Professor Wenping Wang

PhD Alberta; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow
Emeritus Professor

Now Professor of CSE at Texas A&M University

Email: wenping@cs.hku.hk ||  wenping@tamu.edu

Professor Wang is now Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has been Chair Professor and Head (2012-2017) of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He conducts research in visual computing and has over 300 technical publications.

Research Interests: Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality (VR/AR), Robotics, Machine Learning, Medical Imaging, Digital Dentistry, and Geometric Modeling.

Professional Services:  Professor Wang serves or has served as journal associate editor of Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), Computers and Graphics (CAG), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He has chaired a number of international conferences, including ACM Symposium on Physical and Solid Modeling (SPM 2006), International Conference on Shape Modeling (SMI 2009), Pacific Graphics 2012, SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling 2013 (GD/SPM'13), SIGGRAPH Asia 2013, Geometry Summit 2019 and Geometry Summit 2023. He has been Founding Chairman of Asian Graphics Association (2016-2020).

Honors & Awards

• ACM Fellow, 2021
• IEEE Fellow, 2017
• The Pierre Bézier Award, 2023
• The Tosiyasu L. Kuni Award, 2023
• AsiaGraphics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award, 2021
• The John Gregory Memorial Award,  2017
• Outstanding Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong, 2013
• The Best Paper Award, SIGGRAPH 2023

Research Grants     

• Theme-based Research Scheme (2020-2025) Intelligent Robotics for Elderly Assistance in Hong Kong (HK$43 million)
• Innovative Technology Fund (2018) Artificial Intelligent Orthodontic System (HK$8.7 million)
• Innovative Technology Fund (2018) Human-Robot Collaboration for Intelligent Manufacturing (HK$6.9 million)
• RGC's General Research Fund (2020) On 3D Tooth Tracking and Reconstruction Using Consumer Cameras with Applications in Digital Orthodontics
• RGC's General Research Fund (2019) A Computational Study on Tooth Alignment in Digital Orthodontics
• RGC's General Research Fund (2018) Real-Time Reconstruction of 3D Thin Structures with an RGB-D Camera
• RGC's General Research Fund (2017) Modeling 3D Free-Form Objects from a Single Image
• RGC's General Research Fund (2016) Computation of Optimal Partitions with Capacity Constraints
• RGC's General Research Fund (2015) Sketch-Based Surface Modeling with Control on Lines of Curvature
• RGC's General Research Fund (2014) New Methods for 3D Packing of Irregular Objects
• RGC's General Research Fund (2013) Studies on Medial Axis Surfaces for 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
• RGC's General Research Fund (2012) Free-Form Shape Modeling Using Cyclides
• RGC's General Research Fund (2011) A New Approach to Automatic Hexahedral Mesh Generation
• RGC's General Research Fund (2010) Studies on 3D Optimal Delaunay Triangulation
• RGC's General Research Fund (2009) Computation of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation
• RGC's General Research Fund (2008) Computation of Planar Hexagonal Mesh Surfaces

Selected Publications (up to 2021)

• L Chu, H Pan, and W.  Wang, Unsupervised shape completion via deep prior in the neural tangent kernel perspective, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 40, no. 3, (2021)
• Z Cui, C Li, N Chen, G Wei, R Chen, Y Zhou, D Shen, and W Wang, TSegNet: an efficient and accurate tooth segmentation network on 3D dental model, Medical Image Analysis 69, 101949, (2021)
• P Wang, L Liu, Y Liu, C Theobalt, T Komura, and W Wang, NeuS: Learning neural implicit surfaces by volume rendering for multi-view reconstruction, NeurIPS 2021 (Spotlight), (2021)
• L. Liu, W. Xu, M. Habermann, M. Zollhofer, F. Bernard, H. Kim, W. Wang, and C. Theobalt, Learning dynamic textures for neural rendering of human actors. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, vol. 27, no. 10, 4009-4922, (2021)
• Y Hong, B Wang, W Lin, L Jin, S Liu, X Luo, J Pan, W Wang, and Z Yang, Highly anisotropic and flexible piezoceramic kirigami for preventing joint disorders, Science Advances , vol. 7, no. 11, (2021)
• C Lin, C Li, Y Liu, N Chen, YK Choi, and W Wang, Point2Skeleton: Learning skeletal representations from point clouds, CVPR (oral), (2021)
• X Long, L Liu, W Li, C Theobalt, and W Wang, Multi-view depth estimation using epipolar spatio-temporal networks, CVPR, (2021)
• X.H. Jia, C.H. Tu, B. Mourrain, and W. Wang, Complete classification and efficient determination of arrangements formed by two ellipsoids. ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 39, no. 3, (2020)
• P Wang, L Liu, N Chen, HK Chu, C Theobalt, and W Wang, CVid2Curve: simultaneous camera motion estimation and thin structure reconstruction from an RGB video, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), vol. 39, no. 4, (2020)
• X Long, L Liu, C Theobalt, and W. Wang, Occlusion-aware depth estimation with adaptive normal constraints,  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 640-657, (2020)
• G Wei, Z Cui, Y Liu, N Chen, R Chen, G Li, and W Wang, TANet: Towards fully automatic tooth arrangement,  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 481-497, (2020) 
• C Lin, T Fan, W Wang, and M Nießner, Modeling 3D shapes by reinforcement learning, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 545-561, (2020) 
• N.L. Chen, L.J. Liu, Z.M. Cui, R.N. Chen, D. Ceylan, C.H. Tu, and W. Wang, Unsupervised learning of intrinsic structural representation points. CVPR, 9118-9127, (2020)
•  Y.L. Wen, H. Pan, L. Yang, and W.  Wang, Edge enhanced implicit orientation learning with geometric prior for 6D pose estimation. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5(3): 4931-4938, (2020)
• L. Liu, W. Xu, M. Zollhoefer, H. Kim, F. Bernard, M. Habermann, W. Wang, and C. Theobalt, Neural rendering and reenactment of human actor videos, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 38, no. 5, (2019)
• L. Ma, Y, He, Q, Sun, Y, Zhou, C, Zhang, and W. Wang, Constructing 3D self-supporting surfaces with isotropic stress using 4D minimal hypersurfaces of revolution. ACM Transactions on Graphics, vo. 38, no. 5, (2019)
• L. Chu, H. Pan, Y. Liu, and W. Wang, Repairing man-made meshes via visual driven global optimization with minimum intrusion, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAH Asia), vo. 38, no. 6, (2019)
• M. Zhao, X. Jia, C. Tu, B. Mourrain, and W. Wang, Enumerating the morphologies of non-degenerate Darboux cyclides, Computer Aided Geometric Design, vol. 75, (2019)
• Y. Ma, X. Zhu, S. Zhang, R. Yang, W. Wang, and D. Manocha,  Trafficpredict: Trajectory prediction for heterogeneous traffic-agents, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 33, 6120-6127, (2019)
• Z. Cui, C. Li, and W. Wang, ToothNet: Automatic tooth instance segmentation and identification from cone beam CT images, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 6368-6377, (2019)
• R. Chen, Y. Ma, N. Chen, D. Lee, and W. Wang, Cephalometric landmark detection by attentive feature pyramid fusion and regression-voting, MICCAI, pp. 873-881, (2019)
• C. Lin, C. Li, and W. Wang, Floorplan-Jigsaw: Jointly estimating scene layout and aligning partial scans, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 5674-5683, (2019)
• H. Zhang, S. Frey, H. Steeb, D. Uribe, T. Ertl, and W. Wang, Visualization of bubble formation in porous media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vo. 25, no. 1, pp. 1060-1069, (2019)
• L.J. Liu. N.L. Chen, D. Ceylan, C. Theobalt, W. Wang, and N. Mitra, CurveFusion: Reconstructing thin structures from RGBD sequences, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 37, no. 6, (2018)
• C.J. Li, H. Pan, Y. Liu, X. Tong, A. Sheffer, and W.P. Wang, Robust flow-guided neural prediction for sketch-based freeform surface modeling, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 37, no. 6, (2018)
• H.S. Zhao, H. Zhang, S.Q. Xin, Y.M. Deng, C.H. Tu, W.P. Wang, D. Cohen-Or, and B.Q. Chen:, DSCarver: decompose-and-spiral-carve for subtractive manufacturing, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), vol. 37, no. 4, (2018)
• Z.C. Zhong, W.P. Wang, B. Levy, J. Hua, and X.H. Guo, Computing a high-dimensional Euclidean embedding from an arbitrary smooth Riemannian metric, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), vol. 37, no. 4, (2018)
• Y.J. Sun, Y.Z. Yu, and W.P. Wang, Moiré photo restoration using multiresolution convolutional neural networks., IEEE Trans. Image Processing 27(8): 4160-4172 (2018)
• X. F. Gao, D. Panozzo, W. Wang, Z, G. Deng, and G. N. Chen, Robust structure simplification for hex re-meshing, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 36, no. 6, (2017)
• W. K. Chen, Y, X. Ma, S. Lefebvre, S. Q. Xin, J. Martinez, and W. Wang, Fabricable tile decors, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 36, no. 6, (2017)
• C.J. Li, H. Pan, Y. Liu, X. Tong, A. Sheffer, and W. Wang, BendSketch: modeling freeform surfaces through 2D sketching, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), vol. 36, no. 4, (2017)
• L.J.. Liu, D. Ceylan, C. Lin, W. Wang, and N. Mitra, Image-based reconstruction of wire art, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), vol. 36, no. 4, (2017)
• S.Q. Xin, B. Levy, Z.G. Chen, L. Chu, Y.H. Yu, C.H. Tu, and W. Wang, Centroidal power diagrams with capacity constraints: computation, applications, and extension,, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 35, no. 6, (2016)
• W. Chen, X. Zhang, S. Xin, Y. Xia, S. Lefebvre, and W. Wang, Synthesis of filigrees for digital fabrication, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), vol. 35, no. 4, (2016)
• S.Q. Xin, W. Wang, S.M. Chen, J.Y. Zhao, and Z.Y. Shu, Intrinsic girth function for shape processing, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 35, no. 3, Article 25, (2016)
• F. Sun, Y.K. Choi, Y.Z. Yu, and W. Wang, Medial meshes: a compact and accurate medial shape representation, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 3, (2016), pp. 1278-1290
• W. Hu, Z. Chen, H. Pan, Y. Yu, E. Grinspun, and W. Wang, Surface mosaic synthesis with irregular tiles, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 3, (2016), pp. 1302-1313
• X.H. Jia, W. Wang, Y.K. Choi, B. Mourrain, and C.H. Tu, Continuous detection of the variations of the intersection curve of two moving quadrics in 3-dimensional projective space, Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 73, March - April, (2016), pp. 221-243
• J. Huang, B. Wang, W. Wang, and P. Sen, A surface approximation method for image and video correspondences, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 24, no. 12, (2015), pp. 5100-5113
• P. Li, B. Wang, F. Sun, X. Guo, C. Zhang, and W. Wang, Q-MAT: Computing medial axis transform using quadratic error minimization, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 35. no. 1, Article 8, (2015)
• H. Pan, Y. Liu, A. Sheffer, N. Vining, C. J. Li, and W. Wang, Flow aligned surfacing of curve networks, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2015), vol. 34, no. 4, 2015
• Y.F. Li, Y. Liu, and W. Wang, Planar hexagonal meshing for architecture, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 21. no. 1,(2015), pp. 95-106
• F. Li, J. Luo, W. Wang and Y. He, Autonomous deployment for load balancing ksurface coverage in sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, vol. 14, no. 1, (2015), pp. 279-293
• Y.T. Hu, J Kautz, Y.Z, Yu, and W. Wang, Speaker-following video subtitles, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 11, no. 2, Article 32, 2014
• Z.G. Chen, W. Wang, L.G. Liu, and B. Levy, Revisiting optimal Delaunay triangulation for 3D graded mesh generation, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 26. no. 3, 2014, pp. 930-954.
• R.T. Ling, J. Huang, B. Juettler, F. Sun, H.J. Bao, and W. Wang, Feature-aligned surface quadrangulation with element size control, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 11. no. 1, Article 11, 2014
• Y. Liu, H. Pan, J. Snyder, W. Wang, B.N. Guo, Computing self-supporting surfaces by regular triangulation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2013), vol. 32, no. 4, 2013
• Z.C. Zhong, X.H. Guo. W. Wang, B. Levy, F. Sun, Y. Liu, W.H. Mao , Particle-based anisotropic surface meshing, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2013), vol. 32. no. 4, 2013
• Y.F. Li, Y. Liu, W.W. Xu, W. Wang, B.N. Guo, All-hex meshing using singularity-restricted field, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2012), vol. 31, no. 6, 2012
• Z. Yuan, Y. Z. Yu, and W. Wang, Object-space multiphase Implicit functions, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), vol. 31, no. 4, 2012.
• H. Pan, Y.K. Choi, Y. Liu, W.C. Hu, Q. Du, K. Polthier, C.M. Zhang, W. Wang, Robust modeling of constant mean curvature surfaces, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), vol. 31, no. 4, 2012
• Z.G. Chen, Z. Yuan, Y.K. Choi, L.G. Liu, and W. Wang, Variational blue noise sampling, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 18, no. 10, 2012, pp. 1290-1303.
• G. Rong, Y. Liu, W. Wang, X. Yin, X. Gu, and X. Guo, GPU-assisted computation of centroidal Voronoi tessellation, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17. no. 3, 2011, pp. 345-356.
• P. Bo, H. Pottmann, M. Kilian, W. Wang, and J. Wallner, Circular arc structures, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2011), vol. 30. no. 4, 2011
• Y. Liu, W. Wang, B. Levy, F. Sun, D.M. Yan, L. Lu and C.L. Yang, On centroidal Voronoi tessellation -- energy smoothness and fast computation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 28. no. 4, 2009
• H. Pottmann, A. Schiftner, P.B. Bo, H. Schmiedhofer, W. Wang, N. Baldassini, and J. Wallner, Freeform surfaces from single curved panels, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008), vol. 27, no. 3, 2008
• W. Wang, B. Juttler, D. Y. Zheng, Y. Liu , Computation of rotation minimizing frames, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 27, no. 1, 2008
• L. Lu, Y.K. Choi, W. Wang and M.S. Kim, Variational 3D shape segmentation for bounding volume computation, Computer Graphics Forum (EuroGraphics 2007), vol. 26, no. 3, 2007.
• H. Pottmann, Y. Liu, J. Wallner, A. Bobenko, and W. Wang, Geometry of multi-layer freeform structures for architecture, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2007), vol. 26, no. 3, 2007.
• K.S. Cheng, W. Wang, H. Qin, K-Y K. Wong, H-P Yang and Y. Liu, Design and analysis of optimization methods for subdivision surface fitting, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 13, no. 5, 2007, pp. 878 - 890.
• W. Wang, H. Pottmann and Y. Liu, Fitting B-spline curves to point clouds by squared distance minimization, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 25, no. 2, 2006
• Y. Liu, H. Pottman, J. Wallner, Y. Yang , W. Wang, Geometric modeling with conical meshes and developable surfaces, ACM Transactions Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2006), vol. 25, no. 3, 2006.
• Y. K. Choi, W. Wang, Y. Liu and M.S. Kim, Continuous collision detection for elliptic disks, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 22. no. 2, 2006, pp. 213-224.