Yang Zhou

Senior Research Scientist

San Jose

Yang joined Adobe Research in May 2021.

He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts Amherst advised by Prof. Evangelos Kalogerakis. He obtained his master’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and his master & bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Weiyao Lin.

He works in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision and deep learning. In particular, he is interested in the field of video generation, digital human and characters, audio-visual learning, and 3D generation.

Check Yang’s webpage to learn more about his research.

Publications

Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization

Nam, Jisu., Son, Soowon., Xu, Zhan., Shi, Jing., Liu, Difan., Liu, Feng., Misraa, Aashish., Kim, Seungryong., Zhou, Yang. (Jun. 13, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Progressive Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models

Xie, Desai., Xu, Zhan., Hong, Yicong., Tan, Hao., Liu, Difan., Liu, Feng., Kaufman, Arie., Zhou, Yang. (Jun. 13, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025) - CVEU workshop

VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution

Xu, Yiran., Park, Taesung., Zhang, Richard., Zhou, Yang., Shechtman, Eli., Liu, Feng., Huang, Jia-Bin., Liu, Difan. (Jun. 13, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation

Pan, Boxiao., Xu, Zhan., Huang, Chun-Hao., Singh, Krishna., Zhou, Yang., Guibas, Leonidas., Yang, Jimei. (Dec. 10, 2024)

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

DMesh: A Differentiable Representation for General Meshes

Son, Sanghyun., Gadelha, Matheus., Zhou, Yang., Xu, Zexiang., Lin, Ming., Zhou, Yi. (Dec. 1, 2024)

The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Learning Navigational Visual Representations with Semantic Map Supervision

Hong, Yicong., Zhou, Yang., Zhang, Ruiyi., Dernoncourt, Franck., Bui, Trung., Gould, Stephen., Tan, Hao. (Oct. 6, 2023)

ICCV 2023

Skeleton-free Pose Transfer for Stylized 3D Characters

Liao, Zhouyingcheng., Yang, Jimei., Saito, Jun., Pons-Moll, Gerard., Zhou, Yang. (Jul. 28, 2022)

ECCV 2022

Audio-Driven Neural Gesture Reenactment With Video Motion Graphs

Zhou, Yang., Yang, Jimei., Li, Dingzeyu., Saito, Jun., Aneja, Deepali., Kalogerakis, Evangelos. (Jun. 24, 2022)

IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)

APES: Articulated Part Extraction from Sprite Sheets

Xu, Zhan., Fisher, Matt., Zhou, Yang., Aneja, Deepali., Dudhat, Rushikesh., Yi, Li., Kalogerakis, Evangelos. (Jun. 20, 2022)

IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)

MakeItTalk: Speaker-Aware Talking Head Animation

Zhou, Yang., Han, Xintong., Shechtman, Eli., Echevarria, Jose., Kalogerakis, Evangelos., Li, Dingzeyu. (Nov. 30, 2020)

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

VisemeNet: Audio-Driven Animator-Centric Speech Animation

Zhou, Yang., Xu, Zhan., Landreth, Chris., Kalogerakis, Evangelos., Maji, Subhransu., Singh, Karan. (Jul. 30, 2018)

SIGGRAPH 2018