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Overview

Yixin Zhu is a researcher affiliated with Peking University in China. Their work spans multiple fields within computer science and engineering, particularly focusing on areas that intersect artificial intelligence, computer vision, and neural engineering.

Their research output includes 128 publications in computer science and 99 in engineering. Key subfields of study include artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, electrical and electronic engineering, control and systems engineering, and cognitive neuroscience.

Yixin Zhu's research covers several main topics, including advanced memory and neural computing, robot manipulation and learning, human pose and action recognition, multimodal machine learning applications, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neural dynamics and brain function, and neuroscience and neural engineering.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Spatio-temporal Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 3D Point Clouds," 2021, published in the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • "A Photoelectric Spiking Neuron for Visual Depth Perception," 2022, published in Advanced Materials
  • "Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense," 2020, published in Engineering
  • "Vertically integrated spiking cone photoreceptor arrays for color perception," 2023, published in Nature Communications
  • "A massively parallel and scalable multi-GPU material point method," 2020, published in ACM Transactions on Graphics

Yixin Zhu frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including Song-Chun Zhu, Hangxin Liu, Changjin Wan, Siyuan Huang, and Huiwu Mao.

Their publications often appear in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Best Publications

  • A moving least squares material point method with displacement discontinuity and two-way rigid body coupling

    Yuanming Hu;Yu Fang;Ziheng Ge;Ziyin Qu

  • RAVEN: A Dataset for Relational and Analogical Visual REasoNing

    Chi Zhang;Feng Gao;Baoxiong Jia;Yixin Zhu

  • Understanding tools: Task-oriented object modeling, learning and recognition

    Yixin Zhu;Yibiao Zhao;Song-Chun Zhu

  • Spatio-Temporal Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 3D Point Clouds

    Siyuan Huang;Yichen Xie;Song-Chun Zhu;Yixin Zhu

  • Human-Centric Indoor Scene Synthesis Using Stochastic Grammar

    Siyuan Qi;Yixin Zhu;Siyuan Huang;Chenfanfu Jiang

  • Holistic 3D Scene Parsing and Reconstruction from a Single RGB Image

    Siyuan Huang;Siyuan Qi;Yixin Zhu;Yinxue Xiao

  • A tale of two explanations: Enhancing human trust by explaining robot behavior

    Mark Edmonds;Feng Gao;Hangxin Liu;Xu Xie

  • Holistic++ Scene Understanding: Single-View 3D Holistic Scene Parsing and Human Pose Estimation With Human-Object Interaction and Physical Commonsense

    Yixin Chen;Siyuan Huang;Tao Yuan;Yixin Zhu

  • Configurable 3D Scene Synthesis and 2D Image Rendering with Per-pixel Ground Truth Using Stochastic Grammars

    Chenfanfu Jiang;Siyuan Qi;Yixin Zhu;Siyuan Huang

  • Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense

    Yixin Zhu;Tao Gao;Lifeng Fan;Siyuan Huang

  • Inferring Forces and Learning Human Utilities from Videos

    Yixin Zhu;Chenfanfu Jiang;Yibiao Zhao;Demetri Terzopoulos

  • Classification of Lung Nodule Malignancy Risk on Computed Tomography Images Using Convolutional Neural Network: A Comparison Between 2D and 3D Strategies

    Xingjian Yan;Jianing Pang;Hang Qi;Yixin Zhu

  • Interactive Robot Knowledge Patching Using Augmented Reality

    Hangxin Liu;Yaofang Zhang;Wenwen Si;Xu Xie

  • Synthesizing Diverse and Physically Stable Grasps with Arbitrary Hand Structures using Differentiable Force Closure Estimator

    Tengyu Liu;Zeyu Liu;Ziyuan Jiao;Yixin Zhu

  • Dr. Android and Mr. Hide: Fine-grained security policies on unmodified Android

    Jinseong Jeon;Kristopher K. Micinski;Jeffrey A. Vaughan;Nikhilesh Reddy

  • A massively parallel and scalable multi-GPU material point method

    Xinlei Wang;Yuxing Qiu;Stuart R. Slattery;Yu Fang

  • Learning Perceptual Inference by Contrasting

    Chi Zhang;Baoxiong Jia;Feng Gao;Yixin Zhu

  • High-Fidelity Grasping in Virtual Reality using a Glove-based System

    Hangxin Liu;Zhenliang Zhang;Xu Xie;Yixin Zhu

  • Feeling the force: Integrating force and pose for fluent discovery through imitation learning to open medicine bottles

    Mark Edmonds;Feng Gao;Xu Xie;Hangxin Liu

  • Latent Diffusion Energy-Based Model for Interpretable Text Modeling

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  • Cooperative Holistic Scene Understanding: Unifying 3D Object, Layout, and Camera Pose Estimation

    Siyuan Huang;Siyuan Qi;Yinxue Xiao;Yixin Zhu

  • Abstract Spatial-Temporal Reasoning via Probabilistic Abduction and Execution

    Chi Zhang;Baoxiong Jia;Song-Chun Zhu;Yixin Zhu

  • Holistic++ Scene Understanding: Single-view 3D Holistic Scene Parsing and Human Pose Estimation with Human-Object Interaction and Physical Commonsense

    Yixin Chen;Siyuan Huang;Tao Yuan;Siyuan Qi

Frequent Co-Authors

Song-Chun Zhu
Song-Chun Zhu Peking University
Ying Nian Wu
Ying Nian Wu University of California, Los Angeles
Demetri Terzopoulos
Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Millstein
Todd Millstein University of California, Los Angeles
Dinesh Manocha
Dinesh Manocha University of Maryland, College Park
Jeffrey S. Foster
Jeffrey S. Foster Tufts University

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