Faster and Better: An Efficient Training-Free Framework for Object Goal Navigation
Z. Zhang, W. Suo, J. Wang, P. Wang
under review
Zhipeng Zhang
I am currently a PhD candidate at the School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, advised by Prof. Peng Wang. I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology from NWPU's Honors College, where I was enrolled in the integrated B.Eng.-M.Sc.-Ph.D. experimental program. I completed the M.Sc. coursework ahead of schedule with top-ranked performance and advanced directly to the Ph.D. stage.
My research focuses on vision-language models, with an emphasis on multimodal generation, visual grounding, and real-world applications. I previously spent two years as a research intern at Alibaba Group and one year as a visiting PhD student / Academic Guest at ETH Zurich's Computer Vision Lab (CVL).
News
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2026/07
Our paper MoRe-UAV was accepted to ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2026.
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2026/06
I was invited to serve on the AAAI 2027 Program Committee.
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2026/05
I was invited to serve as a NeurIPS Reviewer.
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2026/05
I was invited to serve as a BMVC Area Chair.
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2026
Our paper on uncertainty-aware visual grounding in remote-sensing images was published in IEEE TGRS.
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2025
Our paper on infrared image super-resolution was accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
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2024
Our paper Image Fusion via Vision-Language Model appeared at ICML 2024.
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2023
Our robustness evaluation for referring expression comprehension was selected as a BMVC 2023 oral.
Publications
MoRe-UAV: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Motion-Aware Visual Grounding in UAV Videos
Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, W. Suo, L. Liu, J. Wang, P. Wang
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2026
Adaptive Scale Fusion via Uncertainty Estimation for Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing Images
Z. Zhang, Y. Zou, J. Wang, P. Wang
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026
Contourlet Refinement Gate Framework for Thermal Spectrum Distribution-Regularized Infrared Image Super-Resolution
Y. Zou, Z. Chen, Z. Zhang, X. Li, L. Ma, J. Liu, P. Wang, Y. Zhang
International Journal of Computer Vision, 2025
Image Fusion via Vision-Language Model
Z. Zhang, L. Deng, H. Bai, Y. Cui, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, H. Qin, D. Chen, J. Zhang, P. Wang, L. Van Gool
ICML, 2024
Self-Explainable Affordance Learning with Embodied Caption
Z. Zhang, Z. Wei, G. Sun, P. Wang, L. Van Gool
arXiv, 2024
A Critical Robustness Evaluation for Referring Expression Comprehension Methods
Z. Zhang, Z. Wei, P. Wang
BMVC, 2023, Oral Presentation
One for All: One-stage Referring Expression Comprehension with Dynamic Reasoning
Z. Zhang, Z. Wei, Z. Huang, R. Niu, P. Wang
Neurocomputing, 2023
Fine-Grain Alignment for Text-Based Person Retrieval via Semantics-Centric Visual Division
Z. Wei*, Z. Zhang*, P. Wu, J. Wang, P. Wang, Y. Zhang
IEEE TCSVT, 2023
Experience
ETH Zurich, Computer Vision Lab
Visiting PhD Student (Academic Guest). Research on vision-language modeling for embodied intelligence, grounding natural-language instructions in perception-centric decision-making and action planning.
Alibaba Group, Beijing
Research Intern (Algorithm Engineer). Led large-scale multimodal modeling for e-commerce content understanding and generation, including product copywriting generation and customer-oriented question answering.
Jiachuang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Xi'an
Founding Team Member / Software Engineer. Worked on UAV visual navigation and built an AI central system integrating computer vision, language commands, and UAV flight maneuvers.
Academic Service
Conference: AAAI 2027 Program Committee; BMVC Area Chair; NeurIPS Reviewer; CVPR 2026, AAAI 2026, ICML 2025, ACM MM 2024-2025, BMVC 2023-2025.
Journal: TCSVT, TGRS, TIP, Neurocomputing, et al.
Awards and Honors
Research Funding
Generalizable and Interpretable Vision Reasoning with External Knowledge
Doctoral Research Funding, Principal Applicant / Project Lead. $50,000
Robot Navigation and Map Building Based on Computer Vision and Radar
Doctoral Research Funding, Principal Applicant / Project Lead. $10,000
Scholarships and Honors
- National Inspirational Scholarship.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
- Excellent Student Award.
- First-Class School Scholarship.
Intellectual Property
Two authorized national patents; one international patent under review.