Zhuoran Zhao

Zhuoran Zhao

PhD student at HKUST(GZ)

I’m Zhuoran Zhao, a second-year PhD student in Computational Media and Arts at HKUST(GZ), supervised by Prof. Pan Hui and Prof. Anyi Rao. I am currently a visiting student at MMLab@HKUST. My research interests are mainly in Video Generation / Editing and 3D Computer Vision. Before that, I received my master’s degree in Computer Science (AI Specialization) at National University of Singapore (NUS), supervised by Prof. Angela Yao and Dr. Linlin Yang at the CVML Lab.

I received my B.Eng degree in Software Engineering from South China University of Technology (SCUT). Previously, I had work experience in Tencent and worked as research assistant in SCUT advised by Prof.Junying Chen.

Recent News

  • Feb 2026: One paper is accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • Jan 2026: Two papers are accepted to ICLR 2026. See you in Rio de Janeiro!
  • June 2025: I will attend the Experimental Model Auditing via Controllable Synthesis workshop and Rhobin workshop at CVPR as “invited poster”!
  • Feb 2025: One paper is accepted to CVPR 2025. See you in Nashville!
  • Sep 2024: One paper is accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Educator’s Forum. See you in Tokyo!
  • Jul 2024: One paper is accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
  • Jul 2023: One paper is accepted to GCPR 2023.
  • June 2023: One paper is accepted to AAAI 2023 Summer Symposium - AI x Metaverse, with Best Paper Award.

Selected Papers

Composing Concepts from Images and Videos via Concept-prompt Binding

Xianghao Kong, Zeyu Zhang, Yuwei Guo, Zhuoran Zhao, Songchun Zhang, Anyi Rao

CVPR, 2026.

[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

SesaHand: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction via Controllable Generation with Semantic and Structural Alignment

Zhuoran Zhao, Xianghao Kong, Linlin Yang, Zheng Wei, Pan Hui, Anyi Rao

ICLR, 2026.

[Openreview] [Project Page]

Muddit: Liberating Generation Beyond Text-to-Image with a Unified Discrete Diffusion Model

Qingyu Shi, Jinbin Bai, Zhuoran Zhao, Wenhao Chai, Kaidong Yu, Jianzong Wu, Shuangyong Song, Yunhai Tong, Xiangtai Li, Xuelong Li, Shuicheng Yan

ICLR, 2026.

[Paper] [Code]

Analyzing the Synthetic-to-Real Domain Gap in 3D Hand Pose Estimation

Zhuoran Zhao, Linlin Yang, Pengzhan Sun, Pan Hui, Angela Yao

CVPR, 2025.

[Paper] [Code]

Embodied AI-Guided Interactive Digital Teacher for Education

Zhuoran Zhao*, Zhizhuo Yin*, Jia Sun, Pan Hui

SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024 Educator's Forum.

[Paper]

Our system was used in the CMAA5025 Social Media for Creativity Spring Course!

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InfNeRF: Towards Infinite Scale NeRF Rendering with O(log n) Space Complexity

Jiabin Liang, Lanqing Zhang, Zhuoran Zhao, Xiangyu Xu

SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024.

[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

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HiFiHR: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction from a Single Image via High-Fidelity Texture

Jiayin Zhu, Zhuoran Zhao, Linlin Yang, Angela Yao

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2023.

[Paper] [Code]

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Taming Diffusion Models for Music-driven Conducting Motion Generation

Zhuoran Zhao*, Jinbin Bai*, Delong Chen, Debang Wang, Yubo Pan

AAAI Symposia Proceedings, 2023.

[Paper] [Code]


Experience

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Sea AI Lab

Research Engineer Intern

Topic: Large-scale 3D Scene Reconstruction

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023


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Tencent

Frontend Developer

July 2021 - July 2022

Academic Service

  • Reviewer for CVPR, AAAI, ECCV