Zhong Li(李众)
Zhong Li(李众)
Senior CV/ML Research Engineer
Senior CV/ML Research Engineer
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc.
Email: zhonglee323@gmail.com
Email: zhonglee323@gmail.com
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Short Bio
I'm currently a Senior Research Engineer in 3D Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Apple Inc. Previously, I was a Senior Staff Research Scientist at OPPO US Research, where I focused on next-generation mobile AR/VR R&D. My research interests lie in the fields of vision and graphics, particularly in neural rendering, image-based rendering and relighting, and 2D/3D human body/face modeling and understanding. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, where I worked on 3D non-rigid dynamic human shape reconstruction and completion, dynamic mesh sequences compression, and human semantic segmentation.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Delaware, July 2015 - Feb 2019.
M.S. Computer Science, University of Missouri. Jan 2013 - July 2015.
NEWS
Two papers accepted to CVPR 2024 in Seattle.
One paper accepted ACM MM 2023 in Ottawa.
Two papers accepted to ICCV 2023 in Paris.
We are consistently seeking highly motivated Ph.D. interns on various AR/VR topics including but not limit to 2D/3D human body/face modeling and understanding, novel view synthesis, image-based rendering, and relighting. Drop me an email if interested.
Selected Publications(†corresponding author, *project mentor)
DualMat: PBR Material Estimation via Coherent Dual-Path Diffusion
Yifeng Huang, Zhang Chen, Yi Xu, Minh Hoai, and Zhong Li†.
ACM International Conf. on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025
Scalable High-Fidelity 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction via Graph-Image Frequency Mapping and Graph Frequency Decomposition
Tianyu Luan, Yuanhao Zhai, Jingjing Meng, Zhong Li, Zhang Chen, Yi Xu, and Junsong Yuan.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025.
PanoDreamer: Consistent Text to 360-Degree Scene Generation
Zhexiao Xiong, Zhang Chen, Zhong Li, Yi Xu, and Nathan Jacobs.
arXiv preprint, 2025.
OrientDream: Streamlining Text-to-3D Generation with Explicit Orientation Control
Yuzhong Huang, Zhong Li*, Zhang Chen, Zhiyuan Ren, Guosheng Lin, Fred Morstatter, Yi Xu.
arXiv preprint, 2024. Paper (PDF)
accepted in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),2025
PanoFree: Tuning-Free Holistic Multi-view Image Generation with Cross-view Self-Guidance.
Aoming Liu, Zhong Li†, Zhang Chen†, Nannan Li, Yi Xu and Bryan A. Plummer.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
NeuralTO: Neural Reconstruction and View Synthesis of Translucent Objects
Yuxiang Cai, Jiaxiong Qiu, Zhong Li, Bo Ren.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2024.
NeuSmoke: Efficient Smoke Reconstruction and View Synthesis with Neural Transportation Fields
Jiaxiong Qiu, Ruihong Cen, Zhong Li, Han Yan, Ming-Ming Cheng, Bo Ren
(SIGGRAPH Asia) 2024 Conference Papers
[Paper(PDF)][Video]
Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis
Zhan Li, Zhang Chen†, Zhong Li†, Yi Xu.
To appear at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
Spectrum AUC Difference (SAUCD): Human Aligned 3D Shape Evaluation.
Tianyu Luan, Zhong Li *, Lele Chen, Xuan Gong, Lichang Chen, Yi Xu, Junsong Yuan.
To appear at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
Relit-NeuLF: Efficient Relighting and Novel View Synthesis via Neural 4D Light Field
Zhong Li, Liangchen Song, Zhang Chen, Xiangyu Du, Lele Chen, Junsong Yuan, Yi Xu
ACM International Conf. on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023
NeuRBF: A Neural Fields Representation with Adaptive Radial Basis Functions
Zhang Chen†, Zhong Li†, Liangchen Song, Lele Chen, Jingyi Yu, Junsong Yuan, Yi Xu
accepted by IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023.(Oral)
NeRFPlayer: A Streamable Dynamic Scene Representation with Decomposed Neural Radiance Fields.
Liangchen Song, Anpei Chen, Zhong Li†, Zhang Chen, Lele Chen, Junsong Yuan, Yi Xu, and Andreas Geiger.
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interface(IEEE VR),2023
Special Issue on IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 2023.
[Paper(PDF)] [Project Page]
OpenIllumination: A Multi-Illumination Dataset for Inverse Rendering Evaluation on Real Objects
Isabella Liu, Linghao Chen, Ziyang Fu, Liwen Wu, Haian Jin, Zhong Li, Chin Ming Ryan Wong, Yi Xu, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Zexiang Xu, Hao Su
To appear at Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS), 2023, Datasets and Benchmarks track.
Full-Vome 3D Fluid Flow Reconstruction with Light Field PIV
Yuqi Ding, Zhong Li, Zhang Chen, Yu Ji, Jingyi Yu, Jinwei Ye
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) , 2023.
3D-aware Facial Landmark Detection via Multiview Consistent Training on Synthetic Data.
Libing Zeng, Lele Chen, Wentao Bao, Zhong Li, Yi Xu, Junsong Yuan, Nima Kalantari.
To appear at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
[Paper(PDF)] [Project Page]
Uncertainty-aware State Space Transformer for Egocentric 3D Hand Trajectory Forecasting.
Wentao Bao, Lele Chen, Libing Zeng, Zhong Li, Yi Xu, Junsong Yuan, Yu Kong
accepted by IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023.
[Paper(PDF)] [Project Page]
High Fidelity 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction via Scalable Graph Frequency Decomposition
Tianyu Luan, Yuanhao Zhai, Jingjing Meng, Zhong Li, Zhang Chen, Yi Xu, Junsong Yuan.
To appear at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
[Paper(PDF)]
NeuLF: Efficient Novel View Synthesis with Neural 4D Light Field
Zhong Li, Liangchen Song, Celong Liu, Junsong Yuan and Yi Xu
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2022.
[Paper(PDF)] [Project Page][Video]
Real-Time Lighting Estimation for Augmented Reality via Differentiable Screen-Space Rendering
Liu, Celong, Lingyu Wang, Zhong Li, Shuxue Quan, and Yi Xu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 2022.
[Paper(PDF)]
Robustfusion: Robust volumetric performance reconstruction under human-object interactions from monocular rgbd stream
Su, Zhuo and Xu, Lan and Zhong, Dawei and Li, Zhong and Deng, Fan and Quan, Shuxue and Fang, Lu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) , 2022.
[Paper(PDF)]
Learning Kinematic Formulas from Multiple View Videos
Liangchen Song, Sheng Liu, Celong Liu, Zhong Li, Yuqi Ding, Yi Xu, and Junsong Yuan,
ACM International Conf. on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021
[Paper(PDF)]
Talking-head Generation with Rhythmic Head Motion
Lele Chen, Guofeng Cui, Celong Liu, Zhong Li, Ziyi Kou, Yi Xu, and Chenliang Xu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
Structure from Motion on XSlit Cameras
Wei Yang, Yingliang Zhang, Jinwei Ye, Yu Ji, Zhong Li, Mingyuan Zhou, and Jingyi Yu.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2019.
3D Human Avatar Digitization from a Single Image
Zhong Li , Lele Chen, Celong Liu, , Yu Gao, Yuanzhou Ha , Chenliang Xu , Shuxue Quan, Yi Xu
Computer & Graphics (C & G), 2021.
ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI (VRCAI), 2019.(Best paper award) .
[Paper(PDF)][Journal Extension]
4D Human Body Correspondences from Panoramic Depth Maps
Zhong Li, Minye Wu, Wangyiteng Zhou and Jingyi Yu.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),2018
Robust 3D Human Motion Reconstruction Via Dynamic Template Construction
Zhong Li, Yu Ji, Wei Yang, Jinwei Ye and Jingyi Yu.
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2017. (Spotlight Oral Presentation)
Yingliang Zhang, Zhong Li, Wei Yang, Peihong Yu, Haiting Lin, Jingyi Yu
IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2017. (Oral Presentation)
Professional Activity
Journal reviewer:
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence(TPAMI)
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing(TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems(TCAS)
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications(TOMM)
CVIU, Computer & Graphics, Machine Vision & Applications, The Visual Computer Journal(TVCJ), Image and Vision Computing,Science China,Display,Measurement
Conference program committee member and reviewer:
CVPR 2021/2022/2023/2024/2025, ICCV 2021,2023. ECCV 2022/2024
NeurIPS 2023,2024, ICLR 2024, ICML 2025
AAAI 2020/2021/2024/2025, IJCAI 2023
ISMAR2022,2023, IEEE VR 2023, ACCV 2024,WACV2025
US PATENT
Zhong Li, and Jason Chieh-sheng Yang. "Dynamic local temporal-consistent textured mesh compression." U.S. Patent Application No. 15/898,127.
Zhong Li, Yi Xu, and Shuxue Quan. "Human body model reconstruction method and reconstruction system." U.S. Patent No. 11,928,778,
Teaching
CISC 106: GEN COMPUTER SCIEN FOR ENGNR (Graduate TA 15 fall)
CISC 220: DATA STRUCTURE(Graduate TA 16 spring)
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