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Shuo Cao

9 accepted papers

2026

ArtiMuse: Fine-Grained Image Aesthetics Assessment with Joint Scoring and Expert-Level Understanding

CVPR 2026

The rapid advancement of educational applications, artistic creation, and AI-generated content (AIGC) technologies has substantially increased practical requirements for comprehensive Image Aesthetics Assessment (IAA), particularly demanding methods capable of delivering both quantitative scoring an

Cited by 32SourcecodeScholar
2026

LinearSR: Unlocking Linear Attention for Stable and Efficient Image Super-Resolution

ICLR 2026poster

Generative models for Image Super-Resolution (SR) are increasingly powerful, yet their reliance on self-attention's quadratic complexity ($O(N^2)$) creates a major computational bottleneck. Linear Attention offers an $O(N)$ solution, but its promise for photorealistic SR has remained largely untappe…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

MICE-Bench: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Creation and Editing

ICML 2026poster

The paradigm of visual generation is rapidly shifting from single-image conditioning toward multi-image conditioning, making the ability to synthesize and edit images based on multiple visual references a critical capability. Despite this trend, existing benchmarks remain largely limited to single-r…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PICABench: How Far are We from Physical Realistic Image Editing?

ICLR 2026poster

Image editing has achieved remarkable progress recently. Modern editing models could already follow complex instructions to manipulate the original content. However, beyond completing the editing instructions, the accompanying physical effects are the key to the generation realism. For example, remo…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

StableI2I: Spotting Unintended Changes in Image-to-Image Transition

ICML 2026poster

In most real-world image-to-image (I2I) scenarios, existing evaluations primarily focus on instruction following and the perceptual quality or aesthetics of the generated images. However, they largely fail to assess whether the output image preserves the semantic correspondence and spatial structure…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture

ICML 2026spotlight

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual understanding tasks such as visual grounding, segmentation, and captioning. However, their ability to perceive perceptual-level image features remains limited. In this work, we present UniPercept-Bench, a unified fr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

dMLLM-TTS: Self-Verified and Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large Language Models

CVPR 2026

Diffusion Multi-modal Large Language Models (dMLLMs) have recently emerged as a novel architecture unifying image generation and understanding. However, developing effective and efficient Test-Time Scaling (TTS) methods to unlock their full generative potential remains an underexplored challenge. To

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

DiffVSR: Revealing an Effective Recipe for Taming Robust Video Super-Resolution Against Complex Degradations

ICCV 2025poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in image restoration, yet their application to video super-resolution (VSR) faces significant challenges in balancing fidelity with temporal consistency. Our evaluation reveals a critical gap: existing approaches consistently fail on severe…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

GRIDS: Grouped Multiple-Degradation Restoration with Image Degradation Similarity

ECCV 2024poster

"Traditional single-task image restoration methods excel in handling specific degradation types but struggle with multiple degradations. To address this limitation, we propose Grouped Restoration with Image Degradation Similarity (GRIDS), a novel approach that harmonizes the competing objectives inh…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar