Yi (Arlo) Yang

I am a first-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, advised by Prof. Changjian Li. I also have the privilege of working with Prof. Hao Pan at Tsinghua University. My research lies at the intersection of computer graphics and computer vision, with a focus on kinematic asset modeling.

Before my Ph.D., I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in Electronics and Computer Science. During the third year of my undergraduate studies, I was an exchange student at The University of Texas at Austin.

Publications

2026

Sketch2Arti: Sketch-based Articulation Modeling of CAD Objects

Yi Yang, Hao Pan, Yijing Cui, Alla Sheffer, and Changjian Li

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 45(4), 2026, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2026.

Project Page Paper Dataset Website Bib

@article{yang2026sketch2arti,
  title = {Sketch2Arti: Sketch-based Articulation Modeling of CAD Objects},
  author = {Yang, Yi and Pan, Hao and Cui, Yijing and Sheffer, Alla and Li, Changjian},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  volume = {45},
  number = {4},
  year = {2026},
  dataset = {https://sketchmobility-dataweb.tailf81545.ts.net/},
  project = {https://arlo-yang.github.io/Sketch2Arti/},
}

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, and Zhangyang Wang

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026(Oral Presentation)

Paper Code Bib

@article{zheng2026oscillation,
  title = {Oscillation Inversion: Training-Free Image and Video Enhancement Through Oscillated Latents in Large Flow Models},
  author = {Zheng, Yan and Liang, Zhenxiao and Cong, Xiaoyan and Yang, Yi and Guo, Lanqing and Wang, Yuehao and Wang, Peihao and Wang, Zhangyang},
  journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {40},
  number = {16},
  pages = {13476--13484},
  year = {2026},
}

2025

SMooGPT: Stylized Motion Generation using Large Language Models

Lei Zhong, Yi Yang, and Changjian Li

arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04058, 2025

Paper Bib

@article{zhong2025smoogpt,
  title = {SMooGPT: Stylized Motion Generation using Large Language Models},
  author = {Zhong, Lei and Yang, Yi and Li, Changjian},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04058},
  year = {2025},
}