I am currently a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. Chen Change Loy at MMLab@NTU, in the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am broadly interested in computer vision, with a focus on generative AI.

Prior to my Ph.D. study, I received my B.Eng. degree with honors (highest distinction) from the same university in 2020. During my undergraduate study, I had valuable experience conducting research with Prof. Lap-Pui Chau and Dr. Yi Wang on vehicle tracking and crowd counting. I also spent a semester at EPFL, working with Dr. Irene Viola and Dr. Alexiou Evangelos on research project about light field and point cloud acquisition. These experiences collectively contributed to my growth as a researcher and professional.

📰 News

• Sep 2026Accepted🎉 AnyBokeh is accepted by NeurIPS 2026.
• Jul 2026arXivOur recent work AnyBokeh, physics-guided any-to-any bokeh editing, is available on arXiv.
• Dec 2025Accepted🎉 AITTI is accepted by IJCV.
• Sep 2025ServiceCo-organizing the 4th MIPI Workshop at ICCV 2025.
• Jun 2025Accepted🎉 Omegance is accepted by ICCV 2025.
• Nov 2024arXivOur recent work Omegance, a single parameter for granularity control in diffusion models, is available on arXiv.
• Jun 2024arXivOur recent work AITTI, on inclusive text-to-image generation, is available on arXiv.
• Feb 2024Accepted🎉 W+ Adapter is accepted by CVPR 2024.
• Aug 2023Accepted🎉 VIRMP is accepted by BMVC 2023.

📂 Publications

NeurIPS2026

AnyBokeh: Physics-Guided Any-to-Any Bokeh Editing with Optical Fingerprint Transfer

Xinyu Hou, Xiaoming Li, Zongsheng Yue, Chen Change Loy
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026

arXiv Code Project Page BibTeX

ICCV2025

Omegance: A Single Parameter for Various Granularities in Diffusion-Based Synthesis

Xinyu Hou, Zongsheng Yue, Xiaoming Li, Chen Change Loy
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

arXiv Paper Code Project Page BibTeX

IJCV2025

AITTI: Learning Adaptive Inclusive Token for Text-to-Image Generation

Xinyu Hou, Xiaoming Li, Chen Change Loy
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025

arXiv Supplementary Code Project Page BibTeX

CVPR2024

When StyleGAN Meets Stable Diffusion: A W+ Adapter for Personalized Image Generation

Xiaoming Li, Xinyu Hou, Chen Change Loy
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

arXiv Paper Code Project Page BibTeX

BMVC2023

Video Infilling with Rich Motion Prior

Xinyu Hou, Liming Jiang, Rui Shao, Chen Change Loy
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2023

Paper Poster Supplementary Project Page BibTeX

TIP2021

A Self-Training Approach for Point-Supervised Object Detection and Counting in Crowds

Yi Wang, Junhui Hou, Xinyu Hou, Lap-Pui Chau
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021

Paper Code BibTeX

ICMEW2021

Dense Point Prediction: A Simple Baseline for Crowd Counting and Localization

Yi Wang, Xinyu Hou, Lap-Pui Chau
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2021

Paper Code BibTeX

AVSS2019

Vehicle Tracking Using Deep SORT with Low Confidence Track Filtering

Xinyu Hou, Yi Wang, Lap-Pui Chau
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2019

Paper BibTeX

🎓 Education

Nanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeAug 2021 – Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Adviser: Prof. Chen Change Loy

Nanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeAug 2016 – Jun 2020

B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Advisers: Prof. Lap-Pui Chau and Dr. Yi Wang

• Degree with Honors (Highest Distinction)
• Dean's List 2019–2020
• NTU Science and Engineering Scholarship

École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerlandSep 2018 – Jan 2019

Semester Exchange

Advisers: Dr. Irene Viola and Dr. Alexiou Evangelos

🏛️ Academic Services

Conference and Workshop Committee

• Co-organizer, 4th Mobile Intelligent Photograph and Imaging Workshop (MIPI), ICCV 2025

Journal Reviewer

• IJCVInt. J. Computer Vision
• TMMIEEE Trans. Multimedia

Conference Reviewer

• CVPR2025, 2026
• ICCV2025
• ECCV2026
• ICLR2024 – 2027
• NeurIPS2024 – 2026
• ICML2025
• BMVC2023 – 2026
• AISTATS2025

Teaching Assistant

• NTU AI6126: Advanced Computer Vision
• NTU SC4001: Neural Networks and Deep Learning