Hi! I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC, where I'm advised by Prof. Shenlong Wang. I have the privilege of collaborating closely with Prof. Wei-Chiu Ma, Prof. Jia-Bin Huang, and Prof. David Forsyth. Before joining UIUC, I earned my Bachelor's and Master's degree from National Taiwan University (NTU), and was advised by Prof. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang. My research interests lie at the intersection of 3D vision, neural rendering, and simulation. My long-term goal is to develop digital tools that empower individuals to tell their own stories in innovative and efficient ways.
Publications
Name spelling: "Zhi-Hao Lin" → "Chih-Hao Lin" (since 2025)
ICCV 2025
Controllable Weather Synthesis and Removal with Video Diffusion Models
Chih-Hao Lin, Zian Wang, Ruofan Liang, Yuxuan Zhang, Sanja Fidler, Shenlong Wang, Zan Gojcic
CVPR 2025
IRIS: Inverse Rendering of Indoor Scenes from Low Dynamic Range Images
Chih-Hao Lin, Jia-Bin Huang, Zhengqin Li, Zhao Dong, Christian Richardt, Tuotuo Li, Michael Zollhöfer, Johannes Kopf, Shenlong Wang, Changil Kim
3DV 2025
AutoVFX: Physically Realistic Video Editing from Natural Language Instruction
Hao-Yu Hsu, Chih-Hao Lin, Albert Zhai, Hongchi Xia, Shenlong Wang
3DV 2025
UrbanIR: Large-Scale Urban Scene Inverse Rendering from a Single Video
Chih-Hao Lin, Bohan Liu, Yi-Ting Chen, Kuan-Sheng Chen, David Forsyth, Jia-Bin Huang, Anand Bhattad, Shenlong Wang
ICCV 2023
ClimateNeRF: Extreme Weather Synthesis in Neural Radiance Field
Yuan Li*, Zhi-Hao Lin*, David Forsyth, Jia-Bin Huang, Shenlong Wang (* Equal Contribution)
Experience
Research Scientist Intern — NVIDIA
Mentor: Zan Gojcic, Zian Wang
Simulate controllable and realistic weather effects in videos. [ICCV 2025]
Research Scientist Intern — Meta
Mentor: Changil Kim
Inverse rendering and relighting of indoor scenes. [CVPR 2025]