Hongchuan Yu

Dr Hongchuan Yu

  • Principal Academic In Computer Animation
  • Tolpuddle House TA121, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

Hongchuan Yu currently works as a Principal Academic in computer graphics and animation in National Centre for Computer Animation. He coordinated units, including Foundation of Computer Science (Level UG), Computing for Graphics & Animation C++ (Level UG), Personal Inquiry (level PG) and Numerical optimization methods (level PG). Prior to this appointment Dr Yu worked as a research fellow with School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia (Perth), and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Dept. of Computer Science, Tsinghua University (Beijing). Dr Yu’s research interests include computer vision, visualization, computer graphics and animation. Recent works mainly focus on Deep Learning Techniques with applications to graphics and animation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers on Journals and International academic conferences. The distinctive achievement is that he led the international collaboration project (with The University of HongKong, China) and published the research paper in Top Conference-SIGGRAPH 2016, which is the first SIGGRAPH paper led by NCCA academic...

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Research

Project 1. Foldover-free Surface Parameterization

Application to Texture Mapping, Collaboration with Prof TongYee Lee's group in National Cheng-Kung University (NCKU),

(http://vision.csie.ncku.edu.tw/~ichenyeh/homepage/publication/2012_TVCG/)

Application to High Dimensional Dataset, (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046413002025)

Project 2: Discrete geodesics on Meshes

The main contribution is to approximate to the limit of running time for continuous Dijkstra style methods, i.e. O(n^1.5). Collaboration with Prof Yizhou Yu's group in the HongKong University,

http://i.cs.hku.hk/~xghan/Projects/VTP.htm

Project 3. BigNeuron,

The main contribution is to develop an open source platform to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets, Collaboration with Prof Hanchuan Peng's group in Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China,

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-01848-5

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Quality education

"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"

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Decent work and economic growth

"Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all"

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Industry, innovation and infrastructure

"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation"

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Reduced inequalities

"Reduce inequality within and among countries"

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