Lei Zhong (钟磊)

PhD student, University of Edinburgh

Recipient of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship

I study Character Animation. [...]

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Research

	MulSMo: Multimodal Stylized Motion Generation by Bidirectional Control Flow Zhe Li, Yisheng He, Lei Zhong, , and others, 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.
	Edge-Focused Super-Resolution for Omnidirectional Images with Spherical Geometric Augmentation Shaolin Wang, Yuying Li, Lei Zhong, Shigang Li, Jianfeng Li CVPR 2026 Coming soon
	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