Qimin Chen

I will be joining Adobe Firefly Foundry in Seattle as an Applied Scientist working on custom generative AI (image/video/3D) models.

I received my PhD degree from School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, under the supervision of Prof. Hao (Richard) Zhang. Before that, I received my M.S. degree in Computational Science from UC San Diego, where I worked at Center for Visual Computing Lab advised by Prof. David J. Kriegman. Before that, I received my B.S degree in Computer Science and Technology from Fuzhou University.

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News
May 06, 2026 I passed my PhD thesis defense “Interactive and Controllable 3D Shape Detailization”
Mar 22, 2026 I presented ART-DECO at 3DV 2026 (Nectar Track) Vancouver, Canada
Oct 02, 2025 I was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for ICCV 2025
Aug 10, 2025 ART-DECO was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
Jun 12, 2025 I was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2025
Feb 28, 2025 GenVDM was accepted to CVPR 2025 Highlight
Jul 03, 2024 DECOLLAGE was accepted to ECCV 2024
Jun 18, 2024 I gave a talk about DAE-Net at CVPR 2024 Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision Seattle
May 28, 2024 I started as a Research Scientist Intern at Adobe Seattle supervised by Zhiqin and Vova
Mar 25, 2024 DAE-Net was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024
Sep 22, 2023 D2CSG was accepted to NeurIPS 2023
Aug 04, 2023 ShaDDR was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
May 15, 2023 I started as a Research Scientist Intern at Adobe Seattle supervised by Vova and Sid
Mar 08, 2022 UNIST was accepted to CVPR 2022
Aug 02, 2021 "A New Deep Learning Engine for CoralNet" was accepted to ICCV 2021 Workshop on Computer Vision in the Ocean


Research

My research focuses on geometry modeling, machine learning, and shape analysis. I am particularly interested in building generative models for fine-grained, controllable 3D shape synthesis guided by geometry, images, or text. I am also interested in image and video foundation models for customized content generation.

2025

ART-DECO: Arbitrary Text Guidance for 3D Detailizer Construction
Qimin Chen, Yuezhi Yang, Wang Yifan, Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Hao Zhang Zhiqin Chen
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (Conference)
pdf / code / project page

ART-DECO is a 3D detailizer that instantly transforms coarse 3D shape proxies into high-quality, textured 3D assets guided by text prompts. Trained via SDS from MVDream, ART-DECO enables interactive modeling, style-consistent details, and creative structure control.

GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image
Yuezhi Yang, Qimin Chen, Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Qixing Huang, Zhiqin Chen
CVPR 2025 (highlight)
pdf / code / project page

GenVDM is the first method for generating Vector Displacement Maps (VDMs): parameterized geometric stamps commonly used in 3D modeling. It generates multi-view normal maps from a single input image and then reconstructs a VDM via a novel reconstruction pipeline.

2024

DECOLLAGE: 3D Detailization by Controllable, Localized, and Learned Geometry Enhancement
Qimin Chen, Zhiqin Chen, Vladimir G. Kim, Noam Aigerman, Hao Zhang, Siddhartha Chaudhuri
ECCV 2024
pdf / code / project page

DECOLLAGE is a learning-based method that enables novice users to add geometric details to a coarse 3D shape by selecting regions on it and assigning them the styles of exemplar shapes with compelling geometric details.

DAE-Net: Deforming Auto-Encoder for fine-grained shape co-segmentation
Zhiqin Chen, Qimin Chen, Hang Zhou, Hao Zhang
ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 (Conference)
pdf / code

DAE-Net is an unsupervised 3D shape co-segmentation method that learns a set of deformable part templates from a shape collection, which yields high-quality, consistent, and fine-grained 3D shape co-segmentation.

2023

ShaDDR: Interactive Example-Based Geometry and Texture Generation via 3D Shape Detailization and Differentiable Rendering
Qimin Chen, Zhiqin Chen, Hang Zhou, Hao Zhang
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 (Conference)
pdf / code / project page

The first example-based deep generative neural network for generating a high-resolution textured 3D shape through geometry detailization and conditional texture generation applied to an input coarse voxel shape.

D2CSG: Unsupervised Learning of Compact CSG Trees with Dual Complements and Dropouts
Fenggen Yu, Qimin Chen, Maham Tanveer, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Hao Zhang
NeurIPS 2023
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D2CSG is a neural model composed of two dual and complementary network branches, with dropouts, for unsupervised learning of compact constructive solid geometry (CSG) representations of 3D CAD shapes.

2022

UNIST: Unpaired Neural Implicit Shape Translation Network
Qimin Chen, Johannes Merz, Aditya Sanghi, Hooman Shayani, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Hao Zhang
CVPR 2022
pdf / supplementary / code / project page

The first deep neural implicit model for general-purpose, unpaired shape-to-shape translation, in both 2D and 3D domains. UNIST can learn both style-preserving content alteration and content-preserving style transfer.

2021

A New Deep Learning Engine for CoralNet
Qimin Chen, Oscar Beijbom, Stephen Chan, Jessica Bouwmeester, David Kriegman
ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision in the Ocean (ICCVW), 2021
pdf / bibtex / coralnet / code

CoralNet is a cloud-based website and platform for manual, semi-automatic and automatic analysis of coral reef images. Users access CoralNet through optimized web-based workflows for common tasks, other systems can interface through API.

2020

Topology-Aware Single-Image 3D Shape Reconstruction
Qimin Chen, Vincent Nguyen, Feng Han, Raimondas Kiveris, Zhuowen Tu
CVPR Workshop on Learning 3D Generative Models (CVPRW), 2020
pdf / poster / bibtex

Composing volumetric-based generative model with topology-awareness auto-encoder allows them to learn high-level topological properties such as genus and connectivity for 3D shape reconstruction.


Experience
May - Aug 2024 Adobe Seattle  -  Graphics (2D & 3D)
Research Scientist Intern
May - Aug 2023 Adobe Seattle  -  Graphics (2D & 3D)
Research Scientist Intern
2018 - 2020 University of California, San Diego  -  CoralNet
Research Assistant

Teaching
fa 25 Simon Fraser University  -  CMPT 410/726: Machine Learning
su 25 Simon Fraser University  -  CMPT 479/745: Software Engineering
sp 25,26 Simon Fraser University  -  CMPT 420/728: Deep Learning
sp 22 Simon Fraser University  -  CMPT 762: Computer Vision
fa 21 Simon Fraser University  -  CMPT 464/764: Geometric Modeling in Computer Graphics
sp 19 University of California, San Diego  -  CSE 152: Introduction to Computer Vision

Services
2025 Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
2025 Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
2025,26 Reviewer: ACM SIGGRAPH
2023,24,25,26 Reviewer: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia
2024,25,26 Reviewer: The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
2025 Reviewer: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2024,26 Reviewer: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
2026 Reviewer: International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)
2025,26 Reviewer: Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics)
2026 Reviewer: The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
2025 Program Committee: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2026 Program Committee: ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM)


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