Han Yi

Hello! I am currently a second-year CS PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), under the guidance of Prof. Gedas Bertasius. I completed my Master's degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2024. During my time at NUS, I also served as a research intern at the NExT++ Research Center, where I was advised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua, Prof. Zhedong Zheng, and Prof. Xiangyu Xu.

I love basketball, football, rap music, and fitness.

I am looking for a summer 2027 research internship (May–Aug. 2027).

Han Yi

Research

I'm broadly interested in advanced Computer Vision and Multi-modal Learning, with a focus on both the fine-grained understanding and generation of complex human actions. I also work on leveraging foundation models (LLMs, VLMs, etc.) to solve multiple video understanding tasks.

News

  • 2026 SVI-Bench is accepted to ECCV 2026.
  • 2026 Progressive Text-to-3D Generation is accepted to ACM TOMM.
  • 2026 Co-organized the T4V Workshop at CVPR 2026.
  • 2025 ExAct is accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2024 Received the Outstanding Reviewer Award at ACM Multimedia 2024.

Recent Publications

SVI-Bench: A Dynamic Microworld for Strategic Video Intelligence
Yulu Pan*, Han Yi*, Seongsu Ha*, Md Mohaiminul Islam*, Benjamin Zhang, Lorenzo Torresani, Gedas Bertasius
*Equal contribution
ECCV, 2026
Project Page / Paper / Extended Paper / Code / Data

SVI-Bench is a unified benchmark for evaluating the full cognitive stack of video intelligence — perception, reasoning, simulation, and agency. Built on 35,000 hours of broadcast basketball, soccer, and hockey footage, it shows that while models handle perception well, reasoning, simulation, and agency are where current systems break down.

ExAct benchmark: expert commentary multiple-choice questions over sports, bike repair, and music videos ExAct: A Video-Language Benchmark for Expert Action Analysis
Han Yi, Yulu Pan, Feihong He, Xinyu Liu, Benjamin Zhang, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Gedas Bertasius
NeurIPS, 2025
Project Page / Paper / Data

We introduce ExAct, a video-language benchmark for expert-level analysis of skilled human actions. It contains over 3,500 expert-curated video QA pairs across domains like sports, cooking, and music. Our benchmark reveals a significant performance gap between state-of-the-art VLMs and human experts, highlighting the need for models with a more nuanced understanding of complex human skills.

Progressive text-to-3D generation: a text prompt turned into a 3D corgi model and 3D-printed Progressive Text-to-3D Generation for Automatic 3D Prototyping
Han Yi, Zhedong Zheng, Xiangyu Xu, Tat-Seng Chua
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2026
Paper

A progressive strategy that learns text-to-3D in a coarse-to-fine manner.

Motion deblurring results compared against a prior deep-learning approach Image Deblurring With Image Blurring
Ziyao Li, Zhi Gao, Han Yi, Yu Fu, Boan Chen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2023
Paper

Proposed a novel motion deblurring framework using Blur Space Disentangled Network (BSDNet) and Hierarchical Scale-recurrent Deblurring Network (HSDNet) to effectively address real-world blur, achieving state-of-the-art results.

Single-image raindrop removal results compared against AttentiveGAN Single image deraindrop leveraging luminance priors and context aggregation
Yi Liu, Zhi Gao, Tiancan Mei, Han Yi
Neurocomputing, 2024
Paper

Developed a recurrent single-image deraindrop approach utilizing luminance priors and contextual feature aggregation, achieving superior performance in restoring color and texture consistency.

Experience

  • Tencent Games, Research Intern Jan. 2024 – Jun. 2024
  • NExT++ Research Center, NUS, Research Assistant Dec. 2022 – Sep. 2023

Services

Workshop Organizer: The 5th Workshop on Transformers for Vision and Multimodal AI (T4V), CVPR 2026
Reviewer: NeurIPS 2026, ICLR 2025–2026, ACM Multimedia 2024–2025, ACM Multimedia Asia 2025
Outstanding Reviewer Award, ACM Multimedia 2024

This webpage is adapted from Jon Barron's page.