Chen Zhao 赵晨

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Technology · Nanjing University · PCALab

2518628273@qq.com · Google Scholar · GitHub

Research Interests

High-resolution image and video generation; frequency-aware visual restoration; audiovisual understanding and multimodal captioning.

Education & Research Experience

Jul 2025 – Dec 2026

Meituan · Research Intern

Beidou Talent Program, Visual Generation Foundation Model Team

Worked on cascaded high-resolution video generation and audiovisual captioning for large-scale pretraining data. Related research includes LUVE (ICML 2026) and TCA-Captioner (ECCV 2026).

Sep 2024 – Present

Nanjing University · Ph.D. Student

Computer Science and Technology · PCALab

Advised by Prof. Ying Tai. Expected graduation: June 2028.

Selected Publications

^* Equal contribution. See Google Scholar for the full publication list.

Multimodal Generation & Understanding

Temporal and Cross-Modal Alignment for Enhanced Audiovisual Video Captioning

Chen Zhao, Jiajun Ma, Qilong Huang, Tiehan Fan, Hongyu Li, Zhuoliang Kang, Xiaoming Wei, Jian Yang, Ying Tai

ECCV, 2026

LUVE: Latent-Cascaded Ultra-High-Resolution Video Generation with Dual Frequency Experts

Chen Zhao^*, Jiawei Chen^*, Hongyu Li, Zhuoliang Kang, Shilin Lu, Xiaoming Wei, Kai Zhang, Jian Yang, Ying Tai

ICML, 2026

Does FLUX Already Know How to Perform Physically Plausible Image Composition?

Shilin Lu, Zhuming Lian, Zihan Zhou, Shaocong Zhang, Chen Zhao, Adams Wai-Kin Kong

ICLR, 2026

UltraHR-100K: Enhancing UHR Image Synthesis with A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset

Chen Zhao^*, En Ci^*, Yunzhe Xu, Tiehan Fan, Shanyan Guan, Yanhao Ge, Jian Yang, Ying Tai

NeurIPS, 2025

Spectral Normalization and Dual Contrastive Regularization for Image-to-Image Translation

Chen Zhao, Wei-Ling Cai, Zheng Yuan

The Visual Computer, 2025 · Published online in 2024

Visual Restoration & Enhancement

From Zero to Detail: A Progressive Spectral Decoupling Paradigm for UHD Image Restoration with New Benchmark

Chen Zhao, Yunzhe Xu, Zhizhou Chen, Enxuan Gu, Kai Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Jian Yang, Ying Tai

IEEE TPAMI, 2026

Learning a Physical-Aware Diffusion Model Based on Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement

Chen Zhao, Chenyu Dong, Weiling Cai, Yueyue Wang

IEEE TGRS, 2026

Spiking Pyramid Wavelet Transformation for High-Efficient and Low-Energy Image Restoration

Chen Zhao, Xiantao Hu, Song Wu, Qian Wang, Chen Wu, Rui Xie, Jian Yang, Ying Tai

Pattern Recognition, 2026

From Zero to Detail: Deconstructing Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration from Progressive Spectral Perspective

Chen Zhao^*, Zhizhou Chen^*, Yunzhe Xu, Enxuan Gu, Jian Li, Zili Yi, Qian Wang, Jian Yang, Ying Tai

CVPR, 2025

Wavelet-based Fourier Information Interaction with Frequency Diffusion Adjustment for Underwater Image Restoration

Chen Zhao, Weiling Cai, Chenyu Dong, Chengwei Hu

CVPR, 2024

Cycle Contrastive Adversarial Learning with Structural Consistency for Unsupervised High-Quality Image Deraining Transformer

Chen Zhao, Weiling Cai, Chengwei Hu, Zheng Yuan

Neural Networks, 2024

Toward Sufficient Spatial-Frequency Interaction for Gradient-Aware Underwater Image Enhancement

Chen Zhao, Weiling Cai, Chenyu Dong, Ziqi Zeng

ICASSP, 2024

Honors & Awards

2026 — CIE–Tencent Ph.D. Research Incentive Program (RMB 100,000) (Hunyuan Large Model Track)
2025 — National Scholarship for Doctoral Students (RMB 30,000) (Nanjing University)
2025 — Outstanding Reviewer Award (CVPR)
2025 — Second Prize, Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum (Nanjing University)

Academic Service

I have served as a reviewer for CVPR, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICCV, ECCV, ACM Multimedia, and Pattern Recognition.

I received the CVPR 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award.

Interests

Distance running and swimming.