17 papers
Trustworthy synthetic visual media: Evidence across the media lifecycle
Zexi Jia, Zhiqiang Yuan, Jie Zhou +1
Images and videos have long helped people understand what happened and how a work came into being. Generative systems complicate that role. Realistic media can now be produced and…
RAVA: Retrieval-Augmented Viewpoint Alignment for Subject-Driven Image Generation
Qiwei Yan, Zhiqiang Yuan, Chongyang Li +4
Reference-driven image generation has made rapid progress on identity preservation, but reliable viewpoint control across different subjects remains poorly understood. The difficul…
PAL-Bench: Evidence-Grounded Profile Reconstruction from Longitudinal Personal Albums
Qiwei Yan, Zhiqiang Yuan, Zexi Jia +4
Longitudinal personal albums are weak-schema multimodal databases: noisy perceptual records whose key facts require joins across faces, text, timestamps, locations, and repeated ev…
Fine-grained Fragment Retrieval in Multi-modal Long-form Dialogues
Hanbo Bi, Zhiqiang Yuan, Chongyang Li +7
With the widespread adoption of multi-modal communication platforms, long-form dialogues interleaving text and images have become increasingly common. Users often need to retrieve…
PhotoCraft: Agentic Reasoning with Hierarchical Self-Evolving Memory for Deep Image Search
Kailin Lyu, Zhiqiang Yuan, Jianwei He +9
Deep Image Search requires multi-step reasoning over rich contextual cues, such as time, location, and event relations. However, most existing LLM-based agents are stateless and re…
CoDA: Color Distribution Probing for Efficient and Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
Zexi Jia, Zhiqiang Yuan, Xiaoyue Duan +3
AI-generated image detection faces a persistent trade-off between generalization and efficiency: lightweight artifact-based methods often degrade on unseen generators or domains, w…
A Synthetic-to-Real Dehazing Method based on Domain Unification
Zhiqiang Yuan, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou
Due to distribution shift, the performance of deep learning-based method for image dehazing is adversely affected when applied to real-world hazy images. In this paper, we find tha…
F2RVLM: Boosting Fine-grained Fragment Retrieval for Multi-Modal Long-form Dialogue with Vision Language Model
Hanbo Bi, Zhiqiang Yuan, Zexi Jia +6
Traditional dialogue retrieval aims to select the most appropriate utterance or image from recent dialogue history. However, they often fail to meet users' actual needs for revisit…
Less Redundancy: Boosting Practicality of Vision Language Model in Walking Assistants
Chongyang Li, Zhiqiang Yuan, Hanbo Bi +2
Approximately 283 million people worldwide live with visual impairments, motivating increasing research into leveraging Visual Language Models (VLMs) to develop effective walking a…
From Imitation to Innovation: The Emergence of AI Unique Artistic Styles and the Challenge of Copyright Protection
Zexi Jia, Chuanwei Huang, Yeshuang Zhu +6
Current legal frameworks consider AI-generated works eligible for copyright protection when they meet originality requirements and involve substantial human intellectual input. How…
A Visual Leap in CLIP Compositionality Reasoning through Generation of Counterfactual Sets
Zexi Jia, Chuanwei Huang, Hongyan Fei +6
Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with compositional reasoning due to insufficient high-quality image-text data. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel block-based…
RDTF: Resource-efficient Dual-mask Training Framework for Multi-frame Animated Sticker Generation
Zhiqiang Yuan, Ting Zhang, Peixiang Luo +5
Recently, significant advancements have been achieved in video generation technology, but applying it to resource-constrained downstream tasks like multi-frame animated sticker gen…
Control-CLIP: Decoupling Category and Style Guidance in CLIP for Specific-Domain Generation
Zexi Jia, Chuanwei Huang, Hongyan Fei +4
Text-to-image diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities of generating high-quality images closely aligned with textual inputs. However, the effectiveness of text guidance…
Semantic to Structure: Learning Structural Representations for Infringement Detection
Chuanwei Huang, Zexi Jia, Hongyan Fei +4
Structural information in images is crucial for aesthetic assessment, and it is widely recognized in the artistic field that imitating the structure of other works significantly in…
ILDiff: Generate Transparent Animated Stickers by Implicit Layout Distillation
Ting Zhang, Zhiqiang Yuan, Yeshuang Zhu +1
High-quality animated stickers usually contain transparent channels, which are often ignored by current video generation models. To generate fine-grained animated transparency chan…
WalkVLM:Aid Visually Impaired People Walking by Vision Language Model
Zhiqiang Yuan, Ting Zhang, Ying Deng +5
Approximately 200 million individuals around the world suffer from varying degrees of visual impairment, making it crucial to leverage AI technology to offer walking assistance for…
VSD2M: A Large-scale Vision-language Sticker Dataset for Multi-frame Animated Sticker Generation
Zhiqiang Yuan, Jiapei Zhang, Ying Deng +3
As a common form of communication in social media,stickers win users' love in the internet scenarios, for their ability to convey emotions in a vivid, cute, and interesting way. Pe…