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Zicheng Liao
Associate professor, Ph.D.
 
Computer Science, Zhejiang University
Adjunct w/ ZJU-UIUC Institute
address: Yuquan campus, Lake district, Hangzhou CN
contact: zliao @zju.edu.cn

I am now based at the College of Computer Science & Technologies, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou - China, where I had four wonderful years of my college life. The city is featured (among many other things) with a Lake, a tradition of tea plantation and a Song dynasty pagoda.

I received a MS and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois (UIUC) with the advisorship of Y. Yu and David A. Forsyth. After some years of work in computer graphics and vision, I am now partly interested in the digitization of Real persons and application.


Areas of Research
  • computer vision
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  • computer graphics
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  • machine learning

Demo Tool

"Automated video looping with progressive dynamism (SIGGRAPH'13)"

Tool to generate a seamlessly looping video with interactive editing and control from a 5-second non-looping video taken by handheld camera.

demo download YouTube

Former Students
  • Tai Wang (C-KC Award Honorary/CUHK PhD program); Qingle Huang (Alibaba-AI Labs); Jingjie Wan (University of Chicago); Geng Yan (Carnegie Mellon University MS program); Hexiang Hu (UCLA PhD program); Bingchen Gong (HKU PhD program); Hongyi Zhang (UCSD MS program); Chaowei Fang (HKU PhD program)

Teaching

  • ECE220: computing systems and programming: Fall 2019 (@ZJUI Institute)
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  • CS101: intro to computing for engr. & sci.: Fall 2017 (@ZJUI Institute)
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  • CS101: intro to computing for engr. & sci.: Fall 2016 (@ZJUI Institute)
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  • CMPT469: data-driven methods of visual media synthesis: Fall 2015 (@Simon Fraser University)

 

Publications (some)

Structured Label Inference for Visual Understanding (paper (Early access))
N. Nauata, H.X. Hu, G-T Zhou, Z. Deng, Z. Liao and Greg Mori
Journal of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2020
 
Piecewise Flat Embedding for Image Segmentation (paper; arxiv)
Chaowei Fang, Zicheng Liao, Yizhou Yu
Journal of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2019
 
An Approximate Shading Model with Detail Decomposition for Object Relighting (paper)
Zicheng Liao, Kevin Karsch, Hongyi Zhang, David Forsyth
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2019
 
Intrinsic Image Transformation via Scale Space Decomposition (paper; supplemental)
Lechao Cheng, Chengyi Zhang, Zicheng Liao
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018
 
A Convolutional Temporal Encoder for Video Caption Generation (paper)
Qingle Huang, Zicheng Liao
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2017
 
Action-Driven 3D Indoor Scene Evolution (paper; website)
Rui Ma, Honghua Li, Changqing Zou, Zicheng Liao, Xin Tong, Hao Zhang
ACM Trans. Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2016.
 
LSTM for Image Annotation with Relative Object Importance (paper; abstract; poster)
Geng Yan, Yang Wang, Zicheng Liao
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2016.
 
Learning 3D Scene Synthesis from Annotated RGB-D Images (paper)
Zeinab Sadeghipour, Zicheng Liao, Ping Tan, Hao Zhang
Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue of SGP), 35 (5), 2016.
 
Learning Structured Inference Neural Networks with Label Relations (paper; poster)
Hexiang Hu, Guang-Tong Zhou, Zhiwei Deng, Zicheng Liao, Greg Mori
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016.
 
AudeoSynth: Music-Driven Video Montage (website; paper; talk)
Zicheng Liao, Yizhou Yu, Bingchen Gong, Lechao Cheng
ACM Trans. Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2015
 
An Approximate Shading Model for Object Relighting (paper; supplemental; extended abstract)
Zicheng Liao, Kevin Karsch, David Forsyth
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015
 
Piecewise Flat Embedding for Image Segmentation (Oral paper; supplemental; slides)
Yizhou Yu, Chaowei Fang, Zicheng Liao
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015
 
Automated Video Looping with Progressive Dynamism (website; paper; video; talk; demo tool)
Zicheng Liao, Neel Joshi, Hugues Hoppe
ACM Trans. Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013
 
Non-Parametric Filtering for Geometric Detail Extraction and Material Representation (paper; dataset)
Zicheng Liao, Jason Rock, Yang Wang, David Forsyth
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013
 
Boundary Cues for 3D Object Shape Recovery (paper; supplemental)
Kevin Karsch, Zicheng Liao, Jason Rock, Jonathan Barron, Derek Hoiem
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013
 
Discriminative Hierarchical Part-Based Models for Human Parsing and Action Recognition (paper)
Yang Wang, Duan Tran, Zicheng Liao, David Forsyth
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2012.
 
A Subdivision-Based Representation for Vector Image Editing (website; paper; supplemental; slides)
Zicheng Liao, David Forsyth, Hugues Hoppe, Yizhou Yu
Proc. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2012 (spotlight paper).
 
Building a Dictionary of Image Fragments (paper)
Zicheng Liao, Ali Farhadi, Yang Wang, Ian Endres, David Forsyth
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012
 
Learning Hierarchical Poselets for Human Parsing (project page)
Yang Wang, Duan Tran, Zicheng Liao
Proc. IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
 
Anomaly Detection in GPS data Based on Visual Analytics
Zicheng Liao, Yizhou Yu, Baoquan Chen
Proc. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Salt Lake City, October 2010.
 
iNextCube: Information Network-Enhanced Text Cube
Yintao Yu, Cindy Xide Lin, Yizhou Sun, Chen Chen, Jiawei Han, Zicheng Liao, Tianyi Wu, ChengXiang Zhai, Duo Zhang, Bo Zhao
Proc. 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2009
 
Patch-Based Image Vectorization with Automatic Curvilinear Feature Alignment
Tian Xia, Zicheng Liao, Yizhou Yu
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 (ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 5, 2009)
 

A view of Yosemite from east

Last Update: Nov. 2019   (c) Zicheng Liao.