About

I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor in the US system) at the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Previously, I served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik under the mentorship of Prof. Karol Myszkowski. I also had the privilege of being a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, where I collaborated with Prof. Rafał Mantiuk. I completed my Ph.D. at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where I was co-advised by Prof. Miu-Ling Lam and Prof. Hongbo Fu.

My research interests include, but not limited to: Computational Display, investigating glass-free 3D display, virtual reality, and augmented reality from hardware aspect (optics) to software aspects (rendering); Perception, exploring the perceptional principles for display systems from Computer Graphics perspective; Computational Imaging, exploring AI-driven imaging techniques for scene representation, depth-of-field synthesis and manipulation, and HDR imaging.

I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students (2 positions). Feel free to drop me an email if you are interested.

News

📢 2024-04: I was invited to serve as a PC member for AAAI 2025
📢 2024-04: One paper is accepted by SIGGRAPH 2024
📢 2024-04: I was invited to serve as a PC member for Pacific Graphics 2024
● 2023-12: I will serve on SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 as Technical Paper session chair
● 2023-09: Two papers are accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
● 2023-07: Our paper is accepted by ICCV 2023
● 2023-02: Our paper is accepted by ICASSP 2023
● 2022-09: Our paper is accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
● 2022-06: Our CVPR paper is selected in Best Paper Award Finalist (Top 0.4%)
● 2022-03: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2022 (Oral)
● 2022-02: One paper is accepted by Eurographics 2022
● 2021-04: One paper is accepted by SIGGRAPH 2021

Selected Publications

Self-Supervised Video Defocus Deblurring with Atlas Learning
Lingyan Ruan, Martin Bálint, Mojtaba Bemana, Krzysztof Wolski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Bin Chen^† (^†Corresponding Author)
SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Proceeding
Project Page Paper Supplementary Code (coming soon)

The effect of display capabilities on the gloss consistency between real and virtual objects
Bin Chen^*, Akshay Jindal^*, Michal Piovarči, Chao Wang, Hans-Peter Seidel, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Ana Serrano, Rafał Mantiuk (^*Co-First Author)
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Conference Proceeding
Project Page Paper Supplementary Code (coming soon)

A Neural Implicit Representation for the Image Stack: Depth, All in Focus, and High Dynamic Range
Chao Wang, Ana Serrano, Xingang Pan, Bin Chen, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Krzysztof Wolski, Thomas Leimkühler
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 (TOG)
Project Page Code (coming soon)

GlowGAN: Unsupervised Learning of HDR Images from LDR Images in the Wild
Chao Wang, Ana Serrano, Xingang Pan, Bin Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Karol Myszkowski, Thomas Leimkühler
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
Paper Code (coming soon)

Subspace Modeling Enabled High-Sensitivity X-Ray Chemical Imaging
Jizhou Li, Bin Chen, Guibin Zan, Guannan Qian, Piero Pianetta, Yijin Liu
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
Paper

LaKDNet: Revisiting Image Deblurring with an Efficient ConvNet
Lingyan Ruan, Mojtaba Bemana, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Bin Chen^† (^†Corresponding Author)
arXiv preprint, 2023
Paper Code

Gloss Management for Consistent Reproduction of Real and Virtual Objects
Bin Chen, Michal Piovarči, Chao Wang, Piotr Didyk, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Ana Serrano
SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Proceeding 2022
Project Page Paper Supplementary

Learning to Deblur using Light Field Generated and Real Defocus Images
Lingyan Ruan^*, Bin Chen^*,Jizhou Li, Miu-Ling Lam (^*Co-First Author)
CVPR 2022 [Oral, Best Paper Finalist, Top 0.4%]
Project Page Paper Supplementary Code Online Demo

Learning a Self‐supervised Tone Mapping Operator via Feature Contrast Masking Loss
Chao Wang, Bin Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Karol Myszkowski, Ana Serrano
Eurographics (EG) 2022
Project Page Paper Supplementary Code

The Effect of Shape and Illumination on Material Perception: Model and Applications
Ana Serrano, Bin Chen, Chao Wang, Michal Piovarči, Hans-Peter Seidel, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) SIGGRAPH 2021
Project Page Paper Supplementary Code

AIFNet: All-in-Focus Image Restoration Network Using a Light Field-Based Dataset
Lingyan Ruan, Bin Chen,Jizhou Li, Miu-Ling Lam
IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging 2021
Project Page Paper Code

The Effect of Geometry and Illumination on Appearance Perception of Different Material Categories
Bin Chen, Chao Wang, Michal Piovarči, Hans-Peter Seidel, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Ana Serrano
The Visual Computer 2021
Paper

LFGAN: 4D Light Field Synthesis from a Single RGB Image
Bin Chen, Lingyan Ruan, Miu-Ling Lam
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) 2020
Paper Supplementary Code

Light Field Display with Ellipsoidal Mirror Array and Single Projector
Bin Chen, Lingyan Ruan, Miu-Ling Lam
Optics express 2019
Project Page Paper

Human-Computer Interaction by Voluntary Vergence Control
Lingyan Ruan, Bin Chen, Miu-Ling Lam
SIGGRAPH Asia Posters 2018
Project Page Paper

A Novel Volumetric Display using Fog Emitter Matrix
Miu-Ling Lam, Bin Chen, Yaozhun Huang
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015
Project Page Paper

Interactive Volumetric Fog Display
Miu-Ling Lam, Yaozhun Huang, Bin Chen
SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies 2015
Paper

Optimized Topographical Labeling for Identification of Unknown Nucleic Acids
Miu-Ling Lam, Bin Chen, Ting-Hsuan Chen
IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered & Molecular Systems (NEMS) 2015 [Best Conference Poster Award]
Paper

Optimization of Combinatory Nicking Endonucleases for Accurate Identification of Nucleic Acids in Low Abundance
Miu-Ling Lam, Bin Chen, Ting-Hsuan Chen
Journal of Laboratory Automation 2015
Paper

An Efficient Framework for Estimation of Muscle Fiber Orientation using Ultrasonography
S. Ling^*, Bin Chen^*, Y. Zhou, W. Yang, Y. Zhao, L. Wang, Y. Zheng
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 (^*Equal contribution)
Paper

Image Enhancement Methods for a Customized Videokeratography System Designed for Animals with Small Eyes
Bin Chen, S. Ling, H. Cen, W. Xu, C. Kee, Y. Zhou, L. Wang
Frontier and Future Development of Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME) 2013
Paper

As Reviewer

SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH Asia
CVPR
ECCV
ICASSP
Eurographics
Pacific Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
IEEE Transactions on Image processing (TIP)
Optics Express
IEEE Signal Processing Letter (SPL)
Graphics & Visual Computing
Computer Graphics Forum
Patterns (Cell Press)
The Visual Computer