Yunlian Sun（孙运莲）

About Me

I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. My research interests focus on Human-Centered Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Generative AI and Embodied AI. I completed my Ph.D. at University of Bologna and University of Sassari, advised by Prof. Masssimo Tistarelli and Prof. Davide Maltoni. After that, I worked as a Postdoc at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Tieniu Tan. I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D./Master/Undergraduate students with strong research interests in 3D Vision, Generative AI, and Embodied AI. Feel free to reach out!

Selected Publications on Motion Capture & Generation

HiTMM: Generative Temporal Masked Modeling of Human Interactive Motions
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026
Zicheng Jiao, Yunlian Sun*, Hongwen Zhang, Jinhui Tang, Massimo Tistarelli
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InterGPT: Autoregressive Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Online Human Reaction Generation
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026
Xiaolong Ma, Zicheng Jiao, Yunlian Sun*, Hongwen Zhang, Jinhui Tang
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HOSIG: Full-Body Human-Object-Scene Interaction Generation with Hierarchical Scene Perception
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
Wei Yao, Yunlian Sun*, Hongwen Zhang, Yebin Liu, Jinhui Tang*
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EDMG:Towards Efficient Long Dance Motion Generation with Fundamental Movements from Dance Genres
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025
Jinming Zhang#, Yunlian Sun#, Hongwen Zhang, Jinhui Tang*
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STAF: 3D Human Mesh Recovery from Video with Spatio-Temporal Alignment Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024
Wei Yao, Hongwen Zhang, Yunlian Sun*, Jinhui Tang
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Human Interaction Generation Based on Temporal-Aware Latent Diffusion Model
Chinese Journal of Computers (计算机学报), 2025
Xu Shi, Yunlian Sun*, Yanlin Luo, Hongwen Zhang
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ReCoM: Realistic Co-Speech Motion Generation with Recurrent Embedded Transformer
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026
Yong Xie, Yunlian Sun*, Hongwen Zhang, Yebin Liu, Jinhui Tang
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FG-MDM: Towards Zero-Shot Human Motion Generation via ChatGPT-Refined Descriptions
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024
Xu Shi, Wei Yao, Chuanchen Luo, Junran Peng, Hongwen Zhang, Yunlian Sun*
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Selected Publications on Face Recognition & Generation

Demographic Analysis from Biometric Data: Achievements, Challenges, and New Frontiers
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2018
Yunlian Sun, Man Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan
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Facial Age Synthesis with Label Distribution-Guided Generative Adversarial Network
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2020
Yunlian Sun, Jinhui Tang, Xiangbo Shu, Zhenan Sun, Massimo Tistarelli
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Facial Age and Expression Synthesis Using Ordinal Ranking Adversarial Networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2020
Yunlian Sun, Jinhui Tang, Zhenan Sun, Massimo Tistarelli
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Complementary Cohort Strategy for Multimodal Face Pair Matching
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2016
Yunlian Sun, Kamal Nasrollahi, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan
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LiSiam: Localization Invariance Siamese Network for Deepfake Detection
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2022
Jian Wang, Yunlian Sun*, Jinhui Tang*
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On the Use of Discriminative Cohort Score Normalization for Unconstrained Face Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2014
Massimo Tistarelli (PhD Advisor), Yunlian Sun, Norman Poh
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Depth-Based Ensemble Learning Network for Face Anti-Spoofing
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
Jie Jiang, Yunlian Sun*
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Attention-Aware Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Facial Age Synthesis
Neurocomputing, 2021
Xiahui Chen, Yunlian Sun*, Xiangbo Shu, Qi Li
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Selected Publications on Other CV & PR Topics

Boosting Few-Shot Fine-Grained Recognition with Background Suppression and Foreground Alignment
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023
Zican Zha, Hao Tang, Yunlian Sun*, Jinhui Tang
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GANet: Unary Attention Reaches Pairwise Attention via Implicit Group Clustering in Light-Weight CNNs
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
Cheng Zhuang, Yunlian Sun*
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Host–Parasite: Graph LSTM-in-LSTM for Group Activity Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2021
Xiangbo Shu, Liyan Zhang, Yunlian Sun, Jinhui Tang
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