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Seong Jae Hwang

25 accepted papers

2026

Anchoring and Rescaling Attention for Semantically Coherent Inbetweening

CVPR 2026

Generative inbetweening (GI) seeks to synthesize realistic intermediate frames between the first and last keyframes beyond mere interpolation. As sequences become sparser and motions larger, previous GI models struggle with inconsistent frames with unstable pacing and semantic misalignment. Since GI

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2026

FEAST: Fully Connected Expressive Attention for Spatial Transcriptomics

CVPR 2026

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) provides spatially-resolved gene expression, offering crucial insights into tissue architecture and complex diseases. However, its prohibitive cost limits widespread adoption, leading to significant attention on inferring spatial gene expression from readily available wh

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2026

I'm a Map! Interpretable Motion-Attentive Maps: Spatio-Temporally Localizing Concepts in Video Diffusion Transformers

CVPR 2026

Video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have been synthesizing high-quality video with high fidelity from given text descriptions involving motion. However, understanding how Video DiTs convert motion words into video remains insufficient. Furthermore, while prior studies on interpretable saliency maps

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2026

Mitigating Mask Prior Drift and Positional Attention Collapse in Large Diffusion Vision-Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Large diffusion vision–language models (LDVLMs) have recently demonstrated competitive performance on multimodal tasks, emerging as a promising alternative to autoregressive models. They enable parallel decoding for efficient inference and leverage bidirectional attention to capture global context. …

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2026

Physics in 2-Steps: Locking Motion Priors Before Visual Refinement Erases Them

ICML 2026poster

Video diffusion models can generate visually stunning content, yet frequently produce motion that violates physical laws, objects accelerate implausibly or vanish mid-trajectory. We reveal a surprising finding: a 2-step generation often exhibits better physical consistency than a 50-step output from…

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2026

Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model

ICML 2026spotlight

We present an amortized framework for real-time visual attribution streaming in multimodal thinking models. When these models generate code from a screenshot or solve math problems from images, their long reasoning traces should be grounded in visual evidence. However, verifying this reliance is cha…

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2026

ViKey: Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Videos via Visual Prompting

CVPR 2026

Recent advancements in Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have enabled strong performance across diverse multimodal video tasks. To reduce the high computational cost of processing dense video frames, efficiency-oriented methods such as frame selection have been widely adopted. While effective

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2025

Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2025poster

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) has advanced with recent vision-language models (VLMs), enabling segmentation beyond predefined categories through various learning schemes. Notably, training-free methods offer scalable, easily deployable solutions for handling unseen data, a key goal of…

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2025

Interpreting vision transformers via residual replacement model

NeurIPS 2025poster

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by introducing the residual replacement model, which replaces ViT compu…

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2025

PLATYPUS: Progressive Local Surface Estimator for Arbitrary-Scale Point Cloud Upsampling

AAAI 2025technical

3D point clouds are increasingly vital for applications like autonomous driving and robotics, yet the raw data captured by sensors often suffer from noise and sparsity, creating challenges for downstream tasks. Consequently, point cloud upsampling becomes essential for improving density and uniformi…

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2025

Rare Text Semantics Were Always There in Your Diffusion Transformer

NeurIPS 2025poster

Starting from flow- and diffusion-based transformers, Multi-modal Diffusion Transformers (MM-DiTs) have reshaped text-to-vision generation, gaining acclaim for exceptional visual fidelity. As these models advance, users continually push the boundary with imaginative or rare prompts, which advanced m…

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2025

See What You Are Told: Visual Attention Sink in Large Multimodal Models

ICLR 2025poster

Large multimodal models (LMMs) "see" images by leveraging the attention mechanism between text and visual tokens in the transformer decoder. Ideally, these models should focus on key visual information relevant to the text token. However, recent findings indicate that LMMs have an extraordinary tend…

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2025

Spatial Transport Optimization by Repositioning Attention Map for Training-Free Text-to-Image Synthesis

CVPR 2025poster

Diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models have recently excelled in high-quality image generation, particularly in a training-free manner, enabling cost-effective adaptability and generalization across diverse tasks. However, while the existing methods have been continuously focusing on several cha…

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2025

WAVE: Warp-Based View Guidance for Consistent Novel View Synthesis Using a Single Image

ICCV 2025poster

Generating high-quality novel views of a scene from a single image requires maintaining structural coherence across different views, referred to as view consistency.While diffusion models have driven advancements in novel view synthesis, they still struggle to preserve spatial continuity across view…

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2025

Your Large Vision-Language Model Only Needs A Few Attention Heads For Visual Grounding

CVPR 2025highlight

Visual grounding seeks to localize the image region corresponding to a free-form text description. Recently, the strong multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have driven substantial improvements in visual grounding, though they inevitably require fine-tuning and additional…

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2024

EAGLE: Eigen Aggregation Learning for Object-Centric Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2024highlight

Semantic segmentation has innately relied on extensive pixel-level annotated data leading to the emergence of unsupervised methodologies. Among them leveraging self-supervised Vision Transformers for unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) has been making steady progress with expressive deep featur…

2022

PAC-Bayesian domain adaptation bounds for multiclass learners

UAI 2022poster

Multiclass neural networks are a common tool in modern unsupervised domain adaptation, yet an appropriate theoretical description for their non-uniform sample complexity is lacking in the adaptation literature. To fill this gap, we propose the first PAC-Bayesian adaptation bounds for multiclass lear…

2022

Test-time Fourier Style Calibration for Domain Generalization

IJCAI 2022poster

The topic of generalizing machine learning models learned on a collection of source domains to unknown target domains is challenging. While many domain generalization (DG) methods have achieved promising results, they primarily rely on the source domains at train-time without manipulating the target…

2022

The Change that Matters in Discourse Parsing: Estimating the Impact of Domain Shift on Parser Error

ACL 2022findings

Discourse analysis allows us to attain inferences of a text document that extend beyond the sentence-level. The current performance of discourse models is very low on texts outside of the training distribution’s coverage, diminishing the practical utility of existing models. There is need for a meas…

2021

Point Cloud Augmentation With Weighted Local Transformations

ICCV 2021poster

Despite the extensive usage of point clouds in 3D vision, relatively limited data are available for training deep neural networks. Although data augmentation is a standard approach to compensate for the scarcity of data, it has been less explored in the point cloud literature. In this paper, we prop…

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2019

Conditional Recurrent Flow: Conditional Generation of Longitudinal Samples With Applications to Neuroimaging

ICCV 2019accepted

We develop a conditional generative model for longitudinal image datasets based on sequential invertible neural networks. Longitudinal image acquisitions are common in various scientific and biomedical studies where often each image sequence sample may also come together with various secondary (fixe…

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2019

Sampling-free Uncertainty Estimation in Gated Recurrent Units with Applications to Normative Modeling in Neuroimaging

UAI 2019poster

There has recently been a concerted effort to derive mechanisms in vision and machine learning systems to offer uncertainty estimates of the predictions they make. Clearly, there are enormous benefits to a system that is not only accurate but also has a sense for when it is not. Existing proposals c…

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2018

Tensorize, Factorize and Regularize: Robust Visual Relationship Learning

CVPR 2018poster

Visual relationships provide higher-level information of objects and their relations in an image – this enables a semantic understanding of the scene and helps downstream applications. Given a set of localized objects in some training data, visual relationship detection seeks to detect the most like…

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2016

Coupled Harmonic Bases for Longitudinal Characterization of Brain Networks

CVPR 2016poster

There is a great deal of interest in using large scale brain imaging studies to understand how brain connectivity evolves over time for an individual and how it varies over different levels/quantiles of cognitive function. To do so, one typically performs so-called tractography procedures on diffusi…

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2015

A Projection Free Method for Generalized Eigenvalue Problem With a Nonsmooth Regularizer

ICCV 2015poster

Eigenvalue problems are ubiquitous in computer vision, covering a very broad spectrum of applications ranging from estimation problems in multi-view geometry to image segmentation. Few other linear algebra problems have a more mature set of numerical routines available and many computer vision libra…

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