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Zhifei Zhang

36 accepted papers

2026

Both Semantics and Reconstruction Matter: Making Representation Encoders Ready for Text-to-Image Generation and Editing

ICML 2026poster

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend is to adopt high-dimensional features from representation enc…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Dual-Phase Visual-Language Pretraining and Adaptation for Long-Tailed Multi-Label Recognition

AAAI 2026technical

Long-Tailed Multi-Label Recognition (LTML) is a critical yet challenging task due to two core issues: the severe scarcity of training samples for rare "tail" classes, and the complex co-occurrence patterns among labels that often lead to biased models. To address this, we propose DP-VLPA, a novel Du

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning

ICLR 2026oral

Recent advances in foundation models highlight a clear trend toward unification and scaling, showing emergent capabilities across diverse domains. While image generation and editing have rapidly transitioned from task-specific to unified frameworks, video generation and editing remain fragmented due…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

HBridge: H-Shape Bridging of Heterogeneous Experts for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

CVPR 2026

Recent unified models integrate understanding experts (e.g., LLMs) with generative experts (e.g., diffusion models), achieving strong multimodal performance. However, recent advanced methods such as BAGEL and LMFusion follow the Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) paradigm, adopting a symmetric design tha

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2026

RealUHR: Harnessing Patch-Cascade Flows for Photorealistic Ultra-High-Resolution Synthesis

AAAI 2026technical

Ultra-high-resolution (UHR) text-to-image synthesis faces significant hurdles, including immense computational costs and a scarcity of training data. To address these, we introduce RealUHR, an efficient and scalable framework for generating photorealistic 4K images. At its core, RealUHR employs a Pa

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Baking Gaussian Splatting into Diffusion Denoiser for Fast and Scalable Single-stage Image-to-3D Generation and Reconstruction

ICCV 2025poster

Existing feedforward image-to-3D methods mainly rely on 2D multi-view diffusion models that cannot guarantee 3D consistency. These methods easily collapse when changing the prompt view direction and mainly handle object-centric cases. In this paper, we propose a novel single-stage 3D diffusion model…

2025

FINECAPTION: Compositional Image Captioning Focusing on Wherever You Want at Any Granularity

CVPR 2025poster

The advent of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal tasks, enabling more sophisticated and accurate integration of visual and textual information across various applications, including image and video captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieva…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

Generative Video Propagation

CVPR 2025poster

Large-scale video generation models have the inherent ability to realistically model natural scenes. In this paper, we demonstrate that through a careful design of a generative video propagation framework, various video tasks can be addressed in a unified way by leveraging the generative power of su…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Multitwine: Multi-Object Compositing with Text and Layout Control

CVPR 2025highlight

We introduce the first generative model capable of simultaneous multi-object compositing, guided by both text and layout. Our model allows for the addition of multiple objects within a scene, capturing a range of interactions from simple positional relations (e.g., next to, in front of) to complex…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

OmniVCus: Feedforward Subject-driven Video Customization with Multimodal Control Conditions

NeurIPS 2025poster

Existing feedforward subject-driven video customization methods mainly study single-subject scenarios due to the difficulty of constructing multi-subject training data pairs. Another challenging problem that how to use the signals such as depth, mask, camera, and text prompts to control and edit the…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Refine-by-Align: Reference-Guided Artifacts Refinement through Semantic Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Personalized image generation has emerged from the recent advancements in generative models. However, these generated personalized images often suffer from localized artifacts such as incorrect logos, reducing fidelity and fine-grained identity details of the generated results. Furthermore, there is…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

TransPixeler: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency

CVPR 2025poster

Text-to-video generative models have made significant strides, enabling diverse applications in entertainment, advertising, and education. However, generating RGBA video, which includes alpha channels for transparency, remains a challenge due to limited datasets and the difficulty of adapting existi…

2025

TurboFill: Adapting Few-step Text-to-image Model for Fast Image Inpainting

CVPR 2025poster

This paper introduces TurboFill, a fast image inpainting model that enhances a few-step text-to-image diffusion model with an inpainting adapter for high-quality and efficient inpainting. While standard diffusion models generate high-quality results, they incur high computational costs. We overcome…

2025

UniReal: Universal Image Generation and Editing via Learning Real-world Dynamics

CVPR 2025highlight

We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while capturing visual variations. Inspired by recent video generation…

2024

IMPRINT: Generative Object Compositing by Learning Identity-Preserving Representation

CVPR 2024poster

Generative object compositing emerges as a promising new avenue for compositional image editing. However the requirement of object identity preservation poses a significant challenge limiting practical usage of most existing methods. In response this paper introduces IMPRINT a novel diffusion-based…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2024

SwapAnything: Enabling Arbitrary Object Swapping in Personalized Image Editing

ECCV 2024poster

"Effective editing of personal content holds a pivotal role in enabling individuals to express their creativity, weaving captivating narratives within their visual stories, and elevate the overall quality and impact of their visual content. Therefore, in this work, we introduce , a novel framework t…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2024

Thinking Outside the BBox: Unconstrained Generative Object Compositing

ECCV 2024poster

"Compositing an object into an image involves multiple non-trivial sub-tasks such as object placement and scaling, color/lighting harmonization, viewpoint/geometry adjustment, and shadow/reflection generation. Recent generative image compositing methods leverage diffusion models to handle multiple s…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

WAS: Dataset and Methods for Artistic Text Segmentation

ECCV 2024poster

"Accurate text segmentation results are crucial for text-related generative tasks, such as text image generation, text editing, text removal, and text style transfer. Recently, some scene text segmentation methods have made significant progress in segmenting regular text. However, these methods perf…

2023

Counterfactual-based Saliency Map: Towards Visual Contrastive Explanations for Neural Networks

ICCV 2023poster

Explaining deep models in a human-understandable way has been explored by many works that mostly explain why an input causes a corresponding prediction (ie., Why P?). However, seldom they could handle those more complex causal questions like "why P rather than Q?" and "why one is P while another is…

Cited by 9PDFScholar
2023

DualVector: Unsupervised Vector Font Synthesis With Dual-Part Representation

CVPR 2023poster

Automatic generation of fonts can be an important aid to typeface design. Many current approaches regard glyphs as pixelated images, which present artifacts when scaling and inevitable quality losses after vectorization. On the other hand, existing vector font synthesis methods either fail to repres…

2023

Joint Implicit Neural Representation for High-fidelity and Compact Vector Fonts

ICCV 2023poster

Existing vector font generation approaches either struggle to preserve high-frequency corner details of the glyph or produce vector shapes that have redundant segments, which hinders their applications in practical scenarios. In this paper, we propose to learn vector fonts from pixelated font images…

Cited by 5PDFScholar
2023

ObjectStitch: Object Compositing With Diffusion Model

CVPR 2023poster

Object compositing based on 2D images is a challenging problem since it typically involves multiple processing stages such as color harmonization, geometry correction and shadow generation to generate realistic results. Furthermore, annotating training data pairs for compositing requires substantial…

Cited by 94SourcePDFScholar
2023

PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images

NeurIPS 2023poster

In an era where images and visual content dominate our digital landscape, the ability to manipulate and personalize these images has become a necessity. Envision seamlessly substituting a tabby cat lounging on a sunlit window sill in a photograph with your own playful puppy, all while preserving the…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar
2023

SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting With Diffusion Model

CVPR 2023highlight

Generic image inpainting aims to complete a corrupted image by borrowing surrounding information, which barely generates novel content. By contrast, multi-modal inpainting provides more flexible and useful controls on the inpainted content, e.g., a text prompt can be used to describe an object with…

2023

TopNet: Transformer-Based Object Placement Network for Image Compositing

CVPR 2023poster

We investigate the problem of automatically placing an object into a background image for image compositing. Given a background image and a segmented object, the goal is to train a model to predict plausible placements (location and scale) of the object for compositing. The quality of the composite…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2023

Towards Fairness-aware Adversarial Network Pruning

ICCV 2023poster

Network pruning aims to compress models while minimizing loss in accuracy. With the increasing focus on bias in AI systems, the bias inheriting or even magnification nature of traditional network pruning methods has raised a new perspective towards fairness-aware network pruning. Straightforward pru…

Cited by 8PDFScholar
2023

Towards Transferable Targeted Adversarial Examples

CVPR 2023poster

Transferability of adversarial examples is critical for black-box deep learning model attacks. While most existing studies focus on enhancing the transferability of untargeted adversarial attacks, few of them studied how to generate transferable targeted adversarial examples that can mislead models…

2022

Fairness-Aware Adversarial Perturbation Towards Bias Mitigation for Deployed Deep Models

CVPR 2022poster

Prioritizing fairness is of central importance in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially for those societal applications, e.g., hiring systems should recommend applicants equally from different demographic groups, and risk assessment systems must eliminate racism in criminal justice. Exist…

Cited by 75PDFScholar
2022

GALA: Toward Geometry-and-Lighting-Aware Object Search for Compositing

ECCV 2022poster

"Compositing-aware object search aims to find the most compatible objects for compositing given a background image and a query bounding box. Previous works focus on learning compatibility between the foreground object and background, but fail to learn other important factors from large-scale data, i…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2022

Toward Understanding WordArt: Corner-Guided Transformer for Scene Text Recognition

ECCV 2022poster

"Artistic text recognition is an extremely challenging task with a wide range of applications. However, current scene text recognition methods mainly focus on irregular text while have not explored artistic text specifically. The challenges of artistic text recognition include the various appearance…

2021

A Multi-Implicit Neural Representation for Fonts

NeurIPS 2021poster

Fonts are ubiquitous across documents and come in a variety of styles. They are either represented in a native vector format or rasterized to produce fixed resolution images. In the first case, the non-standard representation prevents benefiting from latest network architectures for neural represen…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2021

Feature Importance-Aware Transferable Adversarial Attacks

ICCV 2021poster

Transferability of adversarial examples is of central importance for attacking an unknown model, which facilitates adversarial attacks in more practical scenarios, e.g., blackbox attacks. Existing transferable attacks tend to craft adversarial examples by indiscriminately distorting features to degr…

Cited by 288PDFcodeScholar
2021

Rethinking Text Segmentation: A Novel Dataset and a Text-Specific Refinement Approach

CVPR 2021poster

Text segmentation is a prerequisite in many real-world text-related tasks, e.g., text style transfer, and scene text removal. However, facing the lack of high-quality datasets and dedicated investigations, this critical prerequisite has been left as an assumption in many works, and has been largely…

Cited by 85PDFcodeScholar
2020

Texture Hallucination for Large-Factor Painting Super-Resolution

ECCV 2020poster

We aim to super-resolve digital paintings, synthesizing realistic details from high-resolution reference painting materials for very large scaling factors (g 8$ imes$, 16$ imes$). However, previous single image super-resolution (SISR) methods would either lose textural details or introduce unpleasin…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar