About Me
I'm Zhan, a researcher at Adobe Research.
I got my Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst at 2023, advised by Prof. Evangelos Kalogerakis.
My research focuses on 2D/3D character animation and generative video effects.
Email: zhaxu AT adobe DOT com
Publications
For a complete list, see Google Scholar.
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
[PAPER]
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
[PAPER]
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
[PAPER]
NECA: Neural Customizable Human Avatar
Junjin Xiao, Qing Zhang, Zhan Xu, Wei-Shi Zheng
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[PAPER] [CODE]
MoRig: Motion-Aware Rigging of Character Meshes from Point Clouds
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Li Yi, Evangelos Kalogerakis
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2022
[PAPER] [CODE] [VIDEO]
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
[PAPER] [CODE] [VIDEO]
RigNet: Neural Rigging for Articulated Characters
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Chris Landreth and Karan Singh
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2020
[PAPER] [CODE] [Video]
Predicting Animation Skeletons for 3D Articulated Models via Volumetric Nets
Zhan Xu, Yang Zhou, Evangelos Kalogerakis and Karan Singh
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2019, Oral Presentation
[PAPER] [CODE]
VisemeNet: Audio-Driven Animator-Centric Speech Animation
Yang Zhou, Zhan Xu, Chris Landreth, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Subhransu Maji and Karan Singh
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2018
[PAPER] [CODE] [Video]