(Paul) Xin Zhou

I have 10 years of experience developing AI algorithms and applying generative AI in products. I have both worked hands-on and led technical teams at Google and Baidu USA.

My current interest are agents for video creation (data and methods), improving video generation quality and efficiency.

I did my PhD in Mathematics at University of Michigan, where I was advised by Robert Lazarsfeld.

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Research

Kubrick: Multimodal Agent Collaborations for Video Generation
He Liu, Xin Zhou
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We develop multimodal collaborative agents to generate physically realistic videos, given a few prompt words and possibly assets.

Retrieving Conditions from Reference Images for Diffusion Models
Haoran Tang, Xin Zhou, Jieren Deng, Zhihong Pan, Hao Tian, Pratik Chaudhari
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Instantaneous generation of same identity faces with better style controls and diversity.

Video understanding and Soccernet

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Handling and understanding large amounts of video data

GBSD: Generative Bokeh with Stage Diffusion
Jieren Deng, Xin Zhou, Hao Tian, Zhihong Pan, Derek Aguiar
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Discovering the ability to generate bokeh with time varying prompts

Ongoing

Automatic generation defects assesment through VLM

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Automatic generation pipelines need better control. Existing score models are vague and cannot find detailed defects.

Enhancing image generation quality through semantic VAE losses

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VAE become major bottlenecks of generation quality for structures such as faces and hands especially when the resolution is small.

Accelerating structure controlled image generation through shape texture separation

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In many applications, structures of generated images can be given (avatars, videos). Leveraging this condition, can one accelerate the generation process

Advised Team Members (Partial list)

Liu He Haoran Tang Jieren Deng
Yuanming Li Yansong Gao Zhiyuan Ren
Bo He