Mingze Sun
(孙铭泽)

Ph.D. Student at Tsinghua University
Focused on Rigging, Animation, and Embodied AI

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Mingze Sun

About Me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University, specializing in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Ruqi Huang at the Shenzhen International Graduate School.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Statistics from East China Normal University in 2022. I was awarded the National Scholarship at Tsinghua University consecutively in 2024 and 2025. I am pleased to be working as a visiting student with Prof. Ziwei Liu at MMLab@NTU from 2026.

My current research interests center around Rigging, Animation, and Embodied AI. Starting this year, I will devote my research efforts to embodied intelligence, including robotic manipulation and vision-language-action (VLA) modeling. My goal is to develop general-purpose motion foundation models for real-world applications in gaming and embodied AI systems.

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News

February 2026

Three papers were accepted to CVPR (2026)

  • "Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details" has been accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • "Tokenizing Vector Animation for Autoregressive Generation" has been accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • "Think with 3D: Geometric Imagination Grounded Spatial Reasoning from Limited Views" has been accepted to CVPR 2026.
January 2026

Paper Accepted to ICLR (2026)

"Dancetogether! identity-preserving multi-person interactive video generation" has been accepted to ICLR 2026.

August 2025

Paper Accepted to TPAMI (2025)

"Combo: Co-speech holistic 3D human motion generation and efficient customizable adaptation in harmony" has been accepted to TPAMI 2025.

June 2025

Paper Accepted to ICCV (2025)

"ARMO: Autoregressive Rigging for Multi-Category Objects" has been accepted to ICCV 2025.

March 2025

Paper Accepted to CVPR (2025)

"DRiVE: Diffusion-based Rigging Empowers Generation of Versatile and Expressive Characters" has been accepted to CVPR 2025.

October 2024

Paper Accepted to IJCV (2024)

"Beyond talking–generating holistic 3d human dyadic motion for communication" has been accepted to IJCV 2024.

July 2024

Paper Accepted to SIGGRAPH ASIA (2024)

"SRIF: Semantic Shape Registration Empowered by Diffusion-based Image Morphing and Flow Estimation" has been accepted to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024.

Preprints

Recent preprints and working papers on my research topics

ECCV26! Preview
Preprint

Topology-Agnostic Animal Motion Generation from Text Prompt

Keyi Chen∗, Mingze Sun∗, Zhenyu Liu, Zhangquan Chen, Ruqi Huang†

Arxiv Preprint 2026

Paper Project Code (Coming Soon)
synthverse! Preview
Preprint

SynthVerse: A Large-Scale Diverse Synthetic Dataset for Point Tracking

Weiguang Zhao, Haoran Xu, Xingyu Miao, Qin Zhao, Rui Zhang, Kaizhu Huang, Ning Gao, Peizhou Cao, Mingze Sun, Mulin Yu, Tao Lu, Linning Xu, Junting Dong†, Jiangmiao Pang

Arxiv Preprint 2026

Paper Project Code (Coming Soon)

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications in top conferences and journals

3DThinker CVPR26
CVPR 2026

Think with 3d: Geometric imagination grounded spatial reasoning from limited views

Zhangquan Chen, Manyuan Zhang, Xinlei Yu, Xufang Luo, Mingze Sun, Zihao Pan, Yan Feng, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Ruqi Huang†

CVPR 2026

Paper Project Code
DanceTogether! Preview
ICLR 2026

DanceTogether! Identity-Preserving Multi-Person Interactive Video Generation

Junhao Chen, Mingjin Chen, Jianjin Xu, Xiang Li, Junting Dong†, Mingze Sun, Puhua Jiang, Hongxiang Li, Yuhang Yang, Hao Zhao, Xiaoxiao Long, Ruqi Huang†

ICLR 2026

Paper Project Code
SIFThinker AAAI25
AAAI 2025

SIFThinker: Spatially-Aware Image Focus for Visual Reasoning

Zhangquan Chen, Ruihui Zhao, Chuwei Luo, Mingze Sun, Xinlei Yu, Yangyang Kang, Ruqi Huang†

AAAI 2025

Paper Project Code
Combo Preview
TPAMI 2025

Combo: Co-speech holistic 3D human motion generation and efficient customizable adaptation in harmony

Chao Xu∗, Mingze Sun∗, Zhi-Qi Cheng∗, Fei Wang, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun†, Ruqi Huang†, Alexander Hauptmann

TPAMI 2025

Paper Project Code (Coming Soon)
ARMO Preview
ICCV 2025

ARMO: Autoregressive Rigging for Multi-Category Objects

Mingze Sun∗, Shiwei Mao∗, Keyi Chen, Yurun Chen, Shunlin Lu, Jingbo Wang, Junting Dong†, Ruqi Huang†

ICCV 2025

Paper Project Code (Coming Soon)
DRiVE Preview
CVPR 2025

DRiVE: Diffusion-based Rigging Empowers Generation of Versatile and Expressive Characters

Mingze Sun∗, Junhao Chen∗, Junting Dong†, Yurun Chen, Xinyu Jiang, Shiwei Mao, Puhua Jiang, Jingbo Wang, Bo Dai, Ruqi Huang†

CVPR 2025

Paper Project Code
Beyond talking Preview
IJCV 2024

Beyond talking–generating holistic 3d human dyadic motion for communication

Mingze Sun∗, Chao Xu∗, Xinyu Jiang∗, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun, Ruqi Huang†

IJCV 2024

Paper Project (Not Available) Code (Not Available)
SRIF Preview
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024

SRIF: Semantic Shape Registration Empowered by Diffusion-based Image Morphing and Flow Estimation

Mingze Sun∗, Chen Guo∗, Puhua Jiang∗, Shiwei Mao, Yurun Chen, Ruqi Huang†

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024

Paper Project (Not Available) Code
PG Preview
Pacific Graphics 2024

Enhancing Human Optical Flow via 3D Spectral Prior

Shiwei Mao, Mingze Sun, Ruqi Huang†

Pacific Graphics 2024

Paper Project (Not Available) Code (Not Available)
Facechain Preview
CVPR 2024

Facechain-imagineid: Freely crafting high-fidelity diverse talking faces from disentangled audio

Chao Xu, Yang Liu, Jiazheng Xing, Weida Wang, Mingze Sun, Jun Dan, Tianxin Huang, Siyuan Li, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Ying Tai, Baigui Sun†

CVPR 2024

Paper Project (Not Available) Code (Not Available)
DFR Preview
NIPS 2023

Non-rigid shape registration via deep functional maps prior

Puhua Jiang∗, Mingze Sun∗, Ruqi Huang†

NIPS 2023

Paper Project (Not Available) Code
dual Preview
ICCV 2023

Spatially and spectrally consistent deep functional maps

Mingze Sun, Shiwei Mao, Puhua Jiang, Maks Ovsjanikov, Ruqi Huang†

ICCV 2023

Paper Project (Not Available) Code
alice Preview
ICCV 2023 (Oral)

Anatomical invariance modeling and semantic alignment for self-supervised learning in 3d medical image analysis

Yankai Jiang∗, Mingze Sun∗, Heng Guo, Xiaoyu Bai, Ke Yan, Le Lu, Minfeng Xu†

ICCV 2023 (oral presentation)

Paper Project (Not Available) Code
nie Preview
CVPR 2023

Neural intrinsic embedding for non-rigid point cloud matching

Puhua Jiang, Mingze Sun, Ruqi Huang†

CVPR 2023

Paper Project (Not Available) Code

Academic Services

Reviewer for top computer science conferences and journals

  • Conference Reviewer: ICCV
  • Conference Reviewer: CVPR
  • Conference Reviewer: ICML
  • Conference Reviewer: ICLR
  • Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS
  • And other top-tier conferences in computer vision and machine learning

Awards & Honors

Recognitions and scholarships received during my academic career

National Scholarship

Awarded for outstanding academic performance and research achievements at Tsinghua University

2025

National Scholarship

Awarded for outstanding academic performance and research achievements at Tsinghua University

2024

National Scholarship

Recognized for excellent academic performance during undergraduate studies at East China Normal University

2022