Wei Cao

Ph.D. Student, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Group
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

weicao3@illinois.edu

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About

Wei Cao is a Ph.D. student at the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, supervised by Prof. Yaoyao Liu.

Wei attended the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, and then spent five and a half years at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), earning both a bachelor's and a master's degree. Wei's master's thesis was mentored by Jiapeng Tang and supervised by Prof. Matthias Nießner in the Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence Group. Wei has also spent time at Bosch Research (BCAI), Huawei 2012 Lab, FBK, and BMW.

Publications

• Redirect4D-Bench: A Scalable Benchmark for Camera Redirection of Monocular Dynamic Videos with Pseudo-4D Ground Truth
  Wei Cao, Hao Zhang, Jiapeng Tang, Yulun Wu, Yingying Li, Ning Yu, Shenlong Wang, Yaoyao Liu
  Preprint
  Project Page Code Dataset
• Active View Selection with Perturbed Gaussian Ensemble for Tomographic Reconstruction
  Yulun Wu, Ruyi Zha, Wei Cao, Yingying Li, Yuanhao Cai, Yaoyao Liu
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
  Paper Code
• FreeOrbit4D: Training-free Arbitrary Camera Redirection for Monocular Videos via Geometry-Complete 4D Reconstruction
  Wei Cao, Hao Zhang, Fengrui Tian, Yulun Wu, Yingying Li, Shenlong Wang, Ning Yu, Yaoyao Liu
  ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Papers, 2026
  Project Page Paper Code Best Paper Award at CVPR 2026 GCV Workshop; Oral at CVPR 2026 4D Vision Workshop
• Motion2VecSets: Non-Rigid Shape Reconstruction and Tracking with 4D Latent Set Diffusion
  Jiapeng Tang*, Wei Cao*, Biao Zhang*, Chang Luo*, Yaoyao Liu, Matthias Nießner
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026
  Project Page Code
• Pseudo-Simulation for Autonomous Driving
  Wei Cao*, Marcel Hallgarten*, Tianyu Li*, Daniel Dauner, Xunjiang Gu, Caojun Wang, Yakov Miron, Marco Aiello, Hongyang Li, Igor Gilitschenski, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta
  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
  Project Page Paper Code
• Predicting the Road Ahead: A Knowledge Graph based Foundation Model for Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving
  Hongkuan Zhou, Stefan Schimid, Yicong Li, Lavdim Halilaj, Xiangtong Yao, Wei Cao
  Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2025
  Paper Code
• Motion2VecSets: 4D Latent Vector Set Diffusion for Non-rigid Shape Reconstruction and Tracking
  Wei Cao*, Chang Luo*, Biao Zhang, Matthias Nießner, Jiapeng Tang
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  Project Page Paper Code Video
• What Matters to Enhance Traffic Rule Compliance of Imitation Learning for Automated Driving
  Hongkuan Zhou*, Wei Cao*, Aifen Sui*, Zhengshan Bing
  ECCV 2024 Workshop
  Project Page Paper Code