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Cheng Lin 林铖

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST)

✉chenglin@must.edu.mo      ✉chlin@connect.hku.hk

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). I serve as the Deputy Director of the The Key Laboratory of Digital Twinning (Ministry of Water Resources). 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 Computer Graphics, 3D Vision, 3D AIGC, Geometric Modeling, and Human Computer Interaction.

Prior to joining MUST, I was a Lead Researcher of Graphics AI direction at miHoYo, and a Senior Researcher at Tencent IEG. I was selected for Tencent's Top Talent Program for Technology Elites. I am an organizer and co-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.

News


[Feb 2026] Three papers were accepted to CVPR 2026.
[Jan 2026] Two papers were accept to ICLR 2026.
[Oct 2025] Served as the Deputy Director of the The Key Laboratory of Digital Twinning (Ministry of Water Resources).
[Oct 2025] One paper was accept to IEEE TPAMI and one paper was accepted to ACM TOG.
[Sep 2025] Two papers were accepted to NeurIPS 2025, with one selected as a Spotlight.
[Jul 2025] One paper was accepted to Siggraph Aisa 2025 Joural Track. One paper was accepted to ACM TOG.
[Jul 2025] Joined MUST as an Assistant Professor. Goodbye, miHoYo!
[Apr 2025] Three papers accepted to CVPR 2025, with two selected as Highlight.
[Mar 2025] Two papers accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025.
[Jan 2025] One paper accepted to ICLR 2025.
[Sep 2024] One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
[July 2024] One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024. Two papers accepted to ECCV 2024.
[July 2024] Coverage Axis (EG22) was recognized as a Top Cited Article in CGF for 2022–2023.

Publications


LiteVGGT: Boosting Vanilla VGGT via Geometry-aware Cached Token Merging
Zhijian Shu, Cheng Lin, Tao Xie, Wei Yin, Ben Li, Zhiyuan Pu, Weize Li, Yao Yao, Xun Cao, Xiaoyang Guo, Xiao-Xiao Long†
CVPR 2026
MeshMosaic: Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assembly
Rui Xu, Tianyang Xue, Qiujie Dong, Le Wan, Zhe Zhu, Peng Li, Zhiyang Dou, Cheng Lin, Yuan Liu†, Wenping Wang, Taku Komura†
CVPR 2026
RefAny3D: 3D Asset-Referenced Diffusion Models for Image Generation
Hanzhuo Huang, Qingyang Bao, Zekai Gu, Zhongshuo Du, Cheng Lin, Yuan Liu†, Sibei Yang†
ICLR 2026
PartSAM: A Scalable Promptable Part Segmentation Model Trained on Native 3D Data
Zhe Zhu, Le Wan, Rui Xu, Yiheng Zhang, Honghua Chen, Zhiyang Dou, Cheng Lin, Yuan Liu†, Mingqiang Wei†
ICLR 2026
PDT: Point Distribution Transformation with Diffusion Models
Jionghao Wang, Cheng Lin*✝, Yuan Liu, Rui Xu, Zhiyang Dou, Xiaoxiao Long, Haoxiang Guo, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang, Xin Li✝
SIGGRAPH 2025
Diffusion as Shader: 3D-aware Video Diffusion for Versatile Video Generation Control
Zekai Gu, Rui Yan, Jiahao Lu, Peng Li, Zhiyang Dou, Chenyang Si, Zhen Dong, Qifeng Liu, Cheng Lin, Ziwei Liu, Wenping Wang, Yuan Liu
SIGGRAPH 2025
CADDreamer: CAD object Generation from Single-view Images
CVPR 2025 (Highlight)
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 (Highlight)
Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion using Efficient Row-wise Attention
Peng Li*, Yuan Liu*, Xiaoxiao Long, Feihu Zhang, Cheng Lin, Mengfei Li, Xingqun Qi, Shanghang Zhang, Wei Xue, Wenhan Luo, Ping Tan, Wenping Wang, Qifeng Liu, Yike Guo†
NeurIPS 2024
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)
Most influential papers in ICLR 2024 [Paper Digest]
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

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)
    Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)
    Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD)
    Computational Visual Media Journal (CVMJ)

  • Conference Reviewer:
    CVPR, SIGGRAPH, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH ASIA, CVM, 3DV, EuroGraphics

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

  • Co-Founder and Organizer:
    AnySyn3D Research Community (Currently affiliated with the CSIG Technical Committee on Intelligent Graphics Computing)
  • Honors & Awards


  • CCF-CAD&CG Outstanding Open Source Software Project Nomination Award [2025]
  • CVPR 2024 Most Influential Papers (Correponding Author) [2024]
  • ICLR 2024 Most Influential Papers (First Author)[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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