Victor Chu

About: I am a PhD student in the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) at the University of Toronto advised by David Lindell, Kyros Kutulakos, and Aviad Levis. I am interested in computer vision, graphics, and machine learning.

Previously, I received my BA and MSE in CS from Princeton University where I was part of the Princeton Computational Imaging Lab led by Felix Heide.

Contact: vhchu[at]cs[dot]toronto[dot]edu

Publications:

	Nexels: Neurally-Textured Surfels for Real-Time Novel View Synthesis with Sparse Geometries Victor Rong, Jan Held, Victor Chu, Daniel Rebain, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Andrea Tagliasacchi, David Lindell arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.13796 2025 Decouples geometry and appearance through a hybrid representation of surfels and a global neural field to deliver high-quality 3D rendering with up to 31x fewer primitives and double the speed of Gaussian splatting.
	Artifact-Resilient Real-Time Holography Victor Chu, Oscar Pueyo-Ciutad, Ethan Tseng, Florian Schiffers, Grace Kuo, Nathan Matsuda, Albert Redo-Sanchez, Douglas Lanman, Oliver Cossairt, Felix Heide ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2025) Introduces the Rayleigh Distance, a metric quantifying phase randomness, to generate artifact-resilient holograms in optimization-based methods, such as training real-time phase retrieval networks.
	Full-Color Single-Shot Holography Victor Chu Advised by Praneeth Chakravarthula, Felix Heide Undergraduate Senior Thesis, 2023 (Outstanding Computer Science Senior Thesis Award) Novel method for full-color single-shot holography to reconstruct full-color holograms with a single phase pattern. Results are validated in both simulation and experiment.

Misc:

I play ping pong!
I play music with my friends!
I play pickleball!
I play Fortnite!

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