About

Education

Ph.D.           Sep. 2022 - Present                     Tongji University, Shanghai, China.                     Ph.D. student in Computer Science
B.S.             Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022                     NJUST , Nanjing, China.                     B.S.(Honors) in Intelligence Science and Technology

Experiences

Jun. 2025 -- Present, Tencent, Shenzhen, China      Research Intern, work on image/video generation.

Nov. 2023 -- May. 2025, Shanghai AI Lab, Shanghai, China      Research Intern, work on image/video generation.

News

• StyleShot is accepted by IEEE TPAMI 2025!!!
• We release CharacterShot, which supports diverse character designs and custom motion control (2D pose sequence), enabling 4D character animation in minutes and without specialized hardware.
• One papers (CamPVG) about panorama generation accepted to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025.
• Two papers (MotionShot, CrossVLAD) about motion transfer in video generation and adversarial attack on unified vision-language models are accepted to ICCV 2025.
• I will be joining the AIPD at Tencent (IP-Adapter Team) to begin my internship journey. It's great to see you in Shenzhen!
• One paper (MCDM) about long-term talkingface generation accepted to ICML 2025.
• We release LEGO-Puzzles, a new benchmark with 1,100 LEGO-based VQA tasks that evaluates MLLMs' ability to perform multi-step spatial reasoning.
• One paper (UniDD) about dataset distillation accepted to CVPR 2025 as the oral presentation.
• One paper (FaceShot) about portrait animation accepted to ICLR 2025.
• One paper (DiffPano) about panorama generation accepted to NIPS 2025.
• We release StyleShot, a style transfer method capable of generating the high-quality stylized images that match the desired style from any reference image without test-time style-tuning.
• One paper (Re-ID leak) about MIA in Re-ID accepted to IJCV.
• One paper about fine-grained classification accepted to AAAI 2024.
• One paper (SDMIA) about MIA in Re-ID accepted to AAAI 2023 as the oral presentation.

Selected Publications

CharacterShot: Controllable and Consistent 4D Character Animation.

Junyao Gao*, Jiaxing Li*, Wenran Liu, Yanhong Zeng, Fei Shen, Kai Chen, Yanan Sun, Cairong Zhao (* equal contribution)

Preperint, 2025

[ paper] [code]

LEGO-Puzzles: How Good Are MLLMs at Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning?

Kexian Tang*, Junyao Gao*, Yanhong Zeng, Haodong Duan, Yanan Sun, Zhening Xing, Wenran Liu, Kaifeng Lyu, Kai Chen (* equal contribution)

Preperint, 2025

[ paper] [code] [project page]

FaceShot: Bring Any Character into Life

Junyao Gao, Yanan Sun, Fei Shen, Xin Jiang, Zhening Xing, Kai Chen, Cairong Zhao,

ICLR 2025

[ paper] [code] [project page]

StyleShot: A Snapshot on Any Style

Junyao Gao, Yanchen Liu, Yanan Sun, Yinhao Tang, Yanhong Zeng, Kai Chen, Cairong Zhao

TPAMI, 2025

[ paper] [code] [project page] [demo]

Re-ID-leak: Membership Inference Attacks Against Person Re-identification

Junyao Gao, Xinyang Jiang, Shuguang Dou, Dongsheng Li, Duoqian Miao, Cairong Zhao

IJCV, 2024

[ paper] [code]

Similarity distribution based membership inference attack on person re-identification

Junyao Gao, Xinyang Jiang, Huishuai Zhang, Yifan Yang, Shuguang Dou, Dongsheng Li, Duoqian Miao, Cheng Deng, Cairong Zhao

AAAI (oral), 2023

[ paper] [code]