Ying Jiang

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA AIVC Lab, where I work with Chenfanfu Jiang. I completed my PhD in the Data and System Engineering Department at the University of Hong Kong, where I was supervised by Henry Y.K. Lau and worked closely with Hongbo Fu. Before that, I received my B.E. from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China, in July 2018.

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Research Interest

My primary research interests focus on Human-AI content creation in visual computing—including computer graphics, computer vision, human-computer interaction and embodied AI. My work spans 2D sketching and painting, 3D modeling, and 4D physics-based interactive dynamics. I am particularly passionate about combining physics- and geometry-based principles with generative models to create highly controllable and visually compelling 2D, 3D, and 4D content. A few questions that drive my recent research are:

Generative and Physical AI: How can we apply physics- and geometry-based principles with generative models and agentic generation to create more realistic 3D and 4D content for virtual world modeling and embodied AI?
Human-AI Creation and Collaboration: How can we enable AI and agents to assist humans in better understanding, learning, collaborating and creating?
Embodied AI: How can we leverage LLMs/VLMs/World Models to enhance robot learning and advance human-robot collaboration?

💌 If any of these topics excite you and you'd love to collaborate, I'd be happy to get in touch! Feel free to drop me an email.

News

2026-02: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 25th ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ANIMATION (SCA 2026).
2026-02: Two papers are accepted to CVPR 2026! See you in Denver!
2026-02: Invited talk at WiMSoCal 2026 in Loyola Marymount University.
2026-02: Invited talk at Carnegie Mellon University. Topics: Human-centered Content Creation for Physical AI and Visual Computing.
2026-01: Invited talk at Stanford University. Topics: Human-centered Content Creation for Physical AI and Visual Computing.
2025-11: Invited talk at University of British Columbia. Topics: Human-centered Content Creation for Physical AI and Visual Computing.
2025-11: One paper accepted to 3DV 2026! Congratulations, Xiyang!

Publications

Research Topics: All Generative and Physical AI Human-AI Creation and Collaboration Embodied AI VR and AR

(*† indicates equal contribution)

SPARK: Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge
Yumeng He*, Ying Jiang*, Jiayin Lu*, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026 🌸 Oral
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DressWild: Feed-Forward Pose-Agnostic Garment Sewing Pattern Generation from In-the-Wild Images
Zeng Tao*, Ying Jiang*, Yunuo Chen*, Tianyi Xie, Huamin Wang, Yingnian Wu, Yin Yang, Abishek Sampath Kumar, Kenji Tashiro, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv'26
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SeeClear: Reliable Transparent Object Depth Estimation via Generative Opacification
Xiaoying Wang*, Yumeng He*, Jingkai Shi*, Jiayin Lu, Yin Yang, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang.
arXiv'26
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Learn2Fold: Structured Origami Generation with World Model Planning
Yanjia Huang*, Yunuo Chen*, Ying Jiang*, Jinru Han, Zhengzhong Tu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang.
arXiv'26
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AnimaMimic: Imitating 3D Animation from Video Priors
Tianyi Xie*, Yunuo Chen*, Yaowei Guo*, Yin Yang, Bolei Zhou, Demetri Terzopoulos, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
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Birth of a Painting: Differentiable Brushstroke Reconstruction
Ying Jiang*, Jiayin Lu*, Yunuo Chen*, Yumeng He, Kui Wu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv'25
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VoroLight: Learning Quality Volumetric Voronoi Meshes from General Inputs
Jiayin Lu*, Ying Jiang*, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv'25
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Dress-1-to-3: Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Outfit with Diffusion Prior and Differentiable Physics
Xuan Li*, Chang Yu*, Wenxin Du*, Ying Jiang*, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
ACM SIGGRAPH, 2025
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PhysAnimator: Physics-Guided Generative Cartoon Animation
Tianyi Xie, Yiwei Zhao, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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Gaussian splashing: Dynamic fluid synthesis with gaussian splatting
Yutao Feng*, Xiang Feng*, Yintong Shang, Ying Jiang, Chang Yu, Zeshun Zong, Tianjia Shao, Hongzhi Wu, Kun Zhou, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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PhysMotion: Physics-Grounded Dynamics From a Single Image
Xiyang Tan*, Ying Jiang*, Xuan Li*, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2026
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Embedded IPC: Fast and Intersection-free Simulation in Reduced Subspace for Robot Manipulation
Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Siyu Ma, Ying Jiang, Zeshun Zong, Yin Yang, Joe Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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GRIP: A General Robotic Incremental Potential Contact Simulation Dataset for Unified Deformable-Rigid Coupled Grasping
Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Ying Jiang*, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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GarmentDreamer: 3DGS Guided Garment Synthesis with Diverse Geometry and Texture Details
Boqian Li*, Xuan Li*, Ying Jiang*, Tianyi Xie, Feng Gao, Huaimin Wang, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025
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VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality
Ying Jiang*, Chang Yu*, Tianyi Xie*, Xuan Li*, Yutao Feng, Huamin Wang, Minchen Li, Henry Lau, Feng Gao, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
ACM SIGGRAPH, 2024
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Region-Aware Color Smudging
Ying Jiang, Pengfei Xu, Congyi Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Henry Y K Lau, and Wenping Wang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2024
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HandPainter: 3D Sketching in VR with Hand-based Physical Proxy
Ying Jiang, Congyi Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Alberto Cannavò, Fabrizio Lamberti, Henry Y. K. Lau, and Wenping Wang
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021
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An Automatic 3D Scene Generation Pipeline based on a Single 2D Image
Alberto Cannavò, Christian Bardella, Lorenzo Semeraro, Federico De Lorenzis, Congyi Zhang, Ying Jiang, Fabrizio Lamberti
International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (AVR), 2021
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Teaching & Service

Guest Lecturer, University of British Columbia CPSC532Z: Physics-Informed AI, Nov. 2025
Guest Lecturer, University of Hong Kong ELEC4547: Emerging Technologies in Virtual and Augmented Reality, Nov. 2023
Fun fact: Jiayin Lu and I are co-mentoring a group of undergraduate students to develop a new course Math, Code and Art 🌐 to be offered by the UCLA Mathematics Department in 2026. Topics include spirograph and fractal generation, translating music into visual art, training neural networks to map sound to color, style transfer for paintings, Voronoi-based generative art, algorithmic image collages, and 3D mathematical modeling and 3D printing.
Organizer: SIGGRAPH workshops
Program/Technical Committee Member: ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (Expressive 2025), Pacific Graphics (PG 2025), ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2026), IEEE Technical Committee on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Metaverse (VAM)
Conference Review: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, EG, PG, CADGraphics, CHI, ISMAR, CSCW, DIS, IEEE VR, 3DV
Journal Review: TVCG, TCSVT, RAL, Computer & Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum

Mentoring

Xiaoying Wang (Master at USC)
Yanjia Huang (Master at TAMU)
Yumeng He (Master at USC)
Yusi Sun (PhD at HKU)
Zeng Tao (Master at FDU)
Rosalinda Chen (Undergrad at UCLA)
Yaowei Guo (PhD at UCLA)
Siyu Ma (Master at UCSD)
Xiyang Tan (Undergrad at USTC)
Boqian Li (Undergrad at HUST)
Joy Liu (Undergrad at UCLA)

Miscellaneous

I keep a “one book, one week” habit starting from my PhD, over six years — reading helps me relax, think more clearly, and stay curious about the world beyond research. In my spare time, I am a freelance artist and learned painting for over 7 years. Painting taught me to dream in color and build worlds from imagination.

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