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Howard Zhou

9 accepted papers

2026

TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment

CVPR 2026

Recent progress in vision-language pretraining has enabled significant improvements to many downstream computer vision applications, such as classification, retrieval, segmentation and depth prediction. However, a fundamental capability that these models still struggle with is aligning dense patch r

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2025

FirePlace: Geometric Refinements of LLM Common Sense Reasoning for 3D Object Placement

CVPR 2025highlight

Scene generation with 3D assets presents a complex challenge, requiring both high-level semantic understanding and low-level geometric reasoning. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at semantic tasks, their application to 3D scene generation is hindered by their limited grounding on…

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2025

TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness

ICLR 2025poster

While image-text representation learning has become very popular in recent years, existing models tend to lack spatial awareness and have limited direct applicability for dense understanding tasks. For this reason, self-supervised image-only pretraining is still the go-to method for many dense visio…

2024

ConDense: Consistent 2D-3D Pre-training for Dense and Sparse Features from Multi-View Images

ECCV 2024oral

"To advance the state of the art in the creation of 3D foundation models, this paper introduces the framework for 3D pre-training utilizing existing pre-trained 2D networks and large-scale multi-view datasets. We propose a novel 2D-3D joint training scheme to extract co-embedded 2D and 3D features i…

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2024

Modeling Collaborator: Enabling Subjective Vision Classification With Minimal Human Effort via LLM Tool-Use

CVPR 2024poster

From content moderation to wildlife conservation the number of applications that require models to recognize nuanced or subjective visual concepts is growing. Traditionally developing classifiers for such concepts requires substantial manual effort measured in hours days or even months to identify a…

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2023

Encyclopedic VQA: Visual Questions About Detailed Properties of Fine-Grained Categories

ICCV 2023poster

We propose Encyclopedic-VQA, a large scale visual question answering (VQA) dataset featuring visual questions about detailed properties of fine-grained categories and instances. It contains 221k unique question+answer pairs each matched with (up to) 5 images, resulting in a total of 1M VQA samples.…

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2023

NAVI: Category-Agnostic Image Collections with High-Quality 3D Shape and Pose Annotations

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recent advances in neural reconstruction enable high-quality 3D object reconstruction from casually captured image collections. Current techniques mostly analyze their progress on relatively simple image collections where SfM techniques can provide ground-truth (GT) camera poses. We note that SfM te…

2021

IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering

CVPR 2021poster

We present a method that synthesizes novel views of complex scenes by interpolating a sparse set of nearby views. The core of our method is a network architecture that includes a multilayer perceptron and a ray transformer that estimates radiance and volume density at continuous 5D locations (3D spa…

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