Donglai Xiang

I am a research scientist at Nvidia Research. My current research focuses on dynamic 3D modeling, generation and reconstruction. I am broadly interested in various topics in computer graphics and vision, including but not limited to learning, geometry, and simulation, and appearance modeling.

I obtained my Ph.D. (2023) and M.S. (2019) from Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Jessica Hodgins and Prof. Yaser Sheikh. During my Ph.D. I collaborated extensively with Meta Reality Labs Research in Pittsburgh as a visiting researcher. Previously I obtained a B. Eng. in Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2017. I worked with Prof. Jia Deng at University of Michigan in 2016.

Email [xdl13thu at gmail dot com] · CV [updated Jul 2024] · Google Scholar

News

(Dec 2023) Attending my first in-person SIGGRAPH (Asia). See you in Sydney!
(Oct 2023) I have joined Nvidia as a full-time research scientist.
(Nov 2022) Our work "Dressing Avatars" is featured in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 trailer!
(Oct 2021) I am honored to be selected as an outstanding reviwer for CVPR 2021 and ICCV 2021.
(Apr 2021) I am starting as a visiting researcher at Facebook Reality Labs Research, Pittsburgh for one year.
(Nov 2020) Our paper on monocular clothing capture received the Best Paper Honorable Mention award at 3DV 2020.
(Jun 2019) Our paper on monocular total capture has been accepted to CVPR 2019 with oral presentation.
(Dec 2018) Our paper on monocular total capture is released! Check out our video and paper.

Selected Publications

	PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations Yang Zheng, Qingqing Zhao, Guandao Yang, Wang Yifan, Donglai Xiang, Florian Dubost, Dmitry Lagun, Thabo Beeler, Federico Tombari, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein ECCV 2024 [project page] [arXiv]
	Diffusion Shape Prior for Wrinkle-Accurate Cloth Registration Jingfan Guo, Fabian Prada, Donglai Xiang, Javier Romero, Chenglei Wu, Hyun Soo Park, Takaaki Shiratori, Shunsuke Saito 3DV 2024 [project page] [arXiv]
	Drivable Avatar Clothing: Faithful Full-Body Telepresence with Dynamic Clothing Driven by Sparse RGB-D Input Donglai Xiang, Fabian Prada, Zhe Cao, Kaiwen Guo, Chenglei Wu, Jessica Hodgins, Timur Bagautdinov SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 [arXiv] [project page]
	Dressing Avatars: Deep Photorealistic Appearance for Physically Simulated Clothing Donglai Xiang, Timur Bagautdinov, Tuur Stuyck, Fabian Prada, Javier Romero, Weipeng Xu, Shunsuke Saito, Jingfan Guo, Breannan Smith, Takaaki Shiratori, Yaser Sheikh, Jessica Hodgins, Chenglei Wu ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022) [arXiv] [video] [ACM DL] Media Coverage [UploadVR] [80 Level] [Mogura VR]
	Pattern-Based Cloth Registration and Sparse-View Animation Oshri Halimi, Tuur Stuyck, Donglai Xiang, Timur Bagautdinov, He Wen, Ron Kimmel, Takaaki Shiratori, Chenglei Wu, Yaser Sheikh, and Fabian Prada ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022) [arXiv]
	Modeling Clothing as a Separate Layer for an Animatable Human Avatar Donglai Xiang, Fabian Prada, Timur Bagautdinov, Weipeng Xu, Yuan Dong, He Wen, Jessica Hodgins, Chenglei Wu ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021) [Open Access] [arXiv] [video] [supplementary document]
	Revitalizing Optimization for 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation: A Sparse Constrained Formulation Taosha Fan, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Donglai Xiang, Weipeng Xu, Todd Murphey, Mustafa Mukadam ICCV 2021 [arXiv] [Project Page]
	MonoClothCap: Towards Temporally Coherent Clothing Capture from Monocular RGB Video Donglai Xiang, Fabian Prada, Chenglei Wu, Jessica Hodgins 3DV 2020 (Best Paper Honorable Mention, Oral) [arXiv] [video]
	You2Me: Inferring Body Pose in Egocentric Video via First and Second Person Interactions Evonne Ng, Donglai Xiang, Hanbyul Joo, Kristen Grauman CVPR 2020 (Oral) [arXiv] [project page]
	Single-Network Whole-Body Pose Estimation Gines Hidalgo, Yaadhav Raaj, Haroon Idrees, Donglai Xiang, Hanbyul Joo, Tomas Simon, Yaser Sheikh ICCV 2019 [arXiv]
	Monocular Total Capture: Posing Face, Body and Hands in the Wild Donglai Xiang, Hanbyul Joo, Yaser Sheikh CVPR 2019 (Oral) [arXiv] [project page] [video]
	Surface Normals in the Wild Weifeng Chen, Donglai Xiang, Jia Deng ICCV 2017 [arXiv] [project page]
	Robust Text Detection with Vertically-Regressed Proposal Network Donglai Xiang, Qiang Guo, Yan Xia ECCV 2016 Workshop [paper]

Experiences

2021.4 - 2023.6: Meta Reality Labs Research (RLR), Pittsburgh - Visiting Researcher
2020.5 - 2020.12: Facebook Reality Labs Research, Pittsburgh - Research Intern
2019.5 - 2019.8: Facebook AI Research, Pittsburgh - Research Intern
2016.7 - 2016.9: University of Michigan - Visiting scholar, advised by Jia Deng
2016.1 - 2016.6: SenseTime Group Limited, Beijing - Research Intern, advised by Yan Xia

MISC

I am a violinist for 20+ years and have played in 4 different symphony orchestras. I have also publicly performed chamber music including String Quartet No.12 ("America") by A. Dvořák and String Octet by F. Mendelssohn.
In my spare time, I do powerlifting, climbing, play badminton and tennis.