Zhendong Li
Zhendong Li

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I am a PhD student in Computer Science at INSAIT (Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology, in partnership with ETH Zurich and EPFL) since July 2025, advised by Prof. Luc Van Gool and Prof. Jinjin Gu. My PhD is supported by the INSAIT PhD Fellowship.

My research focuses on multi-agent systems for visual media generation, editing, and understanding: agents that plan, call tools, and coordinate with each other to carry out complex creative tasks end to end, from turning a one-line idea into a narrated film (FrameWorkers) to turning a task description into an executable ComfyUI workflow (Knowledge-Centric Agents, ECCV 2026).

Before INSAIT, I completed both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM), graduating with high distinction (top 5%). My Master's thesis, supervised by Prof. Daniel Cremers and Dr. Yan Xia, studied cross-modal place recognition (UniLoc). My Bachelor's thesis, supervised by Prof. Alexander W. Koch and Dr. Xingchen Dong, improved the resolution of hyperspectral imaging with structured illumination. During my graduate studies I spent one year as an exchange student in Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and worked on learning-based shared control for teleoperation with Dr. Youssef Michel.

“Self‑Discipline and Social Commitment”
Graduation Cap Education

           
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* equal contribution   † corresponding author

Knowledge-Centric Agents demo
Knowledge-Centric Agents for Workflow Generation in ComfyUI
Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Ruibo Ming, He Zhang, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Jinjin Gu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
FrameWorkers
FrameWorkers: A Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for AI-Generated Video Production
Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Letian Shi, Deheng Zhang, Ruibo Ming, Mengshun Hu, Dannong Xu, Jian Wang, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Jinjin Gu
ECCV 2026 Demo Track; submitted to ICLR 2027
RA-L 2023
A Learning-Based Shared Control Approach for Contact Tasks
Youssef Michel, Zhendong Li, Dongheui Lee
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
UniLoc
UniLoc: Towards Universal Place Recognition Using Any Single Modality
Yan Xia*†, Zhendong Li*, Yun-Jin Li, Letian Shi, Hu Cao, João F. Henriques, Daniel Cremers
arXiv, 2024; under review at IEEE TPAMI
Kairos
Kairos: A Dataset for Fine-Grained Video-Language Modeling over Space, Time, and Dynamics
Ruibo Ming, Lei Sun, Deheng Zhang, He Zhang, Jialu Li, Jian Wang, Zhendong Li, Mengshun Hu, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Jinjin Gu
arXiv, 2026
ConeGaussian
ConeGaussian: Anti-Aliased Gaussian Ray-Tracing for Generic Central Cameras
Deheng Zhang*, Letian Shi*, Runyi Yang, Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Kanzhi Wu, Ajad Chhatkuli, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool
arXiv, 2026
VCIP 2024
Judder Modelling Framework with Perceptual Quality Score Prediction for HDR Videos
Hongjie You, Zhendong Li, Nicola Giuliani, Atanas Boev, Elena Alshina, Eckehard Steinbach
IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2024
VCIP 2023
Subjective Video Quality Assessment of Immersive HDR Content on Head-Mounted Displays
Hongjie You, Zhendong Li, Nicola Giuliani, Atanas Boev, Elena Alshina, Eckehard Steinbach
IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2023
SPIE 2020
Line-scan Hyperspectral Imaging Microscopy with Structured Illumination
Xingchen Dong, Zhendong Li, Jie Dong, Kun Wang, Michael H. Köhler, Martin Jakobi, Alexander W. Koch
Proc. SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020
ACS Photonics 2020
Line-scan Hyperspectral Imaging Microscopy with Linear Unmixing for Automated Two-Dimensional Crystals Identification
Xingchen Dong, Ali K. Yetisen, Heng Tian, İnci Güler, Andreas V. Stier, Zhendong Li, Michael H. Köhler, Jie Dong, Martin Jakobi, Jonathan J. Finley, Alexander W. Koch
ACS Photonics, 2020
Handshake Academic Service & Open Source

Trophy Honors & Awards

  • • INSAIT PhD Fellowship, fully funded doctoral fellowship at INSAIT, 2025
  • • Swiss European Mobility Programme Scholarship, two-semester EPFL exchange, 2021