I am a research scientist and manager at Google. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. I've been working on a broad range of topics, including 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, neural rendering, digital human, and large generative models. Recently, I am particularly interested in infusing human-centric and 3D knowledge into large generative models for consistent, realistic, and immersive content generation. At Google, I am leading a team in delivering cutting-edge immersive communication and perception technologies.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, advised by Prof. Thomas Funkhouser. Before that, I received a Bachelor degree from Dept. Automation in Tsinghua University, and a Master degree from Dept. ECE in National University of Singapore co-supervised by Prof. Ping Tan and Prof. Shuicheng Yan.
Intern and full-time opportunities are available! Feel free to reach out!
Email: | yindanospamz (at) gmail (dot) com |
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2024.12.31 | Six papers are accepted by CVPR, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH in 2024. |
2024.12.5 | Thrilled to see the public launch of AndroidXR (blog post) -- the platform on which we have been building cutting-edge perception features tirelessly in the past years. |
2024.10.1 | TC-GEN, a generative model for hurricane, is accepted by top-tier journal in earth science (JAMES). So happy to see the success of bring computer vision to environmental science. My first publication in this domain :) |
2023.08 | One paper is accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia. |
2023.08 | One paper is accepted by TPAMI. |
2023.07 | Five papers are accepted by ICCV2023. |
2023.04 | One paper is accepted by CHI 2023. |
2023.02 | Four papers accepted by CVPR2023. |
2022.07 | Four papers accepted by ECCV2022. |
2022.05 | Debut of AR technology from our team on Google I/O 2022. |
2022.05 | We released Portrait Depth API and 3D Photo live demo on Google I/O 2022. See more in TensorFlow blog post. |
2022.04 | Two papers are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). |
2022.03 | Two papers are accepted by ACM SIGGRAPH 2022. |
2022.03 | Two papers are accepted by CVPR2022. |
2021.12 | I am thrilled to announce the arrival of a wonderful baby boy to our home. |
2021.11 | One paper got accepted by AAAI2022. |
2021.07 | Five papers are accepted by ICCV2021. |
2021.03 | Five papers (2 Orals + 3 Posters) are accepted by CVPR2021. |
2020.07 | Three papers (2 Orals + 1 Posters) are accepted by ECCV2020. |
2020.04 | Our deep learning depth refinement solution is checked in Pixel4 front-facing camera to support computational photography and AR applications. Learn more here: Google AI blogpost. |
2020.02 | Pixel2Mesh is accepted by IEEE Transactions of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. |
2020.02 | Four papers are accepted by CVPR2020. |
2019.12 | Our deep learning based solution for image based depth estimation has been deloyed on Google Pixel4 for Portrait Mode. Check this Google AI blogpost for more details. |
2019.07 | Pixel2Mesh++ is accepted by ICCV2019. Check here for the paper. |
2019.03 | DeepLidar paper is accepted by CVPR2019. |
2018.12 | I started working at Google as a Research Scientist. |
2018.11 | I obtain Ph.D degree from Princeton University. |
2018.11 | I am awarded as Siebel Scholar Class of 2019. |
2018.07 | ActiveStereoNet is accepted as oral presentation by ECCV 2018. |
2018.07 | Pixel2Mesh is accepted by ECCV 2018. |
R. Jing, J. Gao, Y. Cai, D. Xi, Y. Zhang, Y. Fu, K. Emanuel, N. Diffenbaugh, E. Bendavid
Journal of Adbances in Modeling Earth System
[Paper]
Y. Zhang, Q. He, Y. Wan, Y. Zhang, X. Deng, C. Ma, H. Wang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2025)
W. Qu, J. Li, J. Cheng, J. Shi, C. Meng, C. Ma, H. Wang, X. Deng, Y. Zhang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2025)
J. Chen, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, R. Pandey, T. Beeler, M. Habermann, C. Theobalt
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
B. Zhao*, Y. Li*, Z. Sun, L. Zeng, Y. Shen, R. Ma, Y. Zhang, H. Bao, Z. Cui
ACM SIGGRAPH 2024
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
Y. Lan, F. Tan, D. Qiu, Q. Xu, K. Genova, Z. Huang, S. Fanello, R. Pandey, T. Funkhouser, C. Loy, Y. Zhang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
Z. Wang, Q. Xu, F. Tan, M. Chai, S. Liu, R. Pandey, S. Fanello, A. Kadambi, Y. Zhang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
C. Bao*, Y. Zhang*, Y. Li*, X. Zhang, B. Yang, H. Bao, M. Pollefeys, G. Zhang, Z. Cui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
Z. Bai, F. Tan, S. Fanello, R. Pandey, M. Dou, S. Liu, P. Tan, Y. Zhang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
K. Sarkar, M. Bühler, G. Li, D. Wang, D. Vicini, J. Riviere, Y. Zhang, S. Orts-Escolano1, P. Gotardo, T. Beeler, A. Meka
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
X. Wei, Y. Zhang, X. Ren, Z. Li, Y. Fu, X. Xue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3307567
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
THE. Tse, F. Mueller, Z. Shen, D. Tang, T. Beeler, M. Dou, Y. Zhang, S. Petrovic, HJ. Chang, J. Taylor, B. Doosti
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
S. Luo, X. Qian, Y. Fu, Y. Zhang, Y. Tai, Z. Zhang, C. Wang, X. Xue
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[Paper]
B. Zhang, J. Li, X. Deng, Y. Zhang, C. Ma, H. Wang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
X. Liu, Y. Li, Y. Teng, H. Bao, G. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. Cui
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
W. Qu, Z. Cui, Y. Zhang, C. Meng, C. Ma, X. Deng, H. Wang>
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
Z. Bai, F. Tan, Z. Huang, K. Sarkar, D. Tang, D. Qiu, A. Meka, R. Du, M. Dou, S. Orts-Escolano, R. Pandey, P. Tan, T. Beeler, S. Fanello, Y. Zhang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
C. Bao*, Y. Zhang*, B. Yang*, T. Fan, Z. Yang, H. Bao, G. Zhang, Z. Cui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
P. Dai*, Y. Zhang*, X. Yu, X. Lyu, X. Qi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
Y. He, D. Tang, Y. Zhang, X. Xue, Y. Fu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
R. Du, N. Li, J. Jin, M. Carney, S. Miles, M. Kleiner, X. Yuan, Y. Zhang, A. Kulkarni, X. Liu, S. Orts-Escolano, A. Kar, P. Yu, R. Iyengar, A. Kowdle, A. Olwal
ACM SIG-CHI 2023
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
B. Yang, C. Bao, J. Zeng, H. Bao, Y. Zhang, Z. Cui, G. Zhang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
Y. Li, X. Liu, W. Dong, H. Zhou, H. Bao, G. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. Cui,
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
B. Feng, Y. Zhang, D. Tang, R. Du, A. Varshney
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
B. Jiang, X. Ren, M. Dou, X. Xue, Y. Fu, Y. Zhang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
B. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, Z. Cui, S. Fanello, H. Bao, G. Zhang
ACM SIGGRAPH (Transactions on Graphics, 2022)
F. Tan, S. Fanello, A. Meka, S. Orts-Escolano, D. Tang, R. Pandey, J. Taylor, P. Tan, Y. Zhang
ACM SIGGRAPH (Conference Track, 2022)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
B. Jiang*, Y. Zhang*, X. Wei, X. Xue, Y. Fu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
Y. He, X. Ren, D. Tang, Y. Zhang, X. Xue, Y. Fu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
J. Cheng, Y. Wan, D. Zuo, C. Ma, J. Gu, P. Tan, H. Wang, X. Deng, Y. Zhang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2022)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
X. Deng, D. Zuo, Y. Zhang, Z. Cui, J. Cheng, P. Tan, L. Chang, M. Pollefeys, S. Fanello, H. Wang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3159725
[Paper (Coming Soon)] [Project Webpage (Coming Soon)] [Codes (Coming Soon)]
C. Zhang, Z. Cui, C. Chen, S. Liu, B. Zeng, H. Bao, Y. Zhang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
B. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. Xu, Y. Li, H. Zhou, H. Bao, G. Zhang, Z. Cui
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
X. Wei, Z. Chen, Y. Fu, Z. Cui, Y. Zhang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
B. Zhang, Y. Wang, X. Deng, Y. Zhang, P. Tan, C. Ma, H. Wang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
F. Tan, D. Tang, M. Dou, K. Guo, R. Pandey, C. Keskin, R. Du, D. Sun, S. Bouaziz, S. Fanello, P. Tan, Y. Zhang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
C. Zhang*, Z. Cui*, Y. Zhang*, B. Zeng, M. Pollefeys, S. Liu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
B. Jiang*, Y. Zhang*, X. Wei, X. Xue, Y. Fu.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Data, Model, Code] [Video]
Y. Zhu, Y. Zhang, S. Li, B. Shi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Oral Presentation
[Paper]
V. Tankovich, C. Hane, Y. Zhang, A. Kowdle, S. Fanello, S. Bouaziz
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Oral Presentation
Y. Zhang, N. Wadhwa, S. Orts-Escolano, C. haene, S. Fanello, R. Garg
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
X. Wei*, Y. Zhang*, Z. Li*, Y. Fu, X. Xue
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Codes]
W. Zhang, W. Zhang, Y. Zhang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020)
P. Dai, Z. Li, Y. Zhang, S. Liu, B. Zeng
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 16 Apr 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2020.2987169.
[Paper]
J. Wang, C. Wen, Y. Fu, H. Lin, T. Zou, X. Xue, Y. Zhang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020)
D. Tang, S. Singh, P. Chou, C. Haene, M. Dou, S. Fanello, J. Taylor, P. Davidson, O. Guleryuz, Y. Zhang, S. Izadi, A. Tagliasacchi, S. Bouaziz, C. Keskin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Video]
P. Dai*, Y. Zhang*, Z. Li*, S. Liu, B. Zeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020)
[Paper] [Project Webpage] [Code and Data] [Poster] [Video]
S. Liu, Y. Zhang, S. Peng, B. Shi, M. Pollefeys, Z. Cui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020)
[Paper] [Supplementary Material] [Code and Data] [Project Webpage] [Video] [Poster] [Slides]
C. Wen*, Y. Zhang*, Z. Li*, Y. Fu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2019)
J. Qiu*, Z. Cui*, Y. Zhang*, X. Zhang, S. Liu, B. Zeng, M. Pollefeys
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019)
[Paper] [Code and Data]
Y. Zhang, S. Khamis, C. Rhemann, J. Valentin, A. Kowdle, V. Tankovich, M. Schoenberg, S. Izadi, T. Funkhouser, S. Fanello
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018), Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Supplimentary] [Arxiv] [Slides] [Oral Presentation] [Project Webpage]
N. Wang*, Y. Zhang*, Z. Li*, Y. Fu, W. Liu, Y. Jiang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 02 Apr 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2984232.
[Paper] [Arxiv] [Code] [Project Webpage]
Y. Zhang, T. Funkhouser
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018)
[Paper] [Supplimentary] [Arxiv] [Spotlight Presentation] [Project Webpage] [Code]
A. Chang, A. Dai, T. Funkhouser, M. Halber, M. Niessner, M. Savva, S. Song, A. Zeng, Y. Zhang
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2017)
[Paper] [Arxiv] [Project Webpage]
Y. Zhang, S. Song, E. Yumer, M. Savva, J. Lee, H. Jin, T. Funkhouser
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017)
[Paper] [Supplimentary] [Arxiv] [Project Webpage] [Code]
Y. Zhang, M. Bai, P. Kohli, S. Izadi, J. Xiao
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017)
[Paper] [Supplimentary] [Arxiv] [Project Webpage] [Video Youtube] [Video Download]
X. Deng*, S. Yang*, Y. Zhang*, P. Tan, L. Chang, H. Wang
arXiv:1704.02224 [cs.CV] (7 Apr 2017)
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
X. Deng, Y. Zhang, S. Yang, P. Tan, L. Chang, Y. Yuan, H. Wang
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 04 Dec 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2017.2779600.
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
F. Yu, A. Seff, Y. Zhang, S. Song, T. Funkhouser, J. Xiao
arXiv:1506.03365 [cs.CV] 10 Jun 2015
[Paper] [Project Webpage]
P. Xu, K. A. Ehinger, Y. Zhang, A. Finkelstein, S. R. Kulkarni, J. Xiao
arXiv:1504.06755 [cs.CV] 25 Apr 2015
[Paper] [Supplimentary] [Video Youtube] [Video Download] [Project Webpage]
Y. Zhang, S. Song, P. Tan, and J. Xiao
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2014), Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Supplimentary] [Oral Presentation] [Conference Talk] [Detailed Video Youtube] [Detailed Video Download (8min)] [Short Video Download (1min)] [Project Webpage]
Y. Zhang, J. Xiao, J. Hays, P. Tan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)
Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science
09/2014--11/2018
M.Eng. in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
01/2010--01/2013
Research Intern
05/2010--08/2011
B.Eng. in Department of Automation
08/2005--08/2009
CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, NIPS, AAAI, BMVC, 3DV, ACCV, ICPR, ICRA
PAMI, IJCV, TOG, MVAP, TIP, NEUCOM
Email: | yindanospamz (at) gmail (dot) com |
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