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Alexander Mai
Alexander Mai
PhD Student at UCSD advised by Falko Kuester. Studying 3D graphics + vision, with a focus on NeRFs.
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Currently a radiance field head but open to studying other topics, like RL.
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Radiance Meshes for Volumetric Reconstruction
Alexander Mai ,
Trevor Hedstrom ,
Janne Kontkannen ,
George Kopanas ,
Falko Kuester ,
Jonathan T. Barron ,
Arxiv , 2025  
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arXiv
Optimizing tetrahedral meshes for NeRF!
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EVER: Exact Volumetric Ellipsoid Rendering for Real-time View Synthesis
Alexander Mai ,
Peter Hedman ,
George Kopanas ,
Dor Verbin ,
David Futschik ,
Qiangeng Xu ,
Falko Kuester ,
Jonathan T. Barron ,
Yinda Zhang
ICCV , 2025   (Oral Presentation)
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arXiv
Raytracing constant-density ellipsoids yields more accurate and flexible radiance fields than splatting Gaussians, and still runs in real-time.
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NMF: Neural Microfacet Fields for Inverse Rendering
Alexander Mai ,
Dor Verbin ,
Falko Kuester ,
Sara Fridovich-Keil ,
ICCV , 2023  
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arXiv
A method for recovering materials, geometry (volumetric density), and environmental illumination from a collection of images of a scene.
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