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Publications (166)

cs.CV2020

Progressively Guided Alternate Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

Shuhan Chen, Yun Fu

In this paper, we aim to develop an efficient and compact deep network for RGB-D salient object detection, where the depth image provides complementary information to boost perform…

cs.CV2023

Iterative Soft Shrinkage Learning for Efficient Image Super-Resolution

Jiamian Wang, Huan Wang, Yulun Zhang +2

Image super-resolution (SR) has witnessed extensive neural network designs from CNN to transformer architectures. However, prevailing SR models suffer from prohibitive memory footp…

cs.LG2022

Recent Advances on Neural Network Pruning at Initialization

Huan Wang, Can Qin, Yue Bai +2

Neural network pruning typically removes connections or neurons from a pretrained converged model; while a new pruning paradigm, pruning at initialization (PaI), attempts to prune…

cs.CV2025

D-CoDe: Scaling Image-Pretrained VLMs to Video via Dynamic Compression and Question Decomposition

Yiyang Huang, Yizhou Wang, Yun Fu

Video large language models (Vid-LLMs), which excel in diverse video-language tasks, can be effectively constructed by adapting image-pretrained vision-language models (VLMs). Howe…

cs.CL2026

NoisyCausal: A Benchmark for Evaluating Causal Reasoning Under Structured Noise

Zhi Xu, Yun Fu

Causal reasoning in natural language requires identifying relevant variables, understanding their interactions, and reasoning about effects and interventions, often under noisy or…

cs.CV2019

Joint Super-Resolution and Alignment of Tiny Faces

Yu Yin, Joseph P. Robinson, Yulun Zhang +1

Super-resolution (SR) and landmark localization of tiny faces are highly correlated tasks. On the one hand, landmark localization could obtain higher accuracy with faces of high-re…

cs.CV2019

Real-time Memory Efficient Large-pose Face Alignment via Deep Evolutionary Network

Bin Sun, Ming Shao, Siyu Xia +1

There is an urgent need to apply face alignment in a memory-efficient and real-time manner due to the recent explosion of face recognition applications. However, impact factors suc…

cs.CV2020

SuperFront: From Low-resolution to High-resolution Frontal Face Synthesis

Yu Yin, Joseph P. Robinson, Songyao Jiang +3

Advances in face rotation, along with other face-based generative tasks, are more frequent as we advance further in topics of deep learning. Even as impressive milestones are achie…

cs.LG2022

Dual Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

Yue Bai, Huan Wang, Zhiqiang Tao +2

Fully exploiting the learning capacity of neural networks requires overparameterized dense networks. On the other side, directly training sparse neural networks typically results i…

cs.AI2025

Representation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A Survey

Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Yi Xu +3

Foundation models learn highly transferable representations through large-scale pretraining on diverse data. An increasing body of research indicates that these representations exh…

cs.CV2021

RPCL: A Framework for Improving Cross-Domain Detection with Auxiliary Tasks

Kai Li, Curtis Wigington, Chris Tensmeyer +5

Cross-Domain Detection (XDD) aims to train an object detector using labeled image from a source domain but have good performance in the target domain with only unlabeled images. Ex…

cs.CV2025

Through the Theory of Mind's Eye: Reading Minds with Multimodal Video Large Language Models

Zhawnen Chen, Tianchun Wang, Yizhou Wang +4

Can large multimodal models have a human-like ability for emotional and social reasoning, and if so, how does it work? Recent research has discovered emergent theory-of-mind (ToM)…

cs.CV2020

Generative Partial Multi-View Clustering

Qianqian Wang, Zhengming Ding, Zhiqiang Tao +2

Nowadays, with the rapid development of data collection sources and feature extraction methods, multi-view data are getting easy to obtain and have received increasing research att…

cs.CV2022

Human Action Recognition and Prediction: A Survey

Yu Kong, Yun Fu

Derived from rapid advances in computer vision and machine learning, video analysis tasks have been moving from inferring the present state to predicting the future state. Vision-b…

cs.CV2020

Neural Sparse Representation for Image Restoration

Yuchen Fan, Jiahui Yu, Yiqun Mei +4

Inspired by the robustness and efficiency of sparse representation in sparse coding based image restoration models, we investigate the sparsity of neurons in deep networks. Our met…

cs.CL2026

CoT Referring: Improving Referring Expression Tasks with Grounded Reasoning

Qihua Dong, Luis Figueroa, Handong Zhao +5

Referring Expression Comprehension and Segmentation are critical tasks for assessing the integration of language understanding and image comprehension, serving as benchmarks for Mu…

cs.RO2025

A Trajectory Generator for High-Density Traffic and Diverse Agent-Interaction Scenarios

Ruining Yang, Yi Xu, Yixiao Chen +2

Accurate trajectory prediction is fundamental to autonomous driving, as it underpins safe motion planning and collision avoidance in complex environments. However, existing benchma…

cs.CV2026

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He +5

Recent progress in latent world models (e.g., V-JEPA2) has shown promising capability in forecasting future world states from video observations. Nevertheless, dense prediction fro…

cs.LG2022

Parameter-Efficient Masking Networks

Yue Bai, Huan Wang, Xu Ma +3

A deeper network structure generally handles more complicated non-linearity and performs more competitively. Nowadays, advanced network designs often contain a large number of repe…

eess.IV2026

CompSRT: Quantization and Pruning for Image Super Resolution Transformers

Dorsa Zeinali, Hailing Wang, Yitian Zhang +1

Model compression has become an important tool for making image super resolution models more efficient. However, the gap between the best compressed models and the full precision m…

cs.CV2022

Test-time Fourier Style Calibration for Domain Generalization

Xingchen Zhao, Chang Liu, Anthony Sicilia +2

The topic of generalizing machine learning models learned on a collection of source domains to unknown target domains is challenging. While many domain generalization (DG) methods…

eess.SP2018

Rayleigh fading suppression in one-dimension optical scatters

Shengtao Lin, Zinan Wang, Ji Xiong +6

Highly coherent wave is favorable for applications in which phase retrieval is necessary, yet a high coherent wave is prone to encounter Rayleigh fading phenomenon as it passes thr…

cs.CV2020

Adversarial Feature Hallucination Networks for Few-Shot Learning

Kai Li, Yulun Zhang, Kunpeng Li +1

The recent flourish of deep learning in various tasks is largely accredited to the rich and accessible labeled data. Nonetheless, massive supervision remains a luxury for many real…

cs.CL2025

Trajectory Prediction Meets Large Language Models: A Survey

Yi Xu, Ruining Yang, Yitian Zhang +5

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in integrating language-driven techniques into trajectory prediction. By leveraging their semantic and…

eess.SY2018

Convergence Analysis and Design of Multi-block ADMM via Switched Control Theory

Jun Li, Hongfu Liu, Yue Wu +1

We consider three challenges in multi-block Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM): building convergence conditions for ADMM with any block (variable) sequence, finding…

cs.CV2023

Balancing Biases and Preserving Privacy on Balanced Faces in the Wild

Joseph P Robinson, Can Qin, Yann Henon +2

There are demographic biases present in current facial recognition (FR) models. To measure these biases across different ethnic and gender subgroups, we introduce our Balanced Face…

cs.CV2017

Families in the Wild (FIW): Large-Scale Kinship Image Database and Benchmarks

Joseph P. Robinson, Ming Shao, Yue Wu +1

We present the largest kinship recognition dataset to date, Families in the Wild (FIW). Motivated by the lack of a single, unified dataset for kinship recognition, we aim to provid…

cs.CE2022

Self-Directed Online Machine Learning for Topology Optimization

Changyu Deng, Yizhou Wang, Can Qin +2

Topology optimization by optimally distributing materials in a given domain requires non-gradient optimizers to solve highly complicated problems. However, with hundreds of design…

cs.AI2024

SoupLM: Model Integration in Large Language and Multi-Modal Models

Yue Bai, Zichen Zhang, Jiasen Lu +1

Training large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs necessitates significant computing resources, and existing publicly available LLMs are typically pre-trained on diverse, p…

cs.CV2023

Uncovering the Missing Pattern: Unified Framework Towards Trajectory Imputation and Prediction

Yi Xu, Armin Bazarjani, Hyung-gun Chi +2

Trajectory prediction is a crucial undertaking in understanding entity movement or human behavior from observed sequences. However, current methods often assume that the observed s…

cs.CV2019

Visual Semantic Reasoning for Image-Text Matching

Kunpeng Li, Yulun Zhang, Kai Li +2

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global se…

cs.CV2021

Zooming SlowMo: An Efficient One-Stage Framework for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution

Xiaoyu Xiang, Yapeng Tian, Yulun Zhang +3

In this paper, we address the space-time video super-resolution, which aims at generating a high-resolution (HR) slow-motion video from a low-resolution (LR) and low frame rate (LF…

cs.CV2019

LPRNet: Lightweight Deep Network by Low-rank Pointwise Residual Convolution

Bin Sun, Jun Li, Ming Shao +1

Deep learning has become popular in recent years primarily due to the powerful computing device such as GPUs. However, deploying these deep models to end-user devices, smart phones…

cs.CV2026

Out-of-Sight Embodied Agents: Multimodal Tracking, Sensor Fusion, and Trajectory Forecasting

Haichao Zhang, Yi Xu, Yun Fu

Trajectory prediction is a fundamental problem in computer vision, vision-language-action models, world models, and autonomous systems, with broad impact on autonomous driving, rob…

cs.CV2024

Don't Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation

Yitian Zhang, Yue Bai, Huan Wang +2

Current training pipelines in object recognition neglect Hue Jittering when doing data augmentation as it not only brings appearance changes that are detrimental to classification,…

cs.CV2023

GlueGen: Plug and Play Multi-modal Encoders for X-to-image Generation

Can Qin, Ning Yu, Chen Xing +6

Text-to-image (T2I) models based on diffusion processes have achieved remarkable success in controllable image generation using user-provided captions. However, the tight coupling…

cs.CV2024

Slicing Vision Transformer for Flexible Inference

Yitian Zhang, Huseyin Coskun, Xu Ma +6

Vision Transformers (ViT) is known for its scalability. In this work, we target to scale down a ViT to fit in an environment with dynamic-changing resource constraints. We observe…

cs.CV2020

Collaborative Attention Mechanism for Multi-View Action Recognition

Yue Bai, Zhiqiang Tao, Lichen Wang +3

Multi-view action recognition (MVAR) leverages complementary temporal information from different views to improve the learning performance. Obtaining informative view-specific repr…

cs.CV2019

Residual Non-local Attention Networks for Image Restoration

Yulun Zhang, Kunpeng Li, Kai Li +2

In this paper, we propose a residual non-local attention network for high-quality image restoration. Without considering the uneven distribution of information in the corrupted ima…

cs.CV2023

Image as Set of Points

Xu Ma, Yuqian Zhou, Huan Wang +4

What is an image and how to extract latent features? Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) consider an image as organized pixels in a rectangular shape and extract features via convolu…

cs.CL2021

Exploiting BERT For Multimodal Target Sentiment Classification Through Input Space Translation

Zaid Khan, Yun Fu

Multimodal target/aspect sentiment classification combines multimodal sentiment analysis and aspect/target sentiment classification. The goal of the task is to combine vision and l…

cs.CV2023

Real-Time Neural Light Field on Mobile Devices

Junli Cao, Huan Wang, Pavlo Chemerys +6

Recent efforts in Neural Rendering Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive results on novel view synthesis by utilizing implicit neural representation to represent 3D scenes. Due to th…

cs.CV2025

EmoGene: Audio-Driven Emotional 3D Talking-Head Generation

Wenqing Wang, Yun Fu

Audio-driven talking-head generation is a crucial and useful technology for virtual human interaction and film-making. While recent advances have focused on improving image fidelit…

cs.CV2023

Layout Sequence Prediction From Noisy Mobile Modality

Haichao Zhang, Yi Xu, Hongsheng Lu +2

Trajectory prediction plays a vital role in understanding pedestrian movement for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Current trajectory prediction models depend…

cs.HC2021

VINS: Visual Search for Mobile User Interface Design

Sara Bunian, Kai Li, Chaima Jemmali +3

Searching for relative mobile user interface (UI) design examples can aid interface designers in gaining inspiration and comparing design alternatives. However, finding such design…

cs.CV2019

Rethinking Zero-Shot Learning: A Conditional Visual Classification Perspective

Kai Li, Martin Renqiang Min, Yun Fu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a seman…

cs.CV2021

Spatially Constrained GAN for Face and Fashion Synthesis

Songyao Jiang, Hongfu Liu, Yue Wu +1

Image generation has raised tremendous attention in both academic and industrial areas, especially for the conditional and target-oriented image generation, such as criminal portra…

cs.CV2021

Survey on the Analysis and Modeling of Visual Kinship: A Decade in the Making

Joseph P Robinson, Ming Shao, Yun Fu

Kinship recognition is a challenging problem with many practical applications. With much progress and milestones having been reached after ten years - we are now able to survey the…

cs.CL2026

Boosting Large Language Models with Mask Fine-Tuning

Mingyuan Zhang, Yue Bai, Huan Wang +4

The large language model (LLM) is typically integrated into the mainstream optimization protocol. No work has questioned whether maintaining the model integrity is \textit{indispen…

cs.CV2023

What Makes a "Good" Data Augmentation in Knowledge Distillation -- A Statistical Perspective

Huan Wang, Suhas Lohit, Mike Jones +1

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a general neural network training approach that uses a teacher model to guide the student model. Existing works mainly study KD from the network outp…

cs.CV2021

One Label, One Billion Faces: Usage and Consistency of Racial Categories in Computer Vision

Zaid Khan, Yun Fu

Computer vision is widely deployed, has highly visible, society altering applications, and documented problems with bias and representation. Datasets are critical for benchmarking…

cs.LG2020

Correlative Channel-Aware Fusion for Multi-View Time Series Classification

Yue Bai, Lichen Wang, Zhiqiang Tao +2

Multi-view time series classification (MVTSC) aims to improve the performance by fusing the distinctive temporal information from multiple views. Existing methods mainly focus on f…

cs.CV2022

Single-Stream Multi-Level Alignment for Vision-Language Pretraining

Zaid Khan, Vijay Kumar BG, Xiang Yu +3

Self-supervised vision-language pretraining from pure images and text with a contrastive loss is effective, but ignores fine-grained alignment due to a dual-stream architecture tha…

eess.IV2022

A Simple and Efficient Reconstruction Backbone for Snapshot Compressive Imaging

Jiamian Wang, Yulun Zhang, Xin Yuan +2

The emerging technology of snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) enables capturing high dimensional (HD) data in an efficient way. It is generally implemented by two components: an op…

cs.CV2018

Visual Font Pairing

Shuhui Jiang, Zhaowen Wang, Aaron Hertzmann +2

This paper introduces the problem of automatic font pairing. Font pairing is an important design task that is difficult for novices. Given a font selection for one part of a docume…

cs.CV2025

Token-Shuffle: Towards High-Resolution Image Generation with Autoregressive Models

Xu Ma, Peize Sun, Haoyu Ma +22

Autoregressive (AR) models, long dominant in language generation, are increasingly applied to image synthesis but are often considered less competitive than Diffusion-based models.…

cs.CV2019

Laplace Landmark Localization

Joseph P Robinson, Yuncheng Li, Ning Zhang +2

Landmark localization in images and videos is a classic problem solved in various ways. Nowadays, with deep networks prevailing throughout machine learning, there are revamped inte…

cs.CV2025

Arbitrary-Scale 3D Gaussian Super-Resolution

Huimin Zeng, Yue Bai, Yun Fu

Existing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) super-resolution methods typically perform high-resolution (HR) rendering of fixed scale factors, making them impractical for resource-limited…

cs.CV2025

Accessing Vision Foundation Models via ImageNet-1K

Yitian Zhang, Xu Ma, Yue Bai +2

Vision foundation models are renowned for the generalization ability due to massive training data. Nevertheless, they demand tremendous training resources, and the training data is…

cs.CV2026

GmNet: Revisiting Gating Mechanisms From A Frequency View

Yifan Wang, Xu Ma, Yitian Zhang +5

Gating mechanisms have emerged as an effective strategy integrated into model designs beyond recurrent neural networks for addressing long-range dependency problems. In a broad und…

cs.CV2024

Adapting to Length Shift: FlexiLength Network for Trajectory Prediction

Yi Xu, Yun Fu

Trajectory prediction plays an important role in various applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, and scene understanding. Existing approaches mainly focus on developi…

cs.CV2019

Large Scale Incremental Learning

Yue Wu, Yinpeng Chen, Lijuan Wang +4

Modern machine learning suffers from catastrophic forgetting when learning new classes incrementally. The performance dramatically degrades due to the missing data of old classes.…

cs.CV2018

Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Residual Channel Attention Networks

Yulun Zhang, Kunpeng Li, Kai Li +3

Convolutional neural network (CNN) depth is of crucial importance for image super-resolution (SR). However, we observe that deeper networks for image SR are more difficult to train…

cs.LG2019

What Will Your Child Look Like? DNA-Net: Age and Gender Aware Kin Face Synthesizer

Pengyu Gao, Siyu Xia, Joseph Robinson +4

Visual kinship recognition aims to identify blood relatives from facial images. Its practical application-- like in law-enforcement, video surveillance, automatic family album mana…

cs.CV2023

Why is the State of Neural Network Pruning so Confusing? On the Fairness, Comparison Setup, and Trainability in Network Pruning

Huan Wang, Can Qin, Yue Bai +1

The state of neural network pruning has been noticed to be unclear and even confusing for a while, largely due to "a lack of standardized benchmarks and metrics" [3]. To standardiz…

cs.CV2022

A Close Look at Spatial Modeling: From Attention to Convolution

Xu Ma, Huan Wang, Can Qin +4

Vision Transformers have shown great promise recently for many vision tasks due to the insightful architecture design and attention mechanism. By revisiting the self-attention resp…

cs.LG2023

Trainability Preserving Neural Pruning

Huan Wang, Yun Fu

Many recent works have shown trainability plays a central role in neural network pruning -- unattended broken trainability can lead to severe under-performance and unintentionally…

cs.LG2025

MTS-DMAE: Dual-Masked Autoencoder for Unsupervised Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning

Yi Xu, Yitian Zhang, Yun Fu

Unsupervised multivariate time series (MTS) representation learning aims to extract compact and informative representations from raw sequences without relying on labels, enabling e…

cs.CV2023

BEV-DG: Cross-Modal Learning under Bird's-Eye View for Domain Generalization of 3D Semantic Segmentation

Miaoyu Li, Yachao Zhang, Xu MA +2

Cross-modal Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to exploit the complementarity of 2D-3D data to overcome the lack of annotation in a new domain. However, UDA methods rely on…

cs.CV2018

TDAN: Temporally Deformable Alignment Network for Video Super-Resolution

Yapeng Tian, Yulun Zhang, Yun Fu +1

Video super-resolution (VSR) aims to restore a photo-realistic high-resolution (HR) video frame from both its corresponding low-resolution (LR) frame (reference frame) and multiple…

cs.CV2019

PointDAN: A Multi-Scale 3D Domain Adaption Network for Point Cloud Representation

Can Qin, Haoxuan You, Lichen Wang +2

Domain Adaptation (DA) approaches achieved significant improvements in a wide range of machine learning and computer vision tasks (i.e., classification, detection, and segmentation…

cs.CV2023

Q: How to Specialize Large Vision-Language Models to Data-Scarce VQA Tasks? A: Self-Train on Unlabeled Images!

Zaid Khan, Vijay Kumar BG, Samuel Schulter +3

Finetuning a large vision language model (VLM) on a target dataset after large scale pretraining is a dominant paradigm in visual question answering (VQA). Datasets for specialized…

cs.CV2025

RealTalk: Realistic Emotion-Aware Lifelike Talking-Head Synthesis

Wenqing Wang, Yun Fu

Emotion is a critical component of artificial social intelligence. However, while current methods excel in lip synchronization and image quality, they often fail to generate accura…

cs.LG2025

Unveiling the Unseen: A Comprehensive Survey on Explainable Anomaly Detection in Images and Videos

Yizhou Wang, Dongliang Guo, Sheng Li +2

Anomaly detection and localization in visual data, including images and videos, are crucial in machine learning and real-world applications. Despite rapid advancements in visual an…

cs.CV2020

EV-Action: Electromyography-Vision Multi-Modal Action Dataset

Lichen Wang, Bin Sun, Joseph Robinson +2

Multi-modal human action analysis is a critical and attractive research topic. However, the majority of the existing datasets only provide visual modalities (i.e., RGB, depth and s…

cs.LG2026

Den-TP: A Density-Balanced Data Curation and Evaluation Framework for Trajectory Prediction

Ruining Yang, Yi Xu, Yun Fu +1

Trajectory prediction in autonomous driving has traditionally been studied from a model-centric perspective. However, existing datasets exhibit a strong long-tail distribution in s…

cs.CV2019

Generative One-Shot Face Recognition

Zhengming Ding, Yandong Guo, Lei Zhang +1

One-shot face recognition measures the ability to identify persons with only seeing them at one glance, and is a hallmark of human visual intelligence. It is challenging for conven…

cs.CL2026

Demystifying When Pruning Works via Representation Hierarchies

Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Haichao Zhang +2

Network pruning, which removes less important parameters or architectures, is often expected to improve efficiency while preserving performance. However, this expectation does not…

cs.CV2026

Ref-Adv: Exploring MLLM Visual Reasoning in Referring Expression Tasks

Qihua Dong, Kuo Yang, Lin Ju +6

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal…

cs.CV2022

Towards Layer-wise Image Vectorization

Xu Ma, Yuqian Zhou, Xingqian Xu +5

Image rasterization is a mature technique in computer graphics, while image vectorization, the reverse path of rasterization, remains a major challenge. Recent advanced deep learni…

cs.CV2026

Restore-R1: Efficient Image Restoration Agents via Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal LLM Perceptual Feedback

Jianglin Lu, Yuanwei Wu, Ziyi Zhao +4

Complex image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from inputs affected by multiple degradations such as blur, noise, rain, and compression artifacts. Recent restoration…

cs.CV2026

Fine-T2I: An Open, Large-Scale, and Diverse Dataset for High-Quality T2I Fine-Tuning

Xu Ma, Yitian Zhang, Qihua Dong +1

High-quality and open datasets remain a major bottleneck for text-to-image (T2I) fine-tuning. Despite rapid progress in model architectures and training pipelines, most publicly av…

cs.CV2022

R2L: Distilling Neural Radiance Field to Neural Light Field for Efficient Novel View Synthesis

Huan Wang, Jian Ren, Zeng Huang +4

Recent research explosion on Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) shows the encouraging potential to represent complex scenes with neural networks. One major drawback of NeRF is its prohib…

cs.CV2018

Tell Me Where to Look: Guided Attention Inference Network

Kunpeng Li, Ziyan Wu, Kuan-Chuan Peng +2

Weakly supervised learning with only coarse labels can obtain visual explanations of deep neural network such as attention maps by back-propagating gradients. These attention maps…

cs.CV2023

Exploring Question Decomposition for Zero-Shot VQA

Zaid Khan, Vijay Kumar BG, Samuel Schulter +2

Visual question answering (VQA) has traditionally been treated as a single-step task where each question receives the same amount of effort, unlike natural human question-answering…

cs.CV2023

Contrastive Alignment of Vision to Language Through Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning

Zaid Khan, Yun Fu

Contrastive vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) are typically created by updating all the parameters of a vision model and language model through contrastive training. Can such mode…

cs.LG2022

Rethinking Adam: A Twofold Exponential Moving Average Approach

Yizhou Wang, Yue Kang, Can Qin +4

Adaptive gradient methods, e.g. \textsc{Adam}, have achieved tremendous success in machine learning. Scaling the learning rate element-wisely by a certain form of second moment est…

cs.CV2021

The 5th Recognizing Families in the Wild Data Challenge: Predicting Kinship from Faces

Joseph P. Robinson, Can Qin, Ming Shao +3

Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW), held as a data challenge in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), is a la…

cs.CV2020

HyperSTAR: Task-Aware Hyperparameters for Deep Networks

Gaurav Mittal, Chang Liu, Nikolaos Karianakis +3

While deep neural networks excel in solving visual recognition tasks, they require significant effort to find hyperparameters that make them work optimally. Hyperparameter Optimiza…

cs.CV2024

LightAvatar: Efficient Head Avatar as Dynamic Neural Light Field

Huan Wang, Feitong Tan, Ziqian Bai +9

Recent works have shown that neural radiance fields (NeRFs) on top of parametric models have reached SOTA quality to build photorealistic head avatars from a monocular video. Howev…

cs.CV2025

ExpertGen: Training-Free Expert Guidance for Controllable Text-to-Face Generation

Liang Shi, Yun Fu

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved text-to-face generation, but achieving fine-grained control over facial features remains a challenge. Existing metho…

cs.CV2020

Recognizing Families In the Wild: White Paper for the 4th Edition Data Challenge

Joseph P. Robinson, Yu Yin, Zaid Khan +7

Recognizing Families In the Wild (RFIW): an annual large-scale, multi-track automatic kinship recognition evaluation that supports various visual kin-based problems on scales much…

cs.CV2024

Efficient Modulation for Vision Networks

Xu Ma, Xiyang Dai, Jianwei Yang +4

In this work, we present efficient modulation, a novel design for efficient vision networks. We revisit the modulation mechanism, which operates input through convolutional context…

cs.CV2020

Face Recognition: Too Bias, or Not Too Bias?

Joseph P Robinson, Gennady Livitz, Yann Henon +3

We reveal critical insights into problems of bias in state-of-the-art facial recognition (FR) systems using a novel Balanced Faces In the Wild (BFW) dataset: data balanced for gend…

cs.LG2021

Dynamical Isometry: The Missing Ingredient for Neural Network Pruning

Huan Wang, Can Qin, Yue Bai +1

Several recent works [40, 24] observed an interesting phenomenon in neural network pruning: A larger finetuning learning rate can improve the final performance significantly. Unfor…

cs.CV2023

Making Reconstruction-based Method Great Again for Video Anomaly Detection

Yizhou Wang, Can Qin, Yue Bai +3

Anomaly detection in videos is a significant yet challenging problem. Previous approaches based on deep neural networks employ either reconstruction-based or prediction-based appro…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Fine-Tuning: Unlocking Hidden Capabilities in Vision-Language Models

Mingyuan Zhang, Yue Bai, Yifan Wang +2

Explorations in fine-tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) from Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT), have made impressive progress. However, m…

cs.CV2021

Contradictory Structure Learning for Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation

Can Qin, Lichen Wang, Qianqian Ma +3

Current adversarial adaptation methods attempt to align the cross-domain features, whereas two challenges remain unsolved: 1) the conditional distribution mismatch and 2) the bias…

cs.CV2026

Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Ruining Yang, Muxing Wang, Yixiao Chen +8

This survey reviews post‑training methods that refine end‑to‑end autonomous driving models beyond imitation, organizing existing work into four families based on the type of superv…

#end-to-end driving#post-training#imitation learning#policy refinement
cs.CV2023

Frame Flexible Network

Yitian Zhang, Yue Bai, Chang Liu +3

Existing video recognition algorithms always conduct different training pipelines for inputs with different frame numbers, which requires repetitive training operations and multipl…