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Cheng Lin 林铖

Ph.D., Researcher

chlin@connect.hku.hk

I am a lead researcher in the field of 3D AIGC. I used to be a senior researcher at Tencent .
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Univeristy of Hong Kong (HKU), advised by Prof. Wenping Wang. I visited Visual Computing Group at Technical University of Munich (TUM), advised by Prof. Matthias Nießner. Before that, I completed my B.Eng. degree at Shandong University working on geometry and graphics. My research interests include geometric modeling, 3D vision, shape analysis and computer graphics.

I am an organizer and founder member of AnySyn3D, a non-profit research interest group comprising individuals with a strong interest in exploring research problems and cutting-edge technologies in 3D AIGC. If you have any ideas or creativity, or want to discuss any interesting research problems with us, please do not hesitate to contact us immediately.

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Publications


CADDreamer: CAD object Generation from Single-view Images
CVPR 2025
MAGE: Single Image to Material-Aware 3D via the Multi-View G-Buffer Estimation Model
Haoyuan Wang*, Zhenwei Wang*, Xiaoxiao Long, Cheng Lin, Gerhard Hancke, Rynson W.H. Lau
CVPR 2025
Align3R: Aligned Monocular Depth Estimation for Dynamic Videos
Jiahao Lu*, Tianyu Huang*, Peng Li, Zhiyang Dou, Cheng Lin, Zhiming Cui, Zhen Dong, Sai-Kit Yeung, Wenping Wang, Yuan Liu†
CVPR 2025
DICE: End-to-end Deformation Capture of Hand-Face Interactions from a Single Image
Qingxuan Wu, Zhiyang Dou, Sirui Xu, Soshi Shimada, Chen Wang, Zhengming Yu, Yuan Liu, Cheng Lin , Zeyu Cao, Taku Komura, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Wenping Wang, Lingjie Liu.
ICLR 2025
NASM: Neural Anisotropic Surface Meshing
Hongbo Li, Haikuan Zhu, Sikai Zhong, Ningna Wang, Cheng Lin , Xiaohu Guo, Shiqing Xin, Wenping Wang, Jing Hua, Zichun Zhong
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
DreamMat: High-quality PBR Material Generation with Geometry- and Light-aware Diffusion Models
SIGGRAPH 2024 (ACM TOG)
Part123: Part-aware 3D Reconstruction from a Single-view Image
SIGGRAPH 2024
SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image
ICLR 2024 (Spotlight)
Wonder3D: Single Image to 3D using Cross-Domain Diffusion
CVPR 2024 (Highlight)
Most influential papers in CVPR 2024 [Paper Digest]
Disentangled Clothed Avatar Generation from Text Descriptions
ECCV 2024
Surf-D: High-Quality Surface Generation for Arbitrary Topologies using Diffusion Models
ECCV 2024
TORE: Token Reduction for Efficient Human Mesh Recovery with Transformer
ICCV 2023
NeRO: Neural Geometry and BRDF Reconstruction of Reflective Objects from Multiview Images
SIGGRAPH 2023 (ACM TOG)
NeuralUDF: Learning Unsigned Distance Fields for Multi-view Reconstruction of Surfaces with Arbitrary Topologies
CVPR 2023
SparseNeuS: Fast Generalizable Neural Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Views
ECCV 2022
Gen6D: Generalizable Model-Free 6-DoF Object Pose Estimation from RGB Images
ECCV 2022
3PSDF: Three-Pole Signed Distance Function for Learning Surfaces with Arbitrary Topologies
CVPR 2022
Coverage Axis: Inner Point Selection for 3D Shape Skeletonization
Eurographics(EG) 2022
CGF Top Cited Article in 2022-2023
Adaptive Surface Normal Constraint for Depth Estimation
ICCV 2021
Point2Skeleton: Learning Skeletal Representations from Point Clouds
CVPR 2021 (Oral, Best Paper Candidate)
Learnable Motion Coherence for Correspondence Pruning
CVPR 2021
Modeling 3D Shapes by Reinforcement Learning
ECCV 2020
Most discussed CS papers on Twitter [Hot Computer Science]
SEG-MAT: 3D Shape Segmentation Using Medial Axis Transform
IEEE TVCG 2020
Floorplan-Jigsaw: Jointly Estimating Scene Layout and Aligning Partial Scans
ICCV 2019
Image-based Reconstruction of Wire Art
SIGGRAPH 2017 (ACM TOG)
Supporting easy physical-to-virtual creation of mobile vr maze games: a new genre
CHI 2017
A Novel Workbench for Collaboratively Constructing 3D Virtual Environment
IIKI 2017
* indicates equal contribution; ✝ indicates corresponding authors

Talks


  • Image-based 3D Object Generation with Diffusion Models
    Research Center of Digital Medial Technology, Shandong University
    April, 2024

  • 3D Digital Content Technology - Representation, Understanding, Creation
    CSIG Virtual Reality and HCI Seminar, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)
    July, 2022

  • Geometric Learning and Analysis for High-level Shape Understanding
    Tencent AI Lab
    October, 2021

  • Point2Skeleton: Learning Skeletal Representations of Point Clouds
    Vision and Learning Seminar (VALSE Webinar)
    August, 2021

  • State-of-the-art Applications of Medial Axis Transform in 3D Vision and Shape Analysis
    Advanced Computer Graphics, ShanghaiTech University
    March, 2021

  • Modeling 3D Shapes by Reinforcement Learning
    Holistic Scene Structures for 3D Vision, ECCV 2020 Workshop
    August, 2020
  • Services


  • Journal Reviewer:
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
    Computer & Graphics (C&G)
    Computational Visual Media Journal (CVMJ)

  • Conference Reviewer:
    SIGGRAPH 2025, CVPR 2025, SIGGRAPH AISA 2024, SIGGRAPH 2024, ECCV 2024,
    CVPR 2024, SIGGRAPH AISA 2023, SIGGRAPH 2023, ICCV 2023, CVPR 2023,
    CVPR 2022, SIGGRAPH 2022, ECCV 2022, 3DV 2022, SIGGRAPH AISA 2022

  • Program Committee Member:
    CGI 2025, CVM 2025, ICVR 2024, GDC 2023
  • Honors & Awards


  • CVPR 2024 Most Influential Papers (Rank No.6) [2024]
  • CGF Top Cited Article in 2022-2023 [2023]
  • Tencent Excellent Contributor [2022]
  • CVPR 2021 Best Paper Candidate (First Author) [2021]
  • Tencent Tech Elite Program [2021]
  • Computer Science Postgraduate Scholarship [2016, 2018]
  • Postgraduate Scholarship [2016-2020]
  • Google Excellence Scholarship [2015]
  • President’s Scholarship (the highest honor of the university) [2015]
  • Baosteel Scholarship [2015]
  • CCF Top 100 Outstanding CS Students of China [2015]
  • National Scholarship of China [2013, 2014, 2015]



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