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most citedLearning Expressionlets via Universal Manifold Model for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

56 citations · 230 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2026

GEAR: GEometry-motion Alternating Refinement for Articulated Object Modeling with Gaussian Splatting

Jialin Li, Bin Fu, Ruiping Wang +1

High-fidelity interactive digital assets are essential for embodied intelligence and robotic interaction, yet articulated objects remain challenging to reconstruct due to their com…

cs.RO2026

RoboPCA: Pose-centered Affordance Learning from Human Demonstrations for Robot Manipulation

Zhanqi Xiao, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen

Understanding spatial affordances -- comprising the contact regions of object interaction and the corresponding contact poses -- is essential for robots to effectively manipulate o…

cs.RO2026

Uni-Skill: Building Self-Evolving Skill Repository for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

Senwei Xie, Yuntian Zhang, Ruiping Wang +1

While skill-centric approaches leverage foundation models to enhance generalization in compositional tasks, they often rely on fixed skill libraries, limiting adaptability to new t…

cs.CV2025

VisKnow: Constructing Visual Knowledge Base for Object Understanding

Ziwei Yao, Qiyang Wan, Ruiping Wang +1

Understanding objects is fundamental to computer vision. Beyond object recognition that provides only a category label as typical output, in-depth object understanding represents a…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

A Survey on Interpretability in Visual Recognition

Qiyang Wan, Chengzhi Gao, Ruiping Wang +1

Visual recognition models have achieved unprecedented success in various tasks. While researchers aim to understand the underlying mechanisms of these models, the growing demand fo…

cs.RO2025

Robotic Programmer: Video Instructed Policy Code Generation for Robotic Manipulation

Senwei Xie, Hongyu Wang, Zhanqi Xiao +2

Zero-shot generalization across various robots, tasks and environments remains a significant challenge in robotic manipulation. Policy code generation methods use executable code t…

cs.CV2024

Blocks as Probes: Dissecting Categorization Ability of Large Multimodal Models

Bin Fu, Qiyang Wan, Jialin Li +2

Categorization, a core cognitive ability in humans that organizes objects based on common features, is essential to cognitive science as well as computer vision. To evaluate the ca…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Glance and Focus: Memory Prompting for Multi-Event Video Question Answering

Ziyi Bai, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has emerged as a vital tool to evaluate agents' ability to understand human daily behaviors. Despite the recent success of large vision language…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

SEGA: Semantic Guided Attention on Visual Prototype for Few-Shot Learning

Fengyuan Yang, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen

Teaching machines to recognize a new category based on few training samples especially only one remains challenging owing to the incomprehensive understanding of the novel category…

cs.CV2021

Topic Scene Graph Generation by Attention Distillation from Caption

W. Wang, R. Wang, X. Chen

If an image tells a story, the image caption is the briefest narrator. Generally, a scene graph prefers to be an omniscient generalist, while the image caption is more willing to b…

cs.CV2020★ 10 cited

Sketching Image Gist: Human-Mimetic Hierarchical Scene Graph Generation

Wenbin Wang, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Scene graph aims to faithfully reveal humans' perception of image content. When humans analyze a scene, they usually prefer to describe image gist first, namely major objects and k…

cs.CV2020★ 14 cited

Multi-Modal Graph Neural Network for Joint Reasoning on Vision and Scene Text

Difei Gao, Ke Li, Ruiping Wang +2

Answering questions that require reading texts in an image is challenging for current models. One key difficulty of this task is that rare, polysemous, and ambiguous words frequent…

cs.CV2019★ 20 cited

Deep Heterogeneous Hashing for Face Video Retrieval

Shishi Qiao, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Retrieving videos of a particular person with face image as a query via hashing technique has many important applications. While face images are typically represented as vectors in…

cs.CV2019★ 11 cited

Cross-modal Scene Graph Matching for Relationship-aware Image-Text Retrieval

Sijin Wang, Ruiping Wang, Ziwei Yao +2

Image-text retrieval of natural scenes has been a popular research topic. Since image and text are heterogeneous cross-modal data, one of the key challenges is how to learn compreh…

cs.CV2019★ 23 cited

Transferable Contrastive Network for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning

Huajie Jiang, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging problem that aims to recognize the target categories without seen data, where semantic information is leveraged to transfer knowledge from…

cs.CV2019★ 3 cited

CRIC: A VQA Dataset for Compositional Reasoning on Vision and Commonsense

Difei Gao, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Alternatively inferring on the visual facts and commonsense is fundamental for an advanced VQA system. This ability requires models to go beyond the literal understanding of common…

cs.CV2019★ 28 cited

WIDER Face and Pedestrian Challenge 2018: Methods and Results

Chen Change Loy, Dahua Lin, Wanli Ouyang +49

This paper presents a review of the 2018 WIDER Challenge on Face and Pedestrian. The challenge focuses on the problem of precise localization of human faces and bodies, and accurat…

cs.CV2018★ 19 cited

Learning Class Prototypes via Structure Alignment for Zero-Shot Recognition

Huajie Jiang, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and a…

cs.CV2018★ 24 cited

Structure Inference Net: Object Detection Using Scene-Level Context and Instance-Level Relationships

Yong Liu, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Context is important for accurate visual recognition. In this work we propose an object detection algorithm that not only considers object visual appearance, but also makes use of…

cs.CV2016★ 1 cited

Geometry-aware Similarity Learning on SPD Manifolds for Visual Recognition

Zhiwu Huang, Ruiping Wang, Xianqiu Li +4

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been widely used for data representation in many visual recognition tasks. The success mainly attributes to learning discriminative…

cs.CV2016★ 6 cited

Cross Euclidean-to-Riemannian Metric Learning with Application to Face Recognition from Video

Zhiwu Huang, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +2

Riemannian manifolds have been widely employed for video representations in visual classification tasks including video-based face recognition. The success mainly derives from lear…

cs.CV2016★ 1 cited

Dual Purpose Hashing

Haomiao Liu, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Recent years have seen more and more demand for a unified framework to address multiple realistic image retrieval tasks concerning both category and attributes. Considering the sca…

cs.CV2015★ 56 cited

Learning Expressionlets via Universal Manifold Model for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

Mengyi Liu, Shiguang Shan, Ruiping Wang +1

Facial expression is temporally dynamic event which can be decomposed into a set of muscle motions occurring in different facial regions over various time intervals. For dynamic ex…

cs.CV2015★ 3 cited

Learning Mid-level Words on Riemannian Manifold for Action Recognition

Mengyi Liu, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan +1

Human action recognition remains a challenging task due to the various sources of video data and large intra-class variations. It thus becomes one of the key issues in recent resea…