I’m a PhD student at the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Yoichi Sato. My research interests lie in computer vision and egocentric activity understanding, leveraging diverse data modalities including video, language, IMU, point cloud, human gaze, and hand pose.

🎓 Education

• Ph.D. in Information Science @ The University of Tokyo (2026.3 expected)
• M.Sc. in Information Science @ The University of Tokyo (2023.3)
• B.Sc. in Computer Science @ Nanjing University (2020.7)

🔬 Research Experience

• Intern at CyberAgent AI Lab, Activity Understanding Team, 2024
• Intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory, OpenGVLab, 2023
• Intern at Microsoft Research Asia, Media Computing Group, 2022
• Intern at PCL Shenzhen, Virtual Reality Lab, 2021

🎖️ Services and Awards

• JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC2
• Reviewer of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, BMVC
• “Stars of Tomorrow” award by Microsoft Research Asia
• Contracted photographer of Visual China Group

📄 Publications

Pre-Training for 3D Hand Pose Estimation with Contrastive Learning on Large-Scale Hand Images in the Wild

Nie Lin, Takehiko Ohkawa, Mingfang Zhang, Yifei Huang, Minjie Cai, Ming Li, Ryosuke Furuta, Yoichi Sato
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
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Masked Video and Body-worn IMU Autoencoder for Egocentric Action Recognition

Mingfang Zhang, Yifei Huang, Ruicong Liu, Yoichi Sato
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Paper and Code

EgoExoLearn: A Dataset for Bridging Asynchronous Ego- and Exo-centric View of Procedural Activities in Real World

Yifei Huang* , Guo Chen*, Jilan Xu*, Mingfang Zhang*, Lijin Yang, Baoqi Pei, Hongjie Zhang, Lu Dong, Yali Wang, Limin Wang, Yu Qiao (* co-first author)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Paper and Code

Single-to-Dual-View Adaptation for Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation

Ruicong Liu, Takehiko Ohkawa, Mingfang Zhang, Yoichi Sato
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Paper and Code

Structural Multiplane Image: Bridging Neural View Synthesis and 3D Reconstruction

Mingfang Zhang, Jinglu Wang, Xiao Li, Yifei Huang, Yoichi Sato, Yan Lu
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
Paper and Code

GazeOnce: Real-Time Multi-Person Gaze Estimation

Mingfang Zhang, Yunfei Liu, Feng Lu
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
Paper and Code

Optical Flow in the Dark

Mingfang Zhang, Yinqiang Zheng, Feng Lu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021
Paper and Code

Optical Flow in the Dark

Yinqiang Zheng*, Mingfang Zhang*, Feng Lu (*co-first author)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
Paper and Code