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]
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
[PAPER][CODE]
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]