Hi, I am Jian (James) Wang, currently a Staff Research Scientist at Snap Inc. I am now leading the Snap Research NYC team. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, advised by
Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan
and
Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan.
I'm mainly interested in Computational Photography/Imaging, including image/video quality enhancement, image/video editing/manipulation, and generations.
I was managed by
Shree K. Nayar
and
Guru Krishnan
in Snap. Shree gave a nice keynote about our (unpublished) work in ICCP 2022 which includes my works, see here
video link.
X (Twitter): @_JianWang_
Contact: jianwang.cmu at gmail dot com, jwang4 at snapchat dot com; 微信: jianwang8973
🔥🔥 Call for Participants and Papers at ICCV 2025 Workshops
Call for papers for ICCV 2025 Workshop on Responsible Imaging link
News
I gave a keynote talk on CVPR 2024 MIPI workshop titled "Towards A Better Camera in the App and AR Glass".
I serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026, AAAI 2026, NeurIPS DB 2025, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, CVPR 2025, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2024, CVPR 2024, CVPR 2023.
Magic AR Mirror got the Best Paper Award in SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
We are organizing ECCV 2024 workshop "3DVeComm", 3D Vision and Modeling Challenges in eCommerce link.
I gave a poster, Towards a Better Camera, to briefly introduce our work (of one year ago) in CVPR 2024 AC workshop; see here.
🔥🔥 We have multiple openings for internship in 2024 (Summer, Fall or Spring), see flyer. If you are interested, please send me an email. For international students outside of the US, we can help them apply for J-1 visas.
Why intern with us? — We have exciting and real research problems from our product Snapchat App (a multimedia instant messaging app with 406 million daily active users, Q3, 2023) and future product Snap Spectacles, our industry-leading AR glasses. We are responsible for every intern by carefully designing each project to fulfill the intern's interest and expected outcome from the internship. The intern has a chance to have product impact, academic impact, or both. In the past five years, each intern had one first-author paper in top-tier conferences 🤗. Besides, interns will have a competitive salary and housing stipend, and have the opportunities to visit many internet celebrity check-in places in New York City 😀. The internship experience could also help students later find full-time jobs in the US.
In the past, our group were fortunate to host a group of talented students. They had great experiences and outcomes.
2022, to be updated
2021, 1 CVPR22 Oral by Fangzhuo Mu, 1 ICCP22 best demo award, 1 ECCV22, 1 ACM MM22, 1 journal in submission, 1 US patent
2020, 1 CVPR21 Oral, 1 BOE (journal), 1 CHI21 by Chang Xiao, 3 US patents, 1 tech transfer
2019, 1 US Patent which becomes a key module in current product by Wenzheng Chen and Yingsi Qin (and FTEs), 1 NeurIPS20
2018, 1 best paper award in ACM MM20 by Arun Asokan Nair, 1 Siggraph19 by Chang Xiao, 2 ICCV19 including one oral
Dejia Xu (2022), Riku Arakawa (2022), Sizhuo Ma (2020), and Xiao Chang (2019) received the pretigious Snap Research Fellowship. Sizhuo joined Snap Research after graduation.
We are organizing ICCV 2023 workshop "3DVeComm", 3D Vision and Modeling Challenges in eCommerce link.
I gave a poster, Towards a Better Camera, to briefly introduce our work (of one year ago) in CVPR 2023 AC workshop; see here.
2022 Snap Research Fellowship Winners and Honorable Mentions link are out! Congratulations to all recipients!
I will give a talk titled "Computational Imaging/Photography research at Snap Research" at New York University and Purdue University in November and December 2022, respectively.
Transparent Camera got Best Poster Award in ICCP 2022.
Products
We have 5 feature launches in 2024.
We had 20 feature launches from 2018 to 2023.
Publications*
* means equal contribution, (co-)corresponding authors, or co-authors are my student advisees
(Note these materials are for timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright is retained by the authors or publishers, and reproduction is subject to their terms and constraints. Explicit permission is typically required for reposting.)
2025
VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results
Sizhuo Ma*, Wei-Ting Chen*, Qiang Gao*, Jian Wang*, Chris Wei Zhou*, Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang, Linhan Cao, etc.
T2Bs: Text-to-Character Blendshapes via Video Generation
Jiahao Luo, Chaoyang Wang, Michael Vasilkovsky, Vladislav Shakhrai, Di Liu, Peiye Zhuang, Sergey Tulyakov, Peter Wonka, Hsin-Ying Lee, James Davis, Jian Wang
Instamoji: Instant Generation of Animatable Dual-Stylized Avatars
Eric Ming Chen, Di Liu, Sizhuo Ma, Michael Vasilkovsky, Bing Zhou, Qiang Gao, Wenzhou Wang, Jiahao Luo, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Vincent Sitzmann, Jian Wang
US patent, 2022, “Location-guided Scanning of Visual Codes”, Sizhuo Ma, Jian Wang, Mohit Gupta, Shree K. Nayar. [link]
US patent, 2022, “Long Distance QR Code Decoding”, Shree K. Nayar, Jian Wang, Wenzheng Chen. [link]
US patent, 2022, “Agile Depth Sensing Using Triangulation light Curtains”, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Joseph Bartels, William Whittaker, Jian Wang. [link]
US patent, 2021, “Programmable Light Curtains”, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Jian Wang, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Joseph Bartels, William Whittaker. [link]
US patent, 2020, “Fast Data Accessing System Using Optical Beacons”, Jian Wang, Karl Bayer, Shree K. Nayar.
US patent, 2019, “Dark Flash Photography with a Stereo Camera”, Tianfan Xue, Jian Wang, Jiawen Chen, Jonathan T. Barron. [link]
US patent, 2017, “Apparatus and Methods for Video Foreground Background Segmentation with Multi-View Spatial Temporal Graph Cuts”, Jinwei Gu, Jian Wang, Wei Jiang. [link]
CN patent, 2012, “Real-time Identity Recognition and Authentication Method for Self-service Equipment System of Bank”, CN102364527 A, Jian Wang, Zhiling Wang, Yuzhuo Zhao, Mingwei Guo, and Zonghai Chen. [link][pdf][pdf_Eng]
Last updated on May 2025. Please let me know if you find a dead link. Thanks!
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