• Hi!
    I'm Yang Zhou

    I am a senior research scientist at Adobe Research, specializing in video generation, visual effects, and developing applications for digital avatars.

    I completed my Ph.D. study in the Computer Graphics Research Group at UMass Amherst, advised by Prof. Evangelos Kalogerakis. I obtained my master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and my master & bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Weiyao Lin.

    I work in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics and deep learning. In particular, I am interested in using deep learning techniques to help artists, stylists and animators to make better design. In particular, I am interested in the field of video generation, digital human and characters, audio-visual learning, and 3D generation.

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Recent

News

► [NEW!] [Feb 2026] 1 paper accepted by EG2026.

► [NEW!] [Oct. 2025] 3 papers accepted by ICCV 2025.

► [NEW!] [July 2025] 1 paper accepted by SIGGRAPH 2025.

► [Feb 2025] 4 papers accepted by CVPR 2025. 1 paper accepted by CVPR 2025 CVEU workshop.

► [Feb 2025] Promoted to Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research!

► [Oct. 2024] 2 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2024.

► [July 2024] 2 papers accepted by ECCV 2024.

► [Jan. 2024] 1 papers accepted by 3DV 2024.

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Academia

Publications

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Video Generation and Visual Effects

WorldCam teaser     WorldCam: Interactive Autoregressive 3D Gaming Worlds with Camera Pose as a Unifying Geometric Representation
Jisu Nam, Yicong Hong, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Feng Liu, JoungBin Lee, Jiyoung Kim, Siyoon Jin, Yunsung Lee, Jaeyoon Jung, Suhwan Choi, Seungryong Kim, Yang Zhou
Arxiv 2026
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RELIC teaser     RELIC: Interactive Video World Model with Long-Horizon Memory
Yicong Hong, Yiqun Mei, Chongjian Ge, Yiran Xu, Yang Zhou, Sai Bi, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Mike Roberts, Matthew Fisher, Eli Shechtman, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Feng Liu, Zhengqi Li, Hao Tan
Arxiv 2025
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MultiCOIN teaser     MultiCOIN: Multi-Modal COntrollable Video INbetweening
Maham Tanveer, Yang Zhou, Simon Niklaus, Ali Mahdavi Amiri, Hao Zhang, Krishna Kumar Singh, Nanxuan Zhao
EG2026
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VEGGIE teaser     VEGGIE: Instructional Editing and Reasoning Video Concepts with Grounded Generation
Shoubin Yu, Difan Liu, Ziqiao Ma, Yicong Hong, Yang Zhou, Hao Tan, Joyce Chai, Mohit Bansal
ICCV 2025
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1     VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution
Yiran Xu, Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Yang Zhou, Eli Shechtman, Feng Liu, Jia-Bin Huang, Difan Liu
CVPR 2025
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1     Progressive Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
Desai Xie, Zhan Xu, Yicong Hong, Hao Tan, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Arie Kaufman, Yang Zhou
CVPR 2025 CVEU Workshop
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1     Customize-a-Video: One-Shot Motion Customization of Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
Ren, Yixuan, Yang Zhou, Jimei Yang, Jing Shi, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Mingi Kwon, and Abhinav Shrivastava
ECCV 2024
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1     HARIVO: Harnessing Text-to-Image Models for Video Generation
Mingi Kwon, Seoung Wug Oh, Yang Zhou, Joon-Young Lee, Difan Liu, Haoran Cai, Baqiao Liu, Feng Liu, Youngjung Uh
ECCV 2024
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1     Jump Cut Smoothing for Talking Heads
Wang, Xiaojuan, Taesung Park, Yang Zhou, Eli Shechtman, and Richard Zhang
Arxiv 2024
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1     ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation
Pan, Boxiao, Zhan Xu, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yang Zhou, Leonidas J. Guibas, and Jimei Yang
NeurIPS 2024
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Digital Human and Characters

StreamME teaser     StreamME: Simplify 3D Gaussian Avatar within Live Stream
Luchuan Song, Yang Zhou, Zhan Xu, Yi Zhou, Deepali Aneja, Chenliang Xu
SIGGRAPH 2025
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1     Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization
Jisu Nam, Soowon Son, Zhan Xu, Jing Shi, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Seungryong Kim, Yang Zhou
CVPR 2025
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1     Free-viewpoint Human Animation with Pose-correlated Reference Selection
Fa-Ting Hong, Zhan Xu, Haiyang Liu, Qinjie Lin, Luchuan Song, Zhixin Shu, Yang Zhou, Duygu Ceylan, Dan Xu
CVPR 2025
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1     Move-in-2D: 2D-Conditioned Human Motion Generation
Hsin-Ping Huang, Yang Zhou, Jui-Hsien Wang, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Zhan Xu
CVPR 2025
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1     Video Motion Graphs
Haiyang Liu, Zhan Xu, Fa-Ting Hong, Hsin-Ping Huang, Yi Zhou, Yang Zhou
ICCV 2025
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1     Template-Free Single-View 3D Human Digitalization with Diffusion-Guided LRM
Weng, Zhenzhen, Jingyuan Liu, Hao Tan, Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Serena Yeung-Levy, and Jimei Yang
Arxiv 2024
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1     GRIP: Generating Interaction Poses Using Spatial Cues and Latent Consistency
Taheri, Omid, Yi Zhou, Dimitrios Tzionas, Yang Zhou, Duygu Ceylan, Soren Pirk, and Michael J. Black.
3DV 2024
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1     ContactGen: Generative Contact Modeling for Grasp Generation
Liu, Shaowei, Yang Zhou, Jimei Yang, Saurabh Gupta, and Shenlong Wang
ICCV 2023
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1     Audio-driven Neural Gesture Reenactment with Video Motion Graphs
Yang Zhou, Jimei Yang, Dingzeyu Li, Jun Saito, Deepali Aneja, and Evangelos Kalogerakis
CVPR 2022
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1     MoRig: Motion-Aware Rigging of Character Meshes from Point Clouds
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Li Yi, and Evangelos Kalogerakis
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2022
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1     Skeleton-free Pose Transfer for Stylized 3D Characters
Zhouyingcheng Liao, Jimei Yang, Jun Saito, Gerard Pons-Moll, and Yang Zhou
ECCV 2022
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1     Learning Visibility for Robust Dense Human Body Estimation
Chun-Han Yao, Jimei Yang, Duygu Ceylan, Yi Zhou, Yang Zhou, and Ming-Hsuan Yang
ECCV 2022
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1     APES: Articulated Part Extraction from Sprite Sheets
Zhan Xu, Matthew Fisher, Yang Zhou, Deepali Aneja, Rushikesh Dudhat, Li Yi, and Evangelos Kalogerakis
CVPR 2022
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1     MakeItTalk: Speaker-Aware Talking-Head Animation
Yang Zhou, Xintong Han, Eli Shechtman, Jose Echevarria, Evangelos Kalogerakis, and Dingzeyu Li
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020
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1     RigNet: Neural Rigging for Articulated Characters
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Chris Landreth, and Karan Singh
SIGGRAPH 2020
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1     Predicting Animation Skeletons for 3D Articulated Models via Volumetric Nets
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Evangelos Kalogerakis, and Karan Singh.
3DB 2019
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1     VisemeNet: Audio-Driven Animator-Centric Speech Animation
Yang Zhou, Zhan Xu, Chris Landreth, Subhransu Maji, Evangelos Kalogerakis, and Karan Singh
SIGGRAPH 2018
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3D Object and Scene Synthesis

DMesh++ teaser     DMesh++: An Efficient Differentiable Mesh for Complex Shapes
Sanghyun Son, Matheus Gadelha, Yang Zhou, Matthew Fisher, Zexiang Xu, Yi-Ling Qiao, Ming C. Lin, Yi Zhou
ICCV 2025
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DMesh teaser     DMesh: A Differentiable Mesh Representation
Sanghyun Son, Matheus Gadelha, Yang Zhou, Zexiang Xu, Ming Lin, Yi Zhou
NeurIPS 2024
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1     LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3D
Hong, Yicong, Kai Zhang, Jiuxiang Gu, Sai Bi, Yang Zhou, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Trung Bui, and Hao Tan
ICLR 2024
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1     Learning Navigational Visual Representations with Semantic Map Supervision
Hong, Yicong, Yang Zhou, Ruiyi Zhang, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Stephen Gould, and Hao Tan
ICCV 2023
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1     SceneGraphNet: Neural Message Passing for 3D Indoor Scene Augmentation
Yang Zhou, Zachary While, and Evangelos Kalogerakis
ICCV 2019
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Work

Experience

Adobe, Inc | Media Intelligent Lab

May 2021 | Research Scientist

Working on various research projects including video generation, digital human, 3D generation, etc.

Adobe, Inc | Media Intelligent Lab

June, 2020 | Intern

Collaborate with researchers on 3D facial/skeleton animations based on deep learning approaches.

Our intern project #OnTheBeatSneak was presented at Adobe MAX 2020 (Sneak Peek).

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Adobe, Inc | Creative Intelligence Lab

June, 2019 | Intern

Collaborate with researchers on audio-driven cartoon and real human facial animations and lip-sync technologies based on deep learning approaches.

Our intern project #SweetTalk was presented at Adobe MAX 2019 (Sneak Peek).

[Youtube Link] [Press]

Wayfair, Inc | Wayfair Next Research

June, 2018 | Research Intern

Working on 3D scene systhesis based on deep learning approaches.

NetEase Game, Inc

June, 2015 | Management Trainee

Working on mobile game design, especially on profit models and user-experiences.

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