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Zhongang Cai   蔡中昂


Hi there! I’m a Staff Research Scientist at SenseTime Research and a core contributor to SenseNova-U1, working with Dr. Lei Yang. I believe visual modalities are the next intelligence substrate, and my research currently focuses on visual reasoning, for which we discovered Chain-of-Steps and built VBVR. I also lead the development of SenseNova-SI and EASI, advancing both scalable training and holistic evaluation for spatial intelligence. I received my Ph.D. from MMLab@NTU, advised by Prof. Ziwei Liu and Prof. Chen Change Loy, where I spent wonderful years exploring virtual humans.

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[2026-08] Release of VBVR-Pro, a scalable and verifiable suite for native visual reasoning.

[2026-07] Release of SenseNova-Vision: Vision as unified multimodal generation.

[2026-06] Demystifying Video Reasoning has been accepted to ECCV 2026.

[2026-06] EgoLife won the Distinguished Paper Award at the EgoVis Workshop, CVPR 2026.

[2026-05] Release of SenseNova-U1, a production-level unified multimodal model built upon NEO-Unify.

[2026-05] Release of NEO-Unify, an encoder-free unified multimodal model.

[2026-05] A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite (VBVR) has been accepted to ICML 2026.

[2026-04] PointHPS has been accepted to IJCV 2026.

[2026-03] Release of Demystifying Video Reasoning, where we discover Chain-of-Steps!

[2026-02] Release of A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite (VBVR).

[2026-02] SenseNova-SI, ConsistCompose, and VLM-Guided HMR have been accepted to CVPR 2026.

[2026-01] ViMoGen has been accepted to ICLR 2026.

[2025-12] Invited talk on SenseNova-SI (slides and recording) at Plutons.

[2025-12] Invited talk on Embodied Intelligence (slides) at TriFusion Workshop.

[2025-11] Release of SenseNova-SI: Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models.

[2025-10] Release of the source code of DLP3D. Try it now at dlp3d.ai !

[2025-10] Digital Life Project 2 (DLP3D) has been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 (Real-Time Live!).

[2025-10] SMPLest-X has been accepted to TPAMI 2025.

[2025-09] PoseFuse3D-KI has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

[2025-08] Release of EASI: Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs on Spatial Intelligence.

My Three Favorite Works [Full List]



VBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning

Junxiang Xu*, Ruisi Wang*, Fanyi Pu*, Maijunxian Wang*, Ran Ji*, Tongxi Zhou*, Chenyang Gu, Jing Zuo, Hongcan Xiao, Yimeng Geng, Wanqi Yin, Wei Chen, Oscar Qian, Zhengan Yan, Ziqi Huang, Haiwen Diao, Liang Pan, Bo Li, Xiangyu Fan, Dezhi Luo, Fengyuan Yu, Zehong Zhao, Qingying Gao, Tinghui Zhu, Yilan Zhang, Jingqi Tong, Pinyuan Feng, Zhengze Jiang, Letian Wang, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Jieneng Chen, Sonia Joseph, Constantin Venhoff, Saman Motamed, Mengyue Yang, Chandra Sripada, Alan Yuille, Philip Torr, Lvmin Zhang, Vikash Kumar, Daniel Khashabi, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Raphaël Millière, Vincent C. Müller, Anyi Rao, Quan Wang, Ziwei Liu, Dahua Lin, Lei Yang, Hokin Deng✉, Zhongang Cai✉.
Technical Report, 2026
(Hugging Face #1 Paper of the Day, 27 August 2026)

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Demystifying Video Reasoning

Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai✉, Fanyi Pu, Junxiang Xu, Wanqi Yin, Maijunxian Wang, Ran Ji, Chenyang Gu, Bo Li, Ziqi Huang, Hokin Deng, Dahua Lin, Ziwei Liu, Lei Yang.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
(Hugging Face #1 Paper of the Day, 18 March 2026)

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Scaling Spatial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models

Zhongang Cai*, Ruisi Wang*, Chenyang Gu*, Fanyi Pu*, Junxiang Xu*, Yubo Wang*, Wanqi Yin*, Zhitao Yang*, Chen Wei*, Qingping Sun*, Tongxi Zhou*, Jiaqi Li*, Hui En Pang*, Oscar Qian*, Yukun Wei, Zhiqian Lin, Xuanke Shi, Kewang Deng, Xiaoyang Han, Zukai Chen, Xiangyu Fan, Hanming Deng, Lewei Lu, Liang Pan, Bo Li, Ziwei Liu✉, Quan Wang✉, Dahua Lin✉, Lei Yang*✉.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

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