3 papers
cs.CV2026
ViASNet: A Video Ad Saliency Network for Predicting Dynamic Saliency and Viewer Engagement
Jianping Ye, Michel Wedel
The digital media landscape has seen a pervasive shift toward short-form video advertising on TV, social media and e-commerce platforms. The present study focuses on deep saliency…
cs.LG2025
IPGO: Indirect Prompt Gradient Optimization for Parameter-Efficient Prompt-level Fine-Tuning on Text-to-Image Models
Jianping Ye, Michel Wedel, Kunpeng Zhang
Text-to-Image Diffusion models excel at generating images from text prompts but often exhibit suboptimal alignment with content semantics, aesthetics, and human preferences. To add…
cs.CV2025
SIGN: A Statistically-Informed Gaze Network for Gaze Time Prediction
Jianping Ye, Michel Wedel
We propose a first version of SIGN, a Statistically-Informed Gaze Network, to predict aggregate gaze times on images. We develop a foundational statistical model for which we deriv…