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  • Learning Deep Features for Discriminative Localization

    Bolei Zhou, Aditya Khosla, Àgata Lapedriza, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2016

    This work revisits the global average pooling layer proposed in [13], and sheds light on how it explicitly enables the convolutional neural network (CNN) to have remarkable localization ability despite being trained on imagelevel labels.

    10,981
  • Places: A 10 Million Image Database for Scene Recognition

    Bolei Zhou, Àgata Lapedriza, Aditya Khosla, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2017

    The Places Database is described, a repository of 10 million scene photographs, labeled with scene semantic categories, comprising a large and diverse list of the types of environments encountered in the world, using the state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Networks as baselines, that significantly outperform the previous approaches.

    4,995
  • Scene Parsing through ADE20K Dataset

    Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig, Sanja Fidler, Adela Barriuso, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    The ADE20K dataset, spanning diverse annotations of scenes, objects, parts of objects, and in some cases even parts of parts, is introduced and it is shown that the trained scene parsing networks can lead to applications such as image content removal and scene synthesis.

    4,155
  • Learning Deep Features for Scene Recognition using Places Database

    Bolei Zhou, Àgata Lapedriza, Jianxiong Xiao, Antonio B. Torralba, Aude Oliva

    DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2014

    A new scene-centric database called Places with over 7 million labeled pictures of scenes is introduced with new methods to compare the density and diversity of image datasets and it is shown that Places is as dense as other scene datasets and has more diversity.

    3,107
  • Unified Perceptual Parsing for Scene Understanding

    Tete Xiao, Yingcheng Liu, Bolei Zhou, Yuning Jiang, Jian Sun

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A multi-task framework called UPerNet and a training strategy are developed to learn from heterogeneous image annotations and it is shown that it is able to effectively segment a wide range of concepts from images.

    2,690
  • Semantic Understanding of Scenes Through the ADE20K Dataset

    Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig, Tete Xiao, Sanja Fidler, Adela Barriuso, Antonio B. Torralba

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2018

    This work presents a densely annotated dataset ADE20K, which spans diverse annotations of scenes, objects, parts of objects, and in some cases even parts of parts, and shows that the networks trained on this dataset are able to segment a wide variety of scenes and objects.

    2,505
  • Network Dissection: Quantifying Interpretability of Deep Visual Representations

    David Anthony Bau, Bolei Zhou, Aditya Khosla, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    This work uses the proposed Network Dissection method to test the hypothesis that interpretability is an axis-independent property of the representation space, then applies the method to compare the latent representations of various networks when trained to solve different classification problems.

    1,855
  • Object Detectors Emerge in Deep Scene CNNs

    Bolei Zhou, Aditya Khosla, Àgata Lapedriza, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2015

    This work demonstrates that the same network can perform both scene recognition and object localization in a single forward-pass, without ever having been explicitly taught the notion of objects.

    1,334
  • Interpreting the Latent Space of GANs for Semantic Face Editing

    Yujun Shen, Jinjin Gu, Xiaoou Tang, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work proposes a novel framework, called InterFaceGAN, for semantic face editing by interpreting the latent semantics learned by GANs, and finds that the latent code of well-trained generative models actually learns a disentangled representation after linear transformations.

    1,275
  • Temporal Relational Reasoning in Videos

    Bolei Zhou, Alex Andonian, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This paper introduces an effective and interpretable network module, the Temporal Relation Network (TRN), designed to learn and reason about temporal dependencies between video frames at multiple time scales.

    1,150
  • Measuring human perceptions of a large-scale urban region using machine learning

    Fan Zhang, Bolei Zhou, Liu Liu, Yu Liu, Helene Hoi-Lam Fung, Hui Zhi Lin, Carlo Ratti

    Landscape and Urban Planning · 2018

    A deep learning model, which has been trained on millions of human ratings of street-level imagery, was used to predict human perceptions of a street view image and can help to map the distribution of the city-wide human perception for a new urban region.

    798
  • InterFaceGAN: Interpreting the Disentangled Face Representation Learned by GANs

    Yujun Shen, Ceyuan Yang, Xiaoou Tang, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2020

    A framework called InterFaceGAN is proposed to interpret the disentangled face representation learned by the state-of-the-art GAN models and study the properties of the facial semantics encoded in the latent space to suggest that learning to synthesize faces spontaneously brings a disentangling and controllable face representation.

    722
  • In-Domain GAN Inversion for Real Image Editing

    Jiapeng Zhu, Yujun Shen, Deli Zhao, Bolei Zhou

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    An in-domain GAN inversion approach, which not only faithfully reconstructs the input image but also ensures the inverted code to be semantically meaningful for editing, which achieves satisfying real image reconstruction and facilitates various image editing tasks, significantly outperforming start-of-the-arts.

    697
  • Closed-Form Factorization of Latent Semantics in GANs

    Yujun Shen, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This work examines the internal representation learned by GANs to reveal the underlying variation factors in an unsupervised manner and proposes a closedform factorization algorithm for latent semantic discovery by directly decomposing the pre-trained weights.

    664
  • GAN Inversion: A Survey

    Weihao Xia, Yulun Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Jing‐Hao Xue, Bolei Zhou, Ming–Hsuan Yang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    This paper provides a survey of GAN inversion with a focus on its representative algorithms and its applications in image restoration and image manipulation, and discusses the trends and challenges for future research.

    653
  • Moments in Time Dataset: One Million Videos for Event Understanding

    Mathew Monfort, Carl Vondrick, Aude Oliva, Alex Andonian, Bolei Zhou, Kandan Ramakrishnan, Sarah Adel Bargal, Tom Yan, +3 more

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    The Moments in Time dataset, a large-scale human-annotated collection of one million short videos corresponding to dynamic events unfolding within three seconds, can serve as a new challenge to develop models that scale to the level of complexity and abstract reasoning that a human processes on a daily basis.

    642
  • Person Search with Natural Language Description

    Shuang Li, Tong Xiao, Hongsheng Li, Bolei Zhou, Dayu Yue, Xiaogang Wang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    An Recurrent Neural Network with Gated Neural Attention mechanism (GNA-RNN) is proposed to establish the state-of-the art performance on person search and a large-scale person description dataset with detailed natural language annotations and person samples from various sources is collected.

    593
  • Scene Graph Generation from Objects, Phrases and Region Captions

    Yikang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bolei Zhou, Kun Wang, Xiaogang Wang

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    This work proposes a novel neural network model, termed as Multi-level Scene Description Network (denoted as MSDN), to solve the three vision tasks jointly in an end-to-end manner and shows the joint learning across three tasks with the proposed method can bring mutual improvements over previous models.

    560
  • Scene Graph Generation from Objects, Phrases and Caption Regions.

    Yikang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bolei Zhou, Kun Wang, Xiaogang Wang

    arXiv · 2017

    This work proposes a novel neural network model, termed as Multi-level Scene Description Network (denoted as MSDN), to solve the three vision tasks jointly in an end-to-end manner and shows the joint learning across three tasks with the proposed method can bring mutual improvements over previous models.

    560
  • Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network

    David Anthony Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Àgata Lapedriza, Bolei Zhou, Antonio B. Torralba

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020

    This work presents network dissection, an analytic framework to systematically identify the semantics of individual hidden units within image classification and image generation networks, and applies it to understanding adversarial attacks and to semantic image editing.

    553
  • Multimodal Motion Prediction with Stacked Transformers

    Yicheng Liu, Jinghuai Zhang, Liangji Fang, Qinhong Jiang, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    A novel network architecture based on stacked transformers is designed to model the multimodality at feature level with a set of fixed independent proposals, and achieves the state-of-the-art performance on motion prediction.

    537
  • MetaDrive: Composing Diverse Driving Scenarios for Generalizable Reinforcement Learning

    Quanyi Li, Zhenghao Peng, Lan Feng, Qihang Zhang, Zhenghai Xue, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    The generalization experiments conducted on both procedurally generated scenarios and real-world scenarios show that increasing the diversity and the size of the training set leads to the improvement of the RL agent's generalizability.

    497
  • Places: An Image Database for Deep Scene Understanding

    Bolei Zhou, Àgata Lapedriza, Antonio B. Torralba, Aude Oliva

    Journal of Vision · 2017

    The Places Database is described, a repository of 10 million scene photographs, labeled with scene semantic categories and attributes, comprising a quasi-exhaustive list of the types of environments encountered in the world.

    495
  • Temporal Pyramid Network for Action Recognition

    Ceyuan Yang, Yinghao Xu, Jianping Shi, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    A generic Temporal Pyramid Network (TPN) at the feature-level is proposed, which can be flexibly integrated into 2D or 3D backbone networks in a plug-and-play manner and shows consistent improvements over other challenging baselines on several action recognition datasets.

    456
  • CoBEVT: Cooperative Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation with Sparse Transformers

    Runsheng Xu, Zhengzhong Tu, Xiang, Hao, Wei Shao, Bolei Zhou, Jiaqi Ma

    arXiv · 2022

    The extensive experiments on the V2V perception dataset, OPV2V, demonstrate that CoBEVT achieves state-of-the-art performance for cooperative BEV semantic segmentation and is shown to be generalizable to other tasks, including 1) BEV segmentation with single-agent multi-camera and 2) 3D object detection with multi-agent LiDAR systems.

    453
  • Understanding collective crowd behaviors: Learning a Mixture model of Dynamic pedestrian-Agents

    Bolei Zhou, Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoou Tang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2012

    382
  • Semantic photo manipulation with a generative image prior

    David Anthony Bau, Hendrik Strobelt, William Peebles, Jonas Wulff, Bolei Zhou, Jun-Yan Zhu, Antonio B. Torralba

    ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2019

    This paper adapts the image prior learned by GANs to image statistics of an individual image and can accurately reconstruct the input image and synthesize new content, consistent with the appearance of theinput image.

    372
  • Interpreting Deep Visual Representations via Network Dissection

    Bolei Zhou, David Anthony Bau, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2018

    Network Dissection is described, a method that interprets networks by providing meaningful labels to their individual units that reveals that deep representations are more transparent and interpretable than they would be under a random equivalently powerful basis.

    362
  • Seeing What a GAN Cannot Generate

    David Anthony Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Jonas Wulff, William Peebles, Bolei Zhou, Hendrik Strobelt, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    This work visualize mode collapse at both the distribution level and the instance level, and deploys a semantic segmentation network to compare the distribution of segmented objects in the generated images with the target distribution in the training set.

    359
  • Image Processing Using Multi-Code GAN Prior

    Jinjin Gu, Yujun Shen, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    A novel approach is proposed, called mGANprior, to incorporate the well-trained GANs as effective prior to a variety of image processing tasks, by employing multiple latent codes to generate multiple feature maps at some intermediate layer of the generator and composing them with adaptive channel importance to recover the input image.

    347
  • V2V4Real: A Real-World Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Perception

    Runsheng Xu, Xin Xia, Jinlong Li, Hanzhao Li, Shuo Zhang, Zhengzhong Tu, Zonglin Meng, Hao Xiang, +5 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    V2V4Real introduces three perception tasks, including cooperative 3D object detection, cooperative3D object tracking, and Sim2Real domain adaptation for cooperative perception, and provides comprehensive benchmarks of recent cooperative perception algorithms on three tasks.

    344
  • Cross-View Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings

    Bowen Pan, Jiankai Sun, Ho Yin Tiga Leung, Alex Andonian, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2020

    A novel visual task called Cross-view Semantic Segmentation as well as a framework named View Parsing Network (VPN) to address it and the experimental results show that the model can effectively make use of the information from different views and multi-modalities to understanding spatial information.

    336
  • Interpretable Basis Decomposition for Visual Explanation

    Bolei Zhou, Yiyou Sun, David Anthony Bau, Antonio B. Torralba

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A new framework called Interpretable Basis Decomposition for providing visual explanations for classification networks is proposed, decomposing the neural activations of the input image into semantically interpretable components pre-trained from a large concept corpus.

    333
  • DrivingStereo: A Large-Scale Dataset for Stereo Matching in Autonomous Driving Scenarios

    Guorun Yang, Xiao Song, Chaoqin Huang, Zhidong Deng, Jianping Shi, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    303
  • Deep Flow-Guided Video Inpainting

    Rui Xu, Xiaoxiao Li, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    This work first synthesizes a spatially and temporally coherent optical flow field across video frames using a newly designed Deep Flow Completion network, then uses the synthesized flow fields to guide the propagation of pixels to fill up the missing regions in the video.

    285
  • Factorizable Net: An Efficient Subgraph-Based Framework for Scene Graph Generation

    Yikang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bolei Zhou, Jianping Shi, Chao Zhang, Xiaogang Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A subgraph-based connection graph is proposed to concisely represent the scene graph during the inference to improve the efficiency of scene graph generation and outperforms the state-of-the-art method in both accuracy and speed.

    285
  • TS-CAM: Token Semantic Coupled Attention Map for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

    Wei Gao, Fang Wan, Xingjia Pan, Zhiliang Peng, Qi Chuan Tian, Zhenjun Han, Bolei Zhou, Qixiang Ye

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    This paper introduces the token semantic coupled attention map (TS-CAM) to take full advantage of the self-attention mechanism in visual transformer for long-range dependency extraction and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

    274
  • Simple Baseline for Visual Question Answering

    Bolei Zhou, Yuandong Tian, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Arthur D. Szlam, Rob Fergus

    arXiv · 2015

    254
  • TPNet: Trajectory Proposal Network for Motion Prediction

    Liangji Fang, Qinhong Jiang, Jianping Shi, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work proposes a novel two-stage motion prediction framework, Trajectory Proposal Network (TPNet), which first generates a candidate set of future trajectories as hypothesis proposals, then makes the final predictions by classifying and refining the proposals which meets the physical constraints.

    234
  • Measuring Crowd Collectiveness

    Bolei Zhou, Xiaoou Tang, Xiaogang Wang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2013

    229
  • Semantic Hierarchy Emerges in Deep Generative Representations for Scene Synthesis

    Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Bolei Zhou

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2021

    This work shows that highly-structured semantic hierarchy emerges in the deep generative representations from the state-of-the-art GANs like StyleGAN and BigGAN, trained for scene synthesis, and quantifies the causality between the layer-wise activations and the semantics occurring in the output image.

    216
  • Experiment-free exoskeleton assistance via learning in simulation

    Shuzhen Luo, Menghan Jiang, Sainan Zhang, Junxi Zhu, Shuangyue Yu, Israel Dominguez Silva, Wang Tian, Elliott Jay Rouse, +4 more

    Nature · 2024

    This work shows an experiment-free method to learn a versatile control policy in simulation that may offer a generalizable and scalable strategy for the rapid development and widespread adoption of a variety of assistive robots for both able-bodied and mobility-impaired individuals.

    215
  • Visual Question Generation as Dual Task of Visual Question Answering

    Yikang Li, Nan Duan, Bolei Zhou, Xiao Chu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang, Ming Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    This paper proposes an end-to-end unified model, the Invertible Question Answering Network (iQAN), to introduce question generation as a dual task of question answering to improve the VQA performance and shows that the proposed dual training framework can consistently improve model performances of many popular V QA architectures.

    181
  • Semantic-Aware Implicit Neural Audio-Driven Video Portrait Generation

    Xian Liu, Yinghao Xu, Qianyi Wu, Hang Zhou, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    Semantic-aware Speaking Portrait NeRF (SSP-NeRF), which creates delicate audio-driven portraits using one unified set of NeRF through two semantic-aware modules, and renders more realistic video portraits compared to previous methods.

    177
  • TrafficGen: Learning to Generate Diverse and Realistic Traffic Scenarios

    Lan Feng, Quanyi Li, Zhenghao Peng, Shuhan Tan, Bolei Zhou

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2023

    This work introduces a data-driven method called TrafficGen for traffic scenario generation that learns from the fragmented human driving data collected in the real world and then generates realistic traffic scenarios and shows substantial improvements over baselines for generating traffic scenarios.

    172
  • Learning Hierarchical Cross-Modal Association for Co-Speech Gesture Generation

    Xian Liu, Qianyi Wu, Hang Zhou, Yinghao Xu, Rui Qian, Xinyi Lin, Xiaowei Zhou, Wayne Wu, +2 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work proposes a novel framework named Hierarchical Audio-to-Gesture (HA2G) for co-speech gesture generation, and develops a contrastive learning strategy based on audio-text alignment for better audio representations.

    169
  • Instance Localization for Self-supervised Detection Pretraining

    Ceyuan Yang, Zhirong Wu, Bolei Zhou, Stephen Ching-Feng Lin

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This paper proposes a new self-supervised pretext task, called instance localization, based on the inherent difference between classification and detection, and shows that integration of bounding boxes into pretraining promotes better task alignment and architecture alignment for transfer learning.

    169
  • AutoAlign: Pixel-Instance Feature Aggregation for Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection

    Zehui Chen, Zhenyu Li, Shiquan Zhang, Liangji Fang, Qinhong Jiang, Feng Zhao, Bolei Zhou, Hang Zhao

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    This paper proposes AutoAlign, an automatic feature fusion strategy for 3D object detection that model the mapping relationship between the image and point clouds with a learnable alignment map, and designs a self-supervised cross-modal feature interaction module that can learn feature aggregation with instance-level feature guidance.

    164
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  • SegICP: Integrated deep semantic segmentation and pose estimation

    Jay Ming Wong, Vincent Kee, Tiffany Le, Syler Wagner, Gian-Luca Mariottini, Abraham R. Schneider, Lei Hamilton, Rahul Chipalkatty, +5 more

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2017

    SegICP couples convolutional neural networks and multi-hypothesis point cloud registration to achieve both robust pixel-wise semantic segmentation as well as accurate and real-time 6-DOF pose estimation for relevant objects.

    158
  • GAN Dissection: Visualizing and Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks

    David Anthony Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Bolei Zhou, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, Antonio B. Torralba

    arXiv · 2018

    154
  • Coherent Filtering: Detecting Coherent Motions from Crowd Clutters

    Bolei Zhou, Xiaoou Tang, Xiaogang Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2012

    A prior of coherent motion called Coherence Neighbor Invariance is proposed, which characterizes the local spatiotemporal relationships of individuals in coherent motion and a general technique of detecting coherent motion patterns from noisy time-series data called Coherent Filtering is proposed.

    154
  • Recognizing City Identity via Attribute Analysis of Geo-tagged Images

    Bolei Zhou, Liu Liu, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2014

    This work proposes to characterize the identity of a city via an attribute analysis of 2 million geo-tagged images from 21 cities over 3 continents, using the scene attributes of these images to build a higher-level set of 7 city attributes, tailored to the form and function of cities.

    148
  • Open Vocabulary Scene Parsing

    Hang Zhao, Xavier Puig, Bolei Zhou, Sanja Fidler, Antonio B. Torralba

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    A joint image pixel and word concept embeddings framework, where word concepts are connected by semantic relations, and validated the open vocabulary prediction ability of this framework on ADE20K dataset which covers a wide variety of scenes and objects.

    146
  • 3D-aware Image Synthesis via Learning Structural and Textural Representations

    Yinghao Xu, Sida Peng, Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work proposes a novel framework, termed as VolumeGAN, for high-fidelity 3D-aware image synthesis, through explicitly learning a structural representation and a textural representation in a Generative Adversarial Network.

    145
  • Learning Collective Crowd Behaviors with Dynamic Pedestrian-Agents

    Bolei Zhou, Xiaoou Tang, Xiaogang Wang

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2014

    A new mixture model of dynamic pedestrian-Agents (MDA) is proposed to learn the collective behavior patterns of pedestrians in crowded scenes from video sequences and can infer the past behaviors and predict the future behaviors of pedestrians given their partially observed trajectories.

    139
  • A Local-to-Global Approach to Multi-Modal Movie Scene Segmentation

    Anyi Rao, Linning Xu, Yu Xiong, Guodong Xu, Qingqiu Huang, Bolei Zhou, Dahua Lin

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work builds a large-scale video dataset MovieScenes, which contains 21K annotated scene segments from 150 movies, and proposes a local-to-global scene segmentation framework, which integrates multi-modal information across three levels, i.e. clip, segment, and movie.

    138
  • FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition

    Sicheng Mo, Fangzhou Mu, Kuan Heng Lin, Yanli Liu, Bochen Guan, Yin Li, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Free Control enables convenient training-free control over many different architectures and checkpoints, allows the challenging input conditions on which most of the existing training-free methods fail, and achieves competitive synthesis quality compared to training-based approaches.

    136
  • Street-View Image Generation From a Bird's-Eye View Layout

    Alexander Swerdlow, Runsheng Xu, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2024

    A conditional generative model that synthesizes a set of realistic and spatially consistent surrounding images that match the BEV layout of a traffic scenario and incorporates a novel cross-view transformation with spatial attention design which learns the relationship between cameras and map views to ensure their consistency.

    131
  • Generative Hierarchical Features from Synthesizing Images

    Yinghao Xu, Yujun Shen, Jiapeng Zhu, Ceyuan Yang, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This work considers the pre-trained StyleGAN generator as a learned loss function and utilizes its layer-wise representation to train a novel hierarchical encoder, termed as Generative Hierarchical Feature (GH-Feat), which has strong transferability to both generative and discriminative tasks.

    126
  • C-IMAGE: city cognitive mapping through geo-tagged photos

    Liu Liu, Bolei Zhou, Jinhua Zhao, Brent D. Ryan

    GeoJournal · 2016

    This paper introduces a project called C-IMAGE, which analyzes the interactions between city and human perception through the massive amount of photos taken in 26 different cities: one based on the metadata and the other based on image content.

    103
  • A Unified Framework for Shot Type Classification Based on Subject Centric Lens

    Anyi Rao, Jiaze Wang, Linning Xu, Xuekun Jiang, Qingqiu Huang, Bolei Zhou, Dahua Lin

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    A learning framework Subject Guidance Network (SGNet) for shot type recognition is proposed, which separates the subject and background of a shot into two streams, serving as separate guidance maps for scale and movement type classification respectively.

    100
  • Positional Encoding as Spatial Inductive Bias in GANs

    Rui Xu, Xintao Wang, Kai Chen, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This work shows that SinGAN's impressive capability in learning internal patch distribution, to a large extent, is brought by the implicit positional encoding when using zero padding in the generators, and proposes a new multi-scale training strategy and demonstrates its effectiveness in the state-of-the-art unconditional generator StyleGAN2.

    97
  • CAT: Closed-loop Adversarial Training for Safe End-to-End Driving

    Linrui Zhang, Zhenghao Peng, Quanyi Li, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2023

    A novel resampling technique is developed to turn log-replay real-world driving scenarios into safety-critical ones via probabilistic factorization, where the adversarial traffic generation is modeled as the multiplication of standard motion prediction sub-problems.

    86
  • SimIPU: Simple 2D Image and 3D Point Cloud Unsupervised Pre-training for Spatial-Aware Visual Representations

    Zhenyu Li, Zehui Chen, Ang Li, Liangji Fang, Qinhong Jiang, Xianming Liu, Junjun Jiang, Bolei Zhou, +1 more

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    This is the first study to explore contrastive learning pre-training strategies for outdoor multi-modal datasets, containing paired camera images and LIDAR point clouds, in an unsupervised end-to-end fashion.

    84
  • DisCoScene: Spatially Disentangled Generative Radiance Fields for Controllable 3D-aware Scene Synthesis

    Yinghao Xu, Menglei Chai, Zifan Shi, Sida Peng, Ivan Skorokhodov, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, +3 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    The proposed model spatially disentangles the whole scene into object-centric generative radiance fields by learning on only 2D images with the global-local discrimination, and obtains the generation fidelity and editing flexibility of individual objects while being able to efficiently compose objects and the background into a complete scene.

    83
  • Every Frame Counts: Joint Learning of Video Segmentation and Optical Flow

    Mingyu Ding, Zhe Wang, Bolei Zhou, Jianping Shi, Zhiwu Lu, Ping Luo

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    This paper proposes a novel framework for joint video semantic segmentation and optical flow estimation that is able to utilize both labeled and unlabeled frames in the video through joint training, while no additional calculation is required in inference.

    80
  • Single Image Intrinsic Decomposition Without a Single Intrinsic Image

    Wei-Chiu Ma, Hang Chu, Bolei Zhou, Raquel Urtasun, Antonio B. Torralba

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This paper presents a two stream convolutional neural network framework that is capable of learning the decomposition effectively in the absence of any ground truth intrinsic images, and can be easily extended to a (semi-)supervised setup.

    79
  • Revisiting the Importance of Individual Units in CNNs via Ablation

    Bolei Zhou, Yiyou Sun, David Anthony Bau, Antonio B. Torralba

    arXiv · 2018

    78
  • A Graph-Based Framework to Bridge Movies and Synopses

    Yu Xiong, Qingqiu Huang, Lingfeng Guo, Hang Zhou, Bolei Zhou, Dahua Lin

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    A dataset called Movie Synopses Associations (MSA) is constructed, which provides a synopsis for each movie, together with annotated associations between synopsis paragraphs and movie segments, and a framework to perform matching between movie segments and synopsis paragraphs is developed.

    71
  • Towards Text-guided 3D Scene Composition

    Qihang Zhang, Chaoyang Wang, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Peiye Zhuang, Yinghao Xu, Ceyuan Yang, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou, +2 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    SceneWiz3D is introduced - a novel approach to synthesize high-fidelity 3D scenes from text by introducing a hybrid 3D representation - explicit for objects and implicit for scenes, and achieves superior quality over previous approaches.

    70
  • One-Shot Generative Domain Adaptation

    Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Zhiyi Zhang, Yinghao Xu, Jiapeng Zhu, Zhirong Wu, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    This work aims to transfer a Generative Adversarial Network pre-trained on one image domain to another domain referred to as few as just one reference image, and proposes to constrain the diversity of the latent space through truncation in the training process, alleviating the optimization difficulty.

    70
  • PlaTe: Visually-Grounded Planning With Transformers in Procedural Tasks

    Jiankai Sun, De-An Huang, Bo Lu, Yunhui Liu, Bolei Zhou, Animesh Garg

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2022

    This work addresses the problem of how to leverage instructional videos to facilitate the understanding of human decision-making processes, focusing on training a model with the ability to plan a goal-directed procedure from real-world videos with Planning Transformer (PlaTe), which has the advantage of circumventing the compounding prediction errors that occur with single-step models during long model-based rollouts.

    69
  • Visualizing and Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks (Extended Abstract).

    David Anthony Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Bolei Zhou, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, Antonio B. Torralba

    arXiv · 2019

    This work presents an analytic framework to visualize and understand GANs at the unit-, object-, and scene-level, and identifies a group of interpretable units that are closely related to concepts with a segmentation-based network dissection method.

    68
  • Cross-Model Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition

    Yinghao Xu, Fangyun Wei, Xiao Na Sun, Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou, Stephen Ching-Feng Lin

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work proposes a more effective pseudo-labeling scheme, called Cross-Model Pseudo-Labeling (CMPL), which introduces a lightweight auxiliary network in addition to the primary backbone, and asks them to predict pseudo-labels for each other, and observes that these two models tend to learn complementary representations from the same video clips.

    66
  • TransMoMo: Invariance-Driven Unsupervised Video Motion Retargeting

    Zhuoqian Yang, Wentao Zhu, Wayne Wu, Chen Qian, Qiang Zhou, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    A lightweight video motion retargeting approach TransMoMo that is capable of transferring motion of a person in a source video realistically to another video of a target person by exploiting invariance properties of three orthogonal factors of variation including motion, structure, and view-angle.

    66
  • V2XP-ASG: Generating Adversarial Scenes for Vehicle-to-Everything Perception

    Hao Xiang, Runsheng Xu, Xin Xia, Zhaoliang Zheng, Bolei Zhou, Jiaqi Ma

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2023

    The first open adversarial scene generator V2XP-ASG is proposed that can produce realistic, challenging scenes for modern LiDAR-based multi-agent perception systems and learns to construct an adversarial collaboration graph and simultaneously perturb multiple agents' poses in a adversarial and plausible manner.

    61
  • Understanding Intra-Class Knowledge Inside CNN

    Donglai Wei, Bolei Zhou, Antonio Torrabla, William T. Freeman

    arXiv · 2015

    59
  • Discovering place-informative scenes and objects using social media photos

    Fan Zhang, Bolei Zhou, Carlo Ratti, Yu Liu

    Royal Society Open Science · 2019

    This work proposes a data-driven framework to explore the place-informative scenes and objects by employing deep convolutional neural network to learn and measure the visual knowledge of place appearance automatically from a massive dataset of photos and imagery.

    55
  • Learning to Drive by Watching YouTube Videos: Action-Conditioned Contrastive Policy Pretraining

    Qihang Zhang, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    This work aims to pretrain policy representations for driving tasks by watching hours-long uncurated YouTube videos by training an inverse dynamic model with a small amount of labeled data and using it to predict action labels for all the YouTube video frames.

    54
  • Texture Memory-Augmented Deep Patch-Based Image Inpainting

    Rui Xu, Minghao Guo, Jiaqi Wang, Xiaoxiao Li, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    A new deep inpainting framework where texture generation is guided by a texture memory of patch samples extracted from unmasked regions is proposed, which has a novel design that allows texture memory retrieval to be trained end-to-end with the deep inPainting network.

    53
  • Vid2Sim: Realistic and Interactive Simulation from Video for Urban Navigation

    Ziyang Xie, Zhizheng Liu, Zhenghao Peng, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    Vid2Sim is proposed, a novel framework that effectively bridges the sim2real gap through a scalable and cost-efficient real2sim pipeline with 3D scene reconstruction and simulation to enable the reinforcement learning of visual navigation agents in complex urban environments.

    51
  • Video Representation Learning with Visual Tempo Consistency

    Ceyuan Yang, Yinghao Xu, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

    51
  • ConceptLearner: Discovering visual concepts from weakly labeled image collections

    Bolei Zhou, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Robinson Piramuthu

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2015

    This paper proposes ConceptLearner, which is a scalable approach to discover visual concepts from weakly labeled image collections, which shows promising performance compared to fully supervised and weakly supervised methods.

    48
  • V2XPnP: Vehicle-to-Everything Spatio-Temporal Fusion for Multi-Agent Perception and Prediction

    Zewei Zhou, Hao Xiang, Zhaoliang Zheng, Seth Z. Zhao, Mingyue Lei, Yun Zhang, Tianhui Cai, Xinyi Liu, +6 more

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    This paper designs one-step and multi-step communication strategies for spatio-temporal fusion in V2X scenarios and examines their integration with three fusion strategies - early, late, and intermediate - providing comprehensive benchmarks with 11 fusion models (how to fuse).

    47
  • Next Steps for Human-Centered Generative AI: A Technical Perspective

    Xiang Chen, Jeff Burke, Ruofei Du, Matthew K. Hong, Jennifer Jacobs, Philippe Laban, Dingzeyu Li, Nanyun Peng, +3 more

    arXiv · 2023

    A comprehensive research agenda that lays out future directions of Generative AI spanning three levels: aligning with human values; assimilating human intents; and augmenting human abilities is contributed.

    47
  • Exploit Reward Shifting in Value-Based Deep-RL: Optimistic Curiosity-Based Exploration and Conservative Exploitation Via Linear Reward Shaping

    Hao Sun, Lei Han, Rui Yang, Xiaoteng Ma, Jian Guo, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2022

    The key insight is brought that a positive reward shifting leads to conservative exploitation, while a negative reward shifting leads to curiosity-driven exploration, which improves offline RL value estimation, and optimistic value estimation improves exploration for online RL.

    46
  • A Phase Discrepancy Analysis of Object Motion

    Bolei Zhou, Xiaodi Hou, Liqing Zhang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2011

    A surprisingly simple algorithm to detect objects in such conditions by showing that the displacement of the foreground and the background can be represented by the phase change of Fourier spectra and the motion of background objects can be extracted by Phase Discrepancy in an efficient and robust way.

    42
  • Disentangled Inference for GANs With Latently Invertible Autoencoder

    Jiapeng Zhu, Deli Zhao, Bo Zhang, Bolei Zhou

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2022

    In LIA, an invertible network and its inverse mapping are symmetrically embedded in the latent space of an autoencoder, and the decoder of LIA is first trained as a standard GAN with the invertable network, and then the encoder is learned from a disentangled autoen coder by detaching the inverted network from LIA.

    39
  • Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning With Self-Attention Dynamics Model

    Jiankai Sun, Lantao Yu, Pinqian Dong, Bo Lu, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021

    37
  • Reasoning About Human-Object Interactions Through Dual Attention Networks

    Tete Xiao, Quanfu Fan, Danny Gutfreund, Mathew Monfort, Aude Oliva, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    A Dual Attention Network model which reasons about human-object interactions is proposed, which not only finds when an action is happening and which object is being manipulated, but also identifies which part of the object isbeing interacted with.

    37
  • Recurrent Residual Module for Fast Inference in Videos

    Bowen Pan, Wuwei Lin, Xiaolin Fang, Chaoqin Huang, Bolei Zhou, Cewu Lu

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    This work proposes a framework called Recurrent Residual Module (RRM) to accelerate the CNN inference for video recognition tasks, which has a novel design of using the similarity of the intermediate feature maps of two consecutive frames to largely reduce the redundant computation.

    37
  • Improving GAN Equilibrium by Raising Spatial Awareness

    Jianyuan Wang, Ceyuan Yang, Yinghao Xu, Yujun Shen, Hongdong Li, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work aims to alleviate the issue of D dominating the competition in GANs, and proposes to align the spatial awareness of G with the attention map induced from D, effectively lessen the information gap between D and G.

    35
  • Real-Time Object Pose Estimation with Pose Interpreter Networks

    Jimmy Wu, Bolei Zhou, Rebecca L. Russell, Vincent Kee, Syler Wagner, Mitchell Hebert, Antonio B. Torralba, David M.S. Johnson

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2018

    This work introduces pose interpreter networks for 6-DoF object pose estimation and shows that when combined with a segmentation model trained on RGB images, this synthetically trained pose interpreter network is able to generalize to real data.

    34
  • Joint Optimization for 4D Human-Scene Reconstruction in the Wild

    Zhizheng Liu, Lin, Joe, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2025

    A novel optimization-based method for 4D human-scene reconstruction in the wild from monocular videos, JOSH, which achieves better results on both global human motion estimation and dense scene reconstruction by joint optimization of scene geometry and human motion.

    33
  • 3DitScene: Editing Any Scene via Language-guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting

    Qihang Zhang, Yinghao Xu, Chaoyang Wang, Hsin-Ying Lee, Gordon Wetzstein, Bolei Zhou, Ceyuan Yang

    arXiv · 2024

    3DitScene is proposed, a novel and unified scene editing framework leveraging language-guided disentangled Gaussian Splatting that enables seamless editing from 2D to 3D, allowing precise control over scene composition and individual objects.

    33
  • Visual Sound Localization in the Wild by Cross-Modal Interference Erasing

    Xian Liu, Rui Qian, Hang Zhou, Di Hu, Weiyao Lin, Ziwei Liu, Bolei Zhou, Xiaowei Zhou

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    Quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate that the Interference Eraser framework achieves superior results on sound localization tasks, especially under real world scenarios.

    32
  • Data-Efficient Instance Generation from Instance Discrimination

    Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Yinghao Xu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2021

    31
  • ScenarioNet: Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Traffic Scenario Simulation and Modeling

    quanyi li, Lan Feng, Lan Feng, Zhizheng liu, Chenda Duan, Wenjie Mo, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2023

    28
  • Counterfactual VLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning

    Zhenghao "Mark" Peng, Wenhao Ding, Yurong You, Yuxiao Chen, Wenjie Luo, Thomas Tian, Yulong Cao, Apoorva Sharma, +6 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces Counterfactual VLA (CF-VLA), a self-reflective VLA framework that enables the model to reason about and revise its planned actions before execution, and proposes a rollout-filter-label pipeline that mines high-value scenes from a base (non-counterfactual) VLA's rollouts and labels counterfactual reasoning traces for subsequent training rounds.

    27
  • DeepMiner: Discovering Interpretable Representations for Mammogram Classification and Explanation

    Jimmy Wu, Bolei Zhou, Diondra Peck, Scott S. Hsieh, Vandana M. Dialani, Lester Mackey, Geneviève Patterson

    Harvard Data Science Review · 2021

    It is shown that DeepMiner not only enables better understanding of the nuances of CNN classification decisions, but also possibly discovers new visual knowledge relevant to medical diagnosis.

    27
  • FaceFeat-GAN: a Two-Stage Approach for Identity-Preserving Face Synthesis

    Yujun Shen, Bolei Zhou, Ping Luo, Tang, Xiaoou

    arXiv · 2018

    26
  • Embodied Scene Understanding for Vision Language Models via MetaVQA

    Weizhen Wang, Chenda Duan, Zhenghao Peng, Yuxin Liu, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    MetaVQA is presented, a comprehensive benchmark designed to assess and enhance VLMs’ understanding of spatial relationships and scene dynamics through Visual Question Answering (VQA) and closed-loop simulations, and exhibits strong transferability from simulation to real-world observation.

    23
  • AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

    Zewei Zhou, Tianhui Cai, Seth Z. Zhao, Yun Zhang, Zhiyu Huang, Bolei Zhou, Jiaqi Ma

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    23
  • Guarded Policy Optimization with Imperfect Online Demonstrations

    Zhenghai Xue, Zhenghao Peng, Quanyi Li, Zhihan Liu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2023

    An Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning algorithm, termed Teacher-Student Shared Control (TS2C), which incorporates teacher intervention based on trajectory-based value estimation is instantiated and validates that the proposed TS2C algorithm attains efficient exploration and substantial safety guarantee without being affected by the teacher's own performance.

    22
  • Deep Learning for Scene Classification: A Survey

    Delu Zeng, Minyu Liao, Mohammad Tavakolian, Yulan Guo, Bolei Zhou, Dewen Hu, Matti Pietikäinen, Li Liu

    arXiv · 2021

    22
  • CooPre: Cooperative Pretraining for V2X Cooperative Perception

    Seth Z. Zhao, Hao Xiang, Chenfeng Xu, Xin Xia, Bolei Zhou, Jiaqi Ma

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2025

    This paper presents a self-supervised learning framwork for V2X cooperative perception, which utilizes the vast amount of unlabeled 3D V2X data to enhance the perception performance and develops a V2X bird-eye-view (BEV) guided masking strategy which effectively allows the model to pay attention to 3D features across heterogeneous V2X agents.

    21
  • Improving the Fairness of Deep Generative Models without Retraining

    Shuhan Tan, Yujun Shen, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

    21
  • LIA: Latently Invertible Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning

    Jiapeng Zhu, Deli Zhao, Bolei Zhou, Bo Zhang

    arXiv · 2019

    The two-stage stochasticity-free training is devised to train LIA via adversarial learning, in the sense that it first train a standard GAN whose generator is the decoder of LIA and then an autoencoder in the adversarial manner by detaching the invertible network from LIA.

    21
  • Vista4D: Video Reshooting with 4D Point Clouds

    Kuan Heng Lin, Zhizheng Liu, Pablo Salamanca, Yash Kant, Ryan Burgert, Yuancheng Xu, Koichi Namekata, Yiwei Zhao, +4 more

    arXiv · 2026

    Vista4D is presented, a robust and flexible video reshooting framework that grounds the input video and target cameras in a 4D point cloud and generalizes to real-world applications such as dynamic scene expansion and 4D scene recomposition.

    20
  • Towards Autonomous Micromobility through Scalable Urban Simulation

    Wayne Wu, Honglin He, Chaoyuan Zhang, Jack He, Seth Z. Zhao, Ran Gong, Quanyi Li, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    A scalable urban simulation solution to advance autonomous micromobility and a high-performance robot learning platform for large-scale training of embodied agents in interactive urban scenes and a suite of essential tasks and benchmarks to gauge various capabilities of the AI agents in achieving autonomous micromobility.

    20
  • Scene Classification

    Bolei Zhou

    Springer eBooks · 2020

    20
  • Towards Smooth Video Composition

    Zhang, Qihang, Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Yinghao Xu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2022

    This work investigates modeling the temporal relations for composing video with arbitrary length, from a few frames to even infinite, using generative adversarial networks (GANs), and develops a novel B-Spline based motion representation to ensure temporal smoothness to achieve infinite-length video generation.

    19
  • Accurate prediction of disease-risk factors from volumetric medical scans by a deep vision model pre-trained with 2D scans

    Oren Avram, Berkin Durmus, Nadav Rakocz, Giulia Corradetti, Ulzee An, Muneeswar Gupta Nittala, Prerit Terway, Ákos Rudas, +22 more

    Nature Biomedical Engineering · 2024

    A deep-learning model pre-trained on readily available 2D scans outperforms domain-specific state-of-the-art models in the prediction of disease-risk factors from 3D medical-scan modalities.

    18
  • Expert identification of visual primitives used by CNNs during mammogram classification

    Scott S. Hsieh, Constance Dobbins Lehman, Vandana Dialani, Bolei Zhou, Diondra Peck, Genevieve Patterson, Lester Mackey, Vasilis Syrgkanis, +1 more

    SPIE Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis · 2018

    This work interprets the internal representations of deep neural networks trained for classification of diseased tissue in 2D mammograms using an expert-in-the-loop inter- pretation method to label the behavior of internal units in convolutional neural networks (CNNs).

    18
  • Comparing the Interpretability of Deep Networks via Network Dissection

    Bolei Zhou, David Anthony Bau, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

    This chapter introduces Network Dissection, a general framework to quantify the interpretability of the units inside a deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and compares the different vocabularies of interpretable units as concept detectors emerged from the networks trained to solve different supervised learning tasks.

    17
  • MetaUrban: An Embodied AI Simulation Platform for Urban Micromobility

    Wayne Wu, Honglin He, Jack He, Yiran Wang, Chenda Duan, Zhizheng Liu, Quanyi Li, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2024

    MetaUrban, a compositional simulation platform for Embodied AI research in urban spaces, is presented and experiments demonstrate that the compositional nature of the simulated environments can substantially improve the generalizability and safety of the trained mobile agents.

    16
  • Efficient 3D Articulated Human Generation with Layered Surface Volumes

    Yinghao Xu, Yifan Wang, Alexander W. Bergman, Menglei Chai, Bolei Zhou, Gordon Wetzstein

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2024

    This work introduces layered surface volumes (LSVs) as a new 3D representation for articulatable humans and trains on unstructured, single-view 2D image datasets, which generates high-quality and viewconsistent 3D articulated digital humans without the need for view-inconsistent 2D upsampling networks.

    16
  • Human-AI Shared Control Via Policy Dissection

    Quanyi Li, Zhenghao Peng, Haibin Wu, Lan Feng, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2022

    The experiments show that human-AI shared control achieved by Policy Dissection in driving task can substantially improve the performance and safety in unseen traffic scenes and suggest the promising direction of implementing human- AI shared autonomy through interpreting the learned representation of the autonomous agents.

    16
  • X-Fusion: Introducing New Modality to Frozen Large Language Models

    Sicheng Mo, THAO Q. NGUYEN, Xun Huang, Siddharth Iyer, Yijun Li, Yuchen Liu, Abhishek Tandon, Eli Shechtman, +4 more

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    XFusion is proposed, a framework that extends pretrained Large Language Models for multimodal tasks while preserving their language capabilities by employing a dual-tower design with modality-specific weights, keeping the LLM's parameters frozen while integrating vision-specific information for both understanding and generation.

    15
  • Urban Scene Diffusion through Semantic Occupancy Map

    Junge Zhang, Zhang, Qihang, Zhang, Li, Ramana Rao Kompella, Gaowen Liu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes UrbanDiffusion, a 3D diffusion model that is conditioned on a Bird's-Eye View (BEV) map and generates an urban scene with geometry and semantics in the form of semantic occupancy map and introduces a novel paradigm that learns the data distribution of scene-level structures within a latent space and further enables the expansion of the synthesized scene into an arbitrary scale.

    15
  • Interpreting Visual Representations of Neural Networks via Network Dissection

    Bolei Zhou, David Anthony Bau, Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba

    Journal of Vision · 2018

    15
  • In-Domain GAN Inversion for Faithful Reconstruction and Editability

    Jiapeng Zhu, Yujun Shen, Yinghao Xu, Deli Zhao, Qifeng Chen, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    In-domain GAN inversion is proposed, which consists of a domain-guided encoder and a domain-regularized optimizer, to regularize the inverted code in the native latent space of the pre-trained GAN model, to sufficiently reuse the knowledge learned by GANs for image reconstruction, facilitating a wide range of editing applications without any retraining.

    14
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  • Optimization as Estimation with Gaussian Processes in Bandit Settings

    Zi Wang, Bolei Zhou, Stefanie Jegelka

    arXiv · 2015

    14
  • TurboTrain: Towards Efficient and Balanced Multi-Task Learning for Multi-Agent Perception and Prediction

    Zewei Zhou, Seth Z. Zhao, Tianhui Cai, Zhiyu Huang, Bolei Zhou, Jiaqi Ma

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    This work introduces TurboTrain, a novel and efficient training framework for multi-agent perception and prediction, and demonstrates that it further improves the performance of state-of-the-art multi-agent perception and prediction models.

    12
  • Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism

    Haoyuan Cai, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2025

    The Adaptive Intervention Mechanism (AIM), a novel robot-gated IIL algorithm that learns an adaptive criterion for requesting human demonstrations that achieves a 40% improvement in terms of human take-over cost and learning efficiency.

    12
  • Improving GANs with a Dynamic Discriminator

    Ceyuan Yang, Yujun Shen, Yu Xu, Deli Zhao, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2022

    12
  • Occupancy Learning with Spatiotemporal Memory

    Ziyang Leng, Jiawei Yang, Wenlong Yi, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    ST-Occ is proposed, a scene-level occupancy representation learning framework that effectively learns the spatiotemporal feature with temporal consistency and significantly enhances the spatiotemporal representation learned for 3D occupancy prediction tasks by exploiting the temporal dependency between multi-frame inputs.

    11
  • Ctrl-X: Controlling Structure and Appearance for Text-To-Image Generation Without Guidance

    Ben Klingher, Sicheng Mo, Ben Klingher, Fangzhou Mu, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    11
  • Learning a Decision Module by Imitating Driver's Control Behaviors.

    Junning Huang, Sirui Xie, Jiankai Sun, Gary Qiurui Ma, Chunxiao Liu, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou

    2020

    11
  • On the Units of GANs (Extended Abstract)

    David Anthony Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Bolei Zhou, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, Antonio B. Torralba

    arXiv · 2019

    11
  • BridgeSim: Unveiling the OL-CL Gap in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Seth Z. Zhao, Luobin Wang, Hongwei Ruan, Yuxin Bao, Yilan Chen, Ziyang Leng, Abhijit Ravichandran, Honglin He, +8 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This paper demonstrates that OL policies suffer from Observational Domain Shift and Objective Mismatch, and proposes a Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) framework that calibrates observational shift, reduces state-action biases, and enforces temporal consistency.

    10
  • Learning to Simulate Self-Driven Particles System with Coordinated Policy Optimization

    Zhenghao Peng, quanyi li, Ka Ming Hui, Chunxiao Liu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2021

    10
  • Localization and recognition of human action in 3D using transformers

    Jiankai Sun, Linjiang Huang, Hongsong Wang, Chuanyang Zheng, Jianing Qiu, Md Tauhidul Islam, Enze Xie, Bolei Zhou, +3 more

    Communications Engineering · 2024

    This work introduces a new, challenging, and more complex benchmark dataset, BABEL-TAL (BT), for 3D action localization, and proposes a strong baseline model, i.e., Localizing Actions with Transformers (LocATe), that jointly localizes and recognizes actions in a 3D sequence.

    9
  • LocATe: End-to-end Localization of Actions in 3D with Transformers

    Jiankai Sun, Bolei Zhou, Michael J. Black, Arjun Chandrasekaran

    arXiv · 2022

    LocATe is proposed, an end-to-end approach that jointly localizes and recognizes actions in a 3D sequence and outperforms previous approaches on the existing PKU-MMD 3D-TAL benchmark (mAP=93.2%).

    9
  • Improving the Generalization of End-to-End Driving through Procedural Generation

    Quanyi Li, Zhenghao Peng, Qihang Zhang, Chun‐Xiao Liu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

    9
  • UrbanVerse: Scaling Urban Simulation by Watching City-Tour Videos

    Mingxuan Liu, Honglin He, Elisa Ricci, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2025

    Experiments show that UrbanVerse scenes preserve real-world semantics and layouts, achieving human-evaluated realism comparable to manually crafted scenes, in urban navigation and in urban navigation policies trained in UrbanVerse exhibit scaling power laws and strong generalization.

    8
  • AnimaMimic: Imitating 3D Animation from Video Priors

    Xie, Tianyi, Chen, Yunuo, Guo, Yaowei, Yin Yang, Bolei Zhou, Demetri Terzopoulos, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang

    arXiv · 2025

    This work presents AnimaMimic, a framework that animates static 3D meshes using motion priors learned from video diffusion models, and integrates a differentiable simulation module that refines mesh deformation through physically grounded soft-tissue dynamics.

    8
  • Neuro-Symbolic Program Search for Autonomous Driving Decision Module Design.

    Jiankai Sun, Hao Sun, Tian Han, Bolei Zhou

    Conference on Robot Learning · 2020

    8
  • Streaming Multi-Agent Autoregressive Diffusion Model with World State Registers

    Sicheng Mo, Yuheng Li, Ziyang Leng, K. SINGH, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

    WorldWeaver (W^2), a streaming multi-agent video diffusion model that augments rollout with cross-agent world state registers: learnable tokens that store shared world information, track individual agent status, and are dynamically updated after each generated chunk is presented.

    7
  • Data-Efficient Learning from Human Interventions for Mobile Robots

    Zhenghao Peng, Zhizheng Liu, Bolei Zhou

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2025

    An online human-in-the-loop learning method PVP4Real enables efficient real-time policy learning from online human intervention and demonstration, without reward or any pretraining, significantly improving data efficiency and training safety.

    7
  • BerfScene: Bev-conditioned Equivariant Radiance Fields for Infinite 3D Scene Generation

    Qihang Zhang, Yinghao Xu, Yujun Shen, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou, Ceyuan Yang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    A practical and efficient 3D representation that incorporates an equivariant radiance field with the guidance of a bird's-eye view (BEV) map is proposed that allows for large-scale, even infinite-scale, 3D scenes via synthesizing local scenes and then stitching them with smooth consistency.

    7
  • Learning to Generate Diverse Pedestrian Movements from Web Videos with Noisy Labels

    Zhizheng Liu, Joe Jien-Jou Lin, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2024

    A generative model called PedGen that contains a novel context encoder that lifts the 2D scene context to 3D and can incorporate various context factors in generating realistic pedestrian movements in urban scenes and achieves zero-shot generalization in both real-world and simulated environments.

    7
  • STransGAN: An Empirical Study on Transformer in GANs

    Rui Xu, Xiangyu Xu, Kai Chen, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy

    arXiv · 2021

    7
  • MDrive: Benchmarking Closed-Loop Cooperative Driving for End-to-End Multi-agent Systems

    Marco Coscoy, Zewei Zhou, Seth Z. Zhao, Henry Wei, Angela Magtoto, Johnson Liu, Rui Song, Walter Zimmer, +4 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This paper introduces MDrive, a closed-loop cooperative driving benchmark comprising 225 scenarios grounded in both NHTSA pre-crash typologies and real-world V2X datasets that establishes a reproducible foundation for evaluating and improving the generalization and robustness of cooperative driving systems.

    6
  • Dreamland: Controllable World Creation with Simulator and Generative Models

    Sicheng Mo, Ziyang Leng, Liu, Leon, Weizhen Wang, Honglin He, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes Dreamland, a hybrid world generation framework combining the granular control of a physics-based simulator and the photorealistic content output of large-scale pretrained generative models, and designs a layered world abstraction that encodes both pixel-level and object-level semantics and geometry as an intermediate representation to bridge the simulator and the generative model.

    6
  • Interpreting Generative Adversarial Networks for Interactive Image Generation

    Bolei Zhou

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    This chapter gives a summary of recent works on interpreting deep generative models and sees how the human-understandable concepts that emerge in the learned representation can be identified and used for interactive image generation and editing.

    6
  • ChemSpacE: Interpretable and Interactive Chemical Space Exploration

    Yuanqi Du, Xian Liu, Nilay D. Shah, Shengchao Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Bolei Zhou

    ChemRxiv · 2022

    6
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Adopting Transformer in GANs

    Rui Xu, Xiangyu Xu, Kai Chen, Bolei Zhou, Chen Change Loy

    arXiv · 2021

    6
  • Policy Continuation with Hindsight Inverse Dynamics

    Hao Sun, Zhizhong Li, Xiaotong Liu, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2019

    6
  • Learning Sidewalk Autopilot from Multi-Scale Imitation with Corrective Behavior Expansion

    Honglin He, Yukai Ma, Brad Squicciarini, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2026

    This work proposes a framework that advances IL through corrective behavior expansion and multi-scale imitation learning and introduces a multi-scale IL architecture that captures both short-horizon interactive behaviors and long-horizon goal-directed intentions via horizon-based trajectory clustering and hierarchical supervision.

    5
  • DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy

    A. Wang, Xu Yan, Brandon McMahan, Michael Zhou, Yuyang Yuan, Johannes Y. Lee, Ali Shreif, Matthew Li, +4 more

    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · 2026

    Diffusion Sequence Copilots (DiSCo) is introduced: a method of shared autonomy with diffusion policy that plans action sequences consistent with past user actions that substantially improves task performance in simulated driving and robotic arm tasks.

    5
  • BEVCon: Advancing Bird's Eye View Perception With Contrastive Learning

    Ziyang Leng, Jiawei Yang, Zhicheng Ren, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025

    The dense contrastive learning designed on top of detection losses leads to improved feature representations across both the BEV encoder and the backbone, and highlights the critical role of representation learning in BEV perception.

    5
  • WOMD-Reasoning: A Large-Scale Dataset for Interaction Reasoning in Driving

    Li, Yiheng, Fan, Cunxin, Chongjian Ge, Zhao, Zhihao, Chenran Li, Chenfeng Xu, Huaxiu Yao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, +4 more

    arXiv · 2024

    By incorporating interaction and intention language from WOMD-Reasoning, the authors see significant enhancements in the performance of the state-of-the-art trajectory prediction model, Multipath++, with improvements of 10.14% in MR 6 and 6.90% in minFDE 6, proving the effectiveness of WOMD-Reasoning.

    5
  • Optimistic Curiosity Exploration and Conservative Exploitation with Linear Reward Shaping

    Hao Sun, Lei Han, Rui Yang, Ma, Xiaoteng, Jian Chun Guo, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2022

    The key insight is brought that a positive reward shifting leads to conservative exploitation, while a negative reward shift leads to curiosity-driven exploration, which improves offline RL value estimation, and optimistic value estimation improves exploration for online RL.

    5
  • Unsupervised Landmark Learning from Unpaired Data

    Yinghao Xu, Ceyuan Yang, Ziwei Liu, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

    5
  • Improving Out-of-Distribution Robustness of Classifiers via Generative Interpolation

    Haoyue Bai, Ceyuan Yang, Yinghao Xu, S.-H. Gary Chan, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper develops a simple yet effective method called Generative Interpolation to fuse generative models trained from multiple domains for synthesizing diverse OoD samples and explicitly increases the diversity of training domains and achieves consistent improvements over baselines across datasets and multiple different distribution shifts.

    4
  • HiABP: Hierarchical Initialized ABP for Unsupervised Representation Learning

    Jiankai Sun, Rui Zhou Zhenzhen Liu, Bolei Zhou

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    Hierarchical Initialized Alternating Backpropagation (HiABP) is proposed for efficient Bayesian inference of hierarchical latent representation with controllable image synthesis and can outperform other popular deep generative models in modeling natural images and learning from incomplete data.

    4
  • Safe Driving via Expert Guided Policy Optimization

    Zhenghao Peng, Quanyi Li, Chunxiao Liu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2021

    4
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  • Visualizing and Understanding GANs

    David Anthony Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Bolei Zhou, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, Antonio B. Torralba

    International Conference on Learning Representations · 2019

    4
  • Interpretable representation learning for visual intelligence

    Bolei Zhou

    DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2018

    This thesis investigates several novel approaches for opening up the “black box” of neural networks used in visual recognition tasks and understanding their inner working mechanism, and describes an approach that can efficiently explain the output prediction for any given image.

    4
  • Scene Gist: A Holistic Generative Model of Natural Image

    Bolei Zhou, Liqing Zhang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2010

    This paper proposes a novel generative model for natural image representation and scene classification that is decomposed with learned holistic basis called scene gist components, a global and adaptive image descriptor, generatively including most essential information related to visual perception.

    4
  • Understanding Real-World Traffic Safety through RoadSafe365 Benchmark

    Xinyu Liu, Darryl C. Jacob, Yuxin Liu, Xinsong Du, Muchao Ye, Bolei Zhou, Pan He

    arXiv · 2026

    3
  • Monocular 3D Occupancy Perception for Robots on Sidewalks via Hybrid 2D-3D Learning

    Yukai Ma, Joe Lin, Liu Liu, Honglin He, Lulu Ricketts, Brad Squicciarini, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

    WalkOCC is proposed, a hybrid Ray-marching monocular 3D occupancy perception framework for robots operating on sidewalks that yields stable optimization and improved generalization without requiring costly 3D occupancy annotations.

    3
  • Verbalized Representation Learning for Interpretable Few-Shot Generalization

    Cheng-Fu Yang, Da Yin, Wenbo Hu, Heng Ji, Nanyun Peng, Bolei Zhou, Kai-Wei Chang

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    This work proposes Verbalized Representation Learning (VRL), a novel approach for automatically extracting human-interpretable features for object recognition using few-shot data and achieves a 24% absolute improvement over prior state-of-the-art methods while using 95% less data and a smaller model.

    3
  • Unsupervised Discovery of Steerable Factors When Graph Deep Generative Models Are Entangled

    Shengchao Liu, Wang, Chengpeng, Jiarui Lu, Weili Nie, Hanchen Wang, Zhuoxinran Li, Bolei Zhou, Jian Guo Tang

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes GraphCG, a method for the unsupervised discovery of steerable factors in the latent space of pretrained graph DGMs via maximizing the mutual information between semantic-rich directions, where the controlled graph moving along the same direction will share the same steerable factors.

    3
  • Spatial Steerability of GANs via Self-Supervision from Discriminator

    Jianyuan Wang, Lalit Bhagat, Ceyuan Yang, Yinghao Xu, Yujun Shen, Hongdong Li, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    This work designs randomly sampled Gaussian heatmaps to be encoded into the intermediate layers of generative models as spatial inductive bias, and incorporates DragGAN into the framework, which facilitates fine-grained manipulation within a reasonable time and supports a coarse-to-fine editing process.

    3
  • GH-Feat: Learning Versatile Generative Hierarchical Features From GANs

    Yinghao Xu, Yujun Shen, Jiapeng Zhu, Ceyuan Yang, Bolei Zhou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    This work investigates that a generative feature learned from image synthesis exhibits great potentials in solving a wide range of computer vision tasks, including both generative ones and more importantly discriminative ones, and develops GH-Feat, a hierarchical visual feature with multi-level semantics.

    3
  • Learning Driving Decisions by Imitating Drivers' Control Behaviors

    Junning Huang, Sirui Xie, Jiankai Sun, Gary Qiurui Ma, Chun‐Xiao Liu, Jianping Shi, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2019

    This work proposes a hybrid framework for learning a decision module, which is agnostic to the mechanisms of perception, planning, and control modules, and demonstrates that the simulation agents with a learned decision module can be generalized to various complex driving scenarios where the rule-based approach fails.

    3
  • SidewalkBench: Benchmarking Visual Navigation on Urban Sidewalks

    Zhizheng Liu, Honglin He, Vivek Alumootil, Akshat Pandya, Brad Squicciarini, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

    This work proposes SidewalkBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed for visual navigation on urban sidewalks, built upon NVIDIA Isaac Sim, which brings GPU-accelerated simulation of diverse, high-fidelity sidewalk environments, including both procedurally generated and real-world scanned scenes.

    2
  • AURA: Multimodal Shared Autonomy for Real-World Urban Navigation

    Yukai Ma, Honglin He, Selina Song, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

    AURA is a new multi-modal framework that decomposes urban navigation into high-level human instruction and low-level AI control, and effectively follows human instructions, reduces manual operation effort, and improves navigation stability, while enabling online adaptation.

    2
  • Slow Brain, Fast Planner: Latency-Resilient VLM-Augmented Urban Navigation

    Zhenghao "Mark'' Peng, He, Honglin, Quanyi Li, Yukai Ma, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

    A VLM-Planner interface is proposed that uses a VLM to select a candidate index from the planner's proposal set and then fuse it with the planner's initial output, which turns a stale VLM selection into real-time planner scoring via geometric similarity with exponential decay.

    2
  • Shared Autonomy with IDA: Interventional Diffusion Assistance

    Brandon McMahan, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou, Jonathan C. Kao

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    2
  • Learning from Active Human Involvement through Proxy Value Propagation

    Zhenghao Peng, Wenjie Mo, Chenda Duan, Quanyi Li, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2023

    2
  • SceneWiz3D: Towards Text-guided 3D Scene Composition

    Zhang, Qihang, Chaoyang Wang, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Peiye Zhuang, Yinghao Xu, Ceyuan Yang, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou, +2 more

    arXiv · 2023

    2
  • Safe Exploration by Solving Early Terminated MDP

    Hao Sun, Ziping Xu, Meng Fang, Zhenghao Peng, Jiadong Guo, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2021

    2
  • Zeroth-Order Supervised Policy Improvement

    Hao Sun, Ziping Xu, Yuhang Song, Meng Fang, Jiechao Xiong, Bo Dai, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

    2
  • Novel Policy Seeking with Constrained Optimization

    Hao Sun, Zhenghao Peng, Bo Dai, Jian Chun Guo, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

    2
  • 2
  • Embodied AI: Bridging Robotics and AI Toward Real-World Applications [From the Guest Editors]

    Hao Su, Yunduan Cui, Cosimo Della Santina, Kuan Fang, Jens Kober, Yanan Li, Yunzhu Li, Takamitsu Matsubara, +2 more

    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · 2026

    1
  • Experiment-free learning of exoskeleton assistance is not an unsolved problem

    Shuzhen Luo, Menghan Jiang, Sainan Zhang, Junxi Zhu, Shuangyue Yu, Israel Dominguez Silva, Bolei Zhou, Hyunwoo Yuk, +2 more

    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026

    1
  • From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

    He, Honglin, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

    FlowPilot is introduced, a mapless navigation policy that achieves robust and efficient long-horizon navigation performance using only a monocular RGB camera and a human-in-the-loop preference learning scheme to tune the policy on a small amount of human intervention data strengthens the model's counterfactual reasoning and social compliance on sidewalks.

    1
  • Adv-BMT: Bidirectional Motion Transformer for Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation

    Yuxin Liu, Zhenghao Peng, Xuanhao Cui, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    1
  • Group Diffusion: Enhancing Image Generation by Unlocking Cross-Sample Collaboration

    Sicheng Mo, Thao Nguyen, Richard Zhang, Nick Kolkin, Siddharth Iyer, Eli Shechtman, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yong Jae Lee, +2 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes Group Diffusion, unlocking the attention mechanism to be shared across images, rather than limited to just the patches within an image, which enables images to be jointly denoised at inference time, learning both intra and inter-image correspondence.

    1
  • 1
  • Hyper: Hyperparameter Robust Efficient Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

    Yiran Wang, Chenshu Liu, Yunfan Li, Sanae Amani, Bolei Zhou, Lin Forrest Yang

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper describes the difficulty and the instability of the optimization when the agent learns with curiosity and proposes a method, hyperparameter robust exploration, which extensively mitigates the problem by effectively regularizing the visitation of the exploration and decoupling the exploitation to ensure stable training.

    1
  • Replication Data for: DeepMiner: Discovering Interpretable Representations for Mammogram Classification and Explanation

    Wu, Jimmy, Bolei Zhou, Diondra Peck, Scott S. Hsieh, Vandana M. Dialani, Lester Mackey, Geneviève Patterson

    Harvard Dataverse · 2021

    1
  • A Hierarchial Model for Visual Perception

    Bolei Zhou, Liqing Zhang

    Springer eBooks · 2010

    Analysis of the perceptual manifold reveals that scene images which share similar perceptual similarities stay nearby in the manifold space, and the dimensions of the space could describe the spatial layout of scenes, which are like the degree of naturalness, openness supervised trained in this model.

    1
  • Looking Back to Move Forward: Temporal Verification for Generative Robot Policies

    Haoxuan Wang, Wayne Wu, Yan Yan, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

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  • DreamStream: Towards Policy-Oriented Generative Simulation for End-to-End Driving

    Ziyang Leng, Sicheng Mo, Seth Z. Zhao, Haoyuan Cai, Yu Zeng, Rowan McAllister, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

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  • Cue the Flow: Steering Flow-Matching Policies for Open-World Delivery Manipulation

    Haoxuan Wang, Griffin Galimi, Junhua Huang, Selina Song, Wayne Wu, Yan Yan, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2026

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  • NavSafe-$\infty$: Benchmarking Closed-Loop Driving Safety in Photorealistic Environments

    Yuxin Bao, Hongwei Ruan, Luobin Wang, Seth Z. Zhao, Ziyang Leng, Zihan Zhang, Yu Zeng, Rowan McAllister, +2 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • Predictive Preference Learning from Human Interventions

    Hengyi Cai, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • ChemSpacE: Toward Steerable and Interpretable Chemical Space Exploration

    Yuanqi Du, Xian Liu, Shengchao Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Bolei Zhou

    ChemRxiv · 2022

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  • Self-Supervised Continuous Control without Policy Gradient

    Hao Sun, Ziping Xu, Meng Fang, Yuhang Song, Jiechao Xiong, Bo Dai, Zhengyou Zhang, Bolei Zhou

    2021

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  • Evolutionary Stochastic Policy Distillation

    Hao Sun, Xin-yu Pan, Bo Dai, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou

    arXiv · 2020

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  • Learning with Social Influence through Interior Policy Differentiation

    Hao Sun, Bo Dai, Jiankai Sun, Zhenghao Peng, XU Guo-dong, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou

    2019

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  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of categorical representations in the human brain and deep convolutional neural networks

    Yalda Mohsenzadeh, Caitlin R. Mullin, Bolei Zhou, Dimitrios Pantazis, Aude Oliva

    Journal of Vision · 2018

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  • 視覚説明のための解釈可能な基底分解【JST・京大機械翻訳】

    Bolei Zhou, Yiyou Sun, David Anthony Bau, Antonio B. Torralba

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

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  • A Large Scale Video Dataset for Event Recognition

    Mathew Monfort, Bolei Zhou, Sarah Adel Bargal, Alex Andonian, Kandan Ramakrishnan, Carl Vondrick, Aude Oliva

    Journal of Vision · 2018

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  • STREETALK: A NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS

    Liu Liu, Fan Zhang, Bolei Zhou, Zhoutong Wang, Yingxin LI

    Landscape Architecture Frontiers · 2018

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  • Modeling Manifold Ways of Scene Perception

    Mengyuan Zhu, Bolei Zhou

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2011

    Under the efficient coding theory, a computational model to explore the intrinsic dimensionality of scene perception by pooling together the activity of local low-level feature detectors across a large regions of the visual fields is proposed.

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