TAR: Temporal Anchor-Constrained Reasoning for Video Temporal Grounding
Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Malmo, Sweden, Sept 8-12, 2026.
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(Acceptance Rate: 27.52%)
Research Interests
- Applications in the field of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
- People & Perception AI
- Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence (e.g., collaborative active learning)
- Human Sensing from Unconstrained Images and Videos (e.g., facial expression, motion analysis, and trajectory prediction)
- Object, Scene Recognition and Segmentation
- Camera Pose Estimation and Relocalization
- Generative AI
- Generalized Foundation Modeling for Image, Video and 3D Assets Generation, etc.
- Explore Latent Space to Ensure Better Control Signals for Generative Applications (e.g., Disentanglement, ID-Preserving).
- 2D & 3D Digital Human and Related Applications (e.g., Talking Face, Virtual Try-On)
- Photo-Realistic and Cartoon-Style Avatar Generation (e.g., Face, Hair, Head, Hand, and Full-Body Avatars)
- Neural Rendering Related Various Techniques and Applications (e.g., Nerf and Gaussian Splatting)
- Shadow and Illumination Modeling (e.g., Shadow Removal, Delighting, Relighting, and Shadow Generating).
- Multimodal Fusion, Text-to-Image Generation, and Image/Video Caption.
- Style Transfer and Controllable Person Image Synthesis.
- Image and Video Recovery and Enhancement (e.g., Super Resolution).
- Multimodal Large-Scale Language Models (mLLMs), Visual-Language Models (VLMs), Visual-Language-Action Models (VLAs), World Models (WMs), and World Action Models (WAMs) related Technologies and Applications.
- Large-Scale Visual and Multimodality Modeling Design, Optimization and Efficiency
- Deep Understanding on SOTA architectures (e.g., Transformer, Diffusion, Autoregression Models).
- Universal Representation Learning and Alignment at Latent Space.
- Cross- and Universal-Domain Adaptation.
- Model Ensembling (e.g., Mixture-of-Models).
- Model Distillation (e.g., Teacher-Student Modeling).
- Low-Rank (e.g., LoRA), Sparsity, and Model Quantization.
- Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, Meta-Learning for Efficient Personalization/Individual Applications.
- Reinforcement Learning, Chain-of-Thoughts, Reasoning, Agentic Workflows/Systems, and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) for Various Applications.
- Personalized Information Retrieval and Recommendation System
- Multi-Modality Content Understanding
- User Behavior and Engagement Analysis
- Retrieval, Ranking, and Post-Ranking Modeling and Strategies
- Item & User Coldstart Strategies
- Other Recommendation Strategies Related Topics
- General AI-Related Topics
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- AI Agents and Related Applications.
- AI-Powered Creative Tools and Various Applications (e.g., Search and Chatbot).
Book and Book Chapters
- Chengjiang Long, Arslan Basharat, and Anthony Hoogs. "Video Frame Deletion and Duplication", in the book Multimedia Forensics (Chapter 13), edited by Husrev Taha Sencar, Luisa Verdoliva, and Nasir Memon, Springer, 2022.
Selected Publications
The following are selected journal and conference papers from 95 co-author papers, highlighting 1 TOG, 2 T-PAMI, 1 IJCV, 2 TVCG, 2 TIP, 2 T-MM, 1 SIGGRAPH Asia, 13 CVPR, 12 ICCV, 4 ECCV, 6 AAAI, 3 ACM MM, 1 NeurIPS, 1 ICLR, 1 MICCAI, 1 TCSVT, 1 PR, 1 TOMM, 1 CAGD, 3 CGF, 1 RA-L, 2 WACV, 2 ICME, 1 ACCV and 1 ICTAI with 46 1st/2nd-author papers, in which the 2nd authorship indicates the 1st author as my advisors I worked with or as my students/interns/colleagues I closely supervised. For the full list, you can find it in My Google Scholar.
RDE-Seg: Role-Disentangled Experts with Residual Routing and Anatomy Constraints for DSA Guidewire Segmentation
Proceedings of 29th International Conference On Medical Image Computing And Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Starasbourg, France, Sept 27-Oct 1, 2026.
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(Acceptance Rate: 27.51%)
Unlocking Single-View Constraints for Efficient Camera Relocalization with Keypoint-Level Multi-View Geometric Consistency in Training
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Denver, CO, June 3-7, 2026.
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(CVPR 2026 Finding Paper)
T2SGrid: Temporal-to-Spatial Gridification for Video Temporal Grounding
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Denver, CO, June 3-7, 2026.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 25.42%)
FlexAvatar: Flexible Large Reconstruction Model for Animatable Gaussian Head Avatars with Detailed Deformation
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Denver, CO, June 3-7, 2026.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 25.42%)
Invert4TVG: A Temporal Video Grounding Framework with Inversion Tasks for Enhanced Action Understanding
The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 23-27, 2026.
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(Top Conference in Representation Learning, acceptance rate: 28%)
Topology-Guided Semantic Face Center Estimation for Rotation-Invariant Face Detection
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2026.
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Repurposing 2D Diffusion Models with Gaussian Atlas for 3D Generation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 19–23, 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 24.8%)
DNF-Intrinsic: Deterministic Noise-Free Diffusion for Indoor Inverse Rendering
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 19–23, 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 24.8%)
PUMPS: Skeleton-Agnostic Point-based Universal Motion Pre-Training for Synthesis in Human Motion Tasks
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 19–23, 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 24.8%)
PhysSplat: Efficient Physics Simulation for 3D Scenes via MLLM-Guided Gaussian Splatting
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 19–23, 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 24.8%)
Incorporating Test-Time Optimization into Training with Dual Networks for Human Mesh Recovery
Proceedings of the thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada, Dec 9-15, 2024.
(Top Conference in Machine Learning, acceptance rate: 25.8%)
Exploring Matching Rates: From Key Point Selection to Camera Relocalization
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM), Melbourne, Australia, Oct 28-Nov 1, 2024.
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(Top Conference in Multimedia, acceptance rate: 3.97%, Oral Paper!)
Motion Keyframe Interpolation for Any Human Skeleton using Point Cloud-based Human Motion Data Homogenisation
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), MiCo Milano, Milan, Italy, Sep 28-Oct 4, 2024.
(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 18.95%)
Interleaving One-Class and Weakly-Supervised Models with Adaptive Thresholding for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), MiCo Milano, Milan, Italy, Sep 28-Oct 4, 2024.
(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 18.95%)
Single-Image SVBRDF Estimation Using Auxiliary Renderings as Intermediate Targets
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2024.
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(Top 2 journal in Computer Graphics, IF: 5.226)
CoreRec: A Counterfactual Correlation Inference for Next Set Recommendation
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Feb 20-27, 2024.
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(Top 1 Conference in Artificial Intelligence, acceptance rate: 23.75%)
Disentangled Representation Learning for Controllable Person Image Generation
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM), 2024.
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(Top 1 Journal in Multimedia, IF: 6.051)
Feature Representation Learning with Adaptive Displacement Generation and Transformer Fusion for Micro-Expression Recognition
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, Canada, June 18-22, 2023.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 25.78%)
Continuous Intermediate Token Learning with Implicit Motion Manifold for Keyframe based Motion Interpolation
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, Canada, June 18-22, 2023.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 25.78%)
Progressively Generating Better Initial Guesses Towards Next Stages for High-Quality Human Motion Prediction
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 19-24, 2022.
(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 25%)
Monte Carlo Denoising via Auxiliary Feature Guided Self-Attention
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 40(6), 2021. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia), Tokyo, Japan, Dec 14-17, 2021.
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(Top 1 journal in Computer Graphics, IF: 6.495)
DRB-GAN: A Dynamic ResBlock Generative Adversarial Network for Artistic Style Transfer
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Canada, Oct 11-17, 2021.
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(Top 3 Conferences in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 3%)
A Hybrid Video Anomaly Detection Framework via Memory-Augmented Flow Reconstruction and Flow-Guided Frame Prediction
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Canada, Oct 11-17, 2021.
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(Top 3 Conferences in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 3%)
MSR-GCN: Multi-Scale Residual Graph Convolution Networks for Human Motion Prediction
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Canada, Oct 11-17, 2021.
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(Top 3 Conferences in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 25.9%)
Dual Graph Convolutional Networks with Transformer and Curriculum Learning for Image Captioning
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Oct 20-24, 2021.
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(Top 1 Conference in Multimedia, acceptance rate: 27.9%)
DOA-GAN: Dual-Order Attentive Generative Adversarial Network for Image Copy-move Forgery Detection and Localization
In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, USA, Jun 14-19, 2020.
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(Top 3 Conference in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 22%)
ARShadowGAN: Shadow Generative Adversarial Network for Augmented Reality in Single Light Scenes
In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, USA, Jun 14-19, 2020.
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(Top 3 Conferences in Computer Vision, acceptance rate: 22%)
RIS-GAN: Explore Residual and Illumination with Generative Adversarial Networks for Shadow Removal
In Proc. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, NY, USA, Feb 7-12, 2020.
[PDF] [Spotlight] [Poster] [Github] [BibTeX]
(Top 1 Conference in Artificial Intelligence, acceptance rate: 20.6%, arXiv:1911.09178)
Iterative and Adaptive Sampling with Spatial Attention for Black-Box Model Explanations
In Proc. IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Snowmass Village, CO, USA, Mar 2-5, 2020.
[PDF] [Presentation] [YouTube] [Poster] [Github] [BibTeX]
(Acceptance rate: 34.5%, arXiv:1912.08387)
Shadow Inpainting and Removal Using Generative Adversarial Networks with Slice Convolutions
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 38(7), 381-392, 2019. Proceedings of Pacific Graphics (PG), Seoul, Korea, Oct 14-17, 2019.
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(Top Journal in Computer Graphics, IF: 2.116)
A Coarse-to-fine Deep Convolutional Neural Network Framework for Frame Duplication Detection and Localization in Forged Videos
In Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW) on Media Forensics, Long Beach, CA, USA, June 17, 2019.
(arXiv:1811.10762v2)
