About Me

I am a 2nd-year M.Phil. student in the Red Bird Program (Artificial Intelligence) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), under the supervision of Prof. Xuming HU and Prof. Yangqiu SONG. My current research interest focuses on the panoramic world, mainly exploring the potential of panoramas to be a new bridge towards real embodied intelligence and world model.


I completed my undergraduate studies at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) under the supervision of Prof. Kehu YANG. I work closely with Xu ZHENG @ HKUST(GZ), Prof. Linfeng ZHANG @ SJTU, and Prof. Nicu Sebe @ UniTrento.

Education

M.Phil. in Artificial Intelligence The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2024.09 – 2026.10
Supervisors: Prof. Xuming HU & Prof. Yangqiu SONG
B.S. in Information Engineering China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) · 2020.09 – 2024.06
Supervisor: Prof. Kehu YANG

Visiting & Internship

Visiting Student, SPIC Lab Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2025.06 – 2025.09
Advisor: Prof. Linfeng ZHANG

Selected Publications

Chenfei Liao, Wensong Wang, Zichen Wen, Xu Zheng, Yiyu Wang, Haocong He, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Lutao Jiang, Xin Zou, Yuqian Fu, Bin Ren, Linfeng Zhang, Xuming Hu
ACL 2026
Zixin Zhang*, Chenfei Liao*, Hongfei Zhang, Harold Haodong Chen, Kanghao Chen, Zichen Wen, Litao Guo, Bin Ren, Xu Zheng, Yinchuan Li, Xuming Hu, Nicu Sebe, Ying-Cong Chen
ECCV 2026 Co-First
Haocong He*, Chenfei Liao*, Zichen Wen, Zihao Dongfang, Xu Zheng, Bin Ren, Chang Su, Zixin Zhang, Harold Haodong Chen, Hongfei Zhang, Weijia Li, Kailun Yang, Conghui He, Xuming Hu, Nicu Sebe, Linfeng Zhang
ECCV 2026 Co-First & Project Lead
Chenfei Liao*, Kaiyu Lei*, Xu Zheng, Junha Moon, Zhixiong Wang, Yixuan Wang, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Xuming Hu
CVPR Workshop (TMM-OpenWorld) 2025 Best Paper Award Oral Co-First & Project Lead
Hongfei Zhang*, Harold Haodong Chen*, Chenfei Liao*, Jing He*, Zixin Zhang, Haodong Li, Yihao Liang, Kanghao Chen, Bin Ren, Xu Zheng, Shuai Yang, Kun Zhou, Yinchuan Li, Nicu Sebe, Ying-Cong Chen
ICML Workshop (Foundations of Deep Generative Models) 2026 Spotlight Co-First
XuZheng*, Chenfei Liao*, Yuqian Fu, Kaiyu Lei, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Lutao Jiang, Bin Ren, Jialei Chen, Jiawen Wang, Chengxin Li, Linfeng Zhang, Danda Pani Paudel, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Nicu Sebe, Dacheng Tao, Luc Van Gool, Xuming Hu
ICLR Workshop (MM-Intelligence) 2026 Co-First
Chenfei Liao, Xu Zheng, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Haiwei Xue, Yihong Cao, Jiawen Wang, Kailun Yang, Xuming Hu
ArXiv 2025
Zichen Wen*, Yiyu Wang*, Chenfei Liao*, Boxue Yang*, Junxian Li*, Weifeng Liu*, Haocong He, Bolong Feng, Xuyang Liu, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Xu Zheng, Xuming Hu, Linfeng Zhang
Tech Report 2025 Co-First

Awards

Innovation Talent Award (Industry Scholarship from Lizhi Inc.)
2026
Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis in Beijing, China
2024
National Scholarship of China
2021

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer

  • CVPR Workshop (TMM-OpenWorld) 2025
  • ICCV Workshop (MIRA) 2025
  • ICASSP 2026
  • ICME 2026
  • ICLR Workshop (MM-Intelligence) 2026
  • IJCNN 2027

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)