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Full List of Publications:

Books


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

Refereed Journal Papers


• Artem Komarichev, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "DiffSVR: Differentiable Neural Implicit Surface Rendering for Single-View Reconstruction with Highly Sparse Depth Prior," in 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," in 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," in 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," in Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2021), Vol. 86, 101964, 2021. [Paper]


• Michelle Hua, Mingqi Gao, Zichun Zhong, "SCN: Dilated Silhouette Convolutional Network for Video Action Recognition," in Computer Aided Geometric Design (GMP 2021), Vol. 85, 101965, 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," in 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," in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020), Vol. 39, Issue 6, Article No. 204, 2020. [Paper] [Project] [Code]


• Zeyu Li, Seongho Kim, Sikai Zhong, Zichun Zhong, Ikuko Kato, Xiang Zhang, "Coherent Point Drift Peak Alignment Algorithms Using Distance and Similarity Measures for Two-Dimensional Mass Spectrometry Data," in Journal of Chemometrics, 2020. [Paper]


• 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," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (IEEE SciVis 2019), Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 960 - 970, 2020. [Paper]


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


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


• Seongho Kim, Xinmin Yin, Md Aminul Islam Prodhan, Xiang Zhang, Zichun Zhong, Ikuko Kato, "Global Plasma Profiling for Colorectal Cancer Associated Volatile Organic Compounds: a Proof of Principle Study," in Journal of Chromatographic Science, 2019. [Paper]


• Saifeng Ni, Zichun Zhong, Jin Huang, Wenping Wang, Xiaohu Guo, "Field-Aligned and Lattice-Guided Tetrahedral Meshing," in 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," in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2018), Vol. 37, Issue 4, Article No. 62, 2018. [Paper] [Appendix] [Video]


• Jiawei Chen, Haibin Chen, Zichun Zhong, Zhuoyu Wang, Brian Hrycushko, Linghong Zhou, Steve Jiang, Kevin Albuquerque, Xuejun Gu, Xin Zhen, "Investigating Rectal Toxicity Associated Dosimetric Features with Deformable Accumulated Rectal Surface Dose Maps for Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy," in Radiation Oncology, Vol. 13, No. 125, pp. 1 - 10, 2018. [Paper]


• 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," in 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," in Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), Vol. 62, No. 21, pp. 8246 - 8263, 2017 (Editor's Choice). [Paper]


• Saifeng Ni, Zichun Zhong, Yang Liu, Wenping Wang, Zhonggui Chen, Xiaohu Guo, "Sliver-Suppressing Tetrahedral Mesh Optimization with Gradient-Based Shape Matching Energy," in 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," in 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," in 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," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (IEEE SciVis 2016) Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 721 - 730, 2017. [Paper]


• Zichun Zhong, Jing Hua, "Kernel-Based Adaptive Sampling for Image Reconstruction and Meshing," in 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," in Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 1217-1237, 2016. [Paper]


• Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Yiqi Cai, Yin Yang, Jing Wang, Xun Jia, Weihua Mao, "3D-2D Deformable Image Registration Using Feature-Based Non-Uniform Meshes," in BioMed Research International, Vol. 2016, Article ID 4382854, pp. 1-19, 2016. [Paper]


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


• Chao Wang, Yang Liu, Xiaohu Guo, Zichun Zhong, Binh Huy Le, Zhigang Deng, "Spectral Animation Compression," in 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," in 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," in 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," in 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," in ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2013), Vol. 32, No. 4, Article No. 99, July 2013. [Project Website][UTD-News]


• Yin Yang, Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, John Anderson, Timothy Solberg, Weihua Mao, "A Novel Markerless Technique to Evaluate Daily Lung Tumor Motion Based on Conventional Cone-Beam CT Projection Data," in International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. e749-e756, 2012. [Paper]


• Leiting Chen, Zichun Zhong, Hongbin Cai, Tingting Fu, "GPU-Based Meshless Fluids Interactive Rendering," in Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 12, pp. 2994-2997, 2008. [Paper]


• Hongbin Cai, Zichun Zhong, Leiting Chen, Jingwu Zhou, "Survey of Physical-Based Deformable Modeling," in Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 12, pp. 2991-2993, 2008. [Paper]

Refereed Conference Proceedings


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


• Yankun Xi, Guoli Yan, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong, "JointFontGAN: Joint Geometry-Content GAN for Font Generation via Few-Shot Learning," in 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," in The International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2020. [Paper] [Code]


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


• Elaheh Barati, Xuewen Chen, Zichun Zhong, "Attention-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-View Environments," in The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Montreal, Canada, May 2019. [Paper]


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


• Xin Zhen, Jiawei Chen, Zichun Zhong, Brian Hrycushko, Linghong Zhou, Steve Jiang, Kevin Albuquerque, Xuejun Gu, "Transfer Learning Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Rectum Toxicity Prediction in Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy," in The 59th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Denver, July 2017 (Oral Presentation, Science Council Session Award).


• Jiawei Chen, Haibin Chen, Zichun Zhong, Brian Hrycushko, Linghong Zhou, Steve Jiang, Kevin Albuquerque, Xin Zhen, Xuejun Gu, "Rectal Toxicity Prediction in Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy Using Support Vector Machine and Deformable Accumulated Surface Dose," in The 59th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Denver, July 2017 (Oral Presentation).


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


• Zichun Zhong, Ling Zhuang, Xuejun Gu, Jing Wang, Xin Zhen, Haibin Chen, "GPU-Based 4D Deformable Image Registration Using Adaptive Tetrahedral Mesh Modeling," in The 58th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Washington, DC, August 2016 (Oral Presentation).


• Zichun Zhong, Xuejun Gu, Puneeth Iyengar, Weihua Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, "A Multi-Organ Meshing Method for Sliding Motion Modeling in 4D-CBCT Reconstruction," in The 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), San Antonio, October 2015 (Oral Presentation).


• Zichun Zhong, Xuejun Gu, Puneeth Iyengar, Weihua Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, "GPU-Based 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Using Feature-Based Mesh," in The 57th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, July 2015, Medical Physics Vol. 42, No.6, pp. 3219-3219, 2015 (Oral Presentation).


• Zichun Zhong, Xuejun Gu, Puneeth Iyengar, Weihua Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, "4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction Using Multi-Organ Meshes for Sliding Motion," in The 57th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, July 2015, Medical Physics Vol. 42, No.6, pp. 3730-3730, 2015 (Oral Presentation).


• Zichun Zhong, Xuejun Gu, Weihua Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, "GPU-Based 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction by Mesh Method," in The 13th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (FULLY 3D), Newport, Rhode Island, June 2015 (Oral Presentation) (Top 2 with GPU Award). [Paper]


• Zichun Zhong, Yiqi Cai, Xiaohu Guo, Xun Jia, Tsuicheng Chiu, Vasant Kearney, Honghuan Liu, Lan Jiang, Susie Chen, John Yordy, Lucien Nedzi, Weihua Mao, "A Novel Mesh-Based Deformable Surface-Contour Registration," in The 56th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Austin, July 2014, Medical Physics Vol. 41, No.6, pp. 499-500, 2014 (Oral Presentation).


• Yiqi Cai, Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, Xuejun Gu, Tsuicheng Chiu, Vasant Kearney, Honghuan Liu, Lan Jiang, Susie Chen, John Yordy, Lucien Nedzi, Weihua Mao, "A Precise Deformable Image Registration System Using Feature-Based Irregular Meshes," in The 56th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Austin, July 2014, Medical Physics Vol. 41, No.6, pp. 447, 2014 (Oral Presentation).


• Haibin Chen, Xin Zhen, Zichun Zhong, Arnold Pompos, Hao Yan, Linghong Zhou, Steve Jiang, Xuejun Gu, "A Non-Rigid Point Matching Method for Accurate Bladder Dose Summation in Cervical Cancer HDR Brachytherapy," in The 56th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Austin, July 2014, Medical Physics Vol. 41, No.6, pp. 401, 2014 (Oral Presentation).


• Zichun Zhong, Yiqi Cai, Xiaohu Guo, Vasant Kearney, Lan Jiang, Jing Wang, John Yordy, Susie Chen, Lucien Nedzi, Timothy Solberg, Weihua Mao, "A Novel Volumetric Imaging Method Using a Sparse Subset of CBCT Projections," in The 55th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Indianapolis, August 2013, Medical Physics Vol. 40, No.6, pp. 479, 2013 (Oral Presentation, Science Council Session Award).


• Xuejun Gu, Arnold Pompos, Zichun Zhong, Jing Wang, Xiaohu Guo, Xun Jia, Bin Dong, Steve Jiang, Timothy Solberg, "A Contour-Guided Deformable Image Registration Scheme for Organ Surface Deformation," in The 55th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Indianapolis, August 2013, Medical Physics Vol. 40, No.6, pp. 168, 2013.


• Lan Jiang, Vasant Kearney, Zichun Zhong, John Yordy, Susie Chen, Lucien Nedzi, Timothy Solberg, Weihua Mao, "Initial Results of VMAT Re-Planning for On-Line Adaptive Radiotherapy," in The 55th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Indianapolis, August 2013, Medical Physics Vol. 40, No.6, pp. 350, 2013.


• Zichun Zhong, Yiqi Cai, Xiaohu Guo, Timothy Solberg, Weihua Mao, "A Splatting Method to Generate DRRs for Deformed CT Volume," in The 54th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Charlotte, July 2012, Medical Physics Vol. 39, No.6, pp. 3678, 2012.


• Yin Yang, Zichun Zhong, Xiaohu Guo, John Anderson, Timothy Solberg, Weihua Mao, "A Novel Markerless Technique To Evaluate Daily Lung Tumor Motion," in Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), San Diego, October 2010, Proceeding # 3070.


• Yin Yang, Zichun Zhong, Guodong Rong, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Wang, Timothy Solberg, Weihua Mao, "Real-Time GPU-Aided Lung Tumor Tracking," in Proceedings of IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 2010), pp. 495 - 500, Singapore, November 2010 (Travel Grant Award).


• Zichun Zhong, Leiting Chen, Hongbin Cai, Yue Cao, "Realistic Simulation of Multi-scale Fluid-solid Counpling," in Proceedings of IEEE The 9th International Conference on CAID & CD, pp. 523 - 528, Kunming, China, November 2008. [Paper]

Ph.D. Dissertation


• Zichun Zhong, "Adaptive Meshing and Its Applications," in The University of Texas at Dallas, 2014.