Wentao Zhu is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, starting Fall 2025. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University, advised by Prof. Yizhou Wang. Previously, he earned Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Peking University in 2020.

Research

My research primarily focuses on building Human-aware AI systems that can perceive, understand, and interact with human beings. My long-term research goal is to create collaborative, embodied agents that can seamlessly integrate with human activities in real-world scenarios, such as home living and healthcare.

News

[2025-05] Serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.

[2025-02] We are organizing The 1st Workshop on Humanoid Agents at CVPR 2025.

[2025-01] I will be joining Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025.

Publications

2025

	Learning Human-aware Robot Policies for Adaptive Assistance Jason Qin, Shikun Ban, Wentao Zhu, Yizhou Wang, Dimitris Samaras IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	FreeCloth: Free-form Generation Enhances Challenging Clothed Human Modeling Hang Ye, Xiaoxuan Ma, Hai Ci, Wentao Zhu, Yizhou Wang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 (Highlight) Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	VMarker-Pro: Probabilistic 3D Human Mesh Estimation from Virtual Markers Xiaoxuan Ma, Jiajun Su, Yuan Xu, Wentao Zhu, Chunyu Wang, Yizhou Wang IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025 Paper / Code
	Aligning Human Motion Generation with Human Perceptions Haoru Wang*, Wentao Zhu*, Luyi Miao, Yishu Xu, Feng Gao, Qi Tian, Yizhou Wang International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video

2024

	Real-time Holistic Robot Pose Estimation with Unknown States Shikun Ban, Juling Fan, Xiaoxuan Ma, Wentao Zhu, Yu Qiao, Yizhou Wang European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	Language Models Represent Beliefs of Self and Others Wentao Zhu, Zhining Zhang, Yizhou Wang International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024 Paper / Code / Project Page
	Human Motion Generation: A Survey Wentao Zhu*, Xiaoxuan Ma*, Dongwoo Ro*, Hai Ci, Jinlu Zhang, Jiaxin Shi, Feng Gao, Qi Tian, Yizhou Wang IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024 Paper
	ScoreHypo: Probabilistic Human Mesh Estimation with Hypothesis Scoring Yuan Xu, Xiaoxuan Ma, Jiajun Su, Wentao Zhu, Yu Qiao, Yizhou Wang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video

2023

	Social Motion Prediction with Cognitive Hierarchies Wentao Zhu*, Jason Qin*, Yuke Lou, Hang Ye, Xiaoxuan Ma, Hai Ci, Yizhou Wang Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	ChimpACT: A Longitudinal Dataset for Understanding Chimpanzee Behaviors Xiaoxuan Ma*, Stephan P. Kaufhold*, Jiajun Su*, Wentao Zhu, Jack Terwilliger, Andres Meza, Yixin Zhu, Federico Rossano, Yizhou Wang Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, Datasets and Benchmarks Track), 2023 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	MotionBERT: A Unified Perspective on Learning Human Motion Representations Wentao Zhu, Xiaoxuan Ma, Zhaoyang Liu, Libin Liu, Wayne Wu, Yizhou Wang IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	GFPose: Learning 3D Human Pose Prior with Gradient Fields Hai Ci, Mingdong Wu, Wentao Zhu, Xiaoxuan Ma, Hao Dong, Fangwei Zhong, Yizhou Wang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 Paper / Code / Project Page
	3D Human Mesh Estimation from Virtual Markers Xiaoxuan Ma, Chunyu Wang, Jiajun Su, Wentao Zhu, Yizhou Wang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video

2022

	Faster VoxelPose: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation by Orthographic Projection Hang Ye*, Wentao Zhu*, Chunyu Wang, Rujie Wu, Yizhou Wang European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022 Paper / Code
	CelebV-HQ: A Large-scale Video Facial Attributes Dataset Hao Zhu*, Wayne Wu*, Wentao Zhu, Liming Jiang, Siwei Tang, Li Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Chen Change Loy European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video
	MoCaNet: Motion Retargeting in-the-wild via Canonicalization Networks Wentao Zhu*, Zhuoqian Yang*, Ziang Di, Wayne Wu, Yizhou Wang, Chen Change Loy Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022 Paper / Code / Project Page

2020

TransMoMo: Invariance-Driven Unsupervised Video Motion Retargeting Zhuoqian Yang*, Wentao Zhu*, Wayne Wu*, Chen Qian, Qiang Zhou, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 Paper / Code / Project Page / Video

Services

Area Chair

• NeurIPS 2025

Reviewer / PC Member

• Conference: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE VR, SIGGRAPH Asia
• Journal: TPAMI, IJCV, TOG, TVCG, TIP

Workshop Organization

• The 1st Workshop on Humanoid Agents @ CVPR 2025.
• Populating Empty Cities – Virtual Humans for Robotics and Autonomous Driving @ CVPR 2024

Teaching

I am fortunate enough to have worked with these brilliant undergraduate interns (ordered by year and last name):