Gansu Province, China
28th June 2024

Xiaoyan Cong 丛箫言

Email: xiaoyan_cong [at] brown [dot] edu

Office: 115 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02906

I am currently a 2nd-year CS Ph.D. student at brown Logo Brown University, advised by Prof. Srinath Sridhar. I obtained my B.E. of Robotics Engineering from zju Logo Zhejiang University with honors from Cho Kochen Honors College in 2024. During my undergraduate, I am grateful to be advised by Prof. Qixing Huang, Prof. Li Yi, Prof. Qifeng Chen, Prof. Xiaowei Zhou

📢 I am currently looking for a research internship for 2026. Please reach out if you find I could be a good fit for your team!

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News 📢
  • [2025.06] I will join Bytedance Inc. as a Research Scientist Intern at San Jose, CA.
  • [2024.08] I will start as a CS PhD student at Brown University starting from 2024Fall.
Publications ( show selected / show all by date / )
VIVA: VLM-Guided Instruction-Based Video Editing with Reward Optimization
Xiaoyan Cong, Haotian Yang, Angtian Wang, Yizhi Wang, Yiding Yang, Canyu Zhang, Chongyang Ma

[arXiv] [Project Website]

DyTact: Capturing Dynamic Contacts in Hand-Object Manipulation
Xiaoyan Cong, Angela Xing, Chandradeep Pokhariya, Rao Fu, Srinath Sridhar

[3DV 2026 Oral] [arXiv] [Project Website]

Art3D: Training-Free 3D Generation from Flat-Colored Illustration
Xiaoyan Cong, Jiayi Shen, Zekun Li, Rao Fu, Tao Lu, Srinath Sridhar

[CVPRW 2025 Oral] [arXiv] [Project Website] [Course Project of CSCI1430]

PackUV: Packed Gaussian UV Maps for 4D Volumetric Video
Aashish Rai, Xiaoyan Cong, Angela Xing, Zekun Li, Tao Lu, Srinath Sridhar

[arXiv] [Project Website]

GenHSI: Controllable Generation of Human-Scene Interaction Videos
Zekun Li, Rui Zhou, Rahul Sajnani, Xiaoyan Cong, Daniel Ritchie, Srinath Sridhar

[WACV 2026] [arXiv] [Project Website]

Oscillation Inversion: Training-free Image and Video Enhancement through Oscillated Latents in Large Flow Models
Yan Zheng, Zhenxiao Liang, Xiaoyan Cong, Yi Yang, Lanqing Guo, Yuehao Wang, Peihao Wang, Zhangyang Wang

[AAAI 2026 Oral] [arXiv]

4DRecons: 4D Neural Implicit Deformable Objects Reconstruction from a single RGB-D Camera with Geometrical and Topological Regularizations
Xiaoyan Cong, Haitao Yang, Liyan Chen, Kaifeng Zhang, Li Yi, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Qixing Huang

[arXiv]

Automatic Controllable Colorization by Imagination
Xiaoyan Cong, Yue Wu, Qifeng Chen, Chenyang Lei

[CVPR 2024] [arXiv] [Webpage]

Experience
  • [2025.06 - Present] Research Scientist Intern at Bytedance Inc.

    Advisor: Chongyang Ma



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