About Me

I am currently a Research Fellow at MMLab@NTU, working with Prof. Xingang Pan. I received my Ph.D. in June 2024 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

I am deeply grateful to Dr. Dongdong Chen for his continuous guidance and support throughout my academic journey. During my Ph.D., I was also fortunate to receive mentorship from Prof. Jing Liao and Dr. Gang Hua.

My research interests broadly lie in Computer Vision, and Generative AI, with a particular focus on image and video synthesis and editing. Feel free to email me for collaboration or academic discussion.

News

Feb 2026
EnMMDiT is accepted to TPAMI.
Feb 2026
LLSA is accepted to CVPR 2026.
Jan 2026
Unifying Multi-modal Hair Editing is accepted to TPAMI.

Experience

Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
July 2024 - Present
Research Scientist Intern
Microsoft
March 2022 - June 2022

Selected Publications

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Enhancing MMDiT-Based Text-to-Image Models for Similar Subject Generation
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Yifan Zhou, Xingang Pan
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026
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Trainable Log-linear Sparse Attention for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
Yifan Zhou, Zeqi Xiao, Tianyi Wei, Shuai Yang, Xingang Pan
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
PI-Light: Physics-Inspired Diffusion for Full-Image Relighting
Zhexin Liang, Zhaoxi Chen, Yongwei Chen, Tianyi Wei, Tengfei Wang, Xingang Pan
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
Unifying Multi-modal Hair Editing via Proxy Feature Blending
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Wenbo Zhou, Jing Liao, Can Wang, Weiming Zhang, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026
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FreeFlux: Understanding and Exploiting Layer-Specific Roles in RoPE-Based MMDiT for Versatile Image Editing
Tianyi Wei, Yifan Zhou, Dongdong Chen, Xingang Pan
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
Bokeh Diffusion: Defocus Blur Control in Text-to-image Diffusion Models
Armando Fortes, Tianyi Wei, Shangchen Zhou, Xingang Pan
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2025
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Scale Your Instructions: Enhance the Instruction-Following Fidelity of Unified Image Generation Model by Self-Adaptive Attention Scaling
Chao Zhou, Tianyi Wei, Nenghai Yu
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
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Deep Image Matting with Sparse User Interactions
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Wenbo Zhou, Jing Liao, Hanqing Zhao, Weiming Zhang, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024
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AquaLoRA: Toward White-box Protection for Customized Stable Diffusion Models via Watermark LoRA
Weitao Feng, Wenbo Zhou, Jiyan He, Jie Zhang, Tianyi Wei, Guanlin Li, Tianwei Zhang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
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SimAC: A Simple Anti-Customization Method for Protecting Face Privacy against Text-to-Image Synthesis of Diffusion Models
Feifei Wang, Zhentao Tan, Tianyi Wei, Yue Wu, Qidong Huang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
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A Geometric Distortion Immunized Deep Watermarking Framework with Robustness Generalizability
Linfeng Ma, Han Fang, Tianyi Wei, Zijin Yang, Zehua Ma, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
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FaceRSA: RSA-Aware Facial Identity Cryptography Framework
Zhongyi Zhang, Tianyi Wei, Wenbo Zhou, Hanqing Zhao, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
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HairCLIPv2: Unifying Hair Editing via Proxy Feature Blending
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Wenbo Zhou, Jing Liao, Weiming Zhang, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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HairCLIP: Design Your Hair by Text and Reference Image
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Wenbo Zhou, Jing Liao, Zhentao Tan, Lu Yuan, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
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E2Style: Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of StyleGAN Inversion
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Wenbo Zhou, Jing Liao, Weiming Zhang, Lu Yuan, Gang Hua, Nenghai Yu
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2022
Improved Image Matting via Real-time User Clicks and Uncertainty Estimation
Tianyi Wei, Dongdong Chen, Wenbo Zhou, Jing Liao, Hanqing Zhao, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
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Multi-Attentional Deepfake Detection
Hanqing Zhao, Wenbo Zhou, Dongdong Chen, Tianyi Wei, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

Honors and Awards

2026
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Anhui Province, China
2025
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (100 recipients nationwide)
2024
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, USTC
2024
President Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2022
National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Ministry of Education, China
2021
National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education, China
2017
National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Ministry of Education, China
2016
National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Ministry of Education, China

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer
CVPR (since 2022), ICCV (since 2023), ECCV (since 2022), WACV (since 2024)
NeurIPS (since 2023), ICLR (since 2024), ICML (since 2024)
SIGGRAPH (since 2022), SIGGRAPH Asia (since 2024)
ACL (since 2026)
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)


Last updated: March 2026
Special thanks to my wife Yi Yin