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  • 2015 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Zhigang Deng is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States, focusing on research primarily in Engineering and Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas such as 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, Rock Mechanics and Modeling, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, Traffic Control and Management, Laser-Induced Spectroscopy and Plasma, and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis.

Zhigang Deng has contributed to several scholarly publications, with frequent appearances in venues like arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Computer Graphics Forum, and Processes.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Emotion-Based Crowd Simulation Model Based on Physical Strength Consumption for Emergency Scenarios, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Motion Planning for Convertible Indoor Scene Layout Design, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Spatio-temporal Segmentation Based Adaptive Compression of Dynamic Mesh Sequences, 2020, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • A Music-Driven Deep Generative Adversarial Model for Guzheng Playing Animation, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Plausible 3D Face Wrinkle Generation Using Variational Autoencoders, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Zhigang Deng regularly collaborates with several coauthors including Xiaogang Jin, Rui Cheng, D. H. H. Hoffmann, Leifeng Cao, and Weimin Zhou, each appearing as a frequent collaborator in multiple research projects.

In recognition of their professional standing, Zhigang Deng was named an ACM Senior Member in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of emotion recognition using facial expressions, speech and multimodal information

    Carlos Busso;Zhigang Deng;Serdar Yildirim;Murtaza Bulut

  • Emotion recognition based on phoneme classes

    Chul Min Lee;Serdar Yildirim;Murtaza Bulut;Abe Kazemzadeh

  • Practice and Theory of Blendshape Facial Models

    John P. Lewis;Ken Anjyo;Taehyun Rhee;Mengjie Zhang

  • An acoustic study of emotions expressed in speech

    Serdar Yildirim;Murtaza Bulut;Chul Min Lee;Abe Kazemzadeh

  • Rigid Head Motion in Expressive Speech Animation: Analysis and Synthesis

    C. Busso;Zhigang Deng;M. Grimm;U. Neumann

  • Animating blendshape faces by cross-mapping motion capture data

    Zhigang Deng;Pei-Ying Chiang;Pamela Fox;Ulrich Neumann

  • Statistical Power Consumption Analysis and Modeling for GPU-based Computing

    Xiaohan Ma;Mian Dong;Lin Zhong;Zhigang Deng

  • Smooth skinning decomposition with rigid bones

    Binh Huy Le;Zhigang Deng

  • Robust and accurate skeletal rigging from mesh sequences

    Binh Huy Le;Zhigang Deng

  • Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning Speech Coarticulation and Expression Spaces

    Z. Deng;U. Neumann;J.P. Lewis;T.-Y. Kim

  • Skinning: real-time shape deformation (full text not available)

    Alec Jacobson;Zhigang Deng;Ladislav Kavan;J. P. Lewis

  • Crowd Behavior Simulation With Emotional Contagion in Unexpected Multihazard Situations

    Mingliang Xu;Xiaozheng Xie;Pei Lv;Jianwei Niu

  • Natural head motion synthesis driven by acoustic prosodic features

    Carlos Busso;Zhigang Deng;Ulrich Neumann;Shrikanth S. Narayanan

  • A Survey on Visual Traffic Simulation: Models, Evaluations, and Applications in Autonomous Driving

    Qianwen Chao;Qianwen Chao;Huikun Bi;Huikun Bi;Weizi Li;Tianlu Mao

  • Computer Facial Animation: A Survey

    Zhigang Deng;Junyong Noh

  • Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation

    Zhigang Deng;Ulrich Neumann

  • Live Speech Driven Head-and-Eye Motion Generators

    B. H. Le;Xiaohan Ma;Zhigang Deng

  • Perceptually consistent example-based human motion retrieval

    Zhigang Deng;Qin Gu;Qing Li

  • Crowd Simulation and Its Applications: Recent Advances

    Ming-Liang Xu;Hao Jiang;Xiao-Gang Jin;Zhigang Deng

  • Automated eye motion using texture synthesis

    Zhigang Deng;J.P. Lewis;U. Neumann

  • Real-time meshless deformation: Collision Detection and Deformable Objects

    Xiaohu Guo;Hong Qin

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaogang Jin
Xiaogang Jin Zhejiang University
Ulrich Neumann
Ulrich Neumann University of Southern California
Mingliang Xu
Mingliang Xu Zhengzhou University
John P. Lewis
John P. Lewis Victoria University of Wellington
Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
Carlos Busso
Carlos Busso The University of Texas at Dallas
Dinesh Manocha
Dinesh Manocha University of Maryland, College Park
Wei Chen
Wei Chen Zhejiang University
Sungbok Lee
Sungbok Lee University of Southern California
Xiaobo Zhou
Xiaobo Zhou The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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