Publications

Demeter: A Parametric Model of Plant Morphology from the Real World

Tianhang Cheng, Albert J. Zhai, Evan Z. Chen, Rui Zhou, Yawen Deng, Zitong Li, Kejie Zhao, Janice Shiu, Qianyu Zhao, Yide Xu, Xinlei Wang, Yuan Shen, Sheng Wang, Lisa Ainsworth, Kaiyu Guan, Shenlong Wang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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Human-like Navigation in a World Built for Humans

Bhargav Chandaka*, Gloria X. Wang*, Haozhe Chen, Henry Che, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video

David Y. Yao, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (Highlight), 2025
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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AutoVFX: Physically Realistic Video Editing from Natural Language Instructions

Hao-Yu Hsu, Zhi-Hao Lin, Albert J. Zhai, Hongchi Xia, Shenlong Wang
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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Physical Property Understanding from Language-Embedded Feature Fields

Albert J. Zhai, Yuan Shen, Emily Y. Chen, Gloria X. Wang, Xinlei Wang, Sheng Wang, Kaiyu Guan, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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On the Overconfidence Problem in Semantic 3D Mapping

Joao M. C. Marques, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang, Kris Hauser
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
[Paper] [Code]

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PEANUT: Predicting and Navigating to Unseen Targets

Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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Sim-on-Wheels: Physical World in the Loop Simulation for Self-Driving

Yuan Shen, Bhargav Chandaka, Zhi-Hao Lin, Albert J. Zhai, Hang Cui, David Forsyth, Shenlong Wang
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
[Project] [Paper] [Code]

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Memory-Efficient Self-Supervised Learning of Null Space Projection Operators

Albert J. Zhai, Joseph Kuo, Mark A. Anastasio, Umberto Villa
SPIE Medical Imaging, 2023
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Learning Visually Guided Latent Actions for Assistive Teleoperation

Siddharth Karamcheti, Albert J. Zhai, Dylan P. Losey, Dorsa Sadigh
Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 2021
[Paper] [Code]

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Applying Satellite Observations of Tropical Cyclone Internal Structures to Rapid Intensification Forecast With Machine Learning

Hui Su, Longtao Wu, Jonathan H. Jiang, Raksha Pai, Alex Liu, Albert J. Zhai, Peyman Tavallali, Mark DeMaria
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020
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A full list of my publications and conference presentations can be found on my Google Scholar profile.