Welcome to Zhao Dong's (董朝) Homepage.
Research Interests
- 3D Object/Scene Reconstruction
- Inverse/Differentiable Rendering
- Generative AI for 3D (Gen3D)
- Robotics Learning & Simulation
- Neural/Real-time/Offline Rendering
- Photorealistic Materials & Lighting
Academic Activities
- Workshop/Tutorial:
- Lead organizer for 3D Digital Twin workshop at CVPR 2025 (Recording video playlist)
- Keynote speaker for Workshop & Competition on Computationally Optimal Gaussian Splatting (COGS) at ICCV 2025
- Paper Committee Member for:
- ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
- ACM I3D 2012-2016
- PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2012-2016
- CAD/Graphics 2013
- Paper Reviewer for:
- SIGGRAPH; SIGGRAPH ASIA; CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR); High Performance Graphics; Eurographics; ACM I3D; Pacific Graphics;...
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG); IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG); IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP); Computer Graphics Forum; the Visual Computer; Information Sciences; Neurocomputing; Journal of Computer Science and Technology;...
Education
- September 2005 - February 2011:
Ph.D. in the Computer Graphics Department of Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik and the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Ph.D. Thesis: Visually Pleasing Real-time Global Illumination Rendering for Fully-dynamic Scenes. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel). - September 2002 - April 2005:
M.Sc. in Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Master Thesis: Relevant Technology Study on Programmable Graphics Hardware(In Chinese).
(Supervisors: Prof. Qunsheng Peng and Associate Prof. Wei Chen) (PDF) - September 1997 - June 2001
Bachelor in Polymer Engineering and Secondary Bachelor in Computer Science, Zhejiang University
Professional Experiences
Publications
Chieh Hubert Lin, Zhaoyang Lv, Songyin Wu, Zhen Xu, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Hung-Yu Tseng", Julian Straub, Numair Khan, Lei Xiao, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Carl Ren, Richard Newcombe, Zhao Dong, Zhengqin Li. "DGS-LRM: Real-Time Deformable 3D Gaussian Reconstruction From Monocular Videos", NeurIPS 2025. (Project Page, Paper (arXiv)).
Will Gao, Dilin Wang, Yuchen Fan, Aljaz Bozic, Tuur Stuyck, Zhengqin Li, Zhao Dong, Rakesh Ranjan, Nikolaos Sarafianos. "3D Mesh Editing Using Masked LRMs", ICCV 2025. (Project Page, Paper).
Songyin Wu, Zhaoyang Lv, Yufeng Zhu, Duncan Frost, Zhengqin Li, Lingqi Yan, Carl Ren, Richard Newcombe, Zhao Dong. "Monocular Online Reconstruction with Enhanced Detail Preservation", SIGGRAPH 2025 (Conference Track). (Project Page, Paper (arXiv)).
Zhao Dong, Ka Chen*, Zhaoyang Lv*, Hong-Xing Yu*, Yunzhi Zhang*, Cheng Zhang*, Yufeng Zhu*, Stephen Tian, Zhengqin Li, Geordie Moffatt, Sean Christofferson, James Fort, Xiaqing Pan, Mingfei Yan, Jiajun Wu, Carl Ren, Richard Newcombe. "Digital Twin Catalog: A Large-Scale Photorealistic 3D Object Digital Twin Dataset", (*Authors contributed equally and are listed in alphabetical order.) CVPR 2025 (Highlight). (Dataset Page, Paper (arXiv)).
Zhengqin Li, Dilin Wang, Ka Chen, Zhaoyang Lv, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Milim Lee, Jia-Bin Huang, Lei Xiao, Yufeng Zhu, Carl Marshall, Carl Ren, Richard Newcombe, Zhao Dong. "Large Inverse Rendering Model for Progressive Reconstruction of Shape, Materials and View-dependent Radiance Fields", CVPR 2025. (Project Page, Paper (arXiv)).
Zhi-Hao Lin, Jia-Bin Huang, Zhengqin Li, Zhao Dong, Christian Richardt, Tuotuo Li, Michael Zollhoefer, Johannes Kopf, Shenlong Wang, Changil Kim. "IRIS: Inverse Rendering of Indoor Scenes from Low Dynamic Range Images", CVPR 2025. (Project Page, Paper).
Yu-ying Yeh, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Lei Xiao, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Numair Khan, Cheng Zhang, Manmohan Chandraker, Carl Marshall, Zhao Dong, Zhengqin Li. "TextureDreamer: Image-guided Texture Synthesis through Geometry-aware Diffusion", CVPR 2024. (Project Page, Paper).
Cheng Sun, Guangyan Cai, Zhengqin Li, Kai Yan, Cheng Zhang, Carl Marshall, Jia-Bin Huang, Shuang Zhao, Zhao Dong. "Neural-PBIR Reconstruction of Shape, Material, and Illumination", ICCV 2023. (Project Page, Paper).
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Zhao Dong*, Bruce Walter*, Steve Marschner, Donald P. Greenberg. "Predicting Appearance from Measured Microgeometry of Metal Surfaces", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 35(1), 9:1 - 9:13, 2015. (*Joint first authors.) (To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2016). (PDF(Preprint), Supplemental(Kirchhoff), Supplemental(EllipsoidNDF), Video, BibTex).
Edgar Velázquez-Armendáriz, Zhao Dong, Bruce Walter, Donald P. Greenberg. "Complex Luminaires: Illumination and Appearance Rendering", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 34(3), 26:1 - 26:15, 2015. (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2015). (Project Page, PDF(preprint), Slides, BibTex).
Kun Xu, Yan-Pei Cao, Li-Qian Ma, Zhao Dong, Rui Wang, Shi-Min Hu. "A Practical Algorithm for Rendering Interreflections with All-frequency BRDFs", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 33(1), 10:1 - 10:16, 2014. (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2014). (Project Page, PDF(Preprint), Video, Slides, BibTex).
Kun Xu, Weilun Sun, Zhao Dong, Dan-Yong Zhao, Run-Dong Wu, Shi-Min Hu. "Anisotropic Spherical Gaussians", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 32(6), 209:1 - 209:11, 2013. (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2013). (PDF(Preprint), Supplemental PDF, Video, Slides, BibTex).
The image of our I3D'10 paper has been selected as the Cover Image of Informatik Spektrum, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2010.
Zhao Dong, Thosten Grosch, Tobias Ritschel, Jan Kautz, Hans-Peter Seidel. "Real-time Indirect Illumination with Clustered Visibility ", Accepted by Vision, Modeling, and Visualization Workshop (VMV) 2009, (PDF, BibTex, Video(Divx Codec),Slides).
Thomas Annen, Zhao Dong*, Tom mertens, Philippe Bekaert, Hans-Peter Seidel, Jan Kautz. "Real-Time, All-Frequency Shadows in Dynamic Scenes ", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008) (*The first two authors are sorted by the alphabetic order of their last names). (PDF, BibTex, Video(Divx Codec), Slides).
The image of our PG07 paper has been selected as the Cover Image of Informatik Spektrum, Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2007.
Zhao Dong, Wei Chen, Long Zhang and Qunsheng Peng. " Balancing CPU and GPU: Real-time Visualization of Large Scale 3D Scene ". In The Third International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), VVS workshop (Visualization and Visual Steering), Wuhan, October. 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag.