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Yikang Ding

Yikang Ding 丁宜康

Senior Researcher at Kling Team | M.S. of Tsinghua University

GitHub Google Scholar Email WeChat: yeecon_
3D Reconstruction World Models Generative Models Computer Vision

Biography

I am currently a senior researcher at 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 contact me at dingyikang23@gmail.com, or you can add me on WeChat: yeecon_

Latest News

Feb 2026

We release the Tech Report of Kling-MotionControl, try it on Kling AI page! One paper (ORV) is accepted to CVPR 2026.

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!

Jun 2025

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

July 2025

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

Jun 2025

One paper (CLAIM) 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!

Selected Publications

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

Kling-MotionControl

Kling-MotionControl Technical Report

Kling Team. Jialu Chen, Yikang Ding, Zhixue Fang, Kun Gai, Kang He, Xu He, Jingyun Hua, Mingming Lao, Xiaohan Li, Hui Liu, Jiwen Liu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Fan Shi, Xiaoyu Shi, Peiqin Sun, Songlin Tang, et al.

Tech Report Paper Access
Full Author List

Full author list in alphabetical order by last names: Jialu Chen, Yikang Ding, Zhixue Fang, Kun Gai, Kang He, Xu He, Jingyun Hua, Mingming Lao, Xiaohan Li, Hui Liu, Jiwen Liu, Xiaoqiang Liu, Fan Shi, Xiaoyu Shi, Peiqin Sun, Songlin Tang, Pengfei Wan, Tiancheng Wen, Zhiyong Wu, Haoxian Zhang, Runze Zhao, Yuanxing Zhang, Yan Zhou

KlingAvatar2

KlingAvatar 2.0 Technical Report

Kling Team. (Contributed as a core contributor.) 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, et al.

Tech Report Paper Access
Full Author List

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

Kling-Avatar

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 Access
DiST-4D

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

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
UniScene

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
MuDG

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
M2Depth

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
adamatcher

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

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

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

CVPR 2022 Paper Project Code
kdmvs

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

LayerDiffusion: Layered Controlled Image Editing with Diffusion Models

Pengzhi Li, Qinxuan Huang, Yikang Ding, Zhiheng Li

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Paper
wtmvs

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

Talent Programs
  • Huawei Top Talent Program (华为·天才少年计划)
  • Meituan Beidou Program (美团·北斗计划)
  • Li Auto Li Xiang+ Program (理想汽车·理想+计划)
  • Megvii MegEagle Program (旷视·创视者计划)
Major Honors
  • May Fourth Medal, Beihang University, 10 students university-wide each year. (北航·五四奖章)
  • Student of the Year, Beihang University, 10 students university-wide each year. (北航·大学生年度人物)
  • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing

Research Interests

3D Reconstruction

Multi-view stereo, depth estimation, scene reconstruction

World Models

Scene understanding, occupancy prediction, autonomous driving

Generative Models

Diffusion models, video generation, scene generation