Brief Biography
Dr. Minglun Gong is Professor and Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph, and was Head of Computer Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland before joining Guelph. As an academic leader, he fosters consensus and promotes team efforts to advance initiatives such as strategic growth, curriculum renewal, and inclusive hiring.
His research spans visual computing and AI, with over 160 refereed publications, including 25+ in ACM/IEEE Transactions. He received the 2025 SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award and multiple best paper awards with his students.
Dr. Gong earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and his M.Sc. from Tsinghua University.
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Minglun Gong
Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Guelph
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+1 (519) 824-4120 ext. 54019 |
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< firstname > at uoguelph dot ca |
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School of Computer Science University of Guelph Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada |
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Sep 4, 2025 | Welcome Zihan Yang, who returned to our lab to pursue his Ph.D. studies. |
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Aug 4, 2025 | Delivered an invited talk on Advanced Rendering & Modeling with 3D Gaussians at the Visual Computing Center, Shenzhen University. |
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Jul 29, 2025 | Presented an invited lecture on Advanced Rendering & Modeling with 3D Gaussians at the State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University. |
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Jun 6, 2025 | Our 2013 paper titled L1-Medial Skeleton of Point Cloud received the ACM SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award. |
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Apr 5, 2025 | Our work on Structured 3D Abstraction of Sparse Points was accepted by the CVPR 2025 as a Highlight paper (acceptance rate: 3%). |
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Dec 3, 2024 | Invited to serve on the Technical Papers Committee for SIGGRAPH 2025. |
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Nov 26, 2024 | Gave an invited lecture on Exploring 3D Modeling and Counting as Tools for Precision Agriculture at the Institute of Agricultural Information, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences. |
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Sep 14, 2024 | Yande Li's paper on Facial Expression Recognition was published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. |
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Jul 28, 2024 | Our paper on Architectural Co-LOD Generation was conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. |
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Jun 27, 2024 | Was invited to speak on Exploring 3D Modeling and Counting as Tools for Precision Agriculture at the School of Electrical and Information, Northeast Agricultural University. |
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May 12, 2024 | Invited to serve on the Technical Papers Committee for SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. |
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Sep 5, 2023 | Welcome Zhentao Huang, who remained in our lab to pursue his Ph.D. studies. |
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Sep 1, 2023 | Presented an invited talk on Visibility-Aware Pixelwise View Selection for Multi-View Stereo Matching at the Visual Computing Center, Shenzhen University. |
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Aug 31, 2023 | Delivered an invited lecture on Generalization in Machine Learning for Counting Problems at the Visual Computing Center, Shenzhen University. |
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Aug 24, 2023 | Congratulations to Zhentao Huang, who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis. |
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Aug 16, 2023 | Our paper on Neural 3D Packing was conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. |
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Jul 29, 2023 | Gave a keynote address on Generalization in Machine Learning for Counting Problems at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (online). |
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Apr 21, 2023 | Congratulations to Zihan Yang, who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis. |
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Mar 29, 2023 | Gave an invited seminar on Generalization in Machine Learning for Counting Problems at the CSE/SHARCNET Seminar, McMaster University. |
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Jul 28, 2022 | Congratulations to Mingjie Wang, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. |
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Jul 19, 2022 | Congratulations to Hao Cai, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. |
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Jul 2, 2022 | Our paper on 3D Object Rigging appeared at the ECCV 2022. |
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May 6, 2022 | Congratulations to Xin Huang, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. |
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Apr 20, 2022 | Presented an invited talk on Enhancing Learning Capability of CNNs for Fundamental Vision Problems at the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University. |
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Jan 2, 2022 | Mingjie Wang's work on Crowd Counting was published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. |
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Dec 17, 2021 | Gave an invited online talk on Enhancing Learning Capability of CNNs for Fundamental Vision Problems at the College of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. |
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Dec 1, 2021 | Gave an invited online lecture on Deep Neural Networks for Conditional Visual Synthesis at the College of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. |
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Sep 9, 2021 | Welcome Yukun Shi and Zhentao Huang, who joined our lab as Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, respectively. |
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Aug 9, 2021 | Welcome Yande Li, who joined our lab as a visiting Ph.D. student supported by the China Scholarship Council. |
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Jul 30, 2021 | Our paper on UAV Path Planning for Urban Reconstruction was conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. |
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Jul 22, 2021 | Our paper on Event-Based 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation was accepted by the ICCV 2021. |
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Sep 7, 2020 | Welcome Zihan Yang, who joined our lab as an M.Sc. student. |
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Aug 1, 2020 | Two papers on Offsite Path Planning and 3D Object Packing were conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. |
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Jul 10, 2020 | Our paper on Branched GAN for Learning was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). |
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Jul 25, 2020 | Our paper Conditioned Generation of 3D Human Motions was accepted in the ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2020). |
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Jul 17, 2020 | Gave an invited talk at the online Visual Computing Summer School of Shandong University. |
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Jul 2, 2020 | Our paper on human shape and pose estimation was accepted by ECCV 2020. |
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Jun 5, 2020 | Our paper on Dynamic Human Avatar Modeling was published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. |
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May 14, 2020 | Gave an invited symposium talk at CRV 2020 on image style transfer. |
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Nov 10, 2019 | Our paper on image stylization was accepted by AAAI 2020. |
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Sep 6, 2019 | Congratulations to Wendong Mao, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. |
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Sep 3, 2019 | Our paper on image stylization was accepted by NeurIPS 2019. |
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May 30, 2019 | Xin Huang’s paper on text-to-image synthesis received the Best Paper Award at CRV 2019. |
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May 1, 2019 | Joined the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph as Professor and School Director. |
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Nov 26, 2018 | Congratulations to Farhad Kazemi, whose M.Sc. thesis passed the reviews. |
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Nov 19, 2018 | Congratulations to Yiming Qian, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis with distinction. He will join SFU as a Postdoctoral Researcher. |
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Nov 15, 2018 | Gave an invited talk at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University on transparent object capture. |
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Sep 20, 2018 | Gave an invited talk at the Visual Computing Center, Shenzhen University on image-to-image translation. |
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Jul 31, 2018 | Congratulations to Zili Yi, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He has joined Huawei Research Lab in Vancouver. |
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Jul 3, 2018 | Yiming Qian’s paper on underwater 3D reconstruction was accepted by ECCV 2018. |
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Mar 24, 2018 | Two papers on Transparent Object Modeling and Quadrotor Videography were conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH 2018. |
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Dec 15, 2017 | Invited talk at the University of Central Florida on image-to-image translation. |
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Nov 18, 2017 | Congratulations to Zizui Chen, whose M.Sc. thesis passed the review. |
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Nov 17, 2017 | Invited talk at the NSERC CREATE Data Analytics & Visualization Bootcamp on image-to-image translation. |
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Oct 16, 2017 | Our paper on Appearance Modeling was accepted by ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). |
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Sep 14, 2017 | Our paper on Structure-aware Data Consolidation was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). |
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Sep 7, 2017 | Welcome Mingjie Wang, who joined our lab as a Ph.D. student. |
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Aug 15, 2017 | Congratulations to Shiyao Wang, whose M.Sc. thesis passed the review. |
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Jul 16, 2017 | Zili Yi’s paper on Unsupervised Dual Learning was accepted by IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017. |
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May 30, 2017 | Congratulations to Xue Cui, whose M.Sc. thesis passed the review. He joined the Moving Picture Company in Montreal. |
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Feb 27, 2017 | Yiming Qian's paper on Water Surface Reconstruction was accepted by IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017. |
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Feb 16, 2017 | Our paper on discriminative star coordinates was conditionally accepted by EuroVis 2017. |
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Dec 23, 2016 | Our paper on guided texture synthesis was conditionally accepted by Eurographics 2017. |
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Dec 14, 2016 | Our paper on point cloud matching received the Best Paper Award at ISVC 2016. |
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Sep 6, 2016 | Welcome Xin Huang, who joined our lab as a Ph.D. student supported by the Chinese Government Scholarship. |
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Sep 2, 2016 | Invited talk at Shenzhen University on transparent object rendering and modeling. |
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Jul 11, 2016 | Congratulations to Yiming Qian, who received the prestigious AITF Graduate Student Scholarship. |
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May 20, 2016 | Invited talk at York University on autonomous object scanning. |
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Feb 29, 2016 | Yiming Qian’s work on transparent object reconstruction was accepted by CVPR 2016. |
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Feb 12, 2016 | Congratulations to Hao Yuan, whose M.Sc. thesis passed the review. |
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Feb 10, 2016 | Invited to serve on the International Program Committee of SIGMAP 2016. |
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Jan 6, 2016 | Welcome Xue Cui and Shiyao Wang, who joined our lab as M.Sc. students. |
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Sep 4, 2015 | Congratulations to Yiming Qian, who received the CS Early Achievement Award (Ph.D.) at the University of Alberta. |
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Sep 4, 2015 | Welcome our new Ph.D. students, Wendong Mao, Hao Cai, and Farhad Kazemi. Wendong joined us from Peking University and is a recipient of the Dean’s Doctoral Award. Hao is supported by the Chinese Government Scholarship. |
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Aug 29, 2015 | Yiming Qian’s work on environment matting was accepted by ICCV 2015. |
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Aug 8, 2015 | Two papers, Deep Points Consolidation and Generalized Cylinder Decomposition, were conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2015. |
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Jun 4, 2015 | Our paper on big-data classification received the Best Paper Award at AI 2015. |
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Jun 4, 2015 | Invited symposia talk at CRV 2015 on modeling and analyzing 3D shapes. |
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Feb 24, 2015 | Two algorithms developed by our group, WLOP and EAR, are now included in CGAL 4.6 – Point Set Processing. |
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Feb 2, 2015 | Our paper on foreground segmentation was accepted by IEEE TIP. |
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Dec 5, 2014 | Our paper on distilled image collections was accepted by Eurographics 2015. |
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Nov 4, 2014 | Invited to serve on the International Program Committee of CAD/Graphics 2015. |
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Oct 14, 2014 | Invited to serve on the Program Committee of CRV 2015. |
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Sep 26, 2014 | Invited to join the Program Committee of GI 2015. |
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Sep 9, 2014 | Congratulations to Yiming Qian, whose M.Sc. thesis passed the review. He will continue his Ph.D. studies at the University of Alberta, with me serving as co-supervisor. |
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Sep 8, 2014 | Welcome our new Ph.D. student, Zili Yi, who obtained his M.Sc. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. |
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Sep 3, 2014 | Welcome Songyuan Ji and Zizui Chen, who joined our lab as M.Sc. students. |
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Aug 11, 2014 | Two papers, Autoscanner and Morfit, were conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2014. |
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Jun 15, 2014 | Invited to join the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition. |
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May 12, 2014 | Welcome Yang Li, who joined our lab as an M.Sc. student. |
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Apr 22, 2014 | Congratulations to Timothy Yau, who successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis. |
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Mar 20, 2014 | Welcome our visiting scholar, Dr. Shibai Yin, who worked in our lab for three months. |
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Jan 17, 2014 | Grant Strong’s work on self-sorting maps was accepted by IEEE TMM. |
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Nov 23, 2013 | Our paper on flower modeling was accepted by Eurographics 2014. |
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Sep 14, 2013 | Welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Yunhai Wang, who joined our lab for a one-year term. |
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Sep 4, 2013 | Welcome Hao Yuan, who joined our lab as an M.Sc. student. |
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Jul 29, 2013 | Two papers, Projective Shape Analysis and Mind the Gap, were conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2013. |
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May 23, 2013 | A video clip for our skeletonization paper was featured in the SIGGRAPH 2013 Technical Papers Video Preview, which is also available on YouTube. |
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May 21, 2013 | Visited the Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, and gave two invited talks on data organization and shape composition. |
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Apr 22, 2013 | Congratulations to Grant Strong, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and joined Google in California. |
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Mar 27, 2013 | Our paper on point cloud skeletonization was conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH 2013. |
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Feb 26, 2013 | Timothy Yau’s work on underwater camera calibration was accepted by CVPR 2013 as an oral presentation. |