Jingkai Wang (王敬锴)

I am a second-year Master's student at the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), supervised by Prof. Yulun Zhang and Prof. Yutong Liu. Prior to that, I received my B.Sc. and B.Mgt. degrees from Zhejiang University (ZJU).

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Email: jingkaiwang100 [at] gmail [dot] com

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[2026.07]    Paper HonestFace appears at ACM MM 2026.
[2026.06]    Paper StrSR appears at ECCV 2026.
[2026.04]    Paper Light-Up-Your-Face appears at ICML 2026.
[2026.04]    Papers FaceIR, SR x4, Mobile SR, and Infrared SR appear at the NTIRE Workshop, CVPR 2026.
[2025.10]    Awarded the National Scholarship for Graduate Students.
[2025.09]    Paper HAODiff appears at NeurIPS 2025.
[2025.05]    Paper OSDHuman appears at ICML 2025.
[2025.04]    Papers FaceIR and SR x4 appear at the NTIRE Workshop, CVPR 2025.
[2025.02]    Paper OSDFace appears at CVPR 2025.
[2024.07]    Paper GauWN appears at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.

Research

*: Equal Contribution, †: Corresponding Author


Spectral and Trajectory Regularization for Diffusion Transformer Super-Resolution
Jingkai Wang*, Yixin Tang*, Jue Gong, Jiatong Li, Shu Li, Libo Liu, Jianliang Lan, Yutong Liu†, Yulun Zhang†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
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Proposed StrSR, a one-step adversarial distillation framework for DiT based real-world image super-resolution. An asymmetric discriminative distillation architecture bridges the trajectory gap of existing one-step distillation methods, and a frequency distribution matching strategy suppresses the severe grid-like periodic artifacts caused by high-frequency spectral leakage, achieving SOTA performance in Real-ISR.

HonestFace: Towards Honest Face Restoration with One-Step Diffusion Model
Jingkai Wang, Wu Miao, Jue Gong, Zheng Chen, Xing Liu, Hong Gu, Yutong Liu†, Yulun Zhang†
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026
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Proposed HonestFace, a multi-reference one-step diffusion model for honest face restoration under severe real-world degradation. It combines an identity embedder and masked face alignment to preserve identity-critical details and natural textures. It introduces MultiRefCeleb-Test, a large-scale real-world reference-based benchmark with 400+ identities and 9,000+ images.

Light Up Your Face
Light Up Your Face: A Physically Consistent Dataset and Diffusion Model for Face Fill-Light Enhancement
Jue Gong*, Zihan Zhou*, Jingkai Wang, Xiaohong Liu, Yulun Zhang†, Xiaokang Yang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
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Introduce LightYourFace-160K (LYF-160K), a large-scale paired dataset built with a physically consistent renderer that injects a disk-shaped area fill light controlled by six disentangled factors. Pretrain a physics-aware lighting prompt (PALP) embedding the 6D parameters into conditioning tokens, and propose FiLitDiff, an efficient one-step diffusion model conditioned on physically grounded lighting codes that brightens underexposed faces while preserving the original scene illumination and background.

The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results
Jingkai Wang, Jue Gong, Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jiatong Li, Yulun Zhang†, Radu Timofte, et al.
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop and Challenges (NTIRE, CVPR Workshop), 2026
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The challenge aims to generate natural, identity-consistent faces from degraded inputs, with 96 registrants, 10 teams submitting valid models, and 9 teams achieving valid final scores.


HAODiff: Human-Aware One-Step Diffusion via Dual-Prompt Guidance
Jue Gong*, Tingyu Yang*, Jingkai Wang, Zheng Chen, Xing Liu, Hong Gu, Yulun Zhang†, Xiaokang Yang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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Proposed a triple-branch dual-prompt guidance that leverages high-quality images, residual noise, and human motion blur masks, producing a positive–negative prompt pair for classifier-free guidance in one-step diffusion. The proposed model HAODiff achieves excellent performance in human body restoration, with significant improvements on issues such as local motion blur and clothing texture distortion.

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration: Methods and Results
Zheng Chen, Jingkai Wang, Kai Liu, Jue Gong, Lei Sun, Zongwei Wu, Radu Timofte, Yulun Zhang†, et al.
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop and Challenges (NTIRE, CVPR Workshop), 2025
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The challenge aims to generate natural, identity-consistent faces from degraded inputs, with 141 registrants, 13 teams submitting valid models, and 10 teams achieving valid final scores.

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (x4): Methods and Results
Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jue Gong, Jingkai Wang, Lei Sun, Zongwei Wu, Radu Timofte, Yulun Zhang†, et al.
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop and Challenges (NTIRE, CVPR Workshop), 2025
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The challenge aims to restore high-resolution images from bicubic x4 downsampled low-resolution inputs, attracting 286 participants and resulting in 25 valid team submissions.

Human Body Restoration with One-Step Diffusion Model and A New Benchmark
Jue Gong*, Jingkai Wang*, Zheng Chen, Xing Liu, Hong Gu, Yulun Zhang†, and Xiaokang Yang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
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Developed a high-quality human body restoration dataset, PERSONA, using an automated cropping and filtering pipeline HQ-ACF. Introduced OSDHuman, a one-step diffusion model for human body restoration, which significantly outperforms existing methods in both visual quality and metrics. Contributed to the advancement of image restoration by creating a dataset that exceeds other human-related datasets in both quality and content richness.

OSDFace: One-Step Diffusion Model for Face Restoration
Jingkai Wang*, Jue Gong*, Lin Zhang, Zheng Chen, Xing Liu, Hong Gu, Yutong Liu†, Yulun Zhang†, and Xiaokang Yang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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We present OSDFace, a novel one-step diffusion model for face restoration. By combining a VQ-style visual embedder, GAN discriminator, and identity loss, it effectively captures prior information. OSDFace delivers SOTA results in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations, producing high-fidelity, natural face images with strong identity consistency.

GauWN: Gaussian-smoothed Winding Number and its Derivatives
Haoran Sun, Jingkai Wang, Hujun Bao, Jin Huang†
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2024
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Proposed a differentiable winding number framework via Gaussian kernel convolution, enabling robust inside/outside queries for an even possibly intersected 2D polygon. The differentiable formulation supports applications including intersection resolution, feature-aware curve editing with in-out brushes, and topology-preserving shape offsetting.

Services

• Journal Reviewer

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)

• Conference Reviewer

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026, 2027
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025, 2026
    Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), 2025, 2026

Awards

    [2026.05]    ICML Gold Reviewer Award
    [2025.11]    First-prize Academic Scholarship of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    [2025.10]    National Scholarship
    [2022.10]    Leading Scholarship of Chu Ko Chen Honors College
    [2021.10]    First-prize Scholarship of Zhejiang University
    [2021.10]    Leading Scholarship of Chu Ko Chen Honors College
    [2020.10]    First-prize Scholarship of Zhejiang University

TAs

    [2025.09-2026.01]    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI1003, Undergraduate)
    [2025.02-2025.06]    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AP1226, High School)
    [2023.02-2023.06]    Numerical Analysis (21190641, Undergraduate)
    [2022.09-2023.01]    Probabilities and Statistics (061B9090, Undergraduate)

Intern

    [2026.01-2026.05]    Xiaohongshu, hilab
    [2025.06-2025.09]    Huawei CBG Camera, AITA


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