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Yi Wei
I am a research engineer in Huawei, working on computer vision, including 3D reconstruction, video generation and world model. I obtained my Ph.D degree at the Intelligent Vision Group (IVG), Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Jiwen Lu.
Prior to that, I received my Bachelor's degree from the department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2019 (Ranking 6/245). I have also spent some time at DeePhi Tech (Xilinx), Sensetime , Microsoft Research Asia, XPeng, ByteDance, PhiGent Robtics, Gaussian Robotics and Apple.
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Curriculum Vitae
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News
2026-06: Three papers on 3D/4D reconstruction are accepted to ECCV 2026.
2024-07: One paper on 3D AIGC is accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
2024-07: I graduate from Tsinghua University and will join Huawei.
2024-02: One paper on 3D AIGC is accepted to CVPR 2024.
2023-07: Two papers on occupancy prediction are accepted to ICCV 2023.
2023-07: The journal version of PV-RAFT is accepted to T-PAMI.
2023-04: The journal version of NerfingMVS is accepted to T-PAMI.
2023-03: I am a recipient of the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship.
2022-09: One paper on self-supervised multi-camera depth estimation is accepted to CoRL 2022.
2022-07: One paper on LiDAR-based 3D object detection is accepted to ECCV 2022.
2022-06: One paper on robotic exploration is accepted to IROS 2022.
2021-07: Three papers (including 1 oral) on NeRF, depth estimation and 3D pretraining are accepted to ICCV 2021.
2021-03: One paper on 3D scene flow estimation is accepted to CVPR 2021.
2021-03: One paper on weakly supervised 3D detection is accepted to ICRA 2021.
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Selected Publications
* indicates equal contribution
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GeoLRM: Geometry-Aware Large Reconstruction Model for High-Quality 3D Gaussian Generation
Chubin Zhang, Hongliang Song, Yi Wei, Yu Chen, Jiwen Lu , Yansong Tang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code]
We introduce the Geometry-Aware Large Reconstruction Model (GeoLRM), an approach which can predict high-quality assets with 512k Gaussians and 21 input images in only 11 GB GPU memory.
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OccNeRF: Advancing 3D Occupancy Prediction in LiDAR-Free Environments
Chubin Zhang*, Juncheng Yan*, Yi Wei*, Jiaxin Li, Li Liu, Yansong Tang, Yueqi Duan, Jiwen Lu
arXiv, 2023
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code]
We propose an OccNeRF method for self-supervised multi-camera occupancy prediction, which adopts the parameterized occupancy fields, multi-frame photometric loss and open-vocabulary 2D segmentation.
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Sherpa3D: Boosting High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation via Coarse 3D Prior
Fangfu Liu, Diankun Wu, Yi Wei, Yongming Rao , Yueqi Duan
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code]
We propose Sherpa3D, a new text-to-3D framework that achieves high-fidelity, generalizability, and geometric consistency simultaneously.
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SurroundOcc: Multi-Camera 3D Occupancy Prediction for Autonomous Driving
Yi Wei*, Linqing Zhao*, Wenzhao Zheng, Zheng Zhu, Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code]
We propose a SurroundOcc method to predict the volumetric occupancy with multi-camera images and generate dense occupancy ground truth with sparse LiDAR points.
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OpenOccupancy: A Large Scale Benchmark for Surrounding Semantic Occupancy Perception
Xiaofeng Wang*, Zheng Zhu*, Wenbo Xu*, Yunpeng Zhang, Yi Wei, Xu Chi, Yun Ye, Dalong Du, Jiwen Lu , Xingang Wang
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[arXiv] [Code]
Towards a comprehensive benchmarking of surrounding perception algorithms, we propose OpenOccupancy, which is the first surrounding semantic occupancy perception benchmark.
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3D Point-Voxel Correlation Fields for Scene Flow Estimation
Ziyi Wang*, Yi Wei*, Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI, IF: 24.31), 2023
[Paper] [Code]
We propose Deformable PV-RAFT, where the Spatial Deformation deforms the voxelized neighborhood, and the Temporal Deformation controls the iterative update process.
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Depth-Guided Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields for Indoor Multi-View Stereo
Yi Wei, Shaohui Liu, Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI, IF: 24.31), 2023
[Paper] [Code]
Beyond NerfingMVS, we further present NerfingMVS++, where a coarse-to-fine depth priors training strategy is proposed to directly utilize sparse SfM points and the uniform sampling is replaced by Gaussian sampling to boost the performance.
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LiDAR Distillation: Bridging the Beam-Induced Domain Gap for 3D Object Detection
Yi Wei, Zibu Wei, Yongming Rao, Jiaxin Li, Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
[arXiv] [Code] [中文解读]
We propose the LiDAR Distillation to bridge the domain gap induced by different LiDAR beams for 3D object detection.
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SurroundDepth: Entangling Surrounding Views for Self-Supervised Multi-Camera Depth Estimation
Yi Wei*, Linqing Zhao*, Wenzhao Zheng, Zheng Zhu, Yongming Rao, Guan Huang, Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code] [中文解读]
We propose a SurroundDepth method to incorporate the information from multiple surrounding views to predict scale-aware depth maps across cameras.
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NerfingMVS: Guided Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields for Indoor Multi-view Stereo
Yi Wei, Shaohui Liu, Yongming Rao, Wang Zhao, Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, Oral Presentation
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code] [Video] [中文解读]
We present a new multi-view depth estimation method that utilizes both conventional SfM reconstruction and learning-based priors over the recently proposed neural radiance fields (NeRF).
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A Confidence-based Iterative Solver of Depths and Surface Normals for Deep Multi-view Stereo
Wang Zhao*, Shaohui Liu*, Yi Wei ,
Hengkai Guo , Yong-jin Liu
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
[Project page] [arXiv] [Code]
We propose a novel solver that iteratively solves for per-view depth
map and normal map by optimizing an energy potential
based on the locally planar assumption.
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PV-RAFT: Point-Voxel Correlation Fields for Scene Flow Estimation of Point Clouds
Yi Wei*, Ziyi Wang*, Yongming Rao *, Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
[arXiv] [Code] [Video]
We present point-voxel correlation fields for 3D scene flow estimation which migrates the high performance of RAFT and provides a solution to build structured all-pairs correlation fields for unstructured point clouds.
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FGR: Frustum-Aware Geometric Reasoning for Weakly Supervised 3D Vehicle Detection
Yi Wei, Shang Su, Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
[arXiv] [Code] [Video]
We propose a weakly supervised 3D detection method without using 3D labels, which consists of coarse 3D segmentation and 3D bounding box estimation two stages.
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Conditional Single-view Shape Generation for Multi-view Stereo Reconstruction
Yi Wei*, Shaohui Liu *, Wang Zhao *, Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
[Project] [arXiv] [Code]
we present a new perspective towards image-based shape generation. Unlike most single-view methods which are sometimes insufficient to determine a single groundtruth shape because the back part is occluded, our method levergae multi-view consistency for 3D reconstruction.
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Quantization mimic: Towards very tiny cnn for object detection
Yi Wei, Xinyu Pan , Hongwei Qin , Junjie Yan
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
[arXiv]
we propose a simple and general framework for training very tiny CNNs for object detection. Our method leverages the fact that mimic and quantization can facilitate each other.
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Two-stream binocular network: Accurate near field finger detection based on binocular images
Yi Wei, Guijin Wang , Cairong Zhang , Hengkai Guo , Xinghao Chen , Huazhong Yang ,
IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2017   (Best Student Paper Award)
[arXiv]
We propose the Two-Stream Binocular Network (TSBnet) to detect fingertips from binocular images. Different with previous depth-based methods, we directly regress 3D positions of fingertip from left and right images.
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Apple
AI/ML Group, Research Intern
Topic: 3D AIGC
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Gaussian Robotics
Gaussian-Tsinghua joint laboratory, Project leader
Topic: Sensor calibration, Drivable space detection, LiDAR-based 3D object detection, Depth estimation, 3D reconstruction
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ByteDance
SLAM & 3D Vision Group, Engineer&Research Intern
Topic: Sky AR, Advertisement AR, Self-supervised depth estimation, Plane-assisted multi-view stereo, Multiple plane detection
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XPeng
LiDAR Group, Engineer Intern
Topic: LiDAR-based 3D object detection, LiDAR-based model quantization
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MSRA
Intelligent Multimedia Group, Research Intern
Topic: Multi-view hand pose estimation
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Sensetime
Video Intelligence Group, Engineer&Research Intern
Topic: Model compression
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Deephi
Engineer Intern
Topic: Real-time object detection
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Honors and Awards
2024 Beijing Outstanding Graduate / 北京市优秀毕业生
2024 Huawei TopMinds / 华为天才少年称号
2023 Apple Scholar / 苹果学者奖学金 (22 people in the world, 2 people in China)
2023 Ubiquant Scholar / 九坤奖学金
2021 National Scholarship / 国家奖学金
2019 Beijing Outstanding Graduate / 北京市优秀毕业生
2018 Caixiong Scholarship / 清华科创类专项奖 (10 people in Tsinghua)
2018 Baogang Outstanding Scholarship / 宝钢优秀学生特等奖 (1 person in Tsinghua)
2017 National Scholarship / 国家奖学金
2017 Qualcomm Scholarship / 高通奖学金 (30 people in Tsinghua)
2017 Sensetime Scholarship / 商汤奖学金 (30 people in China)
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Academic Services
Conference Reviewer / Program Committee Member: CVPR 2024, ICCV 2023, ICRA 2023, ECCV 2022, CVPR 2022, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2021, ICIP 2021, WACV 2021, ACCV 2020, CVPR 2020, ICIP 2019
Journal Reviewer: T-PAMI, T-IP, T-MM, T-CSVT
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