Yue Dong (董悦)

Principal Researcher

Spatial Intelligence Group, Microsoft Research Asia

I am a principal researcher at Spatial Intelligence Group in Microsoft Research Asia. My work focuses mainly on appearance modeling, neural rendering and 3D vision.

Email: yuedong [at] microsoft.com

Publications

RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination

Chong Zeng, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Hongzhi Wu, Xin Tong

SIGGRAPH 2025

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Convergence Estimation of Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Rendering

Rui Yu, Guangzhong Sun, Shuang Zhao, Yue Dong

EGSR 2025

Paper

MoGe-2: Accurate Monocular Geometry with Metric Scale and Sharp Details

Ruicheng Wang, Sicheng Xu, Yue Dong, Yu Deng, Jianfeng Xiang, Zelong Lv, Guangzhong Sun, Xin Tong, Jiaolong Yang

NeurIPS 2025

Project Paper

DiLightNet: Fine-grained Lighting Control for Diffusion-based Image Generation

Chong Zeng, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Youkang Kong, Hongzhi Wu, Xin Tong

SIGGRAPH 2024

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Neural Path Sampling for Rendering Pure Specular Light Transport

Rui Yu, Yue Dong, Youkang Kong, Xin Tong

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2023

Project Paper Video

Relighting Neural Radiance Fields with Shadow and Highlight Hints

Chong Zeng, Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Hongzhi Wu, Xin Tong

SIGGRAPH 2023

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Classifier Guided Temporal Supersampling for Real-time Rendering

Yu-Xiao Guo, Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, Xin Tong

Pacific Graphics 2022 - Best Paper Award

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Learning Texture Generators for 3D Shape Collections from Internet Photo Sets

Rui Yu, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Xin Tong

BMVC 2021

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Deep Reflectance Scanning: Recovering Spatially-varying Material Appearance from a Flash-lit Video Sequence

Wenjie Ye, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Baining Guo

Computer Graphics Forum 2021

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TextureFusion: High-Quality Texture Acquisition for Real-Time RGB-D Scanning

Joo Ho Lee, Hyunho Ha, Yue Dong, Xin Tong, Min H. Kim

CVPR 2020 (Oral, Best Paper Finalist)

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Deep Inverse Rendering for Practical Object Appearance Scan with Uncalibrated Illumination

Jianzhao Zhang, Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, Jian Shi, Bob Zhang, Enhua Wu

CGI 2020

Project Paper

Deferred Neural Lighting: Free-viewpoint Relighting from Unstructured Photographs

Duan Gao, Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Kun Xu, Xin Tong

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

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Object-based Illumination Estimation with Rendering-aware Neural Networks

Xin Wei, Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, Stephen Lin, Xin Tong

ECCV 2020

Project Paper

Interactive Curation of Datasets for Training and Refining Generative Models

Wenjie Ye, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers

PG 2019

Project Paper Code

Deep appearance modeling: A survey

Yue Dong

Visual Informatics 2019

Paper

Deep Inverse Rendering for High-resolution SVBRDF Estimation from an Arbitrary Number of Images

Duan Gao, Xiao Li, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Xin Tong

SIGGRAPH 2019

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Synthesizing 3D Shapes from Silhouette Image Collections using Multi-projection Generative Adversarial Networks

Xiao Li, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Xin Tong

CVPR 2019

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Single Image Surface Appearance Modeling with Self-augmented CNNs and Inexact Supervision

Wenjie Ye, Xiao Li, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Xin Tong

PG 2018

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Modeling Surface Appearance from a Single Photograph using Self-augmented Convolutional Neural Networks

Xiao Li, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Xin Tong

ACM SIGGRAPH 2017

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Learning Non-Lambertian Object Intrinsics across ShapeNet Categories

Jian Shi, Yue Dong, Hao Su, Stella X. Yu

CVPR 2017

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Recovering Shape and Spatially-Varying Surface Reflectance under Unknown Illumination

Rui Xia, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Xin Tong

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Project Paper Video

Sparse-as-Possible SVBRDF Acquisitions

Zhiming Zhou, Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, John Snyder, David Wipf, Yong Yu, Xin Tong

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Project Paper Video

Image Based Relighting Using Neural Networks

Peiran Ren, Yue Dong, Stephen Lin, Xin Tong, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH 2015

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Measurement-based Editing of Diffuse Albedo with Consistent Interreflections

Bo Dong, Yue Dong, Xin Tong, Pieter Peers

ACM SIGGRAPH 2015

Project Paper

Appearance-from-Motion: Recovering Spatially Varying Surface Reflectance under Unknown Lighting

Yue Dong, Guojun Chen, Pieter Peers, Jiawan Zhang, Xin Tong

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

Project Paper Video

Reflectance Scanning: Estimating Shading Frame and BRDF with Generalized Linear Light Sources

Guojun Chen, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Jiawan Zhang, Xin Tong

ACM SIGGRAPH 2014

Project Paper Video

Bi-Scale Appearance Fabrication

Yanxiang Lan, Yue Dong, Fabio Pellacini, Xin Tong

ACM SIGGRAPH 2013

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Printing Spatially Varying Reflectance for Reproducing HDR Images

Yue Dong, Fabio Pellacini, Xin Tong, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH 2012

Project Paper Video

Diffusion Curve Textures for Resolution Independent Texture Mapping

Xin Sun, Guofu Xie, Yue Dong, Stephen Lin, Weiwei Xu, Wencheng Wang, Xin Tong, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH 2012

Project Paper Video

Appearance Modeling with Data Coherency

Yue Dong

Ph.D. Thesis of Tsinghua University

Thesis

AppGen: Interactive Material Modeling from a Single Image

Yue Dong, Fabio Pellacini, Xin Tong, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

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Manifold Bootstrapping for SVBRDF Capture

Yue Dong, Jiaping Wang, Xin Tong, John Snyder, Yanxiang Lan, Moshe Ben-Ezra, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH 2010

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Fabricating Spatially-Varying Subsurface Scattering

Yue Dong, Jiaping Wang, Fabio Pellacini, Xin Tong, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH 2010

Project Paper Video

Kernel Nystrom for Light Transport

Jiaping Wang, Yue Dong, Xin Tong, Zhouchen Lin, Baining Guo

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009

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Lazy Solid Texture Synthesis

Yue Dong, Sylvain Lefebvre, Xin Tong, George Drettakis

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008

Project Paper Video

Modeling and Rendering Heterogeneous Translucent Materials using Diffusion Equation

Jiaping Wang, Shuang Zhao, Xin Tong, Stephen Lin, Zhouchen Lin, Yue Dong, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum

ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 27, Issue 1

Project Paper Video

Professional Activities

Paper Committees

SIGGRAPH 2024

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

Pacific Graphics 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023

Eurographics 2019, 2021

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2020, 2021, 2026

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2021

SIGGRAPH Asia Posters and Tech Comms 2019, 2020

CAD Graphics 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021

Journal Editor

IEEE TVCG Associate Editor

Reviewer

ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, CGI

ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, The Visual Computer, Computer Graphics Forum, Computers and Graphics