Yunlian Sun
孙运莲

Associate Professor
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
yunlian.sun@njust.edu.cn

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, Generative AI and Embodied AI. I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D./Master students with strong research interests in 3D Vision, Generative AI, and Embodied AI.

Education & Research Experience

  • 2015.01 - 2017.06  Postdoc at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • 2011.01 - 2014.07  Ph.D. at University of Bologna & University of Sassari, Italy
  • 2008.09 - 2010.12  M.E. at Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  • 2004.09 - 2008.07  B.S. at Northeast Normal University, China

Research on Human Motion/Interaction Capture & Generation

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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基于时序感知潜在扩散模型的人体交互动作生成
计算机学报, 2025
石旭, 孙运莲*, 骆岩林, 张鸿文
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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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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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Research on Human Face Analysis & 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 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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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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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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