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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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.
  • Selected Publications

    * indicates equal contribution

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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).

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    dise 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.

    Experiences
    dise Apple
    AI/ML Group, Research Intern
    Topic: 3D AIGC
    dise Gaussian Robotics
    Gaussian-Tsinghua joint laboratory, Project leader
    Topic: Sensor calibration, Drivable space detection, LiDAR-based 3D object detection, Depth estimation, 3D reconstruction
    dise 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
    dise XPeng
    LiDAR Group, Engineer Intern
    Topic: LiDAR-based 3D object detection, LiDAR-based model quantization
    dise MSRA
    Intelligent Multimedia Group, Research Intern
    Topic: Multi-view hand pose estimation
    dise Sensetime
    Video Intelligence Group, Engineer&Research Intern
    Topic: Model compression
    dise Deephi
    Engineer Intern
    Topic: Real-time object detection
    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)
  • 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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