Baoquan Chen (陈宝权)

Associate Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Peking University.

Past positions:
Executive director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, PKU
Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center, SDU
Founding Director of the Visual Computing Research Center, SIAT
Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering (IACDE)

Email: baoquan At pku.edu.cn : http://weibo.com/baoquanchen
Address: Rm 2216, Li Ke Building #2, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, P.R. China

Open positions available (researchers, PostDocs, graduate students, interns). Contact me for details.

Research Interests
General Interests: Computer Graphics and Visualization
Specific Interests: Large Environment Acquisition, Accelerated Rendering, Antialiasing, Volume Visualization
Applications: Scientific & Biomedical Visualization, Digital Architecture Design, Art and Entertainment

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News

7.18: talk by Dr. Shachar Fleishman from the University of Utah, MeshCNN: A Network with An Edge.
7.18: talk by Prof. Hao (Richard) Zhang from Simon Fraser University, Neural Fields and Language Models for 3D Generative AI.
6.3: talk by Dr. Eitan Grinspun from the University of Toronto, Adventures in Discretization of Mechanical Systems.
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Research

ORCID：0000-0003-4702-036X
Full list of publications

Recent publications

Yuanxing Duan, Fangyin Wei, Qiyu Dai, Yuhang He, Wenzheng Chen, Baoquan Chen. 4D-Rotor Gaussian Splatting: Towards Efficient Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2024.
Yujie Wang, Xuelin Chen, Baoquan Chen. SinGRAV: Learning a Generative Radiance Volume from a Single Natural Scene. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 2024.
Yingda Yin, Yuzheng Liu, Yang Xiao, Daniel Cohen-Or, Jingwei Huang, Baoquan Chen. SAI3D: Segment Any Instance in 3D Scenes. CVPR 2024.
Hongda Jiang, Xi Wang, Marc Christie, Libin Liu, Baoquan Chen. Cinematographic Camera Diffusion Model. Eurographics 2024.
Yimo Yan, Chao Song, Zaiyi Shen, Yuechen Zhu, Xingyu Ni, Bin Wang, Michael G. Christiansen, Stavros Stavrakis, Juho S. Lintuvuori, Baoquan Chen, Andrew deMello, Simone Schuerle. Programming structural and magnetic anisotropy for tailored interaction and control of soft microrobots. Communications Engineering (Nature Communications) 2024.
Weiyu Li, Xuelin Chen, Peizhuo Li, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Baoquan Chen. Example-based Motion Synthesis via Generative Motion Matching. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2023.
Yingda Yin, Yang Wang, He Wang, Baoquan Chen. A Laplace-inspired Distribution on SO(3) for Probabilistic Rotation Estimation. ICLR 2023.
Tenglong Ao, Qingzhe Gao, Yuke Lou, Baoquan Chen, Libin Liu. Rhythmic Gesticulator: Rhythm-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis with Hierarchical Neural Embeddings. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia) 2022 (Best Paper Award).
Heyuan Yao, Zhenhua Song, Baoquan Chen, Libin Liu. ControlVAE: Model-Based Learning of Generative Controllers for Physics-Based Characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia) 2022.
Jingrui Xing, Liangwang Ruan, Bin Wang, Bo Zhu, Baoquan Chen. Position-based Surface Tension Flow. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia) 2022.
Xuwen Chen, Xingyu Ni, Bo Zhu, Bin Wang, Baoquan Chen. Simulation and optimization of magnetoelastic thin shells. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2022.
Yujie Wang, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Qi Sun, Baoquan Chen. Joint neural phase retrieval and compression for energy- and computation-efficient holography on the edge. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2022 (Best Paper Honorable Mention).

Representative publications

Yangyan Li, Rui Bu, Mingchao Sun, Wei Wu, Xinhan Di, Baoquan Chen. PointCNN: Convolution on x-transformed points. Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018.
Lin Lu, Andrei Sharf, Haisen Zhao, Yuan Wei, Qingnan Fan, Xuelin Chen, Yann Savoye, Changhe Tu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. Build-to-last: Strength to weight 3D printed objects. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2014.
Liangliang Nan, Andrei Sharf, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. Smartboxes for interactive urban reconstruction. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH) 2010.
Hong Zhou, Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu, Weiwei Cui, Baoquan Chen. Visual clustering in parallel coordinates. Computer Graphics Forum 2008.

中文文章

以上文章除特别标明，均发表于《中国计算机学会通讯》

Media coverage

2024.5.16: “北大高逼真物理仿真，加持磁性微米级机器人登Nature子刊” （文章链接）
2024.5.7: “北京大学陈宝权教授入选ACM“计算机图形学名人堂””（官方公告）
科技冬奥【合集】
- 交互式观赛技术
- 2022.3.9: 央视新闻直播间报道北大陈宝权团队科技冬奥项目助力北京冬残奥会：展示给观众接近360度旋转“自由视点”
- 2021.1.11: “北京大学 | 把电影特效带进赛事转播，实现交互式多维度观赛”
- 2021.12.31: “2022科学跨年之夜”
- 2021.11.9: 科技冬奥：“交互式自由视点VR观赛”五棵松体育馆测试
- 2021.10.27: 科技日报“冰雪运动，激情飞扬”
- 2021.7.19: 科技日报“中国方案提升冬奥会筹办水平”
- 2021.6.7: 北京电视台《冬奥纪实》节目采访陈宝权教授介绍其团队科研成果“科技冬奥，交互观赛”
- 2021.4.6: 科技日报“场外看冬奥自由交互技术让你‘身临其境’”
2021.12.5: 当选2021年度中国图象图形学学会会士
2021.9.11: “不编程，拖拖鼠标图表自己动起来，新研究获ACM CHI最佳论文荣誉提名”（文章链接）
2021.7.23: “AI救援河南洪灾”
2021.7.15: “对话John Hopcroft教授：新国际环境下的高等教育与学术人生”
2021.5.9: “模拟水面表面张力，效果自然、真实，北大图灵班研究入选SIGGRAPH”（文章链接）
2020.5.27: “北大图灵班本科生带来动画CG福音，「最懂骨骼的卷积网络」”（文章链接）
2020.2.11: “面向新冠疫情的数据可视化分析与模拟预测”（文章链接）
2016.12.10: “归去来兮：回到国内做学术的个人体会与观察”
2014.10.25 “陈宝权教授访谈图灵奖获得者Ivan Sutherland”
2013.4.10: 中央电视台《走进科学》专题报道陈宝权教授及其团队科研成果—“把城市搬进电脑”
2010.4.28: 晶报新闻“用‘阿凡达’技术‘重建’深圳”

Funding provided by: NSF, ARL, ONR, Microsoft (~2008), NSFC, MOST, Nvidia, etc.

Service

Program committee member unless otherwise noted (not up to date):

SIGGRAPH (2017), SIGGRAPH Asia (2013, 2014)
SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 (conference chair)
SIGGRAPH Asia steering committee (2013-)
IEEE SciVIS Steering committee (2014-)
IEEE Visualization 2007, 2006 (general co-chair), 2005 (general co-chair), and 2004 (program co-chair)
Pacific Graphics 2007
Symposium on Point-based Graphics 2007 (program co-chair), 2006 (papers co-chair), 2005, 2004
PMA06:The Second International Symposium on Plant growth Modeling,Simulation, Visualization and Applications 2006 (also keynote speaker)
Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2007, 2006
Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM) 2007, 2006 (my report on SBIM'05)
International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling 2005
Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics(VolVis) 2004, 2002
Computer Graphics International 2005, 2004
IEEE Volume Graphics 2006, 2003, 2001

中文文章：

2015年第9期变革中的大学计算机学科建设 (Daniel Cohen-Or, James D. Foley, 张晓东)
2015年第1期 SIGGRAPH Asia 2014
2012年第6期青年科技工作者的价值与成功

Teaching

Classes taught (not up to date):

Computer Generated Imagery and Visual Effects, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
Computer Graphics, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Algorithms and Data Structures
Commodity Graphics Hardware Accelerated Rendering

Short Biography

陈宝权，北京大学博雅特聘教授，智能学院副院长。研究领域为计算机图形学、三维视觉与可视化，担任国家“973计划”“城市大数据计算理论与方法”项目首席科学家，主持国家自然科学基金重点项目、国家重点研发计划“科技冬奥”项目和新一代人工智能重大项目等。在 ACM SIGGRAPH、IEEE VIS、ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)、IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics （TVCG）等国际会议和期刊发表论文200余篇，多次获得国际会议最佳论文奖，包括SIGGRAPH Asia 2022、SIGGRAPH 2022 （提名）和IEEE Visualization 2005等。现任中国图象图形学学会常务理事、三维视觉专委会主任；中国计算机学会（CCF）常务理事、《中国计算机学会通讯》专题主编；获美国国家科学基金会杰出青年学者奖（NSF CAREER Award 2003）、中国计算机图形学大会杰出奖（2014）。入选中科院百人计划（2008）、国家杰出青年科学基金资助（2010）、教育部长江学者特聘教授（2015）、国家万人计划领军人才（2017）。2017年当选中国计算机学会会士，2019年当选 IEEE Fellow，2021年入选IEEE Visualization Academy（可视化名人堂），当选中国图象图形学学会会士，2024年入选ACM SIGGRAPH Academy（计算机图形学名人堂）。

Baoquan Chen is a Professor of Peking University, where he is the Associate Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests generally lie in computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, and human-computer interaction. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, including 60+ papers in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)/SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH_Asia. Chen serves/served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), ACM Transactions On Graphics (TOG) and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), and has served as chairs of prestigious conferences such as 3D Vision 2017, SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, IEEE Visualization 2005. Chen is the recipient of 2002 Microsoft Innovation Excellence Program, 2003 NSF CAREER award, 2004 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), and 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award of Chinagraph. Chen received Best Paper Award in several prestigious conferences, such as SIGGRAPH Asia (2022), SIGGRAPH (2022 Honorary Mention), and IEEE Visualization (2005).

Prior to the current post, he was dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology and the School of Software and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center, Shandong University (2013-2018), founding director of the Visual Computing Research Center and deputy director of the Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008-2013), and a faculty member at the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities (2000-2008). Chen received an MS in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and a second MS and then PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A. For his contribution to spatial data visualization, he was elected IEEE Fellow in 2019. He was inducted to IEEE Visualization Academy and was elected as CSIG Fellow in 2021, and was inducted to ACM SIGGRAPH Academy in 2024.