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Career

· Adjunct Research, Meta2024–
· Software Engineer, Google2017–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California2005–
· Doctor of Philosophy, National Taiwan University2000–2008
· Bachelor of Science, National Taiwan University1996–2000
· Activision Blizzard
· ByteDance
· Applied AI Research Scientist, Meta
· Senior Research Engineer, Meta
· Senior Research Scientist, Meta
· Senior Software Engineer, Meta
· Visiting Scholar, Meta
· Meta
· Master of Science, National Taiwan University
· Weta Digital

Publications (47)

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2007) Rapid Acquisition of Specular and Diffuse Normal Maps from Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination
182
cited
Relighting human locomotion with flowed reflectance fields
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering · 2006
163
cited
Facial performance synthesis using deformation-driven polynomial displacement maps
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia · 2008
158
cited
DeepLight: Learning Illumination for Unconstrained Mobile Mixed Reality
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2019
142
cited
Skeleton extraction of 3D objects with radial basis functions
2003 Shape Modeling International. · 2003
112
cited
Level-of-detail representation of bidirectional texture functions for real-time rendering
ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games · 2005
63
cited
Automatic Animation Skeleton Construction Using Repulsive Force Field
2003
61
cited
AgileGAN
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2021
60
cited
Comprehensive Facial Performance Capture
Computer graphics forum (Print) · 2011
51
cited
Domain connected graph: the skeleton of a closed 3D shape for animation
The Visual Computer · 2006
46
cited
Skeleton Extraction of 3D Objects with Visible Repulsive Force
2003
45
cited
OmniAvatar: Geometry-Guided Controllable 3D Head Synthesis
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2023
42
cited
Rig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology · 2016
30
cited
Learning Illumination from Diverse Portraits
SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Communications · 2020
28
cited
A blendshape model that incorporates physical interaction
Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds · 2011
25
cited
Automatic animation skeleton using repulsive force field
11th Pacific Conference onComputer Graphics and Applications, 2003. Proceedings. · 2003
24
cited
Creating an actor-specific facial rig from performance capture
Digital Production Symposium · 2016
21
cited
Deep relightable textures
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2020
20
cited
An efficient representation of complex materials for real-time rendering
Virtual Reality Software and Technology · 2004
19
cited
Real-time triple product relighting using spherical local-frame parameterization
The Visual Computer · 2006
16
cited
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