Zhigang Deng

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Houston

Phillip G. Hoffman Hall (GPH) 536
Houston, TX 77204-3010
Tel: +1 713 743 1018
Fax: +1 713 743 3335

Email: zdeng4 (at) uh.edu
| zdeng (at) cs.uh.edu

Mailing Address:
University of Houston Department of Computer Science 501 Philip G. Hoffman Hall, Houston, TX, 77204-3010

Teaching

Fall 2009
COSC7397 Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics and Animation

Fall 2009
CS6358 Introduction to Game Development

Spring 2009
CS6356 Computer Animation and Simulation

Spring 2009
CS6397 Advanced Game Development

Travel

Feb 27-1, 2009 SI3D, Boston
Mar 24-28, 2009 VR, Lafayette, LA
Apr 24-26, 2009 FDG, Disney Wonder Cruise
Aug 3-7, 2009 SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, LA
Nov 21-23, 2009 EG 2010 PC Meeting, Norrkoping, Sweden

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education

2006
Ph.D. Computer Science  University of Southern California

2004
M.S. Computer Science  University of Southern California

2000
M.S. Computer Science  Peking University, China

1997
B.S. Mathematics  Xiamen University, China


employment

Fall 2006 -
University of Houston  Houston, TX
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Summer 2006
AT&T Research Lab  Florham Park, NJ
Summer Research Intern

2001 - 2006
University of Southern California  Los Angeles, CA
Graduate Student Researcher, Integrated Media System Center

2000 - 2001
Founder Research and Development Center  Beijing, China
Software Engineer

1997 - 2000
Peking University  Beijing, China
Graduate Student Researcher


teaching

Fall 2009
Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics and Animation (COSC7397, University of Houston)

Fall 2009
Introduction to Game Development (COSC6358, University of Houston)

Spring 2009
Computer Animation and Simulation (COSC6356, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.16/5

Spring 2009
Advanced Game Development (COSC6397, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.71/5

Fall 2008
3D Computer Graphics (COSC6372, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.14/5

Fall 2008
Introduction to Game Development (COSC6358, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.36/5

Spring 2008
Advanced Game Development (COSC6397, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.75/5

Fall 2007
Introduction to Game Development (COSC6358, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.51/5

Fall 2007
3D Computer Graphics (COSC6372, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 5.0/5

Spring 2007
Computer Animation and Simulation (COSC6356, University of Houston)
teaching rating: 4.47/5

Fall 2006
Ubiquitous Computing (COSC4397, University of Houston)
Co-instructor with Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis, teaching rating: 4.26/5


refereed publications

Book
Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann (Eds), Spring-Verlag Press, October 2007.

Conference and Workshop Papers
Statistical Power Consumption Analysis and Modeling for GPU-based Computing, Xiaohan Ma, Mian Dong, Lin Zhong, Zhigang Deng. To appear in Proc. ACM SOSP Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower) 2009, Big Sky, MT, October 2009.

Style Learning and Transferring for Facial Animation Editing, Xiaohan Ma, Binh H. Le, Zhigang Deng. To appear in Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2009, New Orleans, LA, August 2009, pp. 114-123.

Intermittency of Slow Arm Movements Increases in Distal Direction, Ozkan Celik, Qin Gu, Zhigang Deng, Marcia O'Malley, To appear in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009, St Louis, MO, Oct 2009, pp. 4499-4504.

An Interactive Geometric Technique for Upper and Lower Teeth Segmentation, Binh H. Le, Zhigang Deng, James Xia, Yu-Bing Chang, Xiaobo Zhou, To appear in Proc. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009, London, UK, Oct 2009, pp. 968-975.

A Novel Surface-based Geometric Approach for 3D Dentritic Spline Detection From Multi-Photon Excitation Microscopy Images, Qing Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Zhigang Deng, Matthew Baron, Merilee A. Teylan, Yong Kim, Stephen T.C. Wong, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2009, Boston, MA, June 2009, pp. 1255-1258.

O' Game, Can You Feel My Frustration?: Improving User's Gaming Experience via StressCam, Chang Yun, Dvijesh Shastri, Ioannis Pavlidis, Zhigang Deng, Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2009, Boston, MA, April 2009, pp. 2195-2204.

Perceptually Consistent Example-based Human Motion Retrieval, Zhigang Deng, Qin Gu, Qing Li, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D) 2009, Boston, MA, Feb 2009, pp. 191-198.

Natural Eye Motion Synthesis by Modeling Gaze-Head Coupling, Xiaohan Ma, Zhigang Deng, Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2009, Lafayette, LA, March 2009, pp. 143-150.

Crafting Personalized Facial Avatars Using Editable Portrait and Photograph Example, Tanasai Sucontphunt, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2009, Lafayette, LA, March 2009, pp. 259-260.

Perceptually Guided Expressive Facial Animation, Zhigang Deng, Xiaohan Ma, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008, Dublin, Ireland, June 2008, pp. 67-76.

Interactive 3D Facial Expression Posing through 2D Portrait Manipulation, Tanasai Sucontphunt, Zhenyao Mo, Ulrich Neumann, Zhigang Deng, Proc. Graphics Interface (GI) 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 2008, pp. 177-184.

A Novel Visual System for Expressive Facial Motion Data Exploration, Tanasai Sucontphunt, Xiaoru Yuan, Qing Li,, Zhigang Deng, Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis) 2008, Kyoto, Japan, May 2008, pp. 103-110.

Online Motion Capture Marker Labeling for Multiple Interacting Articulated Targets, Qian Yu, Qing Li,, Zhigang Deng, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics 2007), 26(3), Prague, Czech Republic, Sep 2007, pp. 477-483.

EduNET: A Prototype Educational System Based on Handwritten and Verbal Interaction for Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis, Chang H. Yun, Zhigang Deng, Olin Johnson, Oscar Criner, Proc. Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America Annual Conference (RESNA) 2007, Phoenix, Arizona, June 2007.

eFASE: Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis and Editing with Phoneme-Isomap Controls, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2006, Vienna, Austria, Sep 2006, pp. 251-259.

Perceiving Visual Emotions with Speech, Zhigang Deng, Jeremy Bailenson, JP Lewis, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2006, Marina Del Rey, CA, August 2006, pp. 107-120.

Animating Blendshape Faces by Cross-Mapping Motion Capture Data, Zhigang Deng, Pei-Ying Chiang, Pamela Fox, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D) 2006, Redwood City, CA, March 2006, pp. 43-48.

Reducing Blendshape Interference by Selected Motion Attenuation, JP Lewis, Jonathan Mooser, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D) 2005, Washington DC, April 2005, pp. 25-29.

Synthesizing Speech Animation by Learning Compact Speech Co-Articulation Models, Zhigang Deng, JP Lewis, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2005, Stony Brook, NY, June 2005, pp. 19-25.

Automatic Dynamic Expression Synthesis for Speech Animation, Zhigang Deng, Murtaza Bulut, Ulrich Neumann, Shri Narayanan, Proc. IEEE Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2004, pp. 267-274.

Audio-based Head Motion Synthesis for Avatar-based Telepresence Systems, Zhigang Deng, Carlos Busso, Shri Narayanan, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. ACM SIGMM Workshop on Effective Telepresence (ETP) 2004, NYC, NY, Oct 2004, pp. 24-30.

Analysis of Emotion Recognition using Facial Expressions, Speech and Multimodal Information, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, Ulrich Neumann, Shrikanth Narayanan, Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI) 2004, State College, PA, Oct 2004, pp. 205-211.

Acoustic Study of Emotions Expressed in Speech, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2004, Jeju Island, Korean, Oct 2004, pp. 2193-2196.

Emotion Recognition based on Phoneme Classes, Chul Min Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Murtaza Bulut, Abe Kazemzadeh, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) 2004, Jeju Island, Korean, Oct 2004, pp. 889-892.

Practical Eye Movement Model using Texture Synthesis, Zhigang Deng, JP Lewis, Ulrich Neumann, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Application 2003, San Diego, CA, August 2003.

A Model of Path Motion, Zhigang Deng, Bingfeng Zhou, Proc. International Conference on Computer Aided Design & Computer Graphics 1999, Shanghai, China, Dec 1999.

Journal Articles
Image-based Face Illumination Transferring using Logarithmic Total Variation Models, Qing Li, Wotao Yin, Zhigang Deng, The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ), June 2009, (online first)

Can Local Avatars Satisfy Global Audience? A Case Study of High-Fidelity 3D Facial Avatar Animation in Subject Identification and Emotion Perception by US and International Groups, Chang Yun, Zhigang Deng, Merrill Hiscock, ACM Computer In Entertainment (CIE), 7(2), Apri-June 2009, pp. 1-26.

Compression of Human Motion Capture Data using Motion Pattern Indexing, Qin Gu, Jingliang Peng, Zhigang Deng, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 28(1), 2009, pp. 1-12.

Orthogonal Blendshape based Editing System for Facial Motion Capture Data, Qing Li, Zhigang Deng, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 28(6), Nov/Dec 2008, pp. 76-82.

Expressive Speech Animation Synthesis with Phoneme-Level Controls, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 27(8), 2008, pp. 2096-2113.

Online Motion Capture Marker Labeling for Multiple Interacting Articulated Targets, Qian Yu, Qing Li, Zhigang Deng, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 26(3), 2007, pp. 477-483.

Rigid Head Motion in Expressive Facial Animation: Analysis and Synthesis, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Michael Grimm, Ulrich Neumann, Shrikanth Narayanan, IEEE Transaction on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 15(3), March 2007, pp. 1075-1086.

Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning Speech Co-Articulation and Expression Spaces, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, J.P. Lewis, Tae-Yong Kim, Murtaza Bulut, Shri Narayanan, IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12(6), Nov/Dec 2006, pp. 1523-1534.

Natural Head Motion Synthesis driven by Acoustic Prosodic Features, Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, Shri Narayanan, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), 16(3-4), July 2005, pp. 283-290.

Automated Eye Motion using Texture Synthesis, Zhigang Deng, JP Lewis, Ulrich Neumann, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 25(2), March/April 2005, pp. 24-30.

Other Publications
Movement Intermittency and Variability in Human Arm Movements, Ozkan Celik, Qin Gu, Zhigang Deng, Marcia O'Malley, Conference Abstracts, 2009 RSS Hand Worshop: Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation, co-located with Robotics: Sciences and Systems (RSS), Seattle, WA, June 2009.

Coregistration and Visualization of Regional Perfusion from First-Pass Multislice Sets based on Independent Components Analysis, A. Sonmez, J. Milles, Z. Deng, N. V. Tsekos. Conference Abstracts, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2009 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, USA, April 2009.

Facial and Character Animation at UH CGIM, Z. Deng, Q. Gu, Q. Li, X. Ma, and T. Sucontphunt, Poster, ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.

AMethodology forMappingMental Spaces of Game Gentres, JP Lewis, P. Fox, Z. Deng, Poster, SandBox: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games 2006, Boston, MA, July 2006.


unrefereed publications

Technical Reports
Image-based Face Illumination Transferring using Logarithmic Total Variation Models, Qing Li, Wotao Yin, Zhigang Deng. Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-09-06, University of Houston, May 2009.

Can Local Avatars Satisfy Global Audience? A Case Study of High-Fidelity 3D Facial Avatar Animation in Subject Identification and Emotion Perception by US and International Groups, Chang Yun, Zhigang Deng, Merill Hiscock. Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-09-05, University of Houston, March 2009.

Compression of Human Motion Capture Data Using Motion Pattern Indexing, Qin Gu, Jingliang Peng, Zhigang Deng. Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-08-13, University of Houston, September 2008.

Expressive Speech Animation Synthesis with Phoneme-Level Controls, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann. Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-08-05, University of Houston, April 2008.

Facial Motion Capture Editing by Automated Orthogonal Blendshape Construction and Weight Propagation, Qing Li, Zhigang Deng. Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-07-12, University of Houston, October 2007.

Online Motion Capture Marker Labeling for Multiple Interacting Articulated Targets, Qian Yu, Qing Li, Zhigang Deng. Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-07-11, University of Houston, September 2007.

Dissertations
Data-Driven Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning From Facial Motion Capture Data, Zhigang Deng. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California, May 2006.

Design of 2D Vector Animation Algorithms for Hypermedia Authoring Systems, Zhigang Deng. Master Thesis, Peking University, China, June 2000.


invited talks


17 March 2009
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference. Lafayette, LA

1 Mar 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. Boston, MA

17 Oct 2008
University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA

7 July 2008
ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation. Dublin, Ireland

29 May 2008
Graphics Interface Conference. Windsor, Ontario, Canada

16 May 2008
Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces (MAHI) Lab, Rice University. Houston, TX

4 Dec 2007
Academy for Science & Health Professions. Houston, TX

6 Sep 2007
Eurographics 2007 Conference. Prague, Czech Republic

30 May 2007
Zhejiang University. Hangzhou, China

11 May 2007
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China

10 May 2007
Tsinghua University. Beijing, China

10 May 2007
Beijing Institute of Technology. Beijing, China

9 May 2007
Peking University. Beijing, China

27 April 2007
Texas A&M University. College Station, TX

6 Nov 2006
University of Texas at Dallas. Dallas, TX

28 Sep 2006
Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY

21 Aug 2006
Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference. Marina Del Rey, CA

30 March 2006
University of Houston. Houston, TX

27 March 2006
Colorado School of Mines. Golden, CO

15 March 2006
ACM SIGGRAPH Symp. on Interactive 3D Graphics. Redwood, CA

24 Feb 2006
Ohio University. Athens, Ohio

17 Feb 2006
University of Denver. Denver, CO

10 Feb 2006
University of North Texas. Denton, TX

22 June 2005
Computer Graphics International Conference. Stony Brook, NY

2 May 2005
First Annual USC Graphics Symp. University of Southern California

10 April 2005
Annual IMSC Student Conference. University of Southern California

12 Feb 2005
IMSC Lecture Series. University of Southern California

4 Sep 2003
User Interface Technology Symp, IBM Watson Research Center. NY

22 July 2003
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003. San Diego, CA

10 July 2003
Walt-Disney Feature Animation. Burbank, CA


professional activities

Editorial Board Member
ACM Computer In Entertainment (CIE), 2008 -
International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG), 2009 -

Program Committee
Eurographics (EG) 2010
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2009, 2010
Asian Simulation Technology Conference (ASTEC), 2010
Asian Game-On Conference on Simulation and AI in Computer Games (GAME-ON ASIA), 2010
Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference, 2010
IEEE Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2008, 2009, 2010
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2008, 2009
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2007, 2008, 2009
IEEE Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics) 2007, 2009
TexGraph Conference 2008 (program chair)

Paper Reviewer
IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2010, 2009
IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, 2009
IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH, 2003, 2006
ACM Transaction on Graphics, 2004-2009
IEEE Transaction on Graphics, 2004-2008
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2006-2008
Computer Graphics Forum, 2007-2009
Eurographics, 2007-2010
Graphical Models, 2007-2008
Computer & Graphics, 2009
ACM Computer In Entertainment, 2008-2009
Image and Vision Computing, 2008
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2007-2009
Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interface for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2009
Journal of Information Science and Engineering (Taiwan), 2009
The Visual Computer, 2009
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2009
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2009
European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), 2009
Graphics Interface, 2008
ACM Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI), 2007
Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2003-2005
SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (SI3D), 2005-2006
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2006
IEEE Visualization (Vis) 2006
IEEE Transaction on Signal and Audio Processing (TSAP), 2004-2005
IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (TMM), 2005-2007
International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) 2006
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology (IJIST) 2006
Computer Graphics International (CGI), 2005
Pacific Graphics (PG), 2003

Other Committee
Industry Advisory Committee memeber,Computer Science Department, UH, 2009 -
Graduate Student Recruiting Committee chair, Computer Science Department, UH, 2008 - 2009
Curriculum Committee member, Computer Science Department, UH, 2006 - 2009
Student Organization Committee member, Computer Science Colloquium, USC, 2005-2006
Executive Committee member, Chinese Student and Scholar Association, USC, 2002-2004

Other Invited Reviewers
Invited book proposal reviewer, CRC Press, 2009
Invited external program reviewer, Computer Engineering Ph.D. program, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, 2009
Invited panel member, Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (NHARP), Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2009
Invited grant proposal reviewer, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2007

Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)


Mentoring

Current PhD Students
Mario Rincon (University of Houston), Fall 09 -
Nikhil Navkar (University of Houston), Fall 08 -
Binh H. Le (University of Houston), Fall 08 -
Xiaohan Ma (University of Houston), Fall 07 -
Tanasai Sucontphunt (USC/UH, co-chaired with Prof. U. Neumann), Spring 07 -
Qing Li (University of Houston), Fall 06 -
Qin Gu (University of Houston), Fall 06 -

Advised PhD Graduates
Chang Yun (University of Houston, co-chaired with Prof. O. Johnson), May 2009.
PhD Dissertation: "Improving Gaming Experience Using Real-Time, Adaptive Game Difficulty Adjustments by Utilizing Physiological Feedback"
First employment: Research Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Current Msc Students
Michael Jahn (University of Houston), Fall 08 -

Advised MSc Graduates
Qin Gu (University of Houston), April 2008.
MSc Thesis: "Compression of Human Motion Capture Data Using Motion Pattern Indexing Technology"

Qing Li (University of Houston), Nov 2008.
MSc Thesis: "Facial Motion Capture Editing by Automated Orthogonal Blendshape Construction and Weight Propagation"

Nikhil Navkar (University of Houston), Oct 2009.
MSc Thesis: "Virtual Environment for Planning Surgical Incision with Straight Access"

PhD Dissertation Committee
George Toderici (University of Houston, defended at Nov 2007)
Rachsuda Jiamthapthaksin (University of Houston, defended at July 2009)
Yuichi Fujiki (University of Houston)

Ms Thesis Committee
Deepak Roy (University of Houston, defended at Spring 2007)
Wei Song (University of Houston, defended at Summer 2009)


honors and awards

2008
Texas Norman Hackerman Research Program Award

2005
University of Southern California
Ambassador to the USC President

2004
University of Southern California
Academic Achievement Award

1999
Peking University
Kodak Fellowship

1998
Peking University
Guang-Hua Fellowship


media coverage

July 2008
UH awarded $2.5 million for research. The Daily Cougars.

25June 2008
Research Nets $2.5 Million in Grants For UH Professors. University of Houston News.

June 2008
Computer Science Students Among International Gaming Finalists. Breakthrough.

15 Oct 2007
New Class Lets Students Develop Video Games. Breakthrough.

9 Oct 2007
Open House Presents Computer Science Exciting High-Tech Projects. Natural Sciences and Mathematics Communications.

May 2005
Researchers Develop New Eye-Animation Method. NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) Research Achievement Showcase.

June 2004
Eye-Motion Commotion. USC Engineer Magazine.