In 1997, I was enrolled in Zhejiang University . After four years' study, I started my graphics journey by continuously pursuing my M.S. degree at the State Key Lab of CAD&CG of Zhejiang University . During the master phase, I was fortunately able to work on interesting graphics research problems under the supervision of Prof. Qunsheng Peng and Prof. Wei Chen . Since September 2005, I started to pursue my PhD at the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institut f&uumlr Informatik in Saarbr&uumlcken, Germany, and my PhD supervisor was Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel . During the PhD phase, I was closely collaborating with Prof. Jan Kautz to dive deep into real-time rendering research. Also I had ever visited the Internet Graphics Group at MSRA under the supervision of Prof. Xinguo Liu and Computer Graphics Group at MSR under the supervision of Dr. John Snyder . My mentors are wonderful and I have learned so much from them for both my research and career!

Sep. 12th, 2013  Our paper " A Practical Algorithm for Rendering Interreflections with All-frequency BRDFs " has been accepted by ACM TOG.    Jul. 28th, 2013  Our work " Complex Luminaire Rendering " has been documented as a technical report (PCG-13-02), and is currently under submission.    Jul. 22th, 2013  Our paper " Anisotropic Spherical Gaussians " has been accepted by ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013, and details are coming soon.    Jan. 19th, 2013  Our work about precomputation-based real-time rendering of volume scattering has been accepted by IEEE TVCG.

• Real-time Global Illumination Rendering for Fully-Dynamic Scene
• Offline Photorealistic Rendering and Material Modeling
• Generic Computation on GPU
• High-quality Volume Graphics

• CAD/Graphics 2013

Paper Reviewer for:

• SIGGRAPH; SIGGRAPH ASIA; Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR); High Performance Graphics; Eurographics; ACM I3D; Pacific Graphics;...
• ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG); IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG); IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP); Computer Graphics Forum; the Visual Computer; Information Sciences; Neurocomputing; Journal of Computer Science and Technology;...

• September 2005 - February 2011:
  Ph.D. in the Computer Graphics Department of Max-Planck-Institut f&uumlr Informatik and the Universit&aumlt des Saarlandes , Saarbr&uumlcken, Germany.
  Ph.D. Thesis: Visually Pleasing Real-time Global Illumination Rendering for Fully-dynamic Scenes. (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel ).
• September 2002 - April 2005:
  M.Sc. in Computer Science at Zhejiang University
  Master Thesis: Relevant Technology Study on Programmable Graphics Hardware(In Chinese). (Supervisors: Prof. Qunsheng Peng and Associate Prof. Wei Chen ) ( PDF )
  
• September 1997 - June 2001
  Bachelor in Polymer Engineering and Secondary Bachelor in Computer Science, Zhejiang University
  Professional Experiences
  • September 2008 - December 2008:
    Research Intern at Computer Graphics Group of Microsoft Research Redmond . My mentor was Dr. John Snyder and the internship is a great experience for me.
  • October 2004 - January 2005:
    Research Intern at Internet Graphics Group of Microsoft Research Asia . My mentor was Prof. Xinguo Liu and my project is about real-time rendering of caustics effect.
  Publications

  Thomas Neff , Brian Budge , Zhao Dong , Dieter Schmalstieg , Markus Steinberger . " PSAO: Point-Based Split Rendering for Ambient Occlusion ", High-Performance Graphics (HPG) 2023 . ( Paper & Video , Talk ).

  Zihan Yu , Cheng Zhang , Olivier Maury, Christophe Hery, Zhao Dong , Shuang Zhao . " Efficient Path-Space Differentiable Volume Rendering With Respect To Shapes ", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2023 . ( Project Page , PDF(Preprint) ).

  Fujun Luan , Shuang Zhao , Kavita Bala , Zhao Dong . " Unified Shape and SVBRDF Recovery using Differentiable Monte Carlo Rendering ", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2021 . ( Project Page , PDF(Preprint) , Supplemental Material ).

  Merlin Nimier-David , Zhao Dong , Wenzel Jakob , Anton Kaplanyan . " Material and lighting reconstruction for complex indoor scenes with texture-space differentiable rendering ", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2021 . ( Project Page , PDF(Preprint) , Supplemental Material ).

  Albert Julius Liu , Zhao Dong , Miloš Hašan , Steve Marschner . " Simulating the structure and texture of solid wood ", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , 35(6), 2016. (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 ). ( PDF(Preprint) , Video ( Youtube ), BibTex ).(This 3D procedural wood BRDF has been fully integrated into the Autodesk 3DS Max and Autodesk Fusion 360 , and you can try it for free).

  Zhao Dong ^* , Bruce Walter ^* , Steve Marschner , Donald P. Greenberg . " Predicting Appearance from Measured Microgeometry of Metal Surfaces ", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , 35(1), 9:1 - 9:13, 2015. ( ^* Joint first authors.) (To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2016 ). ( PDF(Preprint) , Supplemental(Kirchhoff) , Supplemental(EllipsoidNDF) , Video , BibTex ).

  Kun Xu , Yan-Pei Cao, Li-Qian Ma , Zhao Dong , Rui Wang , Shi-Min Hu . " A Practical Algorithm for Rendering Interreflections with All-frequency BRDFs ", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , 33(1), 10:1 - 10:16, 2014. (to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2014 ). ( Project Page , PDF(Preprint) , Video , Slides, BibTex ).

  Baoguang Yang , Zhao Dong ^* , Jieqing Feng , Hans-Peter Seidel , Jan Kautz . " Variance Soft Shadow Mapping ", To Appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2010 . Result image is selected for Back Cover of the proceedings.). ( ^* The first two authors contributed equally.). ( PDF(Preprint) , BibTex , Video(Xvid Codec) , Slides , Project Page ).

  Wei Hu , Zhao Dong ^* , Ivo Ihrke , Thosten Grosch , Hans-Peter Seidel . " Interactive Volume Caustics in Single-Scattering Media ", To Appear in ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2010 (Result image is selected for Back Cover of the proceedings.). ( ^* The first two authors contributed equally.). ( PDF(Preprint) , BibTex , Video(Xvid Codec) , Slides , Project Page ).

  Thomas Annen , Zhao Dong ^* , Tom mertens , Philippe Bekaert , Hans-Peter Seidel , Jan Kautz . " Real-Time, All-Frequency Shadows in Dynamic Scenes ", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , ( Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008 ) ( ^* The first two authors are sorted by the alphabetic order of their last names). ( PDF , BibTex , Video(Divx Codec) , Slides , Project Page ).

  Zhao Dong , Wei Chen , Long Zhang and Qunsheng Peng . " Balancing CPU and GPU: Real-time Visualization of Large Scale 3D Scene ". In The Third International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), VVS workshop (Visualization and Visual Steering), Wuhan, October. 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag.