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Chuhang Zou

AI Research Scientist
Meta Reality Labs
zouchuhang [at] gmail.com


Biography

I am a Staff AI Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs focusing on 3D Generative AI. Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist with the Amazon GenAI (Evaluation Media) team, where I led the 3D Foundation Model group in enhancing consumer experiences through generative modeling. Prior to that, I was with Amazon Go Research in AWS, leading initiatives in 3D human/object modeling and video action recognition.

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem and collaborating closely with Prof. David Forsyth. I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University under the advisement of Prof. Deng Cai.

If you're a self-motivated grad student seeking a publication-driven Meta internship, please email me your resume.

Research Interests

News

Media & Press

Featured Interview

Selected Publications (See full list on Google Scholar)

† denotes corresponding author

  1. CVPR
    WorldGen: From Text to Traversable and Interactive 3D Worlds
    Dilin Wang, Hyunyoung Jung, Tom Monnier, Kihyuk Sohn, Chuhang Zou, Xiaoyu Xiang, Yu-Ying Yeh, Di Liu, Zixuan Huang, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Yuchen Fan, Sergiu Oprea, Ziyan Wang, Roman Shapovalov, Nikolaos Sarafianos, Thibault Groueix, Antoine Toisoul, Prithviraj Dhar, Xiao Chu, Minghao Chen, Geon Yeong Park, Rakesh Ranjan, Andrea Vedaldi
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    PDF Meta Official Blog 1st Text-to-Immersive World Modeling by Meta 3D GenAI!

  2. CVPR
    PhysInOne: Visual Physics Learning and Reasoning in One Suite
    Siyuan Zhou, Hejun Wang, Hu Cheng, Jinxi Li, Dongsheng Wang, Junwei Jiang, Yixiao Jin, Jiayue Huang, Shiwei Mao, Shangjia Liu, Yafei YANG, Hongkang Song, Shenxing Wei, Zihui Zhang, DataTeam vLAR, Bing WANG, Zhihua Wang, Chuhang Zou†, Bo Yang†
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

  3. arXiv
    Fast SAM 3D Body: Accelerating SAM 3D Body for Real-Time Full-Body Human Mesh Recovery
    Timing Yang, Sicheng He, Hongyi Jing, Jiawei Yang, Zhijian Liu, Chuhang Zou†, Yue Wang†
    arXiv, 2026
    PDF Code Project Page

  4. arXiv
    WebWorld: A Large-Scale World Model for Web Agent Training
    Zikai Xiao, Jianhong Tu, Chuhang Zou, Yuxin Zuo, Zhi Li, Peng Wang, Bowen Yu, Fei Huang, Junyang Lin, Zuozhu Liu
    arXiv, 2026
    PDF

  5. arXiv
    SceneDiff: A Benchmark and Method for Multiview Object Change Detection
    Yuqun Wu, Chih-hao Lin, Henry Che, Aditi Tiwari, Chuhang Zou, Shenlong Wang, Derek Hoiem
    arXiv, 2025
    PDF Code Project Page

  6. arXiv
    Hybrid Neural-MPM for Interactive Fluid Simulations in Real-Time
    Jingxuan Xu, Hong Huang, Chuhang Zou, Manolis Savva, Yunchao Wei and Wuyang Chen
    arXiv, 2025
    PDF Project Page

  7. 3DV
    Direct and Explicit 3D Generation from a Single Image
    Haoyu Wu, Meher Gitika Karumuri, Chuhang Zou, Seungbae Bang, Yuelong Li, Dimitris Samaras and Sunil Hadap
    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025
    PDF Project Page Amazon's First 3D Foundation Model in Use!
    Deployed in Amazon VTO

  8. 3DV
    MonoPatchNeRF: Improving Neural Radiance Fields with Patch-based Monocular Guidance
    Yuqun Wu, Jae Yong Lee, Chuhang Zou, Shenlong Wang, and Derek Hoiem
    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025
    PDF Code Project Page

  9. 3DV
    Plenoptic PNG: Real-Time Neural Radiance Fields in 150 KB
    Yuqun Wu, Jae Yong Lee, Chuhang Zou, Derek Hoiem and Shenlong Wang
    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025
    PDF Code Project Page

  10. IPM
    Ordinal Focal Loss: A Relative Fashionability Ranking Learning Method
    Ling Ma, Chuhang Zou, Ziyi Guo, Tao Li, Zheng Liu and Fengyuan Zou
    Information Processing & Management (IPM), 2025
    PDF

  11. IJCV
    Manhattan Room Layout Reconstruction from a Single 360 Image: A Comparative Study of State-of-the-art Methods
    Chuhang Zou, Jheng-Wei Su, Chi-Han Peng, Alex Colburn, Qi Shan, Peter Wonka, Hung-Kuo Chu and Derek Hoiem
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2021
    PDF Code
    Ricoh 360 Blog

  12. ICCV
    PatchMatch-RL: Deep MVS with Pixelwise Depth, Normal, and Visibility
    Jae Yong Lee, Joseph DeGol, Chuhang Zou and Derek Hoiem
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
    PDF Code Project Page Oral

  13. WACV
    Silhouette Guided Point Cloud Reconstruction beyond Occlusion
    Chuhang Zou and Derek Hoiem
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020
    PDF Code

  14. WACV
    Improving Style Transfer with Calibrated Metrics
    Mao-Chuang Yeh, Shuai Tang, Anand Bhattad, Chuhang Zou and David Forsyth
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020
    PDF Code

  15. IJCV
    Complete 3D Scene Parsing from an RGBD Image
    Chuhang Zou, Ruiqi Guo, Zhizhong Li and Derek Hoiem
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2019
    PDF

  16. ICCVW
    Counterfactual Depth from a Single RGB Image
    Theerasit Issaranon, Chuhang Zou and David Forsyth
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, 2019
    PDF Code

  17. CVPR
    LayoutNet: Reconstructing the 3D Room Layout from a Single RGB Image
    Chuhang Zou, Alex Colburn, Qi Shan and Derek Hoiem
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
    PDF Code
    Naver Labs Europe Blog Synced AI Technology & Industry Review (Chinese) Seamless (Japanese) YouTube 3rd Party Intro ZhiHu Zillow Official Blog Guild labo

  18. ICCV
    3D-PRNN: Generating Shape Primitives with Recurrent Neural Networks
    Chuhang Zou, Ersin Yumer, Jimei Yang, Duygu Ceylan and Derek Hoiem
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
    PDF Code

  19. TRJ
    Extraction and Classification of She Nationality Clothing via Visual Features
    Xiaojun Ding, Chuhang Zou, Jingyu Chen and Fengyuan Zou
    Textile Research Journal (TRJ), 2015
    PDF

  20. ISCIDE
    Salient Object Detection via Fast Iterative Truncated Nuclear Norm Recovery
    Chuhang Zou, Yao Hu, Deng Cai and Xiaofei He
    International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering (ISCIDE), 2013
    PDF Full Oral

Patents

Deployed to Amazon Just Walk Out technology: US Patent No. 12475708B1 (2025), No. 12131539B1 (2024), No. 11810362B1 (2023), No. 11842321B1 (2023).

Amazon Just Walk Out Multi-Modal AI Architecture

Other patent: DE Patent No. 102019130889 (Pending).

Professional Services

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I became a Taekwondo black belt holder at the age of 18.

Robot and child painting together

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