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Zhiwen Fan

38 accepted papers

2026

HumanNOVA: Photorealistic, Universal and Rapid 3D Human Avatar Modeling from a Single Image

CVPR 2026

In this paper, we present HumanNOVA, a photorealistic, universal, and rapid model for generating 3D human avatars from a single RGB image. Achieving both photorealism and generalization is challenging due to the scarcity of diverse, high-quality 3D human data. To address this, we build a scalable da

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2026

LAD-VF: LLM-Automatic Differentiation Enables Fine-Tuning-Free Robot Planning from Formal Methods Feedback

ICRA 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural language instructions into executable action plans for robotics, autonomous driving, and other domains. Yet, deploying LLM-driven planning in the physical world demands strict adherence to safety and regulatory constraints, which current models ofte…

2026

SpatialStack: Layered Geometry-Language Fusion for 3D VLM Spatial Reasoning

CVPR 2026

Large vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with reliable 3D spatial reasoning, a core capability for embodied and physical AI systems. This limitation arises from their inability to capture fine-grained 3D geometry and spatial relationships. While recent efforts have introduced multi-view ge

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Trust3R: Unifying Feed-Forward Pointmap Prediction and Evidential Learning for Trust-Aware 3D Reconstruction

ICML 2026poster

Geometric foundation models hold promise for unconstrained dense geometry prediction from uncalibrated images; however, in current feed-forward designs, their predicted confidence scores are heuristic, lack probabilistic interpretation, and often fail to indicate where and how much the predicted geo…

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2026

VLM-3R: Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction

CVPR 2026

The rapid advancement of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for 2D images and videos has sparked interest in extending these models to 3D scenes, with the goal of human-like visual-spatial intelligence. However, achieving deep spatial understanding comparable to human capabilities remains challenging fo

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2025

4K4DGen: Panoramic 4D Generation at 4K Resolution

ICLR 2025spotlight

The blooming of virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies has driven an increasing demand for the creation of high-quality, immersive, and dynamic environments. However, existing generative techniques either focus solely on dynamic objects or perform outpainting from a single perspe…

2025

CryoFastAR: Fast Cryo-EM Ab initio Reconstruction Made Easy

ICCV 2025poster

Pose estimation from unordered images is fundamental for 3D reconstruction, robotics, and scientific imaging. Recent geometric foundation models, such as DUSt3R, enable end-to-end dense 3D reconstruction but remain underexplored in scientific imaging fields like cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) fo…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DynamicVerse: A Physically-Aware Multimodal Framework for 4D World Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Understanding the dynamic physical world, characterized by its evolving 3D structure, real-world motion, and semantic content with textual descriptions, is crucial for human-agent interaction and enables embodied agents to perceive and act within real environments with human‑like capabilities. Howev…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Feature4X: Bridging Any Monocular Video to 4D Agentic AI with Versatile Gaussian Feature Fields

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advancements in 2D and multimodal models have achieved remarkable success by leveraging large-scale training on extensive datasets. However, extending these achievements to enable free-form interactions and high-level semantic operations with complex 3D/4D scenes remains challenging. This dif…

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2025

InstantSplamp: Fast and Generalizable Stenography Framework for Generative Gaussian Splatting

ICLR 2025poster

With the rapid development of large generative models for 3D, especially the evolution from NeRF representations to more efficient Gaussian Splatting, the synthesis of 3D assets has become increasingly fast and efficient, enabling the large-scale publication and sharing of generated 3D objects. Howe…

2025

Martian World Model: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions

NeurIPS 2025poster

The synthesis of realistic Martian landscape videos, essential for mission rehearsal and robotic simulation, presents unique challenges. These primarily stem from the scarcity of high-quality Martian data and the significant domain gap relative to terrestrial imagery. To address these challenges, we…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

STAMP: Scalable Task- And Model-agnostic Collaborative Perception

ICLR 2025poster

Perception is a crucial component of autonomous driving systems. However, single-agent setups often face limitations due to sensor constraints, especially under challenging conditions like severe occlusion, adverse weather, and long-range object detection. Multi-agent collaborative perception (CP) o…

2025

Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting

CVPR 2025poster

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time, high-resolution novel view synthesis. By representing scenes as a mixture of Gaussian primitives, 3DGS leverages GPU rasterization pipelines for efficient rendering and reconstruction. To optimize scene coverage and capt…

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2025

SteinDreamer: Variance Reduction for Text-to-3D Score Distillation via Stein Identity

AISTATS 2025poster

Score distillation has emerged as one of the most prevalent approaches for text-to-3D asset synthesis. Essentially, score distillation updates 3D parameters by lifting and back-propagating scores averaged over different views. In this paper, we reveal that the gradient estimation in score distillati…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

X2-Gaussian: 4D Radiative Gaussian Splatting for Continuous-time Tomographic Reconstruction

ICCV 2025poster

Four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) reconstruction is crucial for capturing dynamic anatomical changes but faces inherent limitations from conventional phase-binning workflows. Current methods discretize temporal resolution into fixed phases with respiratory gating devices, introducing moti…

2024

DreamScene360: Unconstrained Text-to-3D Scene Generation with Panoramic Gaussian Splatting

ECCV 2024poster

"The increasing demand for virtual reality applications has highlighted the significance of crafting immersive 3D assets. We present a text-to-3D 360◦ scene generation pipeline that facilitates the creation of comprehensive 360◦ scenes for in-the-wild environments in a matter of minutes. Our approac…

2024

Expressive Gaussian Human Avatars from Monocular RGB Video

NeurIPS 2024poster

Nuanced expressiveness, especially through detailed hand and facial expressions, is pivotal for enhancing the realism and vitality of digital human representations. In this work, we aim to learn expressive human avatars from a monocular RGB video; a setting that introduces new challenges in capturin…

2024

Feature 3DGS: Supercharging 3D Gaussian Splatting to Enable Distilled Feature Fields

CVPR 2024highlight

3D scene representations have gained immense popularity in recent years. Methods that use Neural Radiance fields are versatile for traditional tasks such as novel view synthesis. In recent times some work has emerged that aims to extend the functionality of NeRF beyond view synthesis for semanticall…

2024

Large Spatial Model: End-to-end Unposed Images to Semantic 3D

NeurIPS 2024poster

Reconstructing and understanding 3D structures from a limited number of images is a classical problem in computer vision. Traditional approaches typically decompose this task into multiple subtasks, involving several stages of complex mappings between different data representations. For example, den…

2024

Lift3D: Zero-Shot Lifting of Any 2D Vision Model to 3D

CVPR 2024poster

In recent years there has been an explosion of 2D vision models for numerous tasks such as semantic segmentation style transfer or scene editing enabled by large-scale 2D image datasets. At the same time there has been renewed interest in 3D scene representations such as neural radiance fields from…

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2024

LightGaussian: Unbounded 3D Gaussian Compression with 15x Reduction and 200+ FPS

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Recent advances in real-time neural rendering using point-based techniques have enabled broader adoption of 3D representations. However, foundational approaches like 3D Gaussian Splatting impose substantial storage overhead, as Structure-from-Motion (SfM) points can grow to millions, often requiring…

2024

MM3DGS SLAM: Multi-modal 3D Gaussian Splatting for SLAM Using Vision, Depth, and Inertial Measurements

IROS 2024poster

Simultaneous localization and mapping is essential for position tracking and scene understanding. 3D Gaussian-based map representations enable photorealistic reconstruction and real-time rendering of scenes using multiple posed cameras. We show for the first time that using 3D Gaussians for map repr…

Cited by 15SourceScholar
2024

Taming Mode Collapse in Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation

CVPR 2024poster

Despite the remarkable performance of score distillation in text-to-3D generation such techniques notoriously suffer from view inconsistency issues also known as "Janus" artifact where the generated objects fake each view with multiple front faces. Although empirically effective methods have approac…

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2023

Enhancing NeRF akin to Enhancing LLMs: Generalizable NeRF Transformer with Mixture-of-View-Experts

ICCV 2023poster

Cross-scene generalizable NeRF models, which can directly synthesize novel views of unseen scenes, have become a new spotlight of the NeRF field. Several existing attempts rely on increasingly end-to-end "neuralized" architectures, i.e., replacing scene representation and/or rendering modules with p…

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2023

NeRF-SOS: Any-View Self-supervised Object Segmentation on Complex Scenes

ICLR 2023poster

Neural volumetric representations have shown the potential that Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) can be optimized with multi-view calibrated images to represent scene geometry and appearance without explicit 3D supervision. Object segmentation can enrich many downstream applications based on the learn…

2023

NeuralLift-360: Lifting an In-the-Wild 2D Photo to a 3D Object With 360deg Views

CVPR 2023highlight

Virtual reality and augmented reality (XR) bring increasing demand for 3D content generation. However, creating high-quality 3D content requires tedious work from a human expert. In this work, we study the challenging task of lifting a single image to a 3D object and, for the first time, demonstrate…

2023

StegaNeRF: Embedding Invisible Information within Neural Radiance Fields

ICCV 2023poster

Recent advancements in neural rendering have paved the way for a future marked by the widespread distribution of visual data through the sharing of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) model weights. However, while established techniques exist for embedding ownership or copyright information within conventi…

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2022

Aug-NeRF: Training Stronger Neural Radiance Fields With Triple-Level Physically-Grounded Augmentations

CVPR 2022poster

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) regresses a neural parameterized scene by differentially rendering multi-view images with ground-truth supervision. However, when interpolating novel views, NeRF often yields inconsistent and visually non-smooth geometric results, which we consider as a generalization ga…

Cited by 53PDFcodeScholar
2022

CADTransformer: Panoptic Symbol Spotting Transformer for CAD Drawings

CVPR 2022oral

Understanding 2D computer-aided design (CAD) drawings plays a crucial role for creating 3D prototypes in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. The task of automated panoptic symbol spotting, i.e., to spot and parse both countable object instances (windows, doors, tables, etc.)…

Cited by 27PDFcodeScholar
2022

M³ViT: Mixture-of-Experts Vision Transformer for Efficient Multi-task Learning with Model-Accelerator Co-design

NeurIPS 2022accept

Multi-task learning (MTL) encapsulates multiple learned tasks in a single model and often lets those tasks learn better jointly. Multi-tasking models have become successful and often essential for many sophisticated systems such as autonomous driving and indoor robots. However, when deploying MTL on…

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2022

Neural Implicit Dictionary Learning via Mixture-of-Expert Training

ICML 2022spotlight

Representing visual signals by coordinate-based deep fully-connected networks has been shown advantageous in fitting complex details and solving inverse problems than discrete grid-based representation. However, acquiring such a continuous Implicit Neural Representation (INR) requires tedious per-sc…

2022

Point Cloud Domain Adaptation via Masked Local 3D Structure Prediction

ECCV 2022poster

"The superiority of deep learning based point cloud representations relies on large-scale labeled datasets, while the annotation of point clouds is notoriously expensive. One of the most effective solutions is to transfer the knowledge from existing labeled source data to unlabeled target data. Howe…

2022

Signal Processing for Implicit Neural Representations

NeurIPS 2022accept

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) encoding continuous multi-media data via multi-layer perceptrons has shown undebatable promise in various computer vision tasks. Despite many successful applications, editing and processing an INR remains intractable as signals are represented by latent paramet…

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2022

SinNeRF: Training Neural Radiance Fields on Complex Scenes from a Single Image

ECCV 2022poster

"Despite the rapid development of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), the necessity of dense covers largely prohibits its wider applications. While several recent works have attempted to address this issue, they either operate with sparse views (yet still, a few of them) or on simple objects/scenes. In th…

2022

Unified Implicit Neural Stylization

ECCV 2022poster

"Representing visual signals by implicit neural representation (INR) has prevailed among many vision tasks. Its potential for editing/processing given signals remains less explored. This work explores a new intriguing direction: training a stylized implicit representation, using a generalized approa…

2021

FloorPlanCAD: A Large-Scale CAD Drawing Dataset for Panoptic Symbol Spotting

ICCV 2021poster

Access to large and diverse computer-aided design (CAD) drawings is critical for developing symbol spotting algorithms. In this paper, we present FloorPlanCAD, a large-scale real-world CAD drawing dataset containing over 10,000 floor plans, ranging from residential to commercial buildings. CAD drawi…

Cited by 50PDFcodeScholar
2020

Cascade Cost Volume for High-Resolution Multi-View Stereo and Stereo Matching

CVPR 2020oral

The deep multi-view stereo (MVS) and stereo matching approaches generally construct 3D cost volumes to regularize and regress the output depth or disparity. These methods are limited when high-resolution outputs are needed since the memory and time costs grow cubically as the volume resolution incre…

Cited by 897PDFcodeScholar
2018

A Segmentation-aware Deep Fusion Network for Compressed Sensing MRI

ECCV 2018poster

Compressed sensing MRI is a classic inverse problem in the field of computational imaging, accelerating the MR imaging by measuring less k-space data. The deep neural network models provide the stronger representation ability and faster reconstruction compared with "shallow" optimization-based metho…

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