Leyi Wu

Undergraduate student in Artificial Intelligence, HKUST(GZ)

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HKUST(GZ)

Guangzhou, Shenzhen

lwu398@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), majoring in Artificial Intelligence. I am a member of EnVision Lab, where I work closely with Dongyu Yan, Tianshuo Xu, and Zhifei Chen, under the guidance of Prof. Ying-Cong Chen.

My research interests center on VLM reasoning, embodied AI, and generative models for video and 3D. I am especially interested in robust visual reasoning under imperfect real-world conditions, controllable video generation, and embodied systems that remain reliable under dynamic visual interference.

Recently, I won both tracks of the 1st Cross-Domain EgoCross Challenge @ EgoVis, CVPR 2026, and was awarded the 2025 China National Scholarship and the Litchi Innovation Talent Scholarship.

news

Jun 20, 2026 Our paper STANCE: Motion Coherent Video Generation Via Sparse-to-Dense Anchored Encoding was accepted to ECCV 2026.
Jun 04, 2026 We won both the Source-Limited Track and Open-Source Track of the 1st Cross-Domain EgoCross Challenge under the third EgoVis Workshop at CVPR 2026.
Jun 02, 2026 We released RoboStressBench, a benchmark for evaluating VLM robustness to physical visual stress in embodied scenes.
Jan 26, 2026 Our paper UniCalli was accepted to ICLR 2026.
Nov 01, 2025 I received the 2025 China National Scholarship, with one quota in the entire school.
Oct 16, 2025 We released STANCE, a sparse-to-dense anchored encoding framework for motion-coherent video generation.
Jun 03, 2025 We released FlexPainter, a flexible and multi-view consistent texture generation method.
Feb 26, 2025 Two papers, Kiss3DGen and Uni-Renderer, were accepted to CVPR 2025.

selected publications

  1. Under Review
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    RoboStressBench: Benchmarking VLM Robustness to Physical Visual Stress in Embodied Scenes
    Leyi Wu*, Yifan Zhao*, Jinjie Zhang*, Suzeyu Chen*, Wosong Chen, Zhifei Chen, Tianshuo Xu, Qingchun He, Hongxin Hu, Haojian Huang, Yangkai Wei, Wenqian Li, Yinchuan Li, and Ying-Cong Chen†
    Under Review, 2026
    arXiv HTML PDF Website
  2. ECCV2026
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    STANCE: Motion Coherent Video Generation Via Sparse-to-Dense Anchored Encoding
    Zhifei Chen*, Tianshuo Xu*, Leyi Wu*, Luozhou Wang, Dongyu Yan, Zihan You, Wenting Luo, Guo Zhang, and Yingcong Chen†
    In ECCV 2026, 2026
    PDF Code Website
  3. ICLR2026
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    UniCalli: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Column-Level Generation and Recognition of Chinese Calligraphy
    Tianshuo Xu, Kai Wang, Zhifei Chen, Leyi Wu, Tianshui Wen, Fei Chao, and Ying-Cong Chen†
    In ICLR 2026, 2026
    PDF Code Website
  4. Under Review
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    AnimationBench: Are Video Models Good at Character-Centric Animation?
    Leyi Wu*, Pengjun Fang*, Kai Sun*, Yazhou Xing†, Yinwei Wu, Songsong Wang, Ziqi Huang, Dan Zhou, Yingqing He, Ying-Cong Chen, and Qifeng Chen†
    2026
    Website
  5. Under Review
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    Motion Forcing: A Decoupled Framework for Robust Video Generation in Motion Dynamics
    Tianshuo Xu, Zhifei Chen, Leyi Wu, Hao Lu, and Yingcong Chen†
    2026
    arXiv PDF
  6. Under Review
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    FlexPainter: Flexible and Multi-View Consistent Texture Generation
    Dongyu Yan*, Leyi Wu*, Jiantao Lin, Luozhou Wang, Tianshuo Xu, Zhifei Chen, Zhen Yang, Lie Xu, Shunsi Zhang, and Yingcong Chen†
    Under Review, 2025
    arXiv PDF Code Website
  7. CVPR2025
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    Kiss3DGen: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for 3D Asset Generation
    Jiantao Lin*, Xin Yang*, Meixi Chen*, Yingjie Xu, Dongyu Yan, Leyi Wu, Xinli Xu, Lie Xu, Shunsi Zhang, and Ying-Cong Chen†
    In CVPR 2025, 2025
    HTML PDF Code Website
  8. CVPR2025
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    Uni-Renderer: Unifying Rendering and Inverse Rendering Via Dual Stream Diffusion
    Zhifei Chen*, Tianshuo Xu*, Wenhang Ge*, Leyi Wu, Dongyu Yan, Jing He, Luozhou Wang, Lu Zeng, Shunsi Zhang, and Yingcong Chen†
    In CVPR 2025, 2025
    HTML PDF Code
  9. Under Review
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    Motion Dreamer: Boundary Conditional Motion Reasoning for Physically Coherent Video Generation
    Tianshuo Xu*, Zhifei Chen*, Leyi Wu, Hao Lu, Yuying Chen, Lihui Jiang, Bingbing Liu, and Yingcong Chen†
    Under Review, 2024
    arXiv PDF Code