Publications

Full list, newest first. * denotes equal contribution; my name is shown in bold.

2026
[1]

SpatialGen: Layout-guided 3D Indoor Scene Generation

Chuan Fang, Heng Li, Yixun Liang, Jia Zheng, Yongsen Mao, Yuan Liu, Rui Tang, Zihan Zhou, Ping Tan

3DV 2026

2025
[2]

SpatialLM: Training Large Language Models for Structured Indoor Modeling

Yongsen Mao*, Junhao Zhong*, Chuan Fang, Jia Zheng, Rui Tang, Hao Zhu, Ping Tan, Zihan Zhou

NeurIPS 2025

[3]

From 2D CAD Drawings to 3D Parametric Models: A Vision-Language Approach

Xilin Wang*, Jia Zheng*, Yuanchao Hu, Hao Zhu, Qian Yu, Zihan Zhou

AAAI 2025

2024
[4]

NeRF-Enhanced Outpainting for Faithful Field-of-View Extrapolation

Rui Yu*, Jiachen Liu*, Zihan Zhou, Sharon X. Huang

ICRA 2024

2023
[5]

PlankAssembly: Robust 3D Reconstruction from Three Orthographic Views with Learnt Shape Programs

Wentao Hu, Jia Zheng, Zixin Zhang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jian Yin, Zihan Zhou

ICCV 2023

[6]

Two-stage Content-Aware Layout Generation for Poster Designs

Shang Chai, Liansheng Zhuang, Fengying Yan, Zihan Zhou

ACM MM 2023

2022
[7]

Deep Learning Assisted Optimization for 3D Reconstruction from Single 2D Line Drawings

Jia Zheng, Yifan Zhu, Kehan Wang, Qiang Zou, Zihan Zhou

arXiv:2209.02692, 2022

[8]

End-to-end Graph-constrained Vectorized Floorplan Generation with Panoptic Refinement

Jiachen Liu, Yuan Xue, Jose Duarte, Krishnendra Shekhawat, Zihan Zhou, Xiaolei Huang

ECCV 2022

[9]

Neural Face Identification in a 2D Wireframe Projection of a Manifold Object

Kehan Wang, Jia Zheng, Zihan Zhou

CVPR 2022

[10]

Deep Depth from Focus with Differential Focus Volume

Fengting Yang, Xiaolei Huang, Zihan Zhou

CVPR 2022

[11]

Iterative Design and Prototyping of Computer Vision Mediated Remote Sighted Assistance

Jingyi Xie, Madison Reddie, Sooyeon Lee, Syed M. Billah, Zihan Zhou, Chun-Hua Tsai, John M. Carroll

ACM ToCHI 2022

2021
[12]

Towards Robust Human Trajectory Prediction in Raw Videos

Rui Yu, Zihan Zhou

IROS 2021

2020
[13]

Neural Wireframe Renderer: Learning Wireframe to Image Translations

Yuan Xue, Zihan Zhou, Xiaolei Huang

ECCV 2020

[14]

Structured3D: A Large Photo-realistic Dataset for Structured 3D Modeling

Jia Zheng*, Junfei Zhang*, Jing Li, Rui Tang, Shenghua Gao, Zihan Zhou

ECCV 2020

[15]

Data-driven Distributed State Estimation and Behavior Modeling in Sensor Networks

Rui Yu, Zhenyuan Yuan, Minghui Zhu, Zihan Zhou

IROS 2020

[16]

Superpixel Segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks

Fengting Yang, Qian Sun, Hailin Jin, Zihan Zhou

CVPR 2020

2019
[17]

Single-Image Piece-Wise Planar 3D Reconstruction via Associative Embedding

Zehao Yu*, Jia Zheng*, Dongze Lian, Zihan Zhou, Shenghua Gao

CVPR 2019

2018
[18]

Recovering 3D Planes from a Single Image via Convolutional Neural Networks

Fengting Yang, Zihan Zhou

ECCV 2018

[19]

Learning to Parse Wireframes in Images of Man-Made Environments

Kun Huang, Yifan Wang, Zihan Zhou, Tianjiao Ding, Shenghua Gao, Yi Ma

CVPR 2018

[20]

Discovering Triangles in Portraits for Supporting Photographic Creation

Siqiong He, Zihan Zhou, Farshid Farhat, James Z. Wang

IEEE TMM 2018

2017
[21]

Beyond Saliency: Assessing Visual Balance with High-Level Cues

Baris Kandemir, Zihan Zhou, Jia Li, James Z. Wang

ACM MM Engagement Workshop 2017

[22]

Detecting Dominant Vanishing Points in Natural Scenes with Application to Composition-Sensitive Image Retrieval

Zihan Zhou, Farshid Farhat, James Z. Wang

IEEE TMM 2017

[23]

Improving Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition by Iterative Refinement

Xiao Yang, Dafang He, Zihan Zhou, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles

ICDAR 2017

[24]

Learning to Read Irregular Text with Attention Mechanisms

Xiao Yang, Dafang He, Zihan Zhou, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles

IJCAI 2017

[25]

Label Information Guided Graph Construction for Semi-Supervised Learning

Liansheng Zhuang, Zihan Zhou, Shenghua Gao, Jingwen Yin, Zhouchen Lin, Yi Ma

IEEE TIP 2017

[26]

Smart Library: Identifying Books in a Library using Richly Supervised Deep Scene Text Reading

Xiao Yang, Dafang He, Wenyi Huang, Alexander Ororbia, Zihan Zhou, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles

JCDL 2017 Short Paper

[27]

Multi-scale FCN with Instance Aware Segmentation for Arbitrary Oriented Word Spotting in the Wild

Dafang He, Xiao Yang, Chen Liang, Zihan Zhou, Alexander Ororbia, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles

CVPR 2017

2016
[28]

Robust Plane-based Calibration of Multiple Non-Overlapping Cameras

Chen Zhu, Zihan Zhou, Ziran Xing, Yanbing Dong, Yi Ma, Jingyi Yu

3DV 2016

[29]

Aggregating Local Context for Accurate Scene Text Detection

Dafang He, Xiao Yang, Wenyi Huang, Zihan Zhou, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles

ACCV 2016

[30]

Detecting Arbitrary Orientated Text in the Wild with a Visual Attention Model

Wenyi Huang, Dafang He, Xiao Yang, Zihan Zhou, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles

ACM MM 2016 Short Paper

2015
[31]

Modeling Perspective Effects in Photographic Composition

Zihan Zhou, Siqiong He, Jia Li, James Z. Wang

ACM MM 2015

2013
[32]

Fast L1-Minimization Algorithms for Robust Face Recognition

Allen Yang, Zihan Zhou, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma

IEEE TIP 2013

[33]

Plane-Based Content-Preserving Warps for Video Stabilization

Zihan Zhou, Hailin Jin, Yi Ma

CVPR 2013

[34]

Single-Sample Face Recognition with Image Corruption and Misalignment via Sparse Illumination Transfer

Liansheng Zhuang, Allen Yang, Zihan Zhou, Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma

CVPR 2013

2012
[35]

Robust Plane-Based Structure from Motion

Zihan Zhou, Hailin Jin, Yi Ma

CVPR 2012

[36]

Towards a Practical Face Recognition System: Robust Alignment and Illumination by Sparse Representation

Andrew Wagner, John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Zihan Zhou, Hossein Mobahi, Yi Ma

IEEE TPAMI 2012

2011
[37]

Holistic Reconstruction of Urban Structures from Low-rank Textures

Hossein Mobahi, Zihan Zhou, Allen Yang, Yi Ma

ICCV Workshop on 3D Representation and Recognition 2011

2010
[38]

Towards a Robust Face Recognition System using Compressive Sensing

Allen Yang, Zihan Zhou, Yi Ma, Shankar Sastry

InterSpeech 2010

[39]

Stable Principal Component Pursuit

Zihan Zhou, Xiaodong Li, John Wright, Emmanuel Candes, Yi Ma

ISIT 2010

2009
[40]

Face Recognition with Contiguous Occlusion using Markov Random Fields

Zihan Zhou, Andrew Wagner, Hossein Mobahi, John Wright, Yi Ma

ICCV 2009

[41]

Towards a Practical Face Recognition System: Robust Registration and Illumination via Sparse Representation

Andrew Wagner, John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Zihan Zhou, Yi Ma

CVPR 2009

[42]

Separation of a Subspace-Sparse Signal: Algorithms and Conditions

Arvind Ganesh, Zihan Zhou, Yi Ma

ICASSP 2009

2008
[43]

Nearest-Subspace Patch Matching for Face Recognition Under Varying Pose and Illumination

Zihan Zhou, Arvind Ganesh, John Wright, Shen-Fu Tsai, Yi Ma

FG 2008

Dissertation, Thesis & Book Chapter

Exploring Structural Regularities for Robust 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes

Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013 · Advisor: Prof. Yi Ma

Face Recognition under Varying Illumination, Pose and Contiguous Occlusion

M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 · Advisor: Prof. Yi Ma

Face Recognition by Sparse Representation

John Wright, Allen Yang, Arvind Ganesh, Andrew Wagner, Zihan Zhou, Yi Ma

In Compressed Sensing: Theory and Applications, 2012