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Tao Xie 谢涛

Hi! I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University, College of Computer Science, in the ZJU3DV group. I am advised by Prof. Sida Peng and Prof. Xiaowei Zhou. I obtained my bachelor degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University with honor degree at Chu Kochen Honors College in 2023.

My research focuses on spatial intelligence, spanning 3D/4D neural reconstruction and rendering. I am currently interested in physically aware world models that understand the real world. I'm open to collaborations. Feel free to reach out!

World Models 3D / 4D Reconstruction

Publications

CVPR 2026 Highlight

Scal3R: Scalable Test-Time Training for Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction

Tao Xie, Peishan Yang, Yudong Jin, Yingfeng Cai, Wei Yin, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang, Wei Hua, Sida Peng, Xiaoyang Guo, Xiaowei Zhou

CVPR 2026

LongStream: Long-Sequence Streaming Autoregressive Visual Geometry

Chong Cheng, Xianda Chen, Tao Xie, Wei Yin, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang, Xiaoyang Guo, Hao Wang

LiteVGGT teaser
CVPR 2026

LiteVGGT: Boosting Vanilla VGGT via Geometry-aware Cached Token Merging

Zhijian Shu, Cheng Lin, Tao Xie, Wei Yin, Ben Li, Zhiyuan Pu, Weize Li, Yao Yao, Xun Cao, Xiaoyang Guo, Xiao-Xiao Long

SAIL-Recon pipeline
3DV 2026 Oral

SAIL-Recon: Large SfM by Augmenting Scene Regression with Localization

Junyuan Deng, Heng Li, Tao Xie, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang, Ping Tan, Xiaoyang Guo

ICCV 2025

Diffuman4D: 4D Consistent Human View Synthesis from Sparse-View Videos with Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Models

Yudong Jin, Sida Peng, Xuan Wang, Tao Xie, Zhen Xu, Yifan Yang, Yujun Shen, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou

CVPR 2025

EnvGS: Modeling View-Dependent Appearance with Environment Gaussian

Tao Xie*, Xi Chen*, Zhen Xu, Yiman Xie, Yudong Jin, Yujun Shen, Sida Peng, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou

CVPR 2025 Oral

Multi-view Reconstruction via SfM-guided Monocular Depth Estimation

Haoyu Guo*, He Zhu*, Sida Peng, Haotong Lin, Yunzhi Yan, Tao Xie, Wenguan Wang, Xiaowei Zhou, Hujun Bao

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

EasyVolcap: Accelerating Neural Volumetric Video Research

Zhen Xu, Tao Xie, Sida Peng, Haotong Lin, Qing Shuai, Zhiyuan Yu, Guangzhao He, Jiaming Sun, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Im4D: High-Fidelity and Real-Time Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes

Haotong Lin, Sida Peng, Zhen Xu, Tao Xie, Xingyi He, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou

Experience

Horizon Robotics

Research Intern, Horizon Robotics

3D vision and world model research.

Dec. 2024 - Apr. 2026

Zhejiang University

PhD Student, Zhejiang University

Advised by Prof. Sida Peng and Prof. Xiaowei Zhou.

Sep. 2023 - Present

Education

Zhejiang University

Ph.D. of Artificial Intelligence, College of Computer Science.

2023 - Expected 2028

Zhejiang University

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Chu Kochen Honors College, honor degree.

2019 - 2023