Peizhi Yan

Peizhi (Matthew) Yan

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia

The 80th-generation direct descendant of Yanzi (c. 521–481 BC), philosopher.

Recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal (Canada) and the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (Toronto Vector Institute).

Selected Publications

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ArchitectHead

ArchitectHead

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Qiang Tang, Shan Du

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026

Continuous level-of-detail (LOD) control for 3DGS head avatars.

Neural 3D Face Stylization

Neural 3D Face Stylization

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Qiang Tang, Shan Du

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025

A neural network-based mesh deformation transfer method for learning 3D face stylization in a weakly supervised manner.

Gaussian Deja-vu

Gaussian Deja-vu

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Qiang Tang, Shan Du

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025 Oral

A 3DGS-based head avatar creation method that accelerates training for personalized avatars and enhances their photorealistic quality.

StyleMorpheus

StyleMorpheus

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Dan Wang, Qiang Tang, Shan Du

Neurocomputing, 2025

A style-based neural morphable face model trained on in-the-wild images, enabling photorealistic 3D face synthesis and editing.

HeadNeRF+

HeadNeRF+

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Dan Wang, Qiang Tang, Shan Du

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023

A 3D-aware face reconstruction learning framework tailored for HeadNeRF.

NEO-3DF

NEO-3DF: Novel Editing-Oriented 3D Face Creation and Reconstruction

Peizhi Yan, James Gregson, Qiang Tang, Rabab Ward, Zhan Xu, Shan Du

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2022

Open-Source Software

GMesh

GMesh

A lightweight differentiable renderer for scenes that mix triangle meshes and 3D Gaussian splats.

FLAME Head Tracker

FLAME Head Tracker

FLAME head tracking from images and videos, used in ArchitectHead and Gaussian Deja-vu.

Honors

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Academic Service

Program Committee
AAAI 2027, Graphics Interface (GI) 2025
Session Chair
IEEE ICIP 2025
Journal Reviewer
TPAMI, TVCG, TIP, TMM, TCSVT, TOMM, Neurocomputing
Conference Reviewer
CVPR, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACCV, ICIP, GI

Talks

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