About
I am currently a Senior Algorithm Expert at Alibaba, ATH, Qwen Business Unit. We focus on cutting-edge technologies in image/video generation and editing, multimodal generation and unified multimodal models. Our algorithm has been integrated into the Qwen App, serving millions of users.
Before joining Alibaba, I was a Senior Researcher at Tencent AI Lab/ARC Lab. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2021, supervised by Prof. Pedro V. Sander. Prior to that, I received my B.E. degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2017.
👋 We are actively seeking highly motivated research interns, algorithm engineers, and researchers to join our team working on related topics. Please feel free to reach out via email (xliea@connect.ust.hk) with your CV.
📌 News
- Mar 2026: I joined Alibaba.
- Mar 2026: 2 papers were accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026.
- Mar 2026: 1 paper was accepted to IJCV.
- Feb 2026: 2 papers were accepted to CVPR 2026.
- Jan 2026: 3 papers were accepted to ICLR 2026.
- Dec 2025: 1 paper was accepted to AAAI 2025.
- Sep 2025: 1 paper was accepted to PAMI.
- Aug 2025: 1 paper was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
- Jun 2025: 1 paper was accepted to ICCV 2025.
- Feb 2025: 4 papers were accepted to CVPR 2025.
Education
- Ph.D, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2021
- B.E., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2017
Work Experience
- [2026-now] Senior Algorithm Expert, Qwen Business Unit, Alibaba
- [2021-2025] Senior Researcher, AI Lab/ARC Lab, Tencent
Publications
* equal contribution # corresponding author / project lead
2026:
ViewWeaver: Geometry-Grounded Neural Generative Rendering for 3D-Aware Image Customization
Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li#, Zhaoyang Zhang, Hongxiang Li, Long Chen, Ying Shan, and Yuexian Zou
SIGGRAPH 2026.BoxCtrl: 3D-Aware Visual Prompting for Geometric Image Editing
Feifei Wang, Shiyuan Yang, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao
SIGGRAPH 2026.4DVD: Cascaded Dense-view Video Diffusion Model for High-quality 4D Content Generation
Shuzhou Yang, Xiaodong Cun, Xiaoyu Li#, Yaowei Li, Jian Zhang
IJCV. [Page] [Paper]IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li#, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuxuan Bian, Gan Liu, Xinyuan Li, Jiale Xu, Wenbo Hu, Yating Liu, Lingen Li, Jing Cai, Yuexian Zou, Yancheng He, Ying Shan
ICLR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]GenCompositor: Generative Video Compositing with Diffusion Transformer
Shuzhou Yang, Xiaoyu Li#, Xiaodong Cun, Guangzhi Wang, Lingen Li, Ying Shan, Jian Zhang
ICLR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Dou, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
ICLR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]CubeComposer: Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive 4K 360° Video Generation from Perspective Video
Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Zhaoyang Zhang, Qi Dou, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
CVPR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]VerseCrafter: Dynamic Realistic Video World Model with 4D Geometric Control
Sixiao Zheng, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoyu Li, Ying Shan, Yanwei Fu
CVPR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]
2025:
UV Gaussians: Joint Learning of Mesh Deformation and Gaussian Textures for Human Avatar Modeling
Yujiao Jiang, Qingmin Liao, Xiaoyu Li#, Li Ma, Qi Zhang, Chaopeng Zhang, Zongqing Lu, Ying Shan
Knowledge-Based Systems. [Page] [Paper]MagicMan: Generative Novel View Synthesis of Humans with 3D-Aware Diffusion and Iterative Refinement
Xu He, Xiaoyu Li, Di Kang, Jiangnan Ye, Chaopeng Zhang, Liyang Chen, Xiangjun Gao, Han Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Haolin Zhuang
AAAI 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]ViewCrafter: Taming Video Diffusion Models for High-fidelity Novel View Synthesis
Wangbo Yu, Jinbo Xing, Li Yuan, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoyu Li, Zhipeng Huang, Xiangjun Gao, Tien-Tsin Wong, Ying Shan, Yonghong Tian
PAMI. [Page] [Paper] [Code]BlobCtrl: Taming Controllable Blob for Element-level Image Editing
Yaowei Li, Lingen Li, Zhaoyang Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Guangzhi Wang, Hongxiang Li, Xiaodong Cun, Ying Shan, Yuexian Zou
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]HumanRef-GS: Image-to-3D Human Generation With Reference-Guided Diffusion and 3D Gaussian Splatting
Jingbo Zhang, Xiaoyu Li#, Hongliang Zhong, Qi Zhang, Yanpei Cao, Ying Shan, Jing Liao
TCSVT. [Paper]GeometryCrafter: Consistent Geometry Estimation for Open-world Videos with Diffusion Priors
Tian-Xing Xu, Xiangjun Gao, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoyu Li, Song-Hai Zhang, Ying Shan
ICCV 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos
Wenbo Hu, Xiangjun Gao, Xiaoyu Li#, Sijie Zhao, Xiaodong Cun, Yong Zhang, Long Quan, Ying Shan
CVPR 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]DiTCtrl: Exploring Attention Control in Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Tuning-Free Multi-Prompt Longer Video Generation
Minghong Cai, Xiaodong Cun, Xiaoyu Li#, Wenze Liu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yong Zhang, Ying Shan, Xiangyu Yue
CVPR 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]Mani-GS: Gaussian Splatting Manipulation with Triangular Mesh
Xiangjun Gao, Xiaoyu Li#, Yiyu Zhuang, Qi Zhang, Wenbo Hu, Chaopeng Zhang, Yao Yao, Ying Shan, Long Quan
CVPR 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]NVComposer: Boosting Generative Novel View Synthesis with Multiple Sparse and Unposed Images
Lingen Li, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yaowei Li, Jiale Xu, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoyu Li, Weihao Cheng, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
CVPR 2025. [Page] [Paper] [Code]
2024:
StereoCrafter: Diffusion-based Generation of Long and High-fidelity Stereoscopic 3D from Monocular Videos
Sijie Zhao, Wenbo Hu, Xiaodong Cun, Yong Zhang, Xiaoyu Li#, Zhe Kong, Xiangjun Gao, Muyao Niu, Ying Shan
Technical Report. [Page] [Paper] [Code]CV-VAE: A Compatible Video VAE for Latent Generative Video Models
Sijie Zhao, Yong Zhang, Xiaodong Cun, Shaoshu Yang, Muyao Niu, Xiaoyu Li, Wenbo Hu, Ying Shan
NeurIPS 2024. [Page] [Paper] [Code]HiFi-123: Towards High-fidelity One Image to 3D Content Generation
Wangbo Yu, Li Yuan, Yan-Pei Cao, Xiangjun Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Wenbo Hu, Long Quan, Ying Shan, Yonghong Tian
ECCV 2024. [Page] [Paper] [Code]Head360: Learning a Parametric 3D Full-Head for Free-View Synthesis in 360°
Yuxiao He, Yiyu Zhuang, Yanwen Wang, Yao Yao, Siyu Zhu, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Zhang, Xun Cao, Hao Zhu
ECCV 2024. [Page] [Paper] [Code]NeAI: A Pre-convoluted Representation for Plug-and-Play Neural Ambient Illumination
Yiyu Zhuang, Qi Zhang, Xuan Wang, Hao Zhu, Ying Feng, Xiaoyu Li, Ying Shan, Xun Cao
AAAI 2024. [Page] [Paper]Text2NeRF: Text-Driven 3D Scene Generation with Neural Radiance Fields
Jingbo Zhang, Xiaoyu Li#, Ziyu Wan, Can Wang, Jing Liao
TVCG. [Paper] [Code]Advances in 3D Generation: A Survey
Xiaoyu Li, Qi Zhang, Di Kang, Weihao Cheng, Yiming Gao, Jingbo Zhang, Zhihao Liang, Jing Liao, Yan-Pei Cao, Ying Shan
Technical Report. [Paper]HumanRef: Single Image to 3D Human Generation via Reference-Guided Diffusion
Jingbo Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Zhang, Yanpei Cao, Ying Shan, Jing Liao
CVPR 2024. [Page] [Paper] [Code]ConTex-Human: Free-View Rendering of Human from a Single Image with Texture-Consistent Synthesis
Xiangjun Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Chaopeng Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yanpei Cao, Ying Shan, Long Quan
CVPR 2024. [Page] [Paper] [Code]
2023:
Anti-Aliased Neural Implicit Surfaces with Encoding Level of Detail
Yiyu Zhuang, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hao Zhu, Yao Yao, Xiaoyu Li, Yan-Pei Cao, Ying Shan, Xun Cao
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. [Page] [Paper]3D Video Loops from Asynchronous Input
Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander
CVPR 2023. [Page] [Paper] [Code]Next3D: Generative Neural Texture Rasterization for 3D-Aware Head Avatars
Jingxiang Sun, Xuan Wang, Lizhen Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Yong Zhang, Hongwen Zhang, Yebin Liu
CVPR 2023. [Page] [Paper] [Code]UV Volumes for Real-time Rendering of Editable Free-view Human Performance
Yue Chen, Xuan Wang, Xingyu Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Yu Guo, Jue Wang, Fei Wang
CVPR 2023. [Page] [Paper] [Code]3D GAN Inversion with Facial Symmetry Prior
Fei Yin, Yong Zhang, Xuan Wang, Tengfei Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Yuan Gong, Yanbo Fan, Xiaodong Cun, Ying Shan, Cengiz Oztireli, Yujiu Yang
CVPR 2023. [Page] [Paper] [Code]Local Implicit Ray Function for Generalizable Radiance Field Representation
Xin Huang, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Xiaoyu Li, Xuan Wang, Qing Wang
CVPR 2023. [Page] [Paper]
2022:
Neural Parameterization for Dynamic Human Head Editing
Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Xuan Wang, Qi Zhang, Jue Wang, Pedro Sander
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 (TOG). [Page] [Paper] [Code]FDNeRF: Few-shot Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields for Face Reconstruction and Expression Editing
Jingbo Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Ziyu Wan, Can Wang, Jing Liao
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. [Page] [Paper] [Code]Deblur-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Images
Li Ma, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao, Qi Zhang, Xuan Wang, Jue Wang, Pedro V. Sander
CVPR 2022. [Page] [Paper] [Code]Hallucinated Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild
Xingyu Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Yue Chen, Ying Feng, Xuan Wang, Jue Wang
CVPR 2022. [Page] [Paper] [Code]FENeRF: Face Editing in Neural Radiance Fields
Jingxiang Sun, Xuan Wang, Yong Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Zhang, Yebin Liu, Jue Wang
CVPR 2022. [Page] [Paper] [Code]
2021 and Before:
Let’s See Clearly: Contaminant Artifact Removal for Moving Cameras
Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander
ICCV 2021. [Paper]Deep Sketch-guided Cartoon Video Inbetweening
Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander
TVCG. [Paper] [Code]Document Rectification and Illumination Correction using a Patch-based CNN
Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Jing Liao, Pedro V. Sander
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 (TOG). [Paper] [Code]Blind Geometric Distortion Correction on Images Through Deep Learning
Xiaoyu Li, Bo Zhang, Pedro V. Sander, Jing Liao
CVPR 2019. [Paper] [Code]