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Ming Lu

57 accepted papers

2026

AD-MIR: Bridging the Gap from Perception to Persuasion in Advertising Video Understanding via Structured Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal understanding of advertising videos is essential for interpreting the intricate relationship between visual storytelling and abstract persuasion strategies. However, despite excelling at general search, existing agents often struggle to bridge the cognitive gap between pixel-level percept…

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2026

BranchGRPO: Stable and Efficient GRPO with Structured Branching in Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent progress in aligning image and video generative models with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has improved human preference alignment, but existing variants remain inefficient due to sequential rollouts and large numbers of sampling steps, unreliable credit assignment,as sparse termin…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

DiT-IC: Aligned Diffusion Transformer for Efficient Image Compression

CVPR 2026

Diffusion-based image compression has recently shown outstanding perceptual fidelity, yet its practicality is hindered by prohibitive sampling overhead and high memory usage.Most existing diffusion codecs employ UNet architectures, where hierarchical downsampling forces diffusion to operate in shall

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

FastDriveVLA: Efficient End-to-End Driving via Plug-and-Play Reconstruction-based Token Pruning

AAAI 2026technical

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential in complex scene understanding and action reasoning, leading to their increasing adoption in end-to-end autonomous driving systems. However, the long visual tokens of VLA models greatly increase computational costs. Current

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2026

MMG-Vid: Maximizing Marginal Gains at Segment-level and Token-level for Efficient Video LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) excel in video understanding, but their excessive visual tokens pose a significant computational challenge for real-world applications. Current methods aim to enhance inference efficiency by visual token pruning. However, they do not consider the dynamic character

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2026

ManipDreamer3D: Synthesizing Plausible Robotic Manipulation Video with Occupancy-aware 3D Trajectory

AAAI 2026technical

Data scarcity continues to be a critical bottleneck in the field of robotic manipulation, limiting the ability to train robust and generalizable models. While diffusion models provide a promising approach to synthesizing realistic robotic manipulation videos, their effectiveness hinges on the availa

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2026

ManipDreamer: Boosting Robotic Manipulation World Model with Action Tree and Visual Guidance

ICASSP 2026poster

While recent advancements in robotic manipulation video synthesis have shown promise, significant challenges persist in ensuring effective instruction-following and achieving high visual quality. Recent methods, like RoboDreamer, utilize linguistic decomposition to divide instructions into separate…

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2026

ParkGaussian: Surround-view 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Parking

CVPR 2026

Parking is a critical task for autonomous driving systems (ADS), with unique challenges in crowded parking slots and GPS-denied environments. However, existing works focus on 2D parking slot perception, mapping, and localization, 3D reconstruction remains underexplored, which is crucial for capturin

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2026

Reinforced Rate Control for Neural Video Compression via Inter-Frame Rate–Distortion Awareness

AAAI 2026technical

Neural video compression (NVC) has demonstrated superior compression efficiency, yet effective rate control remains a significant challenge due to complex temporal dependencies. Existing rate control schemes typically leverage frame content to capture distortion interactions, overlooking inter-frame

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2026

Rethinking Driving World Model as Synthetic Data Generator for Perception Tasks

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advancements in driving world models enable controllable generation of high-quality RGB videos or multimodal videos. Existing methods primarily focus on metrics related to generation quality and controllability. However, they often overlook the evaluation of downstream perception tasks, whi…

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2026

StreamKV: Streaming Video Question-Answering with Segment-based KV Cache Retrieval and Compression

AAAI 2026technical

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in the areas of video captioning, search, and summarization. However, current Video-LLMs still face challenges with long real-world videos. Recent methods have introduced a retrieval mechanism that retrieves query-relev

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2026

Taming Hierarchical Image Coding Optimization: A Spectral Regularization Perspective

ICLR 2026poster

Hierarchical coding offers distinct advantages for learned image compression by capturing multi-scale representations to support scale-wise modeling and enable flexible quality scalability, making it a promising alternative to single-scale models. However, its practical performance remains limited.…

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2026

TimeSearch-R: Adaptive Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding via Self-Verification Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Temporal search aims to identify a minimal set of relevant frames from tens of thousands based on a given query, serving as a foundation for accurate long-form video understanding. Many existing works attempt to progressively narrow the search space. However, these approaches typically rely on a han…

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2026

UniEdit-I: Training-free Image Editing for Unified VLM via Iterative Understanding, Editing and Verifying

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in diffusion models and vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced the controllability of image editing. Methods like FlowEdit enable step-by-step editing along a visible, noise-free trajectory, where each intermediate result is a clear image, eliminating the need for

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VCU-Bridge: Hierarchical Visual Connotation Understanding via Semantic Bridging

CVPR 2026

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel on benchmarks, their processing paradigm differs from the human ability to integrate visual information. Unlike humans who naturally bridge details and high-level concepts, models tend to treat these elements in isolation. Prevailing evaluation pr

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2025

3DRealCar: An In-the-wild RGB-D Car Dataset with 360-degree Views

ICCV 2025poster

3D cars are widely used in self-driving systems, virtual and augmented reality, and gaming applications. However, existing 3D car datasets are either synthetic or low-quality, limiting their practical utility and leaving a significant gap with the high-quality real-world 3D car dataset. In this pape…

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2025

Beyond Attention or Similarity: Maximizing Conditional Diversity for Token Pruning in MLLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

In multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the length of input visual tokens is often significantly greater than that of their textual counterparts, leading to a high inference cost. Many works aim to address this issue by removing redundant visual tokens. However, current approaches either rely o…

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2025

Beyond Text-Visual Attention: Exploiting Visual Cues for Effective Token Pruning in VLMs

ICCV 2025poster

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) generally contain significantly more visual tokens than their textual counterparts, resulting in a considerable computational burden. Recent efforts have been made to tackle this issue by pruning visual tokens early within the language model. Most existing works u…

2025

DreamCar: Leveraging Car-Specific Prior for In-the-Wild 3D Car Reconstruction

RA-L 2025

Self-driving industries usually employ professional artists to build exquisite 3D cars. However, it is expensive to craft large-scale digital assets. Since there are already numerous datasets available that contain a vast number of images of cars, we focus on reconstructing high-quality 3D car model

Cited by 8SourcecodeScholar
2025

EMD: Explicit Motion Modeling for High-Quality Street Gaussian Splatting

ICCV 2025poster

Photorealistic reconstruction of street scenes is essential for developing real-world simulators in autonomous driving. While recent methods based on 3D/4D Gaussian Splatting (GS) have demonstrated promising results, they still encounter challenges in complex street scenes due to the unpredictable m…

2025

GaussianEnhancer: A General Rendering Enhancer for Gaussian Splatting

ICASSP 2025accepted

Gaussian Splatting (GS) methods, including 3DGS and 2DGS, have demonstrated exceptional performance in real-time novel view synthesis (NVS), emerging as a transformative technology in the fields of explicit rendering and computer graphics. However, GS-based methods still face challenges in rendering…

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2025

GazeGaussian: High-Fidelity Gaze Redirection with 3D Gaussian Splatting

ICCV 2025poster

Gaze estimation encounters generalization challenges when dealing with out-of-distribution data. To address this problem, recent methods use neural radiance fields (NeRF) to generate augmented data. However, existing methods based on NeRF are computationally expensive and lack facial details. 3D Gau…

2025

GraphAvatar: Compact Head Avatars with GNN-Generated 3D Gaussians

AAAI 2025technical

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity and efficiency. Recent methods using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D…

2025

Integrating Adaptive Sampling for Optimal Learned Video Compression

ICASSP 2025accepted

We propose a novel adaptive prediction network that dynamically determines the optimal sampling factor and Lagrangian multiplier for encoding each frame, guided by sequential information. By exploiting spatio-temporal redundancy through adaptive sampling, our method reduces bitrate consumption while…

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2025

K-Buffers: A Plug-in Method for Enhancing Neural Fields with Multiple Buffers

IJCAI 2025

Neural fields are now the central focus of research in 3D vision and computer graphics. Existing methods mainly focus on various scene representations, such as neural points and 3D Gaussians. However, few works have studied the rendering process to enhance the neural fields. In this work, we propose

2025

MoVE-KD: Knowledge Distillation for VLMs with Mixture of Visual Encoders

CVPR 2025poster

Visual encoders are fundamental components in vision-language models (VLMs), each showcasing unique strengths derived from various pre-trained visual foundation models. To leverage the various capabilities of these encoders, recent studies incorporate multiple encoders within a single VLM, leading t…

2025

Neural B-frame Video Compression with Bi-directional Reference Harmonization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Neural video compression (NVC) has made significant progress in recent years, while neural B-frame video compression (NBVC) remains underexplored compared to P-frame compression. NBVC can adopt bi-directional reference frames for better compression performance. However, NBVC's hierarchical coding ma…

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2025

On Quantizing Neural Representation for Variable-Rate Video Coding

ICLR 2025spotlight

This work introduces NeuroQuant, a novel post-training quantization (PTQ) approach tailored to non-generalized Implicit Neural Representations for variable-rate Video Coding (INR-VC). Unlike existing methods that require extensive weight retraining for each target bitrate, we hypothesize that variab…

2025

SliceOcc: Indoor 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction with Vertical Slice Representation

ICRA 2025

3D semantic occupancy prediction is a crucial task in visual perception, as it requires the simultaneous comprehension of both scene geometry and semantics. It plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scenes and has great potential for various applications, such as robotic vision perception and auto

Cited by 5SourcecodeScholar
2025

ThermalGaussian: Thermal 3D Gaussian Splatting

ICLR 2025poster

Thermography is especially valuable for the military and other users of surveillance cameras. Some recent methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are proposed to reconstruct the thermal scenes in 3D from a set of thermal and RGB images. However, unlike NeRF, 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) preva…

2025

Towards Loss-Resilient Image Coding for Unstable Satellite Networks

AAAI 2025technical

Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite communication demonstrates significant advantages in emergency short burst data services. However, unstable satellite networks, particularly those with frequent packet loss, present a severe challenge to accurate image transmission. To address it, we propose…

2025

Ultra Lowrate Image Compression with Semantic Residual Coding and Compression-aware Diffusion

ICML 2025poster

Existing multimodal large model-based image compression frameworks often rely on a fragmented integration of semantic retrieval, latent compression, and generative models, resulting in suboptimal performance in both reconstruction fidelity and coding efficiency. To address these challenges, we propo…

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2025

UniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens

NeurIPS 2025poster

Personalized models have demonstrated remarkable success in understanding and generating concepts provided by users. However, existing methods use separate concept tokens for understanding and generation, treating these tasks in isolation. This may result in limitations for generating images with co…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

All-in-One Image Coding for Joint Human-Machine Vision with Multi-Path Aggregation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Image coding for multi-task applications, catering to both human perception and machine vision, has been extensively investigated. Existing methods often rely on multiple task-specific encoder-decoder pairs, leading to high overhead of parameter and bitrate usage, or face challenges in multi-objecti…

2024

Another Way to the Top: Exploit Contextual Clustering in Learned Image Coding

AAAI 2024technical

While convolution and self-attention are extensively used in learned image compression (LIC) for transform coding, this paper proposes an alternative called Contextual Clustering based LIC (CLIC) which primarily relies on clustering operations and local attention for correlation characterization and…

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2024

BEVUDA: Multi-geometric Space Alignments for Domain Adaptive BEV 3D Object Detection

ICRA 2024poster

Vision-centric bird-eye-view (BEV) perception has shown promising potential in autonomous driving. Recent works mainly focus on improving efficiency or accuracy but neglect the challenges when facing environment changing, resulting in severe degradation of transfer performance. For BEV perception, w…

Cited by 5SourcecodeScholar
2024

I-MedSAM: Implicit Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything

ECCV 2024poster

"With the development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many efforts have been made to handle medical image segmentation. Traditional methods such as nnUNet train specific segmentation models on the individual datasets. Plenty of recent methods have been proposed to adapt the foundational Segment Anyt…

2024

NTO3D: Neural Target Object 3D Reconstruction with Segment Anything

CVPR 2024poster

Neural 3D reconstruction from multi-view images has recently attracted increasing attention from the community. Existing methods normally learn a neural field for the whole scene while it is still under-explored how to reconstruct a target object indicated by users. Considering the Segment Anything…

2024

Towards Backward-Compatible Continual Learning of Image Compression

CVPR 2024poster

This paper explores the possibility of extending the capability of pre-trained neural image compressors (e.g. adapting to new data or target bitrates) without breaking backward compatibility the ability to decode bitstreams encoded by the original model. We refer to this problem as continual learnin…

2024

Unsupervised Spike Depth Estimation via Cross-modality Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer

ICRA 2024poster

Neuromorphic spike data, an upcoming modality with high temporal resolution, has shown promising potential in autonomous driving by mitigating the challenges posed by high-velocity motion blur. However, training the spike depth estimation network holds significant challenges in two aspects: sparse s…

Cited by 10SourcecodeScholar
2024

ViDA: Homeostatic Visual Domain Adapter for Continual Test Time Adaptation

ICLR 2024poster

Since real-world machine systems are running in non-stationary environments, Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) task is proposed to adapt the pre-trained model to continually changing target domains. Recently, existing methods mainly focus on model-based adaptation, which aims to leverage a self-…

2023

A Comprehensive Comparison of Projections in Omnidirectional Super-Resolution

ICASSP 2023accepted

Super-Resolution (SR) has gained increasing research attention over the past few years. With the development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), many super-resolution methods based on DNNs have been proposed. Although most of these methods are aimed at ordinary frames, there are few works on super-resol…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

BEV-SAN: Accurate BEV 3D Object Detection via Slice Attention Networks

CVPR 2023poster

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) 3D Object Detection is a crucial multi-view technique for autonomous driving systems. Recently, plenty of works are proposed, following a similar paradigm consisting of three essential components, i.e., camera feature extraction, BEV feature construction, and task heads. Among…

Cited by 28SourcePDFScholar
2023

CABM: Content-Aware Bit Mapping for Single Image Super-Resolution Network With Large Input

CVPR 2023poster

With the development of high-definition display devices, the practical scenario of Super-Resolution (SR) usually needs to super-resolve large input like 2K to higher resolution (4K/8K). To reduce the computational and memory cost, current methods first split the large input into local patches and th…

2023

QD-BEV : Quantization-aware View-guided Distillation for Multi-view 3D Object Detection

ICCV 2023poster

Multi-view 3D detection based on BEV (bird-eye-view) has recently achieved significant improvements. However, the huge memory consumption of state-of-the-art models makes it hard to deploy them on vehicles, and the non-trivial latency will affect the real-time perception of streaming applications. D…

Cited by 11PDFScholar
2022

Adaptive Patch Exiting for Scalable Single Image Super-Resolution

ECCV 2022poster

"Since the future of computing is heterogeneous, scalability is a crucial problem for single image super-resolution. Recent works try to train one network, which can be deployed on platforms with different capacities. However, they rely on the pixel-wise sparse convolution, which is not hardware-fri…

2022

Efficient Meta-Tuning for Content-Aware Neural Video Delivery

ECCV 2022poster

"Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are utilized to reduce the bandwidth and improve the quality of Internet video delivery. Existing methods train corresponding content-aware super-resolution (SR) model for each video chunk on the server, and stream low-resolution (LR) video chunks along with SR…

2022

Structure-Aware Editable Morphable Model for 3D Facial Detail Animation and Manipulation

ECCV 2022poster

"Morphable models are essential for the statistical modeling of 3D faces. Previous works on morphable models mostly focus on large-scale facial geometry but ignore facial details. This paper augments morphable models in representing facial details by learning a Structure-aware Editable Morphable Mod…

2021

Overfitting the Data: Compact Neural Video Delivery via Content-Aware Feature Modulation

ICCV 2021poster

Internet video delivery has undergone a tremendous explosion of growth over the past few years. However, the quality of video delivery system greatly depends on the Internet bandwidth. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are utilized to improve the quality of video delivery recently. These methods divide a…

Cited by 38PDFcodeScholar
2017

Decoder Network Over Lightweight Reconstructed Feature for Fast Semantic Style Transfer

ICCV 2017poster

Recently, the community of style transfer is trying to incorporate semantic information into traditional system. This practice achieves better perceptual results by transferring the style between semantically-corresponding regions. Yet, few efforts are invested to address the computation bottleneck…

Cited by 71PDFScholar
2017

Physics Inspired Optimization on Semantic Transfer Features: An Alternative Method for Room Layout Estimation

CVPR 2017poster

In this paper, we propose an alternative method to estimate room layouts of cluttered indoor scenes. This method enjoys the benefits of two novel techniques. The first one is semantic transfer (ST), which is: (1) a formulation to integrate the relationship between scene clutter and room layout into…

Cited by 87PDFScholar
2017

RON: Reverse Connection With Objectness Prior Networks for Object Detection

CVPR 2017poster

We present RON, an efficient and effective framework for generic object detection. Our motivation is to smartly associate the best of the region-based (e.g., Faster R-CNN) and region-free (e.g., SSD) methodologies. Under fully convolutional architecture, RON mainly focuses on two fundamental problem…

Cited by 539PDFScholar
2016

A semi-global matching method for large-scale light field images

ICASSP 2016accepted

Semi-Global Matching (SGM) is a robust method in traditional stereo matching. It maintains precise boundary with low computational cost. However, directly applying SGM to light field stereo matching degrades the results greatly due to the sparsity of support points. In this letter, we proposes a nov…

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