Chenjie Cao 曹辰捷

Researcher at Tencent Hunyuan3D. Ph.D. from Fudan University supervised by Prof. Yanwei Fu.
Research interests span image inpainting & synthesis, multi-view stereo, 3D reconstruction & generation, and video generation.

Chenjie Cao
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Experience

2025.7 – present
Researcher, Tencent Hunyuan3D
2024.1 – 2025.7
Researcher, DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group
2024 – present
Post-doc, Computer Science and Technology, Fudan University
2020 – 2024
Ph.D. in Statistics (Machine Learning), Fudan University
2019 – 2020
Algorithm Engineer, PingAn OneConnect
2016 – 2019
M.Sc. in Computer Science, ECUST
2012 – 2016
B.Sc. in Computer Science, ECUST

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

2026
WorldStereo
Yisu Zhang*, Chenjie Cao*, Tengfei Wang, Xuhui Zuo, Junta Wu, Jianke Zhu, Chunchao Guo
CVPR 2026
A novel framework that bridges camera-guided video generation and 3D reconstruction via global-geometric memory and spatial-stereo memory.
WorldCompass
Zehan Wang, Tengfei Wang, Haiyu Zhang, Xuhui Zuo, Junta Wu, Haoyuan Wang, Wenqiang Sun, Zhenwei Wang, Chenjie Cao, Hengshuang Zhao, Chunchao Guo, Zhou Zhao
Arxiv 2026
A novel RL post-training framework for long-horizon, interactive video-based world models.
EarthCrafter
Shang Liu*, Chenjie Cao*, Chaohui Yu, Wen Qian, Jing Wang, Fan Wang
AAAI 2026 Oral
A geographic 3D generation framework for extremely large-scale 3D generation, with the largest 3D aerial dataset (50k scenes, 45M frames).
2025
Uni3C
Chenjie Cao, Jingkai Zhou, Shikai Li, Jingyun Liang, Chaohui Yu, Fan Wang, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
A unified 3D-enhanced framework for precise control of both camera and human motion in video generation via PCDController and SMPL-X integration.
LiON-LoRA
Yisu Zhang*, Chenjie Cao*, Chaohui Yu, Jianke Zhu
ICCV 2025
Rethinking LoRA fusion through linear scalability, orthogonality, and norm consistency for video control.
MVGenMaster
Chenjie Cao, Chaohui Yu, Shang Liu, Fan Wang, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
CVPR 2025
A multi-view diffusion model enhanced with 3D priors warped using metric depth and camera poses for versatile Novel View Synthesis.
ASUKA
Yikai Wang*, Chenjie Cao*, Junqiu Yu*, Ke Fan, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
CVPR 2025 Highlight
Leveraging MAE priors to stabilize StableDiffusion/FLUX inpainting with an effective augmentation strategy to eliminate chromatic aberration.
2024
MVInpainter
Chenjie Cao, Chaohui Yu, Yanwei Fu, Fan Wang, Xiangyang Xue
NeurIPS 2024
Re-formulating 3D editing as a multi-view 2D inpainting task with reference guidance.
Animate3D
Yanqin Jiang, Chaohui Yu, Chenjie Cao, Fan Wang, Weiming Hu, Jin Gao
NeurIPS 2024
A framework for animating any static 3D model with a large-scale multi-view video dataset (MV-Video).
VCD-Texture
Shang Liu, Chaohui Yu, Chenjie Cao, Wen Qian, Fan Wang
ECCV 2024
A Variance alignment based 3D-2D Collaborative Denoising framework for texture synthesis.
SC4D
Zijie Wu, Chaohui Yu, Yanqin Jiang, Chenjie Cao, Fan Wang, Xiang Bai
ECCV 2024
An efficient sparse-controlled video-to-4D framework that decouples motion and appearance.
MVS-NeuS
Xinlin Ren*, Chenjie Cao*, Yanwei Fu, Xiangyang Xue
ECCV 2024
Comprehensively exploring multi-view feature priors from seven pretext visual tasks to strengthen Neural Surface Reconstruction.
LeftRefill
Chenjie Cao, Yunuo Cai, Qiaole Dong, Yikai Wang, Yanwei Fu
CVPR 2024
Formulating reference-guided multi-view synthesis as contextual inpainting via prompt tuning on pre-trained T2I models.
ReS
Yikai Wang, Chenjie Cao, Qiaole Dong, Yifan Li, Yanwei Fu
TMLR 2024
A single diffusion generative model addressing various sub-tasks with task-specific prompts.
MVSFormer++
Chenjie Cao*, Xinlin Ren*, Yanwei Fu
ICLR 2024
Prudently maximizing the inherent characteristics of attention to enhance various components of the MVS pipeline.
2023
CasMTR
Chenjie Cao, Yanwei Fu
ICCV 2023
A transformer-based cascaded matching model with NMS filter for spatially informative keypoint matching.
SiameseNet
Linbo Wang, Jing Wu, Xianyong Fang, Zhengyi Liu, Chenjie Cao, Yanwei Fu
ACM MM 2023
A Siamese network with a reciprocal loss for inlier/outlier classification in two-view matching.
ZITS++
Chenjie Cao*, Qiaole Dong*, Yanwei Fu
TPAMI 2023
Extension of ZITS with learning-based edges (L-Edge) as new priors to enhance meaningful structure recovery.
MatchFlow
Qiaole Dong*, Chenjie Cao*, Yanwei Fu
CVPR 2023
Improving optical flow estimation through image matching pre-text task.
MVSFormer
Chenjie Cao, Xinlin Ren, Yanwei Fu
TMLR 2023
Pre-trained ViTs for MVS with unified classification and regression depth predictions. 1st on Tanks-and-Temples, 2nd on GigaMVS 2022.
2022
MAE-FAR
Chenjie Cao*, Qiaole Dong, Yanwei Fu
ECCV 2022
Image inpainting with Masked AutoEncoder pre-training and attention-based restoration.
ZITS
Qiaole Dong*, Chenjie Cao*, Yanwei Fu
CVPR 2022
Learning structural priors (lines, edges) with transformers, then recovering textures with FFC-based CNNs.
P2M++
Chao Wen*, Yinda Zhang*, Chenjie Cao, Zhuwen Li, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
TPAMI 2022
Extension of P2M++ that also works on SDF-based methods.
Portrait Editing
Chengrong Wang, Chenjie Cao, Yanwei Fu, Xiangyang Xue
ICASSP 2022
Leveraging GAN inversion and differentiable edge detection for effective face editing.
2021
iLAT
Chenjie Cao, Yuxin Hong, Xiang Li, Chengrong Wang, Chengming Xu, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
NeurIPS 2021
Local autoregressive model for local editing with two-stream convolution to tackle information leakage.
MST
Chenjie Cao, Yanwei Fu
ICCV 2021
First work to introduce segment lines to improve image inpainting.
2020 & Earlier
CLUE
Liang Xu, Xuanwei Zhang, Lu Li, Hai Hu, Chenjie Cao, et al.
COLING 2020
A comprehensive Chinese NLP benchmark.
TNNLS
Zhe Wang, Chenjie Cao, Yujin Zhu
TNNLS 2020
Ensemble learning approach to address imbalanced problems.
SiBert
Jiahao Chen, Chenjie Cao, Xiuyan Jiang
LREC 2020
Improving BERT pre-training with Sentence Insertion. 1st place of CMRC2019.
NN
Zhe Wang, Chenjie Cao
Neural Networks 2019
Ensemble learning for imbalanced problems.
KBS
Chenjie Cao, Zhe Wang
KBS 2018
Cost-sensitive stacking learning with feature inverse mapping for imbalanced problems.
ASC
Li DongDong, Zhe Wang, Chenjie Cao, Yu Liu
ASC 2018
Using SVDD to address imbalanced problems.
Preprint
Wavelet
Chenjie Cao, Chengrong Wang, Yuntao Zhang, Yanwei Fu
Preprint
First introduction of wavelet prior for image inpainting with axial-transformer for face/structural recovery.

Miscellaneous