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Ziqi Cai
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6ranked-venue papers
2as first author
6since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 5 · 2 first-author · 5 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
3 papers |
Generative modeling · 62% 3D vision · 38% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
4 papers |
Visual content generation and editing · 51% Computational photography and imaging · 45% Rendering · 4% |
Topics — the 13 heaviest of 14, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
1.9 | 2 | 2026 | ReContraster: Making Your Posters Stand Out with Regional Contrast · ACL (1) 2026 PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text Description · CVPR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › controllable generation
layout-conditioned image generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ReContraster: Making Your Posters Stand Out with Regional Contrast · ACL (1) 2026 |
Visual content generation and editing › graphic design
poster design |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ReContraster: Making Your Posters Stand Out with Regional Contrast · ACL (1) 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › image editing
text-guided image editing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text Description · CVPR 2025 |
Computational photography and imaging › snapshot compressive imaging › video reconstruction
event-based video reconstruction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unified Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes from Events · CVPR 2025 |
Computational photography and imaging
event-based vision |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unified Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes from Events · CVPR 2025 |
Visual content generation and editing
image editing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text Description · CVPR 2025 |
Visual content generation and editing › image editing
semantic image editing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text Description · CVPR 2025 |
Computational photography and imaging › snapshot compressive imaging
video reconstruction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unified Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes from Events · CVPR 2025 |
Computer vision › 3D vision
neural radiance field |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Real-Time 3D-Aware Portrait Video Relighting · CVPR 2024 |
Computer vision › 3D vision
novel view synthesis |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Real-Time 3D-Aware Portrait Video Relighting · CVPR 2024 |
Computer vision › 3D vision
real-time rendering |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Real-Time 3D-Aware Portrait Video Relighting · CVPR 2024 |
Visual content generation and editing › visual effects
video relighting |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Real-Time 3D-Aware Portrait Video Relighting · CVPR 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
diffusion model · 3.7multi-agent system · 2.0hybrid denoising · 2.0dual-network architecture · 1.7temporal consistency network · 1.5dual-encoder tri-plane inference · 1.5two-stage reconstruction · 0.9end-to-end network · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ReContraster: Making Your Posters Stand Out with Regional ContrastabstractEffective poster design requires rapidly capturing attention and clearly conveying messages.Inspired by the "contrast effects" principle, we propose ReContraster, the first training-free model to leverage regional contrast to make posters stand out.By emulating the cognitive behaviors of a poster designer, ReContraster introduces the compositional multi-agent system to identify elements, organize layout, and evaluate generated poster candidates.To further ensure harmonious transitions across region boundaries, ReContraster integrates the hybrid denoising strategy during the diffusion process.We additionally contribute a new benchmark dataset for comprehensive evaluation.Seven quantitative metrics and four user studies confirm its superiority over relevant state-of-the-art methods, producing visually striking and aesthetically appealing posters. Peixuan Zhang, Zijian Jia, Ziqi Cai, Shuchen Weng, Si Li 0001, Boxin Shi |
ACL (1) | 3 |
| 2026 | Community detection in attributed networks based on deep attention autoencoder with block diagonal subspace constraint
Ziqi Cai, Yingjie Yang |
Comput. Commun. | 3 |
| 2025 | PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text DescriptionabstractAchieving joint control over material properties, lighting, and high-level semantics in images is essential for applications in digital media, advertising, and interactive design. Existing methods often isolate these properties, lacking a cohesive approach to manipulating them simultaneously. We introduce PhyS-EdiT, a novel diffusion-based model that enables precise control over four critical material properties: roughness, metallicity, albedo, and transparency while integrating lighting and semantic adjustments within a single framework. To facilitate this disentangled control, we present PR-TIPS, a large and diverse synthetic dataset designed to improve the disentanglement of material and lighting effects. PhyS-EdiT incorporates a dual-network architecture and robust training strategies to balance low-level physical realism with high-level semantic coherence, supporting localized and continuous property adjustments. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of PhyS-EdiT in editing both synthetic and real-world images, achieving state-of-the-art performance on material, lighting, and semantic editing tasks. Ziqi Cai, Shuchen Weng, Boxin Shi |
CVPR | 1 |
| 2025 | Unified Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes from EventsabstractThis paper addresses the challenge that current event-based video reconstruction methods cannot produce static background information. Recent research has uncovered the potential of event cameras in capturing static scenes. Nonetheless, image quality deteriorates due to noise interference and detail loss, failing to provide reliable background information. We propose a two-stage reconstruction strategy to address these challenges and reconstruct static scene images comparable to frame cameras. Building on this, we introduce the URSEE framework designed for reconstructing motion videos with static backgrounds. This framework includes a parallel channel that can simultaneously process static and dynamic events, and a network module designed to reconstruct videos encompassing both static and dynamic scenes in an end-to-end manner. We also collect a real-captured dataset for static reconstruction, containing both indoor and outdoor scenes. Comparison results indicate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real data. Qiyao Gao, Peiqi Duan 0002, Hanyue Lou, Minggui Teng, Ziqi Cai, Xu Chen 0001, Boxin Shi |
CVPR | 5 |
| 2025 | Community detection via structured adaptive block-diagonal learning with topology-subspace fusion
Ziqi Cai, Yingjie Yang |
Mach. Learn. | 2 |
| 2024 | Real-Time 3D-Aware Portrait Video RelightingabstractSynthesizing realistic videos of talking faces under custom lighting conditions and viewing angles benefits various downstream applications like video conferencing. However, most existing relighting methods are either time-consuming or unable to adjust the viewpoints. In this paper, we present the first real-time 3D-aware method for relighting in-the-wild videos of talking faces based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Given an input portrait video, our method can synthesize talking faces under both novel views and novel lighting conditions with a photo-realistic and disentangled 3D representation. Specifically, we infer an albedo tri-plane, as well as a shading tri-plane based on a desired lighting condition for each video frame with fast dual-encoders. We also leverage a temporal consistency network to ensure smooth transitions and reduce flickering artifacts. Our method runs at 32.98 fps on consumer-level hardware and achieves state-of-the-art results in terms of reconstruction quality, lighting error, lighting instability, temporal consistency and inference speed. We demonstrate the effectiveness and interactivity of our method on various portrait videos with diverse lighting and viewing conditions. Ziqi Cai, Yukun Lai, Hongbo Fu 0001, Boxin Shi, Lin Gao 0004 |
CVPR | 1 |