About me

Lifan Wu

I am a research scientist at NVIDIA. I received my Ph.D. degree from University of California San Diego in 2020, advised by Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi. During my Ph.D. career, I was awarded the 2019 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. Before that, I obtained my bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 2015.

My research focus is on physically based rendering, aiming at efficient modeling and simulation of complex visual appearance. I am also interested in differentiable light transport and inverse rendering problems.

Email: winmad.wlf [at] gmail [dot] com

Curriculum Vitae (Last updated on Sep 15, 2021)

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Differentiable Time-Gated Rendering
Lifan Wu*, Guangyan Cai*, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Shuang Zhao (* equal contribution)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021), Dec 2021
[Project] [Paper] [Supplement]

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Vectorization for Fast, Analytic, and Differentiable Visibility
Yang Zhou, Lifan Wu, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Ling-Qi Yan
ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2021), June 2021
[Paper] [Video]

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Appearance Preserving Prefiltering for Rendering Complex Scenes
Lifan Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation, UC San Diego, July 2020
[Dissertation] [Fast forward video]

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Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering With Many Polygonal Area Lights
Lifan Wu, Guangyan Cai, Shuang Zhao, Ravi Ramamoorthi
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020), July 2020
[Paper] [Talk recording] [Video] [Slides] [Poster] [Code & Data]

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A Differential Theory of Radiative Transfer
Cheng Zhang, Lifan Wu, Changxi Zheng, Ioannis Gkioulekas,
Ravi Ramamoorthi, Shuang Zhao
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019), Nov 2019
[Project] [Paper]

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Accurate Appearance Preserving Prefiltering for Rendering Displacement-Mapped Surfaces
Lifan Wu, Shuang Zhao, Ling-Qi Yan, Ravi Ramamoorthi
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2019), July 2019
[Paper] [Video] [Slides] [Code & Data]

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Multiple Axis-Aligned Filters for Rendering of Combined Distribution Effects
Lifan Wu, Ling-Qi Yan, Alexandr Kuznetsov, Ravi Ramamoorthi
Computer Graphics Forum (EGSR 2017), June 2017
[Paper] [Slides] [Video]

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Downsampling Scattering Parameters for Rendering Anisotropic Media
Shuang Zhao*, Lifan Wu*, Fredo Durand, Ravi Ramamoorthi
(* joint first authors)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2016), Nov 2016
[Project] [Paper] [Slides] [Video] [Code & Data]

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