Yajie Gu

Hi, I am Yajie Gu, a final-year PhD student in Vision, Graphics and Learning Research Group (VGL) at University of York, UK, supervised by Prof. Nick Pears.

My PhD research has focussed on understanding and exploring generative models for the analysis and modelling of 3D facial scans. I have specifically worked on developing models that disentangle face identity and expression in an explicit manner, i.e., point clouds, and on learning independent parts-based latent representations of 3D face shapes in an implicit manner, i.e., signed distance functions, which aims to achieve semantic controllability. The diverse applications based on the learnt representations have significantly captured my interest. Meanwhile, I’m also deeply attracted by 3D scene reconstruction and making representation learning more comprehensible for future exploration.

Have an idea or something on your mind that you think we could discuss? I’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reach out anytime.