Arthur (Kefan) Chen

kefan_chen@brown.edu

I'm a 2nd year CS Ph.D. student at Brown University, advised by Prof. Srinath Sridhar. My research focuses on building intelligent agents by learning how humans interact with the world using hands. I'm also interested in 3D reconstruction, GenAI, and vision foundation models. Currently, I'm collaborating with Meta Reality Lab on generative hand modeling and 3D diffusion. Before starting PhD, I had the honor to work with Dr. Ameesh Makadia and Prof. Noah Snavely at Google Research, and Prof. Sanja Fidler at UofT. I also worked at NVIDIA, Pinterest, and a self-driving startup.

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Publications

MANUS: Markerless Hand-Object Grasp Capture using Articulated 3D Gaussians
C Pokhariya, I Shah, A Xing, Z Li, K Chen, A Sharma, S Sridhar
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper] [Code]

DiVA360: Dynamic Visual-Audio Dataset for Immersive Neural Fields
C Lu, P Zhou, A Xing, C Pokhariya, A Dey, I Shah, R Mavidipalli, D Hu, A Comport, K Chen, S Sridhar
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper] [Video] [Code]

Wide-Baseline Relative Camera Pose Estimation with Directional Learning
Kefan Chen, Noah, Snavely, Ameesh Makadia
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
[Paper] [Bibtex] [Video] [Code]

An Analysis of SVD for Deep Rotation Estimation
Jake Levinson, Carlos Esteves, Kefan Chen, Noah Snavely, Angjoo Kanazawa, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Ameesh Makadia
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
[Paper] [Bibtex] [Video] [Code]

Education
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Brown University
Ph.D. student in Computer Science
Research Areas: 3D Computer Vision, Deep Learning
2022 - 2027

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University of Toronto
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
2014 - 2018

Industry
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Meta
Research Scientist Intern
Seattle, WA
June, 2023 - September, 2023

3D diffusion research at Reality Lab.

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Pinterest
Machine Learning Engineer
Toronto, Canada
January, 2022 - September, 2022

ML for shopping content mining.

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Google Research
AI Resident
New York City, NY
June, 2018 - August, 2020

3D computer vision research.

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Nvidia Corporation
Research Intern
Toronto, Canada
May, 2017 - August, 2017

Deep learning research in animation and robotic perception.


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