Shuling Zhao

Hi! I am Shuling Zhao, a Ph.D. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) advised by Prof. Dan Xu. Before that, I received my Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, where I was fortunate to work under Prof. Yong Li, Prof. Guijin Wang and Prof. Guangda Su.

My research focuses on human-centric generation, including video and audio-driven digital human generation in 2D or 3D to facilitate teleconferencing, the film industry, and virtual reality applications.

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Research

Generalizable and Animatable 3D Full-Head Gaussian Avatar from a Single Image
Shuling Zhao, Dan Xu
arXiv 2026
project page / arXiv

Given a single input image, we reconstruct animatable 3D full-head Gaussian avatars in a single forward pass, providing 360° view synthesis and supporting real-time animation.

Synergizing Motion and Appearance: Multi-Scale Compensatory Codebooks for Talking Head Video Generation
Shuling Zhao, Fa-Ting Hong, Xiaoshui Huang, Dan Xu
CVPR 2025
project page / paper / arXiv / code

We conduct motion and appearance compensation with jointly learned compensatory codebooks for high-quality talking head video generation.

Teaching


Source code from Jon Barron's website.