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Wei Tong is a leading researcher at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, whose work is driving advances in 3D scene reconstruction and intelligent robotic control. Tong’s primary contributions lie in Multiple View Stereo (MVS), where they have pioneered novel pixel-visibility learning techniques to overcome the depth estimation errors common in low-texture environments. Their 2022 paper on normal-assisted pixel-visibility learning (30 citations) and the 2024 Edge-Assisted Epipolar Transformer (39 citations) have become foundational for applications in autonomous driving and robotic navigation, enabling precise 3D mapping even in GPS-denied settings. Tong has also made significant strides in robotics, developing robust neural dynamics methods for redundant manipulators (34 citations) and anti-disturbance path-following control for snake robots (14 citations), addressing critical challenges in industrial automation and complex terrain traversal. With a growing citation impact and a focus on real-world deployment—from unstructured environment construction to visual-inertial navigation—Wei Tong’s work is shaping the future of perception and control systems for autonomous and robotic platforms.