Shaowei Liu

I'm a final-year PhD candidate in CS at UIUC, working with Prof. Shenlong Wang and Prof. Saurabh Gupta.

I received my master's degree in CS from UCSD, advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang. Before that, I received my bachelor's degree in EE from Tsinghua University.

My research focuses on generative modeling and 3D computer vision, with particular interest in video generation, motion generation, and animation/simulation. My long-term goal is to build physically-grounded world models.

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I am graduating in Spring 2026 and looking for industry or academic positions.
Feel free to reach out if you think I'd be a good fit.

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Email: shaowei3@illinois.edu

Publications
VisualSync: Multi-Camera Synchronization via Cross-View Object Motion
Shaowei Liu*, David Yifan Yao*, Saurabh Gupta†, Shenlong Wang†
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS), 2025.
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Ponimator: Unfolding Interactive Pose for Versatile Human-Human Interaction Animation
Shaowei Liu, Chuan Guo*, Bing Zhou*, Jian Wang*
International Conference on Computer Vision(ICCV), 2025.
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PhysGen3D: Crafting a Miniature Interactive World from a Single Image
Boyuan Chen, Hanxiao Jiang, Shaowei Liu, Saurabh Gupta, Yunzhu Li, Hao Zhao, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), 2025.
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PhysGen: Rigid-Body Physics-Grounded Image-to-Video Generation
Shaowei Liu, Zhongzheng Ren, Saurabh Gupta*, Shenlong Wang*
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
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ContactGen: Generative Contact Modeling for Grasp Generation
Shaowei Liu, Yang Zhou, Jimei Yang, Saurabh Gupta*, Shenlong Wang*
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
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Building Rearticulable Models for Arbitrary 3D Objects from 4D Point Clouds
Shaowei Liu, Saurabh Gupta*, Shenlong Wang*
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
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CASA: Category-agnostic Skeletal Animal Reconstruction
Yuefan Wu*, Zeyuan Chen*, Shaowei Liu, Zhongzheng Ren, Shenlong Wang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
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DexMV: Imitation Learning for Dexterous Manipulation from Human Videos
Yuzhe Qin*, Yueh-Hua Wu*, Shaowei Liu, Hanwen Jiang, Ruihan Yang, Yang Fu, Xiaolong Wang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
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Joint Hand Motion and Interaction Hotspots Prediction from Egocentric Videos
Shaowei Liu, Subarna Tripathi, Somdeb Majumdar, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
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Hand-Object Contact Consistency Reasoning for Human Grasps Generation
Hanwen Jiang* Shaowei Liu*, Jiashun Wang and Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 (Oral).
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Semi-Supervised 3D Hand-Object Poses Estimation with Interactions in Time
Shaowei Liu*, Hanwen Jiang*, Jiarui Xu, Sifei Liu and Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
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Light and Fast Hand Pose Estimation From Spatial-Decomposed Latent Heatmap
Shaowei Liu, Guijin Wang, Pengwei Xie, Cairong Zhang
IEEE Access 2020
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Experiences

Intel AI Lab
Multimodal Learning Intern
Jun. 21 - Aug. 21

Adobe Research
Intern - Research Scientist
June. 22 - Nov. 22

Snap Research
Intern - Research Scientist
June. 24 - Dec. 24

Nvidia Spatial Intelligence Lab
Intern - Research Scientist
May. 25 - Present