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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 focuses on advancing the understanding of human behavior by grounding models in human-centric and physical sciences, including anatomy, biomechanics, physics, and the principles of uncertainty.

The application domains of my research cover biometrics, activity recognition, motion forecasting, motion synthesis and retargeting, and monocular 3D human body and hand reconstruction.

I graduated in Fall 2024. This page will not be maintained regularly after graduation. Please visit my Personal Website for the latest updates.

Selected Publications

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 and Experience

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.

Teaching

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

University of Rochester: Computer Audition, Digital Signal Processing.