publications

Selected and recent research papers.

2026

  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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  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
  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
  6. Survey
    A Mechanistic View on Video Generation as World Models: State and Dynamics
    Luozhou Wang*, Zhifei Chen*, Yihua Du, Dongyu Yan, Wenhang Ge, Guibao Shen, Xinli Xu, Leyi Wu, Man Chen, Tianshuo Xu, Peiran Ren, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, and Ying-Cong Chen
    Survey, 2026

2025

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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

2024

  1. 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