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Yichao Cao

14 accepted papers

2026

COAL: Counterfactual and Observation-Enhanced Alignment Learning for Discriminative Referring Multi-Object Tracking

IJCAI 2026

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) faces a fundamental structural contradiction between the high-discriminability demand and the sparse semantic supervision. This mismatch is particularly acute in highly homogeneous scenarios that require fine-grained discrimination over complex compositional se

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2026

CompTrack: Information Bottleneck-Guided Low-Rank Dynamic Token Compression for Point Cloud Tracking

AAAI 2026technical

3D single object tracking (SOT) in LiDAR point clouds is a critical task in computer vision and autonomous driving. Despite great success having been achieved, the inherent sparsity of point clouds introduces a dual-redundancy challenge that limits existing trackers: (1) vast spatial redundancy from

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Localizing, Structuring, and Rendering: Bridging 3D and 2D Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

CVPR 2026

Robotic manipulation in complex 3D environments requires unifying spatial reasoning with intuitive visual perception, which is a capability that current Vision-Language-Action paradigms address separately. While 3D VLAs excel in geometric and physical reasoning, they lack intuitive, image-level unde

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2026

Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery

ICML 2026poster

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced the field of embodied manipulation by harnessing broad world knowledge and strong generalization. However, current VLA models still face several key challenges, including limited reasoning capability, lack of status monitoring, and difficulty in self…

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2026

TANGO: Learning Distribution-wise Foundation Prior Consistency and Instance-wise Style Calibration for Medical Image Generalization

CVPR 2026

Test-time adaptation (TTA) has emerged as a promising solution to address real world domain shifts in medical image segmentation. Current approaches adapt by updating or regularizing a pre-trained source model. However, they face two major issues: (i) the source models on which they rely are prone t

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2026

VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model

ICML 2026poster

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities and generalization in embodied manipulation. However, their decision-making relies on a fast, instinctive process that lacks deliberation. This strategy often leads to suboptimal or catastrophic actions when facing complex…

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2025

CounterPC: Counterfactual Feature Realignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on Point Clouds

ICCV 2025poster

Understanding real-world 3D point clouds is challenging due to domain shifts, causing geometric variations like density changes, noise, and occlusions. The key challenge is disentangling domain-invariant semantics from domain-specific geometric variations, as point clouds exhibit local inconsistency…

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2025

Debiased Prototype Evolving for Point Cloud Domain Adaptation via 3D Foundation Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

Domain adaptation in point cloud data is essential for improving downstream tasks in autonomous driving, robotics, and 3D modeling. 3D Foundation models, driven by scaling laws, have significantly advanced point cloud applications by embedding rich semantic knowledge of geometric structures. However…

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2025

Perturbating, Tuning, and Collaborating: Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Single Domain Generalization on Medical Imaging

AAAI 2025technical

Single Domain Generalization (SDG) is critical in medical imaging applications. Recently, Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have spearheaded a trend in AI development due to their robust generalizability and versatility. This work aims to fully explore the generalization capabilities of VFMs alongside…

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2025

TinyMIG: Transferring Generalization from Vision Foundation Models to Single-Domain Medical Imaging

ICML 2025poster

Medical imaging faces significant challenges in single-domain generalization (SDG) due to the diversity of imaging devices and the variability among data collection centers. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{TinyMIG}, a framework designed to transfer generalization capabilities from vi…

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2023

Coarse2Fine: Local Consistency Aware Re-prediction for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

AAAI 2023technical

Weakly supervised object localization aims to localize objects of interest by using only image-level labels. Existing methods generally segment activation map by threshold to obtain mask and generate bounding box. However, the activation map is locally inconsistent, i.e., similar neighboring pixels…

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2023

Detecting Any Human-Object Interaction Relationship: Universal HOI Detector with Spatial Prompt Learning on Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection aims to comprehend the intricate relationships between humans and objects, predicting <human, action, object> triplets, and serving as the foundation for numerous computer vision tasks. The complexity and diversity of human-object interactions in the real wor…

2023

Re-mine, Learn and Reason: Exploring the Cross-modal Semantic Correlations for Language-guided HOI detection

ICCV 2023poster

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is a challenging computer vision task that requires visual models to address the complex interactive relationship between humans and objects and predict <human, action, object> triplets. Despite the challenges posed by the numerous interaction combinations, t…

Cited by 31PDFScholar
2022

Searching for Better Spatio-temporal Alignment in Few-Shot Action Recognition

NeurIPS 2022accept

Spatio-Temporal feature matching and alignment are essential for few-shot action recognition as they determine the coherence and effectiveness of the temporal patterns. Nevertheless, this process could be not reliable, especially when dealing with complex video scenarios. In this paper, we propose t…

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