Lingjie Liu Receives ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
thoma_gu · x · 2026-08-21
Lingjie Liu received the 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award for her outstanding contributions to neural representations, human performance capture/animation, and 3D reconstruction.
Key contributions include:
- Neural Sparse Voxel Fields: Pioneered efficient sparse implicit neural representations, dramatically accelerating NeRF rendering.
- NeuS & NeuS2: Integrated neural signed distance fields with volume rendering to address bias in SDF learning, enabling high-quality surface reconstruction from images and more efficient training.
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