Zhongang Cai

Staff Research Scientist, SenseTime Research

Researcher, Nanyang Technological University

Joined

February 2020

Names

Zhongang Cai (Preferred)

Emails

****@sensetime.com (Confirmed)

****@e.ntu.edu.sg (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Staff Research Scientist

SenseTime Research (sensetime.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Nanyang Technological University (ntu.edu.sg)

2024 – Present

PhD student

Nanyang Technological University (ntu.edu.sg)

2021 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Lei Yang

2021 – Present

PhD Advisor

Ziwei Liu

2021 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Chen Change Loy

2021 – 2024

Expertise

Spatial Intelligence

2025 – Present

Multimodal Model

2023 – Present

Digital Embodied Intelligence

2023 – 2025

Autonomous Characters

2023 – 2025

Human Motion Generation

2023 – 2025

Human Pose and Shape Estimation

2020 – 2025

Point Clouds

2019 – 2023

Publications

Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models
Zhongang Cai, Ruisi Wang, Chenyang Gu, Fanyi Pu, Junxiang Xu, YUBO WANG, Wanqi Yin, Zhitao Yang, Chen Wei, Tongxi Zhou, Qingping SUN, Hui En Pang, Jiaqi Li, Oscar Qian, Zhiqian Lin, Xuanke Shi, Kewang Deng, Xiaoyang Han, Zukai Chen, Xiangyu Fan et al. (8 additional authors not shown)
- CVPR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Demystifing Video Reasoning
Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu, Junxiang Xu, Wanqi Yin, Maijunxian Wang, Ran Ji, Chenyang Gu, Bo Li, Ziqi Huang, Hokin Deng, Dahua Lin, Ziwei Liu, Lei Yang
- arxiv
- Readers: Everyone
EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant
Jingkang Yang, Shuai Liu, Hongming Guo, Yuhao Dong, Xiamengwei Zhang, Sicheng Zhang, Pengyun Wang, Zitang Zhou, Binzhu Xie, Ziyue Wang, Bei Ouyang, Zhengyu Lin, Marco Cominelli, Zhongang Cai, Bo Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Peiyuan Zhang, Fangzhou Hong, Joerg Widmer, Francesco Gringoli et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Text-driven 3D Human Motion Generation from 3D-free Web Videos
Chang Su, Wenhao Chai, Zhixiong Hu, Chuanmiao Dong, Tingwang Chen, Xuan Wang, Zhongang Cai, Gaoang Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Has GPT-5 Achieved Spatial Intelligence? An Empirical Study
Zhongang Cai, Yubo Wang, Qingping SUN, Ruisi Wang, Gu Chenyang, Wanqi Yin, Zhiqian Lin, Zhitao Yang, Chen Wei, Xuanke Shi, Kewang Deng, Xiaoyang Han, Zukai Chen, Jiaqi Li, Xiangyu Fan, Hanming Deng, Lewei Lu, Bo Li, Ziwei Liu, Quan Wang et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The Quest for Generalizable Motion Generation: Data, Model, and Evaluation
Jing Lin, Ruisi Wang, Junzhe Lu, Ziqi Huang, Guorui Song, Ailing Zeng, Xian Liu, Chen Wei, Wanqi Yin, Qingping SUN, Zhongang Cai, Lei Yang, Ziwei Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Controllable Human-centric Keyframe Interpolation with Generative Prior
Zujin Guo, Size Wu, Zhongang Cai, Wei Li, Chen Change Loy
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
ADHMR: Aligning Diffusion-based Human Mesh Recovery via Direct Preference Optimization
Wenhao Shen, Wanqi Yin, Xiaofeng Yang, Cheng Chen, Chaoyue Song, Zhongang Cai, Lei Yang, Hao Wang, Guosheng Lin
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
U3D: Unlocking the Video Prior for High Fidelity Sparse Novel View Synthesis and 3D Generation
Fan Yang, Jianfeng Zhang, Chaoyue Song, Zhongcong Xu, Xiu Li, Guan Luo, Zhongang Cai, Jiashi Feng, Guosheng Lin
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformers
Yiwen Chen, Tong He, Di Huang, Weicai Ye, Sijin Chen, Jiaxiang Tang, Zhongang Cai, Lei Yang, Gang Yu, Guosheng Lin, Chi Zhang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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