Biography

I am Pan-zhong Lu, and I am pursuing a suitable PHD position for 2025Spring/Fall. Now, I am a research assistant at Westlake University, my mentor is Prof. Yue Zhang. My research interests include Multimodal, LLM, Machine Learning, Robotics, Embodied AI, etc. I am open to any meaningful research topics during my doctoral studies. Before that, I did my master at Tianjin University (2020-2023), where I was advised by Asst. Prof. Meishan Zhang. I did my bachelor at Huazhong Agricultural University (2016-2020).

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Selected Publications

1. Image-of-Thought Prompting for Visual Reasoning Refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models.
   Qiji Zhou, Ruochen Zhou, Zike Hu, Panzhong Lu, Siyang Gao, Yue Zhang. arXiv preprints 2024

2. Rethinking Unsupervised Outlier Detection via Multiple Thresholding.
   Zhonghang Liu, Panzhong Lu, Guoyang Xie, Zhichao Lu, Wen-Yan Lin. ECCV 2024

3. Extending Phrase Grounding with Pronouns in Visual Dialogues.
   Panzhong Lu, Xin Zhang, Meishan Zhang, Min Zhang. EMNLP 2022

4. An active gene annotation corpus and its application on anti-epilepsy drug discovery.
   Yuxing Wang, Kaiyin Zhou, Jin-Dong Kim, Kevin B Cohen, Mina Gachloo, Yuxin Ren, Shanghui Nie, Xuan Qin, Panzhong Lu, Jingbo Xia. BIBM 2019

Selected Projects

Customized Virtual Digital Human, 2023

Employed innovative Large Language Model, Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, and Talking Head Generation technologies to develop interactive, tailor-made virtual digital personas. [Demo]

Students Online Quiz System, 2023

Independently designed and implemented an Online Quiz System using Django, which has been deployed on a cloud server for teachers to conduct their classes and students to take tests. [Link]

Human-computer Interaction in Simulation Environment, 2022

Utilized UAV to capture images of simulation environment, then used image descriptions to direct the UAV's flight to a specific position. Implemented a pixel-based technique to determine distance by tracking image pixel changes. [Demo]

Visual Language Navigation in Real Environment, 2021

Explored visual language navigation for UAV in real environment using VLNCE model. Predicted user instructions and RGB/depth images transmitted to UAV via ROS for corresponding actions. [Code]

Patents

1. A Multi-Modal-Oriented Interactive Data Annotation Method and System.
   Meishan Zhang, Panzhong Lu (1st student), Yueheng Sun.
   China Patent Application CN202210478381.9, filed May 5, 2022, and issued September 13, 2022.

2. A Method and Device for Analyzing Human-Computer Interaction Instructions based on Multi-Modal Semantic Role Recognition.
   Meishan Zhang, Panzhong Lu (1st student), Zhichao Lin, Yueheng Sun.
   China Patent Application CN202210659318.5, filed June 13, 2022, and issued November 11, 2022.

Selected Awards

• 2023, Second Place of Faculty and Staff Men's 200m, The 2023 Westlake University Games.
• 2021, Merit Student, Tianjin University.
• 2020, Third Prize of Humor Recognition Evaluation Task, China Computational Linguistics Association.
• 2020, Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Huazhong Agricultural University.
• 2018, 2017 National Encouragement Scholarship.

Teaching Experience

• 2023 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Westlake University.