Siyan Dong (董思言)

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at School of Computing and Data Science and Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. Yanchao Yang and Prof. Yi Ma. My research interests span the interdisciplinary fields of computer vision, graphics, and robotics. Specifically, I focus on 3D reconstruction and generation from images to advance 3D foundation models and embodied AI.

I received my PhD in computer science at Shandong University, supervised by  Prof. Baoquan Chen. During my PhD,  I was a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. Marc Pollefeys. I spent a happy time as a visiting PhD student at Peking University, where I also remotely collaborated with Prof. Leonidas J. Guibas and Prof. Thomas Funkhouser. Before that, I was a research intern at Beijing Film Academy, working with Prof. Kai Xu and Prof. Baoquan Chen.

Email: siyandong.3 [at] gmail.com
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Selected Publications


PROFusion: Robust and Accurate Dense Reconstruction via Camera Pose Regression and Optimization

Siyan Dong, Zijun Wang, Lulu Cai, Yi Ma, Yanchao Yang

ICRA 2026

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SLAM3R: Real-Time Dense Scene Reconstruction from Monocular RGB Videos

Yuzheng Liu*, Siyan Dong*†, Shuzhe Wang, Yingda Yin, Yanchao Yang†, Qingnan Fan, Baoquan Chen†

CVPR 2025 (Highlight), top 13.5% of accepted papers

Award: China3DV 2025, Top1 paper

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Reloc3r: Large-Scale Training of Relative Camera Pose Regression for Generalizable, Fast, and Accurate Visual Localization

Siyan Dong*, Shuzhe Wang*, Shaohui Liu, Lulu Cai, Qingnan Fan, Juho Kannala, Yanchao Yang

CVPR 2025

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InfoNorm: Mutual Information Shaping of Normals for Sparse-View Reconstruction

Xulong Wang*, Siyan Dong*, Youyi Zheng, Yanchao Yang

ECCV 2024

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SG-NeRF: Neural Surface Reconstruction with Scene Graph Optimization

Yiyang Chen*, Siyan Dong*, Xulong Wang, Lulu Cai, Youyi Zheng, Yanchao Yang

ECCV 2024

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Lazy Visual Localization via Motion Averaging

Siyan Dong*, Shaohui Liu*, Hengkai Guo, Baoquan Chen, Marc Pollefeys

Technical Report


Visual Localization via Few-Shot Scene Region Classification

Siyan Dong*, Shuzhe Wang*, Yixin Zhuang, Juho Kannala, Marc Pollefeys, Baoquan Chen

3DV 2022

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Towards Accurate Active Camera Localization

Qihang Fang*, Yingda Yin*, Qingnan Fan, Fei Xia, Siyan Dong, Sheng Wang, Jue Wang, Leonidas Guibas, Baoquan Chen

ECCV 2022

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Multi-Robot Active Mapping via Neural Bipartite Graph Matching

Kai Ye*, Siyan Dong*, Qingnan Fan, He Wang, Li Yi, Fei Xia, Jue Wang, Baoquan Chen

CVPR 2022

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Robust Neural Routing Through Space Partitions for Camera Relocalization in Dynamic Indoor Environments

Siyan Dong*, Qingnan Fan*, He Wang, Ji Shi, Li Yi, Thomas Funkhouser, Baoquan Chen, Leonidas Guibas

CVPR 2021 (Oral)

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Multi-Robot Collaborative Dense Scene Reconstruction

Siyan Dong, Kai Xu, Qiang Zhou, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Shiqing Xin, Matthias Nießner, Baoquan Chen

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) & SIGGRAPH 2019

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Professional Service

Conference Reviewer: SIGGRAPH (Asia), CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, VR, NeurIPS, IROS, ...

Journal Reviewer: TVCG, TRO, IJCV, RAL, TMM, ...