Yufan Zhang | 张宇凡

I'm a third-year PhD student at George Mason University, advised by Jinwei Ye. Before that, I obtained my M.S. degree in 2023 from Columbia University and B.Eng. degree in 2022 from Outstanding Engineer Class, Wuhan University.

My research interests are in diffusion models, 3D Reconstruction and imaging system.

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Research

Pixel Cube: Diffusion-based Portrait Video Relighting Through Realistic Lighting Reproduction
Yufan Zhang, Yu Ji, Ayo Ajiboye, Rundi Wu, Yu Guo, Changxi Zheng, Jinwei Ye
ACM Transactions on Graphics (to be presented in SIGGRAPH), 2026
project page(Coming Soon) / arXiv(Coming Soon)

Diffusion-based portrait video relighting with realistic lighting reproduction using a synchronized LED capture system.

A Depth-Aware Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator For Long-Range Image Restoration
Ripon Kumar, Yufan Zhang, Jinwei Ye, Suren Jayasuriya
Computer Graphics Forum (presented in Pacific Graphics), 2025
project page / Paper / github

A depth-aware simulator for modeling atmospheric turbulence effects in long-range imaging and improving restoration.

Seeing A 3D World in A Grain of Sand
Yufan Zhang, Yu Ji, Yu Guo, Jinwei Ye
CVPR, 2025
project page / arXiv / github

Develop a snapshot imaging technique for recovering 3D surrounding views of miniature scenes.

M2P2: A Multi-Modal Passive Perception Dataset for Off-Road Mobility in Extreme Low-Light Conditions
Aniket Datar*, Anuj Pokhrel*, Mohammad Nazeri*, Madhan B. Rao*, Chenhui Pan, Yufan Zhang, Andre Harrison, Maggie Wigness, Philip R. Osteen, Jinwei Ye, Xuesu Xiao
IROS, 2025
project page / arXiv

Develop a Multi-Modal Passive Perception dataset, M2P2, to enable off-road mobility in low-light to no-light conditions.

Miscellanea

  • Teaching Assistant, CS 653 Computational Photography, Spring 2026
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 451 Computer Graphics, Spring 2026
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 499 Computational Photography, Fall 2025
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 451 Computer Graphics, Fall 2025
  • Teaching Assistant, CS 451 Computer Graphics, Spring 2025
  • Reviewer, CVPR 2025

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