Kenny Chen

PhD Student @nyuniversity • @UCBerkeley ‘21

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

Huge thanks to my co-organizers: Niall L. Williams, Colin Groth, @jenjenzies, @AlexChapiro, @qisun0

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

At SIGGRAPH this year, we will be holding a new technical workshop called "From Human Vision to Machine Vision"! It will feature exciting talks ranging from low-level human visual perception, to applied perception, art & photography, and to machine vision! Please come by!

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

Two Minute Papers featured work I contributed to!!

[Two Minute Papers @twominutepapers]

Imagine thousands of tiny paint fairies swarming over an image, massaging and repainting until it’s flawless - and 25× smaller than before. Intel's incredible new technique could change how we store and render graphics forever. I got goosebumps. Full video: https://t.co/g8VkU2cKuD

[Richard Chen @im_richardchen]

First year Econ PhD students will soon be forced to become intimately familiar with optimization and KKT. I wrote a doc which gives some intuition, and corrects a common mistake with Newton's method. Hopefully it make the process less painful: https://t.co/hTYzzxt8yR

[Nithin Raghavan @nithin_raghavan]

If you’re at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, join us Thu 2 PM for our talk “Generative Neural Materials”! We introduce a universal neural material model for bidirectional texture functions and a complementary generative pipeline. 1/2

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

Thank you to whoever voted for our “What is HDR?” paper!

[ACM SIGGRAPH @siggraph]

🏆During the Technical Papers Fast Forward, participants voted for their favorite presentations — and here are the top 10 picks that captured the most attention, creativity, and innovation this year!

🖌 Painting with 3D Gaussian Splat Brushes

🍽 VirCHEW Reality: On-Face Kinesthetic Feedback for Enhancing Food-Intake Experience in Virtual Reality.

✨ SpotLessSplats: Ignoring Distractors in 3D Gaussian Splatting

💡 RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination

🌌 Don’t Splat your Gaussians: Volumetric Ray-Traced Primitives for Modeling and Rendering Scattering and Emissive Media

💧 Gaussian Fluids: A Grid-Free Fluid Solver based on Gaussian Spatial Representation

👐 VR-Doh: Hands-on 3D Modeling in Virtual Reality

🌟 What is HDR? Perceptual Impact of Luminance and Contrast in Immersive Displays

👀 Towards Understanding Depth Perception in Foveated Rendering

💥 BANG: Dividing 3D Assets via Generative Exploded Dynamics

👏 Thank you to everyone who voted and celebrated these incredible achievements!

photo by John Fujii © 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH

[ACM SIGGRAPH @siggraph]

🏆During the Technical Papers Fast Forward, participants voted for their favorite presentations — and here are the top 10 picks that captured the most attention, creativity, and innovation this year!

🖌 Painting with 3D Gaussian Splat Brushes

🍽 VirCHEW Reality: On-Face Kinesthetic Feedback for Enhancing Food-Intake Experience in Virtual Reality.

✨ SpotLessSplats: Ignoring Distractors in 3D Gaussian Splatting

💡 RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination

🌌 Don’t Splat your Gaussians: Volumetric Ray-Traced Primitives for Modeling and Rendering Scattering and Emissive Media

💧 Gaussian Fluids: A Grid-Free Fluid Solver based on Gaussian Spatial Representation

👐 VR-Doh: Hands-on 3D Modeling in Virtual Reality

🌟 What is HDR? Perceptual Impact of Luminance and Contrast in Immersive Displays

👀 Towards Understanding Depth Perception in Foveated Rendering

💥 BANG: Dividing 3D Assets via Generative Exploded Dynamics

👏 Thank you to everyone who voted and celebrated these incredible achievements!

photo by John Fujii © 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

The sad fact is that the primary thing being hurt is not UCLA as an institution, but rather American science as a whole, and the American people.

[Stavros Diolatzis @StavrosDiol]

If you are attending #SIGGRAPH2025 in Vancouver check out our paper Image-GS, which explores various interesting aspects of compressing images and textures using 2D Gaussians.

https://t.co/fJcnGLBjwx

[Qi Sun @qisun0]

Our #SIGGRAPH2025 paper on efficient image representation for rapid random memory access on GPUs. Great collaboration with team Intel @StavrosDiol, @straintensor, @akshayjin, @ASochenov, @Kaplanyan and kudos to my students @YunxiangSJTU, Bingxuan, and @10kenchen

[Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli]

The founder of Penn's graphics program, Prof. Norm Badler, passed away last week. Norm was one of the early pioneers of CG, and over the past 50 years his students- thousands across PhD, Masters, and undergrad- have gone on to build much of today's CG field and industry. (1/5)

[CUSP at NYU Tandon @NYU_CUSP]

📢📝 New paper alert! "What is HDR? Perceptual Impact of Luminance and Contrast in Immersive Displays" by PhD Student Kenneth Chen @10kenchen, Asst. Prof. Qi Sun (CUSP, CSE) @qisun0 (Immersive Computing Lab), & a team of researchers at Meta: https://t.co/fIUUgEPWpb

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

Check out our paper!

[Alex Chapiro @AlexChapiro]

Introducing our new SIGGRAPH'25 paper: "What is HDR? Perceptual Impact of Luminance and Contrast in Immersive Displays".

We investigated how the contrast and peak luminance of a display impact user preferences.

Project page: https://t.co/F2CHog6wjC

[Alex Chapiro @AlexChapiro]

Introducing our new SIGGRAPH'25 paper: "What is HDR? Perceptual Impact of Luminance and Contrast in Immersive Displays".

We investigated how the contrast and peak luminance of a display impact user preferences.

Project page: https://t.co/F2CHog6wjC

[Alex Chapiro @AlexChapiro]

Come see our work with @zhshjiang & co. on “FaceMap: Distortion-Driven Perceptual Facial Saliency Maps” at @SIGGRAPHAsia on Dec 6. We studied the perceived importance of face regions, creating saliency maps useful as priors for better face rendering.

https://t.co/uVgcNKCG4a

[Alex Chapiro @AlexChapiro]

Announcing our @SIGGRAPHAsia work with @hdrsci lab studying the perception of distortions in augmented reality (AR) - Our data will help researchers create accurate metrics for AR.

Come see the talk on Dec 3rd, and check out the AR-DAVID project page: https://t.co/ClDBIsIL5E

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

@niallw_cs yep

[Computational Light Laboratory ⚡ @complightlab]

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🌟 A new cycle of seminars just got rebooted us. We recruited rising starts and experts as our next set of presenters, which helped us divide deep into the latest in Computer Science, including Optical Computing, Computational Displays and Perceptual Graphics.

[Boz @boztank]

We just unveiled Orion, our full AR glasses prototype that we’ve been working on for nearly a decade. When we started on this journey, our teams predicted that we had a 10% chance (at best) of success.

This was our project to see if our dream AR glasses—wide FOV display, less than 100 grams, wireless—were actually possible to build. Not only do they work, we’ll be using them internally as a time machine to help build the core experiences and interaction paradigms needed for the consumer AR glasses we plan to launch in the coming years.

TL;DR: We built it, just like we said we would =)

[Kenny Chen @10kenchen]

@niallw_cs Congrats sir see you soon