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Yao Xiao

19 accepted papers

2026

Unveiling Perceptual Artifacts: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Interpretable AI-Generated Image Detection

ICLR 2026poster

Current AI-Generated Image (AIGI) detection approaches predominantly rely on binary classification to distinguish real from synthetic images, often lacking interpretable or convincing evidence to substantiate their decisions. This limitation stems from existing AIGI detection benchmarks, which, desp…

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2026

When Preference Labels Fall Short: Aligning Diffusion Models from Real Data

ICML 2026poster

Preference alignment aims to guide generative models by learning from comparisons between preferred and non-preferred samples. In practice, most existing approaches rely on preference pairs constructed from model-generated images. Such supervision is inherently relative and can be ambiguous when bot…

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2026

Where Detectors Fail: Probing Generative Space for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

ICML 2026poster

Detecting AI-generated images (AIGI) remains challenging because detectors often fail to generalize to unseen generators. Although existing methods are trained on large datasets, their performance still degrades when generation settings change, indicating that data scale alone is insufficient and th…

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2025

A Gait Phase Detection and Gait Spatio-temporal Features Extraction Method Based on the Inertial Measurement Unit*

IROS 2025

The quantitative evaluation of the improvement of physical function is crucial for patients with impaired motor function, such as stroke, in conducting related rehabilitation training activities. Specially, a practical and easy-to-operate gait feature detection and extraction system for a home is ur

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2025

Are High-Quality AI-Generated Images More Difficult for Models to Detect?

ICML 2025poster

The remarkable evolution of generative models has enabled the generation of high-quality, visually attractive images, often perceptually indistinguishable from real photographs to human eyes. This has spurred significant attention on AI-generated image (AIGI) detection. Intuitively, higher image qua…

2025

Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge

ICASSP 2025accepted

Dementia is associated with various cognitive impairments and typically manifests only after significant progression, making intervention at this stage often ineffective. To address this issue, the Prediction and Recognition of Cognitive Decline through Spontaneous Speech (PROCESS) Signal Processing…

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2025

Exploiting Application-to-Architecture Dependencies for Designing Scalable OS

ICASSP 2025accepted

With the advent of hundreds of cores on a chip to accelerate applications, the operating system (OS) needs to exploit the existing parallelism provided by the underlying hardware resources to determine the right amount of processes to be mapped on the multi-core systems. However, the existing OS is…

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2025

FBRT-YOLO: Faster and Better for Real-Time Aerial Image Detection

AAAI 2025technical

Embedded flight devices with visual capabilities have become essential for a wide range of applications. In aerial image detection, while many existing methods have partially addressed the issue of small target detection, challenges remain in optimizing small target detection and balancing detectio…

2025

Finding the Sweet Spot: Preference Data Construction for Scaling Preference Optimization

ACL 2025long

Iterative data generation and model retraining are widely used to align large language models (LLMs).It typically involves a policy model to generate on-policy responses and a reward model to guide training data selection. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) further enhances this process by constru…

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2025

Towards Explainable Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Structure-Aware Generative Framework

ACL 2025finding

While large language models (LLMs) show great potential in temporal reasoning, most existing work focuses heavily on enhancing performance, often neglecting the explainable reasoning processes underlying the results. To address this gap, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark covering a wide range o…

2025

Towards Understanding the Robustness of Diffusion-Based Purification: A Stochastic Perspective

ICLR 2025poster

Diffusion-Based Purification (DBP) has emerged as an effective defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. The success of DBP is often attributed to the forward diffusion process, which reduces the distribution gap between clean and adversarial images by adding Gaussian noise. Although this expla…

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2024

Region-Based Representations Revisited

CVPR 2024poster

We investigate whether region-based representations are effective for recognition. Regions were once a mainstay in recognition approaches but pixel and patch-based features are now used almost exclusively. We show that recent class-agnostic segmenters like SAM can be effectively combined with strong…

2023

Masked Images Are Counterfactual Samples for Robust Fine-Tuning

CVPR 2023poster

Deep learning models are challenged by the distribution shift between the training data and test data. Recently, the large models pre-trained on diverse data have demonstrated unprecedented robustness to various distribution shifts. However, fine-tuning these models can lead to a trade-off between i…

2022

"Contributions of Shape, Texture, and Color in Visual Recognition"

ECCV 2022poster

"We investigate the contributions of three important features of the human visual system (HVS)---shape, texture, and color ---to object classification. We build a humanoid vision engine (HVE) that explicitly and separately computes shape, texture, and color features from images. The resulting featur…

2021

A Peek Into the Reasoning of Neural Networks: Interpreting With Structural Visual Concepts

CVPR 2021poster

Despite substantial progress in applying neural networks (NN) to a wide variety of areas, they still largely suffer from a lack of transparency and interpretability. While recent developments in explainable artificial intelligence attempt to bridge this gap (e.g., by visualizing the correlation betw…

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2021

Interventional Video Grounding With Dual Contrastive Learning

CVPR 2021poster

Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies, i.e., P(Y|X). Consequently, these models may suffer from spurio…

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2018

A Supervised Stdp-Based Training Algorithm for Living Neural Networks

ICASSP 2018accepted

Neural networks have shown great potential in many applications like speech recognition, drug discovery, image classification, and object detection. Neural network models are inspired by biological neural networks, but they are optimized to perform machine learning tasks on digital computers. The pr…

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2015

Complexity-Adaptive Distance Metric for Object Proposals Generation

CVPR 2015poster

Distance metric plays a key role in grouping superpixels to produce object proposals for object detection. We observe that existing distance metrics work primarily for low complexity cases. In this paper, we develop a novel distance metric for grouping two superpixels in high-complexity scenarios. C…

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