Dr Bailin Deng
(he/him)
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Bailin Deng
Senior Lecturer
Overview
I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Informatics. I am a member of the Visual Computing Research Section, and lead the Geometric Computing and Graphics Research Group. I work on 3D geometry processing and its application, such as freeform architectural design, digital fabrication, and human face modelling. I also work on numerical algorithms, especially on large-scale optimization for geometry processing and physical simulation.
Before coming to Cardiff, I worked as a Lecturer in computer science at the University of Hull between 2015 and 2017. From 2012 to 2015, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory at EPFL, working with Mark Pauly. I obtained my PhD in Technical Mathematics from Vienna University of Technology in 2011, under the supervision of Helmut Pottmann. I received my master's degree in Computer Science and bachelor's degree in Computer Software in 2008 and 2005 respectively, both from Tsinghua University.
In summer 2018, I was a Visiting Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, hosted by the Graphics & Geometric Computing Laboratory.
More information can be found on my personal webpage.
Publication
2026
- Jayakody, D. P. V. J. et al., 2026. Part orientation fused shape optimization for minimisation of print time and material waste in extrusion-based 3D printing. Computer-Aided Design 192 104029. (10.1016/j.cad.2025.104029)
- Tao, J. , Yang, Y. and Deng, B. 2026. Learning conjugate direction fields for planar quadrilateral mesh generation. Presented at: The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Singapore, Republic of Singapore 20-27 January 2026. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 40.AAAI Press.
2025
- Cai, S. et al., 2025. Feature line extraction based on winding number. Graphical Models 141 101296. (10.1016/j.gmod.2025.101296)
- Dai, Y. et al., 2025. StyleGAN-∞: extending StyleGAN to arbitrary-ratio translation with StyleBook. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31 (9), pp.6575-6587. (10.1109/tvcg.2024.3522565)
- He, Y. et al., 2025. Computational design of body-supporting assemblies. Computer Graphics Forum 44 (7) e70237. (10.1111/cgf.70237)
- Li, S. et al., 2025. Conformable mechanisms on freeform surfaces. Computers & Graphics 132 104359. (10.1016/j.cag.2025.104359)
- Lv, H. et al., 2025. GSHeadRelight: Fast relightability for 3D gaussian head synthesis. Presented at: SIGGRAPH 2025 Vancouver, Canada 10-14 August 2025. ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.108. (10.1145/3721238.3730614)
- Pan, Y. et al., 2025. Piecewise ruled approximation for freeform mesh surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics 44 (4), pp.69-69. (10.1145/3730866)
- Sun, Y. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. End-to-end surface optimization for light control. ACM Transactions on Graphics 44 (3) 24. (10.1145/3732284)
- Wang, C. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. Neural shadow art. Presented at: The 33rd Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications Taipei, Taiwan 14-17 October 2025. Published in: Christie, M. , Pietroni, N. and Wang, Y. eds. Proceedings Pacific Graphics 2025. The European Association for Computer Graphics
- Xiao, D. et al., 2025. Winding clearness for differentiable point cloud optimization. Computer-Aided Design 188 103930. (10.1016/j.cad.2025.103930)
- Xu, Z. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. Neural implicit surface parameterization and texture reconstruction. Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (10.3724/SP.J.1089.2024-00606)
- Yang, L. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. Scalable and high-quality neural implicit representation for 3D reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31 (10), pp.6751-6766. (10.1109/TVCG.2025.3530452)
- Yao, Y. et al., 2025. SPARE: Symmetrized point-to-plane distance for robust non-rigid 3D registration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 47 (2), pp.11483-11501. (10.1109/tpami.2025.3598630)
- Zeng, X. et al., 2025. Oblique-MERF: Revisiting and improving MERF for oblique photography. Presented at: 2025 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) Singapore 25-28 March 2025. 2025 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV). IEEE. , pp.326-336. (10.1109/3DV66043.2025.00035)
- Zhou, S. et al., 2025. Computational caustic design for surface light source. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (10.1109/TVCG.2025.3633081)
2024
- Lu, Y. et al., 2024. 3D snapshot: Invertible embedding of 3D neural representations in a single image. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 46 (12), pp.11524-11531. (10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3411051)
- Sun, Y. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2024. Mesh-based double-sided freeform lens optimization. Presented at: European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) 2024 Naples, Italy 9-13 September 2024. Vol. 309.Topical Meeting (TOM) 3- Optical System Design, Tolerancing and Manufacturing EDP Sciences. , pp.03016. (10.1051/epjconf/202430903016)
- Xu, Q. , Yang, Y. and Deng, B. 2024. Point cloud denoising using a generalized error metric. Graphical Models 133 101216. (10.1016/j.gmod.2024.101216)
- Xu, Y. et al., 2024. Learning with unreliability: Fast few-shot Voxel radiance fields with relative geometric consistency. Presented at: The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024 Seattle, WA, USA 17-21 June 2024. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE. , pp.20342-20351. (10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.01923)
2023
- Chen, R. et al., 2023. Masonry shell structures with discrete equivalence classes. ACM Transactions on Graphics 42 (4) 115. (10.1145/3592095)
- Deng, Z. et al. 2023. Sketch2PQ: freeform planar quadrilateral mesh design via a single sketch. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 29 (9), pp.3826-3839. (10.1109/TVCG.2022.3170853)
- Feng, W. et al., 2023. Differentiable deformation graph-based neural non-rigid registration. Communications in Mathematics and Statistics 11 , pp.151-167. (10.1007/s40304-023-00341-x)
- Liang, Y. et al., 2023. Monocular depth estimation for glass walls with context: a new dataset and method. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45 (12), pp.15081-15097. (10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3308551)
- Ouyang, W. et al., 2023. Nonmonotone globalization for Anderson acceleration via adaptive regularization. Journal of Scientific Computing 96 (5)(10.1007/s10915-023-02231-4)
- Xiao, D. et al., 2023. Point normal orientation and surface reconstruction by incorporating isovalue constraints to Poisson equation. Computer Aided Geometric Design 103 102195. (10.1016/j.cagd.2023.102195)
- Yao, Y. et al., 2023. Fast and robust non-rigid registration using accelerated majorization-minimization. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45 (8), pp.9681-9698. (10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3247603)
- Zhu, X. et al., 2023. Efficient multi-view inverse rendering using a hybrid differentiable rendering method. Presented at: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Macao 19-25 August 2023. Published in: Elkind, E. ed. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. , pp.1849-1857. (10.24963/ijcai.2023/205)
2022
- Deng, B. et al. 2022. A survey of non-rigid 3D registration. Computer Graphics Forum 41 (2), pp.559-589. (10.1111/cgf.14502)
- Wu, Z. et al., 2022. Make your own sprites: Aliasing-aware and cell-controllable pixelization. ACM Transactions on Graphics 41 (6) 193. (10.1145/3550454.3555482)
- Xia, Q. et al., 2022. GeodesicEmbedding (GE): a high-dimensional embedding approach for fast geodesic distance queries. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 28 (12), pp.4930-4939. (10.1109/TVCG.2021.3109975)
- Xu, Y. et al., 2022. High-resolution face swapping via latent semantics disentanglement. Presented at: 2022 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022) New Orleans, LA, United States of America 18-24 June 2022. Proceedings IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.7632-7641. (10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00749)
- Zhang, J. , Yao, Y. and Deng, B. 2022. Fast and robust iterative closest point. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 44 (7), pp.3450-3466. (10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3054619)
- Zhong, Z. et al., 2022. Faithful extreme rescaling via generative prior reciprocated invertible representations. Presented at: 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 21-24 June 2022. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.5698-5707. (10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00562)
2021
- Deng, Z. et al. 2021. A robust loss for point cloud registration. Presented at: 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Virtual / Montreal, QC, Canada 11-17 October 2021. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). IEEE. , pp.6118-6127. (10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.00608)
- Guo, Y. et al., 2021. Real-time face view correction for front-facing cameras. Computational Visual Media 7 , pp.437-452. (10.1007/s41095-021-0215-y)
- Tao, J. et al., 2021. Parallel and scalable heat methods for geodesic distance computation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 43 (2), pp.579-594. (10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2933209)
2020
- Corcoran, P. and Deng, B. 2020. Regularization of persistent homology gradient computation. Presented at: Topological Data Analysis and Beyond Workshop Virtual 11 December 2020.
- Jiang, L. , Zhang, J. and Deng, B. 2020. Robust RGB-D face recognition using attribute-aware loss. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 42 (10), pp.2552-2566. (10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2919284)
- Ouyang, W. et al., 2020. Anderson acceleration for nonconvex ADMM based on Douglas-Rachford splitting. Computer Graphics Forum 39 (5), pp.221-239.
- Wang, X. et al., 2020. Lightweight photometric stereo for facial details recovery. Presented at: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020) Seattle, Washington, USA 16-18 June 2020. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.737-746. (10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00082)
- Yao, Y. et al., 2020. Quasi-newton solver for robust non-rigid registration. Presented at: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020) Seattle, Washington, USA 16-18 June 2020. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.7597-7606. (10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00762)
2019
- Tang, K. et al., 2019. Computational design of steady 3D dissection puzzles. Computer Graphics Forum 38 (2), pp.291-303. (10.1111/cgf.13638)
- Tao, J. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2019. A fast numerical solver for local barycentric coordinates. Computer Aided Geometric Design 70 , pp.46-58. (10.1016/j.cagd.2019.04.006)
- Zhang, J. et al., 2019. Static/dynamic filtering for mesh geometry. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 25 (4), pp.1774-1787. (10.1109/TVCG.2018.2816926)
- Zhang, J. et al., 2019. Accelerating ADMM for efficient simulation and optimization. ACM Transactions on Graphics 38 (6) 163. (10.1145/3355089.3356491)
2018
- Jiang, L. et al., 2018. 3D face reconstruction with geometry details from a single image. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 27 (10), pp.4756-4770. (10.1109/TIP.2018.2845697)
- Peng, Y. et al., 2018. Anderson acceleration for geometry optimization and physics simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics 37 (4) 42. (10.1145/3197517.3201290)
- Xu, Q. , Deng, B. and Yang, Y. 2018. Ellipsoid packing structures on freeform surfaces. Computer Graphics Forum 37 (7), pp.87-95. (10.1111/cgf.13550)
2017
- Wang, T. et al., 2017. Encoding bamboo’s nature for freeform structure design. International Journal of Architectural Computing 15 (2), pp.169-182. (10.1177/1478077117714943)
2016
- Konaković, M. et al., 2016. Beyond developable: computational design and fabrication with auxetic materials. ACM Transactions on Graphics 35 (4) 89. (10.1145/2897824.2925944)
- Song, P. et al., 2016. CofiFab: coarse-to-fine fabrication of large 3D objects. ACM Transactions on Graphics 35 (4) 45. (10.1145/2897824.2925876)
2015
- Deng, B. et al. 2015. Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes. Computer-Aided Design 61 , pp.13-23.
- Deuss, M. et al., 2015. ShapeOp—A robust and extensible geometric modelling paradigm. In: Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. et al., Modelling Behaviour: Design Modelling Symposium 2015. Springer. , pp.505-515. (10.1007/978-3-319-24208-8_42)
- Kaspar, A. and Deng, B. 2015. Real-time deformation of constrained meshes using GPU. In: Cai, Y. and See, S. eds. GPU Computing and Applications. Springer. , pp.15-34. (10.1007/978-981-287-134-3_2)
- Zhang, W. et al., 2015. Guided mesh normal filtering. Computer Graphics Forum 34 (7), pp.23-34. (10.1111/cgf.12742)
2014
- Garg, A. et al., 2014. Wire mesh design. ACM Transactions on Graphics 33 (4) 66. (10.1145/2601097.2601106)
- Zhang, J. et al., 2014. Local barycentric coordinates. ACM Transactions on Graphics 33 (6) 188. (10.1145/2661229.2661255)
- Zou, Q. et al., 2014. Iso-level tool path planning for free-form surfaces. Computer-Aided Design 53 , pp.117-125. (10.1016/j.cad.2014.04.006)
2013
- Deng, B. et al. 2013. Exploring Local Modifications for Constrained Meshes. Computer graphics forum 32 (2pt1), pp.11-20. (10.1111/cgf.12021)
- Yang, Y. et al., 2013. An algorithm to improve parameterizations of rational Bézier surfaces using rational bilinear reparameterization. Computer-Aided Design 45 (3), pp.628-638. (10.1016/j.cad.2012.10.048)
2012
- Yang, Y. et al., 2012. G1 continuous approximate curves on NURBS surfaces. Computer-Aided Design 44 (9), pp.824-834. (10.1016/j.cad.2012.04.004)
2011
- Deng, B. , Pottmann, H. and Wallner, J. 2011. Functional webs for freeform architecture. Computer graphics forum 30 (5), pp.1369-1378. (10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.02011.x)
2010
- Pottmann, H. et al., 2010. Geodesic patterns. Presented at: ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Los Angeles, CA, USA 26-30 July 2010. ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers. Vol. 29.Vol. 4. USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.43. (10.1145/1778765.1778780)
- Pottmann, H. et al., 2010. Geodesic patterns. ACM Transactions on Graphics 29 (4) 43. (10.1145/1778765.1778780)
- Wallner, J. et al., 2010. Tiling freeform shapes with straight panels: algorithmic methods. In: Ceccato, C. et al., Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010. New York, USA: SpringerWein. , pp.73-86.
2009
- Yong, J. et al., 2009. Removing local irregularities of triangular meshes with highlight line models. Science in China Series F: Information Sciences 52 (3), pp.418-430. (10.1007/s11432-009-0060-6)
Articles
- Cai, S. et al., 2025. Feature line extraction based on winding number. Graphical Models 141 101296. (10.1016/j.gmod.2025.101296)
- Chen, R. et al., 2023. Masonry shell structures with discrete equivalence classes. ACM Transactions on Graphics 42 (4) 115. (10.1145/3592095)
- Dai, Y. et al., 2025. StyleGAN-∞: extending StyleGAN to arbitrary-ratio translation with StyleBook. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31 (9), pp.6575-6587. (10.1109/tvcg.2024.3522565)
- Deng, B. et al. 2013. Exploring Local Modifications for Constrained Meshes. Computer graphics forum 32 (2pt1), pp.11-20. (10.1111/cgf.12021)
- Deng, B. et al. 2015. Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes. Computer-Aided Design 61 , pp.13-23.
- Deng, B. , Pottmann, H. and Wallner, J. 2011. Functional webs for freeform architecture. Computer graphics forum 30 (5), pp.1369-1378. (10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.02011.x)
- Deng, B. et al. 2022. A survey of non-rigid 3D registration. Computer Graphics Forum 41 (2), pp.559-589. (10.1111/cgf.14502)
- Deng, Z. et al. 2023. Sketch2PQ: freeform planar quadrilateral mesh design via a single sketch. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 29 (9), pp.3826-3839. (10.1109/TVCG.2022.3170853)
- Feng, W. et al., 2023. Differentiable deformation graph-based neural non-rigid registration. Communications in Mathematics and Statistics 11 , pp.151-167. (10.1007/s40304-023-00341-x)
- Garg, A. et al., 2014. Wire mesh design. ACM Transactions on Graphics 33 (4) 66. (10.1145/2601097.2601106)
- Guo, Y. et al., 2021. Real-time face view correction for front-facing cameras. Computational Visual Media 7 , pp.437-452. (10.1007/s41095-021-0215-y)
- He, Y. et al., 2025. Computational design of body-supporting assemblies. Computer Graphics Forum 44 (7) e70237. (10.1111/cgf.70237)
- Jayakody, D. P. V. J. et al., 2026. Part orientation fused shape optimization for minimisation of print time and material waste in extrusion-based 3D printing. Computer-Aided Design 192 104029. (10.1016/j.cad.2025.104029)
- Jiang, L. et al., 2018. 3D face reconstruction with geometry details from a single image. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 27 (10), pp.4756-4770. (10.1109/TIP.2018.2845697)
- Jiang, L. , Zhang, J. and Deng, B. 2020. Robust RGB-D face recognition using attribute-aware loss. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 42 (10), pp.2552-2566. (10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2919284)
- Konaković, M. et al., 2016. Beyond developable: computational design and fabrication with auxetic materials. ACM Transactions on Graphics 35 (4) 89. (10.1145/2897824.2925944)
- Li, S. et al., 2025. Conformable mechanisms on freeform surfaces. Computers & Graphics 132 104359. (10.1016/j.cag.2025.104359)
- Liang, Y. et al., 2023. Monocular depth estimation for glass walls with context: a new dataset and method. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45 (12), pp.15081-15097. (10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3308551)
- Lu, Y. et al., 2024. 3D snapshot: Invertible embedding of 3D neural representations in a single image. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 46 (12), pp.11524-11531. (10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3411051)
- Ouyang, W. et al., 2020. Anderson acceleration for nonconvex ADMM based on Douglas-Rachford splitting. Computer Graphics Forum 39 (5), pp.221-239.
- Ouyang, W. et al., 2023. Nonmonotone globalization for Anderson acceleration via adaptive regularization. Journal of Scientific Computing 96 (5)(10.1007/s10915-023-02231-4)
- Pan, Y. et al., 2025. Piecewise ruled approximation for freeform mesh surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics 44 (4), pp.69-69. (10.1145/3730866)
- Peng, Y. et al., 2018. Anderson acceleration for geometry optimization and physics simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics 37 (4) 42. (10.1145/3197517.3201290)
- Pottmann, H. et al., 2010. Geodesic patterns. ACM Transactions on Graphics 29 (4) 43. (10.1145/1778765.1778780)
- Song, P. et al., 2016. CofiFab: coarse-to-fine fabrication of large 3D objects. ACM Transactions on Graphics 35 (4) 45. (10.1145/2897824.2925876)
- Sun, Y. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. End-to-end surface optimization for light control. ACM Transactions on Graphics 44 (3) 24. (10.1145/3732284)
- Tang, K. et al., 2019. Computational design of steady 3D dissection puzzles. Computer Graphics Forum 38 (2), pp.291-303. (10.1111/cgf.13638)
- Tao, J. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2019. A fast numerical solver for local barycentric coordinates. Computer Aided Geometric Design 70 , pp.46-58. (10.1016/j.cagd.2019.04.006)
- Tao, J. et al., 2021. Parallel and scalable heat methods for geodesic distance computation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 43 (2), pp.579-594. (10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2933209)
- Wang, T. et al., 2017. Encoding bamboo’s nature for freeform structure design. International Journal of Architectural Computing 15 (2), pp.169-182. (10.1177/1478077117714943)
- Wu, Z. et al., 2022. Make your own sprites: Aliasing-aware and cell-controllable pixelization. ACM Transactions on Graphics 41 (6) 193. (10.1145/3550454.3555482)
- Xia, Q. et al., 2022. GeodesicEmbedding (GE): a high-dimensional embedding approach for fast geodesic distance queries. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 28 (12), pp.4930-4939. (10.1109/TVCG.2021.3109975)
- Xiao, D. et al., 2025. Winding clearness for differentiable point cloud optimization. Computer-Aided Design 188 103930. (10.1016/j.cad.2025.103930)
- Xiao, D. et al., 2023. Point normal orientation and surface reconstruction by incorporating isovalue constraints to Poisson equation. Computer Aided Geometric Design 103 102195. (10.1016/j.cagd.2023.102195)
- Xu, Q. , Deng, B. and Yang, Y. 2018. Ellipsoid packing structures on freeform surfaces. Computer Graphics Forum 37 (7), pp.87-95. (10.1111/cgf.13550)
- Xu, Q. , Yang, Y. and Deng, B. 2024. Point cloud denoising using a generalized error metric. Graphical Models 133 101216. (10.1016/j.gmod.2024.101216)
- Xu, Z. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. Neural implicit surface parameterization and texture reconstruction. Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (10.3724/SP.J.1089.2024-00606)
- Yang, L. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. Scalable and high-quality neural implicit representation for 3D reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31 (10), pp.6751-6766. (10.1109/TVCG.2025.3530452)
- Yang, Y. et al., 2013. An algorithm to improve parameterizations of rational Bézier surfaces using rational bilinear reparameterization. Computer-Aided Design 45 (3), pp.628-638. (10.1016/j.cad.2012.10.048)
- Yang, Y. et al., 2012. G1 continuous approximate curves on NURBS surfaces. Computer-Aided Design 44 (9), pp.824-834. (10.1016/j.cad.2012.04.004)
- Yao, Y. et al., 2025. SPARE: Symmetrized point-to-plane distance for robust non-rigid 3D registration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 47 (2), pp.11483-11501. (10.1109/tpami.2025.3598630)
- Yao, Y. et al., 2023. Fast and robust non-rigid registration using accelerated majorization-minimization. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45 (8), pp.9681-9698. (10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3247603)
- Yong, J. et al., 2009. Removing local irregularities of triangular meshes with highlight line models. Science in China Series F: Information Sciences 52 (3), pp.418-430. (10.1007/s11432-009-0060-6)
- Zhang, J. et al., 2019. Static/dynamic filtering for mesh geometry. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 25 (4), pp.1774-1787. (10.1109/TVCG.2018.2816926)
- Zhang, J. et al., 2014. Local barycentric coordinates. ACM Transactions on Graphics 33 (6) 188. (10.1145/2661229.2661255)
- Zhang, J. et al., 2019. Accelerating ADMM for efficient simulation and optimization. ACM Transactions on Graphics 38 (6) 163. (10.1145/3355089.3356491)
- Zhang, J. , Yao, Y. and Deng, B. 2022. Fast and robust iterative closest point. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 44 (7), pp.3450-3466. (10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3054619)
- Zhang, W. et al., 2015. Guided mesh normal filtering. Computer Graphics Forum 34 (7), pp.23-34. (10.1111/cgf.12742)
- Zhou, S. et al., 2025. Computational caustic design for surface light source. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (10.1109/TVCG.2025.3633081)
- Zou, Q. et al., 2014. Iso-level tool path planning for free-form surfaces. Computer-Aided Design 53 , pp.117-125. (10.1016/j.cad.2014.04.006)
Book sections
- Deuss, M. et al., 2015. ShapeOp—A robust and extensible geometric modelling paradigm. In: Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. et al., Modelling Behaviour: Design Modelling Symposium 2015. Springer. , pp.505-515. (10.1007/978-3-319-24208-8_42)
- Kaspar, A. and Deng, B. 2015. Real-time deformation of constrained meshes using GPU. In: Cai, Y. and See, S. eds. GPU Computing and Applications. Springer. , pp.15-34. (10.1007/978-981-287-134-3_2)
- Wallner, J. et al., 2010. Tiling freeform shapes with straight panels: algorithmic methods. In: Ceccato, C. et al., Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010. New York, USA: SpringerWein. , pp.73-86.
Conferences
- Corcoran, P. and Deng, B. 2020. Regularization of persistent homology gradient computation. Presented at: Topological Data Analysis and Beyond Workshop Virtual 11 December 2020.
- Deng, Z. et al. 2021. A robust loss for point cloud registration. Presented at: 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Virtual / Montreal, QC, Canada 11-17 October 2021. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). IEEE. , pp.6118-6127. (10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.00608)
- Lv, H. et al., 2025. GSHeadRelight: Fast relightability for 3D gaussian head synthesis. Presented at: SIGGRAPH 2025 Vancouver, Canada 10-14 August 2025. ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.108. (10.1145/3721238.3730614)
- Pottmann, H. et al., 2010. Geodesic patterns. Presented at: ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Los Angeles, CA, USA 26-30 July 2010. ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers. Vol. 29.Vol. 4. USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.43. (10.1145/1778765.1778780)
- Sun, Y. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2024. Mesh-based double-sided freeform lens optimization. Presented at: European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) 2024 Naples, Italy 9-13 September 2024. Vol. 309.Topical Meeting (TOM) 3- Optical System Design, Tolerancing and Manufacturing EDP Sciences. , pp.03016. (10.1051/epjconf/202430903016)
- Tao, J. , Yang, Y. and Deng, B. 2026. Learning conjugate direction fields for planar quadrilateral mesh generation. Presented at: The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Singapore, Republic of Singapore 20-27 January 2026. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 40.AAAI Press.
- Wang, C. , Deng, B. and Zhang, J. 2025. Neural shadow art. Presented at: The 33rd Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications Taipei, Taiwan 14-17 October 2025. Published in: Christie, M. , Pietroni, N. and Wang, Y. eds. Proceedings Pacific Graphics 2025. The European Association for Computer Graphics
- Wang, X. et al., 2020. Lightweight photometric stereo for facial details recovery. Presented at: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020) Seattle, Washington, USA 16-18 June 2020. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.737-746. (10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00082)
- Xu, Y. et al., 2022. High-resolution face swapping via latent semantics disentanglement. Presented at: 2022 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022) New Orleans, LA, United States of America 18-24 June 2022. Proceedings IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.7632-7641. (10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00749)
- Xu, Y. et al., 2024. Learning with unreliability: Fast few-shot Voxel radiance fields with relative geometric consistency. Presented at: The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024 Seattle, WA, USA 17-21 June 2024. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE. , pp.20342-20351. (10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.01923)
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- Zeng, X. et al., 2025. Oblique-MERF: Revisiting and improving MERF for oblique photography. Presented at: 2025 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) Singapore 25-28 March 2025. 2025 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV). IEEE. , pp.326-336. (10.1109/3DV66043.2025.00035)
- Zhong, Z. et al., 2022. Faithful extreme rescaling via generative prior reciprocated invertible representations. Presented at: 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 21-24 June 2022. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. , pp.5698-5707. (10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00562)
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Research
My primary research interest is in the analysis and processing of 3D geometry, including:
- Computational design tools for freeform architecture and digital fabrication
- 3D data processing techniques, such as denoising, filtering, and registration
- Human face modelling and recognition using RGB and RGB-D images
- Efficient numerical algorithms for 3D geometry processing and physical simulation
My work has been published in top venus for visual computing, including ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, IEEE TIP, and IEEE TPAMI. I am a recipient of the Best Paper Award at GMP 2019.
Source codes for my research work are released on my github page.
I have served on the program committees of various international conferences, including:
- Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM): 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023
- Advances in Architectural Geometry: 2016/2018/2020/2023
- Computational Visual Media Conference: 2019/2022/2023
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Brief and Posters: 2016/2017/2018/2019
- International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/CG): 2021/2023
- International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP): 2017/2018/2019
- Pacific Graphics: 2018
- International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP): 2018
- Shape Modeling International (SMI): 2016
I served as an Associate Chair of GRAPP 2023 & 2024, and a Conference Program Chair of Pacific Graphics 2022.
In 2018, I was awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Science and Technology of China, to collaborate with the Graphics & Geometric Computing Laboratory.
Funded Research Projects
- Facial Animation Generation in Neural Radiance Fields. Funder: Royal Society (£12,000.00), 03/2024-03/2026, PI
- Enhancing Data Compatibility, Aggregation, and Validation in Virtual Production Workflows. Funder: EPSRC (£48,000.00), 09/2024-04/2025, PI.
- Efficient Multi-resolution Design for Constraint-based Modelling. Funder: Royal Society (£12,000.00), 03/2020-03/2022, PI
Teaching
Cardiff University
- Object Orientation, Algorithms and Data Structures: 2018-Now
- Computational Design for Fabrication: 2019-Now
- Algorithms and Data Structures: 2017-2018
- Distributed and Cloud Computing: 2017
University of Hull
- Real-Time Graphics: 2015
EPFL
- Digital 3D Geometry Processing: 2013
Biography
Education and qualifications
- 2011: Dr.techn. in Technical Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology
- 2008: MSc in Computer Science, Tsinghua University
- 2005: BEng in Computer Software, Tsinghua University
Academic Positions
- 2021-Now: Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
- 2017-2021: Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
- 2018: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
- 2015-2017: Lecturer, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hull
- 2012-2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory, EPFL
Honours and awards
- Best Paper Award, SMI 2025
- Best Paper Award, ChinaVR 2024
- Best Paper Award, GMP 2019
Professional memberships
- Member of ACM, IEEE, Eurographics, and Asia Graphics.
- Fellow of HEA
Committees and reviewing
Editorial Positions
- Associate Editor, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (since 2023)
Conference Organization
- Associate Chair, International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) 2023/2024
- Conference Program Chair, Pacific Graphics 2022
Program Committee Member:
- Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM): 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023
- Advances in Architectural Geometry: 2016/2018/2020/2023
- Computational Visual Media Conference: 2019/2022/2023
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Brief and Posters: 2016/2017/2018/2019
- International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/CG): 2021/2023
- International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP): 2017/2018/2019
- Pacific Graphics: 2018
- International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP): 2018
- Shape Modeling International (SMI): 2016
Grant Reviewer:
- EPSRC
- British Council
Reviewer for Conferences and Journals:
- ACM SIGGRAPH
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
- CVPR
- Eurographics
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Computer Graphics Forum
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computer Aided Geometric Design
and many others.
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD/MPhil students in the areas of:
- Computational design
- Geometry processing
- Physical simulation
- Numerical optimization
I have worked with research students from various institutions. Past and present supervision/co-supervision of research students include:
- Alexandre Kaspar (Master's student at EPFL, currently PhD student at MIT).
- Zishun Liu (Master's student at USTC, currently PhD student at TU Delft).
- Luo Jiang (PhD student at USTC, currently postdoc at Nanyang Technological University)
- Yue Peng (PhD student at USTC, currently researcher at Tencent AI Lab)
- Qun-Ce Xu (PhD student at Bath, currently postdoc at Tsinghua University)
- Wenqing Ouyang (Master's student at USTC, currently PhD student at CUHK Shenzhen)
- Jiong Tao (Master's student at USTC, currently PhD student at University of Bath)
- Yuxin Yao (PhD student at USTC)
- Yiling Pan (PhD student at Tsinghua University)
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Computer aided design
- Computer graphics
- Numerical and computational mathematics
- 3D Geometry