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

  • 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

  • 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

AAAI 2024
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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
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ACM MM 2023
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Under Review 2024
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Beyond Inserting: Learning Identity Embedding for Semantic-Fidelity Personalized Diffusion Generation

Yang Li*, Songlin Yang*, Wei Wang, Jing Dong
(* Equal Contribution)

Paper Project

Under Review 2024
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Probing Unlearned Diffusion Models: A Transferable Adversarial Attack Perspective

Xiaoxuan Han, Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Yang Li, Jing Dong

Paper Project Survey Code

ACM TOMM 2024
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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

Paper

ICME 2024
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Counterfactual Explanations for Face Forgery Detection via Adversarial Removal of Artifacts

Yang Li*, Songlin Yang*, Wei Wang, Ziwen He, Bo Peng, Jing Dong
(* Equal Contribution)

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2024
Oral Presentation
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ICASSP 2023
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Designing a 3D-Aware StyleNeRF Encoder for Face Editing

Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Bo Peng, Jing Dong

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2023

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CVPR-W 2023
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Exposing Fine-Grained Adversarial Vulnerability of Face Anti-Spoofing Models

Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Chenye Xu, Ziwen He, Bo Peng, Jing Dong

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop, 2023
Long Oral Presentation
Paper

CCBR 2021
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A Systematical Solution for Face De-Identification

Songlin Yang, Wei Wang, Yuehua Cheng, Jing Dong

Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, 2021

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🎖️ 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)