Michael Stengel ![](/sites/default/files/person/mstengel_new_black_white2.png) ### Publications ### 2026 [Real-time 3D Visualization of Radiance Fields on Light Field Displays](/publication/2026-07_real-time-3d-visualization-radiance-fields-light-field-displays) [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), [Cheng Sun](/person/cheng-sun), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Matthew Chan, Andrew Russell, [Jae-Hyun Jung](/person/jae-hyun-jung), Wil Braithwaite, [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke) [HPG 2026](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3820023) ### 2025 [Play4D: Accelerated and Interactive Free-viewpoint Video Streaming for Virtual Reality and Light Field Displays](/publication/2025-12_play4d-accelerated-and-interactive-free-viewpoint-video-streaming-virtual) [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), [Amrita Mazumdar](/person/amrita-mazumdar), [Tianye Li](/person/tianye-li), [Cheng Sun](/person/cheng-sun), [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke), [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello) [ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies 2025](https://sa2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation/?id=emt_131&sess=sess182) [GAIA: Generative Animatable Interactive Avatars with Expression-conditioned Gaussians](/publication/2025-08_gaia-generative-animatable-interactive-avatars-expression-conditioned-gaussians) Zhengming Yu, [Tianye Li](/person/tianye-li), Jingxiang Sun, Omer Shapira, [Seonwook Park](/person/seonwook-park), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Matthew Chan, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano), [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello) [ACM SIGGRAPH 2025](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721238.3730737) [Coherent 3D Portrait Video Reconstruction via Triplane Fusion](/publication/2025-06_coherent-3d-portrait-video-reconstruction-triplane-fusion) Shengze Wang, [Xueting Li](/person/xueting-li), [Chao Liu](/person/chao-liu), Matthew Chan, [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Henry Fuchs, [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Wang_Coherent_3D_Portrait_Video_Reconstruction_via_Triplane_Fusion_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) [BLADE: Single-view Body Mesh Estimation through Accurate Depth Estimation](/publication/2025-06_blade-single-view-body-mesh-estimation-through-accurate-depth-estimation) Shengze Wang, [Jiefeng Li](/person/jiefeng-li), [Tianye Li](/person/tianye-li), [Ye Yuan](/person/ye-yuan), Henry Fuchs, [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano), [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel) [IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Wang_BLADE_Single-view_Body_Mesh_Estimation_through_Accurate_Depth_Estimation_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) [AI 3D Selfie: Real-Time Single-Image 3D Face Reconstruction for Light-Field Displays](/publication/2025-05_ai-3d-selfie-real-time-single-image-3d-face-reconstruction-light-field-displays) [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Matthew Chan, [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano), [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke) [The Society of Information Display (SID) 2025](https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sdtp.18377) ### 2023 [AI-Mediated 3D Video Conferencing](/publication/2023-08_ai-mediated-3d-video-conferencing) [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano), [Chao Liu](/person/chao-liu), Matthew Chan, Alex Trevithick, [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke), [Amrita Mazumdar](/person/amrita-mazumdar), Shengze Wang, Mayoore Jaiswal [ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies 2023](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3588037.3595385) [Live 3D Portrait: Real-Time Radiance Fields for Single-Image Portrait View Synthesis](/publication/2023-08_live-3d-portrait-real-time-radiance-fields-single-image-portrait-view-synthesis) Alexander Trevithick, Matthew Chan, [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Eric R. Chan, [Chao Liu](/person/chao-liu), [Zhiding Yu](/person/zhiding-yu), Sameh Khamis, Manmohan Chandraker, Ravi Ramamoorthi, [Koki Nagano](/person/koki-nagano) [ACM Transactions On Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2023)](https://s2023.siggraph.org/) ### 2022 [QuadStream: A Quad-Based Scene Streaming Architecture for Novel Viewpoint Reconstruction](/publication/2022-12_quadstream-quad-based-scene-streaming-architecture-novel-viewpoint) Jozef Hladky, [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), [Nicholas Vining](/person/nicholas-vining), Bernhard Kerbl, Hans-Peter Seidel, Markus Steinberger [ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3550454.3555524) ### 2021 [A distributed, decoupled system for losslessly streaming dynamic light probes to thin clients](/publication/2021-07_distributed-decoupled-system-losslessly-streaming-dynamic-light-probes-thin) [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Zander Majercik, [Ben Boudaoud](/person/ben-boudaoud), Morgan McGuire [ACM Multimedia Systems Conference](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3458305.3463379) ### 2020 [Toward Standardized Classification of Foveated Displays](/publication/2020-02_toward-standardized-classification-foveated-displays) [Josef Spjut](/person/josef-spjut), [Ben Boudaoud](/person/ben-boudaoud), [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), [Trey Greer](/person/trey-greer), Rachel Albert, [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Kaan Akşit, [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke) [IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics “Presented at IEEE VR …](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8999630) ### 2019 [Foveated AR: Dynamically-Foveated Augmented Reality Display](/publication/2019-07_foveated-ar-dynamically-foveated-augmented-reality-display) [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), Youngmo Jeong, [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, [Ben Boudaoud](/person/ben-boudaoud), [Trey Greer](/person/trey-greer), [Joohwan Kim](/person/joohwan-kim), [Ward Lopes](/person/ward-lopes), Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, [Josef Spjut](/person/josef-spjut), Morgan McGuire, [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke) SIGGRAPH 2019 Technical Paper [Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans](/publication/2019-07_matching-prescription-visual-acuity-towards-ar-humans) [Jonghyun Kim](/person/jonghyun-kim), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Jui-Yi Wu, [Ben Boudaoud](/person/ben-boudaoud), [Josef Spjut](/person/josef-spjut), Kaan Akşit, Rachel Albert, Youngmo Jeong, [Trey Greer](/person/trey-greer), [Ward Lopes](/person/ward-lopes), Zander Majercik, Peter Shirley, Morgan McGuire, [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke) SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technology Best in Show Award - Emerging Technology in SIGGRAPH 2019 [Near-Eye Display and Tracking Technologies for Virtual and Augmented Reality](/index.php/publication/2019-05_near-eye-display-and-tracking-technologies-virtual-and-augmented-reality) George Alex Koulieris, Kaan Akşit, [Michael Stengel](/index.php/person/michael-stengel), Rafał K. Mantiuk, Katerina Mania Eurographics 2019 [NVGaze: An Anatomically-Informed Dataset for Low-Latency, Near-Eye Gaze Estimation](/publication/2019-05_nvgaze-anatomically-informed-dataset-low-latency-near-eye-gaze-estimation) [Joohwan Kim](/person/joohwan-kim), [Michael Stengel](/person/michael-stengel), Alexander Majercik, [Shalini De Mello](/person/shalini-de-mello), David Dunn, [Samuli Laine](/person/samuli-laine), Morgan McGuire, [David Luebke](/person/david-luebke) ACM Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (CHI) 2019