Hi, I am Jian (James) Wang, currently a Senior Research Scientist at Snap Inc. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University ECE department, advised by Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan and Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan.
I'm mainly interested in Computational Imaging (e.g., novel cameras/sensors/wearables/displays for AR/VR/HCI, active 3d sensing, creative consumer imaging devices), Computational Photography (e.g., image/video restoration/enhancement, image matting and compositing, image and video editing and generation, novel view synthesis, multimedia), and Computer Vision (e.g., physics-based vision, low-level vision, 3d vision).
I'm managed by Guru Krishnan and Shree K. Nayar in NYC research lab in Snap. Shree gave a nice keynote about our (unpublished) work in ICCP 2022 which includes my works, see here video link.
I am looking for academic collaborations; if you are interested in working with me on academic research in Computational Imaging, Computational Photography and Computer Vision, please contact me via email by including your CV. 我可以给你提供学术指导和学术ideas.

• I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2024.
• I will serve as an Area Chair for CVPR 2024.
• 🔥🔥 We are organizing ICCV 2023 workshop "3DVeComm", 3D Vision and Modeling Challenges in eCommerce link. Welcome to participate in the challenge and unlock the potential of the cutting-edge Amazon-Berkeley-Object (ABO) dataset!
• I gave a poster, Towards a Better Camera, to briefly introduce our work (of one year ago) in CVPR 2023 AC workshop; see here.
• B站GAMES204计算成像上的talk，介绍Snap research在计算成像和计算摄影方面的研究工作 链接
• 2022 Snap Research Fellowship Winners and Honorable Mentions link are out! Congratulations to all recipients!
• We have several openings for internship in 2023 (Summer, Fall or Spring). 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 363 million daily active users, Q3, 2022) 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. 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 Fangzhou 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.
• 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.
• I will serve as an Area Chair for CVPR 2023.
• Transparent Camera got Best Poster Award in ICCP 2022.

• US patent, 2022, (confidential)
  
• US patent, 2022, (confidential)
  
• US patent, 2022, “Location-guided Scanning of Visual Codes”, Sizhuo Ma, Jian Wang, Mohit Gupta, Shree K. Nayar. [link]
  
• US patent, 2022, “Apparatus Having A Viewfinder Mirror Configuration”, Shree K. Nayar, Jian Wang. [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, (filed anonymously, confidential)
  
• 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, 2014, “Ground Target Positioning Method Applied into Video Monitoring System”, CN102359780 B, Zonghai Chen, Zhiling Wang, Yuzhou Zhao, Mingwei Guo, Jian Wang. [link] [pdf] [pdf_Eng]
  
• CN patent, 2012, “Real-time Identity Recognition and Authentication Method for Self-service Equipment System of Bank”, CN102364527 A, Jian Wang, Zhiling Wang, Yuzhou Zhao, Mingwei Guo, and Zonghai Chen. [link] [pdf] [pdf_Eng]