Luchao Qi

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I work on computer vision with Roni Sengupta.

I previously worked with Bardia Nezami during my time as a software engineer at ValtedSeq. Prior to that, I earned my M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering and Data Science from Johns Hopkins University, where I was mentored by Brian Caffo. Earlier in my academic journey, I completed my B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Northeastern University under the guidance of Ming Qian at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology.

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I’m interested in controlling generative models + multimodalities (e.g. 3D, video, etc.). My previous research focused on personalized face generation and editing. More recently, my work has explored video generation and editing. My future research interests include combining implicit and explicit representations for generative modeling, for example, integrating data-driven approaches with inductive biases.

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EditCast3D: Single-Frame-Guided 3D Editing with Video Propagation and View Selection
Huaizhi Qu, Ruichen Zhang, Shuqing Luo, Luchao Qi, Zhihao Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Roni Sengupta, Tianlong Chen
Under Review
arxiv

Propagating edited 2D images to 3D representations through video generative models.

TalkingHeadBench: A Multi-Modal Benchmark & Analysis of Talking-Head DeepFake Detection
Ana Xiong*, Prakrut Patel*, Qingyuan Fan*, Amisha Wadhwa*, Sarathy Selvam, Xiao Guo, Luchao Qi, Xiaoming Liu, Roni Sengupta
Under Review
project page / arxiv

TalkingHeadBench is a benchmark for talking head generation and deepfake detection.

The Aging Multiverse: Generating Condition-Aware Facial Aging Tree via Training-Free Diffusion
Bang Gong*, Luchao Qi*, Jiaye Wu, Zhicheng Fu, Chunbo Song, David W. Jacobs, John Nicholson, Roni Sengupta
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
project page / arxiv

We perform face editing in diffusion models (FLUX) via attention manipulation in a training-free manner, exploring the inversion–editing trade-off in the context of facial aging.

MyTimeMachine: Personalized Facial Age Transformation
Luchao Qi, Jiaye Wu, Bang Gong, Annie N. Wang, David W. Jacobs, Roni Sengupta
SIGGRAPH 2025 (TOG Journal)
project page / arxiv / šŸ¤—Paper of the Day / tweet

Inspired by The Irishman, MyTimeMachine performs personalized de-aging and aging with high fidelity and identity preservation from ~50 selfies, extendable to temporally consistent video.

Continual Learning of Personalized Generative Face Models with Experience Replay
Annie N. Wang, Luchao Qi, Roni Sengupta
WACV 2025
project page / arxiv

We introduce a continual learning problem of updating personalized 2D and 3D generative face models without forgetting past representations as new photos are regularly captured.

My3DGen: A Scalable Personalized 3D Generative Model
Luchao Qi, Jiaye Wu, Annie N. Wang, Shengze Wang, Roni Sengupta
WACV 2025 (Oral)
project page / arxiv / tweet / code

We personalize a pretrained GAN-based model (EG3D) using a few (~50) selfies of an individual without full finetuning, enabling scalable personalization in a real-world scenario.

Non-Contact High-Frequency Ultrasound Microbeam Stimulation: A Novel Finding and Potential Causes of Cell Responses
Luchao Qi, Qi Zhang , Yan Tan, Kwok Ho Lam, Hairong Zheng , Ming Qian
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2019
pdf / google scholar

We investigate how ultrasound microbeam stimulation affects the intracellular calcium response of human breast cancer cells.

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