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Kai Zhu

31 accepted papers

2026

RS-SSM: Refining Forgotten Specifics in State Space Model for Video Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2026

Recently, state space models have demonstrated efficient video segmentation through linear-complexity state space compression. However, Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) requires pixel-level spatiotemporal modeling capabilities to maintain temporal consistency in segmentation of semantic objects. Wh

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2026

Robust Dual-Modal Grasping Using a Stiffness-Switchable Adhesive Array

RA-L 2026

This letter presents a dual-modal adaptive gripper (DMAG) that addresses the persistent trilemma in robotic grasping among shape adaptability, high load capacity, and environmental resilience. By introducing a temporally decoupled “conform-then-lock” paradigm, the DMAG separates geometric conformati

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Self-Supervised Evolution Operator Learning for High-Dimensional Dynamical Systems

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce an end-to-end approach to learn the evolution operators of large-scale non-linear dynamical systems, such as those describing complex natural phenomena. Evolution operators are particularly well-suited for analyzing systems that exhibit spatio-temporal patterns and have become a key ana…

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2026

SimRecon: SimReady Compositional Scene Reconstruction from Real Videos

CVPR 2026

Compositional scene reconstruction seeks to create object-centric representations rather than holistic scenes from real-world videos, which is natively applicable for simulation and interaction. Conventional compositional reconstruction approaches primarily emphasize on visual appearance and show li

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2026

Towards Sequence Modeling Alignment between Tokenizer and Autoregressive Model

ICLR 2026poster

Autoregressive image generation aims to predict the next token based on previous ones. However, this process is challenged by the bidirectional dependencies inherent in conventional image tokenizations, which creates a fundamental misalignment with the unidirectional nature of autoregressive models.…

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2026

Wan-Weaver: Interleaved Multi-modal Generation via Decoupled Training

CVPR 2026

Recent unified models have made unprecedented progress in both understanding and generation. However, while most of them accept multi-modal inputs, they typically produce only single-modality outputs. This challenge of producing interleaved content is mainly due to training data scarcity and the dif

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2025

BACON: Improving Clarity of Image Captions via Bag-of-Concept Graphs

CVPR 2025poster

Advancements in large Vision-Language Models have brought precise, accurate image captioning, vital for advancing multi-modal image understanding and processing. Yet these captions often carry lengthy, intertwined contexts that are difficult to parse and frequently overlook essential cues, posing a…

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2025

Improved Video VAE for Latent Video Diffusion Model

CVPR 2025poster

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) aims to compress pixel data into low-dimensional latent space, playing an important role in OpenAI's Sora and other latent video diffusion generation models. While most existing video VAEs inflate a pre-trained image VAE into the 3D causal structure for temporal-spatial…

2025

MangaNinja: Line Art Colorization with Precise Reference Following

CVPR 2025highlight

Derived from diffusion models, MangaNinja specializes in the task of reference-guided line art colorization. We incorporate two thoughtful designs to ensure precise character detail transcription, including a patch shuffling module to facilitate correspondence learning between the reference color im…

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2025

State Space Prompting via Gathering and Spreading Spatio-Temporal Information for Video Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recently, pre-trained state space models have shown great potential for video classification, which sequentially compresses visual tokens in videos with linear complexity, thereby improving the processing efficiency of video data while maintaining high performance. To apply powerful pre-trained mode…

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2025

ViewPoint: Panoramic Video Generation with Pretrained Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Panoramic video generation aims to synthesize 360-degree immersive videos, holding significant importance in the fields of VR, world models, and spatial intelligence. Existing works fail to synthesize high-quality panoramic videos due to the inherent modality gap between panoramic data and perspecti…

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2024

CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models

ICML 2024poster

Consistency Models (CMs) have showed a promise in creating high-quality images with few steps. However, the way to add new conditional controls to the pre-trained CMs has not been explored. In this paper, we explore the pivotal subject of leveraging the generative capacity and efficiency of consiste…

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2024

DreamClean: Restoring Clean Image Using Deep Diffusion Prior

ICLR 2024poster

Image restoration poses a garners substantial interest due to the exponential surge in demands for recovering high-quality images from diverse mobile camera devices, adverse lighting conditions, suboptimal shooting environments, and frequent image compression for efficient transmission purposes. Yet…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

HomoFormer: Homogenized Transformer for Image Shadow Removal

CVPR 2024poster

The spatial non-uniformity and diverse patterns of shadow degradation conflict with the weight sharing manner of dominant models which may lead to an unsatisfactory compromise. To tackle with this issue we present a novel strategy from the view of shadow transformation in this paper: directly homoge…

2024

Hypercorrelation Evolution for Video Class-Incremental Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Video class-incremental learning aims to recognize new actions while restricting the catastrophic forgetting of old ones, whose representative samples can only be saved in limited memory. Semantically variable subactions are susceptible to class confusion due to data imbalance. While existing method…

2024

Lipschitz Singularities in Diffusion Models

ICLR 2024oral

Diffusion models, which employ stochastic differential equations to sample images through integrals, have emerged as a dominant class of generative models. However, the rationality of the diffusion process itself receives limited attention, leaving the question of whether the problem is well-posed a…

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2023

Cones: Concept Neurons in Diffusion Models for Customized Generation

ICML 2023oral

Human brains respond to semantic features of presented stimuli with different neurons. This raises the question of whether deep neural networks admit a similar behavior pattern. To investigate this phenomenon, this paper identifies a small cluster of neurons associated with a specific subject in a d…

Cited by 119SourcePDFScholar
2023

Customizable Image Synthesis with Multiple Subjects

NeurIPS 2023poster

Synthesizing images with user-specified subjects has received growing attention due to its practical applications. Despite the recent success in single subject customization, existing algorithms suffer from high training cost and low success rate along with increased number of subjects. Towards cont…

Cited by 84SourcePDFScholar
2023

Neural Dependencies Emerging From Learning Massive Categories

CVPR 2023poster

This work presents two astonishing findings on neural networks learned for large-scale image classification. 1) Given a well-trained model, the logits predicted for some category can be directly obtained by linearly combining the predictions of a few other categories, which we call neural dependency…

2023

Regularized Mask Tuning: Uncovering Hidden Knowledge in Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models

ICCV 2023poster

Prompt tuning and adapter tuning have shown great potential in transferring pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks. In this work, we design a new type of tuning method, termed as regularized mask tuning, which masks the network parameters through a learnable selection.…

Cited by 12PDFScholar
2023

Self-Organizing Pathway Expansion for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning

ICCV 2023poster

Non-exemplar class-incremental learning aims to recognize both the old and new classes without access to old class samples. The conflict between old and new class optimization is exacerbated since the shared neural pathways can only be differentiated by the incremental samples. To address this probl…

Cited by 12PDFScholar
2023

Uncertainty-Aware Optimal Transport for Semantically Coherent Out-of-Distribution Detection

CVPR 2023poster

Semantically coherent out-of-distribution (SCOOD) detection aims to discern outliers from the intended data distribution with access to unlabeled extra set. The coexistence of in-distribution and out-of-distribution samples will exacerbate the model overfitting when no distinction is made. To addres…

2022

Self-Sustaining Representation Expansion for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning

CVPR 2022poster

Non-exemplar class-incremental learning is to recognize both the old and new classes when old class samples cannot be saved. It is a challenging task since representation optimization and feature retention can only be achieved under supervision from new classes. To address this problem, we propose a…

Cited by 207PDFScholar
2022

Uncertainty-Aware Hierarchical Refinement for Incremental Implicitly-Refined Classification

NeurIPS 2022accept

Incremental implicitly-refined classification task aims at assigning hierarchical labels to each sample encountered at different phases. Existing methods tend to fail in generating hierarchy-invariant descriptors when the novel classes are inherited from the old ones. To address the issue, this pape…

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2021

Self-Promoted Prototype Refinement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

CVPR 2021poster

Few-shot class-incremental learning is to recognize the new classes given few samples and not forget the old classes. It is a challenging task since representation optimization and prototype reorganization can only be achieved under little supervision. To address this problem, we propose a novel inc…

Cited by 203PDFcodeScholar
2015

Recognize Complex Events From Static Images by Fusing Deep Channels

CVPR 2015poster

A considerable portion of web images capture events that occur in our personal lives or social activities. In this paper, we aim to develop an effective method for recognizing events from such images. Despite the sheer amount of study on event recognition, most existing methods rely on videos and ar…

Cited by 180SourcePDFScholar