Miao Liao - University of Kentucky

Miao Liao
300 Alumni Drive, Apt 185, Lexington, KY, 40503
miao.liao@uky.edu, http://vis.uky.edu/∼liaomiao/
(859) 257-1257 ext. 82212 or (859) 559-5138
EDUCATION University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Interests in Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
Dissertation Topic: Single View Modeling and View Synthesis
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Bachelor of Engineering, School of Software
SKILLS Programming: Proficient in C, Matlab, OpenCV, OpenGL, Nvidia Cg, Nvidia CUDA; familiar
with JAVA, C++
Application: LATEX, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Studio MAX, Adobe Premiere, TortoiseSVN
Hardware: PGR Flea2&Dragonfly2 Camera, Nvidia Geforce Series Graphics Cards, Nikon/Canon
DSLR Cameras, Swissranger TOF Depth Camera, 3DV Systems ZCam Depth Camera
EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky Spring 2011
• Course: CS 315-Algorithm Design and Analysis
Research Assistant, University of Kentucky 2005∼present
• Conducting research on the low level computer vision tasks such as stereo matching and 3D
reconstruction from photographs.
• Designing and developing application systems that accompany with our research projects.
Intern, Intuitive Surgical Inc., CA Summer 2008
• Developed a system to reconstruct the 3D shape of the inner organs from the stereo image
pairs captured by the endoscope cameras. The system was implemented on GPU, achieving
real-time performance that enables online visualization and manipulation for the surgeons.
Intern, Microsoft Research, WA Summer 2007
• Worked in the Communication and Collaboration Systems Group under the supervision of
Both Dr. Zhengyou Zhang and Mr. John Lewis.
• Thoroughly learned the mechanism of laser projector.
• Designed and developed the prototype laser projector that is small enough to fit into a cell
phone.
Intern, Microsoft Research, WA January 2007
• Developed a tele-collaboration system that allows the interaction of participants by visual
echo cancelation.
• The system enables hand writing and drawing on the shared electronic documents in a telecollaboration
system.
Intern, CG & CAD Center, Beijing, China Fall 2004∼Spring 2005
• Developed a platform for simulating nature scenery.
Intern, CG & CAD Center, Beijing, China Summer 2004
• Developed a Software to generate shadow of 3D objects in real-time.
PUBLICATIONS • Miao Liao, Xinyu Huang, Ruigang Yang, Interreflections Removal for Photometric Stereo
by Using Spectrum-dependent Albedo, accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
• Miao Liao, Jizhou Gao, Ruigang Yang, Minglun Gong, Video Stereolization: Combining Motion
Analysis with User Interaction, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics (TVCG) after minor revision.

PAPERS UNDER
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PAST
PROJECTS
• Guangyu Mu, Miao Liao, Ruigang Yang, Dantong Ouyang, Zhiwen Xu, Xiaoxin Guo, Complete
3D Model Reconstruction Using Two Types of Depth Sensors, IEEE International Conference
on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, 2010.
• Guangyu Mu, Miao Liao, Ruigang Yang, Dantong Ouyang, Zhiwen Xu, Xiaoxin Guo, Complete
3D Model Reconstruction Using a Depth Sensor, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Computing and Integrated Systems, 2010.
• Miao Liao, Qing Zhang, Ruigang Yang and Minglun Gong, A Volumetric Approach for Merging
Range Images of Semi-Rigid Objects Captured at Different Time Instances, International
Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2010.
• Miao Liao, Qing Zhang, Huamin Wang , Ruigang Yang and Minglun Gong, Modeling Deformable
Objects from A Single Depth Camera, IEEE 12th International Conference on
Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009, Oral Presentation.
• Huaming Wang, Miao Liao, Qing Zhang, Ruigang Yang and Greg Turk, Physically Guided
Liquid Surface Modeling from Videos, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings
of ACM SIGGRAPH 2009, Volume 28 Issue 3, August 2009.
• Jiejie Zhu, Miao Liao, Ruigang Yang and Zhigeng Pan, Joint Depth and Alpha Matte Optimization
via Fusion of Stereo and Time-of-Flight Sensor, IEEE Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
• Miao Liao, Zhengyou Zhang and John Lewis, Software-based Distortion Compensation for a
Scanned Beam Display, IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems 2008.
• Miao Liao, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang and Minglun Gong, Real-Time Light Fall-off Stereo,
15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2008.
• Miao Liao, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, Minglun Gong, Light Fall-off Stereo, IEEE Conference
on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
• Miao Liao, Ruigang Yang, Zhengyou Zhang, Robust and Accurate Visual Echo Cancelation
in a Full-duplex Projector-camera System, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Oct. 2008, Volume 30, Issue 10, page 1831-1840.
• Miao Liao, Mingxuan Sun, Ruigang Yang, Zhengyou Zhang, Robust and Accurate Visual
Echo Cancelation in a Full-duplex Projector-camera System, IEEE International Workshop
on Projector-Camera Systems 2006.
• Liang Wang, Miao Liao, Minglun Gong, Ruigang Yang, David Nister, High Quality Real-time
Stereo using Adaptive Cost Aggregation and Dynamic Programming, International Symposium
on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 2006, oral presentation.
• Qingxiong Yang, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, Shengnan Wang, Miao Liao, David Nister, Realtime
Global Stereo Matching Using Hierarchical Belief Propagation, British Machine Vision
Conference 2006.
• Miao Liao, Jiejie Zhu, Ruigang Yang, Zhigeng Pan, Towards Real-time Joint Depth and Alpha
Matte Optimization via Fusion of Stereo and Time-of-Flight Sensor, submitted to IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing.
• Miao Liao, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, Minglun Gong, A Real-time Depth Sensor Based
on Light Fall-off Stereo, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence.
Monocular to Stereo Video Conversion: We developed a semi-automatic system that converts
conventional videos into stereo videos. By applying motion analysis, our system largely
alleviates the burden of user labeling with the assistance from the automatically explored 3D
information.
Single View Deformable Object Modeling: We reconstructed complete 3D deformable objects
by a single depth camera, which is traditionally accomplished by an array of surrounding
cameras. Compared to camera array, our system is more portable and affordable.
Liquid Modeling from Videos: We reconstructed the model of complex fluid by combining
the image-based modeling with physically-based simulation. Our result was selected on the

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back-cover of the SIGGRAPH 2009 proceedings.
Matting Via Depth: By combining the stereo camera and the Time-of-Flight depth sensor, we
developed a system to combine the complementary nature of scene depth and alpha matte to
mutually enhance their qualities.
Laser Projector Simulator: We Designed and implemented an UI by MFC to allow users to
tune parameters and simulate the output of laser projector. This software significantly speedups
the process of hardware design.
Light Fall-off Stereo: We implemented a real-time range sensor based on a novel idea: light
fall-off stereo. Our sensor captures at 60fps and is robust to both texture and textureless objects.
This was filed as invention disclosure in the University of Kentucky.
Visual Echo Cancellation: We developed a tele-collaboration system that allows interaction
(lecturing/writing) of participants, which is achieved by classifying foreground and background
(visual echo) in the captured scenarios. Our system was the first demo in the Microsoft Research
Faulty Summit 2007.
Real-time Stereo Matching: We implemented variety of stereo matching algorithms on GPU:
Winner-Take-All, Dynamic Programming, Belief Propagation. All of them reach real-time performance.
• Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, University of Kentucky, 2010∼2011.
• IEEE PAMI-Technical Committee travel grants, ICCV, 2009.
• Conference and Research Student Support Funding, University of Kentucky, 2007
• Conference and Research Student Support Funding, University of Kentucky, 2006
• Full Research Assistantship, University of Kentucky, 2005∼present.
• Paper presentation on 3DPVT 2010, Paris, France
• Paper presentation on ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan
• Final internship reporting in Intuitive Surgical Inc., CA 2008
• Paper presentation on ProCams 2008, Los Angeles, CA
• Paper presentation on Mid-West Graphics workshop 2007, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
• Final intern reporting in Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2007
• Paper presentation on ProCams 2006, New York City
• Program committee member of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011
• Invited Reviewer of Graphics Interface (GI) 2011
• Invited Reviewer of Pattern Recognition Letters
• Invited Reviewer of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011
• Invited Reviewer of IEEE International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• Invited Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• Invited Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• Invited Reviewer of EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
• Invited Reviewer of International Journal of Imaging
• Invited Reviewer of IET Computer Vision
• Invited Reviewer of MDPI Sensors
• Invited Reviewer of IAPR Machine Vision and Application (MVA)
• Volunteer in the security team of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
• President of Chinese Student & Scholar Association, University of Kentucky, 2007∼2008
• Member of IEEE
• Member of ACM
• Member of Sigma Xi
• Member of Microsoft Research Alumni

INVENTION
DISCLOSURE
• Light Fall-off Stereo: Invention disclosure at the University of Kentucky, 2006
• Fast and high accuracy tooth reconstruction sensor: Invention disclosure at the University
of Kentucky, 2011