I am a Staff Researcher at Tencent (青云计划 ‘Project Up’ Talent Programme), where I serve as Research Lead for World Models, Agentic AI, and AIGC for Games. I am also Adjunct Faculty at
National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
I received my Ph.D. from NUS ECE, supervised by Prof. Robby T. Tan, and previously interned at
Adobe Research, mentored by Prof. Connelly Barnes and Prof. Eli Shechtman. I hold an M.Sc. from NUS ECE and a B.Eng. from
UESTC.
I have published papers at top international venues including SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and ACL, with
. I have organized 6 workshops and 2 NTIRE challenges at CVPR, ECCV and AAAI, and given 30 invited talks, 9 of them at CVPR, ICCV, ICLR and AAAI. 📢 I’m hiring self-motivated interns.
Research
- Game World Models: Persistent State, Mechanics Consistency, and Controllable Agents
- Agentic AI: Coding Agents, Agentic VLMs, and Video Generation
- AIGC for Games
- Multimodal Learning & VLMs
Projects
arXiv 2026 | ActionRoPE: Action as Coordinates for Spatially Consistent Control in Planar-Camera Game World Models Zhiyang Deng, Yuzhe Wu, Zijun Lin, Yeying Jin†‡ Encodes actions as world-coordinate rotary positions: 66% less revisit drift than the best baseline, across 1.3B–33B backbones. |
arXiv 2026 | GameDirector: Decoupling Gameplay Logic from Rendering for Player-Configurable Game World Models Zijun Lin, Zhiyang Deng, Yuzhe Wu, Bihan Wen, Yeying Jin†‡ An agent runs game rules, states and NPC tactics; a video world model renders them, raising boss action quality by 39.9%+. |
arXiv 2026 | H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control Danze Chen*, Zeqing Wang*, Ziyue Lin, Xingyi Yang†, Yeying Jin†‡ Turns a video generator's own language understanding into grounded character and camera control, at 0.199% params. |
arXiv 2026 | WorldMind: Decoupled Game World Model for State-Aware NPC Behavior Zhiyang Deng, Boran Zhang, Danze Chen, Yeying Jin†‡ The first decoupled game world model, closing the loop from understanding to generation; preferred in ~70% of comparisons. |
arXiv 2026 | StatePlay: State-Aware Game World Models for Mechanics-Consistent Generation Zijun Lin, Zeqing Wang, Cheston Tan, Bihan Wen, Yeying Jin†‡ Jointly generates frames and internal game states (health, meters, timers), improving mechanics fidelity by 18.6%. |
arXiv 2026 | ReactiveGWM: Flexible Control and NPC Reactivity in Game World Models Zeqing Wang, Danze Chen, Zhaohu Xing, Zizhao Tong, Yinhan Zhang, Xingyi Yang†, Yeying Jin†‡ NPCs follow high-level strategies (Offense / Defense / Control), transferring zero-shot to unseen games. |
arXiv 2026 | SCOPE: Simulating Cross-game Operations in Playable Environments for FPS World Models Zizhao Tong, Yeying Jin†‡, Hongfeng Lai, Zeqing Wang, Zhaohu Xing, Kexu Cheng, Haoran Xu, Zhao Pu, Shangwen Zhu, Ruili Feng, Jian Zhao, Yan Zhang, Hao Tang, Ling Shao† An interactive FPS world model trained on CrossFPS, the first multi-game FPS dataset: 69K clips, 7 titles, 10-DoF controls. |
arXiv 2026 | Incantation: Natural Language as the Action Interface for Multi-Entity Video World Models Shangwen Zhu, Qianyu Peng, Zhao Pu, Zhilei Shu, Xiangrui Ke, Zhaohu Xing, Zizhao Tong, Zeqing Wang, Xinyu Cui, Huangji Wang, Jian Zhao, Yeying Jin‡, Fan Cheng†, Ruili Feng† A natural-language action interface for multi-entity control: 89% cross-entity transfer success vs. 43% for action-ID baselines. |
![]() | Honor of Kings — AI Portrait, Detective & Esports Posters HOK Flowborn Dimensional Editor • 2025.06–Present 22.5K players · 2.1M posters generated |
![]() | Honor of Kings (HOK) AIUGC Online Hero Generation HOK Creator Studio • 2024.12–Present 58K Generated AI Images · 22% Save Rate |
![]() | Honor of Kings (HOK) AIPGC Avatars/Stickers HOK Avatar Center • 2024.07–2024.11 12× Launch · 98 Heroes · 2 Styles · 2 Halloween Topics |
Publications
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 | Yixin Yang*, Yeying Jin*, Jiawei Zhang, Long Sun, Xu Cheng‡, Jinshan Pan† SIGGRAPH Asia, 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia paper | Warps the reference character's own latents along the skeleton instead of sparse-to-dense pose alignment; best FVD on TikTok. |
ACM MM 2026 | Wei Zhang, Xin Li, Peishu Shi, Jialin Gao, Xuekang Peng, Zhichao Lian†, Yeying Jin†‡ ACM MM, 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil arXiv | Project Page Mask-free video try-on learned from image-level pseudo data; released with the OmniView dataset. |
arXiv 2026 | Yingrui Wang*, Zeqing Wang*, Yeying Jin†‡ arXiv preprint, 2026 arXiv | Tracks story state across shots so each event carries forward, keeping long multi-shot videos causally coherent and consistent. |
arXiv 2026 ![]() ![]() | arXiv preprint, 2026 arXiv | |
arXiv 2026 | Meng Luo, Yanlin Li, Hao Li, Hongzhan Lin, Pengfei Zhou, Tianjie Ju, Ran Zhang, Yeying Jin, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu arXiv preprint, 2026 arXiv | Organizes AI across the whole game lifecycle into six roles — playing, modeling, designing, building, runtime adaptation and evaluation — and maps how outputs transfer between them. |
ECCV 2026 | Yinhan Zhang*, Dingwei Tan*, Xianghao Kong, Yue Ma‡, Yeying Jin†, Anyi Rao† ECCV, 2026, Malmö, Sweden arXiv | |
ICML 2026 | Haoyu Zhao, Jiaxi Gu, Haoran Chen, Qingping Zheng, Yeying Jin, Hongyi Yang, Junqi Cheng, Yuang Zhang, Zenghui Lu, Huan Yu, Jie Jiang, Peng Shu, Zuxuan Wu†, Yu-Gang Jiang† ICML, 2026, Seoul, South Korea arXiv | |
ACM MM 2026 | Haoyu Zhao, Zihao Zhang, Jiaxi Gu, Haoran Chen, Qingping Zheng, Pin Tang, Yeying Jin, Yuang Zhang, Junqi Cheng, Zenghui Lu, Peng Shu, Zuxuan Wu†, Yu-Gang Jiang† ACM MM, 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil arXiv | |
arXiv 2026 ![]() ![]() | Yinhan Zhang*, Yue Ma*, Bingyuan Wang, Kunyu Feng, Yeying Jin‡, Qifeng Chen, Anyi Rao, Zeyu Wang† arXiv preprint, 2026 arXiv | |
ICML 2026 ![]() ![]() | Nanxiang Jiang, Zhaoxin Fan†, Baisen Wang, Daiheng Gao, Junhang Cheng, Jifeng Guo, Yalan Qin, Yeying Jin‡, Hongwei Zheng, Faguo Wu†, Wenjun Wu ICML, 2026, Seoul, South Korea arXiv | |
CVPR Findings 2026 ![]() ![]() | Nanxiang Jiang, Zhaoxin Fan†, Enhan Kang, Daiheng Gao, Yun Zhou, Yanxia Chang, Zheng Zhu, Yeying Jin, Wenjun Wu CVPR Findings, 2026, Denver, USA arXiv | |
CVPR Findings 2026 ![]() ![]() | Xiaoran Sun*, Liyan Wang*, Yeying Jin‡, Kin-man Lam, Zhixun Su†, Yang Yang, Jinshan Pan, Cong Wang‡ CVPR Findings, 2026, Denver, USA arXiv | |
ECCV 2026 | Chenghao Qian, Nedko Savov, Lingdong Kong, Yeying Jin, Rui Song, Wenjing Li, Zhun Zhong, Jiaqi Ma, Gustav Markkula, Luc Van Gool ECCV, 2026, Malmö, Sweden arXiv | |
AAAI 2026 ![]() ![]() | Wei Zhang*, Yeying Jin*, Xin Li, Yan Zhang, Xiaofeng Cong, Cong Wang, Fengcai Qiao, Zhichao Lian† AAAI, 2026, Singapore arXiv | |
TCSVT 2025 ![]() ![]() | Siyuan Wang*, Jiawei Liu*, Wei Wang†, Yeying Jin, Jinsong Du, Zhi Han IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2025 arXiv | |
ICLR 2026 ![]() ![]() | Sixiang Chen*, Jianyu Lai*, Jialin Gao*, Tian Ye, Haoyu Chen, Hengyu Shi, Shitong Shao, Yunlong Lin, Song Fei, Zhaohu Xing, Yeying Jin, Junfeng Luo, Xiaoming Wei, Lei Zhu† ICLR, 2026, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil arXiv | |
PR 2025 ![]() | Zhiying Li*, Yeying Jin*, Fan Shen, Zhi Liu, Weibin Chen, Pengju Zhang, Xiaomei Zhang, Boyu Chen, Michael Shen, Kejian Wu, Zhaoxin Fan†, Jin Dong† Pattern Recognition (PR), 2025 arXiv | bibtex | link |
CVPR 2026 ![]() ![]() | Yinghao Chen, Yeying Jin†‡, Xiang Chen, Yanyan Wei†, Ziyang Yan, Yaowen Fu CVPR, 2026, Denver, USA arXiv |
ICCV 2025 ![]() ![]() | Sixiang Chen, Tian Ye, Yunlong Lin, Yeying Jin, Yijun Yang, Haoyu Chen, Jianyu Lai, Song Fei, Zhaohu Xing, Fugee Tsung, Lei Zhu† ICCV, 2025, Honolulu, USA paper | bibtex |
ACM MM 2025 ![]() ![]() | Qirui Yang*, Fangpu Zhang*, Yeying Jin, Qihua Cheng, Pengtao Jiang, Huanjing Yue†, Jingyu Yang† ACM MM, 2025, Dublin, Ireland arXiv | |
CVPR 2025 ![]() ![]() | Yunlong Lin*, Zixu Lin*, Haoyu Chen*, Panwang Pan*, Chenxin Li, Sixiang Chen, Yeying Jin, Wenbo Li†, Xinghao Ding† CVPR, 2025, Nashville, USA arXiv | |
CVPRW 2026 ![]() ![]() | Chenghao Qian, Xin Li, Yeying Jin†, Shangquan Sun, Yilian Zhong, et al. (Organizer & Corresponding Author) CVPR Workshops (CVPRW), 2026, Denver, USA arXiv |
CVPRW 2026 ![]() ![]() | Xin Li, Yeying Jin†, Suhang Yao, et al. (Organizer & Corresponding Author) CVPR Workshops (CVPRW), 2026, Denver, USA arXiv | |
CVPRW 2025 ![]() ![]() | Xin Li, Yeying Jin†, Xin Jin, et al. (Organizer & Corresponding Author) CVPR Workshops (CVPRW), 2025, Nashville, USA arXiv | |
ECCV 2024 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin, Xin Li, Jiadong Wang, Yan Zhang, Malu Zhang ECCV, 2024, Milan, Italy arXiv | |
ACL 2025 ![]() ![]() | Songtao Jiang, Yan Zhang, Yeying Jin, Zhihang Tang, Yangyang Wu, Yang Feng, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu† ACL, 2025, Vienna, Austria arXiv | bibtex |
ACL 2025 ![]() ![]() | Songtao Jiang*, Chenyi Zhou*, Yan Zhang, Yeying Jin, Zuozhu Liu† ACL, 2025, Vienna, Austria arXiv | bibtex |
IJCAI 2025 ![]() ![]() | Songtao Jiang, Yan Zhang, Ruizhe Chen, Tianxiang Hu, Yeying Jin, Qinglin He, Yang Feng, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu† IJCAI, 2025, Montreal, Canada arXiv | bibtex |
ADHIP 2024 ![]() ![]() | Songtao Jiang*, Yan Zhang*, Chenyi Zhou, Yeying Jin, Yang Feng, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu† ADHIP, 2024, Jiaxing, China, Best Paper Award arXiv | |
EMNLP Findings 2024 ![]() ![]() | Songtao Jiang*, Tuo Zheng*, Yan Zhang, Yeying Jin, Li Yuan, Zuozhu Liu† EMNLP Findings, 2024, Miami, USA arXiv | |
ECCV 2024 ![]() ![]() | Tingting Chen*, Beibei Lin*, Yeying Jin*, Wending Yan, Wei Ye, Yuan Yuan, Robby T. Tan ECCV, 2024, Milan, Italy paper | bibtex |
ECCV 2024 ![]() ![]() | Xin Li*, Bingchen Li*, Yeying Jin, Cuiling Lan, Hanxin Zhu, Yulin Ren, Zhibo Chen† ECCV, 2024, Milan, Italy arXiv | |
AAAI 2025 ![]() ![]() | Beibei Lin*, Yeying Jin*, Wending Yan, Wei Ye, Yuan Yuan, Robby T. Tan AAAI, 2025, Philadelphia, USA arXiv | |
CVPR 2024 ![]() ![]() | Bingchen Li*, Xin Li*, Hanxin Zhu, Yeying Jin, Ruoyu Feng, Zhizheng Zhang, Zhibo Chen† CVPR, 2024, Seattle, USA arXiv | |
AAAI 2024 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin, Wei Ye, Wenhan Yang, Yuan Yuan, Robby T. Tan AAAI, 2024, Vancouver, Canada arXiv | The first diffusion-based shadow removal method, robust to hard, soft and self shadows. |
AAAI 2024 ![]() ![]() | Beibei Lin*, Yeying Jin*, Wending Yan, Wei Ye, Yuan Yuan, Shunli Zhang, Robby T. Tan AAAI, 2024, Vancouver, Canada arXiv | bibtex | poster |
ECCV 2022 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin, Wenhan Yang, Robby T. Tan ECCV, 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel arXiv | Unsupervised night image enhancement that boosts low-light regions while suppressing glare and glow. |
ICCV 2021 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin, Aashish Sharma, Robby T. Tan ICCV, 2021, Montreal, Canada arXiv | The first unsupervised method to remove both hard and soft shadows from a single image. |
ACM MM 2023 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin*, Beibei Lin*, Wending Yan, Yuan Yuan, Wei Ye, Robby T. Tan ACM MM, 2023, Ottawa, Canada arXiv | The first learning-based method to remove nighttime haze and glow jointly, guided by the APSF. |
AAAI 2023 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin, Ruoteng Li, Wenhan Yang, Robby T. Tan AAAI, 2023, Washington, DC, USA arXiv | The first single-image reflectance estimation that stays robust under shadows and specular highlights. |
ACCV 2022 ![]() ![]() | Yeying Jin, Wending Yan, Wenhan Yang, Robby T. Tan ACCV, 2022, Macao, China arXiv | Removes dense, non-uniform fog using structure representation and uncertainty feedback learning. |
Organizer
6 workshops and 2 NTIRE challenges at CVPR, ECCV and AAAI.
| Workshop | Title | Date & Venue |
|---|---|---|
| ECCV 2026 LoViF Workshop | The 2nd Workshop on Low‑Level Vision Frontiers (Generative AI, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Systems) | 09.2026 Malmö, Sweden |
| CVPR 2026 LoViF Workshop | The 1st Workshop on Low‑Level Vision Frontiers (Generative AI, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Systems) | 06.04.2026 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 AGENTIC Workshop | Workshop on Agentic AI for Visual Media | 06.03.2026 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 URVIS Workshop | Unified Robotic Vision with Cross-Modal Sensing and Alignment | 06.04.2026 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 AIGENS Workshop | The 3rd Workshop on AI for Content Generation, Quality Enhancement and Streaming | 06.03.2026 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 NTIRE Challenge | The 2nd Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images | 06.04.2026 Denver, USA |
| AAAI 2026 Workshop | The Application of Generative AI and Intelligent Agents in Low-level Vision | 01.2026 Singapore |
| CVPR 2025 NTIRE Challenge | The 1st Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images | 06.2025 Nashville, USA |
Invited Talks
9 talks at CVPR, ICCV, ICLR and AAAI, among 30 invited talks in total.
| Host | Topic | Date & Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ||
| NUS CEG5304 Deep Learning Guest Lecture invited by Yuecong Xu | World Model and Agentic Video Generation | Nov Singapore |
| NTU PhD Course: Deep Learning for Data Science, Guest Lecture invited by Ziwei Liu | Game World Model | Oct 15 Singapore |
| NUS ECE SAMI Seminar invited by Yuecong Xu | Game World Model and Coding Agents | Oct 14 Singapore |
| Runway invited by Robin Kahlow | Game World Model | Jun 26 Singapore |
| CVPR 机器之心 | Invited Talk (w/ Ziwei Liu NTU, Mike Zheng Shou NUS, Ruoshi Liu UMD) | Jun 6 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 URVIS invited by Zongwei Wu | World Model | Jun 4 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 AGENTIC invited by Jinjin Gu | Game World Model | Jun 3 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 AIGENS invited by Marcos V. Conde | Game World Model for Video Generation | Jun 3 Denver, USA |
| CVPR 2026 NTIRE invited by Zongwei Wu | Game World Model | Jun 3 Denver, USA |
| From Video Generation to World Model | May 22 Singapore | |
| Singapore Vision Day invited by Gim Hee Lee | Game World Model World Model Panel Discussion (w/ Qi Wu U Adelaide, Angela Dai TUM, Xingang Pan NTU) | May 16 Singapore |
| From AIGC to World Model | Apr 25 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| NUS EE6934 Emerging Topics in AI and Deep Learning Guest Lecture invited by Xinchao Wang | From AIGC to World Model | Mar 17 Singapore |
| AAAI invited by Xin Li | From Creation to Perception: Generative AI for Content Generation | Jan Singapore |
| Low-level Community invited by Xiang Chen | AIGC-Powered Game Marketing: From Generation to Deployment | Jan Singapore |
| 2025 | ||
| Exploring Sora: Unlocking the Core of AI Video Creation [Video] | Nov Singapore | |
| ICCV AIGENS invited by Marcos V. Conde | From Creation to Perception: Generative AI for Content Generation | Oct Honolulu, USA |
| AI Video Gen | When Wukong meets Yayoi Kusama | May Singapore | |
| ICLR invited by Kevin Qinghong Lin | AI × Gaming: Creative Applications of AIGC [Video] | Apr Singapore |
| AI Generation: Inspiring Game Marketing and Development | Feb Singapore | |
| 2024 | ||
| Raindrop Clarity: Dual-Focused, Day and Night | Sep | |
| Shadow Removal using Diffusion Model | Jan | |
| 2023 | ||
| Applications of Generative AI | Nov Singapore | |
| Visibility Enhancement using Generative Model | Jul | |
invited by Eric Kee | NextCam Reading Group: Light-effects Suppression | Jul USA |
| Image/Video Restoration and Generation | Mar | |
| Intrinsic Image Decomposition | Feb | |
invited by Hanshu Yan | Diffusion Model in Image Processing | Jan |
| 2022 | ||
| Visibility Enhancement in Nighttime | Dec Singapore | |
| Unsupervised Image Restoration and Generation | Nov | |
| Presented at | Date & Venue |
|---|---|
| 05.2024, Chongqing, China | |
| 05.2023, Singapore | |
| 01.2023, Singapore |
Blogs
Education
- 01.2020-01.2024: Ph.D. (AI and Deep Learning),
NUS, Singapore (CAP: 4.75/5.00) - 08.2017-08.2018: M.Sc. (Electrical and Computer Engineering),
NUS, Singapore - 09.2013-07.2017: B.Eng. (Electronic Information Engineering),
UESTC, China (GPA: 3.93/4.00)
Work and Internship Experience
- 11.2023-Present: Staff Researcher and Research Lead for World Models, Agentic AI, and AIGC at
IEG Global, Singapore. - 06.2023-09.2023:
Adobe Research Intern, Creative Intelligence Lab, mentored by Prof. Connelly Barnes, Prof. Eli Shechtman, worked with Yuqian Zhou, Lingzhi Zhang, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Eric Kee. - 01.2019-01.2020: Machine Learning Researcher at
, Singapore, advised by Prof. Jiashi Feng, worked on Biomedical Image Synthesis, Super-resolution, Tumor Segmentation and Classification, NeurIPS 2019 Expo demo.
Honors and Awards
- “Yayoi Kusama × Wukong”, ModelScope Wan 2.1 Video Generation Challenge — 2nd Place
- Tencent Knowledge, Excellent R&D, Outstanding Mentor and Outstanding Contributor Awards
- ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer Award
- Best Paper Award, ADHIP 2024
- AI Singapore (AISG) Ph.D. Fellowship — Theme: Continuous Learning AI, Self-supervised Learning
Professional Services
- CVPR Student Mentor (Doctoral Consortium)
- Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TNNLS, TMM, TCSVT, TVCJ, NEUCOM, CVIU, etc.
- Conference Reviewer: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ACM MM, ACL, MICCAI, ACCV, IJCAI, IJCNN, etc.
- Teaching Assistant: EE5731 Visual Computing, EE5904 Neural Networks (NUS ECE)



































































