Research Overview

I am an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. My research began with manifold splines during my PhD at Stony Brook University (supervised by Prof. Hong Qin), which laid the foundation for my work in geometry processing and geometric computing. It has since evolved along a continuous geometry-driven trajectory, from geometric modeling to digital geometry processing, and more recently to 3D vision and 3D deep learning. Across these directions, a unifying theme is the development of geometry-aware, representation-first methods for the reconstruction, representation, and understanding of 3D data, designed to operate robustly under real-world constraints such as noise, incompleteness, scale, and complex topology.

My research spans geometric modeling, digital geometry processing, 3D vision, and 3D deep learning, and is characterized by reformulating difficult geometric inference problems as reusable and scalable structures. Two long-running themes define this work most clearly. In discrete geodesics, my work on Saddle Vertex Graphs (SVG, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013) and later Discrete Geodesic Graphs (DGG, TOG 2020) helped change the way people think about shortest-path computation on surfaces. These works show that although geodesic computation is inherently a global problem, it can be handled efficiently by exploiting local geometric structures. This leads to representations that support fast, scalable, and repeated shortest-path queries on surfaces. In 3D reconstruction from raw or unoriented point clouds, my work on iterative Poisson surface reconstruction (iPSR, SIGGRAPH 2022) and subsequent extensions showed that orientation and reconstruction should be treated as coupled aspects of a single geometric inference problem, rather than as a brittle two-stage pipeline, enabling more robust and scalable reconstruction from real-world data.

In recent years, my work has focused on the following research directions:

• 3D Reconstruction from Raw or Unoriented Point Clouds
• Discrete Geodesics and Intrinsic Geometry Processing
• 3D Deep Learning for Geometric Analysis and Understanding
• Discrete Differential Geometry and Variational Methods

Each webpage provides representative publications, with PDF or open-access links where available. Further details on research impact, teaching, and service can be found on the following pages:

Google Scholar | Scopus | Representative Works | Recognition: SMA Fellow (2024) | Teaching | Academic Roles and Service

Selected Publications (Since 2006)

Highlights: ACM TOG/SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia (22), IEEE TVCG (35), IEEE TPAMI/IJCV (8), IEEE TCSVT (8), IEEE TIP (3), CAD (30), CAGD (5), CGF (5), CVMJ (5), TVCJ (4), AAAI (10), CVPR/ICCV/ECCV (18), NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML (8), ACM MM (4), ACM CHI (3), and ACM I3D (6).

Monograph

• M. Jin, X. Gu, Y. He and Y. Wang. Conformal Geometry: Computational Algorithms and Engineering Applications, Springer, 2018.

Journal papers

• H. Niu, J. Deng, F. Hou, W. Wang, and Y. He. SharpNet: Enhancing MLPs to Represent Functions with Controlled Non-differentiability, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '26), 2026.
• Q. Bao, X. Chen, J. Yin, F. Hou, W. Wang, H. Qin, and Y. He. Dual Contouring over Expanded Cubes (DCx) for Zero-Level Set Extraction from Neural Unsigned Distance Functions, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '26), 2026.
• P. Wang, S. Chen, D. Yan, Y. He, S. Xin, C. Tu, and W. Wang. Structural MAT: Clean and Scalable Medial Axis Simplification via Explicit Surface Correspondence, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '26), 2026.
• J. Kong, C. Zong, J. Luo, S. Xin, F. Hou, H. Jiang, C. Qian, and Y. He. Quasi-Medial Distance Field (Q-MDF): A Robust Method for Approximating and Discretizing Neural Medial Axes, ACM Transactions on Graphics, accepted, 2026. (to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2026)
• Z. Liu, Z. Huang, M. Pan, and Y. He. Deterministic Point Cloud Diffusion for Denoising, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 1822-1834, 2026.
• P. Du, X. Wang, Z. Wu, X. Ru, X. Granier, and Y. He. LaPDA: Latent-space Point Cloud Denoising with Adaptivity, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 1525-1539, 2026.
• Y. Zhao, Q. Zhang, J. Hou, J. Xia, W. Wang, and Y. He. FlexPara: Flexible Neural Surface Parameterization, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp.2772-2789, 2026.
• H. Xiao, W. Kang, Y. Guo, H. Liu, and Y. He. Enhanced Geometry and Semantics for Camera-based 3D Semantic Scene Completion, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 35, pp. 1-13, 2026.
• B. Fei, Y. Li, W. Yang, L. Ma, and Y. He. Towards Unified Representation of Multi-Modal Pre-training for 3D Processing, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 2216-2229, 2026.
• B. Fei, J. Wang, L. Bai, K. Liu, X. Xu, W. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. He, D. Lin, Z. Lyu, and B. Dai. GetMesh: A Controllable Model for High-Quality Mesh Generation and Manipulation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, accepted, 2025.
• Y. Feng, H. Dai, G. Wei, L. Ma, P. Wang, Y. Zhou, and Y. He. D-FRAME: Direction-Field-Based Wireframe Extraction for Complex CAD Models, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 12, pp. 10595-10608, 2025.
• Z. Li, F. Hou, W. Wang, X. Lu, and Y. He. A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Global Orientation of Non-Watertight Scene-Level Point Clouds with 0-1 Integer Optimization, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '25), Vol. 44, No. 4, Article No. 48, 2025.
• H. Xiao, W. Kang, H. Liu, Y. Li, and Y. He. Semantic Scene Completion via Semantic-aware Guidance and Interactive Refinement Transformer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 4212-4225, 2025.
• W. Liu, J. Li, X. Chen, F. Hou, S. Xin, X. Wang, Z. Wu, C. Qian, and Y. He. Diffusing Winding Gradients (DWG): A Parallel and Scalable Method for 3D Reconstruction from Unoriented Point Clouds, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 44, No. 2, Article No. 19, 2025 (presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2025).
• X. Chen, F. Yu, F. Hou, W. Wang, Z. Zhang, and Y. He. DCUDF2: Improving Efficiency and Accuracy in Extracting Zero Level Sets from Unsigned Distance Fields, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 9052-9065, 2025.
• K. Yu, Y. Wang, P. Song, X. Meng, Y. He, and J. Chen. Weighted Squared Volume Minimization (WSVM) for Generating Uniform Tetrahedral Meshes, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 8969-8980, 2025.
• P. Qiu, R. Chen, P. Song, and Y. He. Modeling Wireframe Meshes with Discrete Equivalence Classes, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 7998-8011, 2025.
• Q. Sun, C. Fang, S. Liu, Y. Sun, Y. Shang, and Y. He. PolyGraph: A Graph-based Method for Floorplan Reconstruction from 3D Scans, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 7350-7362, 2025.
• J. Wang, X. Lu, M. Wang, F. Hou, and Y. He. Learning Implicit Fields for Point Cloud Filtering, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 5408-5420, 2025.
• L. Ma, Y. He, J. Zheng, Y. Zhou, S. Xin, C. Zhang, and W. Wang. Computing Smooth and Integrable Cross Fields via Iterative Singularity Adjustment, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 4850-4867, 2025.
• B. Fei, J. Xu, R. Zhang, Q. Zhou, W. Yang, and Y. He. 3D Gaussian Splatting as New Era: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 4429-4449, 2025.
• G. Wei, L. Ma, Y. Zhou, C. Wang, J. Zheng, and Y. He. Design and Optimization of Self-Supporting Surfaces with Arch Beams, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 4003-4017, 2025.
• B. Fei, T. Luo, W. Yang, L. Liu, R. Zhang, and Y. He. Curriculumformer: Taming Curriculum Pre-Training for Enhanced 3D Point Cloud Understanding, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 7316-7330, 2025.
• K. Yu, B. Wang, X. Chen, Y. He and J. Chen. Minimal Surface-guided Higher-order Mesh Generation for CAD Models, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 178, 103810, 2025.
• J. Wang, Z. Lyu, B. Fei, J. Yao, Y. Zhang, B. Dai, D. Lin, Y. He, and Y. Wang. SLIDE: A Unified Mesh and Texture Generation Framework with Enhanced Geometric Control and Multi-View Consistency, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 133, pp. 3105-3128, 2025.
• H. Xiao, Y. He, H. Liu, W. Kang, and Y. Li. Point Cloud Completion via Self-Projected View Augmentation and Implicit Field Constraint, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 11564-11578, 2024.
• Z. Liu, S. Zhan, Y. Zhao, Y. Liu, R. Chen, and Y. He. PCDNF: Revisiting Learning-based Point Cloud Denoising via Joint Normal Filtering, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 5419-5436, 2024.
• J. Hu, S. Wang, Y. He, Z. Luo, N. Lei, and L. Liu. A Parametric Design Method for Engraving Patterns on Thin Shells, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 3719-3730, 2024.
• J. Hu, Y. He, B. Xu, S. Wang, N. Lei, Z. Luo. IF-TONIR: Iteration-free Topology Optimization based on Implicit Neural Representations, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 167, 103639, 2024.
• F. Hou, X. Chen, W. Wang, H. Qin and Y. He. Robust Zero Level-Set Extraction from Unsigned Distance Fields Based on Double Covering, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '23), Vol. 42, No. 12, Article No. 247, 2023.
• R. Chen, P. Qiu, P. Song, B. Deng, Z. Wang, and Y. He. Masonry Shell Structures with Discrete Equivalence Classes, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '23), Vol. 42, No. 4, Article No. 115, 2023.
• Y. Qian, J. Hou, Q. Zhang, Y. Zeng, S. Kwong, and Y. He. Task-Oriented Compact Representation of 3D Point Clouds via a Matrix Optimization-Driven Network, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 33, No. 11, pp. 6981-6995, 2023.
• Q. Zhang, J. Hou, Y. Qian, Y. Zeng, J. Zhang, and Y. He. Flattening-Net: Deep Regular 2D Representation for 3D Point Cloud Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 9726-9742, 2023.
• A. Mao, Z. Du, J. Hou, Y. Duan, Y.-J. Liu, and Y. He. PU-Flow: A Point Cloud Upsampling Network with Normalizing Flows, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 4964-4977, 2023.
• A. Mao, C. Dai, Q. Liu, J. Yang, L. Gao, Y. He, and Y.-J. Liu. STD-Net: Structure-Preserving and Topology-Adaptive Deformation Network for Single-View 3D Reconstruction, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 1785-1798, 2023.
• A. Mao, W. Dong, C. Xie, H. Wang, Y.-J. Liu, G. Li, and Y. He. Yarn-Level Simulation of Hygroscopicity of Woven Textiles, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 5250-5264, 2023.
• N. Yuan, P. Wang, W. Meng, S. Chen, J. Xu, S. Xin, Y. He, and W. Wang. A Variational Framework for Curve Shortening in Various Geometric Domains, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1951-1963, 2023.
• Q. Zhang, J. Hou, Y. Qian, A.B. Chan, J. Zhang, and Y. He. ReGeoNet: Learning Regular Representations for Large-scale 3D Point Clouds, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 130, No. 12, pp. 3100-3122, 2022.
• F. Hou, C. Wang, W. Wang, H. Qin, C. Qian, and Y. He. Iterative Poisson Surface Reconstruction (iPSR) for Unoriented Points, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '22), Vol. 41, No. 4, Article No. 128, 2022.
• Y. Adikusuma, J. Du, Z. Fang, and Y. He. An Accuracy Controllable and Memory Efficient Method for Computing High-Quality Geodesic Distances on Triangle Meshes, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 150, 103333, 2022.
• Q. Xia, J. Zhang, Z. Fang, J. Li, M. Zhang, B. Deng, and Y. He. GeodesicEmbedding (GE): A High-Dimensional Embedding Approach for Fast Geodesic Distance Queries, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 12, pp. 4930-4939, 2022.
• W. Meng, S. Xin, C. Tu, S. Chen, Y. He, and W. Wang. Geodesic Tracks: Computing Discrete Geodesics with Track-based Steiner Point Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 12, pp. 4887-4901, 2022.
• L. Ma, S. Yao, J. Zheng, Y. Liu, Y. Zhou, S. Xin, and Y. He. Constructing Self-supporting Surfaces with Planar Quadrilateral Elements, Computational Visual Media, Vol. 8, pp. 571-583, 2022.
• X. Lu, S. Schaefer, J. Luo, L. Ma, and Y. He. Low Rank Matrix Approximation for 3D Geometry Filtering, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1835-1847, 2022.
• J. Lin, P. Xiao, Y. Fu, Y. Shi, H. Wang, S. Guo, Y. He, and T.-Y. Lee. C³ Assignment: Camera Cubemap Color Assignment for Creative Interior Design, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 2895-2908, 2022.
• Y. Qian, J. Hou, S. Kwong, and Y. He. Deep Magnification-Flexible Upsampling over 3D Point Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 30, pp. 8354-8367, 2021.
• J. Tao, J. Zhang, B. Deng, Z. Fang, Y. Peng, and Y. He. Parallel and Scalable Heat Methods for Geodesic Distance Computation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 579-594, 2021.
• D. Zhang, X. Lu, H. Qin, and Y. He. Pointfilter: Point Cloud Filtering via Encoder-Decoder Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 2015-2077, 2021.
• A. Mao, H. Zhang, Z. Xie, M. Yu, Y.-J. Liu, and Y. He. Automatic Sitting Pose Generation for Ergonomic Ratings of Chairs, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 1890-1903, 2021.
• J. Du, Y. He, Z. Fang, W. Meng, and S.-Q. Xin. On the Vertex-oriented Triangle Propagation (VTP) Algorithm: Parallelization and Approximation, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 130, 102943, 2021.
• C. Gu, X. Lu, Y. He, and C. Zhang. Blur Removal via Blurred-Noisy Image Pair, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 30, pp. 345-359, 2021.
• Y. Adikusuma, Z. Fang, and Y. He. Fast Construction of Discrete Geodesic Graphs, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 39, No. 2, Article No. 14, 2020 (presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '20).
• F. Hou, Q. Sun, Z. Fang, Y.-J. Liu, S.-M. Hu, H. Qin, and Y. He. Poisson Vector Graphics (PVG), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 1361-1371, 2020.
• L. Ma, Y. He, Q. Sun, Y. Zhou, C. Zhang and W. Wang. Constructing 3D Self-supporting Surfaces with Isotropic Stresses Using 4D Minimal Hypersurfaces of Revolution, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 38, No. 5, Article No. 144, 2019 (presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '20).
• M. Yu, Z. Ye, Y.-J. Liu, Y. He, and C.C.L. Wang. LineUp: Computing Chain-based Physical Transformation, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 38, No. 1, Article No. 11, 2019 (presented at ACM SIGGRAPH '19).
• X. Ying, C. Huang, X. Fu, Y. He, R. Yu, J. Wang, and M. Yu. Parallelizing Discrete Geodesic Algorithms with Perfect Efficiency, Computer-Aded Design, Vol. 115, pp. 161-171, 2019.
• Q. Fu, Y. He, F. Hou, J. Zhang, A. Zeng, and Y.-J. Liu. Vectorization based Color Transfer for Portrait Images, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 115, pp. 111-121, 2019.
• R. Yi, Y.-J. Liu, and Y. He. Delaunay Mesh Simplification with Differential Evolution, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '18), Vol. 37, No. 6, Article No. 263, 2018.
• Q. Fu, F. Hou, Q. Sun, Y.-J. Liu, W. Wang, H. Qin, and Y. He Decorating 3D Surfaces Using Poisson Vector Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 102, pp. 1-11, 2018.
• R. Yi, C. Wu, Y.-J. Liu, Y. He, and C.C.L. Wang. Delta DLP 3D Printing of Large Model, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 1193-1204, 2018.
• Y.-J. Liu, M.-J. Yu, B.-J. Li, and Y. He. Intrinsic Manifold SLIC: A Simple and Efficient Method for Computing Content-Sensitive Superpixels, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 653-666, 2018.
• B. Liu, S. Chen, S.-Q. Xin, Y. He, and Z. Liu. An Optimization Driven Approach for Computing Geodesic Paths on Triangle Meshes, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 90, pp. 105-112, 2017.
• X. Wang, Z. Fang, J. Wu, S.-Q. Xin, and Y. He. Discrete Geodesic Graph (DGG) for Computing Geodesic Distances on Polyhedral Surfaces, Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 52, pp. 262-284, 2017.
• Y.-J. Liu, D. Fan, C. Xu, Y. He. Constructing Intrinsic Delaunay Triangulations from the Dual of Geodesic Voronoi Diagrams, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 2, Article No. 15, 2017.
• F. Li, J. Luo, G. Shi, and Y. He. ART: Adaptive fRequency-Temporal co-existing of ZigBee and WiFi, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 662-674, 2017.
• F. Hou, Y. He, H. Qin, and A. Hao. Knot Optimization for Biharmonic B-splines on Manifold Triangle Meshes, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 2082-2095, 2017.
• J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and Y. He. SLRMA: Sparse Low-Rank Matrix Approximation for Data Compression, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp.1043-1054, 2017.
• Y.-J. Liu, C. Xu, R. Yi, D. Fan, Y. He. Manifold Differential Evolution (MDE): A Global Optimization Method for Geodesic Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations on Meshes, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '16), Vol. 35, No. 6, Article No. 243, 2016.
• J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and Y. He. Low-Latency Compression of Mocap Data Using Learned Spatial Decorrelation Transform, Computer-Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 43, pp. 211-225, 2016.
• P. Cheng, C. Miao, Y.-J. Liu, C. Tu, and Y. He. Solving the Initial Value Problem of Discrete Geodesics. Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 70, pp. 144-152, 2016.
• Y.-J. Liu, C. Xu, D. Fan, and Y. He. Efficient Construction and Simplification of Delaunay Meshes, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '15), Vol. 34, No. 6, Article No. 174, 2015.
• J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and Y. He. Human Motion Capture Tailored Transform Coding, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 848-859, 2015.
• C. Xu, T.Y. Wang, Y.-J. Liu, L. Liu, and Y. He. Fast Wavefront Propagation (FWP) for Computing Exact Geodesic Distances on Meshes, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 822-834, 2015.
• X. Wang, X. Ying, Y.-J. Liu, S.-Q. Xin, W. Wang, X. Gu, W. Mueller-Wittig, and Y. He. Intrinsic Computation of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) on Meshes, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 58, pp. 51-61, 2015.
• F. Li, J. Luo, W. Wang, and Y. He. Autonomous Deployment for Load Balancing k-Surface Coverage in Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 279-293, 2015.
• J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and Y. He. Compressing 3D Human Motions via Keyframe based Geometry Videos (KGVs), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 51-62, 2015.
• C.-X. Xu, Y.-J. Liu, Q. Sun, J. Li, and Y. He. Polyline-sourced Geodesic Voronoi Diagrams on Triangle Meshes, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 161-170, 2014.
• J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, M. Zhang, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, and Y. He. A Highly Efficient Compression Framework for Time-Varying 3D Facial Expressions, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 1541-1553, 2014.
• F. Li, C. Zhang, J. Luo, S.-Q. Xin, and Y. He. LBDP: Localized Boundary Detection and Parameterization for 3D sensor networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 567-579, 2014.
• D. Wang, S.C.H. Hoi, Y. He, J. Zhu, T. Mei, and J. Luo. Retrieval-based Face Annotation by Weak Label Regularized Local Coordinate Coding, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 550-563, 2014.
• D. Wang, S.C.H. Hoi, Y. He, and J. Zhu. Mining Weakly-labeled Web Facial Images for Search-based Face Annotation, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 166-179, 2014.
• X. Ying, S.-Q. Xin, and Y. He. Parallel Chen-Han (PCH) Algorithm for Discrete Geodesics, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 33, No. 1, Article No. 9, 2014 (presented at ACM SIGGRAPH '14).
• X. Ying, X. Wang, and Y. He. Saddle Vertex Graph (SVG): A Novel Solution to the Discrete Geodesic Problem, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013), Vol. 32, No. 6, Article No. 170, 2013.
• X. Ying, S.-Q. Xin, Q. Sun, and Y. He. An Intrinsic Algorithm for Parallel Poisson Disk Sampling on Arbitrary Surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 1425-1437, 2013.
• J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, Y. He, M. Zhang, N. Magnenat-Thalmann. Rate-distortion Model based Bit Allocation for 3-D Facial Compression Using Geometry Video, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1537-1541, 2013.
• I. Garcia, J. Xia, Y. He, S.-Q. Xin, and G. Patow. Interactive Applications for Sketch-based Editable Polycube-map, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 1158-1171, 2013.
• J. Lin, T. Igarashi, J. Mitani, and Y. He. A Sketching Interface for Sitting Pose Design in the Virtual Environment, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 11, pp. 1979-1991, 2012.
• S.-Q. Xin, Y. He, and C.-W. Fu. Efficiently Computing Exact Geodesic Loops within Finite Steps, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 879-889, 2012.
• J. Xia, D. Quynh, Y. He, X. Chen, and S.C.H. Hoi. Modeling and Compressing 3D Facial Expressions Using Geometry Videos, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 77-90, 2012.
• S.-Q. Xin, C.-F. Lai, C.-W. Fu, T.-T. Wong, Y. He, and D. Cohen-Or. Making Burr Puzzles from 3D Models, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '11), Vol. 30, No. 3, Article No. 97, 2011.
• L. Zhang, Y. He, J. Xia, X. Xie, and W. Chen. Real-time Shape Illustration Using Laplacian Lines, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 993-1006, 2011.
• S.-Q. Xin, X. Ying, and Y. He. Efficiently Computing Geodesic Offsets on Triangle Meshes by the Extended Xin-Wang Algorithm, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 1468-1476, 2011.
• C.-W. Fu, C.-F. Lai, Y. He, D. Cohen-Or. K-set Tileable Surfaces, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '10), Vol. 29, No. 4, Article No. 44, 2010.
• Y.-K. Lai, M. Jin, X. Xie, Y. He, J. Palacios, E. Zhang, S.-M. Hu, and X. Gu. Metric-driven RoSy Field Design and Remeshing, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 95-108, 2010.
• L. Zhang, Y. He, H.-S. Seah. Real-time Computation of Photic Extremum Lines (PELs), The Visual Computer, Vol. 26, pp. 399-407, 2010.
• X. Li, X. Guo, H. Wang, Y. He, X. Gu, and H. Qin. Meshless Harmonic Volumetric Mapping Using Fundamental Solution Methods, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 409-422, 2009.
• Y. He, H. Wang, C.-W. Fu, and H. Qin. A Divide-and-conquer Approach for Automatic Polycube Map Construction, Computer & Graphics, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 369-380, 2009.
• H. Wang, Y. He, X. Li, X. Gu, and H. Qin. Polycube Splines, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 40, No. 6,  pp.721-733, 2008.
• X. Gu, Y. He, M. Jin, F. Luo, H. Qin, and S.-T. Yau. Manifold Splines with Single Extraordinary Point, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 676-690, 2008.
• X. Xie, Y. He, F. Tian, H.-S. Seah, X. Gu and H. Qin. An Effective Illustrative Visualization Framework based on Photic Extremum Lines (PELs), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1328-1335, 2007.
• X. Gu, Y. He, and H. Qin. Manifold Splines, Graphical Models, Vol. 68, No.3, pp. 237-254, 2006.

Referred conference papers

• X. Chen, C. Long, F. Hou, D. Zhang, S. Jiao, W. Wang, and Y. He. Focusing: View-Consistent Sparse Voxels for Efficient 3D VAE, ICML, 2026.
• Y. Zhao, J. Hou, Q. Zhang, J. Qin, and Y. He. From Extrinsic to Intrinsic: Geodesic-Guided Representation Learning for 3D Geometric Data, ICML, 2026.
• Z. Li, Z. Liu, F. Hou, X. Chen, W. Wang, and Y. He. MegaNorm: Local Patches Embedding for Efficient and Robust Point Normal Orientation at Super-Large Scale, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2026.
• D. Jin and Y. He. MonoCloth: Reconstruction and Animation of Cloth-Decoupled Human Avatars from Monocular Videos, AAAI, 2026.
• Y. Adikusuma, Q. Huang, and Y. He. LiteGE: Lightweight Geodesic Embedding for Efficient Geodesics Computation and Non-Isometric Shape Correspondence, AAAI, 2026.
• C. Guo, Z. Liu, and Y. He. Guiding Point Cloud Denoising with Learned Structural Priors, AAAI, 2026.
• J. Hu, H. Wang, B. Xu, N. Ding, Z. Lu, N. Lei, and Y. He. AquaSplatting: A Hybrid 3D Representation for Robust Underwater Scene Reconstruction via Dual-Branch Rendering, AAAI, 2026.
• X. Chen, F. Hou, W. Wang, H. Qin, and Y. He. MIND: Material Interface Generation from UDFs for Non-Manifold Surface Reconstruction, NeurIPS, 2025.
• J. Deng, H. Niu, J. Li, F. Hou, and Y. He. UNIS: A Unified Framework for Achieving Unbiased Neural Implicit Surfaces in Volume Rendering, ICCV, 2025.
• Q. Zhou, Y. Gong, W. Yang, J. Li, Y. Luo, B. Xu, S. Li, B. Fei, and Y. He. MGSR: 2D/3D Mutual-Boosted Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Surface Reconstruction under Various Light Conditions, ICCV, 2025.
• J. Hu, Y. Li, F. Hou, J. Hou, Z. Zhang, S. Wang, N. Lei, and Y. He. A Lightweight UDF Learning Framework for 3D Reconstruction based on Local Shape Functions, CVPR, 2025.
• D. Jin, J. Hu, B. Xu, Y. Dai, C. Qian, and Y. He. SFDM: Robust Decomposition of Geometry and Reflectance for Realistic Face Rendering from Sparse-View Images, CVPR, 2025.
• Y. Dai, Q. Wang, J. Zhu, D. Xi, Y. Huo, C. Qian, and Y. He. Inverse Rendering with Multi-Bounce Path Tracing and Reservoir Sampling, ICLR, 2025.
• C. Xu, F. Hou, W. Wang, H. Qin, Z. Zhang, and Y. He. Details Enhancement in Unsigned Distance Field Learning for High-Fidelity 3D Surface Reconstruction, AAAI, 2025.
• C. Guo, W. Zhou, Z. Liu, and Y. He. You Should Learn to Stop Denoising on Point Clouds in Advance, AAAI, 2025.
• J. Kong, X. Song, H. Shuo, B. Xu, J. Luo, and Y. He. Do Not DeepFake Me: Privacy-Preserving Neural 3D Head Reconstruction Without Sensitive Images, AAAI, 2025.
• A. Mao, Y. Tang, J. Huang, and Y. He. DMF-Net: Image-Guided Point Cloud Completion with Dual-Channel Modality Fusion and Shape-Aware Upsampling Transformer, AAAI, 2025.
• Q. Zhou, W. Yang, B. Fei, J. Xu, R. Zhang, K. Liu, Y. Luo, Y. He. 3DMambaIPF: A State Space Model for Iterative Point Cloud Filtering via Differentiable Rendering, AAAI, 2025.
• H. Zhang, J. Deng, X. Chen, F. Hou, W. Wang, H. Qin, C. Qian, and Y. He. From Transparent to Opaque: Rethinking Neural Implicit Surfaces with α-NeuS, NeurIPS, 2024.
• Q. Zhang, J. Hou, W. Wang, and Y. He. Flatten Anything: Unsupervised Neural Surface Parameterization, NeurIPS, 2024.
• B. Xu, J. Hu, F. Hou, K.-Y. Lin, W. Wu, C. Qian, and Y. He. Parameterization-Driven Neural Surface Reconstruction for Object-Oriented Editing in Neural Rendering, ECCV, 2024.
• M. Zhang, D. Jin, C. Gu, F. Hong, Z. Cai, J. Huang, C. Zhang, X. Guo, L. Yang, Y. He, and Z. Liu. Large Motion Model for Unified Multi-Modal Motion Generation, ECCV, 2024.
• T. Zheng, J. Hu, R. Tan, Y. Zhang, Y. He, and J. Luo. π-Jack: Physical-World Adversarial Attack on Monocular Depth Estimation with Perspective Hijacking, USENIX Security, 2024.
• W. Liu, X. Wang, H. Zhao, X. Xue, Z. Wu, X. Lu, and Y. He. Consistent Point Orientation for Manifold Surfaces via Boundary Integration, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2024.
• A. Mao, B. Yan, Z. Ma, and Y. He. Denoising Point Clouds in Latent Space via Graph Convolution and Invertible Neural Network, CVPR, 2024.
• J. Deng, F. Hou, X. Chen, W. Wang, and Y. He. A Novel Two-Stage UDF Learning Method for Robust Non-watertight Model Reconstruction from Multi-View Images, CVPR, 2024.
• Y. Hu, S. Ye, W. Zhao, M. Lin, Y. He, Y.-H. Wen, Y. He, and Y.-J. Liu. O^2-Recon: Completing 3D Reconstruction of Occluded Objects in the Scene with a Pre-Trained 2D Diffusion Model, AAAI, 2024.
• Q. Zhang, J. Hou, Y. Adikusuma, W. Wang, and Y. He. NeuroGF: A Neural Representation for Fast Geodesic Distance and Path Queries, NeurIPS, 2023.
• B. Xu, J. Zhang, K.-Y. Lin, C. Qian, and Y. He. Deformable Model Driven Neural Rendering for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Human Heads Under Low-View Settings, ICCV, 2023.
• S. Ren, J. Hou, X. Chen, Y. He, and W. Wang. GeoUDF: Surface Reconstruction from 3D Point Clouds via Geometry-Guided Distance Representation, ICCV, 2023.
• G. Song, Q. Sun, L. Zhang, R. Su, J. Shi, and Y. He. OPE-SR: Orthogonal Position Encoding for Designing a Parameter-Free Upsampling Module in Arbitrary-scale Image Super-Resolution, CVPR, 2023.
• D.d.S. Edirimuni, X. Lu, Z. Shao, G. Li, A. Robles-Kelly, and Y. He. IterativePFN: True Iterative Point Cloud Filtering, CVPR, 2023.
• S. Ye, Y.-H. Wen, Y. Sun, Y. He, Z. Zhang, Y. Wang, W. He, and Y.-J. Liu. Audio-Driven Stylized Gesture Generation with Flow-Based Model, ECCV, 2022.
• Y. Zeng, Y. Qian, Q. Zhang, J. Hou, Y. Yuan, and Y. He. IDEA-Net: Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Interpolation via Deep Embedding Alignment, CVPR, 2022.
• Y. Zeng, Y. Qian, Z. Zhu, J. Hou, H. Yuan, and Y. He. CorrNet3D: Unsupervised End-to-End Learning of Dense Correspondence for 3D Point Clouds, CVPR, 2021.
• Y. Qian, J. Hou, S. Kwong, and Y. He. PUGeo-Net: A Geometry-Centric Network for 3D Point Cloud Upsampling, ECCV, 2020.
• Z. Ye, R. Yi, M. Yu, Y.-J. Liu, and Y. He. Fast Computation of Content-Sensitive Superpixels and Supervoxels using q-Distances, ICCV, 2019.
• C. Wu, R. Yi, Y.-J. Liu, Y. He, C.C.L. Wang. Delta DLP 3D Printing with Large Size, IEEE IROS, 2016.
• Y.-J. Liu, C.-C. Yu, M.-J. Yu, and Y. He. Manifold SLIC: A Fast Method to Compute Structure-Sensitive Superpixels, CVPR, 2016.
• H. Liang, J. Wang, Q. Sun, Y.-J. Liu, J. Yuan, J. Luo, and Y. He. Barehanded Music: Real-Time Hand Interaction for Virtual Piano, ACM I3D, 2016.
• C. Zhang, F. Li, J. Luo, and Y. He. iLocScan: Harnessing Multipath for Simultaneous Indoor Source Localization and Space Scanning, ACM SenSys, 2014.
• L. Zhang, Q. Sun, and Y. He. Splatting Lines: An Efficient Method for Illustrating 3D Surfaces and Volumes, ACM I3D, 2014.
• F. Li, J. Luo, G. Shi, and Y. He. FAVOR: Frequency Allocation for Versatile Occupancy of spectRum in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM MobiHoc, 2013.
• Q. Sun, J. Lin, C-W. Fu, S. Kaijima, and Y. He. A Multi-touch Interface for Fast Architectural Sketching and Massing, ACM CHI, 2013.
• Q. Sun, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, X. Ying, S.-Q. Xin, J. Xia and Y. He. Texture Brush: An Interactive Surface Texturing Interface, ACM I3D, 2013.
• M. Zhang, F. Li, Y. He, L. Shi, D. Wang, L.M. Lui. Registration of Brainstem Surface in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis using Discrete Ricci Flow, MICCAI, 2012.
• F. Li, J. Luo, S.-Q. Xin, W. Wang, and Y. He. LAACAD: Load bAlancing k-Area Coverage through Autonomous Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks, ICDCS, 2012.
• S.-Q. Xin, X. Ying, and Y. He. Constant Time All-Pairs Geodesic Distance Query on Triangle Meshes, ACM I3D, 2012.
• D. Quynh, Y. He, X. Chen, J. Xia, Q. Sun, and C.H. Hoi. Modeling 3D Articulated Motions with Conformal Geometry Videos (CGVs), ACM Multimedia, 2011.
• D. Wang, C.H. Hoi, Y. He and J. Zhu. Retrieval-based Face Annotation by Weak Label Regularized Local Coordinate Coding, ACM Multimedia, 2011.
• S.-Q. Xin, Y. He, C.-W. Fu, L. Shi, D. Wang, W.C.W. Chu, J.C.K. Cheng, X. Gu, L.M. Lui, Euclidean Geodesic Loops on High-Genus Surfaces Applied to the Morphometry of Vestibular Systems, MICCAI, 2011.
• F. Li, J. Luo, C. Zhang, S.-Q. Xin, and Y. He. UNFOLD: UNiform Fast On-Line boundary Detection for dynamic 3D wireless sensor networks, ACM MobiHoc, 2011.
• Q. Sun, C.-W. Fu, and Y. He. An Interactive Multi-Touch Sketching Interface for Diffusion Curves, ACM CHI, 2011.
• J. Xia, I. Garcia, Y. He, S.-Q. Xin, and G. Patow. Editable Polycube Mapping for GPU-based Subdivision Surfaces, ACM I3D, 2011.
• J. Xia, Y. He, D. Quynh, X. Chen, and C.H. Hoi. Modeling 3D Facial Expressions using Geometry Videos, ACM Multimedia, 2010.
• C.-W. Fu, J. Xia, and Y. He. LayerPaint: A Multi-Layer Interactive 3D Painting Interface, ACM CHI, 2010.
• S. Han, J. Xia, and Y. He. Hexahedral Shell Mesh Construction via Polycube Map, SPM, 2010.
• J. Xia, Y. He, X. Yin, S. Han, and X. Gu. Direct-Product Volume Parameterization using Harmonic Fields, IEEE SMI, 2010.
• L. Zhang, Y. He, X. Xie, and W. Chen. Laplacian Lines for Real Time Shape Illustration, ACM I3D, 2009.
• H. Wang, Y. He, X. Li, X. Gu, and H. Qin. Polycube Splines, SPM, 2007.
• X. Gu, Y. He, M. Jin, F. Luo, H. Qin, and S.-T. Yau. Manifold Splines with Single Extraordinary Point, SPM, 2007.
• X. Li, X. Guo, H. Wang, Y. He, X. Gu, and H. Qin. Harmonic Volumetric Mapping for Solid Modeling Applications, SPM, 2007.

Awards

• Best Paper Award, Computational Visual Media (CVM), 2024
• Best Paper Award (3rd Place), Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP), 2024
• Best Paper Award (1st Place), Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), 2017
• Honorable Mention, Computational Visual Media Journal, Springer, 2016
• Best Paper Award, Computational Visual Media Journal, Springer, 2015
• Best Paper Award (3rd Place), Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), 2014
• Best Paper Award (2nd Place), SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling (SIAM GD/SPM), 2013
• Best Paper Award, ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (SMA), 2004

Professional Services

• Associate Editor, Computer Graphics Forum (2019-2022)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Visual Media (since 2017)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (since 2022)
• Guest Editor, Computers & Graphics (2025)
• Guest Editor, Graphical Models (2014, 2020)
• Guest Editor, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (2026)
• General Co-Chair, the 4^th International Geometry Summit (2027)
• General Co-Chair, Shape Modeling International (2022)
• General Co-Chair, Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (2022, 2023)
• General Co-Chair, Geometric Modeling and Processing (2021)
• Program Co-Chair, Pacific Graphics (2026)
• Program Co-Chair, CAD/Graphics (2025)
• Program Co-Chair, Computational Visual Media (2020)
• Program Co-Chair, Geometric Modeling and Processing (2014)
• Organization Co-Chair, International Conference on Image and Graphics (2026)
• Executive Committee Member, Solid Modeling Association (2019-2022)
• Executive Committee Member, Asia Graphics Association (2017-2021)