Zhenpei Yang Ph.D. Student in Computer Science UT Austin Email: yzp@utexas.edu Mail: 2317 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712 Office: GDC 5.504D

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at
The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Qixing Huang. I received my
B.Eng. degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in 2016.

• Surfel-GAN: Synthesizing Realistic Sensor Data for Autonomous Driving
  Zhenpei Yang, Yuning Chai, Dragomir Anguelov, Yin Zhou, Pei Sun, Dumitru Erhan,
  Sean Rafferty, Henrik Kretzschmar
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 (oral)
[arxiv]


• Extreme Relative Pose Network under Hybrid Representations
  Zhenpei Yang*, Siming Yan*, Qixing Huang
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 (oral)
[arxiv]


• Extreme Relative Pose Estimation for RGB-D Scans via Scene Completion
  Zhenpei Yang, Jeffrey Z.Pan, Linjie Luo, Xiaowei Zhou, Kristen Grauman, Qixing Huang
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019 (oral)
[paper] [code]


• Deep Generative Modeling for Scene Synthesis via Hybrid Representations
  Zaiwei Zhang, Zhenpei Yang, Chongyang Ma, Linjie Luo, Alexander Huth,
  Etienne Vouga, Qixing Huang
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2018.
[paper]


• LSTM-based Whisper Detection
  Zeynab Raeesy, Kellen Gillespie, Zhenpei Yang, Chengyuan Ma, Thomas Drugman,
  Jiacheng Gu, Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister
  
[paper] [media]


• Learning Generative Neural Networks for 3D Colorization
  Zhenpei Yang, Lihang Liu, Qixing Huang
  Thirty-second AAAI Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2018 (oral)
[paper]

• Aug. 2016 - Present: Ph.D. student, UT Austin, USA
• Aug. 2014 - Feb. 2015: Exchange student, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland
• Aug. 2012 - June. 2016: Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China

• Waymo Research, June. 2019 - Aug. 2019, Mountain View. Working with Drago Anguelov (Host), Yuning Chai, Yin Zhou
• Amazon Alexa, May. 2017 - Aug. 2017, Boston. Working with Jiacheng Gu (Host), Thomas Drugman

• Waymo is using AI to simulate autonomous vehicle camera
• The Amazon Echo has a 'whisper mode' for Alexa