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most citedAutonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments: How Far Have We Come?

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

When Reasoning Is Not Enough: Proactive Inquiry for Cross-Modal Safety in Multimodal Large Language Models

Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan +1

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can act unsafely when individually benign images and texts are interpreted jointly. Beyond implicit reasoning risk, where reasoning drifts…

cs.AI2026

CaLR: Causal Latent Revision for Robust Diffusion Reasoning

Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan +1

Autoregressive (AR) models suffer from local greediness, while diffusion language models (DLMs) often lack the strict causal structure required for reasoning. To combine the advant…

cs.CR2026

Membership Inference for Contrastive Pre-training Models with Text-only PII Queries

Ruoxi Cheng, Yizhong Ding, Jian Zhao +5

Contrastive pretraining models such as CLIP and CLAP, serve as the ubiquitous perceptual backbones for modern multimodal large models, yet their reliance on web-scale data raises g…

cs.AI2025

Aetheria: A multimodal interpretable content safety framework based on multi-agent debate and collaboration

Yuxiang He, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan +8

The exponential growth of digital content presents significant challenges for content safety. Current moderation systems, often based on single models or fixed pipelines, exhibit l…

cs.CV2025

A Parameter-Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Cross-Modal Geo-Localization

LinFeng Li, Jian Zhao, Zepeng Yang +6

We present a winning solution to RoboSense 2025 Track 4: Cross-Modal Drone Navigation. The task retrieves the most relevant geo-referenced image from a large multi-platform corpus…

cs.AI2025

RADAR: A Risk-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for LLM Safety Evaluation via Role-Specialized Collaboration

Xiuyuan Chen, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan +8

Existing safety evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs) suffer from inherent limitations, including evaluator bias and detection failures arising from model homogeneity…

cs.AI2025

Visual Attention Reasoning via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification

Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan +4

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently hallucinate due to their reliance on fragile, linear reasoning and weak visual grounding. We propose Visual Attention Reasoning…

cs.RO2025

CompassNav: Steering From Path Imitation To Decision Understanding In Navigation

LinFeng Li, Jian Zhao, Yuan Xie +2

The dominant paradigm for training Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) in navigation relies on imitating expert trajectories. This approach reduces the complex navigation task to…

cs.AI2025

When Safe Unimodal Inputs Collide: Optimizing Reasoning Chains for Cross-Modal Safety in Multimodal Large Language Models

Wei Cai, Shujuan Liu, Jian Zhao +6

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are susceptible to the implicit reasoning risk, wherein innocuous unimodal inputs synergistically assemble into risky multimodal data that…

cs.AI2025

Safe Semantics, Unsafe Interpretations: Tackling Implicit Reasoning Safety in Large Vision-Language Models

Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchu Jiang +2

Large Vision-Language Models face growing safety challenges with multimodal inputs. This paper introduces the concept of Implicit Reasoning Safety, a vulnerability in LVLMs. Benign…

cs.CV2025

Loupe: A Generalizable and Adaptive Framework for Image Forgery Detection

Yuchu Jiang, Jiaming Chu, Jian Zhao +5

The proliferation of generative models has raised serious concerns about visual content forgery. Existing deepfake detection methods primarily target either image-level classificat…

cs.SD2025

AsynFusion: Towards Asynchronous Latent Consistency Models for Decoupled Whole-Body Audio-Driven Avatars

Tianbao Zhang, Jian Zhao, Yuer Li +5

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents,…

cs.RO2025

Leader and Follower: Interactive Motion Generation under Trajectory Constraints

Runqi Wang, Caoyuan Ma, Jian Zhao +6

With the rapid advancement of game and film production, generating interactive motion from texts has garnered significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize content cr…

cs.CV2024

SurANet: Surrounding-Aware Network for Concealed Object Detection via Highly-Efficient Interactive Contrastive Learning Strategy

Yuhan Kang, Qingpeng Li, Leyuan Fang +2

Concealed object detection (COD) in cluttered scenes is significant for various image processing applications. However, due to that concealed objects are always similar to their ba…

cs.RO2024★ 6 cited

Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments: How Far Have We Come?

Chen Min, Shubin Si, Xu Wang +14

Research on autonomous driving in unstructured outdoor environments is less advanced than in structured urban settings due to challenges like environmental diversities and scene co…

cs.CV2024

Causal Deciphering and Inpainting in Spatio-Temporal Dynamics via Diffusion Model

Yifan Duan, Jian Zhao, pengcheng +8

Spatio-temporal (ST) prediction has garnered a De facto attention in earth sciences, such as meteorological prediction, human mobility perception. However, the scarcity of data cou…

cs.CV2024

Technique Report of CVPR 2024 PBDL Challenges

Ying Fu, Yu Li, Shaodi You +96

The intersection of physics-based vision and deep learning presents an exciting frontier for advancing computer vision technologies. By leveraging the principles of physics to info…

cs.CV2024

Two in One Go: Single-stage Emotion Recognition with Decoupled Subject-context Transformer

Xinpeng Li, Teng Wang, Jian Zhao +5

Emotion recognition aims to discern the emotional state of subjects within an image, relying on subject-centric and contextual visual cues. Current approaches typically follow a tw…

cs.CV2024

LEAF: Unveiling Two Sides of the Same Coin in Semi-supervised Facial Expression Recognition

Fan Zhang, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Jian Zhao +2

Semi-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to tackle the challenge of label scarcity in facial expression recognition (FER) task. However, current state-of-the-ar…