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Yunqing ZHAO

9 accepted papers

2026

CodeDance: A Dynamic Tool-integrated MLLM for Executable Visual Reasoning

CVPR 2026

Recent releases such as o3 highlight human-like "thinking with images" reasoning that combines tool use with stepwise verification, yet most open-source approaches still rely on text-only chains, rigid visual schemas, or single-step pipelines, limiting flexibility, interpretability, and transferabil

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2026

Monocular Normal Estimation via Shading Sequence Estimation

ICLR 2026oral

Monocular normal estimation aims to estimate normal map from a single RGB image of an object under arbitrary lighting. Existing methods rely on deep models to directly predict normal maps. However, they often suffer from 3D misalignment: while the estimated normal maps may appear to have an overall…

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2026

ThinkGen: Generalized Thinking for Visual Generation

CVPR 2026

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates that Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning enables systematic solutions to complex understanding tasks. However, its extension to generation tasks remains nascent and limited by scenario-specific mechanisms that hinder generalizatio

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2025

TimeExpert: An Expert-Guided Video LLM for Video Temporal Grounding

ICCV 2025poster

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to precisely identify video event segments in response to textual queries. The outputs of VTG tasks manifest as sequences of events, each defined by precise timestamps, saliency scores, and textual descriptions. Despite recent advances, a fundamental limitation pe…

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2023

Exploring Incompatible Knowledge Transfer in Few-Shot Image Generation

CVPR 2023poster

Few-shot image generation (FSIG) learns to generate diverse and high-fidelity images from a target domain using a few (e.g., 10) reference samples. Existing FSIG methods select, preserve and transfer prior knowledge from a source generator (pretrained on a related domain) to learn the target generat…

2023

On Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Large Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Large vision-language models (VLMs) such as GPT-4 have achieved unprecedented performance in response generation, especially with visual inputs, enabling more creative and adaptable interaction than large language models such as ChatGPT. Nonetheless, multimodal generation exacerbates safety concerns…

2022

Few-shot Image Generation via Adaptation-Aware Kernel Modulation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Few-shot image generation (FSIG) aims to learn to generate new and diverse samples given an extremely limited number of samples from a domain, e.g., 10 training samples. Recent work has addressed the problem using transfer learning approach, leveraging a GAN pretrained on a large-scale source domain…

2022

Revisiting Label Smoothing and Knowledge Distillation Compatibility: What was Missing?

ICML 2022spotlight

This work investigates the compatibility between label smoothing (LS) and knowledge distillation (KD). Contemporary findings addressing this thesis statement take dichotomous standpoints: Muller et al. (2019) and Shen et al. (2021b). Critically, there is no effort to understand and resolve these con…