😃 Welcome to my personal page!

I am Liao Shen (申立奥 in Chinese), a second-year (2023.09-) master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), supervised by Prof. Zhiguo Cao. Before that, I received my bachelor’s degree from HUST in 2023. Currently, I am fortunate to be a research associate at MMLAB@NTU, advised by Prof. Chen Change Loy. My research focuses on 3d computer vision, AI Generative Content (AIGC) and bokeh rendering.

🔥 News

  • 2025-02 : 🎉 DoF-Gaussian and CH3Depth are accepted to CVPR 2025.
  • 2024-10 : 🎉 Video Bokeh Rendering is accepted to ACM MM 2024, and is honored as best paper candidate🚀🚀🚀.
  • 2024-07 : 🎉 DreamMover and MVSGaussian are accepted to ECCV 2024.
  • 2024-07 : 🎉 Won Winner Award in “TRICKY 2024 Transparent & Reflective objects In the wild Challenge”.
  • 2024-02 : 🎉 DyBluRF is accepted to CVPR 2024.
  • 2023-10 : 🎉 Make-It-4D is accepted to ACM MM 2023.
  • 2023-06 : 🎉 Won Winner Award in “NTIRE 2023 Bokeh Effect Transformation Challenge”.

📝 Publications

CVPR 2025
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[CVPR 2025] DoF-Gaussian: Controllable Depth-of-Field for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Liao Shen, Tianqi Liu, Huiqiang Sun, Jiaqi Li, Zhiguo Cao, Wei Li, Chen Change Loy.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

We introduce DoF-Gaussian, a controllable depth-of-field method for 3D-GS. We develop a lens-based imaging model based on geometric optics principles to control DoF effects. Our framework is customizable and supports various interactive applications.

ACM MM 2024
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[ACM MM 2024] Video Bokeh Rendering: Make Casual Videography Cinematic (Best paper candidate)🚀🚀🚀
Yawen Luo, Min Shi, Liao Shen, Yachuan Huang, Zixuan Ye, Juewen Peng, Zhiguo Cao.
[Paper]

We introduce VBR, the video bokeh rendering model that first leverages information from multiple frames to generate refocusable videos from all-in-focus videos.

ECCV 2024
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[ECCV 2024] DreamMover: Leveraging the Prior of Diffusion Models for Image Interpolation with Large Motion
Liao Shen, Tianqi Liu, Huiqiang Sun, Xinyi Ye, Baopu Li, Jianming Zhang, Zhiguo Cao.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

By leveraging the prior of diffusion models, DreamMover can generate intermediate images from image pairs with large motion while maintaining semantic consistency.

ECCV 2024
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[ECCV 2024] MVSGaussian: Fast Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo
Tianqi Liu, Guangcong Wang, Shoukang Hu, Liao Shen, Xinyi Ye, Yuhang Zang, Zhiguo Cao, Wei Li, Ziwei Liu.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

MVSGaussian is a Gaussian-based method designed for efficient reconstruction of unseen scenes from sparse views in a single forward pass. It offers high-quality initialization for fast training and real-time rendering.

ECCV Workshop 2024
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[ECCV Workshop 2024] Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation in Non-Lambertian Surfaces
Junrui Zhang, Jiaqi Li, Yachuan Huang, Yiran Wang, Jinghong Zheng, Liao Shen, Zhiguo Cao
[Paper]

Monocular depth estimation methods often fail in predicting non-Lambertian surfaces, such as transparent or mirror (ToM) surfaces, due to the unique reflective properties of these regions. In this work, We enable the baseline model to directly learn the uniqueness of non-Lambertian surface regions for depth estimation through a well designed training framework.

CVPR 2024
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[CVPR 2024] DyBluRF: Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Monocular Video
Huiqiang Sun, Xingyi Li, Liao Shen, Xinyi Ye, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao.
[Project page] [Paper] [Code]

DyBluRF is a dynamic neural radiance field method that synthesizes sharp novel views from a monocular video affected by motion blur.

ACM MM 2023
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[ACM MM 2023] Make-It-4D: Synthesizing a Consistent Long-Term Dynamic Scene Video from a Single Image
Liao Shen, Xingyi Li, Huiqiang Sun, Juewen Peng, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao, Guosheng Lin.
[Paper] [Code]

Make-It-4D is a novel framework that can generate a consistent long-term dynamic video from a single image. The generated video in volves both visual content movements and large camera motions, bringing the still image back to life.

CVPR Workshop 2023
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[CVPR Workshop 2023] Selective Bokeh Effect Transformation
Juewen Peng, Zhiyu Pan, Chengxin Liu, Xianrui Luo, Huiqiang Sun, Liao Shen, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao.
[Paper] [Code]

Bokeh effect transformation aims to convert bokeh effects from one camera lens to another. In this work, we introduce a new concept of blur ratio, which represents the ratio of the blur amount of a target image to that of a source image, and propose a novel framework SBTNet

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024    National Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2023    Honours Degrees (Top 3%)
  • 2021    Outstanding Undergraduate Student (Top 1%)
  • 2019    Merit Student (Top 7%)

📝 Internships and Experiences

  • 2025.01 - 2025.07, Project Officer at MMLAB@NTU, advised by Prof. Chen Change Loy.
  • 2024.06 - 2025.02, Worked on project “Camera Image Fusion and Reconstruction” with Huawei.
  • 2023.12 - 2024.05, Worked on project with Adobe.
  • 2023.10 - up to now, Work on project “Large Aperture Bokeh Effect Simulation of DSLR” with Vivo.

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