Name: Ji Hou (侯骥）
Position: Ph.D Candidate
E-Mail: ji.hou@tum.de
Phone: +49-89-289-19595
Room No: 02.13.35

Bio

I'm a first-year Ph.D Candidate at the Visual Computing Lab headed by Prof. Matthias Nießner. I received my Master's degree in Computer Science in RWTH Aachen University. Currently, my research focus on 3D Scene Understanding.

Research Interest

  • Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  • 3D Scene Understanding
  • Conditional Generative Models

Publications

2021
Pri3D: Can 3D Priors Help 2D Representation Learning?
Ji Hou, Saining Xie, Benjamin Graham, Angela Dai, Matthias Nießner
ICCV 2021
Pri3D leverages 3D priors for downstream 2D image understanding tasks: during pre-training, we incorporate view-invariant and geometric priors from color-geometry information given by RGB-D datasets, imbuing geometric priors into learned features. We show that these 3D-imbued learned features can effectively transfer to improved performance on 2D tasks such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and instance segmentation.
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RfD-Net: Point Scene Understanding by Semantic Instance Reconstruction
Yinyu Nie, Ji Hou, Xiaoguang Han, Matthias Nießner
CVPR 2021
We introduce RfD-Net that jointly detects and reconstructs dense object surfaces from raw point clouds. It leverages the sparsity of point cloud data and focuses on predicting shapes that are recognized with high objectness. It not only eases the difficulty of learning 2-D manifold surfaces from sparse 3D space, the point clouds in each object proposal convey shape details that support implicit function learning to reconstruct any high-resolution surfaces.
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Exploring Data-Efficient 3D Scene Understanding with Contrastive Scene Contexts
Ji Hou, Benjamin Graham, Matthias Nießner, Saining Xie
CVPR 2021 (Oral)
Our study reveals that exhaustive labelling of 3D point clouds might be unnecessary; and remarkably, on ScanNet, even using 0.1% of point labels, we still achieve 89% (instance segmentation) and 96% (semantic segmentation) of the baseline performance that uses full annotations.
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2020
RevealNet: Seeing Behind Objects in RGB-D Scans
Ji Hou, Angela Dai, Matthias Nießner
CVPR 2020
This paper introduces the task of semantic instance completion: from an incomplete, RGB-D scan of a scene, we detect the individual object instances comprising the scene and jointly infer their complete object geometry.
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2019
3D-SIS: 3D Semantic Instance Segmentation of RGB-D Scans
Ji Hou, Angela Dai, Matthias Nießner
CVPR 2019 (Oral)
We introduce 3D-SIS, a novel neural network architecture for 3D semantic instance segmentation in commodity RGB-D scans.
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