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About Me

I'm a PhD student in the Intelligent Systems Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where I was supervised by Prof. Qiang Ji. Previously, I received a MS in Music Acoustics and Signal Processing from University of Rochester and a BE in Optoelectronics from Xi'an Jiaotong University.

My research centers on the incorporation of domain knowledge and the exploration of probabilistic modeling to pioneer state-of-the-art systems for understanding human behaviours. This encompasses diverse domains, including biometrics, activity recognition, human dynamics modeling, as well as monocular 3D human body and hand reconstruction.

Selected Publications

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

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

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 and Experience

Robust Biometrics Identification under Occlusion
Research Scientist Intern at Amazon One, 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.

Teaching

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Computer Vision, Robotics I-II, Signal and Systems, General Psychology.

University of Rochester: Computer Audition, Digital Signal Processing.