Jiayang Li

Jiayang Li

M.S. Student in Computer Science and Technology, Peking University

I work toward machines that move from seeing to understanding — building the visual foundations of general intelligence.

My work spans low-level vision, visual understanding, and VAE.

lijiayang.cs@gmail.com Google Scholar GitHub
Education

Peking University

M.S. in Computer Science and Technology, School of ECE · Advised by Jian Zhang

Harbin Institute of Technology

B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computing · Advised by Junjun Jiang

Internship

Tencent

Research Intern, Hunyuan

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Research Intern, GVLab · Advised by Yihao Liu

Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd.

Research Intern, AI Laboratory

Research
TPAMI 2026

Towards Unified Semantic and Controllable Image Fusion: A Diffusion Transformer Approach

Jiayang Li*, Chengjie Jiang*, Junjun Jiang†, Pengwei Liang, Jiayi Ma, Liqiang Nie

IEEE TPAMI 2026 |paper |project

TIP 2025

MaeFuse: Transferring Omni Features with Pretrained Masked Autoencoders for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Guided Training ESI Highly Cited

Jiayang Li, Junjun Jiang†, Pengwei Liang, Jiayi Ma, Liqiang Nie

IEEE TIP 2025 |paper |arXiv |code

* Equal contribution  ·  † Corresponding author

ICML 2026 Spotlight

UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture

Shuo Cao*, Jiayang Li*, Xiaohui Li, Yuandong Pu, Kaiwen Zhu, Yuanting Gao, Siqi Luo, Yi Xin, Qi Qin, Yu Zhou, Xiangyu Chen, Wenlong Zhang, Bin Fu, Yu Qiao, Yihao Liu†

ICML 2026 Spotlight |paper |project

ICML 2026

StableI2I: Spotting Unintended Changes in Image-to-Image Transition

Jiayang Li*, Shuo Cao*, Xiaohui Li, Zhizhen Zhang, Kaiwen Zhu, Yule Duan, Yu Qiao, Jian Zhang†, Yihao Liu†

ICML 2026 |paper |project

CVPR 2026

ArtiMuse: Fine-Grained Image Aesthetics Assessment with Joint Scoring and Expert-Level Understanding

Shuo Cao, Nan Ma, Jiayang Li, Xiaohui Li, Lihao Shao, Kaiwen Zhu, Yu Zhou, Yuandong Pu, Jiarui Wu, Jiaquan Wang, Bo Qu, Wenhai Wang, Yu Qiao, Dajuin Yao†, Yihao Liu†

CVPR 2026 |paper |project

* Equal contribution  ·  † Corresponding author

Papers coming soon.

Honors
  • Chunhui Innovation Award, Third Prize, Harbin Institute of Technology. 2025.
  • Provincial Outstanding Graduate, Heilongjiang Province. 2025.
  • Shenzhen Stock Exchange Scholarship. 2023.
  • Provincial Merit Student, Heilongjiang Province. 2023.
Services

Conference Reviewer

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)