Victor Chu

About: I am a PhD student in the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) at the University of Toronto advised by David Lindell. 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

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Publications:
Instant Random Phase Holography with Parallax and Defocus Cues
Oscar Pueyo-Ciutad, Victor Chu, Congli Wang, Ethan Tseng, Florian Schiffers, Albert Redo-Sanchez, Diego Gutierrez, Felix Heide
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026

The first random phase CGH method that simultaneously achieves real-time performance, high image quality, and true volumetric 3D.

Holographic display étendue expansion with a binary π-metasurface
Congli Wang, Zhihao Zhou, Ethan Tseng, Victor Chu, Wei Ting Chen, Johannes E. Fröch, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide
Optics Letters 2026

Binary metasurface designed for computer generated holography to impose the same π phase step for all three primary wavelengths.

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
ECCV 2026

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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