Yiming Zhang   张倚铭

I am currently a PhD. candidate jointly at USTC (中国科学技术大学) and Shanghai AI Laboratory, advised by Yanhong Zeng and Kai Chen. Before that, I received my bachelor's degree of B.Eng. from Dalian University of Technology in 2024.

My research interests focus on Generative AI including Video, Audio and Multimodal Generation.

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News

  • [2024.07] Release the paper and code of FoleyCrafter.
  • [2024.06] Graduated from Dalian University of Technology.
  • [2024.03] Our paper PIA is accepted by CVPR 2024.

Research

PIA: Your Personalized Image Animator via Plug-and-Play Modules in Text-to-Image Models
Yiming Zhang*, Zhening Xing*, Yanhong Zeng, Youqing Fang, Kai Chen
CVPR, 2024
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PIA can animate any images from personalized models by text while preserving high-fidelity details and unique styles.

FoleyCrafter: Bring Silent Videos to Life with Lifelike and Synchronized Sounds
Yiming Zhang, Yicheng Gu, Yanhong Zeng, Zhening Xing, Yuancheng Wang, Zhizheng Wu, Kai Chen
arxiv, 2024
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FoleyCrafter is a video-to-audio generation framework which can produce realistic sound effects semantically relevant and synchronized with videos.

Working Experience

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Researcher Intern, 2023.07 ~ Present


Awards

  • Outstanding Undergraduate in 2024.
  • National Scholarship in 2022 (Top 1% in DUT).
  • Merit Students.
  • First Prize Excellence Scholarship.