Ran Yi (易冉)

上海交通大学计算机系助理教授
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China
Team: Digital Media and Computer Vision Laboratory (DMCV)

Email: ranyi AT sjtu.edu.cn
Office: SEIEE 3-501, SJTU
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Biography

Ran Yi is an Assistant Professor with Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She is a member of Digital Media and Computer Vision Laboratory, working closely with Prof. Lizhuang Ma. She received her B.Eng and Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 2016 and 2021 respectively. Her Ph.D advisor is Prof. Yong-Jin Liu, and the lab director is Prof. Shi-Min Hu. She also closely collaborates with Prof. Yu-Kun Lai, Prof. Paul L. Rosin and Prof. Ying He. Her research interests include computer vision, computer graphics and machine intelligence.

News

[2022.07.04] 2 papers accepted by ECCV 2022.
[2022.06.30] 2 papers accepted by ACM MM 2022.
[2022.04.26] 1 paper accepted by SIGGRAPH 2022.
[2022.04.21] 1 paper accepted by IJCAI 2022. Congratulations to Zhihao!
[2022.03.02] 2 papers accepted by CVPR 2022. Congratulations to Junshu, Shaohua!
[2022.01.27] 1 paper accepted by TPAMI.
[2022.01.08] 1 paper accepted by TMM. Congratulations to Zipeng!
[2021.12.01] 1 paper accepted by AAAI 2022. Congratulations to Qiqi!
[2021.11.06] 1 paper accepted by TVCG. Congratulations to Zipeng!
[2021.07.03] I Joined SJTU as an assistant professor.
[2021.05.18] I Passed PhD Thesis Defense.
[2021.03.15] 1 paper accepted by TVCG.
[2020.04.08] 1 paper accepted by TPAMI.
[2020.03.06] 1 paper accepted by TPAMI.
[2020.02.24] 1 paper accepted by CVPR 2020.

Research Interests Top

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics.

Some specific research interests:

Image/video/3D generation
Artistic portrait stylization
Rendering quality enhancement
3D geometry processing

Openings / Internship Top

I am looking for self-motivated PhD, master and undergraduate students to join my research group! If you are interested in computer vision, computer graphics and want to join us, please send me your CV via email ;) For more info about internship at our group, please refer to this link.

团队招收博士生，硕士生和对科研感兴趣的本科生！如果你对计算机视觉、计算机图形学感兴趣，希望加入我们团队，欢迎与我邮件联系（邮件请附上你的个人简历）~

Selected Publications 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2016 Top

(# indicates joint first author, * indicates corresponding author)

2022
	Animating Portrait Line Drawings from a Single Face Photo and a Speech Signal Ran Yi, Zipeng Ye, Ruoyu Fan, Yezhi Shu, Yong-jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin SIGGRAPH ’22 Conference Proceedings (SIGGRAPH), 2022 [CCF A] [link] [paper] [code] [demo video]
	Quality Metric Guided Portrait Line Drawing Generation from Unpaired Training Data Ran Yi, Yong-jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022 [CCF A] [paper] [code]
	LAKe-Net: Topology-Aware Point Cloud Completion by Localizing Aligned Keypoints Junshu Tang, Zhijun Gong, Ran Yi, Yuan Xie, Lizhuang Ma IEEE Conference on Computer #1772d0on and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 [CCF A] [preprint]
	ISDNet: Integrating Shallow and Deep Networks for Efficient Ultra-high Resolution Segmentation Shaohua Guo, Liang Liu , Zhenye Gan, Yabiao Wang, Wuhao Zhang, Chengjie Wang, Guannan Jiang, Wei Zhang, Ran Yi, Lizhuang Ma, Ke Xu IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 [CCF A]
	Region-Aware Temporal Inconsistency Learning for DeepFake Video Detection Zhihao Gu, Taiping Yao, Yang Chen, Ran Yi, Shouhong Ding, Lizhuang Ma IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IJCAI), 2022 [CCF A]
	Exploiting Fine-grained Face Forgery Clues via Progressive Enhancement Learning Qiqi Gu#, Shen Chen#, Taiping Yao#, Yang Chen, Shouhong Ding, Ran Yi AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022 [CCF A] [preprint]
	Audio-Driven Talking Face Video Generation with Dynamic Convolution Kernels Zipeng Ye, Mengfei Xia, Ran Yi, Juyong Zhang, Yu-Kun Lai, Xuwei Huang, Guoxin Zhang, Yong-jin Liu IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2022 [Top Journal in Multimedia] [paper] [demo video]
2021
	GAN-based Multi-Style Photo Cartoonization Yezhi Shu#, Ran Yi#, Mengfei Xia, Zipeng Ye, Wang Zhao, Yang Chen, Yu-Kun Lai, Yong-Jin Liu IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2021 [CCF A] [paper] [code]
	3D-CariGAN: An End-to-End Solution to 3D Caricature Generation from Normal Face Photos Zipeng Ye, Mengfei Xia, Yanan Sun, Ran Yi, Minjing Yu, Juyong Zhang, Yu-Kun Lai, Yong-jin Liu* IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2021 [CCF A] [paper] [code]
2020
	Line Drawings for Face Portraits from Photos using Global and Local Structure based GANs Ran Yi, Mengfei Xia, Yong-Jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020 [CCF A] [paper] [code]
	Unpaired Portrait Drawing Generation via Asymmetric Cycle Mapping Ran Yi, Yong-Jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 [CCF A] [paper] [code]
	Feature-Aware Uniform Tessellations on Video Manifold for Content-Sensitive Supervoxels Ran Yi#, Zipeng Ye#, Wang Zhao, Minjing Yu, Yu-Kun Lai, Yong-Jin Liu IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020 [CCF A] [paper] [code] [demo video]
	Dirichlet energy of Delaunay meshes and intrinsic Delaunay triangulations Zipeng Ye, Ran Yi, Wenyong Gong, Ying He, Yong-Jin Liu Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 2020 [Leading Journal in Computer Graphics] [paper]
	Audio-driven Talking Face Video Generation with Learning-based Personalized Head Pose Ran Yi#, Zipeng Ye#, Juyong Zhang, Hujun Bao, Yong-Jin Liu Arxiv [paper] [demo video]
2019
	APDrawingGAN: Generating Artistic Portrait Drawings from Face Photos with Hierarchical GANs Ran Yi, Yong-Jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral), 2019 [CCF A] [paper] [code] [dataset]
	Fast Computation of Content-Sensitive Superpixels and Supervoxels using q-distances Zipeng Ye#, Ran Yi#, Minjing Yu, Yong-Jin Liu, Ying He IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 [CCF A] [paper]
2018
	Delaunay Mesh Simplification with Differential Evolution Ran Yi, Yong-Jin Liu, Ying He ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2018 [CCF A] [paper] [demo video]
	Content-Sensitive Supervoxels via Uniform Tessellations on Video Manifolds Ran Yi, Yong-Jin Liu, Yu-Kun Lai IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 [CCF A] [paper]
	Delta DLP 3-D Printing of Large Models Ran Yi#, Chenming Wu#, Yong-Jin Liu, Ying He, Charlie C. L. Wang IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2018 [Top Journal in Automation] [paper] [demo video]
2016
	Manifold Differential Evolution (MDE): A Global Optimization Method for Geodesic Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations on Meshes Yong-Jin Liu, Chun-Xu Xu, Ran Yi, Dian Fan, Ying He ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2016 [CCF A] [paper] [demo video]
	Delta DLP 3D Printing with Large Size Chenming Wu#, Ran Yi#, Yong-Jin Liu, Ying He, Charlie C. L. Wang International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 [Top Conference in Robotics] [paper] [demo video]

Honors & Awards Top

中国图象图形学学会石青云女科学家奖（青英组）, 2021.12
IGTA Paper Competition First Prize, 2021.08
Beijing Outstanding Graduates, 2021.07
Awarded to graduates with outstanding academic performance of the universities at Beijing.
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing Society of Image and Graphics (BSIG), 2021.06
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University, 2021.06
China National Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2020.12
China National Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2019.12
CCF-CV 学术新锐奖, CCF-CV, 2019.11
Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Nomination Award, Microsoft, 2019.11
China National Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2018.11
CCF-CV 学术新锐奖提名, CCF-CV, 2018.10
Beijing Outstanding Graduates, 2016.06
Awarded to graduates with outstanding academic performance of the universities at Beijing.
Excellent Graduates of Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University, 2016.07
Excellent Academic Performance Single Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2015.10
Excellent Academic Performance Single Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2014.10

Education Top

2012/08–2016/07: Tsinghua University, EE Dept, Bachelor
2016/09–2021/06: Tsinghua University, CS Dept, PhD

Supervisor: Prof. Yong-Jin Liu

Lab director: Prof. Shi-Min Hu

Working Experience Top

2021/07–Present: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CSE Dept, Assistant Professor

Courses Top

2022 Spring: CS238 VR & AR (with Prof. Sheng Bin)
2022 Autumn: CS4316 Intelligent Computer Graphics and Vision Applications (with Prof. Lizhuang Ma)

Activities Top

Reviewer for Journal: TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TMM, TCSVT, etc
Reviewer for Conference: CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, VR, etc