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. My research interests are mainly in 3D Computer Vision and Video Generation / Editing. 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: 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

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]

Composing Concepts from Images and Videos via Concept-prompt Binding

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

arXiv Preprint, 2025.

[Paper] [Project Page] [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

Teaching

  • CMAA5025 Social Media for Creativity Spring 2024-25, Teaching Assistant