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Charles R. Qi
Building AGI
I am currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Before that I was a Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla Autopilot, contributing to FSD V12, V13, V14 as well as the Robotaxi launch in Austin. Before joining Tesla, I was a Research Scientist and Manager at Waymo, leading a team to build the perception foundation models for the next-gen autonomy system. At Waymo, I also worked on 3D perception, auto labeling and data-driven simulation, leading to 15+ publications at top-tier conferences and multiple successful launches.
In 2018-2019, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) where I was fortunate to have worked with stellar researchers like Kaiming He, Saining Xie and Xinlei Chen on several projects about 3D perception (VoteNet, ImVoteNet, PointContrast). Before that, I spent five memorable years (2013-2018) at Stanford University obtaining my Ph.D., at Stanford AI Lab and Geometric Computation Group, advised by Professor Leonidas J. Guibas. During my Ph.D. we had a series of work that started the field of 3D deep learning (PointNet, PointNet++ and Multi-View/Volumetric CNNs) and explored their various applications for 3D scene understanding (detection, segmentation, scene flow, shape synthesis). Such models have been widely used in both academia and industry (autonomous driving, augmented reality and robotics). Prior to joining Stanford, I got my B.Eng. from Tsinghua University.
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Mahyar Najibi, Jingwei Ji, Yin Zhou, Charles R. Qi, Xinchen Yan, Scott Ettinger, Dragomir Anguelov
ICCV 2023
paper / bibtex
@inproceedings{najibi2023unsupervised, title={Unsupervised 3d perception with 2d vision-language distillation for autonomous driving}, author={Najibi, Mahyar and Ji, Jingwei and Zhou, Yin and Qi, Charles R and Yan, Xinchen and Ettinger, Scott and Anguelov, Dragomir}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision}, pages={8602--8612}, year={2023} } |
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Yingwei Li*, Charles R. Qi*, Yin Zhou, Chenxi Liu, Dragomir Anguelov (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2023
paper / bibtex
@inproceedings{li2023modar, title={MoDAR: Using Motion Forecasting for 3D Object Detection in Point Cloud Sequences}, author={Li, Yingwei and Qi, Charles R and Zhou, Yin and Liu, Chenxi and Anguelov, Dragomir}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}, pages={9329--9339}, year={2023} } |
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Bokui Shen, Xinchen Yan, Charles R. Qi, Mahyar Najibi, Boyang Deng, Leonidas Guibas, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
CVPR 2023
paper / bibtex / dataset
@inproceedings{shen2023gina, title={GINA-3D: Learning to Generate Implicit Neural Assets in the Wild}, author={Shen, Bokui and Yan, Xinchen and Qi, Charles R and Najibi, Mahyar and Deng, Boyang and Guibas, Leonidas and Zhou, Yin and Anguelov, Dragomir}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}, pages={4913--4926}, year={2023} } |
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Congyue Deng, Chiyu Max Jiang, Charles R. Qi, Xinchen Yan, Yin Zhou, Leonidas Guibas, Dragomir Anguelov
CVPR 2023
paper / bibtex
@inproceedings{deng2023nerdi, title={Nerdi: Single-view nerf synthesis with language-guided diffusion as general image priors}, author={Deng, Congyue and Jiang, Chiyu and Qi, Charles R and Yan, Xinchen and Zhou, Yin and Guibas, Leonidas and Anguelov, Dragomir and others}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}, pages={20637--20647}, year={2023} } |
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Minghua Liu, Yin Zhou, Charles R. Qi, Boqing Gong, Hao Su, Dragomir Anguelov
ECCV 2022, Oral Presentation
paper / bibtex
@article{liu2022less, title={LESS: Label-Efficient Semantic Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds}, author={Liu, Minghua and Zhou, Yin and Qi, Charles R and Gong, Boqing and Su, Hao and Anguelov, Dragomir}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08064}, year={2022} } |
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Chiyu (Max) Jiang, Mahyar Najibi, Charles R. Qi, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
ECCV 2022
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@article{jiang2022improving, title={Improving the Intra-class Long-tail in 3D Detection via Rare Example Mining}, author={Jiang, Chiyu Max and Najibi, Mahyar and Qi, Charles R and Zhou, Yin and Anguelov, Dragomir}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08375}, year={2022} } |
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Xuanyu Zhou*, Charles R. Qi*, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2022
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@inproceedings{zhou2022riddle, title={RIDDLE: Lidar Data Compression with Range Image Deep Delta Encoding}, author={Zhou, Xuanyu and Qi, Charles R and Yin, Zhou and Anguelov, Dragomir}, journal={Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year={2022} } |
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Boyang Deng, Charles R. Qi, Mahyar Najibi, Thomas Funkhouser, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
Neurips 2021
paper / bibtex
@inproceedings{deng2021revisiting, title={Revisiting 3D Object Detection From an Egocentric Perspective}, author={Deng, Boyang and Qi, Charles R and Najibi, Mahyar and Funkhouser, Thomas and Zhou, Yin and Anguelov, Dragomir}, booktitle={Thirty-Fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems}, year={2021} } |
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Qiangeng Xu, Yin Zhou, Weiyue Wang, Charles R. Qi, Dragomir Anguelov
ICCV 2021
paper / bibtex
@inproceedings{xu2021spg, title={SPG: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for 3D Object Detection via Semantic Point Generation}, author={Xu, Qiangeng and Zhou, Yin and Wang, Weiyue and Qi, Charles R and Anguelov, Dragomir}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision}, pages={15446--15456}, year={2021} } |
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S. Ettinger, S. Cheng, B. Caine, C. Liu, H. Zhao, S. Pradhan, Y. Chai, B. Sapp, Charles R. Qi, Y. Zhou, Z. Yang, A. Chouard, P. Sun, J. Ngiam, V. Vasudevan, A. McCauley, J. Shlens, D. Anguelov
ICCV 2021
paper / dataset / bibtex
@article{ettinger2021large, title={Large Scale Interactive Motion Forecasting for Autonomous Driving: The Waymo Open Motion Dataset}, author={Ettinger, Scott and Cheng, Shuyang and Caine, Benjamin and Liu, Chenxi and Zhao, Hang and Pradhan, Sabeek and Chai, Yuning and Sapp, Ben and Qi, Charles and Zhou, Yin and others}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.10133}, year={2021} } |
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Charles R. Qi, Yin Zhou, Mahyar Najibi, Pei Sun, Khoa Vo, Boyang Deng, Dragomir Anguelov
CVPR 2021
paper / blog post / bibtex / talk
@article{qi2021offboard, title={Offboard 3D Object Detection from Point Cloud Sequences}, author={Qi, Charles R and Zhou, Yin and Najibi, Mahyar and Sun, Pei and Vo, Khoa and Deng, Boyang and Anguelov, Dragomir}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05073}, year={2021} } |
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Saining Xie, Jiatao Gu, Demi Guo, Charles R. Qi, Leonidas J. Guibas, Or Litany
ECCV 2020, Spotlight
paper / code / bibtex
@article{xie2020pointcontrast, title={PointContrast: Unsupervised Pre-training for 3D Point Cloud Understanding}, author={Xie, Saining and Gu, Jiatao and Guo, Demi and Qi, Charles R and Guibas, Leonidas J and Litany, Or}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10985}, year={2020} } |
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Charles R. Qi*, Xinlei Chen*, Or Litany, Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2020
paper / bibtex / code
@article{qi2020imvotenet, title={ImVoteNet: Boosting 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds with Image Votes}, author={Qi, Charles R and Chen, Xinlei and Litany, Or and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10692}, year={2020} } |
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Charles R. Qi, Or Litany, Kaiming He, Leonidas J. Guibas
ICCV 2019, Oral Presentation,
Best Paper Award Nomination (one of the seven among 1,075 accepted papers) [link] paper / bibtex / code / talk@article{qi2019deep, title={Deep Hough Voting for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds}, author={Qi, Charles R and Litany, Or and He, Kaiming and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09664}, year={2019} } |
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Hugues Thomas, Charles R. Qi, Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud, Beatriz Marcotegui, Francois Goulette, Leonidas J. Guibas
ICCV 2019
paper / bibtex / code
@article{thomas2019kpconv, title={KPConv: Flexible and Deformable Convolution for Point Clouds}, author={Thomas, Hugues and Qi, Charles R, Deschaud, Jean-Emmanuel and Marcotegui, Beatriz and Goulette, Francois and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08889}, year={2019} } |
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Chong Xiang, Charles R. Qi, Bo Li
CVPR 2019
paper / bibtex / code
@article{xiang2019adv, title={Generating 3D Adversarial Point Clouds}, author={Xiang, Chong and and Qi, Charles R and Li, Bo}, journal={Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year={2019} } |
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Xingyu Liu*, Charles R. Qi*, Leonidas Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2019
paper / bibtex / code
@article{liu2019flownet3d, title={FlowNet3D: Learning Scene Flow in 3D Point Clouds}, author={Liu, Xingyu and and Qi, Charles R and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year={2019} } |
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Charles R. Qi, Wei Liu, Chenxia Wu, Hao Su, and Leonidas J. Guibas
CVPR 2018
Our method is simple, efficient and effective, ranking at first place for KITTI 3D object detection benchmark on all categories (11/27/2017). paper / bibtex / code / website@article{qi2017frustum, title={Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data}, author={Qi, Charles R and Liu, Wei and Wu, Chenxia and Su, Hao and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year={2018} } |
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Charles R. Qi, Li Yi, Hao Su, and Leonidas J. Guibas
NIPS 2017
paper / bibtex / code / website / poster
@article{qi2017pointnetplusplus, title={PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space}, author={Qi, Charles R and Yi, Li and Su, Hao and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02413}, year={2017} } |
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Charles R. Qi*, Hao Su*, Kaichun Mo, and Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2017, Oral Presentation
paper / bibtex / code / website / presentation video
@article{qi2017pointnet, title={PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation}, author={Qi, Charles R and Su, Hao and Mo, Kaichun and Guibas, Leonidas J}, journal={Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year={2017} } |
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Angela Dai, Charles R. Qi, Matthias Niessner
CVPR 2017, Spotlight Presentation
paper / bibtex / website (code & data available)
@article{dai2017complete, title={Shape Completion using 3D-Encoder-Predictor CNNs and Shape Synthesis}, author={Dai, Angela and Qi, Charles Ruizhongtai and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias}, journal={Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year={2017} } |
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Charles R. Qi*, Hao Su*, Matthias Niessner, Angela Dai, Mengyuan Yan, and Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2016,Spotlight Presentation
paper / bibtex / code / website / supp / presentation video
@inproceedings{qi2016volumetric, author = {Charles Ruizhongtai Qi and Hao Su and Matthias Nie{\ss}ner and Angela Dai and Mengyuan Yan and Leonidas Guibas}, title = {Volumetric and Multi-View CNNs for Object Classification on 3D Data}, booktitle = {Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE}, year = {2016} } |
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Yangyan Li*, Hao Su*, Charles R. Qi, Noa Fish, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
paper / bibtex / code / website / live demo
@article{li2015jointembedding, Author = {Li, Yangyan and Su, Hao and Qi, Charles Ruizhongtai and Fish, Noa and Cohen-Or, Daniel and Guibas, Leonidas J.}, Title = {Joint Embeddings of Shapes and Images via CNN Image Purification}, Journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.}, Year = {2015} } |
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Hao Su*, Charles R. Qi*, Yangyan Li, Leonidas J. Guibas (*equal contribution)
ICCV 2015, Oral Presentation
paper / bibtex / code / website / presentation video
@InProceedings{Su_2015_ICCV, Title={Render for CNN: Viewpoint Estimation in Images Using CNNs Trained with Rendered 3D Model Views}, Author={Su, Hao and Qi, Charles R. and Li, Yangyan and Guibas, Leonidas J.}, Booktitle={The IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {December}, Year= {2015} } |
- Invited Speaker. 3D Perception from Multi-X. 2023.
- Invited Speaker. Offboard Perception for Autonomous Driving. 2021.
- Invited Speaker and organizer. Deep Learning on Point Cloud and Other 3D Forms. 3D Deep Learning Tutorial at CVPR 2017, Honolulu. [video]
- Guest Lecturer. 3D Object Detection: The History, Present and Future. 2021. CSE219: Machine Learning Meets Geometry, UC San Diego. [slides]
- Invited Speaker. 3D Object Recognition in Point Clouds. 2020. Stanford Vision and Learning Lab [slides]
- (中文) Invited Speaker. The Development and Future of 3D Object Detection. 2021. Shenlan Xueyuan. [video]
- (中文) Invited Speaker. Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data. 2019. GAMES Webinar Series 82. [video] [slides]
- (中文) Invited Speaker. Deep Hough Voting for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds. 2019. GAMES Webinar Series 121. [video] [slides]
- (中文) Invited Speaker. Deep Learning on Point Clouds for 3D Scene Understanding. 2018. Jiangmen TechBeat. [video] [slides]
- Guest Lecturer. Spring 2017-18: The Shape of Data: Geometric and Topological Data Analysis at Stanford University.
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Guest Lecturer. Spring 2016-17: Machine Learning for 3D Data at Stanford University.























