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Chensheng Peng

PhD Student

University of California, Berkeley

About me

I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, affiliated with Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD).

I received my Bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Research Interests
  • Generation / Reconstruction
    • 3D/4D Generation
    • Gaussian Splatting/NeRF
  • Perception for Autonomous Vehicles
    • Multi-Sensor Fusion
    • Efficient Vision Algorithms
    • Foundation Models

Publications/Preprints

* denotes equal contribution
All
Reconstruction
Generation
Perception

A Lesson in Splats: Teacher-Guided Diffusion for 3D Gaussian Splats Generation with 2D Supervision

We introduce a diffusion model for Gaussian Splats, SplatDiffusion, to enable generation of three-dimensional structures from single images, addressing the ill-posed nature of lifting 2D inputs to 3D. Existing methods rely on deterministic, feed-forward predictions, which limit their ability to handle the inherent ambiguity of 3D inference from 2D data. Diffusion models have recently shown promise as powerful generative models for 3D data, including Gaussian splats; however, standard diffusion frameworks typically require the target signal and denoised signal to be in the same modality, which is challenging given the scarcity of 3D data. To overcome this, we propose a novel training strategy that decouples the denoised modality from the supervision modality. By using a deterministic model as a noisy teacher to create the noised signal and transitioning from single-step to multi-step denoising supervised by an image rendering loss, our approach significantly enhances performance compared to the deterministic teacher. Additionally, our method is flexible, as it can learn from various 3D Gaussian Splat (3DGS) teachers with minimal adaptation; we demonstrate this by surpassing the performance of two different deterministic models as teachers, highlighting the potential generalizability of our framework. Our approach further incorporates a guidance mechanism to aggregate information from multiple views, enhancing reconstruction quality when more than one view is available.

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Contact

  • Email: chensheng_peng [AT] berkeley [DOT] edu