I am currently a second-year PhD candidate at MediaX Lab, Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I am supervised by Prof. Xiaoyun Zhang and Prof. Qiang Hu. My research focuses on 3D reconstruction and 3D generation.

🔥 News

  • 2026.05: Won first place in the Dynamic Gaussian Splatting Compression Challenge at ICME 2026.
  • 2026.03: Joined Acrab.ai Agentic Labs as an intern.
  • 2025.12: Attended SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 and gave an oral presentation at the Volumetric Video Workshop.
  • 2025.12: Won second place in the Compression Track of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Volumetric Video Challenge.
  • 2025.09: PrismGS was accepted to VCIP 2025.
  • 2025.09: 4DGCPro was accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2025.03: 4DGC was accepted to CVPR 2025.
  • 2024.12: VRVVC was accepted to AAAI 2025.
  • 2024.10: Attended ACM MM 2024 and gave an oral presentation.
  • 2024.08: HPC was accepted to ACM MM 2024 as an oral presentation.
Earlier News
  • 2024.06: JointRF was accepted to ICIP 2024 and was recognized among the top 5% of accepted papers.

📝 Publications

VCIP 2025
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NeurIPS 2025
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4DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming

Zihan Zheng, Zhenlong Wu, Houqiang Zhong, Yuan Tian, Ning Cao, Lan Xu, Jiangchao Yao, Xiaoyun Zhang, Qiang Hu, Wenjun Zhang

Project Page

CVPR 2025
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4DGC: Rate-Aware 4D Gaussian Compression for Efficient Streamable Free-Viewpoint Video

Qiang Hu*, Zihan Zheng*, Houqiang Zhong, Sihua Fu, Li Song, Xiaoyun Zhang, Guangtao Zhai, Yanfeng Wang

Project Page, Code

AAAI 2025
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VRVVC: Variable-Rate NeRF-Based Volumetric Video Compression

Qiang Hu*, Houqiang Zhong*, Zihan Zheng, Xiaoyun Zhang, Zhengxue Cheng, Li Song, Guangtao Zhai, Yanfeng Wang

ACM-MM 2024
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HPC: Hierarchical Progressive Coding Framework for Volumetric Video

Zihan Zheng*, Houqiang Zhong*, Qiang Hu, Xiaoyun Zhang, Li Song, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang

💼 Experience

Industry Experience

  • Intern, Agentic Labs, Acrab.ai
    Mar. 2026 - Present
    Mentors: Chunlei Cai and Yichen Gong

Research Experience

🤝 Services

Reviewer

  • Conferences: CVPR, NeurIPS, ICIP
  • Journals: IEEE TVCG, IEEE TCSVT

Student Counselor

  • Counselor for students majoring in Artificial Intelligence, Class of 2024, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • Counselor for students in the IEEE Pilot Classes in Information Engineering, Classes of 2022-2025, School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

🏆 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.04 Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • 2025.12 Second Place, SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Volumetric Video Challenge - Compression Track
  • 2025.12 2025 Academic Year Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2026.05: First place, ICME 2026 Dynamic Gaussian Splatting Compression Challenge

🎓 Education

  • 2024.09 - now, PhD Student, Electronic Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • 2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate, Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.