3 papers
cs.CV2026
GLARE: Generating Listening Heads with Appropriate Reactions
Zikai Liao, Yumin Suh, Yi Ouyang +3
While talking head generation has advanced rapidly, generating natural listener behavior in dyadic conversations, which know when to react, how to react, and with what type of resp…
cs.CV2026
CCDNet: Learning to Detect Camouflage against Distractors in Infrared Small Target Detection
Zikai Liao, Zhaozheng Yin
Infrared target detection (IRSTD) tasks have critical applications in areas like wilderness rescue and maritime search. However, detecting infrared targets is challenging due to th…
cs.CV2025
Beyond Words: Multimodal LLM Knows When to Speak
Zikai Liao, Yi Ouyang, Yi-Lun Lee +3
Chatbots via large language models (LLMs) generate fluent responses but often struggle with when to speak, especially for brief, timely listener reactions during ongoing dialogue.…