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  • Mohan Kankanhalli

    Possible advisor · last author on 9 of their early first-author papers, 2016–2019

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  • BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models

    Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Silvio Savarese, Steven C. H. Hoi

    arXiv · 2023

    BLIP-2 achieves state-of-the-art performance on various vision-language tasks, despite having significantly fewer trainable parameters than existing methods, and is demonstrated's emerging capabilities of zero-shot image-to-text generation that can follow natural language instructions.

    9,471
  • InstructBLIP: Towards General-purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning

    Wenliang Dai, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Junqi Zhao, Weisheng Wang, Boyang Li, Pascale Fung, +1 more

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper conducts a systematic and comprehensive study on vision-language instruction tuning based on the pretrained BLIP-2 models, and introduces an instruction-aware Query Transformer, which extracts informative features tailored to the given instruction.

    4,052
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  • LongVideoBench: A Benchmark for Long-context Interleaved Video-Language Understanding

    Haoning Wu, Dongxu Li, Bei Chen, Junnan Li

    arXiv · 2024

    The LongVideoBench is introduced, a question-answering benchmark that features video-language interleaved inputs up to an hour long, designed to comprehensively evaluate LMMs on long-term multimodal understanding.

    811
  • BLIP-Diffusion: Pre-trained Subject Representation for Controllable Text-to-Image Generation and Editing

    Dongxu Li, Junnan Li, Steven C. H. Hoi

    arXiv · 2023

    This work introduces BLIP-Diffusion, a new subject-driven image generation model that supports multimodal control which consumes inputs of subject images and text prompts and designs a subject representation learning task which enables a diffusion model to leverage such visual representation and generates new subject renditions.

    593
  • Align and Prompt: Video-and-Language Pre-training with Entity Prompts

    Dongxu Li, Junnan Li, Hongdong Li, Juan Carlos Niebles, Steven C. H. Hoi

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

    This paper proposes Align and Prompt: a new video-and-language pre-training framework (AlPro), which operates on sparsely-sampled video frames and achieves more effective cross-modal alignment without explicit object detectors.

    238
  • From Images to Textual Prompts: Zero-shot Visual Question Answering with Frozen Large Language Models

    Jiaxian Guo, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Boyang Li, Dacheng Tao, Steven C. H. Hoi

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

    Img2LLM is a plug-and-play module that provides LLM prompts to enable LLMs to perform zeroshot VQA tasks without end-to-end training and eliminates the need to specialize LLMs using end-to-end finetuning and serve highly specialized LLMs to end users, thereby reducing cost.

    202
  • Learning to Detect Human-Object Interactions With Knowledge

    Bingjie Xu, Yongkang Wong, Junnan Li, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

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

    164
  • Interact as You Intend: Intention-Driven Human-Object Interaction Detection

    Bingjie Xu, Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2019

    The proposed human intention-driven HOI detection (iHOI) framework models human pose with the relative distances from body joints to the object instances and utilizes human gaze to guide the attended contextual regions in a weakly-supervised setting.

    127
  • Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Pseudo Bounding-Box Labels

    Mingfei Gao, Xing Chen, Juan Carlos Niebles, Junnan Li, Ran Xu, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    This work proposes a method to automatically generate pseudo bounding-box annotations of diverse objects from large-scale image-caption pairs that leverages the localization ability of pre-trained vision-language models to generate pseudo Bounding- box labels and then directly uses them for training object detectors.

    122
  • Dual-Glance Model for Deciphering Social Relationships

    Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    This work has proposed a dualglance model for social relationship recognition, where the first glance fixates at the individual pair of interest and the second glance deploys attention mechanism to explore contextual cues.

    95
  • X-InstructBLIP: A Framework for aligning X-Modal instruction-aware representations to LLMs and Emergent Cross-modal Reasoning

    Artemis Panagopoulou, Le Xue, Ning Yu, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Shafiq Joty, Ran Xu, Silvio Savarese, +2 more

    arXiv · 2023

    An efficient and effective framework that integrates multiple modalities (images, 3D, audio and video) to a frozen LLM and demonstrates an emergent ability for cross-modal reasoning (2+ modality inputs).

    92
  • Plug-and-Play VQA: Zero-shot VQA by Conjoining Large Pretrained Models with Zero Training

    Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Junnan Li, Boyang Li, Silvio Savarese, Steven C. H. Hoi

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 · 2022

    78
  • LAVIS: A Library for Language-Vision Intelligence

    Dongxu Li, Junnan Li, Le, Hung, Guangsen Wang, Silvio Savarese, Steven C. H. Hoi

    arXiv · 2022

    LAVIS aims to serve as a one-stop comprehensive library that brings recent advancements in the language-vision field accessible for researchers and practitioners, as well as fertilizing future research and development.

    71
  • Video Storytelling: Textual Summaries for Events

    Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2019

    This paper introduces the problem of video storytelling, which aims at generating coherent and succinct stories for long videos, and proposes a context-aware framework for multimodal embedding learning, where a residual bidirectional recurrent neural network is designed to leverage contextual information from past and future.

    56
  • BLIP3o-NEXT: Next Frontier of Native Image Generation

    Jiuhai Chen, Le Xue, Zhiyang Xu, Xichen Pan, Shusheng Yang, Can Qin, Yan, An, Honglu Zhou, +7 more

    arXiv · 2025

    BLIP3o-NEXT unifies text-to-image generation and image editing within a single architecture, demonstrating strong image generation and image editing capabilities.

    52
  • LSTM-based multi-label video event detection

    An-An Liu, Zhuang Shao, Yongkang Wong, Junnan Li, Yuting Su, Mohan Kankanhalli

    Multimedia Tools and Applications · 2017

    A novel architecture for jointly recognizing multiple events in a given surveillance video, motivated by the sequence to sequence network is proposed, which can predict what happens in a video directly without the preprocessing of object detection and tracking.

    38
  • Hierarchical & multimodal video captioning: Discovering and transferring multimodal knowledge for vision to language

    An-An Liu, Ning Xu, Yongkang Wong, Junnan Li, Yuting Su, Mohan Kankanhalli

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2017

    A Hierarchical & Multimodal Video Caption (HMVC) model is proposed to jointly learn the dynamics within both visual and textual modalities for video caption task, which infers an arbitrary length sentence according to the input video with arbitrary number of frames.

    36
  • Multi-stream Deep Learning Framework for Automated Presentation Assessment

    Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Mohan Kankanhalli

    IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) · 2016

    19
  • Align before Fuse: Vision and Language Representation Learning with Momentum Distillation

    Junnan Li, Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Steven C. H. Hoi

    neural information processing systems · 2021

    17
  • WALT: Web Agents that Learn Tools

    Viraj Prabhu, Yutong Dai, Fernandez, Matthew, Jing Gu, Ramakrishnan, Krithika, Yanqi Luo, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, +3 more

    arXiv · 2025

    WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools), a framework that reverse-engineers latent website functionality into reusable invocable tools, achieves higher success with fewer steps and less LLM-dependent reasoning, establishing a robust and generalizable paradigm for browser automation.

    14
  • A Multi-sensor Framework for Personal Presentation Analytics

    Tian Gan, Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Mohan Kankanhalli

    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications · 2019

    This work proposes a novel multi-sensor self-quantification system for presentations, which is designed based on a new proposed assessment rubric, and conducts a series of user studies with the speakers and an interview with an English communication expert, which reveals positive and promising feedback.

    13
  • X-InstructBLIP: A Framework for Aligning Image, 3D, Audio, Video to LLMs and its Emergent Cross-Modal Reasoning

    Artemis Panagopoulou, Le Xue, Ning Yu, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Shafiq Joty, Ran Xu, Silvio Savarese, +2 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    12
  • From Images to Textual Prompts: Zero-shot VQA with Frozen Large Language Models

    Jiaxian Guo, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Boyang Li, Dacheng Tao, Steven C. H. Hoi

    arXiv · 2022

    12
  • UniSec

    Jinli Yan, Lu Tang, Junnan Li, Xiangrui Yang, Wei Quan, Hongyi Chen, Zhigang Sun

    ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC) · 2019

    UniSec is presented, a unified programming framework for fast security functions development while improving performance with SmartNIC acceleration and shows that the code has been reduced by 65% and processing performance improved up to 76%, compared with the software-only implementation.

    9

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