ray-aligned occupancy map array for fast approximate ray tracing
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lightweight neural basis functions for all-frequency shading
"neural basis functions act as real ones, but faster"ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 -
temporally reliable motion vectors for better use of temporal information
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temporally reliable motion vectors for real-time ray tracing
"different motion vectors for different effects"Eurographics 2021 (CGF track) -
joint svbrdf recovery and synthesis from a single image using an unsupervised generative adversarial network
"no corresponding svbrdfs? still can train a gan!"Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2020 (DL-only Track) -
denoising stochastic progressive photon mapping renderings using a multi-residual network
"different receptive fields for different scales of noise"Journal of Computer Science and Technology (CVM2020) - quotes
- "Strive for a state where others see it as hard work, but you don't — it is just normal to you." — Ichiro Suzuki
- "Pressure is a privilege — it only comes to those who earn it." — Billie Jean King
- "It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions." — Ira Glass
