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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Program of Computer Graphics of Cornell University. I feel extremely lucky to be able to work with Prof. Donald Greenberg and my colleagues here. 

I was born on Oct.14th 1980, Loudi, Hunan Province of China. In 1997, I was enrolled in Zhejiang University. After four years' study, I received my B.S. degree from the Polymer Engineering Department and secondary B.S. degree from the Computer Science & Engineering Department in 2001. Then I pursued my M.S. at State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University. During my M.S. period, My research was under the supervision of Prof. Qunsheng Peng and Prof. Wei Chen. Since September 2005, I started to pursue my Ph.D. in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany. My Ph.D.supervisors was Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel. During my Ph.D. time, I have been closely collaborating with Prof. Jan Kautz.  Also I had ever visited the Internet Graphics Group at MSRA under the supervision of Prof. Xinguo Liu and Computer Graphics Group at MSR under the supervision of Dr. John Snyder. My mentors are wonderful and I have learned so much from them for both my research and career!

 Research Interests Academic Activities Education  Professional Experiences  Publications 

Research Interests
  • Real-time Global Illumination Effects Rendering for Fully-Dynamic Scene
  • Real-time Realistic Shading and Material Editing
  • Generic Computation on GPU
  • High-quality Volume Graphics
  • Program Committee for: 
    • ACM I3D 2012,2013
    • PACIFIC GRAPHICS 2012,2013
    • CAD/Graphics 2013
  • Paper Reviewer for: 
    • SIGGRAPH 2013; SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009,2012; Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2007,2008,2010,2012,2013; High Performance Graphics 2010,2012; Eurographics 2008-2009,2012; ACM I3D 2009,2012,2013; Pacific Graphics 2005,2009,2011,2012; VMV 2008;...
    • 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;... 



TVCG 2013

Yubo Zhang, Zhao Dong, Kwan-Liu Ma. "Real-time Volume Rendering in Dynamic Lighting Environments using Precomputed Photon Mapping ", To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), (PDF(Preprint), Video(H.264 codec), BibTex).
TVCG 2011

Chunxia Xiao, Meng Liu, Yongwei Nie, Zhao Dong. "Fast Exact Nearest Patch Matching for Patch-Based Image Editing and Processing ", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), volume 17, issue 8, August 2011, (PDF, BibTex).
PG 2010

Baoguang Yang, Zhao Dong*, Jieqing Feng, Hans-Peter Seidel, Jan Kautz. "Variance Soft Shadow Mapping ", To Appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2010. Result image is selected for Back Cover of the proceedings.). (*The first two authors contributed equally.). (PDF(Preprint), BibTex, Video(Xvid Codec), Slides, Project Page).
Informatik Spektrum

The image of our I3D'10 paper has been selected as the Cover Image of Informatik Spektrum, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2010.
I3D 2010 Poster

Zhao Dong, Baoguang Yang. "Variance Soft Shadow Mapping ", To Appear in ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2010, Poster (PDF, Poster,BibTex, Video(Xvid Codec)).
I3D 2010

Wei Hu, Zhao Dong*, Ivo Ihrke, Thosten Grosch, Hans-Peter Seidel. "Interactive Volume Caustics in Single-Scattering Media ", To Appear in ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2010 (Result image is selected for Back Cover of the proceedings.). (*The first two authors contributed equally.). (PDF(Preprint), BibTex, Video(Xvid Codec),Slides, Project Page).
VMV 2009

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).
SIGGRAPH 2008

Thomas Annen, Zhao Dong*, Tom mertens, Philippe Bekaert, Hans-Peter Seidel, Jan Kautz. "Real-Time, All-Frequency Shadows in Dynamic Scenes ", To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics, (SIGGRAPH 2008) (*The first two authors are sorted by the alphabetic order of their last names). (PDF, BibTex, Video(Divx Codec), Slides,Project Page).
the Visual Computer

Xinguo Liu, Zhao Dong, Qunsheng Peng, Hujun Bao. "Caustics Spot Light for Rendering Caustics ", to Appear in the Visual Computer ( Best ranked paper accepted by Computer Graphics International 2008 ). (PDF, BibTex).
Informatik Spektrum

The image of our PG07 paper has been selected as the Cover Image of Informatik Spektrum, Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2007.
PG07

Zhao Dong, Jan Kautz, Chrisitan Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel. "Interactive Global Illumination Using Implicit Visibility ", Accepted by Pacific Graphics 2007 (oral paper), (PDF, BibTex,Video(Divx Codec), Presentation(PPS file)).
IEEEMM

Mingli Song, Zhao Dong, Chrisitan Theobalt, Huiqiong Wang, Zicheng Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel. "A General Framework for Efficient 2D and 3D Facial Expression Analogy", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume: 9, Issue: 7. (Video,BibTex).
PG04

Zhao Dong, Wei Chen, Hujun Bao, Hongxin Zhang, Qunsheng Peng. "Real-time Voxelization for Complex Polygonal Models ", In Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2004)(PDF,PPT,BibTex).
High-quality Point-based rendering

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.