Yash Kant

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I am a Research Scientist at Netflix on Creative Tech, led by Jian Ren. Following Netflix's acquisition of Interpositive, I was brought on the team, I work on training our in-house 4K video editing model.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, and was previously part of Paul Debevec's team at Eyeline.

At Meta Reality Labs (2024–25), I spent 8 months in Shunsuke Saito's team building Pippo — a 1K resolution multi-view diffusion model pre-trained on 3B human images and post-trained on 400M images from studio captures.

Earlier, I worked at Snap Research with Aliaksandr Siarohin for ~1.75 years (2021–23). My work SPAD was used in Snapchat's text-to-3D pipeline, and I led two other projects: iNVS and INS.

At Georgia Tech (2019–21) with Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra, I built Housekeep (embodied AI benchmark) and developed SAM and ConCAT to enable robust OCR and reasoning in vision-language models.

Yash Kant

Highlights

  • Defended my PhD thesis! December, 2025.
  • Guest lecture at UMD, EECS 542 class! October, 2025.
  • Talks at Waymo, Meta, Snap, Netflix Eyeline, Tesla, and Google Deepmind! April, 2025.

Reviewing: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, AAAI, NeurIPS, ACCV, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, TOG.

Research

ID-V2V
ID-V2V: Identity-preserving Video Restylization
Yuancheng Xu, Mingming He, Pablo Salamanca, Li Ma, Yash Kant, Emmett Steven, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2026

ID-V2V restylizes video while preserving subject identity through a combination of diffusion-based video generation and identity-aware guidance!

Vista4D
Vista4D: Video Reshooting with 4D Point Clouds
Kuan Heng Lin, Zhizheng Liu, Pablo Salamanca, Yash Kant, Ryan Burgert, Yuancheng Xu, Koichi Namekata, Yiwei Zhao, Bolei Zhou, Micah Goldblum, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu
CVPR, 2026 Highlight

Vista4D reshoots a dynamic scene from a single source video along novel camera trajectories and viewpoints, by grounding the video and target cameras in a 4D point cloud!

It is robust to real-world 4D reconstruction artifacts, and generalizes to dynamic scene expansion and 4D scene recomposition!

Go-with-the-Track
Go-with-the-Track: Video Compositing and Motion Control with Point Tracking
Koichi Namekata, Yash Kant†, Zhizheng Liu, Ryan Burgert, Yuancheng Xu, Kuan Heng Lin, Emmett Steven, Julien Philip, Li Ma, Andrea Vedaldi, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu†
SIGGRAPH, 2026 (†equal supervision)

Go-with-the-Track unifies video compositing and motion control by conditioning a video diffusion model on multiple reference images and reference-anchored point tracks!

A single model handles keypoint-driven compositing, multi-reference camera control, and restylization, with point tracks establishing correspondences across generated frames!

Pippo
Pippo: High-Resolution Multi-View Humans from a Single Image
Yash Kant, Ethan Weber, Jin Kyu Kim, Rawal Khirodkar, Su Zhaoen, Julieta Martinez, Igor Gilitschenski*, Shunsuke Saito*, Timur Bagautdinov*
CVPR, 2025 Highlight

We trained a high-resolution (1K) multi-view human generator on 3B human images and 2.5K studio captures!

Pippo outperforms all previous multiview methods! :)

Vid2Avatar-Pro
Vid2Avatar-Pro: Authentic Avatar from Videos via Universal Prior
Chen Guo*, Junxuan Li*, Yash Kant, Yaser Sheikh, Shunsuke Saito, Chen Cao
CVPR, 2025

Vid2Avatar-Pro creates photorealistic and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular videos!

Fillerbuster
Fillerbuster: Multi-View Scene Completion for Casual Captures
Ethan Weber, Norman Müller, Yash Kant, Vasu Agrawal, Michael Zollhöfer, Angjoo Kanazawa, Christian Richardt
3DV, 2026

Fillerbuster auto-completes missing regions in casually captured shot with a multi-view diffusion model!

SG-I2V
SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
Koichi Namekata, Sherwin Bahmani, Ziyi Wu, Yash Kant, Igor Gilitschenski, David B. Lindell
ICLR, 2025

SG-I2V enables zero-shot image animations relying solely on the knowledge present in a pre-trained image-to-video diffusion model!

SPAD
SPAD: Spatially Aware Multiview Diffusers
Yash Kant, Ziyi Wu, Michael Vasilkovsky, Gordon Qian, Jian Ren, Riza Alp Guler, Bernard Ghanem, Sergey Tulyakov*, Igor Gilitschenski*, Aliaksandr Siarohin*
CVPR, 2024

We trained a spatially aware multi-view diffusion model that can generate many consistent novel views in a single forward pass given a text prompt / image!

SPAD outperforms MVDream and SyncDreamer, and enables generating 3D assets from text within 10 seconds!

Model Merging
Realistic Evaluation of Model Merging for Compositional Generalization
Derek Tam*, Yash Kant*, Brian Lester*, Igor Gilitschenski, Colin Raffel
TMLR, 2026

We systematically evaluate several model merging methods within a unified experimental framework, focusing on compositional generalization.

We explore the impact of scaling the number of merged models and sensitivity to hyper-parameters, offering a clear assessment of the current state of model merging techniques.

iNVS
iNVS: Repurposing Diffusion Inpainters for Novel View Synthesis
Yash Kant, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Michael Vasilkovsky, Riza Alp Guler, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov, Igor Gilitschenski
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023

We perform novel view synthesis from a single image by repurposing Stable Diffusion inpainting model, and depth based 3D unprojection. We outperform baselines (such Zero-1-to-3) on PSNR and LPIPS metrics.

Our 3D-aware inpainting model was trained on Objaverse on 96 A100 GPUs for two weeks!

Invertible Neural Skinning
Invertible Neural Skinning
Yash Kant, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Riza Alp Guler, Menglei Chai, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov, Igor Gilitschenski
CVPR, 2023

We propose an end-to-end invertible and learnable reposing pipeline that allows animating implicit surfaces with intricate pose-varying effects. We outperform the state-of-the-art reposing techniques on clothed humans while preserving surface correspondences and being order of magnitude faster!

Housekeep
Housekeep: Tidying Virtual Households using Commonsense Reasoning
Yash Kant, Arun Ramachandran, Sriram Yenamandra, Igor Gilitschenski, Dhruv Batra, Andrew Szot*, and Harsh Agrawal*
ECCV, 2022

Housekeep is a benchmark to evaluate commonsense reasoning in the home for embodied AI. Here, an embodied agent must tidy a house by rearranging misplaced objects without explicit instructions.

To capture the rich diversity of real world scenarios, we support cluttering environments with ~1800 everyday 3D object models spread across ~270 categories!

LaTeRF
LaTeRF: Label and Text Driven Object Radiance Fields
Ashkan Mirzaei, Yash Kant, Jonathan Kelly, and Igor Gilitschenski
ECCV, 2022

We build a simple method to extract an object from a scene given 2D images, camera poses, a natural language description of the object, and a few annotated pixels of object and background.

ASAP
Building Scalable Video Understanding Benchmarks through Sports
Aniket Agarwal^, Alex Zhang^, Karthik Narasimhan, Igor Gilitschenski, Vishvak Murahari*, Yash Kant*
Preprint

We introduce an automated Annotation and Video Stream Alignment Pipeline (abbreviated ASAP) for aligning unlabeled videos of four different sports (Cricket, Football, Basketball, and American Football) with their corresponding dense annotations (commentary) freely available on the web. Our human studies indicate that ASAP can align videos and annotations with high fidelity, precision, and speed!

ConCAT
Contrast and Classify: Training Robust VQA Models
ICCV, 2021

We propose a training scheme which steers VQA models towards answering paraphrased questions consistently, and we ended up beating previous baselines by an absolute 5.8% on consistency metrics without any performance drop!

SAM TextVQA
Spatially Aware Multimodal Transformers for TextVQA
ECCV, 2020

We built a self-attention module to reason over spatial graphs in images. We ended up with an absolute performance improvement of more than 4% on two TextVQA bechmarks!