Wei-Kai (Allan) Lin 林惟凱

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I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at University of Rochester, advised by Yuhao Zhu. Previously, I earned B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University and M.Sc. in Intelligent Science from Peking University.
Research. My research spans across algorithm and hardware. I'm interested in AR/VR Graphics, Hardware Architecture, Imaging System, and AI (e.g. Embodied Intelligence, Generative AI). More details on my research page.

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🔥 News

Jun 18, 2026 ControlHair is accepted to ECCV 2026.
May 18, 2026 I have joined Meta as a Research Scientist Intern.
Apr 21, 2026 Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026 On-Sensor Vision Workshop. See you in Denver!
Apr 09, 2026 One paper selected as CVPR 2026 Highlight.
Apr 01, 2026 Received ACM/IEEE DAC Young Fellow. See you in Long Beach!
Feb 23, 2026 One paper accepted to DAC 2026.
Feb 21, 2026 One paper accepted to CVPR 2026.
Sep 19, 2025 Our paper, PowerGS, accepted to Siggraph Asia 2025. See you in Hong Kong.
Apr 01, 2025 Our paper, Metasapiens, received ASPLOS’25 Best Paper Award.
Mar 22, 2025 Our paper, Lumina, accepted to ISCA 2025.
Feb 15, 2025 Our paper, SnapPix, accepted to DAC 2025.
Jan 31, 2025 Awarded the OpenAI Research Access Grant.
Jan 28, 2025 Our paper, StreamGrid, accepted to ASPLOS 2025.
Dec 16, 2024 Our paper on streaming 3DGS accepted to HotMobile 2025.
Oct 28, 2024 Our paper, PrivateEye, accepted to WACV 2025.
Oct 02, 2024 Our paper, Metasapiens, accepted to ASPLOS 2025.

📝 Publications

* Indicates equal contributions, some papers are highlighted. See Google Scholar for full list.

2026

  1. ECCV
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    ControlHair: Synergizing Physics Simulator and Video Diffusion for Controllable Dynamic Hair Rendering
    Weikai Lin, Haoxiang Li, and Yuhao Zhu
    In 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, 2026
    arXiv
  2. CVPR
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    SeeLe: A Unified Acceleration Framework for Real-Time Gaussian Splatting on Mobile Devices
    🌟 CVPR Highlight
    He Zhu*, Xiaotong Huang*, Zihan Liu, and 6 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    🌟 CVPR Highlight PDF

2025

  1. SIGGRAPH Asia
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    PowerGS: Display–Rendering Power Co-Optimization for Neural Rendering in Power-Constrained XR Systems
    Weikai Lin, Sushant Kondguli, Carll Marshall, and 1 more author
    In SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers, 2025
    arXiv HTML Code XR Viewer
  2. DAC
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    SnapPix: Efficient-Coding–Inspired In-Sensor Compression for Edge Vision
    Weikai Lin*, Tianrui Ma*, Adith Boloor, and 4 more authors
    In 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2025
    arXiv Code
  3. ASPLOS
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    MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering
    🏆 Best Paper Award
    Weikai Lin*, Yu Feng*, and Yuhao Zhu
    In 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2025
    🏆 Best Paper Award HTML PDF Code
    ASPLOS 2025 Best Paper Award certificate for MetaSapiens
  4. ASPLOS
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    StreamGrid: Streaming Point Cloud Analytics via Compulsory Splitting and Deterministic Termination
    Yu Feng*, Zheng Liu*, Weikai Lin*, and 6 more authors
    In 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2025
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  5. ISCA
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    Lumina: Real-Time Mobile Neural Rendering by Exploiting Computational Redundancy
    Yu Feng, Weikai Lin, Yuge Cheng, and 6 more authors
    In 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2025
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  6. WACV
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    Private-Eye: In-Sensor Privacy Preservation Through Optical Feature Separation
    Adith Boloor, Weikai Lin, Tianrui Ma, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2025
    PDF
  7. HotMoblie
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    Advancing Immersive Content Delivery with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Nan Wu*, Weikai Lin*, Ruizhi Cheng*, and 4 more authors
    In 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2025
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2024

  1. TACO
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    Potamoi: Accelerating Neural Rendering via a Unified Streaming Architecture
    Yu Feng*, Weikai Lin*, Zihao Liu, and 6 more authors
    In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, 2024
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  2. IROS
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    OW3Det: Toward Open-World 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
    Wenfei Hu, Weikai Lin, Hongyu Fang, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024
    PDF
  3. ArXiv
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    RTGS: Enabling Real-Time Gaussian Splatting on Mobile Devices Using Efficiency-Guided Pruning and Foveated Rendering
    Weikai Lin, Yu Feng, and Yuhao Zhu
    (Preprint and Shortened Version of MetaSapiens), arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00435, 2024
    arXiv Code
  4. Project
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2023

  1. ROMAN
    Learning Clear Class Separation for Open-set 3D Detector in Autonomous Vehicle via Selective Forgetting
    Wenfei Hu, Weikai Lin, Hongyu Fang, and 2 more authors
    In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023
  2. PKU ASN
    A Review of Robot Learning
    Weiming Qu, Tianlin Liu, Weikai Lin, and 1 more author
    In Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 2023

2021

  1. ICDL
    Approaching Sound Object with Sensorimotor Coordination when Sensors Partially Damaged
    Shuai Fang, Yaoyao Wei, Weikai Lin, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2021
  2. ICDL
    Acquiring robot navigation skill with knowledge learned from demonstration
    Yaoyao Wei, Shuai Fang, Weikai Lin, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2021