I am currently a forth-year PhD student at Visual and Data Intelligence Center of ShanghaiTech University, supervised by Prof. Yuxin Ma. I received my bachelor degree from ShanghaiTech.
My research interest includes 3D computer vision, human-centric motion understanding, .
π₯ News
- 2026.01: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to TPAMI 2026!
- 2026.01: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to ICLR 2026!
- 2025.07: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025!
- 2024.11: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to AAAI 2025!
- 2024.07: Β ππ 2 papers accepted to ACMMM 2024!
- 2024.06: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to ECCV 2024!
- 2024.02: Β ππ 2 papers accepted to CVPR 2024!
- 2024.01: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to ICRA 2024!
- 2023.01: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to TVCG!
- 2022.11: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to AAAI 2023!
- 2022.03: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to ICME 2022!
- 2022.02: Β ππ 1 paper accepted to CVPR 2022!
π Publications

OptimalCap: Efficient and Robust LiDAR-Based Motion Capture in Free Environments
Yiming Ren*, Yujing Sun*, Xiao Han, Yichen Yao, Xiaoxiao Long, Xinge Zhu, Siu Ming Yiu, Yuexin Ma
TPAMI 2026

Sparkle: A Robust and Versatile Representation for Point Cloud-based Human Motion Capture
Yiming Ren*, Yujing Sun*, Aoru Xue, Kwok-Yan Lam, Yuexin Maβ
ICLR, 2026

SymBridge: A Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Interactive System for Adaptive Human-Robot Symbiosis
Haoran Chen, Yiteng Xu, Yiming Ren, Yaoqin Ye, Xinran Li, Ning Ding, Yuxuan Wu, Yaoze Liu, Peishan Cong, Ziyi Wang, Bushi Liu, Yuhan Chen, Zhiyang Dou, Xiaokun Leng, Manyi Liβ , Yuexin Maβ , Changhe Tu
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

FreeCap: Hybrid Calibration-Free Motion Capture in Open Environments
Aoru Xue*, Yiming Ren*, Zining Song, Mao Ye, Xinge ZHU, Yuexin Ma
AAAI, 2025

Towards Practical Human Motion Prediction with LiDAR Point Clouds
Xiao Han, Yiming Ren, Yichen Yao, Yujing Sun, Yuexin Ma
ACM Multimedia (MM), Oral, 2024

Gait Recognition in Large-scale Free Environment via Single LiDAR
Xiao Han, Yiming Ren, Peishan Cong, Yujing Sun, Jingya Wang, Lan Xu, Yuexin Ma
ACM Multimedia (MM), Oral, 2024

LiveHPS++: Robust and Coherent Motion Capture in Dynamic Free Environment
Yiming Ren, Xiao Han, Yichen Yao, Xiaoxiao Long, Yujing Sun, Yuexin Ma
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oral, 2024

LiveHPS: LiDAR-based Scene-level Human Pose and Shape Estimation in Free Environment
Yiming Ren, Xiao Han, Chengfeng Zhao, Jingya Wang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu, Yuexin Ma
The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference(CVPR), Highlight, 2024

A Unified Framework for Human-centric Point Cloud Video Understanding
Yiteng Xu, Kecheng Ye, Xiao Han, Yiming Ren, Xinge ZHU, Yuexin Ma
The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference(CVPR), 2024

LiDAR-aid Inertial Poser: Large-scale Human Motion Capture by Sparse Inertial and LiDAR Sensors
Yiming Ren, Chengfeng Zhao, Yannan He, Peishan Cong, Han Liang, Jingyi Yu, Lan Xu, Yuexin Ma
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics(TVCG), 2023

Peishan Cong, Yiteng Xu, Yiming Ren, Juze Zhang, Lan Xu, Jingya Wang, Jingyi Yu, Yuexin Ma
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI), Oral, 2023
Yiming Ren, Peishan Cong, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo(ICME), 2022

STCrowd: A Multimodal Dataset for Pedestrian Perception in Crowded Scenes
Peishan Cong, Xinge Zhu, Feng Qiao, Yiming Ren, Xidong Peng, Yuenan Hou, Lan Xu, Ruigang Yang, Dinesh Manocha, Yuexin Ma
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), 2022
π Honors and Awards
- 2025.10 Merit Student, ShanghaiTech University
- 2024.10 Merit Student, ShanghaiTech University
- 2023.10 Merit Student, ShanghaiTech University
- 2023.01 Excellent Student Award in The 30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.
π Educations
- 2022.09 - present, PhD, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
- 2018.09 - 2022.07, Bachelor, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.