Dian Zheng 郑典

Building wonderful Content Creator with MLLMs and diffusion

Incoming Ph.D. student, MMLab@CUHK, Prof. Hongsheng Li

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Biography

I'm passionately obsessed with novelty, but at the same time, ideas are cheap, show me your code.

I am an incoming PHD student at CUHK, MMLab, advised by Prof. Hongsheng Li. Before that, I obtain my master degree at SYSU in 2025, advised by Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng and B.E. degree at DLUT in 2022.

🛠️ Employment:
[2024/12—2025/06] Research Intern, Shanghai AI Laboratory, honored to be advised by Prof. Ziwei Liu.
[2024/05—2024/11] Research Intern, Alibaba, Mentor: Cao Li.

I am always open to research collaborations about generative model, robotics. Feel free to contact me.

News

Publications (* denotes equal contribution, and denotes the corresponding author)

First, Co-First, Last Author

VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulness
Dian Zheng*, Ziqi Huang*, Hongbo Liu, Kai Zou, Yinan He, Fan Zhang, Yuanhan Zhang, Jingwen He, Wei-Shi Zheng, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu
Arxiv, 2025
[ArXiv] [Code] [Project Page]

Panorama Generation From NFoV Image Done Right
Dian Zheng, Cheng Zhang, Xiao-Ming Wu, Cao Li, Chengfei Lv, Jian-Fang Hu, Wei-Shi Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 🏆️ Highlight
[Paper][Code][Project Page]

Decoupled Distillation to Erase: A General Unlearning Method for Any Class-centric Tasks
Yu Zhou*, Dian Zheng*, Qijie Mo, Ren-Jie Lu, Kun-Yu Lin, Wei-Shi Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 🏆️ Highlight
[Paper]

SpatialDreamer: Self-supervised Stereo Video Synthesis from Monocular Input
Zhen Lv, Yangqi Long, Congzhentao Huang, Cao Li, Chengfei Lv, Hao Ren, Dian Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
[Paper]

Diffusion Model for Volume based Stereo Matching
Dian Zheng, Xiao-Ming Wu, Zuhao Liu, Jingke Meng, Wei-Shi Zheng
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025
[Paper][Code]

Selective Hourglass Mapping for Universal Image Restoration Based on Diffusion Model
Dian Zheng, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shuzhou Yang, Jian Zhang, Jian-Fang Hu, Wei-Shi Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper][Code]

Others

ShotBench: Expert-Level Cinematic Understanding in Vision-Language Models
Hongbo Liu*, Jingwen He*, Yi Jin, Dian Zheng, Yuhao Dong, Fan Zhang, Ziqi Huang, Yinan He, Yangguang Li, Weichao Chen, Yu Qiao, Wanli Ouyang, Shengjie Zhao, Ziwei Liu
Arxiv, 2025
[Paper][Code][Project Page]

An Economic Framework for 6-DoF Grasp Detection
Xiao-Ming Wu*, Jia-Feng Cai*, Jian-Jian Jiang, Dian Zheng, Yi-Lin Wei, Wei-Shi Zheng
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
[Paper][Code]

Dexterous Grasp Transformer
Guo-Hao Xu*, Yi-Lin Wei*, Dian Zheng, Xiao-Ming Wu, Wei-Shi Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper][Code]

Estimator Meets Equilibrium Perspective: A Rectified Straight Through Estimator for Binary Neural Networks Training
Xiao-Ming Wu, Dian Zheng, Zuhao Liu, Wei-Shi Zheng
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[Paper][Code]

Generating Anomalies for Video Anomaly Detection with Prompt-based Feature Mapping
Zuhao Liu, Xiao-Ming Wu, Dian Zheng, Kun-Yu Lin, Wei-Shi Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
[Paper]

Underwater Stereo Matching Via Unsupervised Appearance And Feature Adaptation Networks
Zhong Wei, Yazhi Yuan, Xinchen Ye, Dian Zheng, Rui Xu
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2022
[Paper]

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS2025, ACMMM2025, ICME2025, ICML2025, CVPR2025, ICLR2025, NeurIPS2024 (Top Reviewer), PRCV2023
Journal Reviewer: TCSVT, PR, CMV

Awards

Outstanding Master's Thesis in Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学优秀硕士学位论文), 2025.
Outstanding Graduate in Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大学优秀毕业生), 2025.
Xiaomi Grand Prize Scholarship of Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大学小米特等奖学金), 2024.
NeurIPS2024 Top Reviewer, 2024.
First Prize, Academic Scholarship of Sun Yat-Sen University for Graduate Student (中山大学硕士研究生一等奖助金), 2022, 2023, 2024.