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Facial Microscopic Structures Synthesis from a Single Unconstrained Image
A differentiable representation of facial wrinkles and pores that enables microscopic detail synthesis from naturally captured images.
Project pageYouyang Du 杜悠扬
PhD Student at MBZUAI
Offline Rendering · Neural-Aided Real-time Rendering
I am currently a PhD student at MBZUAI, under the supervision of Prof. Lingqi Yan.
Research
A preview of recent work in appearance modeling and rendering. Hover or focus on an item to see more.
Diffusion-Guided Relighting for Single-Image SVBRDF Estimation
A diffusion-guided relighting method that produces stable material observations for highlight-free SVBRDF recovery.
Project pageProjects
Selected implementations and systems work beyond my research publications. Hover or focus on an item to see more.
Bidirectional Path Tracing in Nori
A readable BDPT reference implementation with the minimal Nori extensions needed for light-image accumulation and the t=1 technique.
View repositoryNotes
Working notes, derivations, and paper readings. The production blog keeps its existing LaTeX and bibliography pipeline.
NDF and Microfacet Model
A derivation-focused note on microsurfaces, normal distributions, masking, and the general microfacet model.
PaperReading — Compressive Rendering Sensing
Reframing rendering as a sparse reconstruction problem rather than producing every pixel before compression.
PaperReading — Compressive Light Transport Sensing
From sparse signals and underdetermined systems to compressive measurements of light transport.
Life, recently
A quieter record beside the research.
