Name: Yong Zhao

Current Position: Associate Professor

Research Interests
Digital Geometry Processing
Shape Analysis and Editing, Surface Reconstruction, Mesh Segmentation
Digital Image Processing
Texture Synthesis, Image Deformation, Decolorization

Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, September 2009
   State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, P. R. China
School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, P. R. China

Work Experience
School of Mathematical Sciences, Ocean University of China, P. R. China
Associate Professor, December 2013 - Present
Assistant Professor, July 2010 - November 2013

Academic Experience
Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States
Center for Visual Computing, State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States
Visiting Scholar, September 2016 - September 2017

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Visiting Scholar, July 2016 - August 2016

Teaching
C Programming, Data Structure, Computer Graphics, Digital Image Processing

Selected Funding
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Research on structure-sensitive mesh editing techniques”, Principal Investigator.
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Study on some key problems of a class of image restoration models and their applications”, Main Investigator.
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Modeling and editing of displacement subdivision surfaces”, Main Investigator.
4. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, “3D reconstruction and segmentation techniques based on sparse optimization”, Principal Investigator.
5. Research Award Fund for Excellent Young and Middle-aged Scientists of Shandong Province, “Structure-preserving mesh editing algorithms based on simplified graph”, Principal Investigator.

Publications
1. Yong Zhao, Hong Qin, Xueying Zeng, Junli Xu, Junyu Dong. Robust and effective mesh denoising using L0 sparse regularization. Computer-Aided Design. 2018, 101: 82-97.
2. Yong Zhao, Ling Li, Xin Shan, Shengke Wang, Hong Qin. A L0 denoising algorithm for 3D shapes. Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics. 2018, 30(5): 772-777. (In Chinese)
3. Shengke Wang, Lianghua Duan, Yong Zhao, Junyu Dong. A simple deep feature representation for person re-identification. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing - Theories and Applications. 2016: 343-354.
4. Yong Zhao, Shengjie Lu, Hailong Qian, Pengcheng Yao. Robust mesh deformation with salient features preservation. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences. 2016, 59(5): 052106:1-052106:9.
5. Zhiqiang Pang, Yong Zhao, Chunxia Xiao. Effective skeletons extraction for animated surfaces based on geometry propagation. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 2015, 26(3-4): 301-309.
6. Yong Zhao, Hailong Qian, Shengjie Lu. A deformation-aware hierarchical framework for shape-preserving editing of static and time-varying mesh data. Computers & Graphics. 2015, 46: 80-88.
7. Yong Zhao, Junyu Dong, Bin Pan, Chunxia Xiao. Hierarchical mesh deformation with shape preservation. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 2014, 25(3-4): 413-422.
8. Yong Zhao. Scalable mesh deformation with controllable stiffness. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics. 2013: 449-450.
9. Yong Zhao, Guangpeng Liu, Qunsheng Peng. As-rigid-as-possible efficient deformation algorithm for point clouds. Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics. 2013, 25(7): 955-962. (In Chinese)
10. Bin Pan, Yong Zhao, Wei Chen, Xiaoming Guo, Xiang Chen, Qunsheng Peng. Perception-motivated visualization for 3D city scenes. The Visual Computer. 2013, 29(4): 277-286.
11. Yong Zhao, Jianhui Liu. Volumetric subspace mesh deformation with structure preservation. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 2012, 23(5): 519-532.
12. Yong Zhao, Bin Pan, Chunxia Xiao, Qunsheng Peng. Dual-domain deformation transfer for triangular meshes. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 2012, 23(3-4): 447-456.
13. Yong Zhao, Qunsheng Peng. Feature-preserving deformation algorithm for point clouds. Progress of Graphics in China. 2012: 72-74. (In Chinese)
14. Yong Zhao, Bin Pan, Qunsheng Peng. Robust deformation transfer via dual domain. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics. 2011: 302-305.
15. Yong Zhao, Chunxia Xiao, Feng Shi, Qunsheng Peng. Rigid mesh deformation with detail preserving. Journal of Computer Research and Development. 2010, 47(1): 1-7. (In Chinese)
16. Yong Zhao, Xinguo Liu, Chunxia Xiao, Qunsheng Peng. A unified shape editing framework based on tetrahedral control mesh. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 2009, 20(2-3): 301-310.
17. Yong Zhao, Xinguo Liu, Qunsheng Peng, Hujun Bao. Rigidity constraints for large mesh deformation. Journal of Computer Science and Technology. 2009, 24(1): 47-55.
18. Chunxia Xiao, Yongwei Nie, Xianfeng Huang, Yong Zhao, Qunsheng Peng. Upsampling synthesized texture using joint bilateral filter. Chinese Journal of Computers. 2009, 32(2): 241-251. (In Chinese)
19. Yong Zhao, Xinguo Liu, Qunsheng Peng. Shape deformation based on tetrahedral control mesh. Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics. 2008, 20(9): 1132-1139. (In Chinese)
20. Chunxia Xiao, Wenting Zheng, Yongwei Miao, Yong Zhao, Qunsheng Peng. A unified method for appearance and geometry completion of point set surfaces. The Visual Computer. 2007, 23(6): 433-443.
21. Chunxia Xiao, Wenting Zheng, Yongwei Miao, Yong Zhao, Qunsheng Peng. Appearance and geometry completion with constrained texture synthesis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2006, 4035: 24-35.
22. Chunxia Xiao, Yong Zhao, Wenting Zheng, Qunsheng Peng. Texture synthesis for point-sampled geometry based on global optimization. Chinese Journal of Computers. 2006, 29(12): 2061-2070. (In Chinese)