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	I'm honored to receive the President's Award from the university for the second time. Four papers (two in the Journal Track: DifferSketching and Hierarchical Layout Blending; two in the Conference Track: NeRFFaceEditing and DeepMVSHair) have been accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. Congratulations, Chufeng, Wanchao, Pengfei's team, Gao Lin's team, and Youyi's team! Congratulate Chufeng on receiving the 2022 Style3D Graphics Scholarship "凌迪图形学奖学金". Thank Style3D for recognizing Chufeng's research achievements. One ECCV 2022 paper (LiDAL) and three PAMI papers (SMotif-GCNs, VMNet, and Human Motion Transfer) were accepted. Congratulate Hui Ye for her successful PhD defense. Dr. Ye will be working with us for another couple of years, under the support of Hong Kong RGC Postdoc Fellowship. Three papers (OrthoAligner, WSDesc, and DrawingInStyles) have been accepted for publication by IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Wanchao and Lei! Predict-and-Drive was accepted by ISMAR 2022 and will be published in a special issue of IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Xuanyu and Hui! DeepFaceVideoEditing, a collaborative project with Dr. Lin Gao, was accepted by SIGGRAPH 2022. It is an extension of our previous work DeepFaceEditing, which was previously presented at SIGGRAPH 2021. Two papers (i.e., TransFusion and NeuralHDHair) will be presented at the upcoming CVPR 2022. Our ProGesAR paper was presented at CHI 2022. Congratulations, Hui! I would also like to congratulate Hui for receiving a conditional offer of RGC Postdoc Fellowship. With this prestigious fellowship, Hui is going to work with us for another 3 years. DeepFaceDrawing received a Silver Medal from 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days. What a great honor! My Youtube channel was permanently terminated by the Youtube team without giving any pre-warning or specific reasons. It seems there is no way to get my old Youtube channel back. I have to start a new one and will gradually populate it with my research videos. Feel free to subscribe to it. Two papers (3D Curve Creation on and around Physical Objects with Mobile AR and Real-time Globally Consistent 3D Reconstruction with Semantic Priors) have been accepted by IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Hui and Shi-Sheng. Our open-source projects DeepFaceDrawing and DeepFaceEditing received the 2021 Open-source Graphics Software Award by CAD & CG, CCF I will serve on the Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum for another term (2021 - 2024). I will serve on SIGGRAPH 2022 Technical Papers Program Committee. GCN-Denoiser, a collaborative work with Youyi's team, has been accepted by ACM TOG. Its code can be found here. SketchHairSalon has been condictionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. Congratulations, Chufeng and Deng! Two papers (VMNet and Normalized Human Pose Features) have been accepted as Oral by ICCV 2021. Congratulations, Zeyu and Jingyuan! Yilan and Wanchao successfully defended their PhD oral defenses. Congratulations, Dr. Chen and Dr. Su! SimpModeling has been condictionally accepted by UIST 2021. Congratulations, Zhongjin and Jie! Supervoxel Convolution for Online 3D Semantic Segmentation has been accepted by ACM TOG and will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. Congratulations, Shisheng! Two papers (DeepFaceEditing and WireRoom) have been accepted by SIGGRAPH 2021. Two papers (Autoregressive Stylized Motion Synthesis with Generative Flow and PointDSC) have been accepted by CVPR 2021. Congratulations, Yuhui and Xuyang. SketchGNN has been accepted by ACM TOG and will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. "Fast 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis by Learning Spatial Relation Priors of Objects" has been accepted by IEEE TVCG. This is a collaborative work with Prof. Songhai Zhang's team @ Tsinghua! "HandPainter - 3D Sketching in VR with Hand-based Physical Proxy" has been accepted by CHI 2021. Congratulations, Ying and Congyi! "3D curve creation on and around physical objects with mobile AR" has been accepted for publication by IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Hui and KC! "SAniHead: Sketching Animal-like 3D Character Heads Using a View-surface Collaborative Mesh Generative Network" has been accepted for publication by IEEE TVCG. Congrats, Dong! "Synthesizing Mesh Deformation Sequences with Bidirectional LSTM" has been accepted for publication by IEEE TVCG. "Automatic Image Checkpoint Selection for Guider-Follower Pedestrian Navigation" has been accepted for publication by Computer Graphics Forum. Congratulations, KC! I'm happy to receive SCM Research Award 2020, Runner-up for the Open-source Software Award (by CAD & CG, CCF), Runner-up for the 2019 CGA Best Paper Award. SketchDesc has been accepted for publication by IEEE TCSVT. Congratulations, Deng and Lei! I will serve on SIGGRAPH 2021 Technical Papers Program Committee. iOrthoPredictorhas been conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. JSENet has been accepted by ECCV 2020. Congratulations, Zeyu! PoseTween has been condictionally accepted by UIST 2020. Congratulations, Jingyuan! I have one paper (Motion Planning for Convertible Indoor Scene Layout Design) accepted by TVCG and another paper (3D Upper Body Reconstruction with Sparse Soft Sensors) accepted by Soft Robotics! ARAnimator and DeepFaceDrawing have been conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH 2020. Congratulations, Hui, Wanchao, and KC! Sketch-R2CNN has been accepted for publication by IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Lei! Collaborative projects with Prof. Shi-Min Hu's group have been accepted for publication at ICRA 2020 and TOG (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2020). Two papers (1 oral + 1 poster) have been accepted by CVPR 2020. Congratulations, Xuyang and Lei! DeepSketchHair has been accepted by IEEE TVCG. I will visit Prof. Shi-Min Hu's group at Tsinghua University on my sabbatical leave from January to June 2020. [Post-note: due to COVID-19, it turned out I only spent 3 weeks in Tsinghua and the rest of the sabbatical in Hong Kong.] One paper has been condictionally accepted by CHI 2020. Congratulations, Tony! The extended version of our layout beautification work originally presented at UIST 2014 has been accepted for publication for an upcoming issue of IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Pengfei! TipText received the Best Paper Award for UIST 2019! Congratulations, Zheer, Tony and the rest of the team! Two technical papers (SDM-Net and Language-based Colorization of Scene Sketches) have been conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2019. Our work TipText has been accepted by UIST 2019. This is a work done by Tony when he was visiting Dr. Xing-Dong Yang's group. I will be promoted to a Full Professor starting from 1st July, 2019! Our work Mobi3DSketch (patent pending) has been accepted by CHI 2019. Please check out our recent publications: Context-based Sketch Classification at Expressive 2018, Active Object Reconstruction at IJCAI 2018, Model-guided 3D Sketching at IEEE TVCG. I am invited to organize Computational Visual Media 2019 as a Program Co-chair. CVM 2019 will be held at the University of Bath, during 24 - 26, April, 2019. I am invited to serve on the Technical Papers Program Committee for SIGGRAPH Asia 2018. Our paper (title: Interactive sketch-based normal map generation with deep neural networks) has been accepted for the presentation at i3D 2018 and the publication in a new journal by ACM: Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Congratulations, Wanchao and Du Dong! Our new paper (title: Temporal upsampling of depth maps using a hybrid camera) has been accepted for publication in the future issue of IEEE TVCG. Congratulations, Mingze! We will have two papers, FingerT9 and Live Sketch, to be presented at CHI 2018. Congratulations, Tony and Qingkun! In 2018, I will help organize Pacific Graphics 2018 (as a local Program Co-chair) and Expressive 2018 (as a Conference Co-chair). More details coming soon. One more paper (title: Pose-inspired shape synthesis and functional hyrids) has been accepted by IEEE TVCG for publication. Congratulations, Fu Qiang! The coming presentations at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 include Fu Qiang's Aadaptive Synthesis of Indoor Scenes via Activity-Associated Object Relation Graphs (Technical Paper), Tony's FingerT9 (Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications), Yilan's SmartSweep (Posters), and Wanchao's Sketch2Normal (Posters). Our SweepCanvas paper will be presented at UIST 2017. Our Saliency-aware Real-time Volumetric Fusion for Object Reconstruction paper will be presented at Pacific Graphics 2017. Huy's work, as part of his PhD thesis, Color Orchestra: Ordering Color Palettes for Interpolation and Prediction has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. It has been covered by MIT Technology Review. See the media coverage here. Tony's work Back-Mirror has got the Best Demo Honorable Mention at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications. Congratulations, Tony!s I received The President's Award from the City University of Hong Kong! Our Support Substructures: Support-Induced Part-Level Structural Representation has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Our Structure-adaptive Shape Editing for Man-made Objects was presented at Eurographics 2016. Our FlexyFont: Learning Transferring Rules for Flexible Typeface Synthesis will be presented at Pacific Graphics 2015. Our GACA (Group-Aware Command-based Arrangement of graphic elements) was recently presented at CHI 2015. Our Progressive 3D Reconstruction of Planar-Faced Manifold Objects with DRF-Based Line Drawing Decomposition has been acceted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Our Data-driven Segmentation and Labeling of Freehand Sketches paper will appear in the Technical Papers program at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014. Our One-man Orchestra will be demonstrated at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Emerging Technologies. Our Global Beautification of Layouts with Interactive Ambiguity Resolution will be presented at UIST 2014. Our Structured Mechanical Collage has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Our EZ-Sketching has been accepted by ACM SIGGRAPH 2014. Our Data-driven suggestions for portrait posing has been accepted by the Technical Briefs and Emerging Tecnologies program at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013. Our Sketch2Scene has been accepted in ACM SIGGRAPH 2013. Our structure recovery by part assembly and lazy selection papers have been accepted in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012. Our Augmented reflection of reality will be exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2012 Emerging Technologies. Our Vectorizing line drawings with near-constant line width has been accpeted in ICIP 2012. Our multitouch gestures for constrained transformation of 3D objects has been accpeted in Eurographics 2012. Our animated construction of line drawings and adaptive partitioning of urban facades papers have been accepted in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011. Our cartoon animation layering paper has been accepted in IEEE TVCG. Our component-wise controllers paper has been accpeted in Eurographics 2011. Our bilateral normal filtering paper has been accepted in IEEE TVCG. Our parametric reshaping of human bodies in images paper has been accepted in ACM SIGGRAPH 2010. Our shape correspondence paper has been accepted in Eurographics 2010. Our motion-aware video resizing paper has been accepted in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.
29/01/09:	I started my academic career in the School of Creative Media, CityU.
22/11/08:	As an Assistant Professor, I will join the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong at the end of January 2009.
16/09/08:	I joined the Computer Graphics Department at MPII. As a post-doc, I will work at MPII for probably 1-2 years, really depending on when I could find a satisfactory permanent job.
02/05/08:	After the GEOIDE annual scientific confereence held at Niagra Falls, Ontario, I visited the graphics group at the University of Toronto and gave a talk on shape orientation.
01/04/08:	I have a paper on shape orientation accepted at SIGGRAPH 2008. MEMO on 08/08: After 7-week waiting, unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the US Visa. So I missed SIGGRAPH and my dear friends...
11/09/08:	As a post-doc, I joined Alla's DGP group the University of British Columbia.
05-09/08/07:	With Oscar, I co-presented our work on handle-aware isolines at SIGGRAPH 2007 (San Diego, USA). It's my first time to present my work at SIGGRAPH. Fantastic experience!!!
02-03/08/07:	I presented our paper of hairstyle sketching at EG Workshop on Sketch-based Interfaces and Modeling 2007 (UC Riverside, USA).
20/07/07:	Finally I defended my PhD thesis (title: Differential Methods for Intuitive 3D Shape Modeling), unfortunately, at the cost of being shortsighted. I had been working really hard for every single day of the last half year. Well, I had to get my PhD degree together with my first pair of eyeglasses (L: 175; R: 100).
09/06/07:	I have a paper on hairstyle sketching accepted at SBIM 2007.
21/05/07:	Fortunately, I defended my thesis proposal (title: Differential Methods for Intuitive 3D Shape Modeling).
02/05/07:	Our SIGGRAPH paper has been released online. Please visit the project page.
04/04/07:	My paper on implicit Lalacian mesh editing accepted by Computer Graphics Forum is now in print.
01/04/07:	I have a paper on scalable differential mesh editing accepted at SIGGRAPH 2007.
07/02/07:	I have a paper on optimal boundaries for Poisson mesh merging accepted at SPM 2007.

I'm honored to receive the President's Award from the university for the second time.

Four papers (two in the Journal Track: DifferSketching and Hierarchical Layout Blending; two in the Conference Track: NeRFFaceEditing and DeepMVSHair) have been accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. Congratulations, Chufeng, Wanchao, Pengfei's team, Gao Lin's team, and Youyi's team!