I'm Zhan Xu, a researcher at Adobe Research. I received my Ph.D. in Feb. 2023 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I was advised by Prof. Evangelos Kalogerakis.
My research focuses on 2D/3D character animation and generative video effects. You can reach me by email at: zhaxu AT adobe DOT com.
Publications
For a complete list, see my Google Scholar page.
Video Motion Graphs
Haiyang Liu, Zhan Xu, Fa-Ting Hong, Hsin-Ping Huang, Yi Zhou, Yang Zhou
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025, Highlight
Generating, Fast and Slow: Scalable Parallel Video Generation with Video Interface Networks
Bhishma Dedhia, David Bourgin, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yuheng Li, Yan Kang, Zhan Xu, Niraj K Jha, Yuchen Liu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
RigAnything: Template-Free Autoregressive Rigging for Diverse 3D Assets
Isabella Liu, Zhan Xu, Wang Yifan, Hao Tan, Zexiang Xu, Xiaolong Wang, Hao Su, Zifan Shi
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2025
StreamME: Simplify 3D Gaussian Avatar within Live Stream
Luchuan Song, Yang Zhou, Zhan Xu, Yi Zhou, Deepali Aneja, Chenliang Xu
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, 2025
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
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025, Highlight
Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization
Jisu Nam, Soowon Son, Zhan Xu, Jing Shi, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, Aashish Misraa, Seungryong Kim, Yang Zhou
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation
Boxiao Pan, Zhan Xu, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yang Zhou, Leonidas J. Guibas, Jimei Yang
Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
NECA: Neural Customizable Human Avatar
Junjin Xiao, Qing Zhang, Zhan Xu, Wei-Shi Zheng
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
MoRig: Motion-Aware Rigging of Character Meshes from Point Clouds
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Li Yi, Evangelos Kalogerakis
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2022
APES: Articulated Part Extraction from Sprite Sheets
Zhan Xu, Matthew Fisher, Yang Zhou, Deepali Aneja, Rushikesh Dudhat, Li Yi, Evangelos Kalogerakis
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
RigNet: Neural Rigging for Articulated Characters
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Chris Landreth, Karan Singh
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2020
Predicting Animation Skeletons for 3D Articulated Models via Volumetric Nets
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Karan Singh
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2019, Oral Presentation
VisemeNet: Audio-Driven Animator-Centric Speech Animation
Yang Zhou, Zhan Xu, Chris Landreth, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Subhransu Maji, Karan Singh
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2018