Kevin Chen

I build perception systems.

My work spans real-time SLAM/VIO, 3D mapping, and on-device multimodal ML.

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8+ years: production computer vision
CVPR 2025: active 3D mapping
3 papers: vision and robotics
5 patents: spatial AI systems

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On-Device VLM Perception

VLM-based perception for health-oriented experiences, visual composition, and multimodal interaction.

Professional experience 2018-present

Real-Time Spatial AI for Wearables

Real-time VIO/SLAM, learned visual features, and 3D reconstruction for wearable devices.

CVPR 2025 2025

ActiveGAMER

CVPR 2025 research on active 3D Gaussian mapping and autonomous exploration.

selected publications

ActiveGAMER: Active GAussian Mapping through Efficient Rendering

Liyan Chen, Huangying Zhan, Kevin Chen, Xiangyu Xu, Qingan Yan, Changjiang Cai, and Yi Xu

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Jun 2025

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@inproceedings{chen2025activegamer,
  title = {ActiveGAMER: Active GAussian Mapping through Efficient Rendering},
  author = {Chen, Liyan and Zhan, Huangying and Chen, Kevin and Xu, Xiangyu and Yan, Qingan and Cai, Changjiang and Xu, Yi},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {16486--16497},
  year = {2025},
  month = jun,
}

Stereo-NEC: Enhancing Stereo Visual-Inertial SLAM Initialization with Normal Epipolar Constraints

Weihan Wang, Chieh Chou, Ganesh Sevagamoorthy, Kevin Chen, Zheng Chen, Ziyue Feng, Youjie Xia, Feiyang Cai, Yi Xu, and Philippos Mordohai

In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024

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@inproceedings{wang2024stereonec,
  title = {Stereo-NEC: Enhancing Stereo Visual-Inertial SLAM Initialization with Normal Epipolar Constraints},
  author = {Wang, Weihan and Chou, Chieh and Sevagamoorthy, Ganesh and Chen, Kevin and Chen, Zheng and Feng, Ziyue and Xia, Youjie and Cai, Feiyang and Xu, Yi and Mordohai, Philippos},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {8941--8948},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611458},
}

The World Is Changing: Finding Changes on the Street

Kuan-Ting Chen, Fu-En Wang, Juan-Ting Lin, Fu-Hsiang Chan, and Min Sun

In Computer Vision – ACCV 2016 Workshops, 2016

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@inproceedings{chen2016world,
  title = {The World Is Changing: Finding Changes on the Street},
  author = {Chen, Kuan-Ting and Wang, Fu-En and Lin, Juan-Ting and Chan, Fu-Hsiang and Sun, Min},
  booktitle = {Computer Vision -- ACCV 2016 Workshops},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = {10116},
  pages = {420--435},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2016},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-54407-6_28},
}