Chenxi Liu

Chenxi Liu

Assistant Professor, University of Victoria

Creative eXperience Lab (CXL)

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, where I lead the Creative eXperience Lab (CXL). My research aims to better understand and assist visual creation, currently focused on image generation, 2D visual representations such as vector graphics, and interactive tools for creative workflows.

Previously a postdoc at the University of Toronto's DGP Lab with Alec Jacobson. PhD at UBC with Alla Sheffer; MS at Carnegie Mellon; BEng at Beihang. Research internships at Adobe Research and Disney Research.

CXL is recruiting: apply Fall 2026 for Fall 2027 start

Looking for PhD & MSc students, postdocs, and undergraduate researchers excited about generative models, vector graphics, and creative tools. Applications for Fall 2027 are open through Fall 2026. Students at UVic are also welcome to reach out.

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News

Jul 2026 I’ll be at SIGGRAPH NA 2026 in Los Angeles. Happy to chat!
Jul 2026 Joining the University of Victoria as an Assistant Professor and launching the Creative eXperience Lab (CXL). Now recruiting PhD & MSc students, postdocs, and undergraduate researchers.
May 2026 GimmBO received a Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH North America 2026.
Mar 2026 SemLayer accepted to CVPR 2026. Congratulations to Haiyang!
Jan 2026 Mesh Processing Non-Meshes via Neural Displacement Fields accepted to Eurographics 2026. Congratulations to Yuta and Zhecheng!

Research

GimmBO: Interactive Generative Image Model Merging via Bayesian Optimization

GimmBO: Interactive Generative Image Model Merging via Bayesian Optimization

Chenxi Liu , Selena Ling , Alec Jacobson

SIGGRAPH North America 2026

Best Paper Award

SemLayer: Semantic Generative Segmentation and Layer Reconstruction for Vector Icons

SemLayer: Semantic Generative Segmentation and Layer Reconstruction for Vector Icons

Haiyang Xu , Ronghuan Wu , Li-Yi Wei , Nanxuan Zhao , Chenxi Liu , Cuong Nguyen , Zhuowen Tu , Zhaowen Wang

CVPR 2026

Mesh Processing Non-Meshes via Neural Displacement Fields

Mesh Processing Non-Meshes via Neural Displacement Fields

Yuta Noma , Zhecheng Wang , Chenxi Liu , Karan Singh , Alec Jacobson

Eurographics 2026

2D Neural Fields with Learned Discontinuities

2D Neural Fields with Learned Discontinuities

Chenxi Liu , Siqi Wang , Matthew Fisher , Deepali Aneja , Alec Jacobson

Eurographics 2025

State-of-the-art Report in Sketch Processing

State-of-the-art Report in Sketch Processing

Chenxi Liu* , Mikhail Bessmeltsev*

Eurographics 2025 STAR

A LoRA is Worth a Thousand Pictures

A LoRA is Worth a Thousand Pictures

Chenxi Liu , Towaki Takikawa , Alec Jacobson

arXiv preprint

Bézier Spline Simplification Using Locally Integrated Error

Bézier Spline Simplification Using Locally Integrated Error

Siqi Wang , Chenxi Liu , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin , Alec Jacobson

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Conference Papers

StripMaker: Perception-driven Learned Vector Sketch Consolidation

StripMaker: Perception-driven Learned Vector Sketch Consolidation

Chenxi Liu , Toshiki Aoki , Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Alla Sheffer

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2023)

ConTesse: Accurate Occluding Contours for Subdivision Surfaces

ConTesse: Accurate Occluding Contours for Subdivision Surfaces

Chenxi Liu , Pierre Bénard , Aaron Hertzmann , Shayan Hoshyari

ACM Transactions on Graphics 2023

Detecting Viewer-Perceived Intended Vector Sketch Connectivity

Detecting Viewer-Perceived Intended Vector Sketch Connectivity

Jerry Yin* , Chenxi Liu* , Rebecca Lin , Nicholas Vining , Helge Rhodin , Alla Sheffer

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2022)

StrokeStrip: Joint Parameterization and Fitting of Stroke Clusters

StrokeStrip: Joint Parameterization and Fitting of Stroke Clusters

Dave Pagurek van Mossel , Chenxi Liu , Nicholas Vining , Mikhail Bessmeltsev , Alla Sheffer

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2021)

Lifting Freehand Concept Sketches into 3D

Lifting Freehand Concept Sketches into 3D

Yulia Gryaditskaya , Felix Hähnlein , Chenxi Liu , Alla Sheffer , Adrien Bousseau

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2020)

StrokeAggregator: Consolidating Raw Sketches into Artist-Intended Curve Drawings

StrokeAggregator: Consolidating Raw Sketches into Artist-Intended Curve Drawings

Chenxi Liu , Enrique Rosales , Alla Sheffer

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2018)

Whole-cloth Quilting Patterns from Photographs

Whole-cloth Quilting Patterns from Photographs

Chenxi Liu , Jessica Hodgins , Jim McCann

Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2017)

Threadsteading: Playful Interaction for Textile Fabrication Devices

Threadsteading: Playful Interaction for Textile Fabrication Devices

Jim McCann, , April Grow , Chenxi Liu , Lea Albaugh , Gillian Smith , Jen Mankoff

CHI 2016 Conference Extended Abstracts; In Expo: Alt.Ctrl.GDC'16, IndieCade'16

Teaching

Fundamentals and Applications of Sketch Processing

Fundamentals and Applications of Sketch Processing

Mikhail Bessmeltsev* , Chenxi Liu*

Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP 2024) Course

Computer Graphics: Text-to-Image Generation

Computer Graphics: Text-to-Image Generation

David I.W. Levin , Chenxi Liu

CSC317 2023 @ University of Toronto