Zhenyuan Chen | Zhejiang University, School of Earth Science

About Me

I completed my undergraduate studies at Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, and am currently a third-year master’s student at the same institution, under the supervision of Prof. Feng Zhang.

Research Interests

My research interests include the application of multimodal large language models and diffusion models in remote sensing.

Bilibili

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News

[Feb. 2026] 🎉 Our paper “Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors?” has been accepted by CVPR 2026 main conference!
[Feb. 2026] 📝 Our blog post “From U-Nets to DiTs: The Architectural Evolution of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models (2021–2025)” (Z Chen, Z Zhang, F Zhang) has been accepted to the Blogpost Track at ICLR 2026.
[Jan. 2026] 📄 One paper submitted to SIGGRAPH 2026 and one to ICML 2026 Position Track; tech report coming soon.
[Sep. 2025] 🎉 We achieved a silver medal (29th, top 3%) in NeurIPS - Ariel Data Challenge 2025; technical report forthcoming. Repo: NeurIPS-Ariel-Data-Challenge-2025

Publications

CVPR 2026

Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors?

Zechuan Zhang, Zhenyuan Chen, Zongxin Yang, Yi Yang

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026

PDF BibTex

@inproceedings{zhang2026imagevideomodelsgood,
  title={Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors?}, 
  author={Zechuan Zhang and Zhenyuan Chen and Zongxin Yang and Yi Yang}, 
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2026},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19435}
}

Accepted to Main Conference

NeurIPS 2025

RSCC: A Large-Scale Remote Sensing Change Caption Dataset for Disaster Events

Zhenyuan Chen, Chenxi Wang, Ningyu Zhang, Feng Zhang

NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track

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@inproceedings{chenRSCCLargeScaleRemote2025a,
  title = {{{RSCC}}: {{A Large-Scale Remote Sensing Change Caption Dataset}} for {{Disaster Events}}},
  shorttitle = {{{RSCC}}},
  booktitle = {The {{Thirty-ninth Annual Conference}} on {{Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets}} and {{Benchmarks Track}}},
  author = {Chen, Zhenyuan and Wang, Chenxi and Zhang, Ningyu and Zhang, Feng},
  year = {2025},
  month = sep,
  urldate = {2025-09-29},
  url= {https://openreview.net/forum?id=yn2fJYBKEB}
}

Accepted as Poster

Services

Journal Reviewers

Teaching Assistant

These are short-term courses for 3rd-year college students at Zhejiang University, where I serve as a teaching assistant (TA).

ZJU-GISLAB-COURSE-2025-Data-Augmentation
Remote Sensing Data Augmentation for Building Damage Extraction
ZJU-GISLAB-COURSE-2024
A naive try for using diffusion model in remote sensing generation.