Zichun Zhong

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University

Tel: 313-577-9530 (office)
Fax: 313-577-6868
Email: zichunzhong "at" wayne.edu

Office: 5057 Woodward Ave. (Maccabees Building), Suite 14109.2, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
Geometry for X Lab: 5057 Woodward Ave. (Maccabees Building), 2209, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
Graphics and Imaging Lab: 5057 Woodward Ave. (Maccabees Building), 3104.5, Detroit, Michigan, 48202

• Haikuan Zhu, Hongbo Li, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Wenping Wang, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "Designing 3D Anisotropic Frame Fields with Odeco Tensors,"      
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2025), Vol. 44, Issue 4, 2025. [Paper] [Supplement] [Project (Coming soon)] [Code (Coming soon)]

• Hongbo Li, Haikuan Zhu, Sikai Zhong, Ningna Wang, Cheng Lin, Xiaohu Guo, Shiqing Xin, Wenping Wang, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "NASM: Neural Anisotropic Surface Meshing,"      
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (Conference Paper). [Paper] [Project] [Code] [Video]

• Yifan Wang, Haikuan Zhu, Hongbo Li, Guoli Yan, Sagar Buch, Ying Wang, Ewart Mark Haacke, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "ROSE: Multi-Level Super-Resolution-Oriented Semantic Embedding for 3D Microvasculature Segmentation from Low-Resolution Images,"      
Neurocomputing, Vol. 599, 128038, 2024. [Paper] [Supplement] [Video] [Code]

• Rui Xu, Longdu Liu, Ningna Wang, Shuangmin Chen, Shiqing Xin, Xiaohu Guo, Zichun Zhong, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang, Changhe Tu, "CWF: Consolidating Weak Features in High-quality Mesh Simplification,"      
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2024). [Paper] [Project] [Code] [SIGGRAPH'24 Technical Papers Trailer]

• Guoli Yan, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Self-Supervised 3D Human Mesh Recovery from a Single Image with Uncertainty-Aware Learning,"      
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada, February 2024. [Paper]

• Artem Komarichev, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "DiffSVR: Differentiable Neural Implicit Surface Rendering for Single-View Reconstruction with Highly Sparse Depth Prior,"      
Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 164, 103604, 2023. [Paper] [Supplement] [Code]

• Artem Komarichev, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "Learning Geometry-Aware Joint Latent Space for Simultaneous Multimodal Shape Generation,"      
Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2022), Vol. 93, 102076, 2022. [Paper] [Supplement] [Code]

• Haikuan Zhu, Juan Cao, Yanyang Xiao, Zhonggui Chen, Zichun Zhong, Yongjie Jessica Zhang, "TCB-Spline-Based Image Vectorization,"      
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented in SIGGRAPH 2022), Vol. 41, Issue 3, Article No. 34, 2022. [Paper] [Supplement] [Video]

• Guoli Yan, Michelle Hua, Zichun Zhong, "Multi-Derivative Physical and Geometric Convolutional Embedding Networks for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition,"      
Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2021), Vol. 86, 101964, 2021. [Paper]

• Yifan Wang, Guoli Yan, Haikuan Zhu, Sagar Buch, Ying Wang, Ewart Mark Haacke, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "VC-Net: Deep Volume-Composition Networks for Segmentation and Visualization of Highly Sparse and Noisy Image Data,"      
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (IEEE SciVis 2020), Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 1301 - 1311, 2021. [Paper] [Supplement] [Code]

• Guoxin Fang, Tianyu Zhang, Sikai Zhong, Xiangjia Chen, Zichun Zhong, Charlie C.L. Wang, "Reinforced FDM: Multi-Axis Filament Alignment with Controlled Anisotropic Strength,"      
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020), Vol. 39, Issue 6, Article No. 204, 2020. [Paper] [Project] [Code]

• Yankun Xi, Guoli Yan, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "JointFontGAN: Joint Geometry-Content GAN for Font Generation via Few-Shot Learning,"      
ACM Multimedia (MM), 2020. [Paper] [Supplement] [Code]

• Yifan Wang, Guoli Yan, Haikuan Zhu, Sagar Buch, Ying Wang, Ewart Mark Haacke, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "JointVesselNet: Joint Volume-Projection Convolutional Embedding Networks for 3D Cerebrovascular Segmentation,"      
The International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2020. [Paper] [Code]

• Yifan Wang, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "DeepOrganNet: On-the-Fly Reconstruction and Visualization of 3D / 4D Lung Models from Single-View Projections by Deep Deformation Network,"      
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (IEEE SciVis 2019), Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 960 - 970, 2020. [Paper]

• Jing Hua, Jiaxi Hu, Zichun Zhong, "Spectral Geometry of Shapes: Principles and Applications,"
Academic Press, Elsevier, 2019. [Book]

• Hajar Hamidian, Zichun Zhong, Farshad Fotouhi, Jing Hua, "Surface Registration with Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors,"
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2019. [Paper]

• Artem Komarichev, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "A-CNN: Annularly Convolutional Neural Networks on Point Clouds,"
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, June 2019. [Paper] [Code] [Video]

• Sikai Zhong, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Surface Reconstruction by Parallel and Unified Particle-Based Resampling from Point Clouds,"
Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2019), Vol. 71, pp. 43 - 62, 2019. [Paper] [Data] [Code]

• Saifeng Ni, Zichun Zhong, Jin Huang, Wenping Wang, Xiaohu Guo, "Field-Aligned and Lattice-Guided Tetrahedral Meshing,"
Computer Graphics Forum (SGP 2018), Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 161 - 172, 2018. [Paper] [Video]

• Zichun Zhong, Wenping Wang, Bruno Lévy, Jing Hua, Xiaohu Guo, "Computing a High-Dimensional Euclidean Embedding from an Arbitrary Smooth Riemannian Metric,"
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2018), Vol. 37, Issue 4, Article No. 62, 2018. [Paper] [Appendix] [Video]

• Haibin Chen, Zichun Zhong, Yiwei Yang, Jiawei Chen, Linghong Zhou, Xin Zhen, Xuejun Gu, "Internal Motion Estimation by Internal-external Motion Modeling for Lung Cancer Radiotherapy," Scientific Reports - Nature, Vol. 8, Article number: 3677, 2018. [Paper]

• Xin Zhen, Jiawei Chen, Zichun Zhong, Brian Hrycushko, Linghong Zhou, Steve Jiang, Kevin Albuquerque, Xuejun Gu, "Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Transfer Learning for Rectum Toxicity Prediction in Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy: A Feasibility Study,"      
Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), Vol. 62, No. 21, pp. 8246 - 8263, 2017 (Editor's Choice). [Paper]

• Haotian Xu, Ming Dong, Zichun Zhong, "Directionally Convolutional Networks for 3D Shape Segmentation,"      
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 2698 - 2707, Venice, Italy, October 2017. [Paper]

• Saifeng Ni, Zichun Zhong, Yang Liu, Wenping Wang, Zhonggui Chen, Xiaohu Guo, "Sliver-Suppressing Tetrahedral Mesh Optimization with Gradient-Based Shape Matching Energy,"
Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2017), Vol. 52-53, pp. 247 - 261, 2017. [Paper]

• Yiqi Cai, Xiaohu Guo, Yang Liu, Wenping Wang, Weihua Mao, Zichun Zhong, "Surface Approximation via Asymptotic Optimal Geometric Partition,"      
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 2613 - 2626, 2017. [Paper]

• Hai Jin, Xun Wang, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Robust 3D Face Modeling and Reconstruction from Frontal and Side Images,"      
Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 50, pp. 1 - 13, 2017. [Paper]

• Jiaxi Hu, Hajar Hamidian, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Visualization of Shape Deformations by Variation of Geometric Spectrum,"      
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (IEEE SciVis 2016), Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 721 - 730, 2017. [Paper]

• Hajar Hamidian, Jiaxi Hu, Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Quantifying Shape Deformations by Variation of Geometric Spectrum,"      
The 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Athens, Greece, October 2016. [Paper]

• Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Kernel-Based Adaptive Sampling for Image Reconstruction and Meshing,"      
Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2016), Vol. 43, pp. 68 - 81, 2016. [Paper]

• Haibin Chen, Zichun Zhong, Yuliang Liao, Arnold Pompoš, Brian Hrycushko, Kevin Albuquerque, Xin Zhen, Linghong Zhou, Xuejun Gu, "A Non-rigid Point Matching Method with Local Topology Preservation for Accurate Bladder Dose Summation in High Dose Rate Cervical Brachytherapy,"     
Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 1217 - 1237, 2016. [Paper]

• Zichun Zhong, Xuejun Gu, Weihua Mao, Jing Wang, "4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Using Multi-Organ Meshes for Sliding Motion Modeling,"     
Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 996 - 1020, 2016. [Paper]

• Zichun Zhong, Xuejun Gu, Weihua Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, "GPU-Based 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction by Mesh Method,"      
The 13th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (FULLY3D), 2015 (Oral Presentation, Top 2 with GPU Award). [Paper]

• Chao Wang, Yang Liu, Xiaohu Guo, Zichun Zhong, Binh Huy Le, Zhigang Deng, "Spectral Animation Compression,"      
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (CVM 2015), Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 540 - 552, 2015. [Paper]

• Yiqi Cai, Xiaohu Guo, Zichun Zhong, Weihua Mao, "Dynamic Meshing for Deformable Image Registration,"      
Computer-Aided Design (SPM 2014), Vol. 58, pp. 141 - 150, 2015. [Paper]

• Zhichao Huang, Junfeng Yao, Zichun Zhong, Yang Liu, Xiaohu Guo, "Sparse Localized Decomposition of Deformation Gradients,"      
Computer Graphics Forum (PG 2014), Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 239 - 248, 2014. [Paper]

• Zichun Zhong, Liang Shuai, Miao Jin, Xiaohu Guo, "Anisotropic Surface Meshing with Conformal Embedding,"      
Graphical Models (GMP 2014), Vol. 76, No. 5, pp. 468 - 483, 2014. [Paper]

• Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Wenping Wang, Bruno Lévy, Feng Sun, Yang Liu, Weihua Mao, "Particle-Based Anisotropic Surface Meshing,"      
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2013), Vol. 32, Issue 4, Article No. 99, July 2013. [Project Website] [UTD-News]