Sihang Chen 陈思航

Sihang Chen 陈思航

Technical Artist

SenseTime 商汤科技

Biography

Sihang Chen is pursuing his Master of Design Innovation degree at Victoria University of Wellington. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production (Digital Film Technology) from Beijing Film Academy in 2020. Sihang Chen has worked as a Technical Artist for three years at SenseTime, a leading AI company, dealing with AIGC animation and game pipelines. Being self-motivating, he is now looking for projects related to 3D Facial Animation, Artificial Intelligence, and Affective Computing.

Interests
  • 3D Facial Animation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Affective Computing
Education
  • Master of Design Innovation, Present

    Victoria University of Wellington

  • BFA in Film Production, 2020

    Beijing Film Academy

Skills

Python
Unreal Engine

with Development in C++

Maya

with Mel and MayaPy

Davinci Resolve
Houdini

with Houdini Development Kit

LaTex

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Victoria University of Wellington
Master of Design Innovation
February 2024 – Present Wellington, New Zealand

in School of Design Innocation

  • To be continued…
 
 
 
 
 
SenseTime
Technical Artist
February 2021 – February 2024 Beijing, China

in Digital World Group (DWG)

  • AIGC-driven Avatar: Develop Unreal Engine (C++); Design and implement pipeline (Python, C++).
  • Animation Projects: Deal with facial rigs; Support facial animation generation and implantation.
  • Research Assistance: Visualize motion and facial data; Optimize facial performance
 
 
 
 
 
Beijing Film Academy
Bachelor of Fine Arts
September 2016 – June 2020 Beijing, China

in Department of Film and TV Technology

  • Main Courses: Computer Graphics, Visual Effects, Digital Cinema, Film Production.
  • Rank: 1st of 19.
  • National Scholarship Owner.
 
 
 
 
 
Beijing Film Academy AICFVE
R&D Intern
February 2018 – June 2018 Beijing, China

on Film Keywords Extraction and Search based on Film Reviews

  • Film Database: Build up a film info database with reviews.
  • Segmentation and Filter: Segment film reviews using APIs and filter out keywords.

Certificates

The Deep Learning Specialization consists of 5 courses:

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Sequence Models
See certificate
Shandong University
Robotics (TurtleBot)
Summer School in Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science
Shandong University
Computer Vision (Point-CNN implementation)
Summer School in Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science
Zhejiang University
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Summer School in School of Computer Science
Zhejiang University
Introduction to Computer Systems
Summer School in School of Computer Science

Events

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Attended!
WAIC 2023
Presentation of SenseMaltose and Demonstration of 3D AIGC Avatar’s Techniques
SenseTime TECH DAY
Demonstration Support for 3D AIGC Avatar
SIGGRAPH 2020
Student Volunteer
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
Student Volunteer

Projects

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A2F Importer
A Maya Plugin for Importing Audio2Face Data.
SenseMaltose
An AIGC-Avatar System for livestreaming product promotion.
Omniverse A2F LiveLink
An Omniverse plugin for sending A2F data to Unreal Engine using LiveLink.
Who Drank My Milk Tea! - MaoXiaoJiu
What?! My Desktop Figure Comes to Alive!
FFmpegWebcamUnreal
A Webcam Plugin based on FFmpeg for Unreal Engine
FFmpegWebcamUnreal
A Webcam Plugin based on FFmpeg for Unreal Engine
MMD4Maya
A Maya plugin for importing MMD files (pmx/pmd) to maya.
LIVE - Fridge Party!
Being bored? Join our Fridge Party liveroom as a cute vegetable!
STMobileUnreal
A Plugin to Apply STMobile Facial Capture for Unreal Engine