Kaiyue Shen

shenkaiyue1997@gmail.com

I’m currently a Deep Learning & Computer Vision Engineer at Arbrea Labs AG, Switzerland.
I earned my BSc in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2019), where I completed my bachelor’s thesis under Prof. Yang Hu on Virtual Try-on using Generative Adversarial Networks. I then obtained my MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zürich (2022). My master’s thesis, X-Avatar: Expressive Human Avatars, was supervised by Prof. Otmar Hilliges and accepted at CVPR 2023.
Between September 2022 and March 2023, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab (AIT), ETH Zürich, focusing on 3D digital human animation and human pose estimation. Prior to that, I was a Computer Vision Intern at Seervision AG, Zürich (September 2021 – March 2022).
My work focuses on digital humans and spans 2D and 3D computer vision, including reconstruction, animation, and modeling, with experience in both research and product development.
Outside of work, I’m an explorer at heart and enjoy skiing, tennis, badminton, fitness, hiking, cycling, archery, ice skating, and baking.

Publications

Manuel Kaufmann, Jie Song, Chen Guo, Kaiyue Shen, Tianjian Jiang, Chengcheng Tang, Juan Zarate, Otmar Hilliges, EMDB: The Electromagnetic Database of Global 3D Human Pose and Shape in the Wild, ICCV 2023.
Kaiyue Shen*, Chen Guo*, Manuel Kaufmann, Juan Zarate, Julien Valentin, Jie Song, Otmar Hilliges, X-Avatar: Expressive Human Avatars, CVPR 2023.

Projects

	EMDB: The Electromagnetic Database of Global 3D Human Pose and Shape in the Wild (ICCV 2023) Research Assistant at Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab, ETHZ Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Otmar Hilliges, Dr. Manuel Kaufmann 2022. 11 - 2023. 3 [Project Page][Paper][Code]
	X-Avatar: Expressive Human Avatars (CVPR 2023) Master Thesis at Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab, ETHZ Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Otmar Hilliges, Dr. Jie Song, Chen Guo 2022. 4 - 2022. 11 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]
	Long term person Re-Indentification Intern at Seervision AG, Zürich, Switzerland 2021. 9 - 2022. 3 [Project Page] [Internship Report] [Work Certificate]
	Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving Course project of Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving Co-worker: Yunke Ao 2021. 3 - 2021. 7 [Project Page] [Report1] [Report2] [Report3-1] [Report3-2] [Code]
	Continual learning for Binary Foreground and Background Segmentation Semester Project at Autonomous Systems Lab, ETHZ Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Roland Siegwart, Dr. Abel Gawel, Dr. Hermann Blum, Francesco Milano 2020. 10 - 2021. 3 [Project Page] [Semester Thesis] [Code]
	Gradual Transition From Model-Based to Model-Free Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning Course project of Deep Learning Co-workers: Le Chen, Yunke Ao, Zheyu Ye 2020. 10 - 2021. 1 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]
	Simple Hexapod Robot Control Course project of Computational Models of Motion Co-workers: Chao Ni, Ji Shi 2020. 5 - 2020. 6 [Project Page] [Code]
	Object Reconstruction with Depth Error Compensation Using Azure Kinect Course project of 3D Vision Supervisor: Taein Kwon Co-workers: Yunke Ao, Yifei Dong, Panayiotis Panayiotou 2020. 3 - 2020. 7 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]
	Virtual Try-on based on Generative Adversarial Networks Undergraduate graduation project, Institute of Image Processing, UESTC Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yang Hu 2018. 7 - 2019.6 [Project Page] [Bachelor Thesis] [Code]