Puffin-World: Scaling a Unified Multimodal Model with Native 3D World States
Kang Liao, Yihang Luo, Xiao-Ming Wu, Linyi Jin, Size Wu, Chunyu Lin, Yao Zhao, Fei Wang, Wei Li, Chen Change Loy
arXiv preprint (2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github] [Dataset] [Model] [HF Article]

Prisma-World: Camera-Controllable Multi-Agent Video World Model
Huiqiang Sun*, Zhan Peng*, Size Wu, Kun Wang, Kang Liao, Dianyi Wang, Xingyu Zeng, Sheng Jin, Yangguang Li, Zhiguo Cao, Ziwei Liu, Wei Li
(*Equal contribution.)
arXiv preprint (2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

Edit in 2D, Verify in 3D: Reinforcement Learning for Multi-view Consistent Scene Editing
Jiyuan Wang, Chunyu Lin, Lei Sun, Zhi Cao, Yuyang Yin, Lang Nie, Zhenlong Yuan, Xiangxiang Chu, Yunchao Wei, Kang Liao, Guosheng Lin
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

Thinking with Camera: A Unified Multimodal Model for Camera-Centric Understanding and Generation
Kang Liao, Size Wu, Zhonghua Wu, Linyi Jin, Chao Wang, Yikai Wang, Fei Wang, Wei Li, Chen Change Loy
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github] [Dataset] [Model] [Demo]

VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models
Xiao-Ming Wu, Bin Fan, Kang Liao, Jian-Jian Jiang, Runze Yang, Yihang Luo, Zhonghua Wu, Wei-Shi Zheng, Chen Change Loy
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

Next Visual Granularity Generation
Yikai Wang, Zhouxia Wang, Zhonghua Wu, Qingyi Tao, Kang Liao, Chen Change Loy
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

From Editor to Dense Geometry Estimator
Jiyuan Wang, Chunyu Lin, Lei Sun, Rongying Liu, Lang Nie, Mingxing Li, Kang Liao, Xiangxiang Chu, Yao Zhao
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

Revisiting 360 Depth Estimation with PanoGabor: A New Fusion Perspective
Zhijie Shen, Chunyu Lin, Lang Nie, Kang Liao, Weisi Lin, Yao Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2026)
[arXiv] [Github]

MOWA: Multiple-in-One Image Warping Model
Kang Liao, Zongsheng Yue, Zhonghua Wu, Chen Change Loy
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2025)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

Denoising as Adaptation: Noise-Space Domain Adaptation for Image Restoration
Kang Liao, Zongsheng Yue, Zhouxia Wang, Chen Change Loy
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)
[arXiv] [Project Page] [Github]

Arbitrary-steps Image Super-resolution via Diffusion Inversion
Zongsheng Yue, Kang Liao, Chen Change Loy
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)
[arXiv] [Github] [Demo]

Jasmine: Harnessing Diffusion Prior for Self-supervised Depth Estimation
JiYuan Wang, Chunyu Lin, Cheng Guan, Lang Nie, Jing He, Haodong Li, Kang Liao, Yao Zhao The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
[Paper] [Project Page] [Github]

StabStitch++: Unsupervised Online Video Stitching with Spatiotemporal Bidirectional Warps
Lang Nie, Chunyu Lin, Kang Liao, Yun Zhang, Shuaicheng Liu, Yao Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2025)
[Paper] [Github] [Video]

Semi-Supervised Coupled Thin-Plate Spline Model for Rotation Correction and Beyond
Lang Nie, Chunyu Lin, Kang Liao, Shuaicheng Liu, Yao Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2024)
[arXiv] [Github]

360 Layout Estimation via Orthogonal Planes Disentanglement and Multi-view Geometric Consistency Perception
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2024)
Zhijie Shen, Chunyu Lin, Junsong Zhang, Lang Nie, Kang Liao, Yao Zhao
[arXiv] [Github]

Eliminating Warping Shakes for Unsupervised Online Video Stitching
Lang Nie, Chunyu Lin, Kang Liao, Yun Zhang, Shuaicheng Liu, Rui Ai, Yao Zhao
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)
[arXiv] [Github] [Video]

RecRecNet: Rectangling Rectified Wide-Angle Images by Thin-Plate Spline Model and DoF-based Curriculum Learning
Kang Liao*, Lang Nie*, Chunyu Lin, Zishuo Zheng, Yao Zhao
(*Equal contribution.)
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[arXiv] [Github]

Parallax-Tolerant Unsupervised Deep Image Stitching
Lang Nie, Chunyu Lin, Kang Liao, Shuaicheng Liu, Yao Zhao
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[arXiv] [Github]

Learning Deposition Policies for Fused Multi-Material 3D Printing
Kang Liao∗, Thibault Tricard∗, Michal Piovarci, Hans-Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)
(*Equal contribution.)
[PDF] [Video]

Cylin-Painting: Seamless 360° Panoramic Image Outpainting and Beyond
Kang Liao, Xiangyu Xu, Chunyu Lin, Wenqi Ren, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP 2023)
[arXiv] [Github]

PanoFormer: Panorama Transformer for Indoor 360° Depth Estimation
Zhijie Shen, Chunyu Lin, Kang Liao, Lang Nie, Zishuo Zheng, Yao Zhao
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
[arXiv] [Github] [Chinese Blog]

Deep Rectangling for Image Stitching: A Learning Baseline
Lang Nie, Chunyu Lin, Kang Liao, Shuaicheng Liu, Yao Zhao
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022, Oral)
[PDF] [Github] [Chinese Blog]

Towards Complete Scene and Regular Shape for Distortion Rectification by Curve-Aware Extrapolation
Kang Liao, Chunyu Lin, Yunchao Wei, Feng Li, Shangrong Yang, Yao Zhao
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)
[PDF]

Appearance Flow-based Progressively Complementary Network for Distortion Rectification
Shangrong Yang*, Chunyu Lin*, Kang Liao*, Chunjie Zhang, Yao Zhao
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021)
(*Equal contribution.)
[PDF] [Github]

A Deep Ordinal Distortion Estimation Approach for Distortion Rectification
Kang Liao, Chunyu Lin, Yao Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP 2021)
[arxiv] [Github]