Lei Zhong

Lei Zhong (钟磊)

PhD student, University of Edinburgh

Recipient of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship

I study Character Animation.

Happy to discuss research and collaborations.

Research

DancingBox: A Lightweight MoCap System for Character Animation from Physical Proxies Haocheng Yuan, Adrien Bousseau, Hao Pan, Lei Zhong, Changjian Li CHI 2026
Honorable Mention Award
MulSMo teaser MulSMo: Multimodal Stylized Motion Generation by Bidirectional Control Flow Zhe Li, Yisheng He, Lei Zhong, , and others, Weihao Yuan Arxiv 2024
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)
Selected by SIGGRAPH as a technical paper highlight in the official press releases
Seeking Physics in Diffusion Noise Chujun Tang, Lei Zhong, Fangqiang Ding ArXiv 2026
Aesthetic Cropping teaser Edge-Focused Super-Resolution for Omnidirectional Images with Spherical Geometric Augmentation Shaolin Wang, Yuying Li, Lei Zhong, Shigang Li, Jianfeng Li CVPR 2026
PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion Longbin Ji, Lei Zhong, Wei Pengfei, Changjian Li CVPR 2025
SMooDi: Stylized Motion Diffusion Model Lei Zhong, Yiming Xie, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, Huaizu Jiang ECCV 2024
OmniControl: Control Any Joint at Any Time for Human Motion Generation Yiming Xie, Varun Jampani, Lei Zhong, Deqing Sun, Huaizu Jiang ICLR 2024
Aesthetic Cropping teaser 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)
Facial Expression Recognition teaser 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

Experience

Disney Research Studios
Research Intern
Zurich, Switzerland
Northeastern University
Research Assistant
Work with: Huaizu Jiang, Yiming Xie
Remote
LightSpeed Studios / Tencent AI Lab
Research Intern
Shenzhen, China