Lei Zhong (钟磊)

I'm a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Changjian Li.
Previously, I received Master's from Nankai University and Bachelor's from Southwest University.
I am a recipient of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship.

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Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of vision and graphics. Recently, I have been focusing on 3D human motion modeling and generation. Some papers are highlighted.

Publications

	MulSMo: Multimodal Stylized Motion Generation by Bidirectional Control Flow Zhe Li, Yisheng He, Lei Zhong, Weichao Shen, Qi Zuo, Lingteng Qiu, Zilong Dong, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Weihao Yuan Arxiv 2024 Paper
	Sketch2Anim: Towards Transferring Sketch Storyboards into 3D Animation Lei Zhong, Chuan Guo, Yiming Xie, Jiawei Wang, Changjian Li ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2025) Paper Project Code Video Selected by SIGGRAPH as a technical paper highlight in the official press releases.
	PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion Longbin Ji, Lei Zhong, Wei Pengfei, Changjian Li CVPR 2025 Paper Project Code
	SMooDi: Stylized Motion Diffusion Model Lei Zhong, Yiming Xie, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, Huaizu Jiang ECCV 2024 Paper Project Code Video
	OmniControl: Control Any Joint at Any Time for Human Motion Generation Yiming Xie, Varun Jampani, Lei Zhong, Deqing Sun, Huaizu Jiang ICLR 2024 Paper Project Code
	Aesthetic-guided Outward Image Cropping Lei Zhong, Feng-Heng Li, Hao-Zhi Huang, Yong Zhang, Shao-Ping Lu, Jue Wang ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2021) Paper Slide Video
	A Graph-Structured Representation with BRNN for Static-based Facial Expression Recognition Lei Zhong, Changmin Bai, Jianfeng Li, Tong Chen, Shigang Li, Yiguang Liu FG 2019 Paper

Experience

	Disney Research Studios Research Intern Work with: Martin Guay, Jakob Buhmann Zurich, Switzerland
	Northeastern University Research Assistant Work with: Huaizu Jiang, Yiming Xie Remote
	Tencent AI Lab Research Intern Work with: Yong Zhang, Junwu Weng Shenzhen, China