Xin Zhou | HUST

About Me

I am currently a student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Future Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Xiang Bai.

Research Interests

3D Vision: 3D object detection, point cloud analysis
Generative Models: Generative models for autonomous driving (e.g., world model)

News

[Feb. 2025] One paper is accepted to CVPR 2025.
[Jan. 2025] We preprint HERMES on arXiv, a driving world model that unifies 3D scene understanding and generation. check it out!
[Oct. 2024] Sellected at the 17th National conference on Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
[Sep. 2024] Two papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
[Sep. 2024] We win the first place in the ECCV 2024 FishNet Classification Challenge.
[Apr. 2024] Invited to give a talk at FALML 2024 in Yichang, Hubei, on Parameter-Efficient Learning for Point Cloud Analysis (Best Oral Presentation Award).
[Feb. 2024] One paper is accepted to CVPR 2024!
[Jan. 2024] I opensource a collection of papers on World Models for Autonomous Driving , check it out and give a star🌟! The repository will keep updating.
[Aug. 2023] One paper is accepted to PRCV 2023.

Publications (Full List)

(* Equal contribution)

arXiv'25

HERMES: A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation

Xin Zhou*, Dingkang Liang*, Sifan Tu, Xiwu Chen, Yikang Ding, Dingyuan Zhang, Feiyang Tan, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiang Bai

PDF Code Project
CVPR'24

Dynamic Adapter Meets Prompt Tuning: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Point Cloud Analysis

Xin Zhou*, Dingkang Liang*, Wei Xu, Xingkui Zhu, Yihan Xu, Zhikang Zou, Xiang Bai

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.

PDF Code Slide Blog

NeurIPS'24

PointMamba: A Simple State Space Model for Point Cloud Analysis

Dingkang Liang*, Xin Zhou*, Wei Xu, Xingkui Zhu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan, Xiang Bai

The 38-th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

PDF Project Code Blog

PRCV'23

Diffusion-Based 3D Object Detection with Random Boxes

Xin Zhou, Jinghua Hou, Tingting Yao, Dingkang Liang, Zhe Liu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Jianwei Cheng, Xiang Bai

Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), 2023.

PDF

NeurIPS'24

A Unified Framework for 3D Scene Understanding

Wei Xu*, Chunsheng Shi*, Sifan Tu, Xin Zhou, Dingkang Liang, Xiang Bai

The 38-th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

PDF Project Code

arXiv'24

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Spectral Domain for Point Cloud Learning

Dingkang Liang*, Tianrui Feng*, Xin Zhou*, Yumeng Zhang, Zhikang Zou, Xiang Bai

PDF Code

Experience

Participated Projects

National Undergraduate Training Projects for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- 2023-2024, 20,000 RMB (~2,750 USD). (As the host; Completed; Rated Excellent)
- 2024-2025, 10,000 RMB (~1,375 USD). (As a member)
Taihu Lake Innovation Fund for Future Technology (200,000 RMB, ~27,500 USD), 2023-2025. (As a student member)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Undergraduate Natural Science Innovation Fund Program, (50,000 RMB, ~6,900 USD), 2024-2025. (As the host)

Honors

School of Optical and Electronic Information, HUST, 2023 Top 10 Newsmakers.
Awarded Excellent Paper (Top 20 nationwide) at the 17th National conference on Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship (one of the top three annual events organized by the Ministry of Education of China).

China Patent

基于扩散模型的三维点云目标检测方法与装置, CN116863426A (publication)
基于视觉Transformer的弱-半监督三维点云目标检测方法与装置, CN117115804A (publication)
基于动态适配器和内部提示的三维预训练模型微调方法, CN118171714A (publication)

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer:
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
- Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
- Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024
Journal Reviewer:
- Science China-Information Science (SCIS)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- International Journal of Digital Earth