Menglei Chai

Menglei Chai

Research Scientist

Creative Vision, Snap Inc.

Bio

I am a Senior Research Scientist in the Creative Vision group at Snap Research. I got my Ph.D. degree from the Graphics & Parallel Systems Lab (GAPS), Zhejiang University in 2017, supervised by Professor Kun Zhou. I do research in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, majorly on human digitization, image manipulation, 3D reconstruction, and physics-based animation.

I am looking for self-motivated interns in CV&CG. Drop me an email if you are interested.

Interests

  • Human Digitization
  • Image Manipulation
  • 3D Reconstruction
  • Physics-Based Animation

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2017

    Zhejiang University

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2011

    Zhejiang University

Publications

DisUnknown: Distilling Unknown Factors for Disentanglement Learning

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021

Sitao Xiang, Yuming Gu, Pengda Xiang, Menglei Chai, Hao Li, Yajie Zhao, Mingming He
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Cross-Domain and Disentangled Face Manipulation with 3D Guidance

arXiv 2021

Can Wang, Menglei Chai, Mingming He, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao
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Efficient Semantic Image Synthesis via Class-Adaptive Normalization

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2021

Zhentao Tan, Dongdong Chen, Qi Chu, Menglei Chai, Jing Liao, Mingming He, Lu Yuan, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
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Diverse Semantic Image Synthesis via Probability Distribution Modeling

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

Zhentao Tan, Menglei Chai, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao, Qi Chu, Bin Liu, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
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Flow Guided Transformable Bottleneck Networks for Motion Retargeting

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Oliver Woodford, Kyle Olszewski, Sergey Tulyakov
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Motion Representations for Articulated Animation

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

Aliaksandr Siarohin, Oliver Woodford, Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov
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A Good Image Generator Is What You Need for High-Resolution Video Synthesis

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021

Yu Tian, Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Kyle Olszewski, Xi Peng, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Sergey Tulyakov
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Exemplar-Based 3D Portrait Stylization

arXiv 2021

Fangzhou Han, Shuquan Ye, Mingming He, Menglei Chai, Jing Liao
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FaceBlit: Instant Real-Time Example-Based Style Transfer to Facial Videos

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2021

Aneta Texler, Ondrej Texler, Michal Kucera, Menglei Chai, Daniel Sykora
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Neural Hair Rendering

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020

Menglei Chai, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov
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MichiGAN: Multi-Input-Conditioned Hair Image Generation for Portrait Editing

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2020

Zhentao Tan, Menglei Chai, Dongdong Chen, Jing Liao, Qi Chu, Lu Yuan, Sergey Tulyakov, Nenghai Yu
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Interactive Video Stylization Using Few-Shot Patch-Based Training

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2020

Ondrej Texler, David Futschik, Michal Kucera, Ondrej Jamriska, Sarka Sochorova, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov, Daniel Sykora
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Revisiting Image Aesthetic Assessment via Self-Supervised Feature Learning

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020

Kekai Sheng, Weiming Dong, Menglei Chai, Guohui Wang, Peng Zhou, Feiyue Huang, Bao-Gang Hu, Rongrong Ji, Chongyang Ma
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Real-Time Hair Simulation with Neural Interpolation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2020

Qing Lyu, Menglei Chai, Xiang Chen, Kun Zhou
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Human Motion Transfer from Poses in the Wild

European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW) 2020

Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Sergey Tulyakov, Chen Fang, Xiaohui Shen, Jianchao Yang
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Learning to Assess Visual Aesthetics of Food Images

Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2020

Kekai Sheng, Weiming Dong, Haibin Huang, Menglei Chai, Yong Zhang, Chongyang Ma, Bao-Gang Hu
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End-to-End Time-Lapse Video Synthesis from a Single Outdoor Image

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019

Seonghyeon Nam, Chongyang Ma, Menglei Chai, William Brendel, Ning Xu, Seon Joo Kim
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Real-Time Patch-Based Stylization of Portraits Using Generative Adversarial Network

ACM/EG Expressive 2019

David Futschik, Menglei Chai, Chen Cao, Chongyang Ma, Aleksei Stoliar, Sergey Korolev, Sergey Tulyakov, Michal Kučera, Daniel Sýkora
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Stabilized Real-Time Face Tracking via a Learned Dynamic Rigidity Prior

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2018

Chen Cao, Menglei Chai, Oliver Woodford, Linjie Luo
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Parametric Weight-Change Reshaping for Portrait Images

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) 2018

Haiming Zhao, Xiaogang Jin, Xiaojian Huang, Menglei Chai, Kun Zhou
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A Data-Driven Approach to Four-View Image-Based Hair Modeling

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2017

Meng Zhang, Menglei Chai, Hongzhi Wu, Hao Yang, Kun Zhou
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AutoHair: Fully Automatic Hair Modeling from a Single Image

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2016

Menglei Chai, Tianjia Shao, Hongzhi Wu, Yanlin Weng, Kun Zhou
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Adaptive Skinning for Interactive Hair-Solid Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2016

Menglei Chai, Changxi Zheng, Kun Zhou
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High-Quality Hair Modeling from a Single Portrait Photo

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2015

Menglei Chai, Linjie Luo, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Nathan Carr, Sunil Hadap, Kun Zhou
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A Reduced Model for Interactive Hairs

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2014

Menglei Chai, Changxi Zheng, Kun Zhou
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Cone Tracing for Furry Object Rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2014

Hao Qin, Menglei Chai, Qiming Hou, Zhong Ren, Kun Zhou
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Dynamic Hair Manipulation in Images and Videos

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2013

Menglei Chai, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, Xiaogang Jin, Kun Zhou
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As-Rigid-As-Possible Distance Field Metamorphosis

Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics) 2013

Yanlin Weng, Menglei Chai, Weiwei Xu, Yiying Tong, Kun Zhou
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Hair Interpolation for Portrait Morphing

Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics) 2013

Yanlin Weng, Lvdi Wang, Xiao Li, Menglei Chai, Kun Zhou
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Single-View Hair Modeling for Portrait Manipulation

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2012

Menglei Chai, Lvdi Wang, Yanlin Weng, Yizhou Yu, Baining Guo, Kun Zhou
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