Freeman Cheng (成)

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at University of California, Merced, advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang.

My research interest lies in feedforward 3D reconstruction.

Happy to chat about research or other stuff.

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News

[Mar. 2026] We release ReCoSplat for streaming feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting.

[Sep. 2025] Start my Ph.D. study at University of California, Merced.

Education
University of California, Merced
Ph.D. Student
Sep. 2025 – Present
University of Toronto
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Sep. 2020 – Apr. 2025
Visual Computing Group @ Harvard, Visiting Research Intern
Oct. 2024 – Dec. 2024
iQua Group @ University of Toronto, NSERC USRA Researcher
May 2024 – Aug. 2024
Middleware Systems Research Group @ University of Toronto, NSERC USRA Researcher
May 2022 – Dec. 2022
Work Experience
Zillow
Applied Scientist Intern
Jun. 2026 – Present
Noah's Ark Lab @ Huawei Canada
Research Intern
May 2023 – Apr. 2024
VecML Inc., Software Engineer Intern
Jan. 2025 – Jul. 2025
BIMStudio Inc., Software Engineer
Oct. 2020 – Aug. 2021
Selected Publications
ReCoSplat: Autoregressive Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting via Render-and-Compare
Freeman Cheng, Botao Ye, Xueting Li, Junqi You, Fangneng Zhan, Ming-Hsuan Yang
arXiv 2026
Project Page / arXiv
MirrorGaussian: Reflecting 3D Gaussians for Reconstructing Mirror Reflections
Jiayue Liu*, Xiao Tang*, Freeman Cheng, Roy Yang, Zhihao Li, Jianzhuang Liu, Yi Huang, Jiaqi Lin, Shiyong Liu, Xiaofei Wu, Songcen Xu, Chun Yuan
ECCV 2024
Project Page / arXiv
 

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