Ph.D., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Sep. 2021 - Jun. 2026

• Major: Artificial Intelligence, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation
• Supervisor: Prof. Zhiguo Cao
• Research Topics: Depth Estimation, Video Temporal Consistency, Dense Prediction, Semantic Segmentation, Light-weight Models, Knowledge Distillation
• Honors and Awards: Outstanding Graduate Student, Outstanding Freshman, etc.

B.Eng., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021

• Major: Automation Experimental Class, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation
• Honors and Awards: Outstanding Graduates, Academic Scholarship, etc.

Visiting Student, NTU and Sensetime Research (S-Lab)

Nov. 2023 - Nov. 2024

• Supervisor: Prof. Guosheng Lin
• Research Topics: Autonomous Driving, Camera-Radar/Lidar Multi-modal Fusion

Research Student, Adobe Research

APR. 2022 - AUG. 2024

• Supervisor: Dr. Jianming Zhang
• Research Topics: Consistent Video Depth Estimation, In-the-wild Video Depth Dataset

NVDS+: Towards Efficient and Versatile Neural Stabilizer for Video Depth Estimation

Yiran Wang, Min Shi, Jiaqi Li, Chaoyi Hong, Zihao Huang, Juewen Peng, Zhiguo Cao, Jianming Zhang, Ke Xian, Guosheng Lin

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024

Self-Distilled Depth Refinement with Noisy Poisson Fusion

Jiaqi Li^*, Yiran Wang^*, Jinghong Zheng, Zihao Huang, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao, Jianming Zhang
(* Equal contribution)

The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

Neural Video Depth Stabilizer

Yiran Wang, Min Shi, Jiaqi Li, Zihao Huang, Zhiguo Cao, Jianming Zhang, Ke Xian, Guosheng Lin

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

Diffusion-Augmented Depth Prediction with Sparse Annotations

Jiaqi Li, Yiran Wang*, Zihao Huang, Jinghong Zheng, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao, Jianming Zhang
(* Corresponding Author)

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023

Less is More: Consistent Video Depth Estimation with Masked Frames Modeling

Yiran Wang, Zhiyu Pan, Xingyi Li, Zhiguo Cao, Ke Xian, Jianming Zhang

Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022

Symmnerf: Learning to explore symmetry prior for single-view view synthesis

Xingyi Li, Chaoyi Hong, Yiran Wang, Zhiguo Cao, Ke Xian, Guosheng Lin

Proceedings of the Asian conference on computer vision (ACCV), 2022 (Oral)

Knowledge distillation for fast and accurate monocular depth estimation on mobile devices

Yiran Wang, Xingyi Li, Min Shi, Ke Xian, Zhiguo Cao

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021

Towards Robust Monocular Depth Estimation in Non-Lambertian Surfaces

Junrui Zhang, Jiaqi Li, Yachuan Huang, Yiran Wang, Jinghong Zheng, Liao Shen, Zhiguo Cao

European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW), 2024

NTIRE 2024 challenge on HR depth from images of specular and transparent surfaces

Pierluigi Ramir, Fabio Tosi, Luigi Stefa, Radu Timofte, Alex Costanzino, Matteo Poggi, Samuele Salti, Stefano Matto, Yangyang Zhang, Cailin Wu, Zhuangda He, Shuangshuang Yin, Jiaxu Dong, Yangchenxu Liu, Hao Jiang, Jun Shi, Yixiang Jin, Dingzhe Li, Bingxin Ke, Anton Obukhov, Tinafu Wang, Nando Metzger, Shengyu Huang, Konrad Schindler, Yachuan Huang, Jiaqi Li, Junrui Zhang, Yiran Wang, et al.

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2023

Fast and accurate single-image depth estimation on mobile devices, mobile ai 2021 challenge: Report

Andrey Ignatov, Grigory Malivenko, David Plowman, Samarth Shukla, Radu Timofte, Ziyu Zhang, Yicheng Wang, Zilong Huang, Guozhong Luo, Gang Yu, Bin Fu, Yiran Wang, et al.

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021