๐Ÿ‘‹About Me

I am Zhiyu Zhou (ๅ‘จๅฟ—ๅฎ‡ in Chinese), a senior undergraduate student in Software Engineering at Jilin University, advised by Assoc. Prof. Hongxia Xie.

My current research focuses on multimodal large language models (MLLMs), embodied AI, and computer vision. I am particularly interested in the synergy among perception, understanding, and action, with the goal of building intelligent systems that can interact more naturally with the physical world and better align with human-like cognitive processes.

My long-term goal is to advance artificial intelligence from understanding toward perception and action in the real world.

Email: zhouzy1622@mails.jlu.edu.cn

๐Ÿ”ฅNews

  • 2026.02: Our work MindPower was accepted to CVPR 2026.

๐Ÿ“Publications

PinpointQA
PinpointQA project preview

PinpointQA: A Dataset and Benchmark for Small Object-Centric Spatial Understanding in Indoor Videos

Zhiyu Zhou, Peilin Liu, Ruoxuan Zhang, Luyang Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Hongxia Xie, Wen-Huang Cheng

PinpointQA focuses on small object-centric spatial understanding in indoor videos, providing a dataset and benchmark for evaluating fine-grained spatial perception and reasoning.

CVPR 2026
MindPower project preview

MindPower: Enabling Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in VLM-based Embodied Agents

Ruoxuan Zhang, Qiyun Zheng, Zhiyu Zhou, Ziqi Liao, Siyu Wu, Jian-Yu Jiang-Lin, Bin Wen, Hongxia Xie, Jianlong Fu, Wen-Huang Cheng

CVPR 2026. MindPower explores Theory-of-Mind reasoning in vision-language-model-based embodied agents, aiming to improve how agents infer intentions, beliefs, and goals during embodied interaction.

๐ŸŽ“Education

Jilin University Sept. 2022 - Jun. 2026
Expected

B.Eng. in Software Engineering

Senior undergraduate student, School of Software, Jilin University.

๐ŸงชExperience

Research Assistant 2025 - Present

Affective Vision Computing (AVC) Lab, Jilin University

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Hongxia Xie

๐Ÿ†Honors and Awards

Undergraduate Scholarship 2022 - 2025

Jilin University

Awarded during undergraduate study.