Biography
I am currently a second-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). I am particularly excited about research in Computer Vision and Embodied AI. Recently, my research interests focus on Video World Models.
News
- Sep, 2026 Our SolarWM is released! It is a fully open stack for long-horizon video world models from data preparation to model training.
- 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
Video Generation
SolarWM: Open Data and Scalable Training for Long-Horizon Video World Models
Junchao Huang, Guian Fang, Shengju Qian, Xianghao Kong, Zhuoran Zhao, Wei Huang, Yihua Du, Zixin Zhang, Justin Cui, Yuchao Gu, Yukang Chen, Xinting Hu, Tianyu He, Shaoshuai Shi, Zhuotao Tian, Xin Wang, Mike Zheng Shou, Li Jiang
Technical Report.
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).
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.
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).
SemRegGS: Semantic Guided Registration for 3D Gaussian Splatting Models
Zixin Zhang, Kanghao Chen, Lutao Jiang, Zidong Cao, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Lin Wang.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2026).
Internships
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Tencent, Lightspeed StudioShenzhen, ChinaResearch Intern (Project Up Program, 青云计划)Jul 2026 — Present
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