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Zichun Zhong
Associate Professor
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
Computer Modeling and Imaging Visualization Lab: 5057 Woodward Ave. (Maccabees Building), 2209, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
Graphics and Imaging Lab: 5057 Woodward Ave. (Maccabees Building), 3104.5, Detroit, Michigan, 48202
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Short Bio:
Research Interests:
Dr. Zhong's research interests include Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling (specifically Surface and Volume Mesh Generations), Computer Vision, Visualization, Medical Image Processing (specifically 3D / 4D Image Reconstruction, Image Segmentation, Deformable Image Registration), Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality, and GPU Algorithms.
Prospective Students:
He is looking for self-motivated Master thesis and Ph.D. students to join his research group. Fellowship / RA / TA positions with full scholarships are available. If you are interested in working with him, please send him your CV and related projects / publications.
Selected Recent Publications: (Click here for the full list)
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- 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 Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020), Vol. 39, Issue 6, Article No. 204, 2020. [Paper] [Project] [Code]
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- 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). [Paper] [Supplement] [Code]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- Hajar Hamidian, Zichun Zhong, Farshad Fotouhi, Jing Hua, "Surface Registration with Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors,"
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2019. [Paper]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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Teaching:
Professional Presentations:
- "DeepOrganNet: On-the-Fly Reconstruction and Visualization of 3D / 4D Lung Models from Single-View Projections by Deep Deformation Network," IEEE Visualization (SciVis), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2019.
- "High-Fidelity and Efficient Meshing on Surface and Volume," Invited Talk, "Multimodal Interaction and Intelligent Travel Forum", The seventh International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2019), Xiamen, June 2019.
- "A-CNN: Annularly Convolutional Neural Networks on Point Clouds," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, June 2019.
- "Surface Reconstruction by Parallel and Unified Particle-Based Resampling from Point Clouds," 13th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2019), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 2019.
- "High-Fidelity and Efficient Meshing on Surface and Volume," Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, April 2019.
- "Mixed Reality in 3D Graphics," Wayne State Third-Annual STEM Day, Wayne State University, Detroit, March 2019.
- "Mixed Reality on HoloLens," Wayne State Sesquicentennial Event, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 2018.
- "Computing a High-Dimensional Euclidean Embedding from an Arbitrary Smooth Riemannian Metric," Technical Paper Session, ACM SIGGRAPH 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 2018.
- "3D Adaptive Meshing and Its Applications," Invited Talk, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, April 2018.
- "3D Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality," Wayne State Second-Annual STEM Day, Wayne State University, Detroit, March 2018.
- "Directionally Convolutional Networks for 3D Shape Segmentation," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Venice, Italy, October 2017.
- "3D/4D Meshing and Its Applications in Medical Imaging," Invited Talk, Department of Radiation Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, February 2017.
- "GPU-Based 4D Deformable Image Registration Using Adaptive Tetrahedral Mesh Modeling," Image Registration and Segmentation Session of 58th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Washington, DC, August 2016.
- "Robust 3D Face Modeling and Reconstruction from Frontal and Side Images," 10th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2016), San Antonio, Texas, April 2016.
- "Kernel-Based Adaptive Sampling for Image Reconstruction and Meshing," 10th International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP 2016), San Antonio, Texas, April 2016.
- "Adaptive Meshing and Its Applications in Medical Imaging," Invited Talk, Department of Radiation Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, March 2016.
- "4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Using Multi-Organ Meshes for Sliding Motion," Symposium of Imaging in Motion and Beyond, Wayne State University and Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, January 2016.
- "A Multi-Organ Meshing Method for Sliding Motion Modeling in 4D-CBCT Reconstruction," Scientific Session: Physics XI -Management of Motion in Planning and Delivery of 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), San Antonio, October 2015.
- "GPU-Based 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Using Feature-Based Mesh," Next Generation CBCT Session of 57th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, July 2015.
- "4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Using Multi-Organ Meshes for Sliding Motion," Next Generation CBCT Session of 57th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, July 2015.
- "GPU-Based 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction by Mesh Method," High Performance Computing Session of The 13th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (FULLY 3D), Newport, Rhode Island, June 2015 (Top 2 with GPU Award).
- "A Novel Mesh-Based Deformable Surface-Contour Registration," Image Registration Session of 56th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Austin, July 2014.
- "A Novel Mesh-Based Deformable Surface-Contour Registration," Research Seminar, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, June 2014.
- "Adaptive Meshing and Its Applications," Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, April 2014.
- "Adaptive Meshing and Its Applications," Invited Talk, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, December 2013.
- "A Novel Volumetric Imaging Method Using a Sparse Subset of CBCT Projections," Science Council Session of 55th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Indianapolis, August 2013.
- "Particle-Based Anisotropic Surface Meshing," Technical Paper Session, ACM SIGGRAPH 2013, Anaheim, July 2013.
- "Adaptive Mesh Generation for Registering 3D Images with 2D Projections," UT Metroplex Day, Dallas, March 2013.
- "A Splatting Method to Generate DRRs for Deformed CT Volume," 54th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Charlotte, July 2012.
- "GPU Programming Basics," Invited Talk, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, August 2010.
Selected Honors:
- Best Reviewers, ACM Multimedia Conference 2020, October 2020
- Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, April 2020
- Faculty Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, April 2019
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), February 2019
- Science Council Session Award, AAPM 2017, Denver, Colorado, August 2017
- CRII Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), July 2017
- Outstanding Reviewer, Digital Signal Processing - Elsevier, November 2016
- GPU Award for Paper: "GPU-Based 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction by Mesh Method", The 13th FULLY 3D, Newport, Rhode Island, June 2015
- Certificate of Academic Excellence, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, December 2013
- Media Coverage: "Anisotropic Surface Meshing" research posted as top news on UTD website November 2013
- Science Council Session Award, AAPM 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 2013
- Volunteer Recognition - Web Development, ACM Multimedia Conference 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 2011
- Second and Third Class of Postgraduate's Excellent Scholarship, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2006 - 2008
- Excellent Student Leadership, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2006 - 2008
- Excellent Prize of "Mairui" Cup Software Design Competition, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2007
- Second Place of "Tencent Innovation Design Competition", The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2007
- Excellent Graduate of Sichuan Province, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2006
- Third Place of "CCTV" Cup English Speech Competition, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2005
- Special and First Class of University Student Scholarship, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2002 - 2006
Professional Services:
- Journal and Conference Paper Reviewer:
Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling:
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
- Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
- Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD)
- Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP)
- The Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM)
- International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA)
Visualization and Vision:
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- Computational Visual Media (CVM)
- The Visual Computer (TVCJ)
- The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)
- International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (ICVRV)
Multimedia:
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- Journal of Multimedia (JMM)
- Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)
- Multimedia Systems (MMSJ)
- International Journal of Computers and Applications (TJCA)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia Asia (ACM MM Asia)
Medical Imaging:
- Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB)
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology
- Current Medical Imaging Reviews (CMIR)
- International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Others:
- Digital Signal Processing - Elsevier
- Measurement Science and Technology - IOPscience
- Journal of Computer Applications (China)
- Conference PC Member:
- Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2017
- Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM) 2019, 2020
- IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (IEEE PacificVis) 2021
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2019, 2020
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia Asia (ACM MM Asia) 2019
- International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC) 2018, 2019
Students:
- Current Ph.D. Students:
- Haikuan Zhu (Fall 2019 ~)
- Yankun Xi (Winter 2019 ~)
- Artem Komarichev (Fall 2017 ~)
- Sikai Zhong (Fall 2016 ~)
- Current B.S. Students:
- Kyle Carr (ROEU Awardee, Fall 2020 ~ Winter 2021)
- Ayah Awadallah (Honors Thesis, Fall 2020 ~ Winter 2021)
- Advised M.S. Students:
- Kaiyue Zhou (Fall 2016 ~ Winter 2019)
- Mohammad Abdollahi (Fall 2017 ~ Fall 2018)
- Advised B.S. Students:
- Bofan Zheng (Visiting Student from Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Summer 2019)
- Bandhanpreet Kaur (ROEU Awardee, Fall 2018 ~ Winter 2019)
- Yashwant Kondapalli (ROEU Awardee, Fall 2018 ~ Winter 2019)
- Hussein Mehdi (ROEU Awardee, Fall 2017 ~ Winter 2018)
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