• Songhai ZHANG

• Associate Professor

• Department of Computer Science and Technology

• Joined Department: 2009

• Email:shz@tsinghua.edu.cn

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• Phone:+86-10-62797001 ext. 808

• Fax:+86-10-62797459

Education background

Bachelor of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2001;

Master of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004;

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2007.

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Image/Video Processing

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Program): Panoramic vision data analysis, processing and VR interaction (2022-2026).

National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on video synthesis technology for virtual reality content generation (2018-2021).

National Natural Science Foundation of China: Video Cartoonizing based on Structure Analysis (2009-2012).

Research Status

My research area is virtual reality and computer graphics, image/video processing, etc. I have proposed a series of innovative achievements in traffic sign detection and classification, portrait segmentation, 3D scene synthesis, VR redirected walking, etc., and published more than 30 papers in international journals such as IEEE TVCG, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMM, and international conferences such as ACM Siggraph, IEEE CVPR, ECCV, IEEE VR, ISMAR, etc., and won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2018, the third accomplisher).

Academic Achievement

[1] Song-Hai Zhang, Chiahao Chen, Stefanie Zollmann. One-step out-of-place resetting for redirected walking in VR. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2022.

[2] Shao-Kui Zhang, Hou Tam, Yi-Xiao Li, Song-Hai Zhang*. SceneViewer: Automating Residential Photography in Virtual Environments. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2022.

[3] Sen-Zhe Xu, Tian-Qi Liu, Jia-Hong Liu, Stefanie Zollmann, Song-Hai Zhang. Making Resets away from Targets: POI aware Redirected Walking. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (ISMAR 2022).

[4] Xiao-Nan Fang, Song-Hai Zhang*, Tao Chen, Xian Wu, Arik Shamir, Shi-Min Hu. User-Guided Deep Human Image Matting Using Arbitrary Trimaps. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2022. 31: 2040-2052.

[5] Sen-Zhe Xu, Tian Lv, Guangrong He, Chiahao Chen, Fanglue Zhang, Song-Hai Zhang*. Optimal Target Guided Redirected Walking with Pose Score Precomputation. IEEE VR 2022.

[6] Yuan-Chen Guo, Di Kang, Linchao Bao, Yu He*, Song-Hai Zhang. NeRFReN: Neural Radiance Fields with Reflections. IEEE CVPR 2022.

[7] Chen Wang, Song-Hai Zhang*, Yi-Zhuo Zhang, Stefanie Zollmann, Shi-Min Hu. On Rotation Gains Within and Beyond Perceptual Limitations for Seated VR. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2022.

[8] Ying-Tian Liu, Yuanchen Guo, Yixiao Li, Chen Wang, Song-Hai Zhang*. Learning Implicit Glyph Shape Representation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2022.

[9] Shao-Kui Zhang, Yi-Xiao Li, Yu He, Yongliang Yang, Song-Hai Zhang. MageAdd: Real-Time Interaction Simulation for Scene Synthesis. ACM Multimedia 2021.

[10] Song-Hai Zhang, Shao-Kui Zhang, Wei-Yu Xie, Cheng-Yang Luo, Yong-Liang Yang, Hongbo Fu. Fast 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis by Learning Spatial Relation Priors of Objects. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021

[11] Kang Chen, Yupan Wang, Song-Hai Zhang, Sen-Zhe Xu, Weidong Zhang, Shi-Min Hu. MC-Solver: A Neural Solver for Optical Motion Capture Data. ACM Siggraph 2021(ACM Transactions on Graphics).

[12] Kang Chen, Zhipeng Tan, Jin Lei, Song-Hai Zhang*, Yuan-Chen Guo, Weidong Zhang, Shi-Min Hu. ChoreoMaster: Choreography-Oriented Music-Driven Dance Synthesis. ACM Siggraph 2021(ACM Transactions on Graphics).

[13] Song-Hai Zhang, Yuan-Chen Guo, Qing-Wen Gu. Sketch2Model: View-Aware 3D Modeling from Single Free-Hand Sketches. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021.

[14] Yu He, Ying-Tian Liu, Song-Hai Zhang*, Yu-Kun Lai, and Shi-Min Hu. Context-Consistent Generation of Indoor Virtual Environments based on Geometry Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021.

[15] Song-Hai Zhang, Chia-Hao Chen, Fu Zheng, Yong-Liang Yang, Shi-Min Hu. An Adaptive Optimization Algorithm for Redirected Walking Reset in Occluded Area. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2021.