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Hao Shao

16 accepted papers

2026

DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving

ICLR 2026poster

Video generation models, as one form of world models, has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving, this vision gives rise to driving world models—generative si…

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2026

High-Fidelity Diffusion Face Swapping with ID-Constrained Facial Conditioning

CVPR 2026

Face swapping aims to seamlessly transfer a source facial identity onto a target while preserving target attributes such as pose and expression. Diffusion models, known for their superior generative capabilities, have recently shown promise in advancing face-swapping quality. This paper addresses tw

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2025

Adaptive Markup Language Generation for Contextually-Grounded Visual Document Understanding

CVPR 2025poster

Visual Document Understanding has become essential with the increase of text-rich visual content. This field poses significant challenges due to the need for effective integration of visual perception and textual comprehension, particularly across diverse document types with complex layouts. Moreove…

2025

EasyRef: Omni-Generalized Group Image Reference for Diffusion Models via Multimodal LLM

ICML 2025poster

Significant achievements in personalization of diffusion models have been witnessed. Conventional tuning-free methods mostly encode multiple reference images by averaging or concatenating their image embeddings as the injection condition, but such an image-independent operation cannot perform intera…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

SmartPretrain: Model-Agnostic and Dataset-Agnostic Representation Learning for Motion Prediction

ICLR 2025poster

Predicting the future motion of surrounding agents is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to operate safely in dynamic, human-robot-mixed environments. However, the scarcity of large-scale driving datasets has hindered the development of robust and generalizable motion prediction models, limitin…

2025

VividFace: A Robost and High-Fidelity Video Face Swapping Framework

NeurIPS 2025poster

Video face swapping has seen increasing adoption in diverse applications, yet existing methods primarily trained on static images struggle to address temporal consistency and complex real-world scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose the first video face swapping framework, VividFace,…

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2024

LMDrive: Closed-Loop End-to-End Driving with Large Language Models

CVPR 2024poster

Despite significant recent progress in the field of autonomous driving modern methods still struggle and can incur serious accidents when encountering long-tail unforeseen events and challenging urban scenarios. On the one hand large language models (LLM) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities…

2024

MoVA: Adapting Mixture of Vision Experts to Multimodal Context

NeurIPS 2024poster

As the key component in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the ability of the visual encoder greatly affects MLLM's understanding on diverse image content. Although some large-scale pretrained vision encoders such as vision encoders in CLIP and DINOv2 have brought promising performance, we fo…

2024

SPHINX-X: Scaling Data and Parameters for a Family of Multi-modal Large Language Models

ICML 2024poster

We propose SPHINX-X, an extensive Multi-modality Large Language Model (MLLM) series developed upon SPHINX. To improve the architecture and training efficiency, we modify the SPHINX framework by removing redundant visual encoders, bypassing fully-padded sub-images with skip tokens, and simplifying mu…

2024

SmartRefine: A Scenario-Adaptive Refinement Framework for Efficient Motion Prediction

CVPR 2024poster

Predicting the future motion of surrounding agents is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to operate safely in dynamic human-robot-mixed environments. Context information such as road maps and surrounding agents' states provides crucial geometric and semantic information for motion behavior pred…

2024

Visual CoT: Advancing Multi-Modal Language Models with a Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various VQA tasks. However, they often lack interpretability and struggle with complex visual inputs, especially when the resolution of the input image is high or when the interested region that could provide key i…

2023

Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving with Parameterized Skills and Priors

RSS 2023poster

When autonomous vehicles are deployed on public roads, they will encounter countless and diverse driving situations. Many manually designed driving policies are difficult to scale to the real world. Fortunately, reinforcement learning has shown great success in many tasks by automatic trial and erro…

2023

ReasonNet: End-to-End Driving With Temporal and Global Reasoning

CVPR 2023poster

The large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles is yet to come, and one of the major remaining challenges lies in urban dense traffic scenarios. In such cases, it remains challenging to predict the future evolution of the scene and future behaviors of objects, and to deal with rare adverse events…

Cited by 94SourcePDFScholar
2022

Safety-Enhanced Autonomous Driving Using Interpretable Sensor Fusion Transformer

CoRL 2022poster

Large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles has been continually delayed due to safety concerns. On the one hand, comprehensive scene understanding is indispensable, a lack of which would result in vulnerability to rare but complex traffic situations, such as the sudden emergence of unknown object…

Cited by 270SourcecodeScholar