Andrew Hou

Greetings newcomer (or returning visitor) and welcome to my website! My name is Andrew Hou and I'm a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs on the XR People Generation team working on digital human avatars. I'm also a 5th year computer vision PhD candidate at Michigan State University (MSU) specializing in face relighting and 3D face modeling. I'm generally very interested in pushing the boundaries of the AR/VR landscape and specific topics of interest include digital animatable avatars, efficient and effective 3D representations, relighting, and shadow removal. I am fortunately advised by Dr. Xiaoming Liu and am a member of the Computer Vision Lab. Previously, I received my Bachelor of Science from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. In summer 2021, I was a research intern at Bosch in Sunnyvale, California, where I was fortunate to work with Drs. Yaojie Liu, Xinyu Huang, Liu Ren, and Sharath Gopal on foreign shadow removal from face portraits. This past summer, I worked as a research intern with Drs. Zhixin Shu, Cecilia Zhang, He Zhang, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, and Jae Shin Yoon on portrait shadow editing at Adobe Research in San Jose. I have also been fortunate during my PhD to collaborate with Drs. Michel Sarkis and Ning Bi from Qualcomm as well as Dr. Yiying Tong at MSU for multiple face relighting and 3D face modeling projects.

News

[07/2024] I joined Meta Reality Labs as a Research Scientist on the XR People Generation team in Burlingame, CA!
[07/2024] COMPOSE, our paper with Adobe Research on controllable portrait shadow editing, is accepted to ECCV 2024!
[08/2023] Our paper on exposing vulnerabilities in 5G/4G Voice Calls using speaker detection from video is accepted to the 2023 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2023)!
[08/2023] Excited to receive a Best Poster Award and to be selected as the Second Place winner of the Data and Research Translation Award sponsored by Jackson at Michigan State University's 2023 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, where I presented my CVPR 2022 face relighting paper!
[09/2022] Our paper with Bosch on facial foreign shadow removal is accepted to BMVC 2022!
[04/2022] Happy to receive a Best Poster Award at Michigan State University's 2022 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium for presenting my CVPR 2021 face relighting paper!
[03/2022] Our paper with Qualcomm on face relighting using raytracing to improve hard shadow modeling is accepted to CVPR 2022!
[03/2021] Our paper with Qualcomm on face relighting using shadow border losses to improve hard shadow modeling is accepted to CVPR 2021!
[06/2019] I joined the Computer Vision Lab as a PhD student advised by Dr. Xiaoming Liu.
[04/2019] I received the University Distinguished Fellowship from Michigan State University, the most prestigious fellowship awarded to only 20 incoming PhD students across the entire university (out of roughly 500 incoming PhD students each year). I am thankful that the fellowship will support both the 1st and 5th years of my PhD.
[05/2018] I graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science!

Publications

COMPOSE: Comprehensive Portrait Shadow Editing

Andrew Hou, Zhixin Shu, Xuaner Zhang, He Zhang, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Jae Shin Yoon, Xiaoming Liu
ECCV 2024
PDF | Supplementary

When Good Turns Evil: Encrypted 5G/4G Voice Calls Can Leak Your Identities

Jingwen Shi, Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu, Chunyi Peng, Chi-Yu Li, Andrew Hou, Sihan Wang, Yiwen Hu, Xinyu Lei, Min-Yue Chen, Li Xiao, Xiaoming Liu
CNS 2023
PDF

Blind Removal of Facial Foreign Shadows

Face Relighting with Geometrically Consistent Shadows

Andrew Hou, Michel Sarkis, Ning Bi, Yiying Tong, Xiaoming Liu
CVPR 2022
Project Page | PDF | Arxiv | Code | Poster

Towards High Fidelity Face Relighting with Realistic Shadows

Effect of Data Size on Performance of Free-text Keystroke Authentication

Jiaju Huang, Daqing Hou, Stephanie Schuckers, Zhenhao Hou
ISBA 2015
PDF

Personal Interests

I have a lot of diverse interests that tend to shift from time to time, but the most consistent ones are definitely listening to good music, singing, anime, and working out. Some other hobbies of mine (that I usually enjoy) are different types of games (e.g. board games, card games, fighting games), various winter and racquet sports (e.g. skiing, skating, tennis, badminton), and watching exciting movies. I also enjoy trying new food (as well as eating food I already know is delicious) and meeting new people (usually). :)