Runyi Yang (杨 润一)

I am a PhD student at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria, working under the supervision of Dr. Danda Paudel and Prof. Luc Van Gool. My research focuses on 3D scene understanding with a particular emphasis on indoor environments. Previously, I earned my Master of Research in AI and Machine Learning at Imperial College London, where I explored computer vision, camera relocalization, and geometry-based machine learning under the guidance of Prof. Tolga Birdal. I also hold a B.Sc. in Automation from Beijing Institute of Technology. Additionally, I am an active member of AnySyn3D, a research group dedicated to advancing 3D technologies. My current research interests include 3D computer vision, NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, and comprehensive scene understanding.

I was a computer vision researcher at DISCOVER Lab, Institute of AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, working on Neural Radiance Fields, Scene Understanding and Camera Relocalization, supervised by Prof. Zhao Hao.

Apart from my research, I am a swimming fancier, especially in crawl and backstroke, a main member of BIT swimming association and BIT Swimming Team during 2020 to 2022. Everyone is welcomed to join us!

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✨News🔥

  • 10/2024 🎉 I am happy to announce that I graduated from Imperial College London and will join INSAIT to continue as a PhD student.
  • 07/2024 🤖 Our work GaussianGrasper: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting for Open-Vocabulary Robotic Grasping is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter.

  • 06/2024 🎧 I will be working at a part-time research scientist at Innovation Lab, Pixomondo, Sony, concentrating on the neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting for VFX industry.

  • 10/2023 😄 Our work City-Scale Mapping System with Three-layer Sampling and Panoptic Representation is accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems.

  • 09/2023 🥳 I have enrolled in Imperial College London as Postgraduate Research Students (MRes in AI and Machine Learning) and I am actively looking for PhD positions.

  • 07/2023 🔥 Our paper MARS has been accepted by CICAI 2023 and won best paper runner-up award. See project page here.

Research
CityLoc: 6DoF Pose Distributional Localization for Text Descriptions in Large-Scale Scenes with Gaussian Representation
Qi Ma, Runyi Yang, Bin Ren, Nicu Sebe, Ender Konukoglu, Luc Van Gool, and Danda Pani Paudel

Context-aware pose distributional localization. Given an ambiguous text description, our method accurately estimates the camera pose distribution across a large-scale urban environment.
Project homepage / arxiv / Code
GaussianGrasper: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting for Open-Vocabulary Robotic Grasping
Yuhang Zheng , Xiangyu Chen, Yupeng Zheng , Songen Gu, Runyi Yang, Bu Jin , Pengfei Li , Chengliang Zhong , Zengmao Wang , Lina Liu , Chao Yang , Dawei Wang , Zhen Chen , Xiaoxiao Long , and Meiqing Wang

GaussianGrasper is a robotic system that uses 3D Gaussian Splatting and an Efficient Feature Distillation module to enable robots to grasp objects based on language instructions.
Project homepage / arxiv / Code
SUNDAE: Spectrally Pruned Gaussian Fields with Neural Compensation
Runyi Yang, Zhou Jiang, Zhenxin Zhu, Baijun Ye, Yifei Zhang, Yuantao Chen, Hao Zhao

We propose A newly proposed primitive pruning framework for Gaussian fields based upon the spectrum of primitive graphs; And A novel feature splatting and mixing module to compensate for the performance drop caused by the pruning; Reached state-of-the-art results, in terms of both quality and speed, on various benchmarks with low memory footprint.
Project homepage / arxiv / Code
City-Scale Mapping System with Three-layer Sampling and Panoptic Representation
Shi Yongliang*, Yang Runyi*, Li Pengfei, Wu Zirui, Feng Yixiao, Zhao Hao, Zhou Guyue†

Knowledge-Based Systems 2023, IF 8.8
ScienceDirect / SSRN / arxiv /
MARS: An Instance-aware, Modular and Realistic Simulator for Autonomous Driving
Zirui Wu, Tianyu Liu, Liyi Luo, Zhide Zhong, Jianteng Chen, Hongmin Xiao, Chao Hou, Haozhe Lou, Yuantao Chen, Runyi Yang, Yuxin Huang, Xiaoyu Ye, Zike Yan, Yongliang Shi, Yiyi Liao, Hao Zhao

CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CICAI 2023 (Best Paper Runner-up Award, 2 / 348)
Project homepage / arxiv / Code GitHub
Service

    • Reviewer @ Knowledge-basd System
    • Reviewer @ CVPR 2024 & 2025
    • Reviewer @ IROS 2024
    • Reviewer @ ACM MM 2024

Honor and Competitions

    • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Institute of Technology
    • Outstanding Individual of Beijing Institute of Technology
    • Student Representation of School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology
    • Student Representation of sports clubs at Beijing Institute of Technology
    • CASC Scholarship, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Oct 2021
    • Outstanding Individual for 2020-2021 Academic Year, BIT, Oct 2021
    • First Prize, BIT Balance Car Competition, Jun 2021
    • Academic Excellence Scholarship x 8 (Top 10%)
    • Best Design Award, 6th Smart Car Competition


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Last updated: 05 May 2023