Hao (Richard) Zhang - 张皓
Associate Professor
School of Computing Science

Ph.D. (2003), Toronto (Dynamic Graphics Project)
MMath (1997), Waterloo (Computer Science)
BMath (1995), Waterloo (Faculty of Math)

Email: haoz At cs DoT sfu period ca
Office: TASC I, Room 8027; phone: 778-782-6843

Picture of the day
An image sampled from our papers

My research interests are in the areas of geometry processing and computer graphics. Current topics of interests include spectral (more generally the use of transforms for) geometry processing, high-level geometry processing (shape correspondence, segmentation, symmetry analysis), surface reconstruction, curve skeletons, and quality meshing (in particular, Delaunay meshes).

News:

  • February 5, 2010: I am avatarized!!!
  • January 12, 2010: One of our papers won the 2010 Most Cited Paper Award for the journal Computer-Aided Design. Papers for this distinction are determined solely based on the highest number of cites, excluding self-citations, received for all journal articles published in 2007-2009.
  • December 22, 2009: PPT slides for all three of our SIGGRAPH Asia technical papers are now available. Check out the papers page.
  • December 22, 2009: Our paper on consensus skeleton for space-time shape registration has been accepted to Eurographics 2010. See papers page.
  • December 17, 2009: Our SIGGRAPH Asia course on Spectral Mesh Processing has concluded. See this wiki from ALICEpedia for all the course-related information, including presentation slides.
  • December 12, 2009: Our proposed survey (led by Oliver) on shape correspondence has just been accepted into the Eurographics 2010 STAR (State-of-the-Art Report) program. Stay tuned ...
  • November 16, 2009: Due to popular demand, we are making the MATLAB code for our earlier paper on robust spectral shape correspondence available. Please download this ZIP file. Instructions are contained in the README file. Note that this code does not contain a Nystrom approximation component, hence only somewhat small meshes (up to 5K vertices) should be tried on. The code was written by Varun Jain and last updated by Oliver van Kaick. If you have any questions, please ask Oliver or myself.
  • October 26, 2009: Code, along with instructions, for our FAST (Feature-Aligned Shape Texturing) paper is available now.
  • August 14, 2009: Recruiter alert! See animation pieces done by students from my CMPT 466 (Computer Animation) class.
  • July 29, 2009: Dr. Baoquan Chen from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences, visits SFU and gives a talk on Towards Building a Live Digital City through Laser Scanning
  • July 7, 2009: Ginger (Xiaoxing) Li's CVPR '09 paper on 3D face recognition using sparse representatiosn is among the most viewed here, for now :-)
  • June 7-8, 2009: Visit to DGP at the University of Toronto as a Ph.D. external examiner and gave a talk on Delaunay Meshes.
  • May 20, 2009: Joe Kahlert successfully defended his Masters thesis today on "Tiling surfaces using straight strips". Congrats, Joe!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

- Lord Byron