11 papers
Amplify What You Gaze At: Target Saliency Boosting in Text-to-Image Generation
Shengqi Dang, Zhengxi Yu, Feilin Han +2
Text-to-image generation has advanced in controlling what, where, and how objects appear, yet how visual attention is distributed among objects remains largely unexplored. In this…
Drift-Aware Multimodal User Representation Learning via Multi-Scale Temporal Modeling and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
Ziqing Qian, Haohang Chen, Shengqi Dang +4
Understanding user preferences from noisy and temporally evolving social media behaviors is fundamentally challenging due to interest drift, where user preferences shift across tim…
From Latent Influence to Language: Diffusion-Oriented Content Generation via Audience-Susceptible Features
Jiaying Lei, Shengqi Dang, Runqian Bai +2
The rapid growth of multimodal user-generated content on social media has made information diffusion a critical factor for advertisers and brand marketers. However, manually tailor…
CogBlender: Towards Continuous Cognitive Intervention in Text-to-Image Generation
Shengqi Dang, Yi He, Jiaying Lei +2
Beyond conveying semantic information, images also possess cognitive properties that elicit specific psychological responses from viewers, such as memory encoding or emotional reac…
DensiCrafter: Physically-Constrained Generation and Fabrication of Self-Supporting Hollow Structures
Shengqi Dang, Fu Chai, Jiaxin Li +3
The rise of 3D generative models has enabled automatic 3D geometry and texture synthesis from multimodal inputs (e.g., text or images). However, these methods often ignore physical…
Designed to Spread: A Generative Approach to Enhance Information Diffusion
Ziqing Qian, Jiaying Lei, Shengqi Dang +1
Social media has fundamentally transformed how people access information and form social connections, with content expression playing a critical role in driving information diffusi…
Funding the Frontier: Visualizing the Broad Impact of Science and Science Funding
Yifang Wang, Yifan Qian, Xiaoyu Qi +6
Understanding the broad impact of science and science funding is critical to ensuring that science investments and policies align with societal needs. Existing research links scien…
ChartBlender: An Interactive System for Authoring and Synchronizing Visualization Charts in Video
Yi He, Yuqi Liu, Chenpu Li +4
Embedding data visualizations in video can enhance the communication of complex information. However, this process is often labor-intensive, requiring designers to adjust visualiza…
MV-Crafter: An Intelligent System for Music-guided Video Generation
Chuer Chen, Shengqi Dang, Yuqi Liu +3
Music videos, as a prevalent form of multimedia entertainment, deliver engaging audio-visual experiences to audiences and have gained immense popularity among singers and fans. Cre…
EmotiCrafter: Text-to-Emotional-Image Generation based on Valence-Arousal Model
Shengqi Dang, Yi He, Long Ling +3
Recent research shows that emotions can enhance users' cognition and influence information communication. While research on visual emotion analysis is extensive, limited work has b…
FreeShell: A Context-Free 4D Printing Technique for Fabricating Complex 3D Triangle Mesh Shells
Chao Yuan, Nan Cao, Xuejiao Ma +1
Freeform thin-shell surfaces are critical in various fields, but their fabrication is complex and costly. Traditional methods are wasteful and require custom molds, while 3D printi…