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Kang Liao

23 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Wide-Angle Images: Structure-to-Detail Video Portrait Correction via Unsupervised Spatiotemporal Adaptation

AAAI 2026technical

Wide-angle cameras, despite their popularity for content creation, suffer from distortion-induced facial stretching—especially at the edge of the lens—which degrades visual appeal. To address this issue, we propose a structure-to-detail portrait correction model named ImagePC. It integrates the long

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2026

Thinking with Camera: A Unified Multimodal Model for Camera-Centric Understanding and Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Camera-centric understanding and generation are two cornerstones of spatial intelligence, yet they are typically studied in isolation. We present Puffin, a unified camera-centric multimodal model that extends spatial awareness along the camera dimension. Puffin integrates language regression and dif…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models

ICML 2026poster

Following the rise of large foundation models, Vision–Language–Action models (VLAs) emerged, leveraging strong visual and language understanding for general-purpose policy learning. Yet, the current VLA landscape remains fragmented and exploratory. Although many groups have proposed their own VLA mo…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Arbitrary-steps Image Super-resolution via Diffusion Inversion

CVPR 2025poster

This study presents a new image super-resolution (SR) technique based on diffusion inversion, aiming at harnessing the rich image priors encapsulated in large pre-trained diffusion models to improve SR performance. We design a Partial noise Prediction strategy to construct an intermediate state of t…

2025

Denoising as Adaptation: Noise-Space Domain Adaptation for Image Restoration

ICLR 2025poster

Although learning-based image restoration methods have made significant progress, they still struggle with limited generalization to real-world scenarios due to the substantial domain gap caused by training on synthetic data. Existing methods address this issue by improving data synthesis pipelines,…

2025

Jasmine: Harnessing Diffusion Prior for Self-supervised Depth Estimation

NeurIPS 2025poster

In this paper, we propose \textbf{Jasmine}, the first Stable Diffusion (SD)-based self-supervised framework for monocular depth estimation, which effectively harnesses SD’s visual priors to enhance the sharpness and generalization of unsupervised prediction. Previous SD-based methods are all supervi…

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2025

Lifting the Structural Morphing for Wide-Angle Images Rectification: Unified Content and Boundary Modeling

ICCV 2025poster

The mainstream approach for correcting distortions in wide-angle images typically involves a cascading process of rectification followed by rectangling. These tasks address distorted image content and irregular boundaries separately, using two distinct pipelines. However, this independent optimizati…

2024

Eliminating Warping Shakes for Unsupervised Online Video Stitching

ECCV 2024poster

"In this paper, we retarget video stitching to an emerging issue, named warping shake, when extending image stitching to video stitching. It unveils the temporal instability of warped content in non-overlapping regions, despite image stitching having endeavored to preserve the natural structures. Th…

2023

Disentangling Orthogonal Planes for Indoor Panoramic Room Layout Estimation With Cross-Scale Distortion Awareness

CVPR 2023poster

Based on the Manhattan World assumption, most existing indoor layout estimation schemes focus on recovering layouts from vertically compressed 1D sequences. However, the compression procedure confuses the semantics of different planes, yielding inferior performance with ambiguous interpretability. T…

2023

Learning Deposition Policies for Fused Multi-Material 3D Printing

ICRA 2023poster

3D printing based on continuous deposition of materials, such as filament-based 3D printing, has seen widespread adoption thanks to its versatility in working with a wide range of materials. An important shortcoming of this type of technology is its limited multi-material capabilities. While there a…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2023

RecRecNet: Rectangling Rectified Wide-Angle Images by Thin-Plate Spline Model and DoF-based Curriculum Learning

ICCV 2023poster

The wide-angle lens shows appealing applications in VR technologies, but it introduces severe radial distortion into its captured image. To recover the realistic scene, previous works devote to rectifying the content of the wide-angle image. However, such a rectification solution inevitably distorts…

Cited by 16PDFcodeScholar
2023

Spatiotemporal Deformation Perception for Fisheye Video Rectification

AAAI 2023technical

Although the distortion correction of fisheye images has been extensively studied, the correction of fisheye videos is still an elusive challenge. For different frames of the fisheye video, the existing image correction methods ignore the correlation of sequences, resulting in temporal jitter in the…

2023

Towards Reliable Image Outpainting: Learning Structure-Aware Multimodal Fusion with Depth Guidance

ICASSP 2023accepted

Image outpainting technology generates visually plausible content regardless of authenticity, making it unreliable to be applied in practice. Thus, we propose a reliable image outpainting task, introducing the sparse depth from LiDARs (Light Detection And Ranging devices) to extrapolate authentic RG…

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2023

Unsupervised OmniMVS: Efficient Omnidirectional Depth Inference via Establishing Pseudo-Stereo Supervision

IROS 2023poster

Omnidirectional multi-view stereo (MVS) vision is attractive for its ultra-wide field-of-view (FoV), enabling machines to perceive 360°3D surroundings. However, the existing solutions require expensive dense depth labels for supervision, making them impractical in real-world applications. In this pa…

Cited by 8SourcecodeScholar
2022

PanoFormer: Panorama Transformer for Indoor 360° Depth Estimation

ECCV 2022poster

"Existing panoramic depth estimation methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) focus on removing panoramic distortions, failing to perceive panoramic structures efficiently due to the fixed receptive field in CNNs. This paper proposes the panorama Transformer (named PanoFormer) to estima…

2021

Multi-Level Curriculum for Training a Distortion-Aware Barrel Distortion Rectification Model

ICCV 2021poster

Barrel distortion rectification aims at removing the radial distortion in a distorted image captured by a wide-angle lens. Previous deep learning methods mainly solve this problem by learning the implicit distortion parameters or the nonlinear rectified mapping function in a direct manner. However,…

Cited by 16PDFScholar
2021

Progressively Complementary Network for Fisheye Image Rectification Using Appearance Flow

CVPR 2021poster

Distortion rectification is often required for fisheye images. The generation-based method is one mainstream solution due to its label-free property, but its naive skip-connection and overburdened decoder will cause blur and incomplete correction. First, the skip-connection directly transfers the im…

Cited by 57PDFcodeScholar
2021

Towards Complete Scene and Regular Shape for Distortion Rectification by Curve-Aware Extrapolation

ICCV 2021poster

The wide-angle lens gains increasing attention since it can capture a wide field-of-view scene (FoV). However, the obtained image is contaminated with radial distortion, making the scene not realistic. Previous distortion rectification methods rectify the image in a rectangle or invagination, failin…

Cited by 8PDFScholar