I am currently a research associate at MMLab@NTU, S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, supervised by Prof. Xingang Pan. I achieved my M.S. from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and B.E. from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics with Honors Distinction. I am the recipient of BSIG Outstanding Thesis Award (Graduate), Jiangsu Outstanding Thesis Award (Bachelor), and China National Scholarship. I am fortunate to have internships at several leading research institutions, including MicroSoft Research Asia and SenseTime Research. I have extensive experience in studying the NeRF-based motion transfer and diffusion-based human-centered content generation.
My previous research mainly focused on these aspects:- Multi-Modal Face Manipulation: Talking-Head Video Generation, Text-to-Image Face Analysis, and Image-Driven Face Reenactment
- Robust Face Recognition System: De-Identification, Anti-Spoofing, and Deepfake Detection
🔈JOIN US!
I embrace Richard Feynman’s dictum, ‘What I cannot create, I do not understand.’ This aligns with my technical roadmap of using generative AI to perceive, understand, and manipulate the 3D world. I will continue conducting research at the intersection of computer vision and graphics, especially in video and 3D generation, to create the 3D world from 2D pixels and realize immersive human-centered AIGC.
Do not hesitate to drop me an email for any possible collaboration if you are interested in these directions:- Generative Models for 2D (Images/Videos), 3D, and 4D Content
- Neural Rendering (Quality, Diversity, and Efficiency)
- 3D Object, Scene, Human, and Human-Object-Scene Interaction
- Robotics and Embodied Intelligence
🔥 News
- 2024/07: I am awarded the 2024 Outstanding Thesis Award by BSIG!
- 2024/07: One paper is accepted by ACM TOMM.
- 2024/06: I am invited to give a talk about my Master’s thesis (slides).
- 2024/05: I have successfully defended my Master’s thesis.
- 2024/03: One paper is accepted by ICME 2024.
- 2024/01: I am invited by AI TIME to give a talk (in Chinese) about PlaneDict (AAAI 2024).
- 2023/12: One paper is accepted by AAAI 2024.
- 2023/10: I am granted by National Scholarship (Graduate)!
- 2023/07: One paper is accepted by MM 2023.
- 2023/04: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2023 Biometrics Workshop.
- 2023/02: One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2023.
- 2021/10: One paper is accepted by CCBR 2021.
📖 Education
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M.S. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, NLPR Department, CASIA Institute
Sep. 2021 - Jun. 2024
Supervisor: Prof. Wei Wang (Co-Supervised by Prof. Jing Dong and Prof. Bo Peng)
Thesis: Dynamic Facial Editing based on Neural Radiance Fields (BSIG Outstanding Thesis Award)
GPA: 3.82/4.0 (National Scholarship) -
B.E. in Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021
Thesis: Face De-Identification based on Generative Adversarial Networks (Jiangsu Outstanding Thesis Award)
GPA: 4.4/5.0 (Rank: 1/204, Honors Distinction)
💻 Work Experience
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Research Associate, MMLab@NTU, S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University
Aug. 2024 - NOW
Supervised by Prof. Xingang Pan. -
Research Intern, Content Generation Group, SenseTime Research
Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023
Supervised by Xiangyu Fan and Lei Yang. -
Research Intern, Machine Learning Group, MicroSoft Research Asia
Mar. 2022 - Aug. 2022
Supervised by Xu Tan and Jun Ling. -
Research Intern, Identity Verification Group, SenseTime Research
Jun. 2021 - Sep. 2021
Supervised by Chenye Xu and Yichao Wu.
📝 Publications
Learning Dense Correspondence for NeRF-Based Face Reenactment
Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Yushi Lan, Xiangyu Fan, Bo Peng, Lei Yang, Jing Dong
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
Paper Project Code
Exploiting Backdoors of Face Synthesis Detection with Natural Triggers
Xiaoxuan Han, Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Ziwen He, Jing Dong
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, 2024
A Systematical Solution for Face De-Identification
Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Yuehua Cheng, Jing Dong
🎖️ Awards
- BSIG Outstanding Thesis Award. 2024
- National Scholarship (Graduate). 2023
- National Scholarship (Bachelor). 2018
- Provincial Outstanding Graduate. 2021
- Provincial Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award. 2021
- President Scholarship of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 2020
- Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. 2021
- Outstanding Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2022, 2023, 2024
- Scholarship of Aviation Industry Corporation of China. 2019, 2020
- First Class Scholarship for Academic Excellence. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
🕴️ Professional Services
- Publicity Chair for IEEE Beijing Biometrics Council Chapter (2021-2024).
- IEEE Student Member (2021-Now).
- ACM Member (2024-Now).
- Conference Reviewer
- AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025)
- CVPR (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- MM (2024)
- ECCV (2022, 2024)
- ICME (2024)
- IJCB (2022)
- ICASSP (2024)
- Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)