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My name is Yuheng (Carl) Ren, 任禹衡 in Chinese. I am currently a Director of Research Engineering in Reality Labs Research, Meta (Previously known Facebook Reality Labs). 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. 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. I studied in Harbin Institute of Technology (China), where I received a BSc in Computer Science.


Contact:

ren{at}carlyuheng.com


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.

  • The Replica dataset: A digital replica of indoor spaces
    Julian Straub, Thomas Whelan, Lingni Ma, Yufan Chen, Erik Wijmans, Simon Green, Jakob J. Engel, Raul Mur-Artal, Carl Ren, Shobhit Verma, Anton Clarkson, Mingfei Yan, Brian Budge, Yajie Yan, Xiaqing Pan, June Yon, Yuyang Zou, Kimberly Leon, Nigel Carter, Jesus Briales, Tyler Gillingham, Elias Mueggler, Luis Pesqueira, Manolis Savva, Dhruv Batra, Hauke M. Strasdat, Renzo De Nardi, Michael Goesele, Steven Lovegrove, Richard Newcombe
    [pdf] [GitHub]

  • 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]