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Long Zhao

33 accepted papers

2026

VULCAN: Tool-Augmented Multi Agents for Iterative 3D Object Arrangement

CVPR 2026

Despite the remarkable progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in 2D vision-language tasks, their application to complex 3D scene manipulation remains underexplored. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by tackling three key challenges in 3D object arrangement task using MLLMs. Fi

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2025

Epsilon-VAE: Denoising as Visual Decoding

ICML 2025poster

In generative modeling, tokenization simplifies complex data into compact, structured representations, creating a more efficient, learnable space. For high-dimensional visual data, it reduces redundancy and emphasizes key features for high-quality generation. Current visual tokenization methods rely…

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2025

InstructSAM: A Training-free Framework for Instruction-Oriented Remote Sensing Object Recognition

NeurIPS 2025poster

Language-guided object recognition in remote sensing imagery is crucial for large-scale mapping and automated data annotation. However, existing open-vocabulary and visual grounding methods rely on explicit category cues, limiting their ability to handle complex or implicit queries that require adva…

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2025

The Hidden Life of Tokens: Reducing Hallucination of Large Vision-Language Models Via Visual Information Steering

ICML 2025poster

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can reason effectively over both textual and visual inputs, but they tend to hallucinate syntactically coherent yet visually ungrounded contents. In this paper, we investigate the internal dynamics of hallucination by examining the tokens logits rankings througho…

2024

Distilling Vision-Language Models on Millions of Videos

CVPR 2024poster

The recent advance in vision-language models is largely attributed to the abundance of image-text data. We aim to replicate this success for video-language models but there simply is not enough human-curated video-text data available. We thus resort to fine-tuning a video-language model from a stron…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2024

Filter-Enhanced Hypergraph Transformer for Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation

ICASSP 2024accepted

Sequential recommendation has been developed to predict the next item in which users are most interested by capturing user behavior patterns embedded in their historical interaction sequences. However, most existing methods appear to exhibit limitations in modeling fine-grained dependencies embedded…

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2024

Generating Enhanced Negatives for Training Language-Based Object Detectors

CVPR 2024poster

The recent progress in language-based open-vocabulary object detection can be largely attributed to finding better ways of leveraging large-scale data with free-form text annotations. Training such models with a discriminative objective function has proven successful but requires good positive and n…

2024

MINES: Message Intercommunication for Inductive Relation Reasoning over Neighbor-Enhanced Subgraphs

AAAI 2024technical

GraIL and its variants have shown their promising capacities for inductive relation reasoning on knowledge graphs. However, the uni-directional message-passing mechanism hinders such models from exploiting hidden mutual relations between entities in directed graphs. Besides, the enclosing subgraph e…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2024

Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

ECCV 2024poster

"In this paper, we investigate the use of diffusion models which are pre-trained on large-scale image-caption pairs for open-vocabulary 3D semantic understanding. We propose a novel method, namely Diff2Scene, which leverages frozen representations from text-image generative models, along with salien…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Sample-Level Cross-View Similarity Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

AAAI 2024technical

Incomplete multi-view clustering has attracted much attention due to its ability to handle partial multi-view data. Recently, similarity-based methods have been developed to explore the complete relationship among incomplete multi-view data. Although widely applied to partial scenarios, most of the…

2024

Structured Video-Language Modeling with Temporal Grouping and Spatial Grounding

ICLR 2024poster

Existing video-language pre-training methods primarily focus on instance-level alignment between video clips and captions via global contrastive learning but neglect rich fine-grained local information in both videos and text, which is of importance to downstream tasks requiring temporal localizatio…

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2024

Taming Self-Training for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

CVPR 2024poster

Recent studies have shown promising performance in open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) by utilizing pseudo labels (PLs) from pretrained vision and language models (VLMs). However teacher-student self-training a powerful and widely used paradigm to leverage PLs is rarely explored for OVD. This wor…

2024

VideoPrism: A Foundational Visual Encoder for Video Understanding

ICML 2024poster

We introduce VideoPrism, a general-purpose video encoder that tackles diverse video understanding tasks with a single frozen model. We pretrain VideoPrism on a heterogeneous corpus containing 36M high-quality video-caption pairs and 582M video clips with noisy parallel text (e.g., ASR transcripts).…

Cited by 109SourcePDFScholar
2023

Learning from Semantic Alignment between Unpaired Multiviews for Egocentric Video Recognition

ICCV 2023poster

We are concerned with a challenging scenario in unpaired multiview video learning. In this case, the model aims to learn comprehensive multiview representations while the cross-view semantic information exhibits variations. We propose Semantics-based Unpaired Multiview Learning (SUM-L) to tackle thi…

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2023

Unified Visual Relationship Detection with Vision and Language Models

ICCV 2023poster

This work focuses on training a single visual relationship detector predicting over the union of label spaces from multiple datasets. Merging labels spanning different datasets could be challenging due to inconsistent taxonomies. The issue is exacerbated in visual relationship detection when second-…

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2022

COMPOSER: Compositional Reasoning of Group Activity in Videos with Keypoint-Only Modality

ECCV 2022poster

"Group Activity Recognition detects the activity collectively performed by a group of actors, which requires compositional reasoning of actors and objects. We approach the task by modeling the video as tokens that represent the multi-scale semantic concepts in the video. We propose COMPOSER, a Multi…

2022

Exploiting Unlabeled Data with Vision and Language Models for Object Detection

ECCV 2022poster

"Building robust and generic object detection frameworks requires scaling to larger label spaces and bigger training datasets. However, it is prohibitively costly to acquire annotations for thousands of categories at a large scale. We propose a novel method that leverages the rich semantics availabl…

2022

Global Matching With Overlapping Attention for Optical Flow Estimation

CVPR 2022poster

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recent direct-regression methods using deep neural networks achieve remarkable performance improvement. However, they do not explicitly capture long-term motion correspondences and thus cannot handle large motions effectively. In this…

Cited by 106PDFcodeScholar
2022

Hierarchically Self-Supervised Transformer for Human Skeleton Representation Learning

ECCV 2022poster

"Despite the success of fully-supervised human skeleton sequence modeling, utilizing self-supervised pre-training for skeleton sequence representation learning has been an active field because acquiring task-specific skeleton annotations at large scales is difficult. Recent studies focus on learning…

2022

Nested Hierarchical Transformer: Towards Accurate, Data-Efficient and Interpretable Visual Understanding

AAAI 2022technical

Hierarchical structures are popular in recent vision transformers, however, they require sophisticated designs and massive datasets to work well. In this paper, we explore the idea of nesting basic local transformers on non-overlapping image blocks and aggregating them in a hierarchical way. We find…

2022

Target-Aware Auto-Augmentation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection

ICASSP 2022accepted

Recent researches show that data auto-augmentation strategies can enhance the performance of object detection models. However, the existing works mainly focus on in-domain generalization. There is still a blank in out-of-domain generalization. In this paper, for the first time, we propose an auto-au…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2021

Improved Transformer for High-Resolution GANs

NeurIPS 2021poster

Attention-based models, exemplified by the Transformer, can effectively model long range dependency, but suffer from the quadratic complexity of self-attention operation, making them difficult to be adopted for high-resolution image generation based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this…

2021

Learning View-Disentangled Human Pose Representation by Contrastive Cross-View Mutual Information Maximization

CVPR 2021poster

We introduce a novel representation learning method to disentangle pose-dependent as well as view-dependent factors from 2D human poses. The method trains a network using cross-view mutual information maximization (CV-MIM) which maximizes mutual information of the same pose performed from different…

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2021

SMIL: Multimodal Learning with Severely Missing Modality

AAAI 2021technical

A common assumption in multimodal learning is the completeness of training data, i.e., full modalities are available in all training examples. Although there exists research endeavor in developing novel methods to tackle the incompleteness of testing data, e.g., modalities are partially missing in t…

2020

Knowledge As Priors: Cross-Modal Knowledge Generalization for Datasets Without Superior Knowledge

CVPR 2020poster

Cross-modal knowledge distillation deals with transferring knowledge from a model trained with superior modalities (Teacher) to another model trained with weak modalities (Student). Existing approaches require paired training examples exist in both modalities. However, accessing the data from superi…

Cited by 92PDFScholar
2020

Maximum-Entropy Adversarial Data Augmentation for Improved Generalization and Robustness

NeurIPS 2020poster

Adversarial data augmentation has shown promise for training robust deep neural networks against unforeseen data shifts or corruptions. However, it is difficult to define heuristics to generate effective fictitious target distributions containing "hard" adversarial perturbations that are largely dif…

2019

Rethinking Kernel Methods for Node Representation Learning on Graphs

NeurIPS 2019poster

Graph kernels are kernel methods measuring graph similarity and serve as a standard tool for graph classification. However, the use of kernel methods for node classification, which is a related problem to graph representation learning, is still ill-posed and the state-of-the-art methods are heavily…

2019

Semantic Graph Convolutional Networks for 3D Human Pose Regression

CVPR 2019poster

In this paper, we study the problem of learning Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) for regression. Current architectures of GCNs are limited to the small receptive field of convolution filters and shared transformation matrix for each node. To address these limitations, we propose Semantic Graph Co…

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2018

Learning to Forecast and Refine Residual Motion for Image-to-Video Generation

ECCV 2018poster

We consider the problem of image-to-video translation, where an input image is translated into an output video containing motions of a single object. Recent methods for such problems typically train transformation networks to generate future frames conditioned on the structure sequence. Parallel wor…

Cited by 119SourcePDFScholar
2015

Object Proposal by Multi-Branch Hierarchical Segmentation

CVPR 2015poster

Hierarchical segmentation based object proposal methods have become an important step in modern object detection paradigm. However, standard single-way hierarchical methods are fundamentally flawed in that the errors in early steps cannot be corrected and accumulate. In this work, we propose a novel…

Cited by 45SourcePDFScholar