Biography

My name is Yuheng (Carl) Ren, 任禹衡 in Chinese. I am a Manager of Research Science in Facebook Reality Labs (Previously known as Oculus Research). Before joining Facebook, I was a Senior Research Scientist in Fyusion, Inc., a San Francisco based startup company specialized in spatial photography. Before Fyusion, I worked as a Postdoc research fellow in the Oxford Torr Vision Group with Professor Phil Torr. From 2010-2014, I did my DPhil (Oxford Ph.D) in Active Vision Group, University of Oxford under then supervision of Professor Ian Reid and Professor David Murray. From 2006-2010 I studied in Harbin Institute of Technology (China), where I received a BSc in Computer Science and Technology. My research interest involve active vision, visual tracking, SLAM, and image-based rendering, with an emphasis on real-time implementations whenever possible.
[CV / 简历]

Contact:

ren{at}carlyuheng.com
carl{at}robots.ox.ac.uk

News

• July. 2018: We are hiring in FRL! Multiple positions opening, CV Research Engineer - PhD, MP Research Engineer - PhD, Software Engineer - Industry
• Nov. 2016: Our paper “Real-time Full DoF Tracking Using 3D Signed Distance Functions” got accepted by IJCV.
• Aug. 2015: LibISR: real-time 3D model-based tracking, has a public release now on GitHub.
• July. 2015: Our paper “Very High Frame Rate Volumetric Integration of Depth Images on Mobile Devices” got accepted by ISMAR 2015.

Publications

See my list of publications in Google scholar.

• Implicit Shape Representation for Efficient 2D/3D Tracking and Reconstruction
  Oxford DPhil Thesis
  [pdf] [Oxford Archive]

• Real-time Full DoF Tracking Using 3D Signed Distance Functions
  CY Ren, VA Prisacariu, O Kähler, ID Reid, DW Murray
  International Journal of Computer Vision
  [bibtex]

• Very High Frame Rate Volumetric Integration of Depth Images on Mobile Devices
  O Kähler, VA Prisacariu, CY Ren, X Sun, PHS Torr, DW Murray
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2015), 21(11)
  [bibtex] [pdf] [code]

• SemanticPaint: Interactive Segmentation and Learning of 3D Worlds
  S Golodetz, M Sapienza, J Valentin, V Vineet, MM Cheng, VA Prisacariu, O Kähler, CY Ren, A Arnab, SL Hicks, DW Murray, S Izadi, PHS Torr
  ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Emerging Technologies
  [bibtex] [conference link]

• 3D Tracking of Multiple Objects with Identical Appearance Using RGB-D Input
  CY Ren, VA Prisacariu, O Kähler, ID Reid, DW Murray
  2nd International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2014
  Best Paper Award
  [bibtex] [pdf]

• A Framework for the Volumetric Integration of Depth Images
  VA Prisacariu, O Kähler, MM Cheng, CY Ren J Valentin, PHS Torr, ID Reid, DW Murray
  arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0925
  [bibtex] [pdf] [code] [arxiv]

• Regressing Local to Global Shape Properties for Online Segmentation and Tracking
  CY Ren, VA Prisacariu, ID Reid
  International Journal of Computer Vision
  [bibtex] [pdf]

• STAR3D: Simultaneous Tracking and Reconstruction of 3D Objects Using RGB-D Data
  CY Ren, VA Prisacariu, DW Murray, ID Reid
  2013 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  [bibtex] [pdf] [code]

• Dense Reconstruction Using 3D Object Shape Priors
  A Dame, VA Prisacariu, CY Ren, I Reid
  2013 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  [bibtex] [pdf] [code]

• Robust Silhouette Extraction from Kinect Data
  M Pirovano, CY Ren, I Frosio, PL Lanzi, VA Prisacariu, DW Murray, NA Borghese
  Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2013
  [publisher]

• A Unified Energy Minimization Framework for Model Fitting in Depth
  CY Ren, ID Reid
  2nd Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision in conjunction with ECCV (ECCVW-CDC4CV)
  [bibtex] [pdf] [video]

• gSLIC: a real-time implementation of SLIC superpixel segmentation
  CY Ren, ID Reid Oxford Department of Engineering Science Technical Report
  [bibtex] [pdf] [code] [video]

• Regressing Local to Global Shape Properties for Online Segmentation and Tracking
  CY Ren, VA Prisacariu, ID Reid
  the 22nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
  [bibtex] [pdf] [talk]

• Diversifying Landmark Image Search Results by Learning Interested Views from Community Photos
  Y Ren, M Yu, XJ Wang, L Zhang, WY Ma   19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
  [bibtex] [pdf]