Ph.D. Candidate @ D6, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
hezhu at mpi-inf.mpg.de
I am currently a final-year PhD student (since 2022) at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence department, supervised by Dr. Marc Habermann and Prof. Christian Theobalt.
I received my M.Sc. (2020) and B.Sc. (2017) in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University. Before joining MPI, I was a research assistant at the GAP Lab at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, supervised by Prof. Xiaoguang Han.
I will graduate this autumn and am looking for postdoc positions.
*Joint First Author, #Corresponding Author
arXiv, 2026
@misc{zhu2026mua,
title={MUA: Mobile Ultra-detailed Animatable Avatars},
author={Zhu, Heming and Sun, Guoxing and Habermann, Marc},
year={2026},
eprint={2604.18583},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18583},
}
arXiv, 2025
@article{zhu2025uma,
title={UMA: Ultra-detailed Human Avatars via Multi-level Surface Alignment},
author={Zhu, Heming and Sun, Guoxing and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01802},
year={2025}
}
*Joint First Author, #Corresponding Author
3DV, 2026
@article{zubekhin2025giga,
title={GIGA: Generalizable Sparse Image-driven Gaussian Humans},
author={Zubekhin, Anton and Zhu, Heming and Gotardo, Paulo and Beeler, Thabo and Habermann, Marc and Theobalt, Christian},
year={2025},
journal={arXiv},
eprint={2504.07144},
}
Siggraph, 2025
@article{junkawitsch2025eva,
title={EVA: Expressive Virtual Avatars from Multi-view Videos},
author={Junkawitsch, Hendrik and Sun, Guoxing and Zhu, Heming and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
booktitle={SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers},
pages={1--11},
year={2025}
}
CVPR, 2025
@InProceedings{sun2025real,
title={Real-time Free-view Human Rendering from Sparse-view RGB Videos using Double Unprojected Textures},
author={Sun, Guoxing and Dabral, Rishabh and Zhu, Heming and Fua, Pascal and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
year={2025},
month={June},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
}
3DV, 2025
@misc{sunagad2024tedra,
title={TEDRA: Text-based Editing of Dynamic and Photoreal Actors},
author={Sunagad, Basavaraj and Zhu, Heming and Mendiratta, Mohit and Kortylewski, Adam and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
year={2024},
eprint={2408.15995},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15995},
}
ACM Transactions on Graphics (ToG), 2024 (presented at Siggraph Asia 2024)
@article{zhu2024trihuman,
author={Zhu, Heming and Zhan, Fangneng and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
title={TriHuman: A Real-time and Controllable Tri-plane Representation for Detailed Human Geometry and Appearance Synthesis},
year={2024},
publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},
address={New York, NY, USA},
issn={0730-0301},
url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3697140},
doi={10.1145/3697140},
journal={ACM Trans. Graph.},
month=sep
}
CVPR, 2024
@InProceedings{Pang_2024_CVPR,
author={Pang, Haokai and Zhu, Heming and Kortylewski, Adam and Theobalt, Christian and Habermann, Marc},
title={ASH: Animatable Gaussian Splats for Efficient and Photoreal Human Rendering},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month={June},
year={2024},
pages={1165-1175}
}
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2023
@article{luo2023sketchmetaface,
author={Luo, Zhongjin and Du, Dong and Zhu, Heming and Yu, Yizhou and Fu, Hongbo and Han, Xiaoguang},
title={SketchMetaFace: A Learning-based Sketching Interface for High-fidelity 3D Character Face Modeling},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year={2023}
}
CVPR, 2022
@InProceedings{Zhu_2022_CVPR,
title={Registering Explicit to Implicit: Towards High-Fidelity Garment Mesh Reconstruction from Single Images},
author={Zhu, Heming and Qiu, Lingteng and Qiu, Yuda and Han, Xiaoguang},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month={June},
year={2022},
pages={3845-3854}
}
User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2021
@inproceedings{luo2021simpmodeling,
title={SimpModeling: Sketching Implicit Field to Guide Mesh Modeling for 3D Animalmorphic Head Design},
author={Luo, Zhongjin and Zhou, Jie and Zhu, Heming and Du, Dong and Han, Xiaoguang and Fu, Hongbo},
booktitle={The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
pages={854--863},
year={2021}
}
ECCV, 2020 (oral, top 2%)
@inproceedings{zhu2020deep,
title={Deep Fashion3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for 3D Garment Reconstruction from Single Images},
author={Zhu, Heming and Cao, Yu and Jin, Hang and Chen, Weikai and Du, Dong and Wang, Zhangye and Cui, Shuguang and Han, Xiaoguang},
booktitle={Computer Vision -- ECCV 2020},
year={2020},
publisher={Springer International Publishing},
pages={512--530},
isbn={978-3-030-58452-8}
}
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 2020
@article{du2020learning,
title={Learning Part Generation and Assembly for Sketching Man-Made Objects},
author={Du, Dong and Zhu, Heming and Nie, Yinyu and Yu, Yizhou and Cui, Shuguang and Liu, Ligang and Han, Xiaoguang},
journal={Computer Graphics Forum},
year={2020},
doi={10.1111/cgf.14184}
}
CHI, 2018
@inproceedings{weng2018homefinder,
title={HomeFinder Revisited: Finding Ideal Homes with Reachability-Centric Multi-Criteria Decision Making},
author={Weng, Di and Zhu, Heming and Bao, Jie and Zheng, Yu and Wu, Yingcai},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages={1--12},
year={2018},
doi={10.1145/3173574.3173821}
}Deep Fashion3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for 3D Garment Reconstruction from Single Images (ECCV 2020).
Training and demo code for ASH: Animatable Gaussian Splats for Efficient and Photoreal Human Rendering (CVPR 2024).
PyTorch implementation of the components mentioned in Deep Dynamic Characters.
Repo for TriHuman: A Real-time and Controllable Tri-plane Representation for Detailed Human Geometry and Appearance Synthesis.