Liao Shen (申立奥)

😃 Welcome to my personal page!

I am Liao Shen (申立奥 in Chinese), a third-year (2023.09-) master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), supervised by Prof. Zhiguo Cao. Before that, I received my bachelor’s degree from HUST in 2023. I was a research associate at MMLAB@NTU, advised by Prof. Chen Change Loy. I joined Alibaba Group through the Alibaba T-Star Talent Program. I contribute to the development of the HappyHorse model family across both pre-training and post-training. My research focuses on video generation.

🔥 News

  • 2026-07 : 🎉 IPRO is accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • 2026-03 : 🎉 BokehFlow and BokehCrafter are accepted to AAAI 2026.
  • 2025-11 : 🎉 Cinectrl is now posted on Arxiv.
  • 2025-03 : 🎉 Free4D and MUGS are accepted to ICCV 2025.
  • 2025-02 : 🎉 DoF-Gaussian and CH3Depth are accepted to CVPR 2025.
  • 2024-10 : 🎉 Video Bokeh Rendering is accepted to ACM MM 2024, and is honored as best paper candidate🚀🚀🚀.
  • 2024-07 : 🎉 DreamMover and MVSGaussian are accepted to ECCV 2024.
  • 2024-07 : 🎉 Won Winner Award in “TRICKY 2024 Transparent & Reflective objects In the wild Challenge”.
  • 2024-02 : 🎉 DyBluRF is accepted to CVPR 2024.
  • 2023-10 : 🎉 Make-It-4D is accepted to ACM MM 2023.
  • 2023-06 : 🎉 Won Winner Award in “NTIRE 2023 Bokeh Effect Transformation Challenge”.

📝 Publications

Arxiv
CineCtrl video cinematic editing overview

[Arxiv] Generative Photographic Control for Scene-Consistent Video Cinematic Editing
Huiqiang Sun*, Liao Shen*, Zhan Peng, Kun Wang, Size Wu, Yuhang Zang, Tianqi Liu, Zihao Huang, Xingyu Zeng, Zhiguo Cao, Wei Li, Chen Change Loy
[Paper]

Cinectrl is the first video cinematic editing framework that provides fine control over professional camera parameters (e.g., bokeh, shutter speed).

CVPR 2026
IPRO identity-preserving image-to-video generation overview

[CVPR 2026] Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation via Reward-Guided Optimization
Liao Shen*, Wentao Jiang*, Yiran Zhu, Jiahe Li, Tiezheng Ge, Zhiguo Cao, Bo Zheng.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

IPRO is the first identity-preserving image-to-video generation model via reward feedback learning.

ICCV 2025
MuGS multi-baseline Gaussian splatting reconstruction overview

[ICCV 2025] MuGS: Multi-Baseline Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction
Yaopeng Lou, Liao Shen, Tianqi Liu, Jiaqi Li, Zihao Huang, Huiqiang Sun, Zhiguo Cao.
[Paper]

MuGS is the first multi-baseline generalizable gaussian splatting method.

ICCV 2025
Free4D spatial-temporal scene generation results

[ICCV 2025] Free4D: Tuning-free 4D Scene Generation with Spatial-Temporal Consistency
Tianqi Liu, Zihao Huang, Zhaoxi Chen, Guangcong Wang, Shoukang Hu, Liao Shen, Huiqiang Sun, Zhiguo Cao, Wei Li, Ziwei Liu.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code] [Video]

Free4D is a tuning-free framework for 4D scene generation from a single image or text.

CVPR 2025
DoF-Gaussian controllable depth-of-field results

[CVPR 2025] DoF-Gaussian: Controllable Depth-of-Field for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Liao Shen, Tianqi Liu, Huiqiang Sun, Jiaqi Li, Zhiguo Cao, Wei Li, Chen Change Loy.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

We introduce DoF-Gaussian, a controllable depth-of-field method for 3D-GS. We develop a lens-based imaging model based on geometric optics principles to control DoF effects. Our framework is customizable and supports various interactive applications.

ACM MM 2024
Video Bokeh Rendering method overview

[ACM MM 2024] Video Bokeh Rendering: Make Casual Videography Cinematic (Best paper candidate)🚀🚀🚀
Yawen Luo, Min Shi, Liao Shen, Yachuan Huang, Zixuan Ye, Juewen Peng, Zhiguo Cao.
[Paper]

We introduce VBR, the video bokeh rendering model that first leverages information from multiple frames to generate refocusable videos from all-in-focus videos.

ECCV 2024
DreamMover large-motion image interpolation results

[ECCV 2024] DreamMover: Leveraging the Prior of Diffusion Models for Image Interpolation with Large Motion
Liao Shen, Tianqi Liu, Huiqiang Sun, Xinyi Ye, Baopu Li, Jianming Zhang, Zhiguo Cao.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

By leveraging the prior of diffusion models, DreamMover can generate intermediate images from image pairs with large motion while maintaining semantic consistency.

ECCV 2024
MVSGaussian reconstruction process

[ECCV 2024] MVSGaussian: Fast Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo
Tianqi Liu, Guangcong Wang, Shoukang Hu, Liao Shen, Xinyi Ye, Yuhang Zang, Zhiguo Cao, Wei Li, Ziwei Liu.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

MVSGaussian is a Gaussian-based method designed for efficient reconstruction of unseen scenes from sparse views in a single forward pass. It offers high-quality initialization for fast training and real-time rendering.

CVPR 2024
DyBluRF dynamic scene deblurring results

[CVPR 2024] DyBluRF: Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Monocular Video
Huiqiang Sun, Xingyi Li, Liao Shen, Xinyi Ye, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

DyBluRF is a dynamic neural radiance field method that synthesizes sharp novel views from a monocular video affected by motion blur.

ACM MM 2023
Make-It-4D long-term dynamic scene synthesis results

[ACM MM 2023] Make-It-4D: Synthesizing a Consistent Long-Term Dynamic Scene Video from a Single Image
Liao Shen, Xingyi Li, Huiqiang Sun, Juewen Peng, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao, Guosheng Lin.
[Paper] [Code]

Make-It-4D is a novel framework that can generate a consistent long-term dynamic video from a single image. The generated video involves both visual content movements and large camera motions, bringing the still image back to life.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025    National Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2024    National Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2023    Honours Degrees (Top 3%)
  • 2021    Outstanding Undergraduate Student (Top 1%)
  • 2019    Merit Student (Top 7%)

📝 Experiences

  • 2026.06 - Present, Senior Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Group, focusing on video generation.
  • 2025.07 - 2025.12, Internship at Alibaba group, advised by Wentao Jiang and Tiezheng Ge.
  • 2025.01 - 2025.06, Project Officer at MMLAB@NTU, advised by Prof. Chen Change Loy.
  • 2024.06 - 2025.02, Worked on project “Camera Image Fusion and Reconstruction” with Huawei.
  • 2023.12 - 2024.05, Worked on project with Adobe.
  • 2023.10 - 2024.10, Work on project “Large Aperture Bokeh Effect Simulation of DSLR” with Vivo.