I am a PhD candidate at the 3D Understanding Lab at TUM advised by Prof. Angela Dai, working on 3D scene understanding and generation through multimodal data such as RGB(D), laser scans, and natural language.

I’m a co-author and maintainer of the ScanNet++ indoor scene dataset and benchmarks.

Outside of work, I like to cook, hike, read and play with the neighborhood cats.

I expect to graduate in early 2027 and am actively looking for internship and full-time opportunities in 3D understanding and generation.

Masters thesis / GR / IDP Supervision

Please email or drop by at 2.7.61 TUM CIT if you’re interested in a thesis/GR/IDP. Topics are usually related to semantic understanding and 3D generation on ScanNet++. For examples, see our group’s publications.

Selected Publications

Full list on Google Scholar.
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ScanNet++: A High-Fidelity Dataset of 3D Indoor Scenes

ICCV 2023 Oral

Chandan Yeshwanth*, Yueh-Cheng Liu*, Matthias Nießner, Angela Dai

1000+ high-resolution indoor scenes with 3D laser scans, panoramic images, 33MP DSLR sequences and iPhone RGBD streams. All registered together, with fine-grained semantic and instance annotations. Includes public semantic and novel view synthesis benchmarks.

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Lookalike3D: Seeing Double in 3D

arXiv 2026

Chandan Yeshwanth, Angela Dai

Joint 3D object reconstruction and part co-segmentation of identical and near-identical objects using a multiview image transformer. Introduces the 3DTwins dataset with 76k manually annotated object pairs from ScanNet++, achieving 104% IoU improvement over baselines.

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ExCap3D: Expressive 3D Scene Understanding via Object Captioning with Varying Detail

ICCV 2025

Chandan Yeshwanth, Dávid Rozenberszki, Angela Dai

Fine-grained object and part-level dense captioning of 3D scenes with Cider score improvement of 17% and 124% over baselines, using semantic and textual consistency losses, Large-scale dataset with 190k object and part-level captions of 34k 3D objects in the ScanNet++ dataset.

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Sceneformer: Indoor Scene Generation with Transformers

3DV 2021

Xinpeng Wang*, Chandan Yeshwanth*, Matthias Niessner

Indoor 3D scene generation as sequence of object tokens using Transformers. Generates object location, semantic class, size, rotation and relevant properties by training on the SUNCG dataset. State-of-the-art scene generation validated by a user study and inference speed.

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Directional Message Passing on Molecular Graphs via Synthetic Coordinates

NeurIPS 2021

Johannes Gasteiger, Chandan Yeshwanth, Stephan Günnemann

Molecular property prediction using graph neural networks with synthetic coordinates -- distances and angles, as features edge features. State of the art on ZINC and coordinate-free QM9 by incorporating synthetic coordinates in the SMP and DimeNet++ models

Activities

I co-organized the ScanNet++ Workshop (NVS and semantic understanding tracks) at CVPR 2024, CVPR 2025, and CVPR 2026.

Reviewing

ICCV 2023, ECCV 2024, CVPR 2025, ICCV 2025, BMVC 2026, ECCV 2026

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Deep Learning, TU Munich — Apr 2025–present (1000+ students)

Experience