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most citedCrossMoDA 2021 challenge: Benchmark of Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation techniques for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation

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cs.CV2026

Xemo-Talker: Unlock Emotions Explicitly for Audio-Driven Talking Portrait Synthesis

Chaolong Yang, Yinuo Guo, Kai Yao +6

Precise emotion control in audio-driven talking heads remains a challenge due to the reliance on implicit emotion regulation in existing systems, which often leads to indirect and…

cs.CV2025

Exploiting Layer Normalization Fine-tuning in Visual Transformer Foundation Models for Classification

Zhaorui Tan, Tan Pan, Kaizhu Huang +8

LayerNorm is pivotal in Vision Transformers (ViTs), yet its fine-tuning dynamics under data scarcity and domain shifts remain underexplored. This paper shows that shifts in LayerNo…

cs.CV2025

Unlock Pose Diversity: Accurate and Efficient Implicit Keypoint-based Spatiotemporal Diffusion for Audio-driven Talking Portrait

Chaolong Yang, Kai Yao, Yuyao Yan +7

Audio-driven single-image talking portrait generation plays a crucial role in virtual reality, digital human creation, and filmmaking. Existing approaches are generally categorized…

cs.CV2024

SCMix: Stochastic Compound Mixing for Open Compound Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation

Kai Yao, Zhaorui Tan, Zixian Su +3

Open compound domain adaptation (OCDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to a mix of unlabeled homogeneous compound target domains while generalizing to open…

cs.CV2023

Unraveling Batch Normalization for Realistic Test-Time Adaptation

Zixian Su, Jingwei Guo, Kai Yao +3

While recent test-time adaptations exhibit efficacy by adjusting batch normalization to narrow domain disparities, their effectiveness diminishes with realistic mini-batches due to…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Unleashing the Power of Prompt-driven Nucleus Instance Segmentation

Zhongyi Shui, Yunlong Zhang, Kai Yao +7

Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Di…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

Rethinking Data Augmentation for Single-source Domain Generalization in Medical Image Segmentation

Zixian Su, Kai Yao, Xi Yang +3

Single-source domain generalization (SDG) in medical image segmentation is a challenging yet essential task as domain shifts are quite common among clinical image datasets. Previou…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Outpainting by Queries

Kai Yao, Penglei Gao, Xi Yang +3

Image outpainting, which is well studied with Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based framework, has recently drawn more attention in computer vision. However, CNNs rely on inherent…

cs.CV2022

Mind The Gap: Alleviating Local Imbalance for Unsupervised Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation

Zixian Su, Kai Yao, Xi Yang +4

Unsupervised cross-modality medical image adaptation aims to alleviate the severe domain gap between different imaging modalities without using the target domain label. A key in th…

eess.IV2022★ 99 cited

CrossMoDA 2021 challenge: Benchmark of Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation techniques for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation

Reuben Dorent, Aaron Kujawa, Marina Ivory +37

Domain Adaptation (DA) has recently raised strong interests in the medical imaging community. While a large variety of DA techniques has been proposed for image segmentation, most…

eess.IV2021★ 3 cited

PointNu-Net: Keypoint-assisted Convolutional Neural Network for Simultaneous Multi-tissue Histology Nuclei Segmentation and Classification

Kai Yao, Kaizhu Huang, Jie Sun +1

Automatic nuclei segmentation and classification play a vital role in digital pathology. However, previous works are mostly built on data with limited diversity and small sizes, ma…