Chen Gao | 髙谌

Research scientist | gaochen@meta.com



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

ABOUT ME

I am a research scientist at Reality Labs, Meta. My interest lies in the field of computational photography and 3D computer vision.

I received my Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2022, advised by Jia-Bin Huang. Prior to that, I was a Master's student at the University of Michigan. I received my Bachelor's degree from Oregon State University.


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NEWS
[2023/09]
The code of our ICCV 2023 Omnimatte RF paper is released! Check the Project page for details.
[2023/06]
The code of our CVPR 2023 local RF paper is released! Check the Project page for details.
[2023/06]
The code of our CVPR 2023 robust DynRF paper is released! Check the Project page for details.
[2022/05]
I passed my PhD defense today!
[2022/03]
I will be joining Meta as a research scientist.


PUBLICATION


Reflection-Aware Neural Radiance Fields
Chen Gao, Yipeng Wang, Changil Kim, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (Conference track)



Modeling Ambient Scene Dynamics for Free-view Synthesis
Meng-Li Shih, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Rajvi Shah, Johannes Kopf, Chen Gao
SIGGRAPH 2024 (Conference track)
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]



SpecNeRF: Gaussian Directional Encoding for Specular Reflections
Li Ma, Vasu Agrawal, Haithem Turki, Changil Kim, Chen Gao, Pedro V. Sander, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Richardt
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]


OmnimatteRF: Robust Omnimatte with 3D Background Modeling
Geng Lin, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Yipeng Wang, Matthias Zwicker, and Ayush Saraf
Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]



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
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]



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
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]


Dynamic View Synthesis from Dynamic Monocular Video
Chen Gao, Ayush Saraf, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]



Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image
Chen Gao, Yichang Shih, Wei-Sheng Lai, Chia-Kai Liang, Jia-Bin Huang
arXiv preprint
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]




Flow-edge Guided Video Completion
Chen Gao, Ayush Saraf, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf
Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]    [Google Colab]



DRG: Dual Relation Graph for Human-Object Interaction Detection
Chen Gao, Jiarui Xu, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang
Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]



NAS-DIP: Learning Deep Image Prior with Neural Architecture Search
Yun-Chun Chen*, Chen Gao*, Esther Robb, Jia-Bin Huang
Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]



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
Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]    [Poster]



iCAN: Instance-Centric Attention Network for Human-Object Interaction Detection
Chen Gao, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang
Proceedings of The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2018
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]    [Poster]



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 (TCI) 2019
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]





Augmented Robust PCA For Foreground-Background Separation on Noisy, Moving Camera Video
Chen Gao, Brian E. Moore, Raj Rao Nadakuditi
Proceedings of IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) 2017 (Oral)
[Paper (PDF)]    [Project page]    [Code]    [Slides(video demo)]



EDUCATION


Virginia Tech
Doctor of Philosophy

University of Michigan
Master of Science

Oregon State University
Bachelor of Science



INDUSTRY


Research Intern
Summer 2021

Research Intern
Summer 2020

Research Intern
Summer 2019



ACTIVITIES

Conference Reviewer
SIGGRAPH 2021-2022, BMVC 2019-2020, NeurIPS 2020-2021, CVPR 2020-2022, ACCV 2020, WACV 2020-2021

Journal Reviewer
TPAMI, TIP, IJCV



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 20 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
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

Music
Just hit any of these songs and let it play ...

The Police - Every Breath You Take
Radiohead - No Surprises
Radiohead - Creep (Korn Cover)
Coldplay - Fix You
宋冬野 - 莉莉安
李志 - 热河路

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


CONTACT

Email
gaochen@meta.com

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