Haoan Feng πŸŽ“
Haoan Feng

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Biography

I am a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, focused on the intersection of computer vision, geometry processing, and geospatial data analysis. My research centers on neural representations of geospatial data, combining implicit neural modeling, topology-aware analysis, and generative frameworks to enable interpretable, continuous, and scalable representations of the physical world. I am motivated by interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges machine learning, graphics, and scientific computing.

During my BEng and MPhil at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, I was gratefully advised by Prof. Long Quan in 3D computer graphics and vision. Currently, I am gratefully advised by Prof. Leila De Floriani.

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“Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.” β€” RenΓ© Thom

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Interests
  • Spatial Representation Learning
  • Neural Rendering
  • Topological/Morphological Analysis
  • Information Retrieval
  • Generative Model
  • Data Visualization
  • AI4Science
  • Vision-Language Model
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science

    University of Maryland, College Park

  • MPhil in Computer Science

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • BEng Dual Major in Computer Science Engineering and Electronic and Computer Engineering

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Recent Publications
SASNet: Spatially-Adaptive Sinusoidal Networks for INRs
SASNet: Spatially-Adaptive Sinusoidal Networks for INRs

SIRENs are powerful implicit neural representations, but they are highly sensitive to frequency initialization: low frequencies over-smooth fine detail, while high frequencies inject noise into smooth regions. SASNet addresses this with a fixed frequency embedding paired with jointly learned spatially-adaptive masks that localize each sinusoidal neuron’s influence across the domain. The result is sharper reconstructions, less noise, and faster convergence across image fitting, 3D volumes, and SDF reconstruction β€” consistently outperforming INR baselines.

Jun 1, 2026

ImplicitTerrainV2: Wavelet-Guided Spatially Adaptive Neural Terrain Representation
ImplicitTerrainV2: Wavelet-Guided Spatially Adaptive Neural Terrain Representation

A follow-up to (CVPR 2024 INRV Workshop), advancing terrain INRs toward a compact, efficient neural terrain data format with wavelet-guided spatial adaptivity, derivative-aware supervision, and post-training compression.

May 21, 2026

A Parallel Scale-Space Method for Critical Features Tracking on Triangulated Irregular Networks
A Parallel Scale-Space Method for Critical Features Tracking on Triangulated Irregular Networks

Published in ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS). This is the extended journal version of our SIGSPATIAL'24 conference paper , with new contributions in scale-aware seam-free sampling (S3), improved TIN smoothing, and a fully parallel GPU implementation of critical point tracking.

May 8, 2026

Geometry-Guided Camera Motion Understanding in VideoLLMs
Geometry-Guided Camera Motion Understanding in VideoLLMs

Accepted at CVPR 2026 Workshop PVUW. This work studies how to make VideoLLMs more camera-aware by benchmarking camera motion understanding and injecting geometry-derived motion cues at inference time.

Mar 13, 2026

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