Li Siyao

Image Siyao is currently a fourth-year PhD student (candidate) in MMLab of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, supervised by Prof. Chen Change Loy and working closely with Prof. Ziwei Liu.
From August 2024 to March 2025, he visited the Perceiving Systems Group of Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tuebingen, Germany, where he was supervised by Prof. Michael J. Black and worked closely with Yao Feng and Omid Taheri.
Before his PhD, he was a full-time researcher in SenseTime Research, working closely with Quan Wang, Wenxiu Sun and Chao Dong.
His current interests focus on "interaction"-related topics, especially between humans and open, dynamic worlds. He is an awardee of 2024 Google PhD Fellowship.

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Selected Works

Image Half-Physics: Enabling Kinematic 3D Human Model with Physical Interactions
Li Siyao, Yao Feng, Omid Taheri, Chen Change Loy, Michael J. Black
arXiv 2025
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Image Duolando: Follower GPT with Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Dance Accompaniment
Li Siyao, Tianpei Gu, Zhitao Yang, Zhengyu Lin, Ziwei Liu, Henghui Ding, Lei Yang, Chen Change Loy
ICLR 2024
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Image Bailando++: 3D Dance GPT with Choreographic Memory
Li Siyao, Weijiang Yu, Tianpei Gu, Chunze Lin, Quan Wang, Chen Qian, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu
TPAMI 2023
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Image Deep Geometrized Cartoon Line Inbetweening
Li Siyao, Tianpei Gu, Weiye Xiao, Henghui Ding, Ziwei Liu, Chen Change Loy
ICCV 2023
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Image AnimeRun: 2D Animation Visual Correspondence from Open Source 3D Movies
Li Siyao, Yuhang Li, Bo Li, Chao Dong, Ziwei Liu, Chen Change Loy
NeurIPS 2022 (Dataset & Benchmark)
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Image Bailando: 3D Dance Generation by Actor-Critic GPT with Choreographic Memory
Li Siyao, Weijiang Yu, Tianpei Gu, Chunze Lin, Quan Wang, Chen Qian, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu
CVPR 2022 (Oral, ~4%)
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Image Deep Animation Video Interpolation in the Wild
Li Siyao*, Shiyu Zhao*, Weijiang Yu, Wenxiu Sun, Dimitris Metaxas, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu
CVPR 2021
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Image Enhanced Quadratic Video Interpolation
Yihao Liu*, Liangbin Xie*, Li Siyao, Wenxiu Sun, Yu Qiao, Chao Dong
ECCV 2020, AIM Workshop
1st place of ECCV AIM-VTSR 2020 challenge! Image Link
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Image Quadratic Video Interpolation
Xiangyu Xu*, Li Siyao*, Wenxiu Sun, Qian Yin, Ming-Hsuan Yang
NeurIPS 2019 (Spotlight, ~15%)
1st place of ICCV AIM-VTSR 2019 challenge! Image Link
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Services

Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML and SIGGRAPH

Awards

AISG Fellowship 2022
Google PhD Fellowship 2024