Publications - Ran Zhang

Make-It-Poseable: Feed-forward Latent Posing Model for 3D Characters
Zhiyang Guo, Ran Zhang*, Jinxu Xiang, Alan Zhao, Zhenxun Yuan, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li (^* Corresponding author)

SIGGRAPH Asia 2026

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Let There Be Light: Learning Lights from In-The-Wild Character Images
Yanni Zhang, Chong Guan, Junchen Zhou, Jinxu Xiang, Alan Zhao, Ran Zhang

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Real-Time Live!
Best of Show Award

Paper Program Award

Make-It-Animatable: An Efficient Framework for Authoring Animation-Ready 3D Characters
Zhiyang Guo, Jinxu Xiang, Kai Ma, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li, Ran Zhang

CVPR 2025

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BiGS: Bidirectional Gaussian Primitives for Relightable 3D Gaussian Splatting
Zhenyuan Liu, Yu Guo, Xinyuan Li, Bernd Bickel, Ran Zhang

3DV 2025

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Neural Impostor: Editing Neural Radiance Fields with Explicit Shape Manipulation
Ruiyang Liu^†, Jinxu Xiang^†, Bowen Zhao, Ran Zhang*, Jingyi Yu and Changxi Zheng (^† Equally contributed authors, ^* Corresponding author)

Pacific Graphics 2023

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Worst-Case Rigidity Analysis and Optimization for Assemblies with Mechanical Joints
Zhenyuan Liu, Jingyu Hu, Hao Xu, Peng Song, Ran Zhang, Bernd Bickel and Chi-Wing Fu

Eurographics 2022

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Roadkill: Nesting Laser-Cut Objects for Fast Assembly
Muhammad Abdullah, Romeo Sommerfeld, Laurenz Seidel, Jonas Noack, Ran Zhang, Thijs Roumen and Patrick Baudisch

UIST 2021

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Trusscillator: a System for Fabricating Human-Scale Human-Powered Oscillating Devices
Robert Kovacs, Lukas Rambold, Lukas Fritzsche, Dominik Meier, Jotaro Shigeyama, Shohei Katakura, Ran Zhang, Patrick Baudisch

UIST 2021

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Computational Design of Planar Multistable Compliant Structures
Ran Zhang, Thomas Auzinger, Bernd Bickel

ACM Transaction on Graphics 2021

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CoreCavity: Interactive Shell Decomposition for Fabrication with Two-Piece Rigid Molds
Kazutaka Nakashima, Thomas Auzinger, Emmanuel Iarussi, Ran Zhang, Takeo Igarashi, Bernd Bickel

SIGGRAPH 2018

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Scattering-Aware Texture Reproduction for 3D Printing
Oskar Elek, Denis Sumin, Ran Zhang, Tim Weyrich, Karol Myszkowski, Bernd Bickel, Alexander Wilkie, Jaroslav Křivánek

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017

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Functionality-aware Retargeting of Mechanisms to 3D Shapes
Ran Zhang, Thomas Auzinger, Duygu Ceylan, Wilmot Li, Bernd Bickel

SIGGRAPH 2017

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Designing Planar Deployable Objects via Scissor Structures
Ran Zhang*, Shiwei Wang*, Xuejin Chen, Chao Ding, Luo Jiang, Jie Zhou, Ligang Liu.(* Equally contributed authors)

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2016

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An efﬁcient volumetric method for non-rigid registration
Ran Zhang, Xuejin Chen, Takaaki Shiratori, Xin Tong, and Ligang Liu

Graphical Models 2015

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