Zisen Shao

Zisen Shao 邵子森

I am a second-year master's student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I conducted research under the guidance of Prof. Ruohan Gao, and collaborated with Prof. Dinesh Manocha.

Previously, I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I worked with Prof. Josiah Hanna on Robot Vision at RoboCup.

I'm interested in computer vision and computer graphics. My research focuses on physics-informed models for multisensory digital twins. My ultimate goal is to build an interactive digital replica of real world that engages the full range of human senses.

Aurora over Lake Mendota

Publications

	Objects as Audio-Visual Modal Sound Fields Zisen Shao^, Zihao Wei^, Derong Jin, and Ruohan Gao European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026 project page arXiv code video poster A physics-based 3D audio-visual object representation reconstructed from multi-view images and few-shot impact sound recordings.
	FreeFix: Boosting 3D Gaussian Splatting via Fine-Tuning-Free Diffusion Models Hongyu Zhou, Zisen Shao, Sheng Miao, Pan Wang, Dongfeng Bai, Bingbing Liu, Yiyi Liao International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2026 project page arXiv code video A fine-tuning-free approach designed to eliminate artifacts and boost the rendering quality of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in extrapolated views
	WeRef: An Open-source and Extensible Dataset for Referee Gesture Recognition in RoboCup Zisen Shao, Josiah P. Hanna RoboCup-2025: Robot Soccer World Cup XXVIII, 2025 (Oral Presentation) code WeRef is an open-source synthetic data generation pipeline for RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL) referee gestures recognition.
	Reinforcement Learning Within the Classical Robotics Stack: A Case Study in Robot Soccer Adam Labiosa, Zhihan Wang, Siddhant Agarwal, William Cong, Geethika Hemkumar, Abhinav Narayan Harish, Benjamin Hong, Josh Kelle, Chen Li, Yuhao Li, Zisen Shao, Peter Stone, Josiah P. Hanna IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 (Champion of RoboCup SPL Challenge Shield Division 2024, Best RoboCup-Themed Paper Award @ Roboletics 2.0) arXiv code media A novel architecture integrating RL within a classical robotics stack, while employing a multi-fidelity sim2real approach and decomposing behavior into learned sub-behaviors with heuristic selection.

Teaching

CS 300 Programming II (Data Structure Series), University of Wisconsin–Madison Spring 2024

CS 400 Programming III (Data Structure Series), University of Wisconsin–Madison Summer 2024

CS 540 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Wisconsin–Madison Fall 2024, Spring 2025

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