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

    ► [NEW!] [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.

    ► [Nov. 2023] Our video super-resolution project #ProjResUp was presented at Adobe Max 2023 (Sneak Peak) [Youtube Link] [Press]

    ► [Nov. 2023] Our paper 3D generation foundation model "LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3D" has been accepted by ICLR 2023.

    ► [Oct. 2023] 2 papers accepted by ICCV 2023.

    ► [Oct. 2022] 1 paper accepted by SIGGRAPH ASIA 2022.

    ► [Oct. 2022] 2 papers accepted by ECCV 2022.

    ► [Jun. 2022] 2 papers accepted by CVPR 2022.

    ► [May 2021] Start my new journey at Adobe Research as a full-time research scientist.

    ► [Mar. 2021] Gave a talk on deep learning architectures for character animation at Intelligent Graphics Lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

    ► [Nov. 2020] Our summer intern project #OnTheBeatSneak was presented at Adobe MAX 2020 (Sneak Peek). [Quick Look] [Full Youtube Link] [Press]

    ► [Aug. 2020] Our paper MakeItTalk accepted by SIGGRAPH ASIA 2020. [Video]

    ► [Apr. 2020] Our paper RigNet accepted by SIGGRAPH 2020. [Video]

    ► [Nov. 2019] Our summer intern project #SweetTalkSneak was presented at Adobe MAX 2019 (Sneak Peek). [Youtube Link] [Press]

    ► [Aug. 2019] Our paper on Animation Skeleton Prediction accepted by 3DV 2019.

    ► [Jul. 2019] Our paper SceneGraphNet accepted by ICCV 2019.

    ► [Jun. 2019] Joined Adobe CIL (Seattle) as a summer intern.

    ► [Jun. 2018] Joined Wayfair Next Research as a summer intern and fall co-op intern.

    ► [Apr. 2018] Our paper VisemeNet accepted by SIGGRAPH 2018. [Video]

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    Video Generation and Visual Effects

    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
    PDF   Project  
    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

    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
    Arxiv 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

    1     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).

    [Quick Look] [Full Youtube Link] [Press]

    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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