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Menglei Chai
Bio
I am a Research Scientist at
Google AR Perception.
I was a Lead Research Scientist in the
Creative Vision group at
Snap Research.
I got my Ph.D. degree from
the Graphics & Parallel Systems Lab (GAPS),
Zhejiang University in 2017, supervised by Professor
Kun Zhou.
My research interests lie at the intersection between Computer Vision and Computer Graphics,
especially human digitization, image manipulation, 3D acquisition, and physics-based animation.
I am looking for self-motivated interns in CV&CG. Drop me an email if you are interested.
Interests
- Human Digitization
- Image Manipulation
- 3D Reconstruction
- Physics-Based Animation
Education
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PhD in Computer Science, 2017
Zhejiang University
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BSc in Computer Science, 2011
Zhejiang University
Publications
GroomLight: Hybrid Inverse Rendering for Relightable Human Hair Appearance Modeling
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
Yang Zheng, Menglei Chai, Delio Vicini, Yuxiao Zhou, Yinghao Xu, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein, Thabo Beeler
GroomCap: High-Fidelity Prior-Free Hair Capture
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2024
Yuxiao Zhou, Menglei Chai, Daoye Wang, Sebastian Winberg, Erroll Wood, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Markus Gross, Thabo Beeler
MagicMirror: Fast and High-Quality Avatar Generation with a Constrained Search Space
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
Armand Comas, Di Qiu, Menglei Chai, Marcel Buehler, Amit Raj, Ruiqi Gao, Qiangeng Xu, Mark Matthews, Paulo Gotardo, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Thabo Beeler
MVDD: Multi-View Depth Diffusion Models
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
Zhen Wang, Qiangeng Xu, Feitong Tan, Menglei Chai, Shichen Liu, Rohit Pandey, Sean Fanello, Achuta Kadambi, Yinda Zhang
Chat2Layout: Interactive 3D Furniture Layout with a Multimodal LLM
Arxiv 2024
Can Wang, Hongliang Zhong, Menglei Chai, Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
Mesh-Guided Neural Implicit Field Editing
arXiv 2024
Can Wang, Mingming He, Menglei Chai, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
Efficient 3D Articulated Human Generation with Layered Surface Volumes
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2024
Yinghao Xu, Yifan Wang, Alexander W. Bergman, Menglei Chai, Bolei Zhou, Gordon Wetzstein
GroomGen: A High-Quality Generative Hair Model Using Hierarchical Latent Representations
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2023
Yuxiao Zhou, Menglei Chai, Alessandro Pepe, Markus Gross, Thabo Beeler
AvatarCraft: Transforming Text into Neural Human Avatars with Parameterized Shape and Pose Control
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023
Ruixiang Jiang, Can Wang, Jingbo Zhang, Menglei Chai, Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
InfiniCity: Infinite-Scale City Synthesis
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023
Chieh Hubert Lin, Hsin-Ying Lee, Willi Menapace, Menglei Chai, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Sergey Tulyakov
Efficient Learning of Mesh-Based Physical Simulation with Bi-Stride Multi-Scale Graph Neural Network
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023
Yadi Cao, Menglei Chai, Minchen Li, Chenfanfu Jiang
DisCoScene: Spatially Disentangled Generative Radiance Fields for Controllable 3D-aware Scene Synthesis
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Yinghao Xu, Menglei Chai, Zifan Shi, Sida Peng, Ivan Skorokhodov, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Hsin-Ying Lee, Bolei Zhou, Sergey Tulyakov
3DAvatarGAN: Bridging Domains for Personalized Editable Avatars
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Rameen Abdal, Hsin-Ying Lee, Peihao Zhu, Menglei Chai, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Peter Wonka, Sergey Tulyakov
Unsupervised Volumetric Animation
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Aliaksandr Siarohin, Willi Menapace, Ivan Skorokhodov, Kyle Olszewski, Jian Ren, Hsin-Ying Lee, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov
Invertible Neural Skinning
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Yash Kant, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Riza Alp Guler, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov, Igor Gilitschenski
NeRF-Art: Text-Driven Neural Radiance Fields Stylization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2023
Can Wang, Ruixiang Jiang, Menglei Chai, Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
Semantic Probability Distribution Modeling for Diverse Semantic Image Synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2022
Zhentao Tan, Qi Chu, Menglei Chai, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao, Qiankun Liu, Bin Liu, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
Cross-Modal 3D Shape Generation and Manipulation
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022
Zezhou Cheng, Menglei Chai, Jian Ren, Hsin-Ying Lee, Kyle Olszewski, Zeng Huang, Subhransu Maji, Sergey Tulyakov
R2L: Distilling Neural Radiance Field to Neural Light Field for Efficient Novel View Synthesis
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022
Huan Wang, Jian Ren, Zeng Huang, Menglei Chai, Kyle Olszewski, Yun Fu, Sergey Tulyakov
Quantized GAN for Complex Music Generation from Dance Videos
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022
Ye Zhu, Kyle Olszewski, Yu Wu, Panos Achlioptas, Menglei Chai, Yan Yan, Sergey Tulyakov
NeROIC: Neural Rendering of Objects from Online Image Collections
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2022
Zhengfei Kuang, Kyle Olszewski, Menglei Chai, Zeng Huang, Panos Achlioptas, Sergey Tulyakov
CLIP-NeRF: Text-and-Image Driven Manipulation of Neural Radiance Fields
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022
Can Wang, Menglei Chai, Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
Cross-Domain and Disentangled Face Manipulation with 3D Guidance
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2022
Can Wang, Menglei Chai, Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
DisUnknown: Distilling Unknown Factors for Disentanglement Learning
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
Sitao Xiang, Yuming Gu, Pengda Xiang, Menglei Chai, Hao Li, Yajie Zhao, Mingming He
Efficient Semantic Image Synthesis via Class-Adaptive Normalization
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2021
Zhentao Tan, Dongdong Chen, Qi Chu, Menglei Chai, Jing Liao, Mingming He, Lu Yuan, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
Diverse Semantic Image Synthesis via Probability Distribution Modeling
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Zhentao Tan, Menglei Chai, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao, Qi Chu, Bin Liu, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
Flow Guided Transformable Bottleneck Networks for Motion Retargeting
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Oliver Woodford, Kyle Olszewski, Sergey Tulyakov
Motion Representations for Articulated Animation
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Aliaksandr Siarohin, Oliver Woodford, Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov
A Good Image Generator Is What You Need for High-Resolution Video Synthesis
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021
Yu Tian, Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Kyle Olszewski, Xi Peng, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Sergey Tulyakov
Exemplar-Based 3D Portrait Stylization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2021
Fangzhou Han, Shuquan Ye, Mingming He, Menglei Chai, Jing Liao
FaceBlit: Instant Real-Time Example-Based Style Transfer to Facial Videos
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2021
Aneta Texler, Ondrej Texler, Michal Kucera, Menglei Chai, Daniel Sykora
Neural Hair Rendering
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020
Menglei Chai, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov
MichiGAN: Multi-Input-Conditioned Hair Image Generation for Portrait Editing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2020
Zhentao Tan, Menglei Chai, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao, Qi Chu, Lu Yuan, Sergey Tulyakov, Nenghai Yu
Interactive Video Stylization Using Few-Shot Patch-Based Training
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2020
Ondrej Texler, David Futschik, Michal Kucera, Ondrej Jamriska, Sarka Sochorova, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov, Daniel Sykora
Revisiting Image Aesthetic Assessment via Self-Supervised Feature Learning
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020
Kekai Sheng, Weiming Dong, Menglei Chai, Guohui Wang, Peng Zhou, Feiyue Huang, Bao-Gang Hu, Rongrong Ji, Chongyang Ma
Real-Time Hair Simulation with Neural Interpolation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2020
Qing Lyu, Menglei Chai, Xiang Chen, Kun Zhou
Human Motion Transfer from Poses in the Wild
European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW) 2020
Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov, Chen Fang, Xiaohui Shen, Jianchao Yang
Learning to Assess Visual Aesthetics of Food Images
Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2020
Kekai Sheng, Weiming Dong, Haibin Huang, Menglei Chai, Yong Zhang, Chongyang Ma, Bao-Gang Hu
End-to-End Time-Lapse Video Synthesis from a Single Outdoor Image
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019
Seonghyeon Nam, Chongyang Ma, Menglei Chai, William Brendel, Ning Xu, Seon Joo Kim
Real-Time Patch-Based Stylization of Portraits Using Generative Adversarial Network
ACM/EG Expressive 2019
David Futschik, Menglei Chai, Chen Cao, Chongyang Ma, Aleksei Stoliar, Sergey Korolev, Sergey Tulyakov, Michal Kučera, Daniel Sýkora
Stabilized Real-Time Face Tracking via a Learned Dynamic Rigidity Prior
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2018
Chen Cao, Menglei Chai, Oliver Woodford, Linjie Luo
Parametric Weight-Change Reshaping for Portrait Images
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) 2018
Haiming Zhao, Xiaogang Jin, Xiaojian Huang, Menglei Chai, Kun Zhou
A Data-Driven Approach to Four-View Image-Based Hair Modeling
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2017
Meng Zhang, Menglei Chai, Hongzhi Wu, Hao Yang, Kun Zhou
AutoHair: Fully Automatic Hair Modeling from a Single Image
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2016
Menglei Chai, Tianjia Shao, Hongzhi Wu, Yanlin Weng, Kun Zhou
Adaptive Skinning for Interactive Hair-Solid Simulation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2016
Menglei Chai, Changxi Zheng, Kun Zhou
High-Quality Hair Modeling from a Single Portrait Photo
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2015
Menglei Chai, Linjie Luo, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nathan Carr, Sunil Hadap, Kun Zhou
A Reduced Model for Interactive Hairs
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2014
Menglei Chai, Changxi Zheng, Kun Zhou
Cone Tracing for Furry Object Rendering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2014
Hao Qin, Menglei Chai, Qiming Hou, Zhong Ren, Kun Zhou
Dynamic Hair Manipulation in Images and Videos
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013
Menglei Chai, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, Xiaogang Jin, Kun Zhou
As-Rigid-As-Possible Distance Field Metamorphosis
Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics) 2013
Yanlin Weng, Menglei Chai, Weiwei Xu, Yiying Tong, Kun Zhou
Hair Interpolation for Portrait Morphing
Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics) 2013
Yanlin Weng, Lvdi Wang, Xiao Li, Menglei Chai, Kun Zhou
Single-View Hair Modeling for Portrait Manipulation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2012
Menglei Chai, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, Yizhou Yu, Baining Guo, Kun Zhou