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20182026
most citedSurgical Skill Assessment on In-Vivo Clinical Data via the Clearness of Operating Field

17 citations · 40 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.CV2026

Agentic Video Understanding: A Survey

Xinyu Deng, Siwen Luo, Daochang Liu

As large language models (LLMs) become capable of processing increasingly diverse modalities and longer temporal contexts, an emerging line of work is moving beyond fixed video-lan…

cs.CV2026

WAVE: Reversing the Guidance Hierarchy for Coarse-to-Fine Guided Depth Super-Resolution

Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian

Guided depth super-resolution (GDSR) typically extracts RGB guidance features through convolutional hierarchies, inheriting their fine-to-coarse bias. Thus, low-level spatial cues…

cs.RO2026

StellaVLA: In-Context Structured Demonstration for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Models

Siyu Xu, Yunke Wang, Zijian Wang +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can follow instructions and manipulate objects, but their performance often collapses out of distribution (OOD), when the scene, viewpoint, or o…

cs.AI2026

Locating Failure in Multi-Page Visually Rich Document Understanding Systems: An Empirical Attribution

Lewei Xu, Yihao Ding, Zihan Xu +5

Multi-page visually rich document understanding (MP-VRDU) systems can fail when evidence is not faithfully represented, not selected, or not used correctly, yet final accuracy alon…

cs.CV2026

Multi-scale Coarse-to-fine Modeling for Test-time Human Motion Control

Nhat Le, Daochang Liu, Anh Nguyen +1

We present MSCoT, a multi-scale, coarse-to-fine model for test-time human motion synthesis and control. Unlike recent approaches that rely on multiple iterative denoising/token-pre…

eess.IV2026

NAIMA: Semantics Aware RGB Guided Depth Super-Resolution

Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian

Guided depth super-resolution (GDSR) is a multi-modal approach for depth map super-resolution that relies on a low-resolution depth map and a high-resolution RGB image to restore f…

cs.CV2026

Draft-and-Target Sampling for Video Generation Policy

Qikang Zhang, Yingjie Lei, Wei Liu +1

Video generation models have been used as a robot policy to predict the future states of executing a task conditioned on task description and observation. Previous works ignore the…

cs.CV2026

Implicit Neural Representation-Based Continuous Single Image Super-Resolution: An Empirical Benchmark

Tayyab Nasir, Daochang Liu, Ajmal Mian

Implicit neural representation (INR) has become the standard approach for arbitrary-scale image super-resolution (ASSR). However, no systematic empirical study has examined the eff…

q-bio.NC2025

Rest2Visual: Predicting Visually Evoked fMRI from Resting-State Scans

Chuyang Zhou, Ziao Ji, Daochang Liu +3

Understanding how spontaneous brain activity relates to stimulus-driven neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While task-based functional magnetic…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Physical Plausibility in Video Generation by Reasoning the Implausibility

Yutong Hao, Chen Chen, Ajmal Saeed Mian +2

Diffusion models can generate realistic videos, but existing methods rely on implicitly learning physical reasoning from large-scale text-video datasets, which is costly, difficult…

cs.CV2025

Rethinking Visual Autoregressive Sampling with Information-Grounding Guidance

Ky Dan Nguyen, Hoang Lam Tran, Anh-Dung Dinh +4

Autoregressive (AR) models based on next-scale prediction have emerged as a powerful tool for image generation, but they face a critical weakness: information inconsistencies betwe…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Privacy-Utility Trade-offs to Mitigate Memorization in Diffusion Models

Chen Chen, Daochang Liu, Mubarak Shah +1

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in creating images highly aligned with user prompts, yet their proclivity for memorizing training set image…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Generative Physical AI in Vision: A Survey

Daochang Liu, Junyu Zhang, Anh-Dung Dinh +5

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly advanced the field of computer vision by enabling machines to create and interpret visual data with unprecedented sophistication…

cs.CV2024

Investigating Memorization in Video Diffusion Models

Chen Chen, Enhuai Liu, Daochang Liu +2

Diffusion models, widely used for image and video generation, face a significant limitation: the risk of memorizing and reproducing training data during inference, potentially gene…

cs.CV2024

Exploring Local Memorization in Diffusion Models via Bright Ending Attention

Chen Chen, Daochang Liu, Mubarak Shah +1

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved unprecedented proficiency in generating realistic images. However, their inherent tendency to memorize and replicate training data duri…

cs.CV2024

Compress Guidance in Conditional Diffusion Sampling

Anh-Dung Dinh, Daochang Liu, Chang Xu

We found that enforcing guidance throughout the sampling process is often counterproductive due to the model-fitting issue, where samples are 'tuned' to match the classifier's para…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Surgical Triplet Recognition via Diffusion Model

Daochang Liu, Axel Hu, Mubarak Shah +1

Surgical triplet recognition is an essential building block to enable next-generation context-aware operating rooms. The goal is to identify the combinations of instruments, verbs,…

cs.CV2024

Towards Memorization-Free Diffusion Models

Chen Chen, Daochang Liu, Chang Xu

Pretrained diffusion models and their outputs are widely accessible due to their exceptional capacity for synthesizing high-quality images and their open-source nature. The users,…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

CollagePrompt: A Benchmark for Budget-Friendly Visual Recognition with GPT-4V

Siyu Xu, Yunke Wang, Daochang Liu +2

Recent advancements in generative AI have suggested that by taking visual prompts, GPT-4V can demonstrate significant proficiency in visual recognition tasks. Despite its impressiv…

cs.CV2023

Efficient Transfer Learning in Diffusion Models via Adversarial Noise

Xiyu Wang, Baijiong Lin, Daochang Liu +1

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated substantial promise in image generation tasks but heavily rely on the availability of large amounts of training data. Previo…

cs.CV2023

Boosting Diffusion Models with an Adaptive Momentum Sampler

Xiyu Wang, Anh-Dung Dinh, Daochang Liu +1

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to generate high-quality images without the need for delicate adversarial training. However, the current sampling process in D…

cs.CV2023

Two-in-one Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Facial Forgery Detection

Chuyang Zhou, Jiajun Huang, Daochang Liu +4

Facial forgery detection is a crucial but extremely challenging topic, with the fast development of forgery techniques making the synthetic artefact highly indistinguishable. Prior…

cs.LG2023

Calibrating a Deep Neural Network with Its Predecessors

Linwei Tao, Minjing Dong, Daochang Liu +2

Confidence calibration - the process to calibrate the output probability distribution of neural networks - is essential for safety-critical applications of such networks. Recent wo…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Beyond Pretrained Features: Noisy Image Modeling Provides Adversarial Defense

Zunzhi You, Daochang Liu, Bohyung Han +1

Recent advancements in masked image modeling (MIM) have made it a prevailing framework for self-supervised visual representation learning. The MIM pretrained models, like most deep…