Fangcheng Zhong
Research
With a broad interest in visual computing, machine intelligence, computational mathematics, and engineering, my research spans the entire pipeline of extended reality (XR) --- from 3D scene perception, representation, and manipulation, to simulation, rendering, and novel XR displays. I am particularly interested in 1) hyper-realistic 3D imaging and rendering; 2) differentiable graphics; 3) neural representations; 4) 3D generative AI; and 5) physics-informed machine learning.
My PhD work established the world's first end-to-end mixed reality system that successfully passed a visual Turing test, for which I received multiple honours and awards including the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honourable Mention Award, the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Honourable Mention Award, and the Eurographics PhD Award Honourable Mention.
About Me
I joined the Graphics & Interaction (Rainbow) Group at the University of Cambridge in 2018 as a Marie-Curie ITN Early Stage Researcher as part of the European ITN RealVision Project and completed a PhD in computer science advised by Prof. Rafał Mantiuk in 2021. My PhD was fully funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
I am currently a Senior Researcher in the CORE Lab and a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. I have developed and led a new course on Part II Extended Reality. I have also taught Part IA Introduction to Graphics in the past.
I keep my LinkedIn profile up to date with my full education/work experience.
Teaching
2022-23:
2023-24:
2024-25:
Supervision
2018-19:
2019-20:
- Part IA Introduction to Graphics
- Part IB Further Graphics
- Part II Advanced Graphics and Image Processing
- Part II Computer Vision
- Part II Machine Learning and Bayesian Inference
2020-21:
- Part IA Algorithms
- Part IA Introduction to Graphics
- Part IB Further Graphics
- Part II Advanced Graphics and Image Processing
2021-22:
- Part IA Introduction to Graphics
- Part IB Further Graphics
- Part II Advanced Graphics and Image Processing
- Part II Machine Visual Perception
2022-23:
- Part IA Introduction to Graphics
- Part IB Further Graphics
- Part II Advanced Graphics and Image Processing
- Part II Machine Visual Perception
2023-24:
- Part IA Introduction to Graphics
- Part IB Further Graphics
- Part II Advanced Graphics and Image Processing
- Part II Machine Visual Perception
Selected Publications
Gaussian Head & Shoulders: High Fidelity Neural Upper Body Avatars with Anchor Gaussian Guided Texture Warping
Tianhao Wu, Jing Yang, Zhilin Guo, Jingyi Wan, Fangcheng Zhong, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2025
αSurf: Implicit Surface Reconstruction for Semi-Transparent and Thin Objects with Decoupled Geometry and Opacity
Tianhao Wu, Hanxue Liang, Fangcheng Zhong, Gernot Riegler, Shimon Vainer, Jiankang Deng, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), Oral, 2025
ARF-Plus: Controlling Perceptual Factors in Artistic Radiance Fields for 3D Scene Stylization
Wenzhao Li, Tianhao Wu, Fangcheng Zhong, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
FrePolad: Frequency-Rectified Point Latent Diffusion for Point Cloud Generation
Chenliang Zhou, Fangcheng Zhong, Param Hanji, Zhilin Guo, Kyle Fogarty, Alejandro Sztrajman, Hongyun Gao, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Hypernetworks for Generalizable BRDF Representation
Fazilet Gokbudak, Alejandro Sztrajman, Chenliang Zhou, Fangcheng Zhong, Rafal Mantiuk, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Differentiable Visual Computing for Inverse Problems and Machine Learning
Andrew Spielberg, Fangcheng Zhong, Konstantinos Rematas, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Cengiz Oztireli, Tzu-Mao Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023
Neural Fields with Hard Constraints of Arbitrary Differential Order
Fangcheng Zhong, Kyle Fogarty, Param Hanji, Tianhao Wu, Alejandro Sztrajman, Andrew Spielberg, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Petra Bosilj, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
CLIP-PAE: Projection-Augmentation Embedding to Extract Relevant Features for a Disentangled, Interpretable, and Controllable Text-Guided Face Manipulation
Chenliang Zhou, Fangcheng Zhong, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2023
D2NeRF: Self-Supervised Decoupling of Dynamic and Static Objects from a Monocular Video
Tianhao Wu, Fangcheng Zhong, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Forrester Cole, Cengiz Oztireli
Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
Dark Stereo: Improving Depth Perception under Low Luminance
Krzysztof Wolski, Fangcheng Zhong, Karol Myszkowski, Rafał K. Mantiuk
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), 2022
Kubric: a Scalable Dataset Generator
Klaus Greff, Francois Belletti, Lucas Beyer, Carl Doersch, Yilun Du, Daniel Duckworth, David J. Fleet, Dan Gnanapragasam, Florian Golemo, Charles Herrmann, Thomas Kipf, Abhijit Kundu, Dmitry Lagun, Issam Laradji, Hsueh-Ti (Derek) Liu, Henning Meyer, Yishu Miao, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Cengiz Oztireli, Etienne Pot, Noha Radwan, Daniel Rebain, Sara Sabour, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, Matan Sela, Vincent Sitzmann, Austin Stone, Deqing Sun, Suhani Vora, Ziyu Wang, Tianhao Wu, Kwang Moo Yi, Fangcheng Zhong, Andrea Tagliasacchi
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
Reproducing Reality with a High-Dynamic-Range Multi-Focal Stereo Display
Fangcheng Zhong, Akshay Jindal, Özgür Yöntem, Param Hanji, Simon Watt, Rafał K. Mantiuk
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), 2021
Noise-Aware Merging of High Dynamic Range Image Stacks without Camera Calibration
Param Hanji, Fangcheng Zhong, Rafał K. Mantiuk
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
DiCE: Dichoptic Contrast Enhancement for VR and Stereo Displays
Fangcheng Zhong, George Alex Koulieris, George Drettakis, Martin S. Banks, Fredo Durand, Rafał K. Mantiuk
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019
Dissertation
Path from Photorealism to Perceptual Realism
Fangcheng Zhong
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honourable Mention Award
IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Honourable Mention Award
Eurographics Best Dissertation Honourable Mention Award
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Book Chapters
Computational 3D Displays
Jingyu Liu*, Fangcheng Zhong*, Claire Mantel, Søren Forchhammer, Rafał K. Mantiuk
Contact
Email: fangcheng [dot] zhong [at] cst [dot] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk
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