Biography

I am a PhD student of Creativity and Graphics Lab (CraGL) at George Mason University. My advisor is Dr. Yotam Gingold. I obtained my obtained my Bachelor’s in Communication Technology from Southwest Jiaotong University in June 2007.

My research interests lies in exploring algorithmic methods in artistic drawing and design workflows to help people better realize their creativity. I’m also interested in image compression, generation, editing and recognition in general. I’m currently working on sketch generation and beautification.

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Interests
  • Neural Rendering
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2018 - Present

    George Mason University

  • PhD (student only) in Computer Science, 2011 - 2018

    South West Jiaotong University

  • BSc in Communication Technology, 2003 - 2007

    South West Jiaotong University

News

Our paper “FlatMagic: Improving Flat Colorization through AI-driven Design for DigitalComic Professionals” has been conditionally accepted by ACM CHI 2022.

Featured Publications

Chuan Yan, John Joon Young Chung, YOON KIHEON, Yotam Gingold, Eytan Adar, Sungsoo Ray Hong
November 2021 SIGCHI
FlatMagic: Improving Flat Colorization through AI-driven Design for DigitalComic Professionals
FlatMagic: Improving Flat Colorization through AI-driven Design for DigitalComic Professionals

An AI-driven sketch flatting tool that generate professional level flat result while significantly reduce professionals’ behavioral and perceived effort.
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Chuan Yan, David Vanderhaeghe, Yotam Gingold
December 2020 SIGGRAPH Asia
A Benchmark for Rough Sketch Cleanup
A Benchmark for Rough Sketch Cleanup

The first benchmark dataset for rough sketch cleanup methods with deep insight into the definition of “well-cleaned sketch”.
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Chongyang Xiang, Jiajun Xu, Chuan Yan, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu (2019). Generative Adversarial Networks Based Error Concealment for Low Resolution Video. ICASSP2019.

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Qing Li, Qiang Peng, Chuan Yan (2018). Multiple VLAD Encoding of CNNs for Image Classification. CiSE.

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Qing Li, Qiang Peng, Junzhou Chen, Chuan Yan (2018). Improving Image Classification Accuracy With ELM and CSIFT. CiSE.

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Jiajun Xu, Wei Jiang, Chuan Yan, Qiang Peng, Xiao Wu (2018). A novel weighted boundary matching error concealment Schema for HEVC. ICIP2018.

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