Shaohui Liu
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolShaohui Liu is a computer vision researcher-engineer with 8 years of experience bridging academic research and production at leading labs including Google, Microsoft, ByteDance and ETH Zürich. Currently pursuing a direct doctorate at ETH Zürich after an undergraduate degree from Tsinghua, he specializes in structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo, contributing significant back-end and algorithmic refactors to the widely used open-source COLMAP project. His work focuses on disentangling controller logic, improving threading and mapper control, and adapting controllers to a clean BaseController design—demonstrating a knack for turning complex research code into maintainable, production-ready systems. Shaohui’s internships at top industry research teams reflect both strong theoretical grounding and practical impact, particularly in scalable 3D reconstruction pipelines. Based in Zurich, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on software engineering to optimize core computer vision workflows. An interesting detail: he tends to tackle messy concurrency and controller abstractions that often block scaling and long-term maintainability in SfM systems.
8 years of coding experience
Direct Doctorate, Computer Science, Direct Doctorate, Computer Science at ETH ZürichUndergraduate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Undergraduate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (16)
algorithm10
data-structures10
computer-vision10
algorithms10
structure-from-motion10
c-language10
threaded10
cprogramming-language10
thread10
hyper-threading10
multithreading10
data-structure10
geometry9
3d-reconstruction9
recovery9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
colmap/colmap
Jul 2018 - Mar 2025
COLMAP - Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Engineer
Back-end Developer & Algorithm EngineerContributions:396 reviews, 93 PRs, 41 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Shaohui's commits primarily focus on refactoring and integrating a controller within the COLMAP structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo project. They worked on disentangling controller logic from threading, integrating the new logic into the IncrementalMapperController, and adapting various controllers to inherit from a BaseController. The contributions include significant code changes, including refactoring, renaming, and implementing crucial features like checking and stopping logic for the mapper. They demonstrate expertise in optimizing the COLMAP pipeline.
structure-from-motionreconstructionhomographymulti-viewstereo
cvg/limap
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
A toolbox for mapping and localization with line features.
Contributions:20 reviews, 97 PRs, 330 pushes in 2 years
3d-reconstructionbundle-adjustmentline-detectionline-mappingline-matchng
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