Wentao Cheng

Associate Professor

Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University

Email: wentaocheng@bnbu.edu.cn

I am an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU).

Prior to joining BNBU in Feb 2025, I worked as an Associate Professor at Nankai University (2022–2024) and as a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Group AI Lab (2020–2022).

I received my Joint Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. I obtained my B.Eng. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).

My research interests lie in 3D Computer Vision, with a particular focus on:

Visual Localization
3D Reconstruction
Efficient Feed-Forward 3D Foundation Models

I actively serve as a reviewer for top-tier conferences and journals, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, TIP, and TRO. Additionally, I serve as an Executive Committee Member of the Technical Committee on CAD and Computer Graphics (CAD/CG), China Computer Federation (CCF).

Students who are interested in my research topics, please refer to this and contact me.

news

May 01, 2026	One paper titled “QuadBox: Accelerating 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometry-Aware Boxes” was accepted to ICIP 2026. This is the second first-author paper by our undergraduate student.
Mar 18, 2026	Two papers on 3D Foundation Models and Local Feature Learning have been accepted by ICME 2026! 🎉🎉 S-VGGT: Structure-Aware Subscene Decomposition for Scalable 3D Foundation Models. D2Feat: Dual Distillation for Semantic and Geometric Local Feature Learning. Stay tuned for the full papers!
Dec 16, 2025	I served as the Lead Organizer for the CCF CAD&CG Academic Seminar (BNBU Station). We invited four distinguished experts to discuss Visual Perception and Graphics.
Oct 01, 2025	One paper titled “Beyond Flat Text: Dual Self-inherited Guidance for Visual Text Generation” was accepted to ICCV Workshops (HiGen) 2025.
Feb 01, 2025	I joined Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) as an Associate Professor!

selected publications

ICIP

QuadBox: Accelerating 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometry-Aware Boxes

Xinze Li, Bohan Yang, Pengxu Chen, and 4 more authors

In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2026

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{li2026quadbox,
  title = {QuadBox: Accelerating 3D Gaussian Splatting with Geometry-Aware Boxes},
  author = {Li, Xinze and Yang, Bohan and Chen, Pengxu and Wang, Yiyuan and Luo, Hongcheng and Su, Weifeng and Cheng, Wentao},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year = {2026},
}

ICME

S-VGGT: Structure-Aware Subscene Decomposition for Scalable 3D Foundation Models

Xinze Li, Pengxu Chen, Yiyuan Wang, and 2 more authors

In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2026

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{li2026svggt,
  title = {S-VGGT: Structure-Aware Subscene Decomposition for Scalable 3D Foundation Models},
  author = {Li, Xinze and Chen, Pengxu and Wang, Yiyuan and Su, Weifeng and Cheng, Wentao},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)},
  year = {2026},
}

ICME

D2Feat: Dual Distillation for Semantic and Geometric Local Feature Learning

Yiyuan Wang, Xinze Li, Puzhen Wu, and 3 more authors

In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2026

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{wang2026d2feat,
  title = {D2Feat: Dual Distillation for Semantic and Geometric Local Feature Learning},
  author = {Wang, Yiyuan and Li, Xinze and Wu, Puzhen and Zhang, Junkai and Su, Weifeng and Cheng, Wentao},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)},
  year = {2026},
}

ICCVW

Beyond Flat Text: Dual Self-inherited Guidance for Visual Text Generation

Minxing Luo, Zixun Xia, Liaojun Chen, and 7 more authors

In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) HiGen Workshop, 2025

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{luo2025beyond,
  title = {Beyond Flat Text: Dual Self-inherited Guidance for Visual Text Generation},
  author = {Luo, Minxing and Xia, Zixun and Chen, Liaojun and Li, Zhenhang and customs, Weichao Zeng and Wang, Jianye and Cheng, Wentao and Wang, Yaxing and Zhou, Yu and Yang, Jian},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) HiGen Workshop},
  year = {2025},
}

CVPR

ExtDM: Distribution Extrapolation Diffusion Model for Video Prediction

Zhicheng Zhang, Junyao Hu, Wentao Cheng, and 2 more authors

In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{zhang2024extdm,
  title = {ExtDM: Distribution Extrapolation Diffusion Model for Video Prediction},
  author = {Zhang, Zhicheng and Hu, Junyao and Cheng, Wentao and Paudel, Danda and Yang, Jufeng},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2024},
}

SPL

MVP: One-Shot Object Pose Estimation by Matching with Visible Points

Wentao Cheng and Minxing Luo

IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 2024

Bib PDF

@article{cheng2024mvp,
  title = {MVP: One-Shot Object Pose Estimation by Matching with Visible Points},
  author = {Cheng, Wentao and Luo, Minxing},
  journal = {IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)},
  year = {2024},
}

RA-L

Road Mapping and Localization Using Sparse Semantic Visual Features

Wentao Cheng, Sheng Yang, Maomin Zhou, and 3 more authors

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021

Bib PDF

@article{cheng2021road,
  title = {Road Mapping and Localization Using Sparse Semantic Visual Features},
  author = {Cheng, Wentao and Yang, Sheng and Zhou, Maomin and Liu, Ziyuan and Chen, Yiming and Li, Mingyang},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
  year = {2021},
}

ICCV

Cascaded Parallel Filtering for Memory-Efficient Image-Based Localization

Wentao Cheng, Weisi Lin, Kan Chen, and 1 more author

In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{cheng2019cascaded,
  title = {Cascaded Parallel Filtering for Memory-Efficient Image-Based Localization},
  author = {Cheng, Wentao and Lin, Weisi and Chen, Kan and Zhang, Xinfeng},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year = {2019},
}

TIP

A Two-Stage Outlier Filtering Framework for City-Scale Localization Using 3D SfM Point Clouds

Wentao Cheng, Kan Chen, Weisi Lin, and 3 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019

Bib PDF

@article{cheng2019two,
  title = {A Two-Stage Outlier Filtering Framework for City-Scale Localization Using 3D SfM Point Clouds},
  author = {Cheng, Wentao and Chen, Kan and Lin, Weisi and Goesele, Michael and Zhang, Xinfeng and Zhang, Yabin},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)},
  year = {2019},
}

TIP

A Data-Driven Point Cloud Simplification Framework for City-Scale Image-Based Localization

Wentao Cheng, Weisi Lin, Xinfeng Zhang, and 2 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2017

Bib

@article{cheng2016data,
  title = {A Data-Driven Point Cloud Simplification Framework for City-Scale Image-Based Localization},
  author = {Cheng, Wentao and Lin, Weisi and Zhang, Xinfeng and Goesele, Michael and Sun, Ming-Ting},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)},
  year = {2017},
}