Anran Qi

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Sophia-Antipolis in the GraphDeco research group, working with Dr. Adrien Bousseau.

My research explores garment design and the interpretation of human sketches, blending the fields of Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, and Human-Computer Interaction.

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E-mail: anran.qi@inria.fr, annranqi@gmail.com

  • Rags2Riches: Computational Garment Reuse
    Anran Qi, Nico Pietroni, Maria Korosteleva, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Adrien Bousseau
    Siggraph 2025 (Conference track)
    [PDF]  [Project Page]  [Supplementary]


  • GarmentImage: Raster Encoding of Garment Sewing Patterns with Diverse Topologies
    Yuki Tatsukawa, Anran Qi, I-Chao Shen, Takeo Igarashi
    Siggraph 2025 (Conference track)
    [PDF]  [Project Page


  • Sketch2Data: Recovering Data from Hand-Drawn Infographics
    Anran Qi, Theophanis Tsandilas, Ariel Shamir, Adrien Bousseau
    Computer & Graphics (Presented at Expressive 2025)
    [PDF]  [Project Page]  [Supplementary


  • FontCraft: Multimodal Font Design Using Interactive Bayesian Optimization
    Yuki Tatsukawa, I-Chao Shen, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Anran Qi, Yuki Koyama, Ariel Shamir, Takeo Igarashi
    CHI 2025
    [PDF]  [Project Page]


  • 3D Reconstruction from Sketch with Hidden Lines by Two-Branch Diffusion Model
    Yuta Fukushima, Anran Qi, I-Chao Shen, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Takeo Igarashi
    Eurographics 2024 Short Paper
    [PDF]  [Video]


  • FontCLIP: A Semantic Typography Visual-Language Model for Multilingual Font Applications
    Yuki Tatsukawa, I-Chao Shen, Anran Qi, Yuki Koyama, Takeo Igarashi, Ariel Shamir
    Eurographics 2024
    [PDF]  [Project Page]


  • PerfectTailor: Scale-Preserving 2D Pattern Adjustment Driven by 3D Garment Editing
    Anran Qi and Takeo Igarashi
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A, Presented at GMP 2025)
    [PDF]  [Project Page


  • PerfectDart: Automatic Dart Design for Garment Fitting
    Charles de Malefette, Anran Qi, Amal Dev Parakkat, Marie-Paule Cani, Takeo Igarashi
    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023 Technical Communication, Best Paper Award
    [PDF]  [Project Page]


  • PerfectFit: Custom-Fit Garment Design in Augmented Reality
    Akihiro Kiuchi, Anran Qi, Eve Mingxiao Li, Dávid Maruscsák, Christian Sandor, Takeo Igarashi
    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023 XR, Best XR Demo Award
    [PDF]  [Project Page]


  • Computational Design of Nebuta-like Paper-on-Wire Artworks
    Naoki Agata, Anran Qi, Yuta Noma, I-Chao Shen, Takeo Igarashi
    SIGGRAPH 2023 Poster
    [PDF


  • EnchantedBrush: Animating in Mixed Reality for Storytelling and Communication
    Eve Mingxiao Li, Anran Qi, Mauricio Sousa, Tovi Grossman
    Graphics Interface 2023
    [PDF]  [Video]


  • PersonalTailor: Personalizing 2D Pattern Design from 3D Point Clouds
    Anran Qi, Sauradip Nag, Xiatian Zhu, Ariel Shamir
    Arxiv
    [PDF


  • OVERPAINT: Automatic Multi-Layer Stencil Generation without Bridges
    Yuta Fukushima, Anran Qi, I-Chao Shen and Takeo Igarashi
    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2022 Technical Communication, 2022
    [PDF


  • One Sketch for All: One-Shot Personalized Sketch Segmentation
    Anran Qi, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Tao Xiang and Yi-Zhe Song
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2022
    [PDF]  [Suppl.]  [Keypoints Suppl.]  [Segmentation Suppl.]


  • How Far Can I Go?: A Self-Supervised Approach for Deterministic Video Depth Forecasting
    Sauradip Nag*, Nisarg A Shah*, Anran Qi* and Raghavendra Ramachandras
    IML4AD Workshop in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPSW), 2021
    [PDF]  


  • Towards Fine-Grained Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval
    Anran Qi, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Jifei Song, Yongxin Yang, Yonggang Qi, Timothy M. Hospedales, Tao Xiang and Yi-Zhe Song
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021 
    [PDF]  


  • Semantic Embedding for Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval
    Anran Qi, Yi-Zhe Song and Tao Xiang
    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2018 
    [PDF]  



  • Working Experience

    GraphDeco, Inria Sophia-Antipolis
    Post-Doctoral Fellow
    Advisor: Dr. Adrien Bousseau
    Dec. 2023 - Now
    University of Tokyo
    Project Assistant Professor
    Advisor: Prof. Takeo Igarashi
    Apr. 2023 - Nov. 2023
    University of Tokyo
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Advisor: Prof. Takeo Igarashi
    Research on next-generation knit innovation
    Nov. 2021 - Mar. 2023
    Samsung Electronics, UK
    Assistant Engineer
    Advisor: Dr. Mete Ozay
    Jan. 2020 - July 2020

    Education Background

    University of Surrey (UoS)
    Ph.D. in Computer Science, SketchX Lab
    Supervisor: Prof. Yi-Zhe Song, Dr. Yulia Gryaditskaya
                       Prof. Tao Xiang
    *Transfer from QMUL to UoS with supervisors
    Apr. 2019 - Oct. 2021
    Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
    Ph.D. in Computer Science, SketchX Lab
    Supervisor: Prof. Yi-Zhe Song, Prof. Tao Xiang
    Sept. 2017 - Apr. 2019
    Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) &
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)

    B.Sc (Hons) in Telecommunications Engineering with Management
    Sept. 2013 - Jun. 2017
  • Technical Papers Committee Member: Eurographics 2025, Pacific Graphics 2025
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Conference: SIGGRAPH 2022, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023, CHI2024, SIGGRAPH 2024, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024
  • Multimedia System, Queen Mary Univerisity of London 2018