I am a 2rd-year Ph.D. student at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, supervised by Prof. Leida Li. Prior to this, I received the B.Sc. degree from China University of Mining and Technology and M.Sc. degree from Xidian University. My research interests include Visual Quality Assessment and T2I Generation Evaluation.

🔥 News

• 2026.04:  🎉🎉 FG-IAA accepted as an Oral presentation at CVPR 2026.
• 2026.03:  🎉🎉 One paper (AesBench) accepted by ICME 2026.
• 2026.02:  🎉🎉 One paper (FG-IAA) accepted by CVPR 2026.
• 2025.11:  🎉🎉 Three papers (LongT2IBench, FGResQ, TuningIQA) accepted by AAAI 2026, with LongT2IBench as an Oral presentation.
• 2024.07:  🎉🎉 Two papers (TMCR, AesExpert) accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024.
• 2024.01:  🎉🎉 One paper (MTCL) accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

📝 Publications

CVPR 2026 Oral

Fine-grained Image Aesthetic Assessment: Learning Discriminative Scores from Relative Ranks

Zhichao Yang†, Jianjie Wang†, Zhixianhe Zhang, Pangu Xie, Xiangfei Sheng, Pengfei Chen, Leida Li

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

AAAI 2026 Oral

LongT2IBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Long Text-to-Image Generation with Graph-structured Annotations

Zhichao Yang, Tianjiao Gu, Jianjie Wang, Feiyu Lin, Xiangfei Sheng, Pengfei Chen, Leida Li

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

ACM MM 2024

Semantics-Aware Image Aesthetics Assessment using Tag Matching and Contrastive Ranking

Zhichao Yang, Leida Li, Pengfei Chen, Jinjian Wu, Weisheng Dong

[Paper] [Code]

TMM 2024

Multi-Level Transitional Contrast Learning for Personalized Image Aesthetics Assessment

Zhichao Yang, Leida Li, Yuzhe Yang, Yaqian Li, Weisi Lin

[Paper] [Code]

AAAI 2026

Fine-grained Image Quality Assessment for Perceptual Image Restoration

Xiangfei Sheng†, Xiaofeng Pan†, Zhichao Yang, Pengfei Chen, Leida Li

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

AAAI 2026

TuningIQA: Fine-Grained Blind Image Quality Assessment for Livestreaming Camera Tuning

Xiangfei Sheng†, Zhichao Duan†, Xiaofeng Pan, Yipo Huang, Zhichao Yang, Pengfei Chen, Leida Li

[Paper]

ACM MM 2024

AesExpert: Towards Multi-Modality Foundation Model for Image Aesthetics Perception

Yipo Huang, Xiangfei Sheng, Zhichao Yang, Quan Yuan, Zhichao Duan, Pengfei Chen, Leida Li, Weisi Lin, Guangming Shi

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

ICME 2026

AesBench: An Expert Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models on Image Aesthetics Perception

Yipo Huang†, Quan Yuan†, Xiangfei Sheng, Zhichao Yang, Haoning Wu, Pengfei Chen, Yuzhe Yang, Leida Li, Weisi Lin

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.12 🏅 入选2025年度中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划 !
• 2024.06 🏆 Winner Award, CVPR NTIRE 2024 DXOMARK Portrait Quality Assessment Challenge.
• 2023.12 🏅 National Scholarship for Master Students, Xidian University.
• 2023.09 🏆 Runner-up, CGI-AIAA 2023: Artistic Image Aesthetics Assessment Challenge.

📖 Educations

• 2024.09 - present, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University.
• 2021.09 - 2024.06, Master, Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University
• 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor, Electronic Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology.

💬 Invited Talks

• 2026.03, Invited Speaker at the CSIG 21st Student Member Sharing Forum, talk title: “Fine-Grained Image Quality Assessment”.

💻 Internships

• 2022.10 - 2023.03, Computer Vision Intern, OPPO Research Institute, Shanghai, China.