Research

Neural material generation and inverse rendering for graphics assets.

I work on computer graphics, neural rendering, and generative models, with a focus on extracting and synthesizing physically meaningful material appearance from images and videos. My recent research studies how generative video models can be used as material priors for 3D asset creation.

News

Recent updates

Launched the VideoNeuMat project page and personal academic homepage.

VideoNeuMat appears at ACM SIGGRAPH 2026.

PBR-Inspired Controllable Diffusion for Image Generation appears in Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics 2026.

ACM SIGGRAPH 2026
VideoNeuMat examples showing reconstructed neural materials from generative video models

VideoNeuMat: Neural Material Extraction from Generative Video Models

ACM SIGGRAPH 2026

Bowen Xue, Saeed Hadadan, Zheng Zeng, Fabrice Rousselle, Zahra Montazeri, Milos Hasan

VideoNeuMat reconstructs neural materials from generative video observations, enabling high-resolution appearance, relighting, and geometry-aware material transfer for graphics workflows.

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Publications

Graphics, materials, and generative models
2026

VideoNeuMat: Neural Material Extraction from Generative Video Models

Bowen Xue, Saeed Hadadan, Zheng Zeng, Fabrice Rousselle, Zahra Montazeri, Milos Hasan

ACM SIGGRAPH 2026

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2026

Motion Aware Video Generation Model

Bowen Xue, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Shuang Zhao, Zahra Montazeri

arXiv preprint

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2026

PBR-Inspired Controllable Diffusion for Image Generation

Bowen Xue, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Shuang Zhao, Zahra Montazeri

Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics 2026

Paper
2024

ReflectanceFusion: Diffusion-based Text to SVBRDF Generation

Bowen Xue, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Shuang Zhao, Zahra Montazeri

Eurographics Symposium on Rendering

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2024

A Hierarchical Architecture for Neural Materials

Bowen Xue, Shuang Zhao, Henrik Wann Jensen, Zahra Montazeri

Computer Graphics Forum, 43(6)

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Experience

Research and industry

Lumirithmic, London

Apr 2025 - Apr 2026

Research intern on facial subsurface scattering, Monte Carlo rendering, and diffusion-based inverse modeling.

Autowise.ai, UK

Nov 2023 - Dec 2024

Autonomous vehicle testing and research internship.

Drone Defence Ltd, UK

Jul 2020 - Sep 2020

GPU-enabled wide-bandwidth RF sensor for an AI anti-drone platform.

Education and Service

CV summary

University of Manchester

Sep 2022 - Present

University of Nottingham

Sep 2019 - Dec 2020

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Sep 2014 - Jul 2018

Academic Service

Reviewer for Eurographics, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, and Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.

Teaching

Graduate teaching assistant at the University of Manchester. GTA Teaching Award, 2024.

Membership

Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK.

Last updated: April 2026.