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Xian Liu

33 accepted papers

2026

$PhyWorldBench$: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Physical Realism in Text-to-Video Models

ICLR 2026oral

Video generation models have achieved remarkable progress in creating high-quality, photorealistic content. However, their ability to accurately simulate physical phenomena remains a critical and unresolved challenge. This paper presents $PhyWorldBench$ , a comprehensive benchmark designed to evalua…

Cited by 16SourcecodeScholar
2026

Learning Video Generation for Robotic Manipulation with Collaborative Trajectory Control

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in video diffusion models shows promise for generating robotic decision-making data, with trajectory conditions further enabling fine-grained control. However, existing methods primarily focus on individual object motion and struggle to capture multi-object interaction crucial in com…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

MODUS: Decoder-only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities

ICML 2026poster

Any-to-any modeling aims to flexibly relate arbitrary modalities within a single system, a requirement that arises across multimodal learning and scientific domains such as ecology and astronomy. However, existing any-to-any approaches are typically trained from scratch using encoder–decoder or diff…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

The Quest for Generalizable Motion Generation: Data, Model, and Evaluation

ICLR 2026poster

Despite recent advances in 3D human motion generation (MoGen) on standard benchmarks, existing models still face a fundamental bottleneck in their generalization capability. In contrast, adjacent generative fields, most notably video generation (ViGen), have demonstrated remarkable generalization in…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

UniVerse: Empower Unified Generation with Reasoning and Knowledge

CVPR 2026

Current text-to-image (T2I) generation models often struggle with prompts that require complex reasoning or specialized knowledge, failing to accurately interpret implicit user intent. To bridge this gap, we introduce T2I-Reason, a large-scale dataset designed to empower text-to-image generation in

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

3DTrajMaster: Mastering 3D Trajectory for Multi-Entity Motion in Video Generation

ICLR 2025poster

This paper aims to manipulate multi-entity 3D motions in video generation. Previous methods on controllable video generation primarily leverage 2D control signals to manipulate object motions and have achieved remarkable synthesis results. However, 2D control signals are inherently limited in expres…

2025

Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding

ICLR 2025poster

The current large auto-regressive models can generate high-quality, high-resolution images, but these models require hundreds or even thousands of steps of next-token prediction during inference, resulting in substantial time consumption. In existing studies, Jacobi decoding, an iterative parallel d…

2025

DPoser-X: Diffusion Model as Robust 3D Whole-body Human Pose Prior

ICCV 2025poster

We present DPoser-X, a diffusion-based prior model for 3D whole-body human poses. Building a versatile and robust full-body human pose prior remains challenging due to the inherent complexity of articulated human poses and the scarcity of high-quality whole-body pose datasets. To address these limit…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Current auto-regressive mesh generation methods suffer from issues such as incompleteness, insufficient detail, and poor generalization. In this paper, we propose an Auto-regressive Auto-encoder (ArAE) model capable of generating high-quality 3D meshes with up to 4,000 faces at a spatial resolution…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2025

HMAR: Efficient Hierarchical Masked Auto-Regressive Image Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) shows promise in bridging the speed and quality gap between autoregressive image models and diffusion models. VAR reformulates autoregressive modeling by decomposing an image into successive resolution scales. During inference, an image is generated by predicting…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

High-Quality Joint Image and Video Tokenization with Causal VAE

ICLR 2025poster

Generative modeling has seen significant advancements in image and video synthesis. However, the curse of dimensionality remains a significant obstacle, especially for video generation, given its inherently complex and high-dimensional nature. Many existing works rely on low-dimensional latent space…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

MotionCraft: Crafting Whole-Body Motion with Plug-and-Play Multimodal Controls

AAAI 2025technical

Whole-body multimodal motion generation, controlled by text, speech, or music, has numerous applications including video generation and character animation. However, employing a unified model to process different condition modalities presents two main challenges: motion distribution drifts across di…

2025

Speculative Jacobi-Denoising Decoding for Accelerating Autoregressive Text-to-image Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

As a new paradigm of visual content generation, autoregressive text-to-image models suffer from slow inference due to their sequential token-by-token decoding process, often requiring thousands of model forward passes to generate a single image. To address this inefficiency, we propose Speculative J…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

T2V-CompBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-video Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Text-to-video (T2V) generative models have advanced significantly, yet their ability to compose different objects, attributes, actions, and motions into a video remains unexplored. Previous text-to-video benchmarks also neglect this important ability for evaluation. In this work, we conduct the firs…

2024

BrushNet: A Plug-and-Play Image Inpainting Model with Decomposed Dual-Branch Diffusion

ECCV 2024poster

"Image inpainting, the process of restoring corrupted images, has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models (DMs). Despite these advancements, current DM adaptations for inpainting, which involve modifications to the sampling strategy or the development of inpainting-specific…

2024

E$^2$GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation

ICML 2024poster

One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative adversarial networks (GANs). This approach notably alleviates the st…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

HumanGaussian: Text-Driven 3D Human Generation with Gaussian Splatting

CVPR 2024highlight

Realistic 3D human generation from text prompts is a desirable yet challenging task. Existing methods optimize 3D representations like mesh or neural fields via score distillation sampling (SDS) which suffers from inadequate fine details or excessive training time. In this paper we propose an effici…

Cited by 91SourcePDFScholar
2024

HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion

ICLR 2024poster

Despite significant advances in large-scale text-to-image models, achieving hyper-realistic human image generation remains a desirable yet unsolved task. Existing models like Stable Diffusion and DALL·E 2 tend to generate human images with incoherent parts or unnatural poses. To tackle these challen…

Cited by 51SourcePDFScholar
2024

TC4D: Trajectory-Conditioned Text-to-4D Generation

ECCV 2024poster

"Recent techniques for text-to-4D generation synthesize dynamic 3D scenes using supervision from pre-trained text-to-video models. However, existing representations, such as deformation models or time-dependent neural representations, are limited in the amount of motion they can generate—they cannot…

Cited by 37SourcePDFScholar
2024

TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder Can be Image Quality Controller

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion-based text-to-image generative models e.g. Stable Diffusion have revolutionized the field of content generation enabling significant advancements in areas like image editing and video synthesis. Despite their formidable capabilities these models are not without their limitations. It is sti…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2023

Explicit and Implicit Knowledge Distillation via Unlabeled Data

ICASSP 2023accepted

Data-free knowledge distillation is a challenging model lightweight task for scenarios in which the original dataset is not available. Previous methods require a lot of extra computational costs to update one or more generators and their naive imitate-learning lead to lower distillation efficiency.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

MonoHuman: Animatable Human Neural Field From Monocular Video

CVPR 2023poster

Animating virtual avatars with free-view control is crucial for various applications like virtual reality and digital entertainment. Previous studies have attempted to utilize the representation power of the neural radiance field (NeRF) to reconstruct the human body from monocular videos. Recent wor…

Cited by 94SourcePDFScholar
2023

Semantics Meets Temporal Correspondence: Self-supervised Object-centric Learning in Videos

ICCV 2023poster

Self-supervised methods have shown remarkable progress in learning high-level semantics and low-level temporal correspondence. Building on these results, we take one step further and explore the possibility of integrating these two features to enhance object-centric representations. Our preliminary…

Cited by 19PDFcodeScholar
2023

Taming Diffusion Models for Audio-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation

CVPR 2023poster

Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode collapse and unstable training, thus making it difficult to learn…

2022

Audio-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (e.g., 2D keypoints), directly generating speakers' gestures in the image domain remains unsolved. In this work, we formally define and study this cha…

2022

Learning Hierarchical Cross-Modal Association for Co-Speech Gesture Generation

CVPR 2022poster

Generating speech-consistent body and gesture movements is a long-standing problem in virtual avatar creation. Previous studies often synthesize pose movement in a holistic manner, where poses of all joints are generated simultaneously. Such a straightforward pipeline fails to generate fine-grained…

Cited by 138PDFcodeScholar
2022

Object-Compositional Neural Implicit Surfaces

ECCV 2022poster

"The neural implicit representation has shown its effectiveness in novel view synthesis and high-quality 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, most approaches focus on holistic scene representation yet ignore individual objects inside it, thus limiting potential downstream applications.…

2022

Semantic-Aware Implicit Neural Audio-Driven Video Portrait Generation

ECCV 2022poster

"Animating high-fidelity video portrait with speech audio is crucial for virtual reality and digital entertainment. While most previous studies rely on accurate explicit structural information, recent works explore the implicit scene representation of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) for realistic gene…

2022

Static and Dynamic Concepts for Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning

ECCV 2022poster

"In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for self-supervised video representation learning. Motivated by how humans understand videos, we propose to first learn general visual concepts then attend to discriminative local areas for video understanding. Specifically, we utilize static frame…

2022

Visual Sound Localization in the Wild by Cross-Modal Interference Erasing

AAAI 2022technical

The task of audiovisual sound source localization has been well studied under constrained scenes, where the audio recordings are clean. However, in real world scenarios, audios are usually contaminated by off screen sound and background noise. They will interfere with the procedure of identifying de…

2021

Enhancing Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning via Multi-Level Feature Optimization

ICCV 2021poster

The crux of self-supervised video representation learning is to build general features from unlabeled videos. However, most recent works have mainly focused on high-level semantics and neglected lower-level representations and their temporal relationship which are crucial for general video understan…

Cited by 34PDFcodeScholar
2020

Motion Capture from Internet Videos

ECCV 2020poster

Recent advances in image-based human pose estimation make it possible to capture 3D human motion from a single RGB video. However, the inherent depth ambiguity and self-occlusion in a single view prohibit the recovery of as high-quality motion as multi-view reconstruction. While multi-view videos ar…