Scholar
Yinda Zhang
Google Scholar ID: F15ODMIAAAAJ
Google Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
12,695
H-index
39
i10-index
65
Publications
20
Co-authors
52
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published extensively in top-tier venues including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, TPAMI, CHI, and AAAI
- Six papers accepted at CVPR, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH in 2024
- Multiple papers accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia, TPAMI, ICCV, CHI, and CVPR in 2023
- Papers accepted at TPAMI, SIGGRAPH, CVPR, and ECCV in 2022
- Five CVPR 2021 papers (2 orals), five ICCV 2021 papers
- Three ECCV 2020 papers (2 orals), four CVPR 2020 papers; Pixel2Mesh published in TPAMI
- Pixel2Mesh++ accepted at ICCV 2019; DeepLidar accepted at CVPR 2019
- ActiveStereoNet (oral) and Pixel2Mesh accepted at ECCV 2018
- Research deployed in Google Pixel devices (e.g., Pixel4 Portrait Mode)
- Awarded Siebel Scholar Class of 2019
- TC-GEN, a generative model for hurricanes, accepted by JAMES (2024), marking first foray into environmental science
Research Experience
- Joined Google as a Research Scientist in December 2018
- Leads a team developing immersive communication and perception technologies
- Developed deep learning-based depth estimation and AR solutions deployed on Google Pixel phones (e.g., Pixel4 Portrait Mode, front-facing camera depth refinement)
- Unveiled AR technology, Portrait Depth API, and 3D Photo live demo at Google I/O 2022
- Contributed to perception features for the AndroidXR platform
Background
- Research Scientist and Manager at Google
- Research interests at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning
- Works on 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, neural rendering, digital humans, and large generative models
- Recently focused on integrating human-centric and 3D knowledge into large generative models for consistent, realistic, and immersive content generation
- Leads a team at Google developing cutting-edge immersive communication and perception technologies
