Wen Jiang

Hey! I am a Research Scientist at Waymo. I finished my PhD in Computer & Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and my advisor was Prof. Kostas Daniilidis. I was fortunate to work as a Machine Learning Intern at the 3D Vision Team for Apple Maps, a Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Lab, and a Visiting Fellow at Microsoft Research Asia.

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Research

Image ActiveGrasp: Information-Guided Active Grasping with Calibrated Energy-based Model
Boshu Lei*,  Wen Jiang*,  Kostas Daniilidis 
CVPR, 2026
arxiv / Bibtex

An active robotic grasping method that leverages a calibrated energy-based model to guide the grasping process with information gain.

Image Multimodal LLM Guided Exploration and Active Mapping using Fisher Information
Wen Jiang*,  Boshu Lei*,  Katrina Ashton,  Kostas Daniilidis 
ICCV, 2025
arxiv / code / Bibtex

An active Gaussian Splatting SLAM system with active exploration strategy, more accurate mapping and localization

Image Next Best Sense: Guiding Vision and Touch with FisherRF for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Matthew Strong*,  Boshu Lei*,  Aiden Swann,  Wen Jiang,  Kostas Daniilidis,  Monroe Kennedy III
ICRA, 2025
Project Page arxiv / code / Bibtex / video

We propose a framework for active next best view and touch selection for robotic manipulators using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)

Image Beyond Uncertainty: Risk-Aware Active View Acquisition for Safe Robot Navigation and 3D Scene Understanding with FisherRF
Guangyi Liu*,  Wen Jiang*,  Boshu Lei*,  Kostas Daniilidis,  Nader Motee
Under Review
arxiv / Bibtex

We introduce a novel approach to enhance robot navigation safety and improve 3D scene understanding by extending beyond conventional uncertainty-based methods.

Image FisherRF: Active View Selection and Uncertainty Quantification for Radiance Fields using Fisher Informations
Wen Jiang,  Boshu Lei,  Kostas Daniilidis
ECCV Oral, 2024
Project Page / arxiv / Code / Bibtex

FisherRF compute the Fihser Information for 3D Gaussian Splatting and other Radiance Fields and could select next best views or quantify pixel-wise uncertainty for its renderings.

Image Event-based Continuous Color Video Decompression from Single Frames
Ziyun Wang,  Friedhelm Hamann,  Kenneth Chaney,  Wen Jiang,  Guillermo Gallego,  Kostas Daniilidis
arxiv preprint, 2023
Project Page / arxiv / Paper / Bibtex

We propose a novel task called event-based continuous color video decompression , pairing single static color frames and events to reconstruct temporally continuous videos.

Image Probabilistic Shape Completion by Estimating Canonical Factors with Hierarchical VAE
Wen Jiang,  Kostas Daniilidis
arxiv preprint, 2022
arxiv / Code(coming soon) / Bibtex

We propose a novel method for 3D shape completion from a partial observation of a point cloud.

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Fast and Robust Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation and Tracking from Multiple Views
Junting Dong,  Qi Fang,  Wen Jiang,  Yurou Yang,  Qixing Huang,  Hujun Bao,  Xiaowei Zhou
T-PAMI, 2021
Project page / Supplementary / Code / Bibtex

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Coherent Reconstruction of Multiple Humans from a Single Image
Wen Jiang*,   Nikos Kolotouros*,   Georgios Pavlakos,   Xiaowei Zhou,   Kostas Daniilidis
CVPR, 2020  
Project Page / Paper / Code / Bibtex

End-to-end reconstruction of multiple people using two novel geometric losses that encourage coherent 3D estimates

Image Deep Snake for Real-Time Instance Segmentation
Sida Peng,  Wen Jiang,  Huaijin Pi,  Hujun Bao,  Xiaowei Zhou
CVPR, 2020 Oral presentation 
Arxiv / Code / Bibtex

This paper introduces a novel contour-based approach named deep snake for real-time instance segmentation.

Image Fast and Robust Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation from Multiple Views
Junting Dong,  Wen Jiang,  Qixing Huang,  Hujun Bao,  Xiaowei Zhou
CVPR, 2019  
Project page / Arxiv / Supplement / Video / Code / Bibtex

This paper addresses the problem of 3D pose estimation for multiple people in a few calibrated camera views.

Miscellaneous
Image Reviewer
CVPR2022-2023, ICCV2023, ECCV 2022, T-PAMI, 3DV 2022

Image Teaching Assistant
CIS 580: Machine Perception
CIS 680: Advanced Topics in Machine Perception


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