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

My research focuses on Graphics, Deep Learning and HCI for garment design and human sketch understanding.


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)
B.Sc (Hons) in Telecommunications Engineering with Management
Sept. 2013 - Jun. 2017
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)
B.Sc in Telecommunications Engineering with Management
Sept. 2013 - Jun. 2017
  • 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


  • 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


  • PerfectTailor: Scale-Preserving 2D Pattern Adjustment Driven by 3D Garment Editing
    Anran Qi and Takeo Igarashi
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A)
    [PDF


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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]  


  • 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