About Me

I am currently an A-Level Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), working in collaboration with Prof. Lei Li. I am also an Affiliated Academic of the SketchX Lab. I obtained my PhD from BUPT under the supervision of Prof. Honggang Zhang and Prof. Jun Guo. Previously, from 2021 to 2023, I was a joint-PhD student at the University of Surrey, supervised by Prof. Yi-Zhe Song.

I believe AI should be collaborative and augmentative, aimed at enhancing human productivity and quality of life. My research focuses on leveraging AI to understand how human visual system operates. I explore this through two primary lenses:

  • 🧠 Neural Decoding: understanding how the brain processes visual content.
  • 🎨 Sketch Understanding: investigating how the cognitive process of seeing can be modeled and explained through the act of drawing.

News

  • 2026.04 Our work on Symbolic Music Generation is accepted by ACL 2026!
  • 2026.04 Our work on fMRI to Video Reconstruction is accepted by CVPR 2026!
  • 2026.02 Our work on Complex Sketch Generation is accepted by IJCV!
  • 2026.01 One paper is accepted by Pattern Recognition!
  • 2026.01 Two papers on Visual Content Generation are accepted by ICLR 2026!
  • 2026.01 One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2026!
  • 2025.11 Our work on Visual Dialog received the Best Paper Award at IC-NIDC 2025!
  • 2025.08 Supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (C-level)!
  • 2025.06 Supported by Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF).
  • 2025.04 One paper on Oracle Understanding is accepted by ACL 2025!
  • 2024.12 Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2025!

Selected Publications

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SemVideo: Reconstructs What You Watch from Brain Activity via Hierarchical Semantic Guidance
Minghan Yang, Lan Yang*, Ke Li, Honggang Zhang, Kaiyue Pang, Yi-Zhe Song
CVPR 2026 (Highlight)
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SACG++: Complex Sketch Generation via Representation-Enhanced Scale-Adaptive Classifier Guidance
Ke Li, Jijin Hu, Zhipeng Chen, Lan Yang*, Yonggang Qi, Yi-Zhe Song
IJCV
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Annotation-Free Human Sketch Quality Assessment
Lan Yang, Kaiyue Pang, Honggang Zhang, Yi-Zhe Song
IJCV
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Wired perspectives: Multi-view wire art embraces generative AI
Zhiyu Qu, Lan Yang*, Honggang Zhang, Tao Xiang, Kaiyue Pang, Yi-Zhe Song
CVPR 2024
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Making Visual Sense of Oracle Bones for You and Me
Runqi Qiao, Lan Yang*, Kaiyue Pang, Honggang Zhang
CVPR 2024
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Finding Badly Drawn Bunnies
Lan Yang, Kaiyue Pang, Honggang Zhang, Yi-Zhe Song
CVPR 2022