Guangyan Cai

Guangyan Cai

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Biography

I am a second year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Irvine School of Information and Computer Science, working with Prof. Shuang Zhao. I am interested in physics-based rendering and differentiable rendering.

I hold a B.S. degree in Computer Science from UC San Diego, where I worked with Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi.

Interests

  • Computer Graphics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020 - Present

    University of California, Irvine

  • B.S. in Computer Science, 2016 - 2020

    University of California, San Diego

Featured

Lifan Wu*, Guangyan Cai*, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Shuang Zhao (*equal contribution)
December 2021 ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021), 40(6), December 2021
Differentiable Time-Gated Rendering

Differentiable Time-Gated Rendering

In this paper, we develop a novel analytic formula for the spatial gradients of the spherical harmonic coefficients for uniform polygonal area lights.

PDF Project Supplementary

Publications

Differentiable Time-Gated Rendering

In this paper, we develop a novel analytic formula for the spatial gradients of the spherical harmonic coefficients for uniform polygonal area lights.
Lifan Wu*, Guangyan Cai*, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Shuang Zhao (*equal contribution)
PDF Project Supplementary
Differentiable Time-Gated Rendering

Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering with Many Polygonal Area Lights

In this paper, we develop a novel analytic formula for the spatial gradients of the spherical harmonic coefficients for uniform polygonal area lights.
Lifan Wu, Guangyan Cai, Shuang Zhao, Ravi Ramamoorthi
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Analytic Spherical Harmonic Gradients for Real-Time Rendering with Many Polygonal Area Lights

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