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  • Xiangliang Zhang

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  • SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer

    Jingyun Liang, Jiezhang Cao, Guolei Sun, Kai Zhang, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte

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

    A strong baseline model SwinIR is proposed for image restoration based on the Swin Transformer that outperforms state-of-the-art methods on different tasks by up to 0.14∼0.45dB, while the total number of parameters can be reduced byUp to 67%.

    5,285
  • Camouflaged Object Detection

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ge-Peng Ji, Guolei Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jianbing Shen, Ling Shao

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

    896
  • Mining Cross-Image Semantics for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Guolei Sun, Wenguan Wang, Jifeng Dai, Luc Van Gool

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper addresses the value of cross-image semantic relations for comprehensive object pattern mining and provides a unified framework that handles well different WSSS settings, i.e., learning WSSD with (1) precise image-level supervision only, (2) extra simple single-label data, and (3) extra noisy web data.

    359
  • iSAID: A Large-scale Dataset for Instance Segmentation in Aerial Images

    Syed Waqas Zamir, Aditya Arora, Akshita Gupta, Salman Hameed Khan, Guolei Sun, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Fan Zhu, Ling Shao, +2 more

    arXiv · 2019

    168
  • Fine-Grained Recognition: Accounting for Subtle Differences between Similar Classes

    Guolei Sun, Hisham Cholakkal, Salman Hameed Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ling Shao

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    The main requisite for fine-grained recognition task is to focus on subtle discriminative details that make the subordinate classes different from each other, and this work proposes to explicitly force the network to find the subtle differences among closely related classes.

    147
  • Object Counting and Instance Segmentation With Image-Level Supervision

    Hisham Cholakkal, Guolei Sun, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ling Shao

    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 is the first to propose image-level supervised density map estimation for common object counting and demonstrate its effectiveness in image- level supervised instance segmentation and outperforms existing methods, including those using instance-level supervision, on both datasets for common objects counting.

    136
  • Mutual Affine Network for Spatially Variant Kernel Estimation in Blind Image Super-Resolution

    Jingyun Liang, Guolei Sun, Kai Zhang, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte

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

    Extensive experiments show that the proposed MANet not only performs favorably for both spatially variant and invariant kernel estimation, but also leads to state-of-the-art blind SR performance when combined with non-blind SR methods.

    120
  • Vision Transformers with Hierarchical Attention

    Yun Liu, Yu-Huan Wu, Guolei Sun, Le Zhang, Ajad Chhatkuli, Luc Van Gool

    Machine Intelligence Research · 2024

    This paper proposes hierarchical MHSA (H-MHSA), a novel approach that computes sell-attention in a hierarchical fashion, and builds a family of hierarchical-attention-based transformer networks, namely HAT-Net, which provides a new perspective for vision transformers.

    103
  • Looking Beyond Single Images for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Learning

    Wenguan Wang, Guolei Sun, Luc Van Gool

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    99
  • Coarse-to-Fine Feature Mining for Video Semantic Segmentation

    Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Henghui Ding, Thomas Probst, Luc Van Gool

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

    65
  • Task Switching Network for Multi-task Learning

    Guolei Sun, Thomas Probst, Danda Pani Paudel, Nikola Z. Popović, Menelaos Kanakis, Jagruti H. Patel, Dengxin Dai, Luc Van Gool

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

    59
  • WalkRanker: A Unified Pairwise Ranking Model With Multiple Relations for Item Recommendation

    Lu Yu, Chuxu Zhang, Shichao Pei, Guolei Sun, Xiangliang Zhang

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    This paper employs a random walk approach to dynamically draw positive samples from short random walk sequences, and a rank-aware negative sampling method to draw negative samples for efficiently learning the proposed pairwise ranking model.

    53
  • Rethinking Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

    Zhaochong An, Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Fayao Liu, Zongwei Wu, Dan Wang, Luc Van Gool, Serge Belongie

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

    This paper revisits few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation (FS-PCS), with a focus on two significant is-sues in the state-of-the-art: foreground leakage and sparse point distribution, and proposes a novel FS-PCS model based on correlation optimization, referred to as Correlation Optimization Segmentation (COSeg).

    50
  • Learning Local and Global Temporal Contexts for Video Semantic Segmentation

    Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Henghui Ding, Min Wu, Luc Van Gool

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    A Coarse-to-Fine Feature Mining (CFFM) technique to learn a unified presentation of LTC, and a CFFM++ by additionally learning GTC from the whole video to further exploit more temporal contexts.

    47
  • Object Segmentation by Mining Cross-Modal Semantics

    Zongwei Wu, Jingjing Wang, Zhuyun Zhou, Zhaochong An, Qiuping Jiang, Cédric Demonceaux, Guolei Sun, Radu Timofte

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2023

    A novel approach by mining the Cross-Modal Semantics to guide the fusion and decoding of multimodal features, with the aim of controlling the modal contribution based on relative entropy.

    47
  • Transformer in Convolutional Neural Networks

    Yun Liu, Guolei Sun, Yu Qiu, Le Zhang, Ajad Chhatkuli, Luc Van Gool

    arXiv · 2021

    43
  • Generalized Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Segmentation with Vision-Language Model

    Zhaochong An, Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Runjia Li, Junlin Han, Ender Konukoglu, Serge Belongie

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

    This work introduces a GFS-PCS framework that synergizes dense but noisy pseudo-labels from 3D VLMs with precise yet sparse few-shot samples to maximize the strengths of both, named GFS-VL.

    32
  • Mining Relations Among Cross-Frame Affinities for Video Semantic Segmentation

    Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Hao Tang, Ajad Chhatkuli, Le Zhang, Luc Van Gool

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    31
  • Multi-label Learning with Highly Incomplete Data via Collaborative Embedding

    Yufei Han, Guolei Sun, Yun Cheng Shen, Xiangliang Zhang

    ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) · 2018

    Substantial experiments on public benchmark datasets and real security event data validate that the proposed weakly supervised multi-label learning approach can provide distinctively more accurate transductive and inductive classification than other state-of-the-art algorithms.

    29
  • Rethinking Global Context in Crowd Counting

    Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Thomas Probst, Danda Pani Paudel, Nikola Z. Popović, Luc Van Gool

    Machine Intelligence Research · 2024

    Extensive experiments on various datasets, including ShanghaiTech, UCF-QNRF, JHU-CROWD++ and NWPU, demonstrate that the proposed context extraction techniques can significantly improve the performance over the baselines.

    27
  • Edge Guided GANs With Multi-Scale Contrastive Learning for Semantic Image Synthesis

    Hao Tang, Guolei Sun, Nicu Sebe, Luc Van Gool

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    A novel contrastive learning method, which aims to enforce pixel embeddings belonging to the same semantic class to generate more similar image content than those from different classes, and a novel multi-scale contrastiveLearning method that aims to push same-class features from different scales closer together to capture more semantic relations.

    25
  • EgoNight: Towards Egocentric Vision Understanding at Night with a Challenging Benchmark

    Deheng Zhang, Yuqian Fu, Runyi Yang, Miao Yang, Tianwen Qian, Zheng Xu, Guolei Sun, Ajad Chhatkuli, +4 more

    arXiv · 2025

    EgoNight, the first comprehensive benchmark for nighttime egocentric vision, with visual question answering (VQA) as the core task, is presented, and EgoNight-VQA provides a strong foundation for advancing application-driven egocentric vision research and for developing models that generalize across illumination domains.

    21
  • When SAM2 meets video camouflaged object segmentation: a comprehensive evaluation and adaptation

    Yuli Zhou, Guolei Sun, Yawei Li, Guo-Sen Xie, Luca Benini, Ender Konukoğlu

    Visual Intelligence · 2025

    This study investigates the application and performance of the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) in the challenging task of video camouflaged object segmentation (VCOS) and demonstrates that SAM2 has the excellent zero-shot ability to detect camouflaged objects in videos.

    18
  • A Novel Framework for Node/Edge Attributed Graph Embedding

    Guolei Sun, Xiangliang Zhang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

    This paper proposes GERI, which learns graph embedding with rich information in node/edge attributed graph through constructing a heterogeneous graph and upgrades GERI to semi-supervised GERI (named SGERI) by incorporating label information on nodes.

    18
  • Fixing Localization Errors to Improve Image Classification

    Guolei Sun, Salman Khan, Li Wen, Hisham Cholakkal, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Luc Van Gool

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This work proposes a loss function that seeks to minimize peaks within the negative CAMs, called ‘ Homogeneous Negative CAM ’ loss, which provides an extra supervisory signal that helps the model to better discriminate between similar classes.

    14
  • Towards Open-Vocabulary Video Semantic Segmentation

    Xinhao Li, Yun Liu, Guolei Sun, Min Wu, Le Zhang, Ce Zhu

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2025

    A robust baseline is proposed, OV2VSS, which integrates a spatial-temporal fusion module, allowing the model to utilize temporal relationships across consecutive frames, and a random frame enhancement module is incorporated, broadening the model's understanding of semantic context throughout the entire video sequence.

    10
  • Temporal-aware Hierarchical Mask Classification for Video Semantic Segmentation

    Zhaochong An, Guolei Sun, Zongwei Wu, Hao Tang, Luc Van Gool

    arXiv · 2023

    A novel solution THE-Mask for VSS is presented, which introduces temporal-aware hierarchical object queries for the first time and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the latest challenging VSS benchmark VSPW without bells and whistles.

    10
  • Using Machine Learning to Predict the In-Hospital Mortality in Women with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pengyu Zhao, Chang Liu, Chao Zhang, Yonghong Hou, Xiaomeng Zhang, Jia Zhao, Guolei Sun, Jia Jun Zhou

    Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine · 2023

    A machine-learning-based female-specific model can conveniently and effectively identify high-risk female STEMI patients who often suffer from an incorrect or delayed management.

    9
  • CompositeTasking: Understanding Images by Spatial Composition of Tasks

    Nikola Z. Popović, Danda Pani Paudel, Thomas Probst, Guolei Sun, Luc Van Gool

    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 task conditioning model is introduced – a single encoder-decoder network that performs multiple, spatially varying tasks at once that not only offers a compact network for multitasking, but also allows for task-editing.

    7
  • Evaluating SAM2 for Video Semantic Segmentation

    Syed Ariff Syed Hesham, Yun Liu, Guolei Sun, Jing Yang, Henghui Ding, Xue Geng, Xudong Jiang

    Machine Intelligence Research · 2026

    This paper explores the extension of SAM2 for VSS, focusing on two primary approaches and highlighting firsthand observations and common challenges faced during this process, and suggests that leveraging SAM2 enhances overall performance in VSS, primarily due to its precise predictions of object boundaries.

    5
  • Video Foundation Model for Medical 3D Segmentation

    Qi Ma, Guolei Sun, Guney I. Tombak, Shipra Jain, Niko Benjamin Huber, Luc Van Gool, Ender Konukoğlu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2025

    4
  • A Comprehensive Survey on Video Scene Parsing:Advances, Challenges, and Prospects

    Xie, Guohuan, Syed Ariff Syed Hesham, Wenya Guo, Li, Bing, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guolei Sun, Yun Liu

    arXiv · 2025

    This survey reviews recent progress in VSP across five tasks, spanning Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS), Video Instance Segmentation (VIS), Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS), Video Tracking \&Segmentation (VTS), and Open-Vocabulary Video Segmentation (OVVS), and traces how each family models temporal context, preserves identity, and balances accuracy against efficiency.

    3
  • Boosting Few-shot Semantic Segmentation with Transformers

    Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Jingyun Liang, Luc Van Gool

    arXiv · 2021

    3
  • LID 2020: The Learning from Imperfect Data Challenge Results

    Yunchao Wei, Shuai Zheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Hang Zhao, Liwei Wang, Errui Ding, Yi Ping Yang, Antonio B. Torralba, +22 more

    arXiv · 2020

    3
  • Graph Embedding with Rich Information through Bipartite Heterogeneous Network.

    Guolei Sun, Xiangliang Zhang

    arXiv · 2017

    This paper proposed a novel and general framework of representation learning for graph with rich text information through constructing a bipartite heterogeneous network and designed a biased random walk to explore the constructed heterogeneity network with the notion of flexible neighborhood.

    3
  • HiM2SAM: Enhancing SAM2 with Hierarchical Motion Estimation and Memory Optimization towards Long-term Tracking

    Ruixiang Chen, Guolei Sun, Yawei Li, Jie Qin, Luca Benini

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

    2
  • Simulation of Continuous Tension Stringing Process of Conductor with Bending Stiffness Model

    Chen Liu, Jian Ping Qin, HE Yong-jun, Guolei Sun

    Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2022

    2
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  • Editorial for Special Issue on Multimodal Learning, Temporal Modeling, and Foundation Models for Video Understanding

    Yun Liu, Guolei Sun, Radu Timofte, Ender Konukoğlu, Luc Van Gool

    Machine Intelligence Research · 2026

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  • STAC: Selective Spatiotemporal Aggregation and Compression for Video Reasoning Segmentation

    Syed Ariff Syed Hesham, Yun Liu, Guolei Sun, Jing Yang, Henghui Ding, Xue Geng, Xudong Jiang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • Multimodality Helps Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

    Zhaochong An, Guolei Sun, Yun Liu, Runjia Li, Min Wu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ender Konukoğlu, Serge Belongie

    arXiv · 2024

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  • Graph embedding with rich information through heterogeneous graph

    Guolei Sun

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) · 2017

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