Chen Cao

According to our database, Chen Cao authored at least 18 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

GeoRelight: Learning Joint Geometrical Relighting and Reconstruction with Flexible Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers.

Yuxuan Xue, Ruofan Liang, Egor Zakharov, Timur M. Bagautdinov, Chen Cao, Giljoo Nam, Shunsuke Saito, Gerard Pons-Moll, Javier Romero

CoRR, April, 2026

Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining.

Junxuan Li, Rawal Khirodkar, Chengan He, Zhongshi Jiang, Giljoo Nam, Lingchen Yang, Jihyun Lee, Egor Zakharov, Zhaoen Su, Rinat Abdrashitov, Yuan Dong, Julieta Martinez, Kai Li, Qingyang Tan, Takaaki Shiratori, Matthew Hu, Peihong Guo, Xuhua Huang, Ariyan Zarei, Marco Pesavento, Yichen Xu, He Wen, Teng Deng, Wyatt Borsos, Anjali Thakrar, Jean-Charles Bazin, Carsten Stoll, Ginés Hidalgo, James Booth, Lucy Wang, Xiaowen Ma, Yu Rong, Sairanjith Thalanki, Chen Cao, Christian Häne, Abhishek Kar, Sofien Bouaziz, Jason M. Saragih, Yaser Sheikh, Shunsuke Saito

CoRR, April, 2026

2025

3DGH: 3D Head Generation with Composable Hair and Face.

Chengan He, Junxuan Li, Tobias Kirschstein, Artem Sevastopolsky, Shunsuke Saito, Qingyang Tan, Javier Romero, Chen Cao, Holly E. Rushmeier, Giljoo Nam

ACM Trans. Graph., August, 2025

Vid2Avatar-Pro: Authentic Avatar from Videos in the Wild via Universal Prior.

Chen Guo, Junxuan Li, Yash Kant, Yaser Sheikh, Shunsuke Saito, Chen Cao

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

LUCAS: Layered Universal Codec Avatars.

Di Liu, Teng Deng, Giljoo Nam, Yu Rong, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Junxuan Li, Jason M. Saragih, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Chen Cao

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

2024

Universal Facial Encoding of Codec Avatars from VR Headsets.

Shaojie Bai, Te-Li Wang, Chenghui Li, Akshay Venkatesh, Tomas Simon, Chen Cao, Gabriel Schwartz, Jason M. Saragih, Yaser Sheikh, Shih-En Wei

ACM Trans. Graph., July, 2024

Universal Facial Encoding of Codec Avatars from VR Headsets.

Shaojie Bai, Te-Li Wang, Chenghui Li, Akshay Venkatesh, Tomas Simon, Chen Cao, Gabriel Schwartz, Ryan Wrench, Jason M. Saragih, Yaser Sheikh, Shih-En Wei

CoRR, 2024

StyleAvatar: Stylizing Animatable Head Avatars.

Juan C. Pérez, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Chen Cao, Artsiom Sanakoyeu, Tomas Simon, Pablo Arbeláez, Bernard Ghanem, Ali K. Thabet, Albert Pumarola

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2024

URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars.

Junxuan Li, Chen Cao, Gabriel Schwartz, Rawal Khirodkar, Christian Richardt, Tomas Simon, Yaser Sheikh, Shunsuke Saito

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Papers, 2024

Bridging the Gap: Studio-Like Avatar Creation from a Monocular Phone Capture.

ShahRukh Athar, Shunsuke Saito, Zhengyu Yang, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Chen Cao

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 2024

URHand: Universal Relightable Hands.

Zhaoxi Chen, Gyeongsik Moon, Kaiwen Guo, Chen Cao, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Tomas Simon, Rohan Joshi, Yuan Dong, Yichen Xu, Bernardo Pires, He Wen, Lucas Evans, Bo Peng, Julia Buffalini, Autumn Trimble, Kevyn McPhail, Melissa Schoeller, Shoou-I Yu, Javier Romero, Michael Zollhöfer, Yaser Sheikh, Ziwei Liu, Shunsuke Saito

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

A Local Appearance Model for Volumetric Capture of Diverse Hairstyles.

Ziyan Wang, Giljoo Nam, Aljaz Bozic, Chen Cao, Jason M. Saragih, Michael Zollhöfer, Jessica K. Hodgins

Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Vision, 2024

2023

A Local Appearance Model for Volumetric Capture of Diverse Hairstyle.

Ziyan Wang, Giljoo Nam, Aljaz Bozic, Chen Cao, Jason M. Saragih, Michael Zollhöfer, Jessica K. Hodgins

CoRR, 2023

NeuWigs: A Neural Dynamic Model for Volumetric Hair Capture and Animation.

Ziyan Wang, Giljoo Nam, Tuur Stuyck, Stephen Lombardi, Chen Cao, Jason M. Saragih, Michael Zollhöfer, Jessica K. Hodgins, Christoph Lassner

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023

2022

Authentic volumetric avatars from a phone scan.

Chen Cao, Tomas Simon, Jin Kyu Kim, Gabe Schwartz, Michael Zollhöfer, Shunsuke Saito, Stephen Lombardi, Shih-En Wei, Danielle Belko, Shoou-I Yu, Yaser Sheikh, Jason M. Saragih

ACM Trans. Graph., 2022

2021

Real-time 3D neural facial animation from binocular video.

Chen Cao, Vasu Agrawal, Fernando De la Torre, Lele Chen, Jason M. Saragih, Tomas Simon, Yaser Sheikh

ACM Trans. Graph., 2021

High-Fidelity Face Tracking for AR/VR via Deep Lighting Adaptation.

Lele Chen, Chen Cao, Fernando De la Torre, Jason M. Saragih, Chenliang Xu, Yaser Sheikh

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021

2020

Fully Convolutional Mesh Autoencoder using Efficient Spatially Varying Kernels.

Yi Zhou, Chenglei Wu, Zimo Li, Chen Cao, Yuting Ye, Jason M. Saragih, Hao Li, Yaser Sheikh

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020