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Zixin Zou
dblp:248/8248 · also Zi-Xin Zou
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16ranked-venue papers
4as first author
15since 2021 · last 2026
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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 13 · 4 first-author · 13 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 8 · 2 first-author · 8 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 2 · 2 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 2 · 2 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DetailGen3D: Generative 3D Geometry Enhancement via Data-Dependent FlowabstractModern 3D generation methods can rapidly create shapes from sparse or single views, but their outputs often lack geometric detail due to computational constraints. We present DetailGen3D, a generative approach specifically designed to enhance these generated 3D shapes. Our key insight is to model the coarse-to-fine transformation directly through data-dependent flows in latent space, avoiding the computational overhead of large-scale 3D generative models. We introduce a token matching strategy that ensures accurate spatial correspondence during refinement, enabling local detail synthesis while preserving global structure. By carefully designing our training data to match the characteristics of synthesized coarse shapes, our method can effectively enhance shapes produced by various 3D generation and reconstruction approaches, from single-view to sparse multi-view inputs. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DetailGen3D achieves high-fidelity geometric detail synthesis while maintaining efficiency in training. Our project page is https://detailgen3d.github.io/DetailGen3D/ Ken Deng, Jingxiang Sun, Zixin Zou, Yangguang Li 0001, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Yebin Liu, Ding Liang |
3DV | 4 |
| 2026 | AniGen: Unified S3 Fields for Animatable 3D Asset GenerationabstractAnimatable 3D assets, defined as geometry equipped with an articulated skeleton and skinning weights, are fundamental to interactive graphics, embodied agents, and animation production. While recent 3D generative models can synthesize visually plausible shapes from images, the results are typically static. Obtaining usable rigs via post-hoc auto-rigging is brittle and often produces skeletons that are topologically inconsistent with the generated geometry. We present AniGen , a unified framework that directly generates animate-ready 3D assets conditioned on a single image. Our key insight is to represent shape, skeleton, and skinning as mutually consistent S 3 Fields (Shape, Skeleton, Skin) defined over a shared spatial domain. To enable the robust learning of these fields, we introduce two technical innovations: (i) a confidence-decaying skeleton field that explicitly handles the geometric ambiguity of bone prediction at Voronoi boundaries, and (ii) a dual skin feature field that decouples skinning weights from specific joint counts, allowing a fixed-architecture network to predict rigs of arbitrary complexity. Built upon a two-stage flow-matching pipeline, AniGen first synthesizes a sparse structural scaffold and then generates dense geometry and articulation in a structured latent space. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AniGen substantially outperforms state-of-the-art sequential baselines in rig validity and animation quality, generalizing effectively to in-the-wild images across diverse categories including animals, humanoids, and machinery. Homepage : https://yihua7.github.io/AniGen_web/ Yihua Huang 0002, Zixin Zou, Yuting He 0006, Chirui Chang, Cheng-Feng Pu, Ziyi Yang 0008, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Xiaojuan Qi 0001 |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 2 |
| 2026 | Nexus: Native Mesh Generation with DiffusionabstractGenerating high-quality triangle meshes is essential for film, gaming, and interactive 3D applications. Mainstream methods rely on mesh serialization and autoregressive processes, which stuggles in effective inference and is sensitive to error accumulation. In this paper, we present Nexus , a diffusion method that achieves holistic mesh generation via decoupled vertex and topology generation. First, we view mesh vertices as sparse voxels organized as an octree and adopt a diffusion model to generate the vertices in a coarse-to-fine manner. Second, for topology modeling, we propose Space-time Interval , as an extension of Spacetime Distance to encode arbitrary edge and face topology into continuous per-vertex embeddings. It allows for a global and efficient recovery of complex topology. We then employ a diffusion model to generate the continuous embeddings on the generated vertices. Extensive experiments on the Objaverse and Toys4K datasets and in-the-wild images demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art autoregressive and two-stage baselines, effectively circumventing the inherent limitations of sequential mesh modeling. A blind user study from 3D practitioners confirms strong perceptual preference for our results. Ying-Tian Liu, Qi-Yuan Feng, Zixin Zou, Ding Liang, Biao Zhang 0005, Yan-Pei Cao 0001 |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 5 |
| 2025 | MIDI: Multi-Instance Diffusion for Single Image to 3D Scene GenerationabstractThis paper introduces MIDI, a novel paradigm for compositional 3D scene generation from a single image. Unlike existing methods that rely on reconstruction or retrieval techniques or recent approaches that employ multi-stage object-by-object generation, MIDI extends pre-trained image-to-3D object generation models to multi-instance diffusion models, enabling the simultaneous generation of multiple 3D instances with accurate spatial relationships and high generalizability. At its core, MIDI incorporates a novel multi-instance attention mechanism, that effectively captures inter-object interactions and spatial coherence directly within the generation process, without the need for complex multi-step processes. The method utilizes partial object images and global scene context as inputs, directly modeling object completion during 3D generation. During training, we effectively supervise the interactions between 3D instances using a limited amount of scene-level data, while incorporating single-object data for regularization, thereby maintaining the pre-trained generalization ability. MIDI demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in image-to-scene generation, validated through evaluations on synthetic data, real-world scene data, and stylized scene images generated by text-to-image diffusion models. Zehuan Huang, Xingqiao An, Yunhan Yang, Yangguang Li 0001, Zixin Zou, Ding Liang, Xihui Liu, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Lu Sheng |
CVPR | 6 |
| 2025 | GCRayDiffusion: Pose-Free Surface Reconstruction via Geometric Consistent Ray DiffusionabstractAccurate surface reconstruction from unposed images is crucial for efficient 3D object or scene creation. However, it remains challenging, particularly for the joint camera pose estimation. Previous approaches have achieved impressive pose-free surface reconstruction results in dense-view settings, but could easily fail for sparse-view scenarios without sufficient visual overlap. In this paper, we propose a new technique for pose-free surface reconstruction, which follows triplane-based signed distance field (SDF) learning but regularizes the learning by explicit points sampled from ray-based diffusion of camera pose estimation. Our key contribution is a novel Geometric Consistent Ray Diffusion model (GCRayDiffusion), where we represent camera poses as neural bundle rays and regress the distribution of noisy rays via a diffusion model. More importantly, we further condition the denoising process of RGRayDiffusion using the triplane-based SDF of the entire scene, which provides effective 3D consistent regularization to achieve multi-view consistent camera pose estimation. Finally, we incorporate RGRayDiffusion into the triplane-based SDF learning by introducing on-surface geometric regularization from the sampling points of the neural bundle rays, which leads to highly accurate pose-free surface reconstruction results even for sparse-view inputs. Extensive evaluations on public datasets show that our GCRayDiffusion achieves more accurate camera pose estimation than previous approaches, with geometrically more consistent surface reconstruction results, especially given sparse-view inputs. Li-Heng Chen, Zixin Zou, Tianjiao Jing, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Shi-Sheng Huang, Hongbo Fu 0001, Hua Huang 0001 |
ICCV | 2 |
| 2025 | SparseFlex: High-Resolution and Arbitrary-Topology 3D Shape ModelingabstractCreating high-fidelity 3D meshes with arbitrary topology, including open surfaces and complex interiors, remains a significant challenge. Existing implicit field methods often require costly and detail-degrading watertight conversion, while other approaches struggle with high resolutions. This paper introduces SparseFlex, a novel sparse-structured isosurface representation that enables differentiable mesh reconstruction at resolutions up to $1024^3$ directly from rendering losses. SparseFlex combines the accuracy of Flexicubes with a sparse voxel structure, focusing computation on surface-adjacent regions and efficiently handling open surfaces. Crucially, we introduce a frustum-aware sectional voxel training strategy that activates only relevant voxels during rendering, dramatically reducing memory consumption and enabling high-resolution training. This also allows, for the first time, the reconstruction of mesh interiors using only rendering supervision. Building upon this, we demonstrate a complete shape modeling pipeline by training a variational autoencoder (VAE) and a rectified flow transformer for high-quality 3D shape generation. Our experiments show state-of-the-art reconstruction accuracy, with a ~82% reduction in Chamfer Distance and a ~88% increase in F-score compared to previous methods, and demonstrate the generation of high-resolution, detailed 3D shapes with arbitrary topology. By enabling high-resolution, differentiable mesh reconstruction and generation with rendering losses, SparseFlex significantly advances the state-of-the-art in 3D shape representation and modeling. Xianglong He, Zixin Zou, Chia-Hao Chen, Ding Liang, Chun Yuan 0003, Wanli Ouyang, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Yangguang Li 0001 |
ICCV | 2 |
| 2025 | ShapeGen: Towards High-Quality 3D Shape SynthesisabstractInspired by generative paradigms in image and video, 3D shape generation has made notable progress, enabling the rapid synthesis of high-fidelity 3D assets from a single image. However, current methods still face challenges, including the lack of intricate details, overly smoothed surfaces, and fragmented thin-shell structures. These limitations leave the generated 3D assets still one step short of meeting the standards favored by artists. In this paper, we present ShapeGen, which achieves high-quality image-to-3D shape generation through 3D representation and supervision improvements, resolution scaling up, and the advantages of linear transformers. These advancements allow the generated assets to be seamlessly integrated into 3D pipelines, facilitating their widespread adoption across various applications. Specifically, in contrast to existing methods: 1) We investigate how different representations and VAE supervision strategies affect the generation process, and address issues like aliasing artifacts and fragmented thin-shell structures by using an TSDF-based representation supervised with BCE loss. 2) We scale up the resolution of 3D data, image conditioning inputs, and the number of latent tokens to enhance generation fidelity. 3) We adopt mixed conditioning using raw RGB images and normal maps during training, effectively resolving ambiguities caused by inconsistencies between ControlNet-generated RGB images and the underlying geometry from untextured assets. 4) We replace the original softmax attention with linear attention to improve training and inference efficiency when handling a large number of latent tokens. 5) We introduce an inference-time scaling strategy that enhances generation quality at test time. Through extensive experiments, we validate the impact of these improvements on overall performance. Ultimately, thanks to the synergistic effects of these enhancements, ShapeGen achieves a significant leap in image-to-3D generation, establishing a new state-of-the-art performance. Yangguang Li 0001, Xianglong He, Zixin Zou, Zexiang Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Ding Liang, Yan-Pei Cao 0001 |
SIGGRAPH Asia | 3 |
| 2025 | OmniPart: Part-Aware 3D Generation with Semantic Decoupling and Structural CohesionabstractThe creation of 3D assets with explicit, editable part structures is crucial for advancing interactive applications, yet most generative methods produce only monolithic shapes, limiting their utility. We introduce OmniPart, a novel framework for part-aware 3D object generation designed to achieve high semantic decoupling among components while maintaining robust structural cohesion. OmniPart uniquely decouples this complex task into two synergistic stages: (1) an autoregressive structure planning module generates a controllable, variable-length sequence of 3D part bounding boxes, critically guided by flexible 2D part masks that allow for intuitive control over part decomposition without requiring direct correspondences or semantic labels; and (2) a spatially-conditioned rectified flow model, efficiently adapted from a pre-trained holistic 3D generator, synthesizes all 3D parts simultaneously and consistently within the planned layout. Our approach supports user-defined part granularity, precise localization, and enables diverse downstream applications. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OmniPart achieves state-of-the-art performance, paving the way for more interpretable, editable, and versatile 3D content. Yunhan Yang, Yufan Zhou 0004, Zixin Zou, Ying-Tian Liu, Hao Xu 0049, Ding Liang, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Xihui Liu |
SIGGRAPH Asia | 4 |
| 2025 | GP-Recon: Online Monocular Neural 3D Reconstruction With Geometric PriorabstractHigh-fidelity online 3D scene reconstruction from monocular videos continues to be challenging, especially for coherent and fine-grained geometry reconstruction. The previous learning-based online 3D reconstruction approaches with neural implicit representations have shown a promising ability for coherent scene reconstruction, but often fail to consistently reconstruct fine-grained geometric details during online reconstruction. This paper presents a new on-the-fly monocular 3D reconstruction approach, named GP-Recon, to perform high-fidelity online neural 3D reconstruction with fine-grained geometric details. We incorporate geometric prior (GP) into a scene's neural geometry learning to better capture its geometric details and, more importantly, propose an online volume rendering optimization to reconstruct and maintain geometric details during the online reconstruction task. The extensive comparisons with state-of-the-art approaches show that our GP-Recon consistently generates more accurate and complete reconstruction results with much better fine-grained details, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Zixin Zou, Shi-Sheng Huang, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Tai-Jiang Mu, Ying Shan, Hongbo Fu 0001, Song-Hai Zhang |
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. | 1 |
| 2024 | SC-NeuS: Consistent Neural Surface Reconstruction from Sparse and Noisy ViewsabstractThe recent neural surface reconstruction approaches using volume rendering have made much progress by achieving impressive surface reconstruction quality, but are still limited to dense and highly accurate posed views. To overcome such drawbacks, this paper pays special attention on the consistent surface reconstruction from sparse views with noisy camera poses. Unlike previous approaches, the key difference of this paper is to exploit the multi-view constraints directly from the explicit geometry of the neural surface, which can be used as effective regularization to jointly learn the neural surface and refine the camera poses. To build effective multi-view constraints, we introduce a fast differentiable on-surface intersection to generate on-surface points, and propose view-consistent losses on such differentiable points to regularize the neural surface learning. Based on this point, we propose a joint learning strategy, named SC-NeuS, to perform geometry-consistent surface reconstruction in an end-to-end manner. With extensive evaluation on public datasets, our SC-NeuS can achieve consistently better surface reconstruction results with fine-grained details than previous approaches, especially from sparse and noisy camera views. The source code is available at https://github.com/zouzx/sc-neus.git. Shi-Sheng Huang, Zixin Zou, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Ying Shan |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2024 | Sparse3D: Distilling Multiview-Consistent Diffusion for Object Reconstruction from Sparse ViewsabstractReconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained diffusion priors into 3D representations using score distillation sampling (SDS), these methods often struggle to simultaneously achieve high-quality, consistent, and detailed results for both novel-view synthesis (NVS) and geometry. In this work, we present Sparse3D, a novel 3D reconstruction method tailored for sparse view inputs. Our approach distills robust priors from a multiview-consistent diffusion model to refine a neural radiance field. Specifically, we employ a controller that harnesses epipolar features from input views, guiding a pre-trained diffusion model, such as Stable Diffusion, to produce novel-view images that maintain 3D consistency with the input. By tapping into 2D priors from powerful image diffusion models, our integrated model consistently delivers high-quality results, even when faced with open-world objects. To address the blurriness introduced by conventional SDS, we introduce the category-score distillation sampling (C-SDS) to enhance detail. We conduct experiments on CO3DV2 which is a multi-view dataset of real-world objects. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate that our approach outperforms previous state-of-the-art works on the metrics regarding NVS and geometry reconstruction. Zixin Zou, Weihao Cheng 0002, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Shi-Sheng Huang, Ying Shan, Song-Hai Zhang |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2024 | Triplane Meets Gaussian Splatting: Fast and Generalizable Single-View 3D Reconstruction with TransformersabstractRecent advancements in 3D reconstruction from single images have been driven by the evolution of generative models. Prominent among these are methods based on Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) and the adaptation ofdiffusion models in the 3D domain. Despite their progress, these techniques often face limitations due to slow optimization or rendering processes, leading to extensive training and optimization times. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for single-view reconstruction that efficiently generates a 3D model from a single image via feed-forward inference. Our method utilizes two transformer-based networks, namely a point decoder and a triplane decoder, to reconstruct 3D objects using a hybrid Triplane-Gaussian intermediate representation. This hybrid representation strikes a balance, achieving a faster rendering speed compared to implicit representations while simultaneously delivering superior rendering quality than explicit representations. The point decoder is designed for generating point clouds from single images, offering an explicit representation which is then utilized by the triplane decoder to query Gaussian features for each point. This design choice addresses the challenges associated with directly regressing explicit 3D Gaussian attributes characterized by their non-structural nature. Subsequently, the 3D Gaussians are decoded by an MLP to enable rapid rendering through splatting. Both decoders are built upon a scalable, transformer-based architecture and have been efficiently trained on large-scale 3D datasets. The evaluations conducted on both synthetic datasets and real-world images demonstrate that our method not only achieves higher quality but also ensures a faster runtime in comparison to previous state-of-the-art techniques. Please see our project page at https://zouzx.github.io/TriplaneGaussian/ Zixin Zou, Yangguang Li 0001, Ding Liang, Yan-Pei Cao 0001, Song-Hai Zhang |
CVPR | 1 |
| 2022 | AFR: An Efficient Buffering Algorithm for Cloud Robotic SystemsabstractCommunication between robots and the server is a major problem for cloud robotic systems. In this paper, we address the problem caused by data loss during such communications and propose an efficient buffering algorithm, called AFR, to solve the problem. We model the problem into an optimization problem to maximize the received Quantity of Information (QoI). Our AFR algorithm is formally proved to achieve near-optimal QoI, which has a lower bound that is a constant multiple of the unrealizable optimal QoI. We implement our AFR algorithm in ROS without changing the API for the applications. Our experiments on two cloud robot applications show that our AFR algorithm can efficiently and effectively reduce the impact of data loss. For the remote mapping application, the RMSE caused by data loss can be reduced by about 20%. For the remote tracking application, the probability of tracking failure caused by data loss can be reduced from about 40 %-60 % to under 10%. Meanwhile, our AFR algorithm introduces time overhead of under 10 microseconds. Yu-Ping Wang 0001, Hao-Ning Wang, Zixin Zou, Dinesh Manocha |
IROS | 3 |
| 2022 | ObjectFusion: Accurate object-level SLAM with neural object priors
Zixin Zou, Shi-Sheng Huang, Tai-Jiang Mu, Yu-Ping Wang 0001 |
Graph. Model. | 1 |
| 2021 | ORBBuf: A Robust Buffering Method for Remote Visual SLAMabstractThe data loss caused by unreliable network seriously impacts the results of remote visual SLAM systems. From our experiment, a loss of less than 1 second of data can cause a visual SLAM algorithm to lose tracking. We present a novel buffering method, ORBBuf, to reduce the impact of data loss on remote visual SLAM systems. We model the buffering problem as an optimization problem by introducing a similarity metric between frames. To solve the buffering problem, we present an efficient greedy algorithm to discard the frames that have the least impact on the quality of SLAM results. We implement our ORBBuf method on ROS, a widely used middleware framework. Through an extensive evaluation on real-world scenarios and tens of gigabytes of datasets, we demonstrate that our ORBBuf method can be applied to different state-estimation algorithms (DSO and VINS-Fusion), different sensor data (both monocular images and stereo images), different scenes (both indoor and outdoor), and different network environments (both WiFi networks and 4G networks). Our experimental results indicate that the network losses indeed affect the SLAM results, and our ORBBuf method can reduce the RMSE up to 50 times comparing with the Drop-Oldest and Random buffering methods. Yu-Ping Wang 0001, Zixin Zou, Cong Wang 0045, Yue-Jiang Dong, Lei Qiao 0002, Dinesh Manocha |
IROS | 2 |
| 2019 | IVT: an efficient method for sharing subtype polymorphic objectsabstractShared memory provides the fastest form of inter-process communication. Sharing polymorphic objects between different address spaces requires solving the issue of sharing pointers. In this paper, we propose a method, named Indexed Virtual Tables (IVT for short), to share polymorphic objects efficiently. On object construction, the virtual table pointers are replaced with indexes, which are used to find the actual virtual table pointers on dynamic dispatch. Only a few addition and load instructions are needed for both operations. Experimental results show that the IVT can outperform prior techniques on both object construction time and dynamic dispatch time. We also apply the proposed IVT technique to several practical scenarios, resulting the improvement of overall performance. Yu-Ping Wang 0001, Xu-Qiang Hu, Zixin Zou, Wende Tan, Gang Tan |
Proc. ACM Program. Lang. | 3 |