Haodong Li (李桩东)

I'm currently a CS PhD student at UC San Diego, working with Prof. Manmohan Chandraker. Prior to this, I got my MPhil degree in CS from HKUST, working with Prof. Ying-Cong Chen, and my BEng degree in Automation from Zhejiang University. I spent a wonderful summer at Tencent as a student researcher.

I'm currently exploring topics on 3D / video / agents (e.g., LLM, VLM, VLA) tasks. I'm very open to collaborations. Just drop me an email if you're interested! 😊

Email: hal211@ucsd.edu
Wechat: lihaodong-2000

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Selected Publications

: Both authors contributed equally.
DA2: Depth Anything in Any Direction
Haodong Li, Wangguangdong Zheng, Jing He, Yuhao Liu, Xin Lin, Xin Yang, Ying-Cong Chen Chunchao Guo

arXiv 2025
arXiv (Soon) / Paper / Project Page / Github (Soon) / Data (Soon) / Demo (Soon) / Slides

Powered by large-scale training data curated from our panoramic data curation engine, and the SphereViT for addressing the spherical distortions in panoramas, DA2 is able to predict dense, scale-invariant distance from a single 360° panorama in an end-to-end manner, with remarkable geometric fidelity and strong zero-shot generalization.

LOTUS: Diffusion-based Visual Foundation Model for High-quality Dense Prediction
Jing He , Haodong Li , Wei Yin, Yixun Liang, Leheng Li, Kaiqiang Zhou, Hongbo Zhang, Bingbing Liu, Ying-Cong Chen

ICLR 2025
arXiv / Paper / Project Page / Github GitHub stars / Demo (D) / Demo (N) / ComfyUI

Lotus is a diffusion-based visual foundation model with a simple yet effective adaptation protocol, aiming to fully leverage the pre-trained diffusion's powerful visual priors for dense prediction. With minimal training data, Lotus achieves SoTA performance in two key geometry perception tasks, i.e., zero-shot monocular depth and normal estimation.

DisEnvisioner: Disentangled and Enriched Visual Prompt for Image Customization
Jing He , Haodong Li , Yongzhe Hu, Guibao Shen, Yingjie Cai, Weichao Qiu, Ying-Cong Chen

ICLR 2025
arXiv / Paper / Project Page / Github GitHub stars / Demo

Characterized by its emphasis on the interpretation of subject-essential attributes, the proposed DisEnvisioner effectively identifies and enhances the subject-essential feature while filtering out other irrelevant information, enabling exceptional image customization without cumbersome tuning or relying on multiple reference images.

DIScene: Object Decoupling and Interaction Modeling for Complex Scene Generation
Xiao-Lei Li , Haodong Li , Hao-Xiang Chen, Tai-Jiang Mu, Shi-Min Hu

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Paper / Video

DIScene is capable of generating complex 3D scene with decoupled objects and clear interactions. Leveraging a learnable Scene Graph and Hybrid Mesh-Gaussian representation, we get 3D scenes with superior quality. DIScene can also flexibly edit the 3D scene by changing interactive objects or their attributes, benefiting diverse applications.

Bi-TTA: Bidirectional Test-Time Adapter for Remote Physiological Measurement
Haodong Li, Hao Lu, Ying-Cong Chen

ECCV 2024
arXiv / Paper / Project Page

We introduce Bi-TTA, a method that leverages spatial and temporal consistency for appropriate self-supervision, coupled with novel prospective and retrospective adaptation strategies, enabling superior adaptation ability of pre-trained rPPG models to the target domain using only unannotated, instance-level target data.

LucidDreamer: Towards High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation via Interval Score Matching
Yixun Liang , Xin Yang , Jiantao Lin, Haodong Li, Xiaogang Xu, Ying-Cong Chen

CVPR 2024 Highlight
arXiv / Paper / Github GitHub stars / Demo / Video

We present LucidDreamer, a text-to-3D generation framework, to distill high-fidelity textures and shapes from pretrained 2D diffusion models with a novel Interval Score Matching objective and an advanced 3D distillation pipeline. Together, we achieve superior 3D generation results with photorealistic quality in a short training time.

Education

University of California, San Diego (2025/09 - Now)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2023/09 - 2025/07)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Information Hub, Guangzhou Campus
Zhejiang University (2019/09 - 2023/06)
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
College of Control Science and Engineering

Experience

Tencent (2025/05 - 2025/09)
Student Researcher
Center of 3D Generation

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