Yiwei Hu

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Yiwei Hu

Yiwei Hu is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of computer science, whose interests are materials and rendering. He is currently working on (inverse) procedural material modeling. He was a Research Intern in Meta Reality Lab and Adobe Research.

Before coming to Yale, He received his bachelor’s degree in the Computer Science Department at Zhejiang University.

Material and Texture Models

2026

Neural Representation and Latent Space Synthesis of Bidirectional Texture Functions

M. Xia, Zhang, Y., Yi, Y., Chaturvedi, S., Nogué, E., Hu, Y., Dorsey, J., and Jakob, W., “Neural Representation and Latent Space Synthesis of Bidirectional Texture Functions”, in Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2026. Downloads:
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2025

Generating 360 Video is What You Need For a 3D Scene

Z. Zhang, Hold-Geoffroy, Y., Hasan, M., Chen, Z., Luan, F., Dorsey, J., and Hu, Y., “Generating 360 Video is What You Need For a 3D Scene”, in SA '25: SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, 2025. Downloads:

_final_worldprompter_arxiv.pdf
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2023

Generating Procedural Materials from Text or Image Prompts

Y. Hu, Guerrero, P., Hasan, M., Rushmeier, H., and Deschaintre, V., “Generating Procedural Materials from Text or Image Prompts”, in SIGGRAPH 2023, 2023. Downloads:

generating_procedural_materials_from_text_or_image_prompts.pdf
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2022

An Inverse Procedural Modeling Pipeline for SVBRDF Maps

Y. Hu, He, C. 'an, Deschaintre, V., Dorsey, J., and Rushmeier, H., “An Inverse Procedural Modeling Pipeline for SVBRDF Maps”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH 2022), vol. 41, no. 2, 2022. Downloads:

ipmm_preprint.pdf
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Node Graph Optimization Using Differentiable Proxies

Y. Hu, Guerrero, P., Hasan, M., Rushmeier, H., and Deschaintre, V., “Node Graph Optimization Using Differentiable Proxies”, in SIGGRAPH 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2022. Downloads:

node_graph_optimization_using_differentiable_proxies.pdf
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Controlling Material Appearance by Examples

Y. Hu, Hasan, M., Guerrero, P., Rushmeier, H., and Deschaintre, V., “Controlling Material Appearance by Examples”, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2022), vol. 41, no. 4, 2022. Downloads:

controlling_material_appearance_by_examples_preprint.pdf
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Multirate Shading with Piecewise Interpolatory Approximation

Y. Hu, Yuan, Y., Wang, R., Yang, Z., and Bao, H., “Multirate Shading with Piecewise Interpolatory Approximation”, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2022), vol. 41, no. 7, 2022. Downloads:

multirate_shading_with_piecewise_interpolatory_approximation.pdf
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2019

A Novel Framework For Inverse Procedural Texture Modeling

Y. Hu, Dorsey, J., and Rushmeier, H., “A Novel Framework For Inverse Procedural Texture Modeling”, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH AISA 2019), vol. 38, no. 6, 2019. Downloads:

inverse_procedural_texture_modeling_high-res.pdf,

inverse_procedural_texture_modeling_low-res.pdf,

inverse_procedural_texture_modeling_supp.pdf
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