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2026

Asymmetric Flow Models

H. Chen, J. Ackermann, M. Kim, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas

NeurIPS 2026

World models · Diffusion Models

2025

X-Dyna: Expressive Dynamic Human Image Animation

D. Chang, H. Xu, Y. Xie, Y. Gao, Z. Kuang, S. Cai, C. Zhang, G. Song, C. Wang, Y. Shi, Z. Chen, S. Zhou, L. Luo, G. Wetzstein, M. Soleymani

CVPR 2025 (Highlight)

World models · Diffusion Models

2024

GazeFusion: Saliency-guided Image Generation

Y. Zhang, N. Wu, C. Lin, G. Wetzstein, Q. Sun

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, journal track) 2024, Best Paper Award!

World models · Vision · Diffusion Models

State of the Art on Diffusion Models for Visual Computing

R. Po, W. Yifan, V. Golyanik, K. Aberman, J. Barron, A. Bermano, E. Chan, T. Dekel, A. Holynski, A. Kanazawa, K. Liu, L. Liu, B. Mildenhall, M. Niessner, B. Ommer, C. Theobalt, P. Wonka, G. Wetzstein

Eurographics State-of-the-Art Report, 2024

World models · Graphics · Diffusion Models

2023

2022

3D-Aware Video Generation

S. Bahmani, JJ Park, D. Paschalidou, H. Tang, G. Wetzstein, L. Guibas, L. van Gool, R. Timofte

arXiv 2022

World models

2021

2020

Neural Light Field 3D Printing

Q. Zheng, V. Babaei, G. Wetzstein, H.-P. Seidel, M. Zwicker, G. Singh

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2020

Optics & imaging · Graphics

Non-line-of-sight Imaging

D. Faccio, A. Velten, G. Wetzstein

Nature Reviews Physics (review paper), 2020

Optics & imaging · Vision

2019

2018

Electron Ghost Imaging

S. Li, F. Cropp, K. Kabra, T.J. Lane, G. Wetzstein, P. Musumeci, D. Ratner

Physical review letters 121 (11), 2018

Optics & imaging

2017

2016

3D Displays

Martin S Banks, David M Hoffman, Joohwan Kim, Gordon Wetzstein

Annual Review of Vision Science 2 (1)

Optics & imaging

2015

Doppler Time-of-Flight Imaging

F. Heide, W. Heidrich, M. Hullin, G. Wetzstein

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2015

Optics & imaging · Vision · Graphics