Yufei Zhang

Yufei Zhang

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

I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Computer Engineering & Applied Mathematics) and Xi'an Jiaotong University. Previously, I was at MyoLab AI, Meta Reality Labs, and Amazon AWS.

I build Human-Embodied AI that perceives, understands, and emulates human behavior. My research integrates Physics and Probabilistic Modeling into scalable learning systems.

News

Jun 2026 Three CVPR'26 papers (two highlights, one workshop) on grounding human motion understanding with physics.NEW
Feb 2026 One TMLR'26 paper on discovering probabilistic relations with LLMs.
Jul 2025 One ICCV'25 paper on grounding 3D hand motion recovery with intuitive physics.
Jul 2024 One ECCV'24 paper on 3D hand reconstruction leveraging anatomy, biomechanics, physics priors, and probabilistic modeling.
Feb 2024 One CVPR'24 paper on human dynamics estimation (motion+force) from monocular cameras.
Oct 2023 One WACV'24 paper on integrating physics motion law for human motion prediction.
Jul 2023 One ICCV'23 paper on 3D human body reconstruction from images with generic body knowledge and real-time uncertainty quantification (aleatoric & epistemic).
Jun 2023 One CVPR'23 workshop paper on robust partial fingerprint recognition.

Selected Work

VideoHand
Diffusion-based 3D Hand Motion Recovery with Intuitive Physics
Yufei Zhang, Zijun Cui, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
ICCV, 2025
ImageHand
Weakly-Supervised 3D Hand Reconstruction with Knowledge Prior and Uncertainty Guidance
Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
ECCV, 2024
PhysPT
PhysPT: Physics-aware Pretrained Transformer for Estimating Human Dynamics from Monocular Videos
Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Zijun Cui, Qiang Ji
CVPR, 2024
PhysMoP
Incorporating Physics Principles for Precise Human Motion Prediction
Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
WACV, 2024
KNOWN
Body Knowledge and Uncertainty Modeling for Monocular 3D Human Body Reconstruction
Yufei Zhang, Hanjing Wang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
ICCV, 2023
RPF
Robust Partial Fingerprint Recognition
Yufei Zhang, Rui Zhao, Ziyi Zhao, Naveen Ramakrishnan, Manoj Aggarwal, Gerard Medioni, Qiang Ji
CVPR Biometrics Workshop, 2023