About Me
I am a PhD student at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK. I am also affiliated with King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Before joining KCL, I had a great time as an Algorithm Engineer at ByteDance and Horizon Robotics, respectively. I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering degree from South China University of Technology in 2018.
Research Interests
Controllable Image and Video Generation
Multimodal Scene Understanding
2025.08 - One Paper (VLPrompt) accepted to IJCV 📄
2025.06 - Thrilled to start my internship at Meta again 🦾
2025.06 - I traveled to Nashville for CVPR 2025 ✈️
2025.05 - One Paper (MarDini) accepted to TMLR 📄
2025.02 - Two Papers (Leffa, MPDrive) accepted to CVPR 2025 📄
2024.12 - One paper (GFSS-EKT) accepted to AAAI 2025 📄
2024.10 - I traveled to Milan for ECCV 2024 ✈️
2024.07 - Happy to be awarded CGAOSFSA 🎉
2024.07 - One paper (OpenPSG) accepted to ECCV 2024 📄
2024.06 - Thrilled to start my internship at Meta 🦾
2023.10 - I traveled to Paris for ICCV 2023 ✈️
2023.09 - One paper (TP-SIS) accepted to NeurIPS 2023 📄
2023.07 - One paper (HiLo) accepted to ICCV 2023 📄
2023.04 - We open sourced RelateAnything 🤗
2022.10 - I traveled to Tel Aviv for ECCV 2022 ✈️
2022.07 - I arrived in London and started my PhD 🍀
Learning Flow Fields in Attention for Controllable Person Image Generation
Zijian Zhou, Shikun Liu, Xiao Han, Haozhe Liu, Kam Woh Ng, Tian Xie, Yuren Cong, Hang Li, Mengmeng Xu, Juan-Manuel Pérez-Rúa, Aditya Patel, Tao Xiang, Miaojing Shi, Sen He
CVPR 2025 [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Model]
OpenPSG: Open-set Panoptic Scene Graph Generation via Large Multimodal Models
Zijian Zhou, Zheng Zhu, Holger Caesar, Miaojing Shi
VLPrompt-PSG: Vision-Language Prompting for Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
Zijian Zhou, Holger Caesar, Qijun Chen, Miaojing Shi
International Journal of Computer Vision [Paper] [Code]
Text Promptable Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Vision-Language Models
Zijian Zhou, Oluwatosin Alabi, Meng Wei, Tom Vercauteren, Miaojing Shi
NeurIPS 2023 [Paper] [Code] [Video]
HiLo: Exploiting High Low Frequency Relations for Unbiased Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
Zijian Zhou, Miaojing Shi, Holger Caesar
King's College London
2022.06 - Now. Ph.D. in Department of Informatics. Supervised by Prof. Tomasz Radzik and Dr. Holger Caesar
South China University of Technology
2014.09 - 2018.06. B.Eng. in School of Electronics and Information. Supervised by Prof. Shuangping Huang and Prof. Lianwen Jin
Meta
2025.06 - Now. Research Scientist Intern, GenAI. Supervised by Dr. Sen He
Project: Image and Video Generation
Meta
2024.06 - 2024.12. Research Scientist Intern, GenAI. Supervised by Dr. Sen He
Project: Controllable Person Image Generation
GigaAI
2023.08 - 2024.06. Research Intern. Supervised by Dr. Zheng Zhu
Project: Open-set Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
King's College London
2022.10 - 2024.02. Research Assistant, Department of Informatics. Supervised by Prof. Miaojing Shi and Prof. Tom Vercauteren
Project: Medical Imaging, Cambridge-1
ByteDance
2020.08 - 2022.05. Algorithm Engineer, Search Ads Group. Supervised by Shuai Tao
Project: Multimodal Relevance Model for Search Ads Engine
Horizon Robotics
2018.07 - 2020.08. Algorithm Engineer, Department of Platform and Technology. Supervised by Zhizhong Su and Yuan Li
Project: Facial Landmark Detection and Pose Estimation, Face Anti-Spoofing
Horizon Robotics
2017.08 - 2018.07. Algorithm Intern, AIoT Group. Supervised by Zhizhong Su and Dr. Dalong Du
Project: Scene Text Spotting (both detection and recognition)
South China University of Technology
2015.12 - 2017.06. Research Assistant, School of Electronics and Information. Supervised by Prof. Shuangping Huang and Prof. Lianwen Jin
Project: Scene Text Detection
Serve as a conference reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI
Serve as a journal reviewer for TPAMI, TMI
2024 - Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 6000 USD
2023 - Google Cloud Research Credits Program, Maximum reward 5000 USD
2019 - Horizon Robotics Annual Performance Evaluation, Outstanding (top 5%)
2017 - The 14th Guangdong Challenge Cup, Special prize (top award)
2016 - Guangdong Electronic Design Competition, First prize