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Rong Zhang

22 accepted papers

2026

FashionMAC: Deformation-Free Fashion Image Generation with Fine-Grained Model Appearance Customization

AAAI 2026technical

Garment-centric fashion image generation aims to synthesize realistic and controllable human models dressing a given garment, which has attracted growing interest due to its practical applications in e-commerce. The key challenges of the task lie in two aspects: (1) faithfully preserving the garment

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

LogicFusion: Differentiable Logical Rule Learning for Cancer Driver Gene Identification

IJCAI 2026

Identifying cancer driver genes (CDGs) requires integrating heterogeneous biological networks, each encoding distinct mechanistic insights into tumorigenesis. Existing multi-network methods typically fuse views at the feature level or enforce uniform representations, which obscures network-specific

Cited by 0Scholar
2025

AnimateAnything: Consistent and Controllable Animation for Video Generation

CVPR 2025poster

We propose a unified approach for video-controlled generation, enabling text-based guidance and manual annotations to control the generation of videos, similar to camera direction guidance. Specifically, we designed a two-stage algorithm. In the first stage, we convert all control information into f…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2025

UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatio-Temporal Decomposition

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advancements in video generation models have enabled the creation of diverse and realistic videos, with promising applications in advertising and film production. However, as one of the essential tasks of video generation models, video concept transfer remains significantly challenging. Exist…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

INDUS: Effective and Efficient Language Models for Scientific Applications

EMNLP 2024industry

Large language models (LLMs) trained on general domain corpora showed remarkable results on natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, previous research demonstrated LLMs trained using domain-focused corpora perform better on specialized tasks. Inspired by this insight, we developed INDUS, a…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

MetaJND: A Meta-Learning Approach for Just Noticeable Difference Estimation

IJCAI 2024poster

The modeling of just noticeable difference (JND) in supervised learning for visual signals has made significant progress. However, existing JND models often suffer from limited generalization due to the need for large-scale training data and their constraints to certain image types. Moreover, these…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Progressive Learning Based Knowledge Distillation for Low Resolution Cerebral Microbleed Segmentation

ICASSP 2024accepted

This study aims to address key technical issues in the segmentation of Cerebral MicroBleeds (CMBs) based on Low-Resolution (LR) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. There are two challenges in this task. First, the CMB lesions are typically small in size and easily confused with various mimics. Se…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

Visual Redundancy Removal for Composite Images: A Benchmark Dataset and a Multi-Visual-Effects Driven Incremental Method

AAAI 2024technical

Composite images (CIs) typically combine various elements from different scenes, views, and styles, which are a very important information carrier in the era of mixed media such as virtual reality, mixed reality, metaverse, etc. However, the complexity of CI content presents a significant challenge…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

COCO-O: A Benchmark for Object Detectors under Natural Distribution Shifts

ICCV 2023poster

Practical object detection application can lose its effectiveness on image inputs with natural distribution shifts. This problem leads the research community to pay more attention on the robustness of detectors under Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) inputs. Existing works construct datasets to benchmark th…

Cited by 23PDFcodeScholar
2023

ImageNet-E: Benchmarking Neural Network Robustness via Attribute Editing

CVPR 2023poster

Recent studies have shown that higher accuracy on ImageNet usually leads to better robustness against different corruptions. In this paper, instead of following the traditional research paradigm that investigates new out-of-distribution corruptions or perturbations deep models may encounter, we cond…

2023

Inequality phenomenon in $l_{\infty}$-adversarial training, and its unrealized threats

ICLR 2023top-25%

The appearance of adversarial examples raises attention from both academia and industry. Along with the attack-defense arms race, adversarial training is the most effective against adversarial examples. However, we find inequality phenomena occur during the $l_{\infty}$-adversarial training, that fe…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Transaudio: Towards the Transferable Adversarial Audio Attack Via Learning Contextualized Perturbations

ICASSP 2023accepted

In a transfer-based attack against Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, attacks are unable to access the architecture and parameters of the target model. Existing attack methods are mostly investigated in voice assistant scenarios with restricted voice commands, prohibiting their applicabilit…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Boosting Out-of-distribution Detection with Typical Features

NeurIPS 2022accept

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task for ensuring the reliability and safety of deep neural networks in real-world scenarios. Different from most previous OOD detection methods that focus on designing OOD scores or introducing diverse outlier examples to retrain the model, we delve…

Cited by 61SourcePDFScholar
2022

Emotionflow: Capture the Dialogue Level Emotion Transitions

ICASSP 2022accepted

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) has attracted increasing interests in recent years, due to its wide range of applications, such as customer service analysis, health-care consultation, etc. One key challenge of ERC is that users' emotions would change due to the impact of others' emotions.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Enhance the Visual Representation via Discrete Adversarial Training

NeurIPS 2022accept

Adversarial Training (AT), which is commonly accepted as one of the most effective approaches defending against adversarial examples, can largely harm the standard performance, thus has limited usefulness on industrial-scale production and applications. Surprisingly, this phenomenon is totally oppos…

2022

RoChBert: Towards Robust BERT Fine-tuning for Chinese

EMNLP 2022finding

Despite of the superb performance on a wide range of tasks, pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT) have been proved vulnerable to adversarial texts. In this paper, we present RoChBERT, a framework to build more Robust BERT-based models by utilizing a more comprehensive adversarial graph to fuse Ch…

2021

Counterfactual Adversarial Learning with Representation Interpolation

EMNLP 2021finding

Deep learning models exhibit a preference for statistical fitting over logical reasoning. Spurious correlations might be memorized when there exists statistical bias in training data, which severely limits the model performance especially in small data scenarios. In this work, we introduce Counterfa…

2021

Enhancing Model Robustness by Incorporating Adversarial Knowledge into Semantic Representation

ICASSP 2021accepted

Despite that deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved enormous success in many domains like natural language processing (NLP), they have also been proven to be vulnerable to maliciously generated adversarial examples. Such inherent vulnerability has threatened various real-world deployed DNNs-based…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

Enhancing Neural Models with Vulnerability via Adversarial Attack

COLING 2020main

Natural Language Sentence Matching (NLSM) serves as the core of many natural language processing tasks. 1) Most previous work develops a single specific neural model for NLSM tasks. 2) There is no previous work considering adversarial attack to improve the performance of NLSM tasks. 3) Adversarial a…

2020

The Open Brands Dataset: Unified Brand Detection and Recognition at Scale

ICASSP 2020accepted

Intellectual property protection(IPP) have received more and more attention recently due to the development of the global e-commerce platforms. brand recognition plays a significant role in IPP. Recent studies for brand recognition and detection are based on small-scale datasets that are not compreh…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2016

A new haze image database with detailed air quality information and a novel no-reference image quality assessment method for haze images

ICASSP 2016accepted

In this paper, we propose a new standard haze image database with nearly all kinds of haze situations. Our database includes haze-free images as well as different levels and situations of haze images, such as snowy and extremely serious haze images. Our database also records the related weather and…

Cited by 0SourceScholar