I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. Before that, I was a postdoc at Simon Fraser University working with Prof. Yasutaka Furukawa. I obtained my PhD degree from the University of Alberta. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphis and machine learning. Recently, I focus on reconstruction and generation of 3D environment by combining advances in physics, geometry, imaging, deep learning, etc.

I am recruiting graduate students. Please drop me an email with your resume/CV.

Email: yiming.qian [!at!] umanitoba [!dot!] ca

Selected Papers

• Roof-GAN: Learning to Generate Roof Geometry and Relations for Residential Houses
  Yiming Qian, Hao Zhang, Yasutaka Furukawa
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
  [ArXiv], [Supplementary], [Code]


• Fusion-DHL: WiFi, IMU, and Floorplan Fusion for Dense History of Locations in Indoor Environments
  Sachini Herath, Saghar Irandoust, Bowen Chen, Yiming Qian, Pyojin Kim, Yasutaka Furukawa
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
  [ArXiv], [Video], [Code]


• Learning Pairwise Inter-Plane Relations for Piecewise Planar Reconstruction
  Yiming Qian, Yasutaka Furukawa
  Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
  [Full Paper], [Code]


• 3D Human Shape Reconstruction from a Polarization Image
  Shihao Zou, Xinxin Zuo, Yiming Qian, Sen Wang, Chi Xu, Minglun Gong, Li Cheng
  Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
  [Project Page]


• Simultaneous 3D Reconstruction for Water Surface and Underwater Scene
  Yiming Qian, Yinqiang Zheng, Minglun Gong, Yee-Hong Yang
  Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018
  [Full Paper], [Video]


• Full 3D Reconstruction of Transparent Objects
  Bojian Wu, Yang Zhou, Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong, Hui Huang
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2018
  [Full Paper], [Project Page]


• Stereo-based 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Fluid Surfaces by Global Optimization
  Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong, Yee-Hong Yang
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
  [Full Paper], [Video]


• Artificial Multi-Bee-Colony Algorithm for k-Nearest-Neighbor Fields Search
  Yunhai Wang, Yiming Qian, Yang Li, Minglun Gong, Wolfgang Banzhaf
  Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2016
  [Full Paper]


• 3D Reconstruction of Transparent Objects with Position-Normal Consistency
  Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong, Yee-Hong Yang
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
  [Full Paper]


• Frequency-based Environment Matting by Compressive Sensing
  Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong, Yee-Hong Yang
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
  [Full Paper]


• Integrated Foreground Segmentation and Boundary Matting for Live Videos
  Minglun Gong, Yiming Qian, Li Cheng.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2015
  [Full Paper] [Video]


• Distilled Collections from Textual Image Queries
  Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Yunhai Wang, Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong, Johannes Kopf, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or
  Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 2015
  [Full Paper]