Chaoyi Zhou

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Clemson University advised by Prof. Siyu Huang. Previously, I obtanined my M.S. in Computer Science from University of Southern California, where I worked advised by Prof. Yajie Zhao . I received my B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2020.

My research interets including computer vision and generative model. Currently, I am focusing on 3D vision with implict representation and 3D content generation.

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News

2025.09: One paper is accepted to NeurIPS.

2025.03: I will join Microsoft as a Research Intern!

2025.01: One paper is accepted to ICLR.

2024.09: One paper is accepted to NeurIPS as Spotlight (3.5% of 15671 submissions).

2024.01: I will join Vision and Learning Lab in Clemson University as a PhD student!

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution

FlexMap: Generalized HD Map Construction from Flexible Camera Configurations
Run Wang, Chaoyi Zhou, Amir Salarpour, Xi Liu, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Feng Luo, Mert D. Pesé, Siyu Huang
preprint  
arXiv

We introduce FlexMap, a flexible HD map construction method that adapts to variable camera configurations without architectural changes or retraining. Unlike prior methods fixed to specific multi-camera setups, FlexMap uses a geometry-aware foundation model with cross-frame attention to implicitly encode 3D scene understanding, maintaining robustness to missing views and sensor variations for practical autonomous driving deployment.

Bézier Splatting for Fast and Differentiable Vector Graphics
Xi Liu*, Chaoyi Zhou*, Nanxuan Zhao, Siyu Huang
NeurIPS, 2025  
project page / arXiv

This work introduces a new differentiable VG representation, dubbed Bézier splatting, that enables fast yet high-fidelity VG rasterization. Bézier splatting samples 2D Gaussians along Bézier curves, which naturally provide positional gradients at object boundaries.

Latent Radiance Fields with 3D-aware 2D Representations
Chaoyi Zhou*, Xi Liu*, Feng Luo, Siyu Huang
ICLR, 2025  
project page / arXiv / code

In this work, we propose a method to achieve 3D-aware 2D representations and enable 3D reconstruction in the latent space. Our LRF enables 3D reconstruction on the 2D latent space instead of the image space. It can render high-quality and photorealistic novel views, even for the unbounded scenes.

3DGS-Enhancer: Enhancing Unbounded 3D Gaussian Splatting with View-consistent 2D Diffusion Priors
Xi Liu*, Chaoyi Zhou*, Siyu Huang
NeurIPS, 2024   (Spotlight)
project page / arXiv / code

3DGS-Enhancer restores view-consistent latent features of rendered novel views and integrates them with the input views through a spatial-temporal decoder. The enhanced views are then used to fine-tune the initial 3DGS model, significantly improving its rendering performance.

Service

Conference Reviewer: CVPR'26, ICCV'25, ICML'25, ICLR'25, NeurIPS'24,25.

Award

2025.04: Rising Researcher Award from Clemson University

2025.03: ICLR Student Travel Award


Design and source code from Jon Barron's website