About Me

Hi, I am Yiqun Mei (梅逸群). I am a Research Scientist/Engineer at Adobe Research. My research focuses on generative digital content creation.
I obtained my PhD degree from Johns Hopkins University (2021-2025), advised by Prof. Vishal Patel. Prior to that, I did my undergradute at UIUC (2017-2020). I was an intern at Netflix Eyeline Studios , Epic Games, Adobe, and Microsoft.

News

  • [02/2025] One paper accepted by CVPR2025.
  • [02/2025] Passed my dissertation defense:)
  • [09/2024] Two papers on 3DGS accepted by NeurIPS2024.
  • [02/2024] One paper accepted by CVPR2024.
  • [06/2023] One paper accepted by IJCV.
  • [02/2023] One paper accepted by CVPR2023.
  • [09/2022] One paper accepted by NeurIPS2022.
  • [03/2022] One paper accepted by CVPR2022.
  • [03/2021] One paper accepted by CVPR2021.
  • [09/2020] One paper accepted by NeurIPS2020.
  • [03/2020] One paper accepted by CVPR2020.

Current and Past Affiliations

2025 - present, 2022

Apr. 2024 - Nov. 2024

Summer 2023

2021 - 2025

Spring 2021

2017 - 2020

Selected Publications

Think Before You Diffuse: LLM-Guided Physics-Aware Video Generation

Ke Zhang, Cihan Xiao, Yiqun Mei, Jiacong Xu, Vishal M. Patel

arXiv, 2025

Lux Post Facto: Learning Portrait Performance Relighting with Conditional Video Diffusion and a Hybrid Dataset

Yiqun Mei, Mingming He, Li Ma, Julien Philip, Wenqi Xian, David M George, Xueming Yu, Gabriel Dedic, Ahmet Levent Taşel, Ning Yu, Vishal M. Patel, Paul Debevec

CVPR2025

Reference-based Controllable Scene Stylization with Gaussian Splatting

Yiqun Mei, Jiacong Xu, Vishal M. Patel

NeurIPS2024

Holo-Relighting: Controllable Volumetric Portrait Relighting from a Single Image

Yiqun Mei, Yu Zeng, He Zhang, Zhixin Shu, Xuaner Zhang, Sai Bi, Jianming Zhang, HyunJoon Jung, Vishal M. Patel

CVPR2024

LightPainter: Interactive Portrait Relighting with Freehand Scribble

Yiqun Mei, He Zhang, Xuaner Zhang, Jianming Zhang, Zhixin Shu, Yilin Wang, Zijun Wei, Shi Yan, HyunJoon Jung, Vishal M. Patel

CVPR2023

Resource-Adaptive Federated Learning with All-In-One Neural Composition

Yiqun Mei, Pengfei Guo, Mo Zhou, Vishal M. Patel

NeurIPS2022

Escaping Data Scarcity for High-Resolution Heterogeneous Face Hallucination

Yiqun Mei, Pengfei Guo, Vishal M. Patel

CVPR2022 (Oral)

Image Super-Resolution with Non-Local Sparse Attention

Yiqun Mei, Yuchen Fan, Yuqian Zhou

CVPR2021

Pyramid Attention Network for Image Restoration

Yiqun Mei, Yuchen Fan, Yulun Zhang, Jiahui Yu, Yuqian Zhou, Ding Liu, Yun Fu, Thomas S. Huang, Humphrey Shi

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV 2023, arXiv 2020)

Image Super-Resolution with Cross-Scale Non-Local Attention and Exhaustive Self-Exemplars Mining

Yiqun Mei, Yuchen Fan, Yuqian Zhou, Lichao Huang, Thomas S. Huang, Humphrey Shi

CVPR 2020