Yunuo Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yunuo Chen 陈予诺

Ph.D. student in Computer Science

I am a Ph.D. student at SJTU Media Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Wen Gao and Prof. Guo Lu. I received my B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

My research focuses on learned image/video compression, generative visual compression, and AIGC.

News

  • One paper was accepted to ECCV 2026.
  • Two papers were accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • Two papers were accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
  • One paper was accepted to ICCV 2025 as an Oral presentation.
  • One paper was accepted to ICLR 2024.
  • One paper was accepted to ICML 2023.

Experience

2026.02 – Present

Research Intern

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

Supervised by Fangyun Wei and Dong Chen.

Topic: lightweight text-to-image and image-editing foundation models.

2025.07 – 2025.12

Research Intern

StepFun (阶跃星辰)

Supervised by Wei Cheng.

Topic: multi-reference and many-to-many image generation.

Publications

Selected first-author or representative works are highlighted below. Equal contribution is marked by *.

ICLR 2026

Content-Aware Mamba for Learned Image Compression

Yunuo Chen, Zezheng Lyu, Bing He, Hongwei Hu, Qi Wang, Yuan Tian, Li Song, Wenjun Zhang, Guo Lu

Builds a content-aware state-space model for image compression by combining content-adaptive token permutation with sample-specific global prior injection.

ICCV 2025 Oral

Knowledge Distillation for Learned Image Compression

Yunuo Chen*, Zezheng Lyu*, Bing He, Ning Cao, Gang Chen, Guo Lu, Wenjun Zhang

Develops a stage-wise modular distillation framework for learned image compression, reducing model complexity while preserving rate-distortion performance.

Services

  • Conference Reviewer: CVPR 2025/2026, ICCV 2025, ICLR 2025/2026, ECCV 2026, ICML 2026, NeurIPS 2025/2026, AAAI 2026, BMVC 2026
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE TIP, IEEE TCSVT, ACM TOMM
  • Workshop Organizer: VCIP 2025 Ultra-Low Bitrate Video Compression Challenge

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Yu Liming Scholarship, UM-SJTU Joint Institute
  • Undergraduate Outstanding Scholarship, UM-SJTU Joint Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University