Shangzhan Zhang

I am a second-year PhD student at Oxford VGG, advised by Prof. Christian Rupprecht, funded by Oxford-DeepMind Graduate Scholarship. My research interests lie in agents, VLMs, and physical foundation models. I’d love to exchange ideas with others who share similar interests

Selected Work

  • 2026

    Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction

    Lin-Zhuo Chen*, Jian Gao*, Shangzhan Zhang*, Yihang Chen, Nan Xue, Jianyuan Wang, Christian Rupprecht, Xun Cao, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen, Yao Yao, Yinghao Xu

    ECCV 2026 · Best Paper Candidate

    Reconstructing 3D scenes from streaming video with a geometric context transformer that maintains spatial consistency over long sequences.

  • 2026

    VGGT-Ω

    Jianyuan Wang, Minghao Chen, Shangzhan Zhang, Nikita Karaev, Johannes Schönberger, Patrick Labatut, Piotr Bojanowski, David Novotny, Andrea Vedaldi, Christian Rupprecht

    CVPR 2026 · Best Paper Finalist

    Scaling feed-forward 3D reconstruction to learn spatial representations that also support language alignment and vision-language-action models.

  • 2026

    GUI-SAGE: Enhancing GUI Automation with Self-Explanatory Learning

    Fei Tang, Zhangxuan Gu, Zhengxi Lu, Shangzhan Zhang, Zhengwen Zeng, Shuheng Shen, Changhua Meng, Yuchen Yan, Wenqi Zhang, Yongliang Shen, Weiming Lu, Yueting Zhuang

    CVPR 2026

    Improving GUI agents through self-explanatory reasoning and reinforcement learning, with entropy-aware credit assignment for more effective action learning.

  • 2025

    FLARE: Feed-forward Geometry, Appearance and Camera Estimation from Uncalibrated Sparse Views

    Shangzhan Zhang*, Jianyuan Wang*, Yinghao Xu*, Nan Xue, Christian Rupprecht, Xiaowei Zhou, Yujun Shen, Gordon Wetzstein

    CVPR 2025

    Jointly estimating cameras, 3D geometry, and appearance from a few unposed images in a single forward pass.

  • 2024

    MaPa: Text-driven Photorealistic Material Painting for 3D Shapes

    Shangzhan Zhang, Sida Peng, Tao Xu, Yuanbo Yang, Tianrun Chen, Nan Xue, Yujun Shen, Hujun Bao, Ruizhen Hu, Xiaowei Zhou

    SIGGRAPH 2024

    An early exploration of LLM tool calling for graphics, enabling language-guided editing of procedural materials for 3D shapes.

Experience

Education

University of Oxford

PhD, advised by Prof. Christian Rupprecht

2025 —

Zhejiang University

M.Eng. in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Sida Peng and Prof. Xiaowei Zhou

2022 — 2025

Zhejiang University

B.E. in Electronic Science and Technology

2018 — 2022
Experience

Adobe Research

Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Zifan Shi and Dr. Kalyan Sunkavalli

2025

Ant Research

Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Yinghao Xu

2025

Stanford University Remote

Guided by Dr. Yinghao Xu and Prof. Gordon Wetzstein

2024

Ant Research

Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Nan Xue and Dr. Yujun Shen

2023 — 2025