Yichao Yan

Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Institute of AI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Email: yanyichao@sjtu.edu.cn

Office: 5-510, Software Building

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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🔬 X-Human Lab

We have a light stage and a motion/volume capture device, several humanoid robots, and abundant GPUs.

📢 Opening Positions

We are looking for post-doc researchers, collaborating with Professor Xiaokang Yang!

I am a co-chair of the SJTU AIGC Class. Looking for self-motivated undergraduate and graduate students to work with me in 3D representation, AIGC, and embodied AI. For prospective students, please send your resume and transcript to my email.

📖 Biography

I am a tenure-track associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I received my Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019, supervised by Professor Xiaokang Yang. I received M.E. from École Centrale de Lyon in France, and B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013. I was a research scientist at the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) from June 2019 to April 2021.

My research interests include:

  • 🧊 3D Representation — neural rendering, 3D reconstruction, Gaussian splatting
  • 🎨 AIGC — generative models, digital humans, face/body modeling
  • 🤖 Embodied AI — humanoid teleoperation, human-robot interaction

news

Feb 15, 2026 Dens3R is accepted by ICLR 2026. MoRE and POLAR are accepted by CVPR 2026.
Dec 01, 2025 “高精度三维建模关键技术及应用” 获得中国图象图形学学会科技进步二等奖(排1).
Nov 15, 2025 Topo4D++ is accepted by TPAMI.
Jun 15, 2025 Four papers on 3D body generation, garment generation, HOI, and large model training are accepted by ICCV 2025.
May 15, 2025 One paper on 3D Gaussian is accepted by ICML 2025.

selected publications

  1. ICME
    SingingBot: An Avatar-Driven System for Robotic Face Singing Performance
    Zhuoxiong Xu, Xuanchen Li, Yuhao Cheng, Fei Xu, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2026
  2. CVPR
    MoRE: 3D Visual Geometry Reconstruction Meets Mixture-of-Experts
    Jingnan Gao, Zhe Wang, Xianze Fang, Xingyu Ren, and 6 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  3. CVPR
    POLAR: A Portrait OLAT Dataset and Generative Framework for Illumination-Aware Face Modeling
    Zhuo Chen, Chengqun Yang, Zhuo Su, Zheng Lv, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  4. ICLR
    Dens3r: A Foundation Model for 3D Geometry Prediction
    Xianze Fang, Jingnan Gao, Zhe Wang, Zhuo Chen, and 7 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  5. TPAMI
    Topo4D++: Realistic Physically Based 4D Head Capture with Topology-Preserving Gaussian Splatting and Expression Priors
    Yuhao Cheng, Xuanchen Li, Xingyu Ren, Jianyu Wang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025
  6. ICCV
    Skip-Vision: Efficient and Scalable Acceleration of Vision-Language Models via Adaptive Token Skipping
    Weili Zeng, Ziyuan Huang, Kaixiang Ji, and Yichao Yan
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
  7. ICCV
    Disentangled Clothed Avatar Generation with Layered Representation
    Weitian Zhang, Sijing Wu, Manwen Liao, and Yichao Yan
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
  8. ICCV
    Multimodal Latent Diffusion Model for Complex Sewing Pattern Generation
    Shengqi Liu, Yuhao Cheng, Zhuo Chen, Xingyu Ren, and 5 more authors
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
  9. ICCV
    Perceiving and Acting in First-Person: A Dataset and Benchmark for Egocentric Human-Object-Human Interactions
    Liang Xu, Chengqun Yang, Zili Lin, Fei Xu, and 10 more authors
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
  10. ICML
    Enhancing Visual Localization with Cross-Domain Image Generation
    Yuanze Wang, Yichao Yan, Shiming Song, Songchang Jin, and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  11. TMM
    SingingHead: A Large-scale 4D Dataset for Singing Head Animation
    Sijing Wu, Yunhao Li, Weitian Zhang, Jun Jia, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025
  12. CVPR
    Towards High-fidelity 3D Talking Avatar with Personalized Dynamic Texture
    Xuanchen Li, Jianyu Wang, Yuhao Cheng, Yikun Zeng, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
  13. TMM
    Revealing Directions for Text-guided 3D Face Editing
    Zhuo Chen, Yichao Yan, Shengqi Liu, Yuhao Cheng, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025
  14. ICLR
    PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
    Feng Tian, Yixuan Li, Yichao Yan, Shanyan Guan, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
  15. ICLR
    AniSDF: Fused-Granularity Neural Surfaces with Anisotropic Encoding for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction
    Jingnan Gao, Zhuo Chen, Yichao Yan, and Xiaokang Yang
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
  16. TVCG
    EvaSurf: Efficient View-Aware Implicit Textured Surface Reconstruction on Mobile Devices
    Jingnan Gao, Zhuo Chen, Yichao Yan, Bowen Pan, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2024
  17. NeurIPS
    Multi-times Monte Carlo Rendering for Inter-reflection Reconstruction
    Tengjie Zhu, Zhuo Chen, Jingnan Gao, Yichao Yan, and 1 more author
    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
  18. ACM MM
    E3Gen: Efficient, Expressive and Editable Avatars Generation
    Weitian Zhang, Yichao Yan, Yunhui Liu, Xingdong Sheng, and 1 more author
    In ACM Multimedia, 2024
  19. ACM MM
    Infusion: Preventing Customized Text-to-Image Diffusion from Overfitting
    Weili Zeng, Yichao Yan, Qi Zhu, Zhuo Chen, and 3 more authors
    In ACM Multimedia, 2024
  20. ACM MM
    MMHead: Towards Fine-grained Multi-modal 3D Facial Animation
    Sijing Wu, Yunhao Li, Yichao Yan, Huiyu Duan, and 2 more authors
    In ACM Multimedia, 2024
  21. ECCV
    Topo4D: Topology-Preserving Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity 4D Head Capture
    Xuanchen Li, Yuhao Cheng, Xingyu Ren, Haozhe Jia, and 3 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
  22. ECCV
    HIMO: A New Benchmark for Full-Body Human Interacting with Multiple Objects
    Xintao Lv, Liang Xu, Yichao Yan, Xin Jin, and 7 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
  23. CVPR
    3D-Aware Face Editing via Warping-Guided Latent Direction Learning
    Yuhao Cheng, Zhuo Chen, Xingyu Ren, Wenhan Zhu, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  24. CVPR
    Inter-X: Towards Versatile Human-Human Interaction Analysis
    Liang Xu, Xintao Lv, Yichao Yan, Xin Jin, and 9 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  25. CVPR
    ReGenNet: Towards Human Action-Reaction Synthesis
    Liang Xu, Yizhou Zhou, Yichao Yan, Xin Jin, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  26. CVPR
    Monocular Identity-Conditioned Facial Reflectance Reconstruction
    Xingyu Ren, Jiankang Deng, Yuhao Cheng, Jia Guo, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  27. TPAMI
    A Coding Framework and Benchmark towards Low-Bitrate Video Understanding
    Yuan Tian, Guo Lu, Yichao Yan, Guangtao Zhai, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024
  28. NeurIPS
    NeRF-IBVS: Visual Servo Based on NeRF for Visual Localization and Navigation
    Yuanze Wang, Yichao Yan, Dianxi Shi, Wenhan Zhu, and 6 more authors
    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
  29. ICCV
    ActFormer: A GAN-based Transformer towards General Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Generation
    Liang Xu, Ziyang Song, Dongliang Wang, Jing Su, and 8 more authors
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
  30. CVPR
    Improving Fairness in Facial Albedo Estimation via Visual-Textual Cues
    Xingyu Ren, Jiankang Deng, Chao Ma, Yichao Yan, and 1 more author
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
  31. CVPR
    3D-Aware Face Swapping
    Yixuan Li, Chao Ma, Yichao Yan, Wenhan Zhu, and 1 more author
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
  32. CVPR
    GANHead: Towards Generative Animatable Neural Head Avatars
    Sijing Wu, Yichao Yan, Yunhao Li, Yuhao Cheng, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
  33. IJCV
    Efficient Person Search: An Anchor-Free Approach
    Yichao Yan, Jinpeng Li, Jie Qin, Shengcai Liao, and 1 more author
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023
  34. NeurIPS
    CageNeRF: Cage-based Neural Radiance Field for Generalized 3D Deformation and Animation
    Yicong Peng, Yichao Yan, Shengqi Liu, Yuhao Cheng, and 4 more authors
    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
  35. ECCV
    Domain Adaptive Person Search
    Junjie Li, Yichao Yan, Guanshuo Wang, Fufu Yu, and 2 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
  36. AAAI
    Exploring Visual Context for Weakly Supervised Person Search
    Yichao Yan, Jinpeng Li, Shengcai Liao, Jie Qin, and 3 more authors
    In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
  37. CVPR
    Anchor-Free Person Search
    Yichao Yan, Jinpeng Li, Jie Qin, Song Bai, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
  38. TPAMI
    Learning Multi-Attention Context Graph for Group-Based Re-Identification
    Yichao Yan, Jie Qin, Bingbing Ni, Jiaxin Chen, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020
  39. CVPR
    Learning Multi-Granular Hypergraphs for Video-Based Person Re-Identification
    Yichao Yan, Jie Qin, Jiaxin Chen, Li Liu, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
  40. CVPR
    Learning Context Graph for Person Search
    Yichao Yan, Qiang Zhang, Bingbing Ni, Minghao Xu, and 1 more author
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
  41. ECCV
    Person Re-Identification via Recurrent Feature Aggregation
    Yichao Yan, Bingbing Ni, Zhichao Song, Chao Ma, and 2 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2016
  42. CVPR
    Pose transferrable person re-identification
    Jinxian Liu, Bingbing Ni, Yichao Yan, Peng Zhou, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
  43. AAAI
    Video summarization via semantic attended networks
    Huawei Wei, Bingbing Ni, Yichao Yan, Huanyu Yu, and 2 more authors
    In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018
  44. ACM MM
    Skeleton-aided articulated motion generation
    Yichao Yan, Jingwei Xu, Bingbing Ni, Wendong Zhang, and 1 more author
    In ACM Multimedia, 2017
  45. ACM MM
    Fine-grained recognition via attribute-guided attentive feature aggregation
    Yichao Yan, Bingbing Ni, and Xiaokang Yang
    In ACM Multimedia, 2017
  46. IJCAI
    Predicting Human Interaction via Relative Attention Model
    Yichao Yan, Bingbing Ni, and Xiaokang Yang
    In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017