I'm a Research Scientist at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). I work on multimodal embodied AI agents, including 3D scene understanding and robotics.

Before that, I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, working with David Fouhey and Joyce Chai. Before that, I obtained my B.S.E. from both the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working with Jia Deng.

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Email: syqian [at] meta [dot] com
Office: 1101 Dexter Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109

News

  • [2024/10] We're looking for research interns starting next year working on embodied agents and multimodal LLMs. If you are interested, please drop me an email and apply here.
  • [2024/06] I've joined Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team as a Research Scientist!

Work Experience

Meta FAIR, 06/2024 - current
Research Scientist.
NVIDIA Robotics Lab, 09/2023 - 04/2024.
Research Intern.
AWS AI, 05/2023 - 08/2023.
Applied Scientist Intern.
Meta FAIR, 05/2021 - 12/2021.
Research Intern.

Publications

3D-MVP: 3D Multiview Pretraining for Robotic Manipulation

X Embodiment @ CoRL 2024.

[project page] [paper]

Multi-Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2024.

[project page] [paper] [code] [dataset]

Multimodal Graph Benchmark

arXiv 2024.

[project page] [paper]

3D-GRAND: Towards Better Grounding and Less Hallucination for 3D-LLMs

Open-World Agents @ NeurIPS 2024.

[project page] [paper] [demo]

LinkGPT: Teaching Large Language Models To Predict Missing Links

Adaptive Foundation Models @ NeurIPS 2024.

[paper]

AffordanceLLM: Grounding Affordance from Vision Language Models
OpenSUN3D @ CVPR 2024.

We aim to enhance the generalization capability of affordance grounding to in-the-wild objects that are unseen during training, by developing a new approach AffordanceLLM, that takes the advantage of the rich knowledge from large-scale VLMs.

[project page] [paper]

LLM-Grounder: Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding with Large Language Model as an Agent
ICRA 2024.

Adding an LLM agent can be a simple and effective way to improve 3D grounding capabilities for zero-shot open-vocabulary methods, especially when the query is complex.

[project page] [paper] [demo] [code] [video]

The paper is also presented at CoRL 2023 Workshop on Language and Robot Learning.

Pitfalls in Link Prediction with Graph Neural Networks: Understanding the Impact of Target-link Inclusion & Better Practices
WSDM 2024 (Best paper award @ MLoG workshop)

We address several common pitfalls in training graph neural networks for link prediction.

[paper] [code]

Understanding 3D Object Interaction from a Single Image.
Shengyi Qian, David Fouhey.
ICCV 2023

We detect potential 3D object interaction from a single image and a set of query points. Building on Segment-Anything, our model can predict whether the object is movable, rigid, and 3D locations, affordance, articulation, etc.

[OpenXLab demo (with gpu)] [HF demo (cpu)]

The paper is also presented at CVPR 2023 Workshop on 3D Vision and Robotics.
Sound Localization from Motion: Jointly Learning Sound Direction and Camera Rotation.
Ziyang Chen, Shengyi Qian, Andrew Owens.
ICCV 2023

We jointly learn to localize sound sources from audio and to estimate camera rotations from images. Our method is entirely self-supervised.

[project page] [paper] [code] [bibtex]

Understanding 3D Object Articulation in Internet Videos.
CVPR 2022

We propose to investigate detecting and characterizing the 3D planar articulation of objects from ordinary videos.

[project page] [paper] [code] [bibtex] [CVPR talk]

Recognizing Scenes from Novel Viewpoints.
arXiv 2021

We propose ViewSeg, which takes as input a few RGB images of a new scene and recognizes the scene from novel viewpoints by segmenting it into semantic categories.

[project page] [paper] [code]

Planar Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Views.
ICCV 2021

We create a planar reconstruction of a scene from two very distant camera viewpoints.

[project page] [paper] [code] [bibtex] [ICCV talk] [ICCV poster]

Associative3D: Volumetric Reconstruction from Sparse Views.
Shengyi Qian*, Linyi Jin*, David Fouhey.
ECCV 2020

We present Associative3D, which addresses 3D volumetric reconstruction from two views of a scene with an unknown camera, by simultaneously reconstructing objects and figuring out their relationship.

[ECCV talk] [slides]

Invited presentation at ECCV 2020 Workshop Holistic Scene Structures for 3D Vision.
OASIS: A Large-Scale Dataset for Single-Image 3D in the Wild.
Weifeng Chen, Shengyi Qian, David Fan, Noriyuki Kojima, Max Hamilton, Jia Deng.
CVPR 2020

We present Open Annotations of Single Image Surfaces (OASIS), a dataset for single-image 3D in the wild consisting of dense annotations of detailed 3D geometry for Internet images.

Learning Single-Image Depth from Videos using Quality Assessment Networks.
Weifeng Chen, Shengyi Qian, Jia Deng.
CVPR 2019

We propose a method to automatically generate training data for single-view depth through Structure-from-Motion (SfM) on Internet videos.

Teaching