Xiaohu Guo

Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
Office: ECSS 4.605
Phone: 972-883-4723
Email: xguo "at" utdallas.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science
MS EC-31, Box 830688
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083-0688
   
BRIEF BIO:
 
Xiaohu Guo is a Full Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Stony Brook University, and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include computer graphics, computer vision, medical imaging, and VR/AR, with an emphasis on geometric modeling and processing. His current researches at UTD are focusing on: human body and face modeling, medial axis transform, medical image analysis, mesh generation, centroidal Voronoi tessellation, spectral geometric analysis, deformable models, GPU algorithms, 3D/4D reconstruction, etc. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award in 2012. Here are some of the researches highlighted on UTD-News: 1. CAREER Project; 2. NetSE Project; 3. SIGGRAPH'2013 Paper.
 
Multiple RA/TA Positions Available for PhD Students: We are looking for new PhD students who are interested in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, VR/AR related fields, and having solid mathematical modeling backgrounds and strong programming skills. If you are interested, please feel free to send Dr. Guo your CV.
 
RESEARCH GROUP:
 
 
  • PhD Students:
    • Alakh Aggarwal
    • Steven Hogue
    • Yifei Huang (Visiting)
    • Jikai Wang
    • Ningna Wang
    • Chenxu Zhang
  • MS Students:
    • Hongbo Li
    • Thomas Stanley
  • Group Alumni :
    • Chao Li (PhD at UTD 2019). After graduation: Facebook Reality Lab
    • Chao Wang (PhD at UTD 2018). After graduation: Matterport, ByteDance
    • Saifeng Ni (PhD at UTD 2018). After graduation: Samsung Research America
    • Yuan Tian (PhD at UTD 2017). After graduation: Midea Robotics, OPPO
    • Yiqi Cai (PhD at UTD 2016). After graduation: Google
    • Liang Shuai (PhD at UTD 2014). After graduation: Apple
    • Zichun Zhong (PhD at UTD 2014). After graduation: Assistant Professor at Wayne State University. Received NSF CAREER Award.
    • Yin Yang (PhD at UTD 2013). After graduation: Assistant Professor at The University of New Mexico. Now Associate Professor at Clemson University. Received NSF CAREER Award.
    • Yang Liu (PhD at UTD 2011). After graduation: NVidia, Facebook, Uber, Toyota Research Institute
    • Ziying Tang (PhD at UTD 2011). After graduation: Assistant Professor at Towson University
    • Guodong Rong (Postdoc at UTD 2007-2010). After postdoc: NVidia, Samsung Research America, Google, Huawei, Baidu, LG
    • Yeqi Wang (MS at UTD 2020). After graduation: NVidia
    • Yue Zhang (MS at UTD 2019). After graduation: PhD candidate at Clemson University
    • Bipul Tarafdar (MS at UTD 2018). After graduation: Qualcomm
    • Zhanyu Wang (MS at UTD 2011). After graduation: Cerner, Cisco, Amazon Web Services
    • Jeremy Graham (MS at UTD 2011). After graduation: PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill
    • Andrew Wilson (BS at UTD 2019). After graduation: Software Engineer at Kitware, Inc.
    • Brandon Stevens (BS at UTD 2015). After graduation: Software Engineer at Computer Human Interaction, LLC.
    • Zachary Adams (BS at UTD 2011). After graduation: Software Engineer at Kasling Aircraft Company
    • Richard Van Der Dys (BS at UTD 2011). After graduation: Software Engineer at Docudesk Corporation
    • Luis Torres (BS at UTD 2010). After graduation: PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill. Now at Waymo.
    • Daryl Hansen (BS at UTD 2010). After graduation: PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington
 
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (Since 2018) Click Here for the Full List:
 
  • Yifei Huang, Chenhui Li, Xiaohu Guo, Jing Liao, Chenxu Zhang, Changbo Wang, "DeSmoothGAN: Recovering Details of Smoothed Images via Spatial Feature-wise Transformation and Full Attention", in ACM Multimedia Conference (MM 2020), pp. 2655-2663. [paper][supplement]
  • Chao Li, Xiaohu Guo, "Topology-Change-Aware Volumetric Fusion for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction", in ECCV 2020, pp. 258-274. [paper][supplement][video]
  • Lei Lan, Ran Luo, Marco Fratarcangeli, Weiwei Xu, Huamin Wang, Xiaohu Guo, Junfeng Yao, Yin Yang, "Medial Elastics: Efficient and Collision-ready Deformation via Medial Axis Transform", in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 39, Issue 3, Article No. 20, 2020. (Presented at SIGGRAPH 2020 Conference) [paper][source code][video]
  • Baorong Yang, Junfeng Yao, Bin Wang, Jianwei Hu, Yiling Pan, Tianxiang Pan, Wenping Wang, Xiaohu Guo, "P2MAT-NET: Learning Medial Axis Transform from Sparse Point Clouds", in Computer-Aided Geometric Design (Proceedings of GMP 2020), Vol. 80, Article 101874, 2020. [paper]
  • Jianwei Hu, Bin Wang, Lihui Qian, Yiling Pan, Xiaohu Guo, Lingjie Liu, Wenping Wang, "MAT-Net: Medial Axis Transform Network for 3D Object Recognition", in IJCAI 2019, pp. 774-781. [paper]
  • Yiling Pan, Bin Wang, Xiaohu Guo, Hua Zeng, Yuexin Ma, Wenping Wang, "Q-MAT+: an Error-Controllable and Feature-Sensitive Simplification Algorithm for Medial Axis Transform", in Computer-Aided Geometric Design (Proceedings of GMP 2019), Vol. 71, pp. 16-29, 2019. [paper]
  • Xiao Dong, Zhonggui Chen, Junfeng Yao, Xiaohu Guo, "Superpixel Generation by Agglomerative Clustering with Quadratic Error Minimization", in Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 38, Issue 1, pp. 405-416, 2019. [paper][source code]
  • Baorong Yang, Junfeng Yao, Xiaohu Guo, "DMAT: Deformable Medial Axis Transform for Animated Mesh Approximation", in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of PG 2018), Vol. 37, Issue 7, pp. 301-311, 2018. [paper][supplement][video]
  • Chao Wang, Xiaohu Guo, "Plane-Based Optimization of Geometry and Texture for RGB-D Reconstruction of Indoor Scenes", in 3DV 2018, pp. 533-541. [paper][code & data][video]
  • Chao Li, Zheheng Zhao, Xiaohu Guo, "ArticulatedFusion: Real-time Reconstruction of Motion, Geometry and Segmentation Using a Single Depth Camera", in ECCV 2018, pp. 317-332. [paper][supplement][video]
  • Saifeng Ni, Zichun Zhong, Jin Huang, Wenping Wang, Xiaohu Guo, "Field-Aligned and Lattice-Guided Tetrahedral Meshing", in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of SGP 2018), Vol. 37, Issue 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 (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2018), Vol. 37, Issue 4, Article No. 62, 2018. [paper][supplement][video]