🌇 Hi there👋🏻, I am Yunfei (☁️🪽), a researcher at International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA). I am now leading an effort on talking head generation, face tracking, humuan video generation, human-centric 3DGS and video content generation research. If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at liuyunfei@idea.edu.cn.

I got my Ph.D. degree from Beihang University, advised by Prof. Feng Lu. Previously, I received my BSc degree in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2017.

My research interests include the intersection of machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, and statistical modeling/inference with applications for computer vision, computational photography, low-level vision, human-computer interaction, and AR/MR.

I serve as a reviewer for international conferences and journals, e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeuIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACM MM, TPAMI, IJCV, PR, TVCG, etc..

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🔥 News

• [July, 2025]:  🎉 One TVCG paper is accepted. Project and demos are coming soon.
• [July, 2025]:  🎉 I will serve as a Program Committee for AAAI 2026.
• [June, 2025]:  🎉 Two ICCV papers are accepted. Codes and demos are coming soon.
• [May, 2025]:  🎉 We introcuce GUAVA, a new Upper Body 3D Gaussian Avatar.
• [May, 2025]:  🎉 The code of HRAvatar has been released.
• [March, 2025]:  🎉 The code of TEASER has been released.
• [February, 2025]:  🎉 Our HRAvatar has been accepted to CVPR 2025.

• [Jan, 2025]:  🎉 Our TEASER has been accepted to ICLR 2025.

• [2024]: 5 papers have been accepted by ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, ECCV.

📝 Publications

📩 denotes corresponding author, 📌 denotes co-first author.

ICCV 2025

GUAVA: Generalizable Upper Body 3D Gaussian Avatar

Dongbin Zhang, Yunfei Liu📩, Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Yang Li, Minghan Qin, Yu Li, Haoqian Wang📩

Project | Video

• ⚡️ Reconstructs 3D upper-body Gaussian avatars from single image in 0.1s
• ⏱️ Supports real-time expressive animation and novel view synthesis at 50FPS !

CVPR 2025

HRAvatar: High-Quality and Relightable Gaussian Head Avatar

Dongbin Zhang, Yunfei Liu, Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Kangjie Chen, Minghan Qin, Yu Li, Haoqian Wang

Project | Code

• We propose HRAvatar, a 3D Gaussian Splatting-based method that reconstructs high-fidelity, relightable 3D head avatars from monocular videos by jointly optimizing tracking, deformation, and appearance modeling.
• By leveraging learnable blendshapes, physically-based shading, and end-to-end optimization, HRAvatar significantly improves head quality and realism under novel lighting conditions.

ICLR 2025

TEASER: Token Enhanced Spatial Modeling for Expressions Reconstruction

Yunfei Liu📌, Lei Zhu📌, Lijian Lin, Ye Zhu, Ailing Zhang, Yu Li

Project | Code

• A novel approach that achieves more accurate facial expression reconstruction by predicting a hybrid representation of faces from a single image.
• A multi-scale facial appearance tokenizer and a token-guided neural renderer to generate high-fidelity facial images. The extracted token is interpretable and highly disentangled, enabling various downstream applications.

CVPR 2024

DiffSHEG: A Diffusion-Based Approach for Real-Time Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture Generation

Junming Chen, Yunfei Liu, Jianan Wang, Ailing Zeng, Yu Li, Qifeng Chen

Project

• We propose DiffSHEG, a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture generation with arbitrary length.
• Our diffusion-based co-speech motion generation transformer enables uni-directional information flow from expression to gesture, facilitating improved matching of joint expression-gesture distributions

ICCV 2023

MODA: Mapping-Once Audio-driven Portrait Animation with Dual Attentions

Yunfei Liu, Lijian Lin, Fei Yu, Changyin Zhou, Yu Li

Project

• We propose a unified system for multi-person, diverse, and high-fidelity talking portrait video generation.
• Extensive evaluations demonstrate that the proposed system produces more natural and realistic video portraits compared to previous methods.

TPAMI 2023

First- And Third-person Video Co-analysis By Learning Spatial-temporal Joint Attention

Huangyue Yu, Minjie Cai, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu

Project | IF=17.730

• We propose a multi-branch deep network, which extracts cross-view joint attention and shared representation from static frames with spatial constraints, in a self-supervised and simultaneous manner.
• We demonstrate how the learnt joint information can benefit various applications.

CVPR 2022

GazeOnce: Real-Time Multi-Person Gaze Estimation

Mingfang Zhang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu

Project

• GazeOnce is the first one-stage endto-end gaze estimation method.
• This unified framework not only offers a faster speed, but also provides a lower gaze estimation error compared with other SOTA methods.

ICCV 2021

Generalizing Gaze Estimation with Outlier-guided Collaborative Adaptation

Yunfei Liu📌, Ruicong Liu📌, Haofei Wang, Feng Lu

Project

• PnP-GA is an ensemble of networks that learn collaboratively with the guidance of outliers.
• Existing gaze estimation networks can be directly plugged into PnP-GA and generalize the algorithms to new domains.

CVPR 2020

Unsupervised Learning for Intrinsic Image Decomposition from a Single Image

Yunfei Liu, Yu Li, Shaodi You, Feng Lu

Project

• USI3D is the first intrinsic image decomposition method that learns from uncorrelected image sets.
• Academic Impact: This work is included by many low-level vision projects, such as Relighting4D , IntrinsicHarmony, DIB-R++. Discussions in Zhihu.

ECCV 2020

Reflection Backdoor: A Natural Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks

Yunfei Liu, Xingju Ma, James Bailey, Feng Lu

[Project | (Citations 300+)]

• We present a new type of backdoor attack: natural reflection phenomenon.
• Academic Impact: This work is included by many backdoor attack/defense works, Such as NAD . This work is at the first place at google scholar .

• ICCV 2025 CanonSwap: High-Fidelity and Consistent Video Face Swapping via Canonical Space Modulation, Xiangyang Luo,  Ye Zhu,  Yunfei Liu, Lijian Lin,  Cong Wan,  Zijian Cai, Shao-Lun Huang, Yu Li
• AAAI 2025 AnyTalk: Multi-modal Driven Multi-domain Talking Head Generation, Yu Wang, Yunfei Liu, Fa-Ting Hong, Meng Cao, Lijian Lin, Yu Li
• ECCV 2024 AddMe: Zero-shot Group-photo Synthesis by Inserting People into Scenes, Dongxu Yue, Maomao Li, Yunfei Liu, Ailing Zeng, Tianyu Yang, Qin Guo, Yu Li
• CVPR 2024 A Video is Worth 256 Bases: Spatial-Temporal Expectation-Maximization Inversion for Zero-Shot Video Editing, Maomao Li, Yu Li, Tianyu Yang, Yunfei Liu, Dongxu Yue, Zhihui Lin, Dong Xu
• ICLR 2024 GPAvatar: Generalizable and Precise Head Avatar from Image(s), Xuangeng Chu, Yu Li, Ailing Zeng, Tianyu Yang, Lijian Lin, Yunfei Liu, Tatsuya Harada
• PRCV 2024 Visibility Enhancement for Low-light Hazy Scenarios, Chaoqun Zhuang, Yunfei Liu, Sijia Wen, Feng Lu.
• ICCV 2023 Accurate 3D Face Reconstruction with Facial Component Tokens, Tianke Zhang, Xuangeng Chu, Yunfei Liu, Lijian Lin, Zhendong Yang, et al..
• CVMJ 2023 Discriminative feature encoding for intrinsic image decomposition, Zhongji Wang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu.
• CVPR 2022 Generalizing Gaze Estimation with Rotation Consistency, Yiwei Bao, Yunfei Liu, Haofei Wang, Feng Lu.
• IEEE-VR 2022 Reconstructing 3D Virtual Face with Eye Gaze from a Single Image, Jiadong Liang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu. [Oral]
• TOMM 2022 Semantic Guided Single Image Reflection Removal, Yunfei Liu, Yu Li, Shaodi You, Feng Lu, GitHub.
• arXiv 2022 Jitter Does Matter: Adapting Gaze Estimation to New Domains, Mingjie Xu, Haofei Wang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu.
• ISAMR 2021 3D Photography with One-shot Portrait Relighting, Yunfei Liu, Sijia Wen, Feng Lu.
• ISAMR 2021 Edge-Guided Near-Eye Image Analysis for Head Mounted Displays, Zhimin Wang*, Yuxin Zhao*, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu. [Oral] GitHub, Demo video
• BMVC 2021 Separating Content and Style for Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation, Yunfei Liu, Haofei Wang, Yang Yue, Feng Lu. GitHub.
• arXiv 2021 Unsupervised Two-Stage Anomaly Detection, Yunfei Liu, Chaoqun Zhuang, Feng Lu, GitHub.
• arXiv 2021 Cloud Sphere: A 3D Shape Representation via Progressive Deformation, Zongji Wang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu.
• arXiv 2021 Vulnerability of Appearance-based Gaze Estimation, Mingjie Xu, Haofei Wang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu.
• AAAI 2020 Separate In Latent Space: Unsupervised Single Image Layer Separation, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu. GitHub [Oral]
• ICPR 2020 Adaptive Feature Fusion Network for Gaze Tracking in Mobile Tablets, Yiwei Bao, Yihua Cheng, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu. GitHub.
• ACM-MM 2019 What I See Is What You See: Joint Attention Learning for First and Third Person Video Co-analysis, Huangyue Yu, Minjie Cai, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award, 2023

• Shenzhen Pengcheng special talent award, 2023

ICCV 2019 Workshop

Winner of Hyperspectral City Challenge 1.0, Rank: 1.

Yunfei Liu

Project

• Adopt adopts multi-channel multi-spectum data to guide semantic segmentation for cityscapes.

CADC 2015

Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) track. First prize

Yunfei Liu, Changjing Wang, Chao Ma, Haonan Zheng, Yongzhen Pan.

Project

• China Aeromodelling Design Challenge. Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) track. First prize, Rank: 6/70.

• 2021.10 National Scholarship.
• 2021.11 Principal scholarship.

📖 Educations

• 2017.09 - 2022.11, Beihang University, School of Computer Science and Engineering, State Key Labratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems.
• 2013.08 - 2017.06, Beijing Insitute of Technology, School of Computer Science and Technology.

💬 Invited Talks

• 2021.06, Visual intelligence for enhanced perception, Huawei internal talk
• 2021.06, Digital Image Processing, Beihang international class
• 2020.06, Deep learning interpretability, Meituan internal talk

💻 Internships

• 2022.03 - 2022.10, IDEA, Vistring Lab, Shenzhen, China.
• 2016.07 - 2017.05, DJI, Visual Perception Group, Shenzhen, China.