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Yufei Zhang

I am a Senior AI Research Scientist at ByteDance Inc, working with the PICO team.

I aim to build Human-Embodied AI capable of perceiving, understanding, and emulating human behavior. My research integrates Physics (e.g., biomechanics) and Probabilistic Modeling (e.g., uncertainty estimation) into scalable data-driven systems.

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Selected Publications

Diffusion-based 3D Hand Motion Recovery with Intuitive Physics

Yufei Zhang, Zijun Cui, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
ICCV, 2025
Paper | SupMat | Code

Weakly-Supervised 3D Hand Reconstruction with Knowledge Prior and Uncertainty Guidance

Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
ECCV, 2024
Paper | SupMat | Code

PhysPT: Physics-aware Pretrained Transformer for Estimating Human Dynamics from Monocular Videos

Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Zijun Cui, Qiang Ji
CVPR, 2024
Paper | SupMat | Code

Incorporating Physics Principles for Precise Human Motion Prediction

Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
WACV, 2024
Paper | SupMat | Code

Body Knowledge and Uncertainty Modeling for Monocular 3D Human Body Reconstruction

Yufei Zhang, Hanjing Wang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
ICCV, 2023
Paper | SupMat | Code

Robust Partial Fingerprint Recognition

Yufei Zhang, Rui Zhao, Ziyi Zhao, Naveen Ramakrishnan, Manoj Aggarwal, Gerard Medioni, Qiang Ji
CVPR Biometrics Workshop, 2023
Paper | SupMat

Projects

High-fidelity Hand Motion Generation and Retargeting
Research Scientist Intern at Meta Reality Labs, 2024 Summer
Mentor: Priyamvad Deshmukh.

Robust Biometrics Identification under Occlusion
Research Scientist Intern at Amazon One (AWS), 2022 Summer
Mentor: Rui Zhao, Ziyi Zhao.

Environment-driven Conceptual Learning
Research Assistant, Boston Fusion Company, 2023 Summer

Vision-based Automatic Surgery Performance Evaluation
Research Assistant, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 2021.1-2021.12
Advisor: Prof. Qiang Ji, Prof. Suvranu De.

Audio Signal Processing & Music Information Retrieval
Research Assistant, Audio Information Research Lab, 2018.5-2018.9
Advisor: Prof. Zhiyao Duan.

Quantum Entanglement in Four-Wave Mixing
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Photonics Technology for Information, 2015.6-2016.1, 2016.6-2017.5
Advisor: Prof. Yanpeng Zhang.