DrJiankang Deng

Assistant Professor in Computing

Department of Computing - Faculty of Engineering

  • Assistant Professor in Computing
    Department of Computing - Faculty of Engineering
  • 07706 909 778 (Work)
  • 444a, Huxley Building, 180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

RESEARCH

Yanzuo Lu, Ronglai Zuo, and Jiankang Deng. RAVEN: Real-time Autoregressive Video Extrapolation with Consistency-model GRPO, NeurIPS 2026.

 

Zerui Chen, Changrui Chen, Fei Ni, and Jiankang Deng. Look Before You Reason: Implicit Visual Thinking for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning, NeurIPS 2026.

 

Fei Ni, Zhuo Chen, Xianze Yao, Zerui Chen, Changrui Chen, Yifu Yuan, Shan Luo, Jianye HAO, and Jiankang Deng. PACE: Progress Actively-internalized Conditioning Execution for Long-horizon Manipulation, NeurIPS 2026.

 

Feilong Tang, Xiang An, Yunyao Yan, Yin Xie, Kaicheng Yang, Yifei Shen, Yuanhan Zhang, Shikun Feng, Chunyuan Li, Changrui Chen, Huajie Tan, Ming Hu, Manyuan Zhang, Bo Li, Ziyong Feng, Ziwei Liu, Zongyuan Ge, and Jiankang Deng. OneVision-Encoder: Codec-Aligned Sparsity as a Foundational Principle for Multimodal Intelligence, NeurIPS 2026.

 

Haosen Yang, Jifei Song, Zhensong Zhang, Xiatian Zhu, and Jiankang Deng. Video Generative Models as Geometry Learner, ECCV, 2026.

 

Seunghyun Shin, Jifei Song, Wooseok Jeon, Hae-Gon Jeon, and Jiankang Deng. TriMotion: Modality-Agnostic Camera Control for Video Generation, ECCV, 2026.

 

Chenhan Jiang, Yu Chen, Qingwen Zhang, Jifei Song, Songcen Xu, Dit-Yan Yeung, and Jiankang Deng. FVGen: Scaling 3D Scene Datasets with Certainty-Aware Free-View Generation from Scene Geometry Reconstruction, CVPR, 2026.

 

Wenkang Zhang, Kaicheng Yang, Xiang An, Qiang Li, Ziyong Feng, Wankou Yang, and Jiankang Deng. Towards Streaming Referring Video Segmentation via Large Language Model, CVPR, 2026.

 

Fei Ni, Zhuo Chen, Yifu Yuan, Zibin Dong, Xianze Yao, Shan Luo, Jianye Hao, Jiankang Deng*, and Stefanos Zafeiriou*. SemanticVLA: Towards Semantic Reasoning over Action Memorization via Synergistic Explicit Trace and Latent Action Planning, CVPR, 2026.

 

Yura Choi, Roy Miles, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Ismail Elezi, Jiankang Deng, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Do You See What I Am Pointing At? Gesture-Based Egocentric Video Question Answering, CVPR, 2026.

 

Jiawen Zhu, Yunqi Miao, Xueyi Zhang, Jiankang Deng*, and Guansong Pang*. Unleashing Vision-Language Semantics for Video Deepfake Detection,

CVPR, 2026.

 

Qingping Zheng, Bo Huang, Yang Liu, Haoyu Zhao, Ling Zheng, Zengmao Wang, Ying Li, and Jiankang Deng. ReFocusEraser: Refocusing for Small Object Removal with Robust Context-Shadow Repair, ICLR, 2026.

 

Yin Xie, Kaicheng Yang, Peirou Liang, Xiang An, Yongle Zhao, Yumeng Wang, Ziyong Feng, Roy Miles, Ismail Elezi, and Jiankang Deng. ViCToR: Improving Visual Comprehension via Token Reconstruction for Pretraining LMMs, AAAI, 2026.

 

Zhuo Chen, Ni Ou, Xuyang Zhang, Zhiyuan Wu, Yongqiang Zhao, Yupeng Wang, Nathan Lepora, Lorenzo Jamone, Jiankang Deng*, and Shan Luo*. Training Tactile Sensors to Learn Force Sensing from Each Other, Nature Communications, 2026.

 

Shuyuan Zhang, Chenhan Jiang, Zuoou Li, and Jiankang Deng. ShapeCraft: LLM Agents for Structured, Textured and Interactive 3D Modeling, NeurIPS, 2025.

Tiancheng Gu, Kaicheng Yang, Ziyong Feng, Xingjun Wang, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long, Yingda Chen, Weidong Cai, and Jiankang Deng. Breaking the Modality Barrier: Universal Embedding Learning with Multimodal LLMs, ACMMM 2025.

Tiancheng Gu, Kaicheng Yang, Chaoyi Zhang, Yin Xie, Xiang An, Ziyong Feng, Dongnan Liu, Weidong Cai, and Jiankang Deng. RealSyn: An Effective and Scalable Multimodal Interleaved Document Transformation Paradigm, ACMMM 2025.

 

Yin Xie, Kaicheng Yang, Xiang An, Kun Wu, Yongle Zhao, Weimo Deng, Zimin Ran, Yumeng Wang, Ziyong Feng, Roy Miles, Ismail Elezi, and Jiankang Deng. Region-based Cluster Discrimination for Visual Representation Learning, ICCV 2025. (Highlight)

Peng Cai, liqiang, Kaicheng Yang, guodong, lijia, zhounan, Xiang An, Ninghua Yang, and Jiankang Deng. ForCenNet: Foreground-Centric Network for Document Image Rectification, ICCV 2025.

Yunqi Miao, Zhiyu Qu, Mingqi Gao, Changrui Chen, Jifei Song, Jungong Han, and Jiankang Deng. Unlocking the Potential of Diffusion Priors in Blind Face Restoration, ICCV 2025.

Zimin Ran, Xingyu Ren, Xiang An, Kaicheng Yang, Ziyong Feng, Jing Yang, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Linchao Zhu, and Jiankang Deng. HUST: High-Fidelity Unbiased Skin Tone Estimation via Texture Quantization, ICCV 2025.

Xingyu Ren, Jiankang Deng*, Yuhao Cheng, Wenhan Zhu, Yichao Yan, Xiaokang Yang, and Stefanos Zafeiriou, Chao Ma*. S3-Face: SSS-Compliant Facial Reflectance Estimation via Diffusion Priors, CVPR 2025.

Jinglei Zhang, Jiankang Deng, Chao Ma, and Rolandos Alexandros Potamias. HaWoR: World-Space Hand Motion Reconstruction from Egocentric Videos, CVPR 2025.

Prannay Kaul, Chengcheng Ma, Ismail Elezi, and Jiankang Deng. From Attention to Activation: Unravelling the Enigmas of Large Language Models, ICLR 2025.

Kaicheng Yang, Tiancheng Gu, Xiang An, Haiqiang Jiang, Xiangzi Dai, Ziyong Feng, Weidong Cai, and Jiankang Deng. CLIP-CID: Efficient CLIP Distillation via Cluster-Instance Discrimination, AAAI 2025.

Roy Miles, Pradyumna Reddy, Ismail Elezi, and Jiankang Deng. VeLoRA: Memory Efficient Training using Rank-1 Sub-Token Projections, NeurIPS 2024.

Tiancheng Gu, Kaicheng Yang, Xiang An, Ziyong Feng, Dongnan Liu, Weidong Cai, and Jiankang Deng. RWKV-CLIP: A Robust Vision-Language Representation Learner, EMNLP 2024.

Kostas Alexandridis, Jiankang Deng, Anh Nguyen, and Shan Luo. Adaptive Parametric Activation, ECCV 2024. (Oral)

Xiang An, Kaicheng Yang, Xiangzi Dai, Ziyong Feng, and Jiankang Deng. Multi-label Cluster Discrimination for Visual Representation Learning, ECCV 2024.

Pradyumna Reddy, Ismail Elezi, and Jiankang Deng. G3DR: Generative 3D Reconstruction in ImageNet, CVPR 2024.

Roy Miles, Ismail Elezi, and Jiankang Deng. VkD: Improving Knowledge Distillation using Orthogonal Projections, CVPR 2024.

Zhipeng Du, Miaojing Shi, and Jiankang Deng. Boosting Object Detection with Zero-Shot Day-Night Domain Adaptation, CVPR 2024.

Yunqi Miao, Jiankang Deng*, and Jungong Han*. WaveFace: Authentic Face Restoration with Efficient Frequency Recovery, CVPR 2024.

Xingyu Ren, Jiankang Deng*, Yuhao Cheng, Jia Guo, Chao Ma*, Yichao Yan, Wenhan Zhu, and Xiaokang Yang. Monocular Identity-Conditioned Facial Reflectance Reconstruction, CVPR 2024.

Kaicheng Yang, Jiankang Deng*, Xiang An, Jiawei Li, Ziyong Feng, Jia Guo, Jing Yang, and Tongliang Liu. ALIP: Adaptive Language-Image Pre-training with Synthetic Caption, ICCV 2023.

Xiaobo Xia, Jiankang Deng, Wei Bao, Yuxuan Du, Bo Han, Shiguang Shan, and Tongliang Liu. Holistic Label Correction for Noisy Multi-Label Classification, ICCV 2023.

Xingyu Ren, Jiankang Deng*, Chao Ma*, Yichao Yan, and Xiaokang Yang. Improving Fairness in Facial Albedo Estimation via Visual-Textual Cues, CVPR 2023. (Highlight)

Xiang An, Jiankang Deng*, Kaicheng Yang, Jiawei Li, Ziyong Feng, Jia Guo, Jing Yang, and Tongliang Liu. Unicom: Universal and Compact Representation Learning for Image Retrieval, ICLR 2023.

Yang Liu, Jiankang Deng, Fei Wang, Lei Shang, Xuansong Xie, and Baigui Sun. DamoFD: Digging into Backbone Design on Face Detection, ICLR 2023.

Zhipeng Du, Jiankang Deng, and Miaojing Shi. Domain-general Crowd Counting in Unseen Scenarios, AAAI 2023. (Oral)

Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, and Jiankang Deng. Handbook of Face Recognition: Third Edition. Springer 2023.

Kostas Alexandridis, Jiankang Deng, Anh Nguyen, and Shan Luo. Long-tailed Instance Segmentation using Gumbel Optimized Loss, ECCV 2022.

Qingping Zheng, Jiankang Deng, Zheng Zhu, Ying Li, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Decoupled Multi-task Learning with Cyclical Self-Regulation for Face Parsing, CVPR 2022.

Xiang An, Jiankang Deng*, Jia Guo, Ziyong Feng, XuHan Zhu, Jing Yang, and Tongliang Liu. Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Efficient and Robust Training of Face Recognition CNNs by Partial FC, CVPR 2022.

Jia Guo*, Jiankang Deng*, Alexandros Lattas, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Sample and Computation Redistribution for Efficient Face Detection, ICLR 2022.

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Jing Yang, Niannan Xue, Irene Cotsia, and Stefanos P Zafeiriou. ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition, TPAMI 2022.

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Jing Yang, Alexandros Lattas, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Variational Prototype Learning for Deep Face Recognition, CVPR 2021.

Baris Gecer, Jiankang Deng, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. OSTeC: One-Shot Texture Completion, CVPR 2021.

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Tongliang Liu, Mingming Gong, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Sub-center ArcFace: Boosting Face Recognition by Large-Scale Noisy Web Faces, ECCV 2020.

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Evangelos Ververas, Irene Kotsia, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. RetinaFace: Singlestage Dense Face Localisation in the Wild, CVPR 2020.

Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Niannan Xue, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition, CVPR 2019. (Oral)

Yuxiang Zhou*, Jiankang Deng*, Irene Kotsia, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Dense 3D Face Decoding over 2500FPS: Joint Texture & Shape Convolutional Mesh Decoders, CVPR 2019.

Jiankang Deng, Anastasios Roussos, Grigorios Chrysos, Evangelos Ververas, Irene Kotsia, Jie Shen, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. The Menpo Benchmark for Multi-pose 2D and 3D Facial Landmark Localisation and Tracking, IJCV 2019.

Jiankang Deng, George Trigeorgis, Yuxiang Zhou, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Joint Multi-view Face Alignment in the Wild, TIP 2019.

Niannan Xue, Jiankang Deng*, Shiyang Cheng, Yannis Panagakis, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Side Information for Face Completion: a Robust PCA Approach, TPAMI 2019.

Jiankang Deng, Shiyang Cheng, Niannan Xue, Yuxiang Zhou, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. UV-GAN: Adversarial Facial UV Map Completion for Pose-invariant Face Recognition, CVPR 2018.

Niannan Xue, Jiankang Deng, Yannis Panagakis, and Stefanos Zafeiriou. Informed Non-convex Robust Principal Component Analysis with Features, AAAI 2018. (Oral)