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Biography

I am currently a researcher at KwaiVGI (aka Kling Team), where I am working on the task of generative model and AIGC.

Before that, I worked at MEGVII as a researcher (2023-2025) and led a group to work on 3D reconstruction and generative models for autonomous driving. I got my master's degree and bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University (2020-2023) and Beihang University (2016-2020).

If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to contact me at dingyikang23@gmail.com, or you can add me on WeChat: yeecon_

Latest News

Dec 2025

Our powerful KlingAvatar 2.0 is released! Check our Tech Report and try it on Kling AI page!

Sep 2025

We're delighted to release Kling-Avatar. Try it on Kling AI Page!

July 2025

One paper (MuDG) accepted to BMVC 2025. Congrats to Yingshuang!

Jun 2025

Two papers (DiST-4D, HERMES) accepted to ICCV 2025. Congrats to Jiazhe and Xin Zhou!

Jun 2025

One paper accepted to IROS 2025.

Feb 2025

One paper (UniScene) accepted to CVPR 2025. Congrats to my several interns!

Jul 2024

One paper (M2Depth) accepted to ECCV 2024 as Oral. Congrats to Yingshuang!

Mar 2023

Won Innovation Award of 3D Occupancy Prediction Challenge in CVPR 2023.

Mar 2023

One paper accepted to CVPR 2023.

Sep 2022

One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022.

Jun 2022

Two papers accepted to ECCV 2022.

Mar 2023

One paper accepted to CVPR 2022.

Selected Publications

(* denotes equal contribution, ^✝ denotes project leader.)

KlingAvatar 2.0 Technical Report

Kling Team. Contributed as a core contributor. Full author list in alphabetical order by last names: Jialu Chen, Yikang Ding, Zhixue Fang, Kun Gai, Yuan Gao, Kang He, Jingyun Hua, Boyuan Jiang, Mingming Lao, Xiaohan Li, Hui Liu, Jiwen Liu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Yuan Liu, Shun Lu, Yongsen Mao, Yingchao Shao, Huafeng Shi, Xiaoyu Shi, Peiqin Sun, Songlin Tang, Pengfei Wan, Chao Wang, Xuebo Wang, Haoxian Zhang, Yuanxing Zhang, Yan Zhou

Tech Report

Paper Access

Kling-Avatar: Grounding Multimodal Instructions for Cascaded Long-Duration Avatar Animation Synthesis

Yikang Ding*, Jiwen Liu*, Wenyuan Zhang, Zekun Wang, Wentao Hu, Liyuan Cui, Mingming Lao, Yingchao Shao, Hui Liu, Xiaohan Li, Ming Chen, Xiaoqiang Liu, Yu-Shen Liu, Pengfei Wan

Tech Report

Paper Project Aceess

DiST-4D: Disentangled Spatiotemporal Diffusion with Metric Depth for 4D Driving Scene Generation

Jiazhe Guo*, Yikang Ding*^✝, Xiwu Chen, Shuo Chen, Bohan Li, Yingshuang Zou, Xiaoyang Lyu, Feiyang Tan, Xiaojuan Qi, Zhiheng Li, Hao Zhao

ICCV 2025

Paper Project Code

HERMES: A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation

Xin Zhou*, Dingkang Liang*^✝, Sifan Tu, Xiwu Chen, Yikang Ding^✝, Dingyuan Zhang, Feiyang Tan, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiang Bai

ICCV 2025

Paper Project Code

MuDG: Taming Multi-modal Diffusion with Gaussian Splatting for Urban Scene Reconstruction

Yingshuang Zou*, Yikang Ding*^✝, Chuanrui Zhang, Jiazhe Guo, Bohan Li, Xiaoyang Lyu, Feiyang Tan, Xiaojuan Qi, Haoqian Wang

BMVC 2025

Paper Project Code

UniScene: Unified Occupancy-centric Driving Scene Generation

Bohan Li*, Jiazhe Guo*, Hongsi Liu*, Yingshuang Zou*, Yikang Ding*^✝, Xiwu Chen, Hu Zhu, Other authors

CVPR 2025

Paper Project Code

M2Depth: Self-supervised Two-Frame Multi-camera Metric Depth Estimation

Yingshuang Zou*, Yikang Ding*^✝, Xi Qiu, Haoqian Wang, Haotian Zhang

ECCV 2024 Oral

Paper Project

Adaptive Assignment for Geometry Aware Local Feature Matching

Dihe Huang, Ying Chen, Shang Xu, Yong Liu, Wenlong Wu, Yikang Ding, Chengjie Wang, Fan Tang

CVPR 2023

Paper Code

TransMVSNet: Global Context-aware Multi-view Stereo Network with Transformers

Yikang Ding*, Wentao Yuan*, Qingtian Zhu, Haotian Zhang, Xiangyue Liu, Yuanjiang Wang, Xiao Liu

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

CVPR 2022

Paper Project Code

KD-MVS: Knowledge Distillation Based Self-supervised Learning for Multi-view Stereo

Yikang Ding, Qingtian Zhu, Xiangyue Liu, Wentao Yuan, Haotian Zhang, Chi Zhang

ECCV 2022

Paper Project Code

LayerDiffusion: Layered Controlled Image Editing with Diffusion Models

Pengzhi Li, Qinxuan Huang, Yikang Ding, Zhiheng Li

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

Paper

WT-MVSNet: Window-based Transformers for Multi-view Stereo

Jinli Liao*, Yikang Ding*, Yoli Shavit, Dihe Huang, Shihao Ren, Jia Guo, Wensen Feng, Kai Zhang

NeurIPS 2022

Paper

Honors & Awards

Innovation Award

3D Occupancy Prediction Challenge in CVPR 2023
1st Place

Indoor and Outdoor Visual Localization Challenge of ICCV 2021
Outstanding Graduate of Beijing

2020.06

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer:

CVPR 2022- ECCV 2022- AAAI 2023- ACCV 2022- 3DV 2022-

Research Interests

3D Reconstruction

Multi-view stereo, depth estimation, scene reconstruction

World Models

Scene understanding, occupancy prediction, self-driving

Generative Models

Diffusion models, scene generation, image editing