Publications (46)
AutoEIS: automated Bayesian model selection and analysis for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
Runze Zhang, Robert Black, Debashish Sur +5
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a powerful tool for electrochemical analysis; however, its data can be challenging to interpret. Here, we introduce a new open-sourc…
Pyramid Multi-view Stereo Net with Self-adaptive View Aggregation
Hongwei Yi, Zizhuang Wei, Mingyu Ding +4
n this paper, we propose an effective and efficient pyramid multi-view stereo (MVS) net with self-adaptive view aggregation for accurate and complete dense point cloud reconstructi…
Building LOD Representation for 3D Urban Scenes
Shanshan Pan, Runze Zhang, Yilin Liu +2
The advances in 3D reconstruction technology, such as photogrammetry and LiDAR scanning, have made it easier to reconstruct accurate and detailed 3D models for urban scenes. Nevert…
Light-SQ: Structure-aware Shape Abstraction with Superquadrics for Generated Meshes
Yuhan Wang, Weikai Chen, Zeyu Hu +19
In user-generated-content (UGC) applications, non-expert users often rely on image-to-3D generative models to create 3D assets. In this context, primitive-based shape abstraction o…
Droplet3D: Commonsense Priors from Videos Facilitate 3D Generation
Xiaochuan Li, Guoguang Du, Runze Zhang +11
Scaling laws have validated the success and promise of large-data-trained models in creative generation across text, image, and video domains. However, this paradigm faces data sca…
An Assessment of Commonly Used Equivalent Circuit Models for Corrosion Analysis: A Bayesian Approach to Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Runze Zhang, Debashish Sur, Kangming Li +5
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a crucial technique for assessing corrosion of a metallic materials. The analysis of EIS hinges on the selection of an appropriate e…
From Knowledge to Action: Outcomes of the 2025 Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry
Aritra Roy, Kevin Shen, Andrew MacBride +350
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing how researchers in materials science and chemistry discover, organize, and act on scientific knowledge. This paper analyzes a broa…
Assessment of different loss functions for fitting equivalent circuit models to electrochemical impedance spectroscopy data
Ali Jaberi, Amin Sadeghi, Runze Zhang +5
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) data is typically modeled using an equivalent circuit model (ECM), with parameters obtained by minimizing a loss function via nonlinear…
DreamMat: High-quality PBR Material Generation with Geometry- and Light-aware Diffusion Models
Yuqing Zhang, Yuan Liu, Zhiyu Xie +8
2D diffusion model, which often contains unwanted baked-in shading effects and results in unrealistic rendering effects in the downstream applications. Generating Physically Based…
Opinion Maximization in Social Networks by Modifying Internal Opinions
Gengyu Wang, Runze Zhang, Zhongzhi Zhang
Public opinion governance in social networks is critical for public health campaigns, political elections, and commercial marketing. In this paper, we addresse the problem of maxim…
Sub-Meter Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Using Portable L-band Microwave Radiometer
Runze Zhang, Abhi Nayak, Derek Houtz +3
Spaceborne microwave passive soil moisture products are known for their accuracy but are often limited by coarse spatial resolutions. This limits their ability to capture finer soi…
Parabolic Components in Cubic Polynomial Slice
Runze Zhang
We prove that the boundary of every parabolic component in the cubic polynomial slice is a Jordan curve by adapting the technique of para-puzzles presented in \cite{Roes…
UAV-Based Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Across Diverse Land Covers: Validation and Bayesian Uncertainty Characterization
Runze Zhang, Ishfaq Aziz, Derek Houtz +4
High-resolution soil moisture (SM) observations are critical for agricultural monitoring, forestry management, and hazard prediction, yet current satellite passive microwave missio…
DropletVideo: A Dataset and Approach to Explore Integral Spatio-Temporal Consistent Video Generation
Runze Zhang, Guoguang Du, Xiaochuan Li +10
Spatio-temporal consistency is a critical research topic in video generation. A qualified generated video segment must ensure plot plausibility and coherence while maintaining visu…
Matchable Image Retrieval by Learning from Surface Reconstruction
Tianwei Shen, Zixin Luo, Lei Zhou +4
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved superior performance on object image retrieval, while Bag-of-Words (BoW) models with handcrafted local features still dominate th…
ArcPro: Architectural Programs for Structured 3D Abstraction of Sparse Points
Qirui Huang, Runze Zhang, Kangjun Liu +3
We introduce ArcPro, a novel learning framework built on architectural programs to recover structured 3D abstractions from highly sparse and low-quality point clouds. Specifically,…
MuMA: 3D PBR Texturing via Multi-Channel Multi-View Generation and Agentic Post-Processing
Lingting Zhu, Jingrui Ye, Runze Zhang +8
Current methods for 3D generation still fall short in physically based rendering (PBR) texturing, primarily due to limited data and challenges in modeling multi-channel materials.…
Exploring the Limitations of kNN Noisy Feature Detection and Recovery for Self-Driving Labs
Qiuyu Shi, Kangming Li, Yao Fehlis +4
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) have shown promise to accelerate materials discovery by integrating machine learning with automated experimental platforms. However, errors in the…
LiDAL: Inter-frame Uncertainty Based Active Learning for 3D LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
Zeyu Hu, Xuyang Bai, Runze Zhang +4
We propose LiDAL, a novel active learning method for 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation by exploiting inter-frame uncertainty among LiDAR frames. Our core idea is that a well-trained m…
On Dynamical Parameter Space of Cubic Polynomials with a Parabolic Fixed Point
Runze Zhang
This article focus on the connected locus of the cubic polynomial slice with a parabolic fixed point of multiplier . We first show that any para…
Architectural Co-LOD Generation
Runze Zhang, Shanshan Pan, Chenlei Lv +2
Managing the level-of-detail (LOD) in architectural models is crucial yet challenging, particularly for effective representation and visualization of buildings. Traditional approac…
Fast VEM Fluid Simulation
Runze Zhang, Bo Ren
The intricate motion arising from fluid--boundary interactions is visually compelling, yet notoriously difficult and computationally expensive to simulate in the presence of comple…
SAP: Segment Any 4K Panorama
Lutao Jiang, Zidong Cao, Weikai Chen +14
Promptable instance segmentation is widely adopted in embodied and AR systems, yet the performance of foundation models trained on perspective imagery often degrades on 360° panor…
Parabolic Implosion in the Parameter Space of Cubic Polynomials
Runze Zhang
Parabolic implosion describes the enrichment of Julia sets when a parabolic fixed point is perturbed. It is also natural to study parabolic implosion in parameter spaces. In partic…
Beyond Photometric Loss for Self-Supervised Ego-Motion Estimation
Tianwei Shen, Zixin Luo, Lei Zhou +4
Accurate relative pose is one of the key components in visual odometry (VO) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, the self-supervised learning framework that…
CaliTex: Geometry-Calibrated Attention for View-Coherent 3D Texture Generation
Chenyu Liu, Hongze Chen, Jingzhi Bao +7
Despite major advances brought by diffusion-based models, current 3D texture generation systems remain hindered by cross-view inconsistency -- textures that appear convincing from…
VMNet: Voxel-Mesh Network for Geodesic-Aware 3D Semantic Segmentation
Zeyu Hu, Xuyang Bai, Jiaxiang Shang +6
In recent years, sparse voxel-based methods have become the state-of-the-arts for 3D semantic segmentation of indoor scenes, thanks to the powerful 3D CNNs. Nevertheless, being obl…
GeoDesc: Learning Local Descriptors by Integrating Geometry Constraints
Zixin Luo, Tianwei Shen, Lei Zhou +5
Learned local descriptors based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant improvements on patch-based benchmarks, whereas not having demonstrated strong gen…
Rigidity of bounded type cubic Siegel polynomials
Jonguk Yang, Runze Zhang
We prove that if two non-renormalizable cubic Siegel polynomials with bounded type rotation numbers are combinatorially equivalent, then they are also conformally equivalent. As a…
Predicting Effects, Missing Distributions: Evaluating LLMs as Human Behavior Simulators in Operations Management
Runze Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Mingyang Zhao
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human behavior in business, economics, and the social sciences, offering a low-cost complement to laboratory experime…
MSVS-VAE: Multi-Scale Anchored VecSet for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction
Dehao Hao, Kaiyi Zhang, Tanghui Jia +10
High-fidelity 3D generative modeling increasingly relies on the latent diffusion paradigm, where the reconstruction quality of the underlying 3D VAE becomes a primary bottleneck. E…
Parallel Structure from Motion from Local Increment to Global Averaging
Siyu Zhu, Tianwei Shen, Lei Zhou +4
In this paper, we tackle the accurate and consistent Structure from Motion (SfM) problem, in particular camera registration, far exceeding the memory of a single computer in parall…
On extension of closed complex (basic) differential forms: (basic) Hodge numbers and (transversely) -Kähler structures
Sheng Rao, Runze Zhang
Inspired by a recent work of D. Wei--S. Zhu on the extension of closed complex differential forms and Voisin's usage of the -lemma, we obtain several new th…
Accelerating Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements by Reducing Reliance on Noisy Low-Frequency Data
Qiuyu Shi, Naohiro Fujinuma, Yonatan Kurniawan +4
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a powerful tool for probing kinetic and transport processes in electrochemical systems, but its practical use is often limited by th…
LumiTex: Towards High-Fidelity PBR Texture Generation with Illumination Context
Jingzhi Bao, Hongze Chen, Lingting Zhu +10
Physically-based rendering (PBR) provides a principled standard for realistic material-lighting interactions in computer graphics. Despite recent advances in generating PBR texture…
Dense Hybrid Recurrent Multi-view Stereo Net with Dynamic Consistency Checking
Jianfeng Yan, Zizhuang Wei, Hongwei Yi +5
In this paper, we propose an efficient and effective dense hybrid recurrent multi-view stereo net with dynamic consistency checking, namely HC-RMVSNet, for accurate dense po…
Building informative materials datasets beyond targeted objectives
Rafael Espinosa Castañeda, Ashley Dale, Hongchen Wang +6
Materials science data collection can be expensive, making the reuse and long-term utility of datasets critical important for future discovery campaigns. In practice, researchers p…
Large Material Gaussian Model for Relightable 3D Generation
Jingrui Ye, Lingting Zhu, Runze Zhang +5
The increasing demand for 3D assets across various industries necessitates efficient and automated methods for 3D content creation. Leveraging 3D Gaussian Splatting, recent large r…
CoSMo3D: Open-World Promptable 3D Semantic Part Segmentation through LLM-Guided Canonical Spatial Modeling
Li Jin, Weikai Chen, Yujie Wang +7
Open-world promptable 3D semantic segmentation remains brittle as semantics are inferred in the input sensor coordinates. Yet, humans, in contrast, interpret parts via functional r…
CanoVerse: 3D Object Scalable Canonicalization and Dataset for Generation and Pose
Li Jin, Yuchen Yang, Weikai Chen +11
3D learning systems implicitly assume that objects occupy a coherent reference frame. Nonetheless, in practice, every asset arrives with an arbitrary global rotation, and models ar…
Learning and Matching Multi-View Descriptors for Registration of Point Clouds
Lei Zhou, Siyu Zhu, Zixin Luo +5
Critical to the registration of point clouds is the establishment of a set of accurate correspondences between points in 3D space. The correspondence problem is generally addressed…
SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results
Silvio Giancola, Anthony Cioppa, Adrien Deliège +91
The SoccerNet 2022 challenges were the second annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. In 2022, the challenges were composed of 6 vision-based tasks:…
Lung-Originated Tumor Segmentation from Computed Tomography Scan (LOTUS) Benchmark
Parnian Afshar, Arash Mohammadi, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis +22
Lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, and in part its effective diagnosis and treatment depend on the accurate delineation of the tumor. Human-centered segmentation, which i…
Logarithmic -lemma and several geometric applications (with an Appendix joint with Sheng Rao)
Runze Zhang
In this paper, we prove a -type lemma on compact Kähler manifolds for logarithmic differential forms valued in the dual of a certain pseudo-effective line…
Image Content Generation with Causal Reasoning
Xiaochuan Li, Baoyu Fan, Runze Zhang +5
The emergence of ChatGPT has once again sparked research in generative artificial intelligence (GAI). While people have been amazed by the generated results, they have also noticed…
Efficient Algorithms for Relevant Quantities of Friedkin-Johnsen Opinion Dynamics Model
Gengyu Wang, Runze Zhang, Zhongzhi Zhang
Online social networks have become an integral part of modern society, profoundly influencing how individuals form and exchange opinions across diverse domains ranging from politic…