👋 About Me
I am Tian Ye, a PhD student at ROAS Thrust@HKUST, Guangzhou. I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Lei Zhu and Prof. Kan, Ge Lin. During my undergraduate studies, I had the honor of being supervised by and collaborating with Prof. Erkang Chen and Prof. Yun Liu. Previously, I worked closely with Dr. Hongwei Yi (Head of Research@Hedra) to explore and develop Foundational Video Generation Models (e.g., Magic 1-For-1, MagicInfinite).
🔬 Research Interests
- AIGC Technology: Supporting the art creation industry and digital asset generation through advances in AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology.
- Visual Quality: Exploring visual challenges in photography to create images with superior quality.
📰 News
- [2025-09] We release LucidFlux-14B:Caption-Free Universal Image Restoration with a Large-Scale Diffusion Transformer. A SOTA Universal Image Restoration DiT Model!
- [2025-08] Our Style LoRA series for the FLUX.1 Kontext model has surpassed 30K downloads and 100+ likes on Hugging Face！🎉🎉 Demo and LoRAs.
- [2025-08] MovieChat+ is accepted by IEEE TPAMI 2025.
- [2025-08] I am pleased to release Flux.1-lite-8B-GRPO. A RL Post-training high-quality model based on Flux.1 Lite.
- [2025-06] 3 Papers are accepted by ICCV 2025.
- [2025-06] We are pleased to announce the release of PosterCraft! A Unified Framework for High-Quality Aesthetic Poster Generation.
- [2025-03] We are pleased to announce the release of MagicInfinite (Character-3 Model of Hedra Inc.). Now you can fastly generate infinite talking videos with your words and voice!
- [2025-02] 3 Papers are accepted by CVPR 2025.
- [2025-02] We are pleased to announce the release Magic 1-For-1, a SOTA, 4-step image-to-video diffusion model, along with our technical report.
- [2025-01] I am honored to be selected as a speaker at KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2025!! Thank you KAUST for the opportunity!
- [2025-01] Meissonic is accepted by ICLR 2025🎉.
- [2024-12] 4 Papers are accepted by AAAI 2025.
- [2024-11] I am honored to be selected as a Outstanding Reviewer for BMVC 2024！
- [2024-11] We release Meissonic on HuggingFace🎉, Meissonic-1B is the first SDXL level, high-resolution non-AR T2I model!!
- [2024-09] 2 Papers are accepted by ECCV 2024.
- [2024-06] 2 Papers are accepted by MICCAI 2024, and Segmamba is selected as a Spotlight presentation paper.
Mentoring
- Heming Li, RA@HKUST(GZ), B.S.@CUHK
- Song Fei, Mphil Student@HKUST(GZ)
- Haoxuan Feng, Mphil Student@HKUST(GZ)
- Chenghao Xue, Now MSc Student@UC Davis
- Jingxia Jiang, Now PhD Student@NC State
🎖 Competitions & Awards
- ICLR 2025 Notable Reviewer
- KAUST AI Rising Star, 2025
- Outstanding Reviewer, BMVC 2024
- PG scholarship of HKUST(GZ), 2024
- 2022 CVPR NAS Competition Supernet Track: Third Place (Track 1)
- 2022 JMU Student Star Award (20/19000)
💬 Academic Services
- Conference Reviewer: ACCV 2022&2024, WACV 2023&2024, BMVC 2023&2024, AAAI 2022&2023&2024&2025, ICCV 2023, CVPR 2024, ECCV 2024, ACM MM 2024, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025.
- Workshop Competition Organizer: LOVEU@CVPR 2024
- Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Computer Vision IEEE Transactions on Image Processing IEEE Signal Processing Letter IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
📖 Educations & Experience
- Aug'2024–Present: PhD Student, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou
- Nov'2024–Aug'2025: Research Scientist Intern, Hedra Inc.
- Jun'2023–Jul'2024: Research Assistant, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou
- Sep'2019–Jul'2023: B.Eng (Telecommunication Engineering), Jimei University, Xiamen