LI Heyuan

I am a Ph.D. student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, working on human-centric 3D computer vision and graphics, advised by Prof. HAN Xiaoguang. Previously, I obtained my M.S. from National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. Robby T. Tan. I received my Bachelor's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

I believe simple is better than complex.

I (try to) practice Slow Science. Slow is faster than fast.

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Research

My research goal is to develop a system that produces and drives high-fidelity 3D avatars in real-time using limited cost for everyone. My current research focus is on the generalizability and robustness of NeRF/3DGS-based head avatars learned from large-scale images.

(* Equal contribution.   Project lead.   Corresponding author.)
ViSA: 3D-Aware Video Shading for Real-Time Upper-Body Avatar Creation
Fan Yang*, Heyuan Li*, Peihao Li, Weihao Yuan, Lingteng Qiu, Chaoyue Song, Cheng Chen, Yisheng He, Shifeng Zhang, Xiaoguang Han, Steven Hoi, Guosheng Lin
Preprint, 2025  
project page / arXiv

Combine robust 3D reconstruction priors with real-time autoregressive video diffusion to generate high-fidelity, dynamic upper-body avatars.

HyPlaneHead: Rethinking Tri-plane-like Representations in Full-Head Image Synthesis
Heyuan Li, Kenkun Liu, Lingteng Qiu, Qi Zuo, Keru Zheng, Zilong Dong, Xiaoguang Han
NeurIPS, 2025  
project page / arXiv / code

Propose a hy-plane representation that combines the strengths of tri-plane and spherical tri-plane methods while overcoming their inherent limitations.

DiffPortrait360: Consistent Portrait Diffusion for 360 View Synthesis
Yuming Gu, Phong Tran, Yujian Zheng, Hongyi Xu, Heyuan Li, Adilbek Karmanov, Hao Li
CVPR, 2025  
project page / arXiv / code

Integrate a custom ControlNet and dual appearance module to generate globally consistent 360-degree head views capable of high-quality free-viewpoint rendering for both realistic and stylized head images.

SphereHead: Stable 3D Full-head Synthesis with Spherical Tri-plane Representation
Heyuan Li, Ce Chen, Tianhao Shi, Yuda Qiu, Sizhe An, Guanying Chen, Xiaoguang Han
ECCV, 2024  (Oral Presentation, top 2.3%)
project page / arXiv / video / code

Achieve 3D full-head synthesis without mirroring-face and multiple-face artifacts via spherical tri-plane representation and view-image consistency loss.

Zero-shot Real Facial Attribute Separation and Transfer at Novel Views
Dingyun Zhang, Heyuan Li, Juyong Zhang
CVM, 2024
paper

A model that enables real-time and zero-shot attribute separation of a given real face, allowing attribute transfer and rendering at novel views without the aid of multi-view information.

DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment
Heyuan Li, Bo Wang, Yu Cheng, Mohan Kankanhalli, Robby T. Tan
CVPR, 2023
project page / arXiv / video / code

Infer 3D face reconstruction in both image space and model space to achieve high robustness and accuracy.

Project
Detailed 3D Face Reconstruction

Reconstruct a detailed 3D face from a single image through self-supervised learning and differentiable rendering-based optimization.

Cloth Simulation via Deep Learning

Use neural networks to represent cloth, external objects, and the environment, and conduct a learning-based cloth simulation.

vehicle_trajectory_forecasting Vehicle Trajectory Forecasting

Trajectory Forecasting with Neural Networks: An Empirical Evaluation and A New Hybrid Model
TITS, 2020

Conduct the most comprehensive evaluation of various models proposed for time series data prediction on vehicle trajectory forecasting task, and propose a hybrid model that combines the merits of MLP and LSTM.

bike_sharing_system Bike Sharing System

Propose the first neural network-based framework integrated with fuzzy clustering for predicting per-station demand and status in bike-sharing systems, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the New York CitiBike dataset.

Undergraduate
Thesis
Gradual Knowledge Distillation

Video-based Human Action Detection.
Undergraduate Degree Thesis, 2020

Gradually distill knowledge from higher-precision model to lower-precision and finally binary model to alleviate the performance deterioration in Quantization.


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