Cheng-Kang Ted Chao

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I am a final-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at George Mason University, working in CraGL under the guidance of Yotam Gingold. I received my M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020, advised by Edmond Chow, and my B.S. in Mathematics from National Central University, Taiwan, in 2018.

Throughout my Ph.D. I spent two summers (2021 and 2024) as a research intern at Adobe Research, working with Jose Echevarria on color lookup table compression for efficient color style transfer (2021), and with Li-Yi Wei and Rubaiat Habib Kazi on vector animation for fluid simulations (2024). I also spent one summer (2023) at Tencent Pixel Lab as an applied research intern, working with Ran Zhang and Changxi Zheng on editing implicit neural fields.

I focus on developing efficient algorithms for intuitive manipulation of digital content, particularly in image and 3D scene processing. My research leverages sparse optimization, numerical linear algebra, and perceptual models to enable expressive, controllable, and computationally tractable editing workflows.

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Research

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Color Editing
NPR
Sparse Optimization
Survey
ColorfulCurves
SIGGRAPH North America 2023 · ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 42(4)
Edit image lightness and color directly through palette-aware tone curves, where a sparse optimization keeps each adjustment intuitive and localized to the colors you intend to change.
LoCoPalettes
EGSR 2023 · Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 42(4)
Local control for palette-based image editing. A hierarchical, sparse-optimization formulation resolves conflicting edits so that color changes apply precisely where you want them.
Survey
Cheng-Kang Ted Chao, Yotam Gingold
arXiv 2023
A short survey of recent methods for text-guided editing and generation of 2D images and 3D shapes, organizing the landscape of techniques and open problems.
PosterChild
Cheng-Kang Ted Chao, Karan Singh, Yotam Gingold
Computer Graphics Forum 2021 · Special issue, EGSR 2021
Blend-aware artistic posterization: decompose an image into a compact palette and recolorable layers for flexible, editable flat-color stylization.

Service

Conference Reviewer
SIGGRAPH North America, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, EGSR, Pacific Graphics
Journal Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Computer & Graphics, Scientific Reports, The Visual Computer
Others
Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI)

Teaching

CS 600 Theory of Computation — Teaching Assistant, GMU, Fall 2022 & 2023.
CS 688 Machine Learning — Teaching Assistant, GMU, Spring 2022.

Misc

By the ocean

I enjoy taking photos. Check out my Instagram for more.