Haofei Xu徐豪飞

Final-year PhD student at ETH Zurich and University of Tübingen
Research Scientist at KE:SAI Open Science Lab

Portrait of Haofei Xu

I am a final-year PhD student at ETH Zurich and University of Tübingen, advised by Marc Pollefeys and Andreas Geiger, and a Research Scientist at KE:SAI Open Science Lab. I previously interned at Google Zurich with Michael Niemeyer and Federico Tombari.

Before my PhD, I worked with Jianfei Cai and Hamid Rezatofighi at Monash University, and earned my master's from the University of Science and Technology of China with Juyong Zhang, including an exchange at NTU and a research internship at Microsoft Research Asia.

I am honored to have received the 2025 Apple Scholar in AI/ML, Gold Reviewer Award (ICML 2026), Top Reviewer Award (NeurIPS 2024), and Outstanding Reviewer Award (CVPR 2022).

Prospective Students

I am looking for highly motivated students to explore frontier research topics together. If you are interested in working with me at ETH Zurich or KE:SAI Open Science Lab (Tübingen, Germany), please email me with your CV and a short research statement (for ETH), or apply here (for KE:SAI).

Selected Publications

I have broad interests in computer vision and deep learning. I have worked on depth, stereo, optical flow, tracking, feed-forward NeRF/3DGS, and generative models. I am actively exploring new ideas, and I am currently interested in representation learning and generative models for efficient, scalable world models and physical AI. See my full publication list on Google Scholar.

Open Source Projects

I believe in the power of open source to advance science. Here are some of the key open-source projects stemming from my research and collaborations.

Learning Recurrent Gaussian Splatting
Zero-Shot Large Displacement Optical Flow
Multi-View 3D Point Tracking
Surprisingly Simple 3D Gaussian Splats from Sparse Unposed Images
Connecting Gaussian Splatting and Depth
Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images
Unifying Flow, Stereo and Depth Estimation
Learning Optical Flow via Global Matching
Adaptive Aggregation Network for Efficient Stereo Matching

Invited Talks

PointDiT: Pixel-Space Diffusion for 3D GenerationZhejiang University · hosted by Yiyi Liao
Apr 23, 2026
PointDiT: Pixel-Space Diffusion for 3D GenerationWestlake University · hosted by Anpei Chen
Apr 22, 2026
Learning to Optimize 3D Gaussian SplattingHuawei
Mar 9, 2026
Multi-View 3D Point TrackingGoogle DeepMind · hosted by Junhwa Hur
Sep 29, 2025
Learning to SplatHuawei
Jun 3, 2025
DepthSplat: Connecting Gaussian Splatting and DepthGoogle DeepMind · hosted by Ben Poole
Oct 29, 2024
Unifying Flow, Stereo and Depth EstimationSynced (机器之心) · slides
Dec 28, 2022
GMFlow: Learning Optical Flow via Global MatchingMonash University · slides
Apr 13, 2022

Teaching

Head Teaching Assistant3D Vision
Spring 2026
Head Teaching Assistant3D Vision
Spring 2025
Teaching AssistantComputer Vision
Fall 2024
Spring 2024

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer
ICCV 2021CVPR 2022ECCV 2022CVPR 2023NeurIPS 2023CVPR 2024ECCV 2024NeurIPS 2024CVPR 2025ICCV 2025NeurIPS 2025CVPR 2026ICML 2026ECCV 2026
Journal Reviewer
TIPIJCVTPAMI

Awards