Shuang Zhao
Associate Professor
Studies physics-based and differentiable rendering, including inverse rendering and appearance modeling.
Shuang Zhao's lab at UIUC works on rendering & appearance, geometry processing & modeling and data management & big data. 30 papers since 2023, mostly CGF. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 10 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 0
- 8 papers2024 · T1 0
- 7 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CGF
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Rendering & appearance16 papers
- rendering14 papers
- Geometry processing & modeling0 papers
- Data management & big data0 papers
- studies physics-based0 papers
Paper list
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202610 papers
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), JulyAdaptive Ray Marching for Rendering Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), SeptemberDiffusion-Based Material Regularization for Physics-Based Inverse Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH , 45(4), July ★ Best papers award honorable mentionGradient Domain Reconstruction for Monte Carlo PDE Solvers (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics , 45 (2), MayGradient-Domain ReSTIR Path Tracing (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics , 45 (2), MayPBR-Inspired Controllable Diffusion for Image Generation (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), JulyPhysics-Guided Motion Loss for Video Generation Model (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), JulyReal-Time Level-of-Detail Rendering with ReSTIR (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH , 45(4), JulyRobust Computation of Boundary Path Integrals Using Kernel-Density Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH , 45(4), July ★ Best papers award honorable mentionSample Matching for Joint Extinction Gradient Estimation in Differentiable Volume Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), JuneStochastic Ray Tracing for the Reconstruction of 3D Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), JulyConvergence Estimation of Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), AugustGuiding-Based Importance Sampling for Walk on Stars (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), AugustImage-Space Adaptive Sampling for Fast Inverse Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia , 44(6), DecemberRobust Derivative Estimation with Walk on Stars (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH , 44(4), AugustUnbiased Differential Visibility Using Fixed-Step Walk-on-Spherical-Caps And Closest Silhouettes (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), JulyA Differential Monte Carlo Solver For the Poisson Equation (opens in a new tab)
- CGFA Hierarchical Architecture for Neural Materials (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (conference-track full paper), DecemberDifferentiating Variance for Variance-Aware Inverse Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), JulyEstimating Uncertainty in Appearance Acquisition (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (conference-track full paper), DecemberMarkov-Chain Monte Carlo Sampling of Visibility Boundaries for Differentiable Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), JulyNeRF as A Non-Distant Environment Emitter in Physics-Based Inverse Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH (conference-track full paper), JulyPath-Space Differentiable Rendering of Implicit Surfaces (opens in a new tab)
- Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), JulyReflectanceFusion: Diffusion-based text to SVBRDF Generation (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia , 42(6), DecemberAmortizing Samples in Physics-Based Inverse Rendering using ReSTIR (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Symposium on Rendering), 42(4), JulyEfficient Path-Space Differentiable Volume Rendering With Respect To Shapes (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), MarchMaliva: Using Machine Learning to Rewrite Visualization Queries Under Time Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), OctoberNeural-PBIR Reconstruction of Shape, Material, and Illumination (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (conference-track full paper), DecemberPSDR-Room: Single Photo to Scene using Differentiable Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July ★ Best system paper finalistSAM-RL: Sensing-Aware Model-Based Reinforcement Learning via Differentiable Physics-Based Simulation and Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia , 42(6), December ★ Best papers awardWarped-Area Reparameterization of Differential Path Integrals (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
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Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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