Yifan Zhan (詹亦凡)

I'm currently a D1 student at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST), The University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Yinqiang Zheng.
My hobbies include playing the violin, watching anime, and gaming.
E-mail: zhan-yifan AT g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Feel free to reach me!

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Research

I work on computer vision and computer graphics, with a particular focus on 3D vision. My research interests primarily involve 3D reconstruction, neural rendering, and human avatars.

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ToMiE icon ToMiE: Towards Explicit Exoskeleton for the Reconstruction of Complicated 3D Human Avatars

Yifan Zhan, Qingtian Zhu, Muyao Niu, Mingze Ma, Jiancheng Zhao, Zhihang Zhong, Xiao Sun, Yu Qiao, Yinqiang Zheng
ICCV, 2025
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ToMiE extends the SMPL skeleton by growing external joints for modeling hand-held objects and loose-fitting clothing with explicit animation.

your paper gif Sequential Gaussian Avatars with Hierarchical Motion Context
Wangze Xu, Yifan Zhan, Zhihang Zhong, Xiao Sun
ICCV, 2025
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By integrating spatial poses and temporal motion hierarchically, GAST improves the accuracy of non-rigid warping and 3DGS rendering.

your paper gif Tree-NeRV: A Tree-Structured Neural Representation for Efficient Non-Uniform Video Encoding
Jiancheng Zhao, Yifan Zhan, Qingtian Zhu, Mingze Ma, Muyao Niu, Zunian Wan, Xiang Ji, Yinqiang Zheng
ICCV, 2025
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Tree-NeRV introduces a binary tree-structured representation with adaptive temporal sampling for efficient and high-quality video reconstruction.

your paper gif AniCrafter: Customizing Realistic Human-Centric Animation via Avatar-Background Conditioning in Video Diffusion Models
Muyao Niu, Mingdeng Cao, Yifan Zhan, Qingtian Zhu, Mingze Ma, Jiancheng Zhao, Yanhong Zeng, Zhihang Zhong, Xiao Sun, Yinqiang Zheng
arxiv, 2025
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By reframing animation as a restoration task, AniCrafter brings robust character motion to complex backgrounds and poses.

your paper gif All-in-One Transferring Image Compression from Human Perception to Multi-Machine Perception
Jiancheng Zhao, Xiang Ji, Zhuoxiao Li, Zunian Wan, Weihang Ran, Mingze Ma, Muyao Niu, Yifan Zhan, Cheng-Ching Tseng, Yinqiang Zheng
arxiv, 2025
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An asymmetric adaptor framework bridges learned image compression and multi-task vision with a single compact model.

your paper gif R3-Avatar: Record and Retrieve Temporal Codebook for Reconstructing Photorealistic Human Avatars
Yifan Zhan, Wangze Xu, Qingtian Zhu, Muyao Niu, Mingze Ma, Yifei Liu, Zhihang Zhong, Xiao Sun, Yinqiang Zheng
arxiv, 2025
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R3-Avatar introduces a temporal codebook to unify high-fidelity rendering and animatability for human avatars under limited poses and complex clothing.

your paper gif SUICA: Learning Super-high Dimensional Sparse Implicit Neural Representations for Spatial Transcriptomics
Qingtian Zhu, Yumin Zheng, Yuling Sang, Yifan Zhan, Ziyan Zhu, Jun Ding, Yinqiang Zheng
ICML, 2025
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SUICA models spatial transcriptomics in a continuous and structure-aware manner, enriching both spatial density and gene expression fidelity.

your paper gif Maskgaussian: Adaptive 3d gaussian representation from probabilistic masks
Yifei Liu, Zhihang Zhong, Yifan Zhan, Sheng Xu, Xiao Sun
CVPR, 2025
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Smarter pruning, better rendering -- mask-based rasterization allows gradient flow to pruned Gaussians for dynamic importance learning.

your paper gif Robustifying Fourier Features Embeddings for Implicit Neural Representations
Mingze Ma, Qingtian Zhu, Yifan Zhan, Zhengwei Yin, Hongjun Wang, Yinqiang Zheng
arxiv, 2024
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Bias-free MLPs as adaptive frequency filters enable more stable and accurate implicit neural representations across diverse tasks.

your paper gif Bundle Adjusted Gaussian Avatars Deblurring
Muyao Niu, Yifan Zhan, Qingtian Zhu, Zhuoxiao Li, Wei Wang, Zhihang Zhong, Xiao Sun, Yinqiang Zheng
arxiv, 2024
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Joint blur modeling and motion estimation enable high-quality 3D Gaussian avatars from real-world multiview footage.

your paper gif RS-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from Rolling Shutter Images
Muyao Niu, Tong Chen, Yifan Zhan, Zhuoxiao Li, Xiang Ji, Yinqiang Zheng
ECCV, 2024
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Rolling shutter-aware modeling enables high-quality novel view synthesis with NeRF from distorted inputs.

your paper gif Within the Dynamic Context: Inertia-aware 3D Human Modeling with Pose Sequence
Yutong Chen*, Yifan Zhan*, Zhihang Zhong, Wei Wang, Xiao Sun, Yu Qiao, Yinqiang Zheng
ECCV, 2024
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Inertia-aware delta pose modeling enables realistic appearance dynamics for 3D human rendering across similar poses.

your paper gif RPBG: Towards Robust Neural Point-based Graphics in the Wild
Qingtian Zhu, Zizhuang Wei, Zhongtian Zheng, Yifan Zhan, Zhuyu Yao, Jiawang Zhang, Kejian Wu, Yinqiang Zheng
ECCV, 2024   (Oral)
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Point-based representation combined with neural restoration makes high-quality rendering easy and robust.

your paper gif KFD-NeRF: Rethinking Dynamic NeRF with Kalman Filter
Yifan Zhan, Zhuoxiao Li, Muyao Niu, Zhihang Zhong, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino, Yinqiang Zheng
ECCV, 2024
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A plug-and-play Kalman-filter-based deformation field that boosts dynamic NeRF rendering quality with minimal network overhead.

your paper gif Physics-Based Adversarial Attack on Near-Infrared Human Detector for Nighttime Surveillance Camera Systems
Muyao Niu, Zhuoxiao Li, Yifan Zhan, Huy H Nguyen, Isao Echizen, Yinqiang Zheng
ACMMM, 2023
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An approach that exposes and physically demonstrates attacks on NIR-based surveillance by exploiting material reflectance and sensor sensitivity.

your paper gif Nerfrac: Neural radiance fields through refractive surface
Yifan Zhan, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino, Yinqiang Zheng
ICCV, 2023
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An approach for novel view synthesis through refractive media by estimating refracted rays with learned refractive fields.

Awards/Scholarships

BOOST NAIS Special Research Scholarship (6 students in Japan), The University of Tokyo, 2024.10 - 2027.09
1st Place, ECCV 2024 GigaRendering Challenge, 2024.10
JASSO Scholarship, 2022.10 - 2023.04
Zhiyuan Honors Scholarship (top 5%), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018.09 - 2022.06