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About Me

I completed my PhD in September 2025, at Computer Vision Lab (CVLab), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), supervised by Prof. Pascal Fua and Dr. Mathieu Salzmann. Before that, I obtained my bachelor's and master's degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). My research focuses on 3D computer vision, particularly in 3D reconstruction, 3D interaction, and 3D understanding.

I received a postdoctoral offer from Prof. Andreas Geiger at the Autonomous Vision Group (AVG), University of Tübingen. Unfortunately, due to a visa issue, I am now seeking a new postdoctoral position starting from late 2025 or early 2026. Please feel free to reach out if you have a suitable opportunity.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Computer Vision Lab (CVLab)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Email: [email protected]
City: Lausanne, Switzerland
Google Scholar: Google Scholar

News

[2025-11] One paper accepted to AAAI 2026.

[2025-07] One paper accepted to BMVC 2025.

[2025-07] SE-GS accepted as an Oral, ICCV 2025.

[2025-06] Two papers accepted to ICCV 2025.

[2024-02] Two papers accepted to CVPR 2024.

Publications

Monte Carlo Diffusion for Generalizable Learning-Based RANSAC

Jiale Wang*, Chen Zhao*, Wei Ke, Tong Zhang

AAAI, 2026

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Self-Ensembling Gaussian Splatting for Few-Shot Novel View Synthesis

Chen Zhao, Xuan Wang, Tong Zhang, Saqib Javed, Mathieu Salzmann

ICCV, 2025, Oral

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BoxDreamer: Dreaming Box Corners for Generalizable Object Pose Estimation

Yuanhong Yu, Xingyi He, Chen Zhao, Junhao Yu, Jiaqi Yang, Ruizhen Hu, Yujun Shen, Xing Zhu, Xiaowei Zhou, Sida Peng

ICCV, 2025

Project Demo

Temporally Compressed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Scenes

Saqib Javed, Ahmad Jarrar Khan, Corentin Dumery, Chen Zhao, Mathieu Salzmann

BMVC, 2025

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DVMNet: Computing Relative Pose for Unseen Objects Beyond Hypotheses

Chen Zhao, Tong Zhang, Zheng Dang, Mathieu Salzmann

CVPR, 2024

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HOISDF: Constraining 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation with Global Signed Distance Fields

Haozhe Qi, Chen Zhao, Mathieu Salzmann, Alexander Mathis

CVPR, 2024

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3D-Aware Hypothesis & Verification for Generalizable Relative Object Pose Estimation

Chen Zhao, Tong Zhang, Mathieu Salzmann

ICLR, 2024

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LocPoseNet: Robust Location Prior for Unseen Object Pose Estimation

Chen Zhao, Yinlin Hu, Mathieu Salzmann

3DV, 2024

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Unsupervised 3D Keypoint Discovery with Multi-View Geometry

Sina Honari, Chen Zhao, Mathieu Salzmann, Pascal Fua

3DV, 2024

Chen Zhao, Yinlin Hu, Mathieu Salzmann

ECCV, 2022

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Unsupervised Learning of 3D Semantic Keypoints with Mutual Reconstruction

Haocheng Yuan, Chen Zhao, Shichao Fan, Jiaxi Jiang, Jiaqi Yang

ECCV, 2022

Rotation invariant point cloud classification: Where local geometry meets global topology

Chen Zhao, Jiaqi Yang, Xin Xiong, Angfan Zhu, Zhiguo Cao, Xin Li

Pattern Recognition, 2022

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Progressive Correspondence Pruning by Consensus Learning

Chen Zhao*, Yixiao Ge*, Feng Zhu, Rui Zhao, Hongsheng Li, Mathieu Salzmann

ICCV, 2021

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Image feature correspondence selection: a comparative study and a new contribution

Chen Zhao, Zhiguo Cao, Jiaqi Yang, Ke Xian, Xin Li

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2020

Sparse-to-dense depth completion revisited: Sampling strategy and graph construction

Xin Xiong, Haipeng Xiong, Ke Xian, Chen Zhao, Zhiguo Cao, Xin Li

ECCV, 2020

Learning to fuse local geometric features for 3D rigid data matching

Jiaqi Yang, Chen Zhao, Ke Xian, Angfan Zhu, Zhiguo Cao

Information Fusion, 2020

NM-net: Mining reliable neighbors for robust feature correspondences

Chen Zhao, Zhiguo Cao, Chi Li, Xin Li, Jiaqi Yang

CVPR, 2019, Oral

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Work Experience

[Aug 2024 ~ Nov 2024] Research Intern, Spatial AI Lab, Microsoft Zurich
[Jul 2021 ~ Dec 2021] Research Intern, Shared Technology Center, Smart City Group-Research, SenseTime Shanghai

Invited Talks

[Apr 2025] Image-based Generalizable Object Pose Estimation, Robotics and Perception Group, hosted by Prof.Davide Scaramuzza
[Feb 2025] Advancing Robustness and Generalization in 3D Perception and 3D Interaction, Magic Leap
[Jan 2025] Advancing Robustness and Generalization in Spatial AI, ETH AI Center
[Dec 2024] East Lake International Forum for Outstanding Overseas Young Scholars
[Dec 2024] BUPT Information Technology International Forum for Young Scholars
[Oct 2023] Mines Paris - PSL
[Jul 2022] HIT Webinar

Teaching

[Spring 2024] Head Teaching assistant for Computer Vision at EPFL
[Fall 2023] Teaching assistant for Information, Calculation, Communication at EPFL
[Spring 2023] Teaching assistant for Computer Vision at EPFL
[Fall 2022] Teaching assistant for Introduction to Machine Learning at EPFL
[Spring 2022] Teaching assistant for Computer Vision at EPFL
[Fall 2021] Teaching assistant for Information, Calculation, Communication at EPFL

Supervising

Jiale Wang, Master student at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Yuanhong Yu, PhD student at Zhejiang University
Ziyi Zhao, PhD student at University of Technology Sydney
Haocheng Yuan, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML.

Journal Reviewer of IEEE TIP, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TPAMI, PR.