← Search

Shijie Zhao

20 accepted papers

2026

Bi-directional Autoregressive Diffusion for Large Complex Motion Interpolation

CVPR 2026

Despite recent progress, diffusion-based video frame interpolation methods still struggle with large, complex motions, resulting in discontinuous motions and inconsistent object appearances across frames. We observe that these limitations arise from both the current full-sequence interpolation strat

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Improved Adversarial Diffusion Compression for Real-World Video Super-Resolution

ICLR 2026poster

While many diffusion models have achieved impressive results in real-world video super-resolution (Real-VSR) by generating rich and realistic details, their reliance on multi-step sampling leads to slow inference. One-step networks like SeedVR2, DOVE, and DLoRAL alleviate this through condensing gen…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

ObjectAdv: Object-Level Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks via Diffusion Models

AAAI 2026technical

Unrestricted adversarial attacks aim to fool DNNs by generating effective yet photorealistic examples. However, previous methods usually rely on global perturbations to enhance attack performance, which inevitably introduces visual distortions. To reduce visual distortions in the background, we prop

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Opt2Skill: Imitating Dynamically-Feasible Whole-Body Trajectories for Versatile Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Humanoid robots are designed to perform diverse loco-manipulation tasks. However, they face challenges due to their high-dimensional and unstable dynamics, as well as the complex contact-rich nature of the tasks. Model-based optimal control methods offer flexibility to define precise motion but are …

2026

Realtime Video Frame Interpolation using One-Step Diffusion Sampling

ICLR 2026poster

Recent research on video Frame Interpolation (VFI) shows that a pretrained Video Diffusion Model (VDM) can solve many challenging scenarios, including large or complex motion. However, VDMs require tedious diffusion sampling, making the inference slow. One possible way to accelerate is to distill a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Reasoning as Representation: Rethinking Visual Reinforcement Learning in Image Quality Assessment

ICLR 2026oral

Reasoning-based image quality assessment (IQA) models trained through reinforcement learning (RL) exhibit exceptional generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms and critical factors driving this capability remain underexplored in current research. Moreover, despite their superior performance, the…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Spatio-Temporal Distortion Aware Omnidirectional Video Super-Resolution

AAAI 2026technical

Omnidirectional videos (ODVs) provide an immersive visual experience by capturing the 360° scene. With the rapid advancements in virtual/augmented reality, metaverse, and generative artificial intelligence, the demand for high-quality ODVs is surging. However, ODVs often suffer from low resolution d

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

UARE: A Unified Vision-Language Model for Image Quality Assessment, Restoration, and Enhancement

CVPR 2026

Image quality assessment (IQA) and image restoration are fundamental problems in low-level vision. Although IQA and restoration are closely connected conceptually, most existing work treats them in isolation. Recent advances in unified multimodal understanding-generation models demonstrate promising

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

VQ-Insight: Teaching VLMs for AI-Generated Video Quality Understanding via Progressive Visual Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2026technical

Recent advances in AI-generated content (AIGC) have led to the emergence of powerful text-to-video generation models. Despite these successes, evaluating the quality of AIGC-generated videos remains challenging due to limited generalization, lack of temporal awareness, heavy reliance on large-scale

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Opt2Skill: Imitating Dynamically-Feasible Whole-Body Trajectories for Versatile Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

RA-L 2025

Humanoid robots are designed to perform diverse loco-manipulation tasks. However, they face challenges due to their high-dimensional and unstable dynamics, as well as the complex contact-rich nature of the tasks. Model-based optimal control methods offer flexibility to define precise motion but are

Cited by 50SourcecodeScholar
2025

Q-Insight: Understanding Image Quality via Visual Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Image quality assessment (IQA) focuses on the perceptual visual quality of images, playing a crucial role in downstream tasks such as image reconstruction, compression, and generation. The rapid advancement of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has significantly broadened the scope of IQA, mo…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

A Tri-Dynamic Preprocessing Framework for UGC Video Compression

ICASSP 2024accepted

In recent years, user generated content (UGC) has become the dominant force in internet traffic. However, UGC videos exhibit a higher degree of variability and diverse characteristics compared to traditional encoding test videos. This variance challenges the effectiveness of data-driven machine lear…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

MoE-DiffIR: Task-customized Diffusion Priors for Universal Compressed Image Restoration

ECCV 2024poster

"We present MoE-DiffIR, an innovative universal compressed image restoration (CIR) method with task-customized diffusion priors. This intends to handle two pivotal challenges in the existing CIR methods: (i) lacking adaptability and universality for different image codecs, , JPEG and WebP; (ii) poor…

2024

Region-Adaptive Video Sharpening Via Rate-Perception Optimization

ICASSP 2024accepted

Sharpening is a widely adopted video enhancement technique. However, uniform sharpening intensity ignores texture variations, degrading video quality. Sharpening also increases bitrate, and there’s a lack of techniques to optimally allocate these additional bits across diverse regions. Thus, this pa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Panoramic Video Salient Object Detection with Ambisonic Audio Guidance

AAAI 2023technical

Video salient object detection (VSOD), as a fundamental computer vision problem, has been extensively discussed in the last decade. However, all existing works focus on addressing the VSOD problem in 2D scenarios. With the rapid development of VR devices, panoramic videos have been a promising alter…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2023

Self-Asymmetric Invertible Network for Compression-Aware Image Rescaling

AAAI 2023technical

High-resolution (HR) images are usually downscaled to low-resolution (LR) ones for better display and afterward upscaled back to the original size to recover details. Recent work in image rescaling formulates downscaling and upscaling as a unified task and learns a bijective mapping between HR and L…