Yukang (Raikkonen) Cao 操雨康
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I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, working with Prof. Ziwei Liu . Prior to this, I obtained my Ph.D degree in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) advised by Prof. Kwan-Yee K. Wong, and received my B.Eng from Zhejiang University in 2020 (Rank: 3/66). I am lucky to work closely with Prof. Kai Han, Dr. Yan-Pei Cao, and Dr. Liang Pan.
My research interests are in computer vision and machine learning. Specifically, learning-based methods
for 3D human reconstruction, neural rendering, 3D human generation, 2D image generation, etc.
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"Generated by AI"
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Please feel free to contact me via Email if you want to discuss or try ideas in 3D generation / editing / animation; or just say hi.
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News
2024-09: We release ArtiFade for generating high-quality subject from blemished images.
2024-08: Starting my new journey in NTU, working with Prof. Ziwei!
2024-06: We post a survey on 3D human avatar modeling.
2024-04: I successfully defended my PhD!
2024-02: DreamAvatar is finally accepted by CVPR 2024.
2023-09: HeadSculpt is accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
2023-08: Guide3D is released for transferring multi-view generated images to 3D avatars. Hope this will inspire a little bit.
2023-06: HeadSculpt is released for 3D editable head generation from text.
2023-04: DreamAvatar is released for 3D controllable avatar generation from text.
2023-03: MA-NeRF for audio-driven face synthesis is accepted by ICME 2023.
2023-02: SeSDF for 3D human reconstruction from uncalibrated image(s) is accepted by CVPR 2023.
2022-03: JIFF for 3D human reconstruction from single image is accepted by CVPR 2022.
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Previous Experiences
- March, 2024 - Jun, 2024: Research intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory working with Dr. Liang Pan and Prof. Ziwei Liu .
- Dec, 2022 - Jun, 2023: Research intern at Tecent PCG, ARC Lab working with Dr. Yan-Pei Cao.
- July, 2019 - Nov, 2019: Research student at the University of Texas, Austin working with Dr. Chandrajit Bajaj.
- Sep, 2019 - Dec, 2019: Research student at Peking University working with Dr. Dehua Xiong.
- July, 2018 - Oct, 2018: Research student at Tsinghua University working with Dr. Zuoqiang Shi.
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Publications
(*Equal contribution, #Corresponding author)
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ArtiFade: Learning to Generate High-quality Subject from Blemished Images.
Shuya Yang*, Shaozhe Hao*, Yukang Cao#, Kwan-Yee K. Wong#
Preprint, 2024
[arxiv]
[BibTeX]
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A Survey on 3D Human Avatar Modeling -- From Reconstruction to Generation.
Ruihe Wang*, Yukang Cao*#, Kai Han, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
Preprint, 2024
[arxiv]
[BibTeX]
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Guide3D: Create 3D Avatars from Text and Image Guidance.
Yukang Cao, Yan-Pei Cao, Kai Han#, Ying Shan, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
Preprint, 2023
[arxiv]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
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HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
Xiao Han*, Yukang Cao*, Kai Han, Xiatian Zhu, Jiankang Deng, Yi-Zhe Song, Tao Xiang#, Kwan-Yee K. Wong#
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023,
[Project Website]
[arxiv]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
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DreamAvatar: Text-and-Shape Guided 3D Human Avatar Generation via Diffusion Models.
Yukang Cao*, Yan-Pei Cao*, Kai Han#, Ying Shan, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024,
[Project Website]
[arxiv]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
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MA-NeRF: Motion-Assisted Neural Radiance Fields for Face Synthesis from Sparse Images.
Weichen Zhang*, Xiang Zhou*, Yukang Cao, Wensen Feng, Chun Yuan
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2023,
[arxiv]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
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SeSDF: Self-evolved Signed Distance Field for Implicit 3D Clothed Human Reconstruction.
Yukang Cao, Kai Han, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023,
[Project Website]
[arxiv]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
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JIFF:
Jointly-aligned Implicit Face Function for High Quality Single View Clothed
and Human Reconstruction.
Yukang Cao, Guanying Chen, Kai Han, Wenqi Yang, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022,
Oral Presentation
[Project Website]
[arxiv]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
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Teaching Experiences
- [2022-2023 Fall] COMP 3270 Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Assistance (HKU)
- [2021-2022 Fall] COMP 2396 Object-Oriented Programming and Java, Teaching Assistance (HKU)
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Awards
- HKU Presidential Scholarship (HKU-PS, Highest Distinction in Hong Kong) (2020-2024)
- M. Braun Postgraduate Prize (2023)
- The Arthur and Louise May Memorial Fund Scholarship (2022, 2023, 2024)
- HK China Gas Co Ltd Postgraduate Prize (2022)
- Y S and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship (2021)
- China Harbor second-class scholarship (2017-2018)
- Honorable Mention in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2018)
- Zhejiang University Outstanding Second Class Scholarship (2016-2018)
- Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship (Top Distinction in Zhejiang Province) (2016-2017)
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Professional Activities
Conference Reviewer:
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 -
- Conference on International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 -
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 -
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023 -
- Pacific Graphics, 2023 -
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024 -
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024 -
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024 -
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024 -
- Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2024 -
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Talks
- Dec, 2023 at NTU MMLab: "3D Human Modelling from Image and Text Guidance"
- July, 2023 at GAP Lab CUHK‑Shenzhen: “Avatar‑X: Text Guided Controllable and Editable 3D Human Avatar Generation via Diffusion Models“
- Aug, 2023 at 智东西: "Avatar‑X: Text Guided Controllable and Editable 3D Human Avatar Generation via Diffusion Models"
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Daily Interest
- Iracing worldwide Top 8% sim racer.
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Collaborating Specialists and Friends
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