Biography
I am currently a first-year Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Ying-Cong Chen. Prior to my Ph.D., I received my B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where I have worked with Prof. Hesheng Wang . I have also worked with Prof. Addison Lin Wang at Nanyang Technology University (NTU). My research lies in the field of Computer Vision and Embodied AI.
News
- June, 2026 Four papers are accepted to ECCV 2026!
- Feb, 2026 One paper is accepted to CVPR 2026!
- Nov, 2025 One paper is accepted to AAAI 2026!
- Sep, 2025 Two papers are accepted to NIPS 2025!
- Jan, 2025 One paper is accepted to TMI!
- Jan, 2025 One paper is accepted to ICRA 2025!
- June, 2024 Received my bachelor degree in M.E. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Selected Publications
MLLM & Embodied AI
Panoramic Affordance Prediction
Zixin Zhang*, Chenfei Liao*, Hongfei Zhang, Haodong Chen, Kanghao Chen, Zichen Wen, Litao Guo, Bin Ren, Xu Zheng, Yinchuan Li, Xuming Hu, Nicu Sebe, Ying-Cong Chen
The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026).
A4-Agent: An Agentic Framework for Zero-Shot Affordance Reasoning
Zixin Zhang*, Kanghao Chen*, Hanqing Wang*, Hongfei Zhang, Haodong Chen, Chenfei Liao, Litao Guo, Ying-Cong Chen.
The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026).
PhysToolBench: Benchmarking Physical Tool Understanding for MLLMs
Zixin Zhang*, Kanghao Chen*, Xingwang Lin, Lutao Jiang, Xu Zheng, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Litao Guo, Yinchuan Li, Ying-Cong Chen.
Preprint.
Video Generation
Event-Guided Consistent Video Enhancement with Modality-Adaptive Diffusion Pipeline
Kanghao Chen*, Zixin Zhang*, Guoqiang Liang, Lutao Jiang, Zeyu Wang, Ying-Cong Chen.
The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2025).
DVD: Deterministic Video Depth Estimation with Generative Priors
Hongfei Zhang*, Haodong Chen*, Chenfei Liao*, Jing He*, Zixin Zhang, Haodong Li, Yihao Liang, Kanghao Chen, Bin Ren, Xu Zheng, Shuai Yang, Kun Zhou, Yinchuan Li, Nicu Sebe, Ying-Cong Chen
Preprint.
DualCamCtrl: Dual-Branch Diffusion Model for Geometry-Aware Camera-Controlled Video Generation
Hongfei Zhang*, Kanghao Chen*, Zixin Zhang, Harold Haodong Chen, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Yuqi Zhang, Shuai Yang, Kun Zhou, Yingcong Chen.
The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026).
3D Vision
EvDiff3D: Event-Aware Diffusion Repair for High-Fidelity Event-Based 3D Reconstruction
Kanghao Chen*, Zixin Zhang*, Hangyu Li, Lin Wang, Zeyu Wang
The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).
Elite-EvGS: Learning Event-based 3D Gaussian Splatting by Distilling Event-to-Video Priors
Zixin Zhang, Kanghao Chen, Lin Wang.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025).
Education
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Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyGuangzhou, ChinaPh.D. in Artificial Intelligence2025 — Present -
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai, ChinaB.S. in Mechanical Engineering2020 — 2024