Chen Yu

Yu Chen ้™ˆ็…œ

Research Scientist
NUS VLM 3DGS NeRF SfM&SLAM 3D Generation

I'm a research scientist at Huawei Darwin Research Center (London). I obtained my doctoral degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the guidance of Prof. Gim Hee Lee, supported by a Google PhD Fellowship. My academic journey began with an M.S. in Computer Science at Peking University, working with Prof. Yisong Chen and Prof. Shuhan Shen, and a B.E. in Software Engineering from Beihang University.

I am looking for prospective interns (PhD) to work on 3D/4D/VLM stuff (Generating 3D/4D scenes with VLM). Feel free to drop an email if you are interested in working with me.

Latest News

๐Ÿ˜Ž Apr 2026 I rejected the request for serving as a reviewer of NeurIPS 2026!
๐Ÿ˜Ž Feb 2026 Paper on Scaling up 3D data for foundation model training accepted at CVPR 2026!
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ Sep 2025 Successfully defended my PhD thesis! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿ˜Ž Sep 2025 Paper on 3D geometric foundation models for Gaussian Splatting accepted at NeurIPS 2025!
๐Ÿš€ Jan 2025 Received the Research Achievement Award at SoC | NUS!
๐Ÿš€ Sep 2024 Received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿ˜Ž Sep 2024 Paper on distributed large-scale 3D Gaussian Splatting accepted at NeurIPS 2024!
๐Ÿ˜Ž May 2024 Invited talk at 3D CVer on distributed 3D Gaussian Splatting!
๐Ÿ˜Ž Feb 2024 Paper on anti-aliasing 3D Gaussian Splatting accepted at CVPR 2024!
๐Ÿš€ Jan 2024 Awarded the Dean's Graduate Research Achievement Award at NUS! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿš€ Nov 2023 Awarded the Google PhD Fellowship 2023 in Machine Perception! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿš€ Aug 2023 Received the Research Achievement Award at SoC | NUS! ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿ˜Ž Jul 2023 Paper on registering neural radiance fields accepted at ICCV 2023!
๐Ÿ˜Ž Jan 2023 Paper on neural radiance fields accepted at CVPR 2023!
๐Ÿ˜Ž Jan 2023 Paper on large scale Structure-from-Motion accepted at ICRA 2023!
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ Jan 2022 Joined the CVRP lab at NUS as a PhD student!
๐Ÿ˜Ž May 2021 Paper on rotation averaging accepted at CVPR 2021!
๐Ÿ˜Ž July 2020 Paper on large-scale SfM accepted at Pattern Recognition 2020!

Publications

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CVPR 2026

FreeScale: Scaling 3D Scenes via Certainty-Aware Free-View Generation

Chenhan Jiang*, Yu Chen*, Qingwen Zhang, Jifei Song, Songcen Xu, Dit-Yan Yeung, Jiankang Deng ๐Ÿ’ก * Equal contribution FreeScale turns sparse real-world captures into a scalable 3D data engine by sampling certainty-aware free views from reconstructed scenes and using them to improve feed-forward NVS and per-scene 3DGS.
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PhD Thesis 2025 PhD Thesis

Large-Scale Neural 3D Scene Reconstruction, Rendering, and Beyond

Yu Chen
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NeurIPS 2025 DeepGfM

Deep Gaussian from Motion: Exploring 3D Geometric Foundation Models for Gaussian Splatting

Yu Chen, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Evangelos Ververas, Jifei Song, Jiankang Deng, Gim Hee Lee
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NeurIPS 2024 DOGS

DOGS: Distributed-Oriented Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction Via Gaussian Consensus

Yu Chen, Gim Hee Lee
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CVPR 2024 MS-GS

Multi-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting for Anti-Aliased Rendering

Zhiwen Yan, Weng Fei Low, Yu Chen, Gim Hee Lee
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ICCV 2023 DReg-NeRF

DReg-NeRF: Deep Registration for Neural Radiance Fields

Yu Chen, Gim Hee Lee ๐Ÿ’ก Given NeRF blocks in different coordinate systems, DReg-NeRF registers them together end-to-end using 3D FPN and transformers on occupancy grids.
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CVPR 2023 DBARF

DBARF: Deep Bundle-Adjusting Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields

Yu Chen, Gim Hee Lee ๐Ÿ’ก DBARF jointly optimizes generalizable NeRF and camera poses without pose initialization by constructing residual maps from feature extraction.
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ICRA 2023 AdaSfM

AdaSfM: From Coarse Global to Fine Incremental Adaptive Structure from Motion

Yu Chen, Zihao Yu, Shu Song, Tianning Yu, Jianming Li, Gim Hee Lee ๐Ÿ’ก AdaSfM adopts a coarse-to-fine strategy for SfM, using coarse global reconstruction to provide priors for local incremental reconstruction in a distributed way.
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CVPR 2021 Hybrid Rotation Averaging

Hybrid Rotation Averaging: A Fast and Robust Rotation Averaging Approach

Yu Chen, Ji Zhao, Laurent Kneip ๐Ÿ’ก Hybrid rotation averaging combines global and local methods, enhancing robustness by pre-filtering wrong edges in triplets and using global rotations as priors for incremental SfM.
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Pattern Recognition 2020 GraphSfM

Graph-Based Parallel Large Scale Structure from Motion

Yu Chen, Shuhan Shen, Yisong Chen, Guoping Wang ๐Ÿ’ก GraphSfM splits and stitches scenes based on graph connectivity, enabling efficient distributed large-scale reconstruction. First open-source distributed SfM implementation.
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Experience

May 2024 - Jun 2025

Research Scientist Intern

Huawei UK

Gaussian Splatting, 3D Reconstruction

Jan 2024 - Jun 2025

Student Researcher (Remote)

Google Research

NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, 3D Reconstruction

Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

SLAM Algorithm Engineer

Segway Robotics

Visual-Inertial-Odometry SLAM, Marker SLAM, Outdoor Multi-sensor Fusion SfM

Apr 2020 - Jun 2020

Algorithm Intern

Segway Robotics

Visual-Inertial SLAM, Self-Calibration on scooters (with Jianming Li)

Apr 2019 - Jul 2019

Research Intern

TuSimple

High-Definition mapping, Rotation Averaging (with Dr. Ji Zhao)

Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

Algorithm Intern

Megvii Research

Real-time 3D reconstruction, texture mapping

Awards & Honors

๐ŸŽ Jan 2025 Research Achievement Award, SoC, NUS
๐Ÿ† Sep 2024 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
๐ŸŽ Jan 2024 Dean's Graduate Research Achievement Award, SoC, NUS (Awarded only once for senior PhDs who obtain prestigious research achievements)
๐ŸŽ Nov 2023 Google PhD Fellowship 2023 (Machine Perception track)
๐ŸŽ Aug 2023 Research Achievement Award, SoC, NUS
๐Ÿ† Aug 2021 Rising Star in the Quarter, Segway Robotics
๐Ÿฅˆ Nov 2019 2nd Place in 3D Reconstruction Track, China VR Innovation Challenge
๐Ÿ… Apr 2018 2nd Place in 3v3 Basketball, Peking University
๐Ÿ† Mar 2014 Top Ten Broadcasting Hosts, BUAA
๐Ÿฅ‡ Nov 2013 Champion in Speech Contest, School of Software, BUAA

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