I am a first-year PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Yichao Yan. Piror to that, I received my B.S. in Software Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology in 2024.
My research interests focus on human motion, avatars, and embodied intelligence. I am interested in developing methods for understanding and generating human-centered motions and behaviors, with applications in digital humans, virtual avatars, and embodied agents.
🔥 News
- 2026.03:  🎉🎉 DeMoDiff is accepted by ICME 2026.
- 2026.02:  🎉🎉 POLAR is accepted by CVPR 2026.
đź“ť Publications
* denotes equal contribution.
POLAR: A Portrait OLAT Dataset and Generative Framework for Illumination-Aware Face Modeling
Zhuo Chen*, Chengqun Yang*, Zhuo Su, Zheng Lv, Jingnan Gao, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Yichao Yan
- POLAR is a large-scale and physically calibrated One-Light-at-a-Time (OLAT) dataset containing over 200 subjects captured under 156 lighting directions, multiple views, and diverse expressions.
Spatiotemporally Decoupled Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Human Motion Generation
Chengqun Yang, Liang Xu, Yanping Li, Fulong Liu, Jingnan Gao, Weili Zeng, Yichao Yan
- We propose a unified spatiotemporally decoupled framework named DeMoDiff with spatial-temporal VAE for motion representation and spatial-temporal autoregressive diffusion model for motion generation.
Liang Xu, Chengqun Yang, Zili Lin, Fei Xu, Yifan Liu, Congsheng Xu, Yiyi Zhang, Jie Qin, Xingdong Sheng, Yunhui Liu, Xin Jin, Yichao Yan, Wenjun Zeng, Xiaokang Yang
- We aim to explore a unified first-person framework for modeling and benchmarking human–human, human–object, and human–scene interactions within a vision-language-action framework.
đź“– Educations
- 2026.04 - Now, PhD Student, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
- 2024.09 - 2026.04, Master’s Student, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
- 2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate Student, School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai.