Li Zhang Ph.D. University of Washington Assistant Professor Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison

Note: I left academia and joined Google and no longer take students.

Research Interests: Computer Vision and Computer Graphics

Awards: NSF CAREER Award (2009-2014), Sloan Research Fellowship (2010-2011), Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2010-2015)

Research Projects:

Semantic Image Analysis and Search	Computational Phtography and Camera	3D Reconstruction
Collaborative Facial Landmark Localization for Transferring Annotations Across Datasets Pose and Expression Robust Face Landmark Localization From Label Maps to Label Strokes: Image Parsing from Sparsely labeled Training Data Example-Based Face Parsing Local Label Descriptor for Example based Semantic Image Labeling Joint Face Alignment with Non-Parametric Shape Models A Multi-Affine Model for Tensor Decomposition Face Image Search by Shape Manipulation Before 2007 What is a Good Nearest Neighbors Algorithm for Finding Similar Patches in Images	Random Coded Sampling for High-Speed HDR Video Optical Flow in the Presence of Spatially-Varying Motion Blur Video Denoising for Motion-based Exposure Control Stereoscopic 3D Video Stabilization Lightfield Video Stabilization Denoising versus Deblurring: Optimal HDR Imaging Techniques using Moving Cameras Multiple View Image Denoising Before 2007 Capturing Photos and Videos with Tagged Pixels Scene Collage and Flexible Camera Array	A Locally Linear Regression Model for Boundary Preserving Regularization in Stereo Matching Model Evolution: An Incremental Approach to Non-Rigid Structure from Motion Stereo Matching with Nonparametric Smoothness Priors in Feature Space (De)Focusing on Global Light Transport for Active Scene Recovery Before 2007 Projection Defocus Analysis for Scene Capture and Image Display Parameter Estimation for MRF Stereo Spacetime Faces Shape and Motion under Varying Illumination Spacetime Stereo Rapid Shape Acquisition Single View Modeling Shape Recovery by Surface Deformation

Current Students

• Brandon Smith (CS, NSF Grad Fellow)
• Shengqi Zhu (CS)
• Haixiang Liu (CS)
• Aashish Thite (ECE)

Former Students

• Sundeep Vaddadi (MS in ECE, Qualcomm)
• Jake Rosin (MS in CS)
• Tuo Wang (MS in CS, QualComm)
• Alok Deshpande (MS in ECE, Advanced Bionics)
• Chris Hopman (MS in CS, Google)
• Travis Portz (MS in ECE, Amazon)
• Yiqing Yang, (MS in CS, Google)
• Zhouyuan Li, (MS in CS, NVidia)

Courses:

• CS766, Computer Vision, Fall, 2012
• CS559, Computer Graphics, Spring, 2012
• CS766, Computer Vision, Fall, 2010
• CS559, Computer Graphics, Spring, 2010
• CS766, Computer Vision, Fall, 2009
• CS766, Computer Vision, Fall, 2008
• CS559, Computer Graphics, Spring, 2008
• CS766, Computer Vision, Fall 2007

Tutorials:

• Lecture on Face Scanning and Dense Motion Capture Technologies for the Digial Face Cloning course at SIGGRAPH 2005.
• Lecture on Markerless Face Capture and Automatic Model Construction (with Chris Bregler) for the Performance-Driven Facial Animation course at SIGGRAPH 2006.