Zhening Huang

I'm a final-year PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Joan Lasenby. My current research mostly focuses on two directions: using coding agents for 3D modeling (LiteReality, LiteReality-Agent, Articraft), and video world models (SpaceTimePilot).

During my PhD I spent time at Adobe Research, working with Chun-Hao Huang.

I am currently interning at Morpheus AI (Roblox) on video world models, mentored by Xun Huang and Yicong Hong.

I am actively looking for full-time positions starting January 2027, in robotics, agentic 3D modeling, and video world models. Feel free to reach out.

I am also happy to discuss research ideas in video world models, agentic 3D modeling, and robotics — please get in touch if you would like to chat.

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News

[Aug 2026] Our latest project is out: LiteReality-Agent, together with the LiteReality scanner app! Scan a room with the iOS app and the agent turns it into a complete, graphics-ready scene with articulated assets. Read the blog post for the full story, or try the interactive viewer and the App Store listing.
[May 2026] The Cam×Time dataset from SpaceTimePilot is out! Check out the dataset page.
[May 2026] Articraft is out everywhere! The technical report, the code, and the Articraft-10K dataset are all available. Articraft is an agentic system that writes programs to generate articulated 3D assets at scale.
[April 2026] Started an internship at Morpheus AI, a stealth startup, working on video world models with Xun Huang and Yicong Hong.
[Feb 2026] SpaceTimePilot is accepted at CVPR 2026! Huge thanks to all the co-authors! We are working on releasing the codebase and dataset.
[Jan 2026] We released the codebase for LiteReality! You can use it to scan your room and convert it to a compact, graphics-ready reconstruction with full PBR materials. Check out the code and examples.

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First / Co-first Author Publications

	LiteReality-Agent: An Agentic System for Interactable 3D Indoor Scene Reconstruction Zhening Huang, Yueyan Li, Johnathan Chiu, Xiaoyang Lyu, Matt Zhou, Yuxin Yao, Joan Lasenby, Shangzhe Wu * Equal contribution Technical Report Project Page / Viewer / Scanner App 📖 Read the Blog TLDR: LiteReality-Agent is an open-source, end-to-end toolkit for reconstructing interactable indoor 3D scenes. Scan a room with the iOS LiDAR app, and the agent authors the scene as a Python program — editing code, rendering, and comparing against the capture until quality control passes — producing a graphics-ready scene with articulated assets.
	Articraft: An Agentic System for Scalable Articulated 3D Asset Generation Matt Zhou, Ruining Li, Xiaoyang Lyu, Zhaomou Song, Zhening Huang, Chuanxia Zheng, Christian Rupprecht, Andrea Vedaldi, Shangzhe Wu Equal contribution Technical Report Project Page / Paper / GitHub TLDR: Articraft reduces articulated 3D asset generation to writing a program that builds the asset, and uses an LLM agent with a domain-specific SDK and validation harness to write those programs automatically. It yields Articraft-10K, a curated dataset of over 10K articulated assets across 245 categories, useful for training articulation models and for robotics simulation and VR.
	SpaceTimePilot: Generative Rendering of Dynamic Scenes Across Space and Time Zhening Huang, Hyeonho Jeong, Xuelin Chen, Yulia Gryaditskaya, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Joan Lasenby, Chun-Hao Huang CVPR 2026 🚀 Cam×Time Dataset is outNEW Project Page / Paper / Cam×Time Dataset / Video / GitHub TLDR: SpaceTimePilot disentangles space and time in a video diffusion model for controllable generative rendering. Given a single input video of a dynamic scene, it steers both the camera viewpoint and the temporal motion within the scene, enabling free exploration across the 4D space–time domain.
	LiteReality: Graphics-Ready 3D Scene Reconstruction from RGB-D Scans Zhening Huang, Xiaoyang Wu, Fangcheng Zhong, Hengshuang Zhao, Matthias Nießner, Joan Lasenby NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Spotlight at the 2nd Workshop on 3D-LLM/VLA, CVPR 2026 Project Page / Paper / Video / GitHub TLDR: LiteReality is an automatic pipeline that converts RGB-D scans of indoor environments into graphics-ready scenes with high-quality meshes, PBR materials, and articulated objects ready for rendering and physics-based interactions.
	OpenIns3D: Snap and Lookup for 3D Open-vocabulary Instance Segmentation Zhening Huang, Xiaoyang Wu, Xi Chen, Hengshuang Zhao, Lei Zhu, Joan Lasenby ECCV 2024 Best Paper Award at the BMVA Symposium on Multimodal Learning 2024 Project Page / Paper / Video / GitHub TLDR: OpenIns3D proposes a "mask-snap-lookup" scheme to achieve 2D-input-free 3D open-world scene understanding, which attains SOTA performance across datasets, even with fewer input prerequisites.

Services

Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, and 3DV.

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website