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Lechao Cheng

30 accepted papers

2026

CORE: Conflict-Oriented Reasoning for General Multimodal Manipulation Detection

ICML 2026poster

The rapid rise of generative AI has made multimodal fake news increasingly realistic and pervasive, posing severe threats to public trust and social stability. Existing detection methods rely heavily on manipulation-specific models and large-scale labeled data, resulting in poor generalization to em…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

OmniVL-Guard: Towards Unified Vision-Language Forgery Detection and Grounding via Balanced RL

ICML 2026poster

Existing forgery detection methods are often limited to uni-modal or bi-modal settings, failing to handle the interleaved text, images, and videos prevalent in real-world misinformation. To bridge this gap, we propose **OmniVL-Guard**, a unified framework for omni vision-language forgery detection a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Open-World 3D Scene Graph Generation for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Open-world 3D scene understanding is fundamentally challenging for vision and robotics, due to the constraints of closed-vocabulary supervision and static annotations. To address this, we propose a unified framework for Open-World 3D Scene Graph Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning, which e

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Parse, Search, and Confirmation: Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Structured Spatial Memory

CVPR 2026

In this paper, we tackle the Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation (AVDN) task in the training-free setting for resource-efficient high-altitude UAV navigation.Naively applying MLLMs leads to unreliable navigation due to weak directional grounding and the lack of explicit spatial memory.To address the

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

DCP: Dual-Cue Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve remarkable performance in multimodal tasks but suffer from high computational costs due to the large number of visual tokens. Existing pruning methods either apply after visual tokens enter the LLM or perform pre-pruning based solely on visual attention.

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Discrete to Continuous: Generating Smooth Transition Poses from Sign Language Observations

CVPR 2025poster

Generating continuous sign language videos from discrete segments is challenging due to the need for smooth transitions that preserve natural flow and meaning. Traditional approaches that simply concatenate isolated signs often result in abrupt transitions, disrupting video coherence. To address thi…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

FakeSV-VLM: Taming VLM for Detecting Fake Short-Video News via Progressive Mixture-Of-Experts Adapter

EMNLP 2025

We present FakeSV-VLM in this paper, a new VLM-based framework for detecting fake news on short video platforms. Despite significant efforts to combat this issue due to the severe threat that fake news videos pose to public information security, existing methods still fall short in detection accurac

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Knowledge Swapping via Learning and Unlearning

ICML 2025poster

We introduce Knowledge Swapping, a novel task designed to selectively regulate knowledge of a pretrained model by enabling the forgetting of user-specified information, retaining essential knowledge, and acquiring new knowledge simultaneously. By delving into the analysis of knock-on feature hierar…

2025

Navigating Semantic Drift in Task-Agnostic Class-Incremental Learning

ICML 2025oral

Class-incremental learning (CIL) seeks to enable a model to sequentially learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned ones. Balancing flexibility and stability remains a significant challenge, particularly when the task ID is unknown. To address this, our study reveals that the…

2025

STD-FD: Spatio-Temporal Distribution Fitting Deviation for AIGC Forgery Identification

ICML 2025poster

With the rise of AIGC technologies, particularly diffusion models, highly realistic fake images that can deceive human visual perception has become feasible. Consequently, various forgery detection methods have emerged. However, existing methods treat the generation process of fake images as either…

2025

Self-Classification Enhancement and Correction for Weakly Supervised Object Detection

IJCAI 2025

In recent years, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted much attention due to its low labeling cost. The success of recent WSOD models is often ascribed to the two-stage multi-class classification (MCC) task, i.e., multiple instance learning and online classification refinement. Des

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2025

Shaping a Stabilized Video by Mitigating Unintended Changes for Concept-Augmented Video Editing

IJCAI 2025

Text-driven video editing powered by generative diffusion models holds significant promise for applications spanning film production, advertising, and beyond. However, the limited expressiveness of pre-trained word embeddings often restricts nuanced edits, especially when targeting novel concepts wi

2025

Towards Micro-Action Recognition with Limited Annotations: An Asynchronous Pseudo Labeling and Training Approach

IJCAI 2025

Micro-Action Recognition (MAR) aims to classify subtle human actions in video. However, annotating MAR datasets is particularly challenging due to the subtlety of actions. To this end, we introduce the setting of Semi-Supervised MAR (SSMAR), where only a part of samples are labeled. We first evaluat

2024

3D-GOI: 3D GAN Omni-Inversion for Multifaceted and Multi-object Editing

ECCV 2024poster

"The current GAN inversion methods typically can only edit the appearance and shape of a single object and background while overlooking spatial information. In this work, we propose a 3D editing framework, to enable multifaceted editing of affine information (scale, translation, and rotation) on mul…

2024

Diffusion-based Layer-wise Semantic Reconstruction for Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection

NeurIPS 2024poster

Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify out-of-domain data by learning only from unlabeled In-Distribution (ID) training samples, which is crucial for developing a safe real-world machine learning system. Current reconstruction-based method provides a good alternative appro…

2024

GP-NeRF: Generalized Perception NeRF for Context-Aware 3D Scene Understanding

CVPR 2024highlight

Applying Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to downstream perception tasks for scene understanding and representation is becoming increasingly popular. Most existing methods treat semantic prediction as an additional rendering task i.e. the "label rendering" task to build semantic NeRFs. However by rende…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2024

Instance-Aware Multi-Camera 3D Object Detection with Structural Priors Mining and Self-Boosting Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Camera-based bird-eye-view (BEV) perception paradigm has made significant progress in the autonomous driving field. Under such a paradigm, accurate BEV representation construction relies on reliable depth estimation for multi-camera images. However, existing approaches exhaustively predict depths fo…

2024

Open-Vocabulary Video Relation Extraction

AAAI 2024technical

A comprehensive understanding of videos is inseparable from describing the action with its contextual action-object interactions. However, many current video understanding tasks prioritize general action classification and overlook the actors and relationships that shape the nature of the action, re…

2024

Progressive Feature Self-Reinforcement for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2024technical

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it commonly focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in a disparity between weakly and fully supervision scenarios…

2024

Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning

ICML 2024spotlight

Visual prompt tuning (VPT) is a promising solution incorporating learnable prompt tokens to customize pre-trained models for downstream tasks. However, VPT and its variants often encounter challenges like prompt initialization, prompt length, and subpar performance in self-supervised pretraining, hi…

2024

ViT-Calibrator: Decision Stream Calibration for Vision Transformer

AAAI 2024technical

A surge of interest has emerged in utilizing Transformers in diverse vision tasks owing to its formidable performance. However, existing approaches primarily focus on optimizing internal model architecture designs that often entail significant trial and error with high burdens. In this work, we prop…

2023

Adapting Object Size Variance and Class Imbalance for Semi-supervised Object Detection

AAAI 2023technical

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) attracts extensive research interest due to its great significance in reducing the data annotation effort. Collecting high-quality and category-balanced pseudo labels for unlabeled images is critical to addressing the SSOD problem. However, most of the existin…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

Boosting Low-Data Instance Segmentation by Unsupervised Pre-Training With Saliency Prompt

CVPR 2023poster

Recently, inspired by DETR variants, query-based end-to-end instance segmentation (QEIS) methods have outperformed CNN-based models on large-scale datasets. Yet they would lose efficacy when only a small amount of training data is available since it's hard for the crucial queries/kernels to learn lo…

2023

De-biased Teacher: Rethinking IoU Matching for Semi-supervised Object Detection

AAAI 2023technical

Most of the recent research in semi-supervised object detection follows the pseudo-labeling paradigm evolved from the semi-supervised image classification task. However, the training paradigm of the two-stage object detector inevitably makes the pseudo-label learning process for unlabeled images ful…

2023

Generalization Matters: Loss Minima Flattening via Parameter Hybridization for Efficient Online Knowledge Distillation

CVPR 2023poster

Most existing online knowledge distillation(OKD) techniques typically require sophisticated modules to produce diverse knowledge for improving students' generalization ability. In this paper, we strive to fully utilize multi-model settings instead of well-designed modules to achieve a distillation e…

2021

Boundary Knowledge Translation based Reference Semantic Segmentation

IJCAI 2021poster

Given a reference object of an unknown type in an image, human observers can effortlessly find the objects of the same category in another image and precisely tell their visual boundaries. Such visual cognition capability of humans seems absent from the current research spectrum of computer vision.…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2021

Edge-competing Pathological Liver Vessel Segmentation with Limited Labels

AAAI 2021technical

The microvascular invasion (MVI) is a major prognostic factor in hepatocellular carcinoma, which is one of the malignant tumors with the highest mortality rate. The diagnosis of MVI needs discovering the vessels that contain hepatocellular carcinoma cells and counting their number in each vessel, wh…

2021

Visual Boundary Knowledge Translation for Foreground Segmentation

AAAI 2021technical

When confronted with objects of unknown types in an image, humans can effortlessly and precisely tell their visual boundaries. This recognition mechanism and underlying generalization capability seem to contrast to state-of-the-art image segmentation networks that rely on large-scale category-aware…