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Zhao Wang

22 accepted papers

2026

AV-Edit: Multimodal Generative Sound Effect Editing via Audio-Visual Semantic Joint Control

AAAI 2026technical

Sound effect editing—modifying audio by adding, removing, or replacing elements—remains constrained by existing approaches that rely solely on low-level signal processing or coarse text prompts, often resulting in limited flexibility and suboptimal audio quality. To address this, we propose AV-Edit,

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Agentic Model Predictive Questioning Control in Visual Design

ICML 2026poster

Recent Large Language Model–based approaches for clarifying visual design largely focus on selecting questions that better uncover user intent, but often overlook the cognitive burden imposed on users—i.e., the effort required to interpret and answer these questions—which is crucial for effective hu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

DCoAR: Deep Concept Injection into Unified Autoregressive Models for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

CVPR 2026

The unified autoregressive (AR) model excels at multimodal understanding and generation. However, its full potential in the domain of customized image generation has yet to be fully realized.Existing customization approaches for unified AR models face a fundamental dilemma: adaptation-based methods

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

DreamShot: Personalized Storyboard Synthesis with Video Diffusion Prior

CVPR 2026

Storyboard synthesis plays a crucial role in visual storytelling, aiming to generate coherent shot sequences that visually narrate cinematic events with consistent characters, scenes, and transitions. However, existing approaches are mostly adapted from text-to-image diffusion models, which struggle

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

One-to-More: High-Fidelity Training-Free Anomaly Generation with Attention Control

CVPR 2026

Industrial anomaly detection (AD) is characterized by an abundance of normal images but a scarcity of anomalous ones. Although numerous few-shot anomaly synthesis methods have been proposed to augment anomalous data for downstream AD tasks, most existing approaches require time-consuming training an

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Seeing is Understanding: Unlocking Causal Attention into Modality-Mutual Attention for Multimodal LLMs

ICML 2026poster

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in perceiving and reasoning over multimodal inquiries, ushering in a new research era for foundation models. However, vision-language misalignment in MLLMs has emerged as a critical challenge, where the textual re…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

TD-VAD: Breaking Visual Dependence in Video Anomaly Detection with Text-Driven Learning

ICML 2026poster

Visual data is typically a prerequisite for training existing video anomaly detection (VAD) methods. However, obtaining sufficient annotated anomaly data for training is challenging and not scalable due to the rarity of anomaly data and the wide variety of abnormal events. In this work, we advocate …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Unposed-to-3D: Learning Simulation-Ready Vehicles from Real-World Images

CVPR 2026

Creating realistic and simulation-ready 3D assets is crucial for autonomous driving research and virtual environment construction. However, existing 3D vehicle generation methods are often trained on synthetic data with significant domain gaps from real-world distributions. The generated models ofte

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

DreamFuse: Adaptive Image Fusion with Diffusion Transformer

ICCV 2025poster

Image fusion seeks to seamlessly integrate foreground objects with background scenes, producing realistic and harmonious fused images. Unlike existing methods that directly insert objects into the background, adaptive and interactive fusion remains a challenging yet appealing task. It requires the f…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DreamLayer: Simultaneous Multi-Layer Generation via Diffusion Model

ICCV 2025poster

Text-driven image generation using diffusion models has recently gained significant attention. To enable more flexible image manipulation and editing, recent research has expanded from single image generation to transparent layer generation and multi-layer compositions. However, existing approaches…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Large Images Are Gaussians: High-Quality Large Image Representation with Levels of 2D Gaussian Splatting

AAAI 2025technical

While Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have demonstrated significant success in image representation, they are often hindered by large training memory and slow decoding speed. Recently, Gaussian Splatting (GS) has emerged as a promising solution in 3D reconstruction due to its highquality nove…

2025

MICAS: Multi-grained In-Context Adaptive Sampling for 3D Point Cloud Processing

CVPR 2025poster

Point cloud processing (PCP) encompasses tasks like reconstruction, denoising, registration, and segmentation, each often requiring specialized models to address unique task characteristics. While in-context learning (ICL) has shown promise across tasks by using a single model with task-specific dem…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

OKG: On-the-Fly Keyword Generation in Sponsored Search Advertising

COLING 2025industry

Current keyword decision-making in sponsored search advertising relies on large static datasets, limiting automatic keyword setup and failing to adapt to real-time KPI metrics and product updates essential for effective advertising. In this paper, we propose On-the-fly Keyword Generation (OKG), an L…

2025

OMS: On-the-fly, Multi-Objective, Self-Reflective Ad Keyword Generation via LLM Agent

EMNLP 2025

Keyword decision in Sponsored Search Advertising is critical to the success of ad campaigns. While LLM-based methods offer automated keyword generation, they face three major limitations: reliance on large-scale query–keyword pair data, lack of online multi-objective performance monitoring and optim

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

$\text{Di}^2\text{Pose}$: Discrete Diffusion Model for Occluded 3D Human Pose Estimation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated their effectiveness in addressing the inherent uncertainty and indeterminacy in monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE). Despite their strengths, the need for large search spaces and the corresponding demand for substantial training data make these models prone t…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Existence Is Chaos: Enhancing 3D Human Motion Prediction with Uncertainty Consideration

AAAI 2024technical

Human motion prediction is consisting in forecasting future body poses from historically observed sequences. It is a longstanding challenge due to motion's complex dynamics and uncertainty. Existing methods focus on building up complicated neural networks to model the motion dynamics. The predicted…

2023

Diffusion-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation with Multi-Hypothesis Aggregation

ICCV 2023poster

In this paper, a novel Diffusion-based 3D Pose estimation (D3DP) method with Joint-wise reProjection-based Multi-hypothesis Aggregation (JPMA) is proposed for probabilistic 3D human pose estimation. On the one hand, D3DP generates multiple possible 3D pose hypotheses for a single 2D observation. It…

Cited by 125PDFcodeScholar
2022

C*-algebra Net: A New Approach Generalizing Neural Network Parameters to C*-algebra

ICML 2022spotlight

We propose a new framework that generalizes the parameters of neural network models to $C^*$-algebra-valued ones. $C^*$-algebra is a generalization of the space of complex numbers. A typical example is the space of continuous functions on a compact space. This generalization enables us to combine mu…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Federated Learning from Only Unlabeled Data with Class-conditional-sharing Clients

ICLR 2022poster

Supervised federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to share the trained model without sharing their labeled data. However, potential clients might even be reluctant to label their own data, which could limit the applicability of FL in practice. In this paper, we show the possibility of unsu…

2022

Rethinking Multi-Modal Alignment in Multi-Choice VideoQA from Feature and Sample Perspectives

EMNLP 2022main

Reasoning about causal and temporal event relations in videos is a new destination of Video Question Answering (VideoQA). The major stumbling block to achieve this purpose is the semantic gap between language and video since they are at different levels of abstraction. Existing efforts mainly focus…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2021

Robustness to Spurious Correlations in Text Classification via Automatically Generated Counterfactuals

AAAI 2021technical

Spurious correlations threaten the validity of statistical classifiers. While model accuracy may appear high when the test data is from the same distribution as the training data, it can quickly degrade when the test distribution changes. For example, it has been shown that classifiers perform poorl…