Independent researcher · China / Hong Kong

李子扬.

ZIYANG LI

I build visual intelligence systems that move from pixels to structure, and from structure to scientific or creative action.

AI for Science3D VisionGenerative Systems
Portrait of Ziyang Li
Current focusEmbodied perception
+ controllable generation
Research is a trajectory, not a topic.
10CCF-A papers
and journal work
24TBastronomical data
pretraining scale
30shots in a
complete AI film workflow
A working grammar
01
PerceiveVision systems that read noisy, real-world signals.
02
ReconstructStructure, identity, pose, and 3D from incomplete views.
03
CreateGenerative pipelines that turn intent into controllable media.

01 / Research direction

One visual stack.
Many worlds to understand.

My work sits at the intersection of computer vision, scientific discovery, and generative systems. The common thread is simple: make difficult visual evidence legible, controllable, and useful.

A

Scientific intelligence

Learning from telescope signals, medical scans, spectral measurements, and uncertainty instead of clean benchmark inputs.

AI for ScienceRobust learningUncertainty
B

3D and embodied vision

Reconstructing people, hands, poses, and objects from the messy viewpoints that real users actually produce.

Digital humansHand trackingVirtual try-on
C

Generative systems

Designing multi-stage creative workflows where agents, assets, and quality control reinforce each other.

Multi-agent systemsText-to-filmVisual continuity
Illustrated research trajectory from astronomy and medical imaging to digital humans
Research trajectoryfrom signal to scene

The throughline

Build the bridge
between evidence and experience.

Whether the input is a radio telescope, an OCT volume, an unconstrained selfie, or a first-person hand video, the hard part is the same: recover the hidden structure without losing the conditions that produced it.

01Signalraw, noisy, incomplete
02Structurepose, identity, geometry
03Actionscience, design, creation

02 / Selected work

Systems I have
put into motion.

Projects are where the research becomes operational: a method, a pipeline, an artifact, and a result someone else can inspect.

013D digital humans

Up2you

High-fidelity reconstruction from unconstrained photo collections. The work connects data rectification, pose-correlated feature aggregation, identity preservation, and multi-garment virtual try-on.

ICLR 2026 · co-author
02Multi-agent creative systems

Cadence AI

A controllable text-to-film workflow that coordinates world-building, screenwriting, storyboarding, shot generation, quality gates, sound, narration, and post-production.

Founder · 30 shots · 135 seconds
03AI for Science

FAST RFI suppression

A computer-vision view of radio-frequency interference in the FAST telescope, combining 24 TB scale pretraining, spatial array priors, generalized masking, and log-space regression.

NAOC collaboration
04Medical imaging

Noise2Noise OCT

Unsupervised denoising for stochastic OCT noise through local patch domain transformation, designed for medical images where clean supervision is difficult to obtain.

Domain transformation · unsupervised

04 / Trajectory

Where the work
has taken me.

From robotics engineering to scientific AI, medical imaging, digital humans, and creative automation.

Cadence AI

Founder

Building a multi-agent creative system for end-to-end text-to-film generation.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Researcher · Prof. Mingguang He Group

Digital humans, virtual try-on, OCT registration, unsupervised denoising, and multi-view reconstruction.

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Assistant Researcher · AI for Science

Computer vision and scientific intelligence for astronomy, with work spanning detection, generative models, uncertainty, and symbolic regression.

Northeast Electric Power University

B.Eng. · Robotics Engineering

Built a foundation across robotics, perception, deep learning, and applied sensing systems.

05 / Contact

Let's make the
next system legible.

I am interested in research collaborations, ambitious visual intelligence problems, and opportunities where a strong technical system needs a clear point of view.

China / Hong Kong · open to conversations