Anyi Rao
@raoanyi
Assistant Professor @HKUST | AI for Creativity | ex @Stanford @Meta @RealityLabs @UofT | Works #ControlNet #AnimateDiff @cveu_workshop
🔥 Announcing the Creative Visual Content Generation, Editing & Understanding Workshop at #SIGGRAPH2025! For the first time in SIGGRAPH history, this pioneering workshop is officially part of the Technical Program—and we’re celebrating with an exceptional lineup! ✨ Join us as…

Excited to announce that Prof. Huamin Qu (@HKUST) will give a talk at our #SIGGRAPH2025 workshop! 🎙️ Title: Human-AI Collaboration for Storytelling From data storytelling to screenwriting, explore how humans & AI co-create in the age of generative tech. #AI #HCI #Storytelling
🎉 Registration for #UIST2025 is now open! Join us in Busan for cutting-edge research, exciting demos, and networking along the beautiful Korean coast. Take advantage of early bird rates by registering before August 29th. 🎟️ Register now: cvent.me/MMYyPL
Registration for #UIST2025 is open! I'm serving as registration co-chair this year with @jiwan_hci and @raoanyi - looking forward to welcoming everyone to Busan :)
🎉 Registration for #UIST2025 is now open! Join us in Busan for cutting-edge research, exciting demos, and networking along the beautiful Korean coast. Take advantage of early bird rates by registering before August 29th. 🎟️ Register now: cvent.me/MMYyPL
Ep1 live! Special guest: Tony Ngai, Asia Pacific Governor of SMPTE, shares how AI is transforming filmmaking, from workflows to the challenges of control. Advice to filmmakers: "Storytelling is your golden ticket OUT of film” What excites you most about AI in storytelling?
Episode 1 of Empowering Storytellers is Live! Watch it on YouTube now: youtube.com/watch?v=hGIeRG… We’re thrilled to kick off Empowering Storytellers with a very special guest: @tonyngai, Asia Pacific Governor of Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Oscar…


Light-A-Video is accepted to #ICCV25. It is a training-free approach to achieve temporally smooth video relighting. 1️⃣ We design a Consistent Light Attention (CLA) module, which enhances cross-frame interactions within the self-attention layers to stabilize the generation of the…
Light of Normals Unified Feature Representation for Universal Photometric Stereo
Universal Photometric Stereo (PS) aims for robust normal maps under any light. 🚨 But big hurdles remain! 1️⃣ Deep coupling: Ambiguous intensity - is it the light changing or the surface turning? 🤔 2️⃣ Detail loss: Complex surfaces (shadows, inter-reflections, fine details) stump…
Amazing job!
What an amazing conference! Thanks everybody! @CVPR #CVPR25 @cveu_workshop
We have a full house #CVPR2025 @CVPR workshop on AI for Creative Visual Content in Room 207 A-D @cveu_workshop. Come join us now!

Thanks Ishan Misra for sharing insights on training MovieGen in our CVEU workshop! #CVPR2025 #CVPR25 #CVPR @imisra_ Join us in Room 207.
Dan B. Goldman from Lucas Film is talking about how GenAI in professional films! Thank you, Dan! @danbgoldman #CVPR25 #CVPR #CVPR2025 CVEU is happening in Room 207. Join us now!
Super exciting first day of #CVPR2025 :) Looking forward to tomorrow. I’ll be speaking at @PixFoundationCV 10:45am Efficient Large Vision Models 11:55am @cveu_workshop at 1:15pm and panel at 2:30pm Efficient and On-Device Generation workshop at 2pm AI4CC workshop at 3:30pm
The #CVPR2025 @CVPR Workshop of AI for CreativeAffiliate Visual Content Generation, Editing and Understanding @cveu_workshop will take place tomorrow in room 207 A-D on Thu 12 Jun, 1 p.m. CDT. We have wonderful speakers like 1) Ishan Misra @imisra_ Director, Research Scientist…


Yi Ma: Pursuing the Nature of Intelligence (April 29, 2025) youtu.be/TihaCUjyRLM?si… via @YouTube
🗓️CVEU Workshop Schedule #CVPR2025 📍All times in Nashville Time 🔗Full program details can be found here: cveu.github.io
Looking forward to your talk!
I'll be at the CVEU Workshop on Thursday at CVPR to talk about Generative Video Games!