Chenglei Wu

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Chenglei Wu is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. According to data from OpenAlex, Chenglei Wu has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 17 papers in Computational Mechanics and 15 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. Recurrent topics in Chenglei Wu's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (18 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (17 papers) and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (15 papers). Chenglei Wu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (18 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (17 papers) and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (15 papers). Chenglei Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Chenglei Wu's co-authors include Christian Theobalt, Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner, Marc Stamminger, Pablo Garrido, Yaser Sheikh, Shahram Izadi, Bennett Wilburn, Levi Valgaerts and Hans‐Peter Seidel and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Chenglei Wu

29 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Real-time non-rigid reconstruction using an RGB-D camera 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Real-time non-rigid reconstruction using an RGB-D camera
    2014 262 citations Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chenglei Wu United States 21 1.3k 645 442 218 158 30 1.5k
Forrester Cole United States 21 1.2k 1.0× 712 1.1× 707 1.6× 113 0.5× 141 0.9× 39 1.7k
Thorsten Thormählen Germany 18 1.1k 0.8× 467 0.7× 302 0.7× 191 0.9× 153 1.0× 44 1.3k
Thibaut Weise Switzerland 13 1.3k 1.0× 537 0.8× 188 0.4× 162 0.7× 120 0.8× 19 1.7k
Youyi Zheng China 22 991 0.8× 807 1.3× 586 1.3× 113 0.5× 193 1.2× 60 1.5k
Tiberiu Popa Canada 18 831 0.6× 493 0.8× 383 0.9× 82 0.4× 53 0.3× 45 1.2k
Graham Fyffe United States 18 1.4k 1.1× 432 0.7× 731 1.7× 71 0.3× 70 0.4× 41 1.6k
Kiran Varanasi Germany 12 807 0.6× 443 0.7× 161 0.4× 163 0.7× 81 0.5× 24 948
Brian Amberg Switzerland 8 1.3k 1.0× 594 0.9× 130 0.3× 128 0.6× 48 0.3× 10 1.5k
Wan‐Chun Ma United States 16 692 0.5× 378 0.6× 344 0.8× 31 0.1× 31 0.2× 36 837
Mingsong Dou United States 13 713 0.6× 331 0.5× 212 0.5× 211 1.0× 84 0.5× 17 815

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chenglei Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chenglei Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chenglei Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chenglei Wu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chenglei Wu. Chenglei Wu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wood, Erroll, et al.. (2024). Learning to Stabilize Faces. Computer Graphics Forum. 43(2). 2 indexed citations
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Saito, Shunsuke, et al.. (2023). CT2Hair: High-Fidelity 3D Hair Modeling using Computed Tomography. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(4). 1–13. 13 indexed citations
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Xiang, Donglai, Timur Bagautdinov, Javier M. Romero, et al.. (2022). Dressing Avatars. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 41(6). 1–15. 28 indexed citations
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Bagautdinov, Timur, Chenglei Wu, Tomas Simon, et al.. (2021). Driving-signal aware full-body avatars. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 40(4). 1–17. 3 indexed citations
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Xiang, Donglai, Timur Bagautdinov, Weipeng Xu, et al.. (2021). Modeling clothing as a separate layer for an animatable human avatar. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 40(6). 1–15. 34 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yi, Chenglei Wu, Zimo Li, et al.. (2020). Fully Convolutional Mesh Autoencoder using Efficient Spatially Varying Kernels. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 9251–9262. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Breannan, Chenglei Wu, He Wen, et al.. (2020). Constraining dense hand surface tracking with elasticity. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 39(6). 1–14. 45 indexed citations
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Sailer, Irena, Shiming Liu, Thabo Beeler, et al.. (2018). Comparison of user satisfaction and image quality of fixed and mobile camera systems for 3-dimensional image capture of edentulous patients: A pilot clinical study. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 120(4). 520–524. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, Takaaki Shiratori, & Yaser Sheikh. (2018). Deep incremental learning for efficient high-fidelity face tracking. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(6). 1–12. 24 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, et al.. (2018). Learning Patch Reconstructability for Accelerating Multi-view Stereo. 33. 3041–3050. 5 indexed citations
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Bagautdinov, Timur, Chenglei Wu, Jason Saragih, Pascal Fua, & Yaser Sheikh. (2018). Modeling Facial Geometry Using Compositional VAEs. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3877–3886. 65 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, Derek Bradley, Pablo Garrido, et al.. (2016). Model-based teeth reconstruction. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 35(6). 1–13. 50 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, Derek Bradley, Markus Groß, & Thabo Beeler. (2016). An anatomically-constrained local deformation model for monocular face capture. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 35(4). 1–12. 64 indexed citations
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Garrido, Pablo, Michael Zollhöfer, Chenglei Wu, et al.. (2016). Corrective 3D reconstruction of lips from monocular video. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 35(6). 1–11. 28 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner, et al.. (2014). Real-time shading-based refinement for consumer depth cameras. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 33(6). 1–10. 84 indexed citations
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Li, Guannan, Chenglei Wu, Carsten Stoll, et al.. (2013). Capturing Relightable Human Performances under General Uncontrolled Illumination. Computer Graphics Forum. 32(2pt3). 275–284. 28 indexed citations
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Garrido, Pablo, et al.. (2013). Reconstructing detailed dynamic face geometry from monocular video. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 32(6). 1–10. 138 indexed citations
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Valgaerts, Levi, Chenglei Wu, Andrés Bruhn, Hans‐Peter Seidel, & Christian Theobalt. (2012). Lightweight binocular facial performance capture under uncontrolled lighting. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(6). 1–11. 99 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, Bennett Wilburn, Yasuyuki Matsushita, & Christian Theobalt. (2011). High-quality shape from multi-view stereo and shading under general illumination. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 969–976. 97 indexed citations
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Wu, Chenglei, Yebin Liu, Qionghai Dai, & Bennett Wilburn. (2010). Fusing Multiview and Photometric Stereo for 3D Reconstruction under Uncalibrated Illumination. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 17(8). 1082–1095. 55 indexed citations

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