Tianhang Cheng

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tcheng12 at illinois.edu

My name is Tianhang Cheng (程天航), currently a 3rd-year PhD student (2024-) in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), supervised by Prof. Shenlong Wang and Prof. Kaiyu Guan. My research interests lies in 3D & 4D modeling and MLLM.

Publications

* Equal contribution.

2026

  1. arXiv
    Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUs
    Hao-Yu Hsu*, Tianhang Cheng*, Jing Wen, and 2 more authors
    2026

    TL;DR: 4D human-scene understanding from wearable IMUs.

    arXiv Code Website

2025

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    Demeter: A Parametric Model of Crop Plant Morphology from the Real World
    Tianhang Cheng, Albert J. Zhai, Evan Z. Chen, and 13 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025

    TL;DR: A 3D soybean dataset and the parametric model for crop plants

    arXiv Code Website

2023

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    Structure from Duplicates: Neural Inverse Graphics from a Pile of Objects
    Tianhang Cheng, Wei-Chiu Ma, Kaiyu Guan, and 2 more authors
    In Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023

    TL;DR: Inverse rendering from a pile of similar objects.

    arXiv Code Website

Experience

May 2021 – May 2022
Zhejiang University
Research Assistant
Hangzhou, China

Worked with Prof. Xiaowei Zhou.

May 2026 – August 2026
Apple Inc.
Research Intern
Cupertino, CA, USA

Worked with Liang-Chieh Chen and Wenze Hu.

Education

2024 – Present
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Champaign, IL, USA
2022 – 2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science in Computer Science
Champaign, IL, USA
2017 - 2022
Zhejiang University
B.Eng.
Chu Kochen Honors College & Optical Electronics Department
Hangzhou, China

Services

Conference Reviewer: 3DV(2025, 2026), NeurIPS(2025(Top Reviewer)), CVPR(2024, 2025), ECCV(2024)