Chen Gao | 髙諶

Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5: 6-7

I am a research scientist at Meta, working on immersive 3D and 4D experiences. My research focuses on dynamic view synthesis and high-fidelity 3D scene representation.

I received my Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2022, where I was advised by Jia-Bin Huang. Before that, I earned my Master's degree from the University of Michigan and my Bachelor's degree from Oregon State University.

NEWS
[2025/02]
Our paper on textured Gaussians is accepted to CVPR 2025.
[2023/06]
The code of our CVPR 2023 local RF paper is released.
[2023/06]
The code of our CVPR 2023 robust DynRF paper is released.
[2022/05]
I passed my PhD defense today!
[2022/03]
I will be joining Meta as a research scientist.

PUBLICATION

Textured Gaussians for Enhanced 3D Scene Appearance Modeling

Brian Chao, Hung-Yu Tseng, Lorenzo Porzi, Chen Gao, Tuotuo Li, Qinbo Li, Ayush Saraf, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf, Gordon Wetzstein, Changil Kim

CVPR, 2025

Reflection-Aware Neural Radiance Fields

Chen Gao, Yipeng Wang, Changil Kim, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf

SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024

Modeling Ambient Scene Dynamics for Free-view Synthesis

Meng-Li Shih, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Rajvi Shah, Johannes Kopf, Chen Gao

SIGGRAPH, 2024

SpecNeRF: Gaussian Directional Encoding for Specular Reflections

Li Ma, Vasu Agrawal, Haithem Turki, Changil Kim, Chen Gao, Pedro V. Sander, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Richardt

CVPR, 2024

OmnimatteRF: Robust Omnimatte with 3D Background Modeling

Geng Lin, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Yipeng Wang, Matthias Zwicker, Ayush Saraf

ICCV, 2023

Progressively Optimized Local Radiance Fields for Robust View Synthesis

Andreas Meuleman, Yu-Lun Liu, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Min H. Kim, Johannes Kopf

CVPR, 2023

Robust Dynamic Radiance Fields

Yu-Lun Liu, Chen Gao, Andreas Meuleman, Hung-Yu Tseng, Ayush Saraf, Changil Kim, Yung-Yu Chuang, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang

CVPR, 2023

Dynamic View Synthesis from Dynamic Monocular Video

Chen Gao, Ayush Saraf, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang

ICCV, 2021

Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image

Chen Gao, Yichang Shih, Wei-Sheng Lai, Chia-Kai Liang, Jia-Bin Huang

arXiv, 2020

Flow-edge Guided Video Completion

Chen Gao, Ayush Saraf, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf

ECCV, 2020

DRG: Dual Relation Graph for Human-Object Interaction Detection

Chen Gao, Jiarui Xu, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang

ECCV, 2020

NAS-DIP: Learning Deep Image Prior with Neural Architecture Search

Yun-Chun Chen*, Chen Gao*, Esther Robb, Jia-Bin Huang

ECCV, 2020

Why Can't I Dance in the Mall? Learning to Mitigate Scene Bias in Action Recognition

Jinwoo Choi, Chen Gao, Joseph Messou, Jia-Bin Huang

NeurIPS, 2019

iCAN: Instance-Centric Attention Network for Human-Object Interaction Detection

Chen Gao, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang

BMVC, 2018

Panoramic Robust PCA for Foreground-Background Separation on Noisy, Free-Motion Camera Video

Chen Gao*, Brian E. Moore*, Raj Rao Nadakuditi

IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2019

Augmented Robust PCA For Foreground-Background Separation on Noisy, Moving Camera Video

Chen Gao, Brian E. Moore, Raj Rao Nadakuditi

GlobalSIP, 2017 (Oral)


EDUCATION

Virginia Tech Doctor of Philosophy

University of Michigan Master of Science

Oregon State University Bachelor of Science


INDUSTRY

Research Scientist 2022 – Present

Research Intern Summer 2021

Research Intern Summer 2020

Research Intern Summer 2019


MISC

Road Trip

I enjoy road-trip as it's a great way to experience local customs. The spectacular landscape reminds me of how great our Creator is. One of my dreams is to visit all the 59 national parks in the US. I have visited 22 national parks already and am looking forward to my next journey. Here is a list of the national parks I've visited

  • Arches - Utah
  • Bryce Canyon - Utah (Favourite!)
  • Canyonlands - Utah
  • Capitol Reef - Utah
  • Crater Lake - Oregon
  • Everglades - Florida
  • Glacier National Park - Montana
  • Grand Canyon - Arizona
  • Grand Teton - Wyoming
  • Great Sand Dunes - Colorado
  • Great Smoky Mountains - North Carolina, Tennessee
  • Joshua Tree - California
  • Kings Canyon - California
  • Mesa Verde - Colorado
  • Mount Rainier - Washington
  • North Cascades - Washington
  • Olympic - Washington
  • Sequoia - California
  • Shenandoah - Virginia
  • Yellowstone - Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
  • Yosemite - California
  • Zion - Utah

Painting

I spent 6 years learning figure sketch, traditional Chinese painting , and Gongbi , specialized in Bird-and-flower painting . Through painting, I find inner peace. These days I enjoy drawing some anime characters for fun. Check them out.

Activities

I regularly engage in hiking, paddleboarding, and snowboarding. If you're in Seattle and enjoy outdoor activities, feel free to contact me.

Big fan of Rubik's Cube

4x4x4
5x5x5

Games

I'll call the following games Masterpiece because they change my perspective somehow.

  • AIR - VisualArt's
  • Portal - Valve
  • To the moon - Freebird Games

The Mighty

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5: 6-7