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  • Global contrast based salient region detection

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guoxin Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi‐Min Hu

    CVPR 2011 · 2011

    3,850
  • Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture

    Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kai Zhao, Xinyu Zhang, Ming–Hsuan Yang, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    This paper proposes a novel building block for CNNs, namely Res2Net, by constructing hierarchical residual-like connections within one single residual block that represents multi-scale features at a granular level and increases the range of receptive fields for each network layer.

    3,450
  • Attention mechanisms in computer vision: A survey

    Meng-Hao Guo, Tian-Xing Xu, Jiangjiang Liu, Zheng-Ning Liu, Peng-Tao Jiang, Tai‐Jiang Mu, Song–Hai Zhang, Ralph Robert Martin, +2 more

    Computational Visual Media · 2022

    This survey provides a comprehensive review of various attention mechanisms in computer vision and categorize them according to approach, such as channel attention, spatial attention, temporal attention, and branch attention.

    2,538
  • Global Contrast Based Salient Region Detection

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Philip H. S. Torr, Shi‐Min Hu

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2014

    2,466
  • Structure-Measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Deng-Ping Fan

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2021

    A novel, efficient, and easy to calculate measure known as S-measure (structural measure) to evaluate foreground maps, which simultaneously evaluates region-aware and object-aware structural similarity between a foreground map and a ground-truth map.

    1,970
  • Structure-Measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Tao Li, Ali Borji

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    1,938
  • Enhanced-alignment Measure for Binary Foreground Map Evaluation

    Deng-Ping Fan, Cheng Gong, Yang Hua Cao, Bo Ren, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    This paper takes a detailed look at current binary FM evaluation measures and proposes a novel and effective E-measure (Enhanced-alignment measure), jointly capturing image-level statistics and local pixel matching information, which demonstrates the superiority of this measure over the available measures on 4 popular datasets via 5 meta-measures.

    1,716
  • Deeply Supervised Salient Object Detection with Short Connections

    Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiaowei Hu, Ali Borji, Zhuowen Tu, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2018

    This paper proposes a new salient object detection method by introducing short connections to the skip-layer structures within the HED architecture, which takes full advantage of multi-level and multi-scale features extracted from FCNs, providing more advanced representations at each layer, a property that is critically needed to perform segment detection.

    1,458
  • Richer Convolutional Features for Edge Detection

    Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiaowei Hu, Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Xiang Bai, Jinhui Tang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2018

    RCF encapsulates all convolutional features into more discriminative representation, which makes good usage of rich feature hierarchies, and is amenable to training via backpropagation, and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several available datasets.

    1,240
  • EGNet: Edge Guidance Network for Salient Object Detection

    Jiaxing Zhao, Jiangjiang Liu, Deng-Ping Fan, Yang Hua Cao, Jufeng Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This paper presents an edge guidance network (EGNet) for salient object detection with three steps to simultaneously model these two kinds of complementary information in a single network to solve the complementarity between salient edge information and salient object information.

    1,212
  • A Simple Pooling-Based Design for Real-Time Salient Object Detection

    Jiangjiang Liu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng, Jianmin Jiang

    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 solves the problem of salient object detection by investigating how to expand the role of pooling in convolutional neural networks by building a global guidance module (GGM) and designing a feature aggregation module (FAM) to make the coarse-level semantic information well fused with the fine-level features from the top-down path- way.

    1,145
  • Visual attention network

    Meng-Hao Guo, Cheng-Ze Lu, Zheng-Ning Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shi‐Min Hu

    Computational Visual Media · 2023

    This paper proposes a novel linear attention named large kernel attention (LKA) to enable self-adaptive and long-range correlations in self-attention while avoiding its shortcomings, and presents a neural network based on LKA, namely Visual Attention Network (VAN).

    1,121
  • BING: Binarized Normed Gradients for Objectness Estimation at 300fps

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ziming Zhang, Wen-Yan Lin, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2014

    1,085
  • Struck: Structured Output Tracking with Kernels

    Sam Hare, Stuart Golodetz, Amir Saffari, Vibhav Vineet, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Stephen L. Hicks, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2015

    1,021
  • LayerCAM: Exploring Hierarchical Class Activation Maps for Localization

    Peng-Tao Jiang, Chang–Bin Zhang, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yunchao Wei

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    939
  • 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

    915
  • Object Region Mining with Adversarial Erasing: A Simple Classification to Semantic Segmentation Approach

    Yunchao Wei, Jiashi Feng, Xiaodan Liang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yao Zhao, Shuicheng Yan

    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 investigates a principle way to progressively mine discriminative object regions using classification networks to address the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation problems and proposes a new adversarial erasing approach for localizing and expanding object regions progressively.

    900
  • Large Selective Kernel Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Yuxuan Li, Qibin Hou, Zhaohui Zheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Jun Yang, Xiang Li

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

    This paper considers these priors and proposes the lightweight Large Selective Kernel Network (LSKNet), which can dynamically adjust its large spatial receptive field to better model the ranging context of various objects in remote sensing scenarios.

    850
  • Strip Pooling: Rethinking Spatial Pooling for Scene Parsing

    Qibin Hou, Zhang Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

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

    Beyond conventional spatial pooling that usually has a regular shape of NxN, a new pooling strategy is introduced, called strip pooling, which considers a long but narrow kernel, i.e., 1xN or Nx1.

    817
  • BING: Binarized normed gradients for objectness estimation at 300fps

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Wen-Yan Lin, Ziming Zhang, Paul L. Rosin, Philip H. S. Torr

    Computational Visual Media · 2018

    790
  • Concealed Object Detection

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ge-Peng Ji, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ling Shao

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    The first systematic study on concealed object detection (COD), which aims to identify objects that are visually embedded in their background, is presented, and rich annotations including object categories, object boundaries, challenging attributes, object-level labels, and instance-level annotations are provided.

    786
  • Rethinking RGB-D Salient Object Detection: Models, Data Sets, and Large-Scale Benchmarks

    Deng-Ping Fan, Lin Liu Zheng, Zhao Zhang, Menglong Zhu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2020

    It is demonstrated that D3Net can be used to efficiently extract salient object masks from real scenes, enabling effective background-changing application with a speed of 65 frames/s on a single GPU.

    729
  • Sketch2Photo

    Tao Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, Shi‐Min Hu

    ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia) · 2009

    A system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels, able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images.

    706
  • Low-Light Image and Video Enhancement Using Deep Learning: A Survey

    Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo, Ling-Hao Han, Jun Jiang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jinwei Gu, Chen Change Loy

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    This paper proposes a low-light image and video dataset, in which the images and videos are taken by different mobile phones’ cameras under diverse illumination conditions, and provides a unified online platform that covers many popular LLIE methods.

    651
  • GMS: Grid-Based Motion Statistics for Fast, Ultra-Robust Feature Correspondence

    Jia-Wang Bian, Wen-Yan Lin, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Sai-Kit Yeung, Tan-Dat Nguyen, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    638
  • STC: A Simple to Complex Framework for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Yunchao Wei, Xiaodan Liang, Yunpeng Chen, Xiaohui Shen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng, Yao Zhao, Shuicheng Yan

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2016

    A simple to complex (STC) framework in which only image-level annotations are utilized to learn DCNNs for semantic segmentation, which demonstrates the superiority of the proposed STC framework compared with other state-of-the-arts frameworks.

    617
  • The Visual Object Tracking VOT2014 Challenge Results

    Matej Kristan, Roman Pflugfelder, Aleš Leonardis, Jiřı́ Matas, Luka Čehovin Zajc, Georg Nebehay, Tomáš Vojíř, Gustavo Fernández, +22 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    The Visual Object Tracking challenge 2014, VOT2014, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance and introduces a new dataset with full annotation of targets by rotated bounding boxes and per-frame attribute.

    606
  • Efficient Salient Region Detection with Soft Image Abstraction

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jonathan Warrell, Wen-Yan Lin, Shuai Zheng, Vibhav Vineet, Nigel T. Crook

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2013

    597
  • IP102: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Insect Pest Recognition

    Xiaoping Wu, Chi Zhan, Yu‐Kun Lai, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jufeng Yang

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

    542
  • Shifting More Attention to Video Salient Object Detection

    Deng-Ping Fan, Wenguan Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jianbing Shen

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

    537
  • Improving Convolutional Networks With Self-Calibrated Convolutions

    Jiangjiang Liu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Changhu Wang, Jiashi Feng

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

    503
  • Contrast Prior and Fluid Pyramid Integration for RGBD Salient Object Detection

    Jia-Xing Zhao, Yang Hua Cao, Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xuanyi Li, Le Zhang

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

    442
  • Review of Visual Saliency Detection With Comprehensive Information

    Runmin Cong, Jianjun Lei, Huazhu Fu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Weisi Lin, Qingming Huang

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2018

    Different types of saliency detection algorithms are reviewed, the important issues of the existing methods are summarized, the existent problems and future works are discussed, and the experimental analysis and discussion are conducted to provide a holistic overview of differentSaliency detection methods.

    434
  • PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding

    Zhen Li, Mingdeng Cao, Xintao Wang, Zhongang Qi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ying Shan

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

    PhotoMaker is introduced, an efficient personalized text-to-image generation method, which mainly encodes an arbitrary number of input ID images into a stack ID embed-ding for preserving ID information, and an ID-oriented data construction pipeline to assemble the training data.

    410
  • SRFormer: Permuted Self-Attention for Single Image Super-Resolution

    Yupeng Zhou, Zhen Li, Chunle Guo, Song Bai, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

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

    373
  • Dense Attention Fluid Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

    Qijian Zhang, Runmin Cong, Chongyi Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yuming Fang, Xiaochun Cao, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2020

    An end-to-end Dense Attention Fluid Network (DAFNet) for SOD in optical RSIs that significantly outperforms the existing state-of-the-art SOD competitors is proposed and a new and challenging optical RSI dataset is constructed that contains 2,000 images with pixel-wise saliency annotations.

    355
  • MS-TCN++: Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Network for Action Segmentation

    Shijie Li, Yazan Abu Farha, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jüergen Gall

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2020

    A multi-stage architecture for the temporal action segmentation task that overcomes the limitations of the previous approaches and achieves state-of-the-art results on three datasets: 50Salads, Georgia Tech Egocentric Activities (GTEA), and the Breakfast dataset.

    352
  • Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the Foreground

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiangjiang Liu, Shanghua Gao, Qibin Hou, Ali Borji

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This work identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient object in low clutter, and proposes a new high quality dataset and updates the previous saliency benchmark.

    349
  • Revisiting Video Saliency Prediction in the Deep Learning Era

    Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Jianwen Xie, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Haibin Ling, Ali Borji

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    336
  • Masked Diffusion Transformer is a Strong Image Synthesizer

    Shanghua Gao, Pan Zhou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shuicheng Yan

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

    A Masked Diffusion Transformer (MDT) is proposed that introduces a mask latent modeling scheme to explicitly enhance the DPMs’ ability to contextual relation learning among object semantic parts in an image.

    329
  • RGB-D salient object detection: A survey

    Tao Zhou, Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jianbing Shen, Ling Shao

    Computational Visual Media · 2021

    This paper provides a comprehensive survey of RGB-D based salient object detection models from various perspectives, and review related benchmark datasets in detail, and investigates the ability of existing models to detect salient objects.

    329
  • P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding

    Yu-Huan Wu, Yun Liu, Xin Zhan, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    This paper proposes to adapt pyramid pooling to Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) in the vision transformer, simultaneously reducing the sequence length and capturing powerful contextual features, in a universal vision transformer backbone, dubbed Pyramid Pooling Transformer (P2T).

    321
  • Revisiting Video Saliency: A Large-Scale Benchmark and a New Model

    Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Fang Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji

    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 introduces a new benchmark for predicting human eye movements during dynamic scene free-viewing, and proposes a novel video saliency model that augments the CNN-LSTM network architecture with an attention mechanism to enable fast, end-to-end saliency learning.

    311
  • Crowd Counting with Deep Negative Correlation Learning

    Zenglin Shi, Le Zhang, Yun Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, Yangdong Ye, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guoyan Zheng

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

    311
  • SalientShape: group saliency in image collections

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi‐Min Hu

    The Visual Computer · 2013

    This work introduces group saliency to achieve superior unsupervised salient object segmentation by extracting salient objects (in collections of pre-filtered images) that maximize between-image similarities and within-image distinctness.

    309
  • Conv2Former: A Simple Transformer-Style ConvNet for Visual Recognition

    Qibin Hou, Cheng-Ze Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    A deep look at the internal structure of self-attention is taken and a simple Transformer style convolutional neural network (ConvNet) is presented for visual recognition and a family of hierarchical ConvNets using the proposed convolutional modulation, termed Conv2Former is built.

    290
  • Image Inpainting With Learnable Bidirectional Attention Maps

    Chaohao Xie, Shaohui Liu, Chao Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Wangmeng Zuo, Xiao Liu, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding

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

    This paper presents a learnable attention map module for learning feature re-normalization and mask-updating in an end-to-end manner, which is effective in adapting to irregular holes and propagation of convolution layers.

    287
  • EDN: Salient Object Detection via Extremely-Downsampled Network

    Yu-Huan Wu, Yun Liu, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2022

    This work introduces an Extremely-Downsampled Network (EDN), which employs an extreme downsampling technique to effectively learn a global view of the whole image, leading to accurate salient object localization and construct the Scale-Correlated Pyramid Convolution (SCPC) to accomplish better multi-level feature fusion.

    284
  • SAMNet: Stereoscopically Attentive Multi-Scale Network for Lightweight Salient Object Detection

    Yun Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    275
  • Integral Object Mining via Online Attention Accumulation

    Peng-Tao Jiang, Qibin Hou, Yang Hua Cao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yunchao Wei, Hongkai Xiong

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

    273
  • An Iterative and Cooperative Top-Down and Bottom-Up Inference Network for Salient Object Detection

    Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, 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

    265
  • Contrastive Masked Autoencoders are Stronger Vision Learners

    Zhicheng Huang, Xiaojie Jin, Cheng-Ze Lu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Dongmei Fu, Xiaohui Shen, Jiashi Feng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    260
  • Deep Hough Transform for Semantic Line Detection

    Qi Han, Kai Zhao, Jun Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper incorporates the classical Hough transform technique into deeply learned representations and proposes a one-shot end-to-end learning framework for line detection by parameterizing lines with slopes and biases, which transforms the problem of detecting semantic lines in the spatial domain into spotting individual points in the parametric domain.

    248
  • YOLO-MS: Rethinking Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Real-Time Object Detection

    Yuming Chen, Xinbin Yuan, Jiabao Wang, Ruiqi Wu, Xiang Li, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    The core design is based on a series of investigations on how multi-branch features of the basic block and convolutions with different kernel sizes affect the detection performance of objects at different scales, and the outcome is a new strategy that can significantly enhance multi-scale feature representations of real-time object detectors.

    246
  • A Shape‐Preserving Approach to Image Resizing

    Guo‐Xin Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shi‐Min Hu, Ralph Robert Martin

    Computer Graphics Forum · 2009

    A novel image resizing method which attempts to ensure that important local regions undergo a geometric similarity transformation, and at the same time, to preserve image edge structure, and is efficient, and offers a closed form solution.

    245
  • LSKNet: A Foundation Lightweight Backbone for Remote Sensing

    Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li, Yimain Dai, Qibin Hou, Li Liu, Yongxiang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Yu Yang

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2024

    This paper considers the significance of the identified priors and proposes a lightweight Large Selective Kernel Network (LSKNet) backbone, which can dynamically adjust its large spatial receptive field to better model the ranging context of various objects in remote sensing scenarios.

    237
  • Towards An End-to-End Framework for Flow-Guided Video Inpainting

    Zhen Li, Cheng-Ze Lu, Jianhua Qin, Chunle Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    An End-to-End framework for Flow-Guided Video Inpainting (E2 FGVI) through elaborately designed three trainable modules, namely, flow completion, feature propagation, and content hallucination modules that can be Jointly optimized, leading to a more efficient and effective inpainting process.

    234
  • AMT: All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms for Efficient Frame Interpolation

    Zhen Li, Zuo-Liang Zhu, Ling-Hao Han, Qibin Hou, Chunle Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This work presents All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms (AMT), a new network architecture for video frame interpolation based on two essential designs that derive multiple groups of fine-grained flow fields from one pair of updated coarse flows for performing backward warping on the input frames separately.

    229
  • CoANet: Connectivity Attention Network for Road Extraction From Satellite Imagery

    Jie Mei, Roujing Li, Wang Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    227
  • Unsupervised Scale-Consistent Depth Learning from Video

    Jia-Wang Bian, Huangying Zhan, Naiyan Wang, Zhichao Li, Le Zhang, Chunhua Shen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ian D. Reid

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2021

    A monocular depth estimation method SC-Depth, which requires only unlabelled videos for training and enables the scale-consistent prediction at inference time and the proposed hybrid Pseudo-RGBD SLAM shows compelling results in KITTI, and it generalizes well to the KAIST dataset without additional training.

    226
  • Highly Efficient Salient Object Detection with 100K Parameters

    Shanghua Gao, Yongqiang Tan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Cheng-Ze Lu, Yunpeng Chen, Shuicheng Yan

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper proposes a flexible convolutional module, namely generalized OctConv (gOctConv), to efficiently utilize both in-stage and cross-stages multi-scale features, while reducing the representation redundancy by a novel dynamic weight decay scheme.

    222
  • RepFinder

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Fang‐Lue Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi‐Min Hu

    ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Papers (SIGGRAPH) · 2010

    A novel framework where user scribbles are used to guide detection and extraction of repeated elements, which robustly extracts the repetitions along with their deformations and demonstrates the versatility of the framework on a large set of inputs of varying complexity.

    213
  • Localization Distillation for Dense Object Detection

    Zhaohui Zheng, Rongguang Ye, Ping Wang, Dongwei Ren, Wangmeng Zuo, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    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 reformulates the knowledge distillation process on localization to present a novel localization distillation method which can efficiently transfer the localization knowledge from the teacher to the student and heuristically introduces the concept of valuable localization region that can aid to selectively distill the semantic and localization knowledge for a certain region.

    208
  • RepFinder

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Fang‐Lue Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi‐Min Hu

    ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2010

    202
  • CamoFormer: Masked Separable Attention for Camouflaged Object Detection

    Bowen Yin, Xuying Zhang, Deng-Ping Fan, Shaohui Jiao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Luc Van Gool, Qibin Hou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    Inspired by the multi-head self-attention in Transformers, a simple masked separable attention (MSA) for camouflaged object detection is presented and proposed to capture high-resolution semantic representations progressively based on a simple top-down decoder with the proposed MSA to attain precise segmentation results.

    195
  • Visual Sentiment Prediction Based on Automatic Discovery of Affective Regions

    Jufeng Yang, Dongyu She, Ming Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Paul L. Rosin, Liang Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2018

    193
  • Pyramid Constrained Self-Attention Network for Fast Video Salient Object Detection

    Yuchao Gu, Lijuan Wang, Ziqin Wang, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shao-Ping Lu

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    A Constrained Self-Attention (CSA) operation to capture motion cues, based on the prior that objects always move in a continuous trajectory is designed, which outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and speed.

    184
  • SegNeXt: Rethinking Convolutional Attention Design for Semantic Segmentation

    Meng-Hao Guo, Cheng-Ze Lu, Qibin Hou, Zhengning Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shi-Min Hu

    neural information processing systems · 2022

    181
  • Interactive Image Segmentation With First Click Attention

    Lin Liu Zheng, Zhao Zhang, Lin-Zhuo Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shao-Ping Lu

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

    177
  • MobileSal: Extremely Efficient RGB-D Salient Object Detection

    Yu-Huan Wu, Yun Liu, Jun Xu, Jia-Wang Bian, Yuchao Gu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    This article proposes an implicit depth restoration (IDR) technique to strengthen the mobile networks’ feature representation capability for RGB-D SOD, and proposes compact pyramid refinement (CPR) for efficient multi-level feature aggregation to derive salient objects with clear boundaries.

    176
  • CDNet: Complementary Depth Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection

    Wenda Jin, Jun Xu, Qi Han, Yi Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    171
  • Re-thinking Co-Salient Object Detection

    Deng-Ping Fan, Tengpeng Li, Lin Liu Zheng, Ge-Peng Ji, Dingwen Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Huazhu Fu, Jianbing Shen

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    A novel CoEG-Net is proposed that augments the authors' prior model EGNet with a co-attention projection strategy to enable fast common information learning and fully leverages previous large-scale SOD datasets and significantly improves the model scalability and stability.

    170
  • Leveraging Instance-, Image- and Dataset-Level Information for Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation

    Yun Liu, Yu-Huan Wu, Peisong Wen, Yujun Shi, Yu Qiu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2020

    165
  • Dynamic Feature Integration for Simultaneous Detection of Salient Object, Edge, and Skeleton

    Jiangjiang Liu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2020

    Though these tasks are naturally quite different, the proposed network can work well on all of them and even perform better than current single-purpose state-of-the-art methods.

    162
  • CrossKD: Cross-Head Knowledge Distillation for Object Detection

    Jiabao Wang, Yuming Chen, Zhaohui Zheng, Xiang Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    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 presents a general and effective prediction mimicking distillation scheme, called CrossKD, which delivers the intermediate features of the student's detection head to the teacher's detection head, and the resulting crosshead predictions are forced to mimic the teacher's predictions.

    160
  • Representation Compensation Networks for Continual Semantic Segmentation

    Chang–Bin Zhang, Jia-wen Xiao, Xialei Liu, Ying-Cong Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    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 to use a structural re-parameterization mechanism, named representation compensation (RC) module, to decouple the representation learning of both old and new knowledge, and outperforms state-of-the-art performance.

    155
  • Large-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation

    Shanghua Gao, Zhong-Yu Li, Ming–Hsuan Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Junwei Han, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    This work proposes a new problem of large-scale unsupervised semantic segmentation (LUSS) with a newly created benchmark dataset to help the research progress and presents a simple yet effective method that works surprisingly well for LUSS.

    153
  • Lightweight Salient Object Detection via Hierarchical Visual Perception Learning

    Yun Liu, Yu-Chao Gu, Xinyu Zhang, Wei-Wei Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 2020

    151
  • Advances in deep concealed scene understanding

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ge-Peng Ji, Peng Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Christos Sakaridis, Luc Van Gool

    Visual Intelligence · 2023

    A comprehensive survey of deep learning techniques aimed at CSU, including a taxonomy, task-specific challenges, and ongoing developments is presented, and the largest and latest benchmark for concealed object segmentation (COS) is offered.

    148
  • Rethinking Computer-Aided Tuberculosis Diagnosis

    Yun Liu, Yu-Huan Wu, Yunfeng Ban, Huifang Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    148
  • DFormer: Rethinking RGBD Representation Learning for Semantic Segmentation

    Bowen Yin, Zhang, Xuying, Zhongyu Li, Liu Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    arXiv · 2023

    Experimental results show that the DFormer achieves new state-of-the-art performance on these two tasks with less than half of the computational cost of the current best methods on two RGB-D semantic segmentation datasets and five RGB-D salient object detection datasets.

    144
  • SANet: A Slice-Aware Network for Pulmonary Nodule Detection

    Jie Mei, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Gang Xu, Lan-Ruo Wan, Huan Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    142
  • CODE: Coherence Based Decision Boundaries for Feature Correspondence

    Wen-Yan Lin, Fan Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Sai-Kit Yeung, Philip H. S. Torr, Minh N. Do, Jiangbo Lu

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2017

    137
  • VQFR: Blind Face Restoration with Vector-Quantized Dictionary and Parallel Decoder

    Yuchao Gu, Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie, Chao Dong, Gen Li, Ying Shan, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    135
  • Gradient-Induced Co-Saliency Detection

    Zhao Zhang, Wenda Jin, Jun Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    A gradient-induced co-saliency detection (GICD) method that first abstracts a consensus representation for the grouped images in the embedding space; then, by comparing the single image with consensus representation, utilizes the feedback gradient information to induce more attention to the discriminative co- salient features.

    135
  • SAM struggles in concealed scenes — empirical study on “Segment Anything”

    Ge-Peng Ji, Deng-Ping Fan, Peng Xu, Bowen Zhou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Luc Van Gool

    Science China Information Sciences · 2023

    This report chooses three concealed scenes, i.e., camouflaged animals, industrial defects, and medical lesions, to evaluate SAM under unprompted settings, and observation is that SAM looks unskilled in concealed scenes.

    134
  • RegularFace: Deep Face Recognition via Exclusive Regularization

    Kai Zhao, Jingyi Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    132
  • Nonlinear Regression via Deep Negative Correlation Learning

    Le Zhang, Zenglin Shi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Jia-Wang Bian, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Guoyan Zheng, Zeng Zeng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    132
  • Multi-Level Context Ultra-Aggregation for Stereo Matching

    Guang-Yu Nie, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Zhengfa Liang, Deng-Ping Fan, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang

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

    131
  • Temporal Modulation Network for Controllable Space-Time Video Super-Resolution

    Gang Xu, Jun Xu, Zhen Li, Liang Wang, Xing Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    A Temporal Modulation Network (TMNet) to interpolate arbitrary intermediate frame(s) with accurate high-resolution reconstruction and demonstrates that the TMNet outperforms previous STVSR methods.

    130
  • Unsupervised Scale-consistent Depth and Ego-motion Learning from Monocular Video

    Jia-Wang Bian, Zhichao Li, Naiyan Wang, Huangying Zhan, Chunhua Shen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ian D. Reid

    arXiv · 2019

    123
  • VecRoad: Point-Based Iterative Graph Exploration for Road Graphs Extraction

    Yongqiang Tan, Shanghua Gao, Xuanyi Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

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

    117
  • WSCNet: Weakly Supervised Coupled Networks for Visual Sentiment Classification and Detection

    Dongyu She, Jufeng Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yu‐Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin, Liang Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2019

    117
  • Semantic Edge Detection with Diverse Deep Supervision

    Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Deng-Ping Fan, Le Zhang, Jia-Wang Bian, Dacheng Tao

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2021

    A novel fully convolutional neural network using diverse deep supervision within a multi-task framework where bottom layers aim at generating category-agnostic edges, while top layers are responsible for the detection of category-aware semantic edges is proposed.

    113
  • DNA: Deeply Supervised Nonlinear Aggregation for Salient Object Detection

    Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xinyu Zhang, Guang-Yu Nie, Meng Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 2021

    The proposed saliency detector, a modified U-Net architecture with DNA, performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods on various datasets and evaluation metrics without bells and whistles and can successfully break through the bottleneck of the current linear approaches.

    113
  • Associating Inter-image Salient Instances for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Ruochen Fan, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Gang Yu, Ralph R. Martin, Shi‐Min Hu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This paper uses an instance-level salient object detector to automatically generate salient instances (candidate objects) for training images, and proposes a graph-partitioning-based clustering algorithm that outperforms state-of-the-art weakly supervised alternatives by a large margin.

    113
  • Interactive images

    Youyi Zheng, Xiang Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kun Zhou, Shi‐Min Hu, Niloy J. Mitra

    ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2012

    This work's interactive framework creates partial scene reconstructions based on cuboid-proxies with minimal user interaction and allows a range of intuitive image edits mimicking real-world behavior, which are otherwise difficult to achieve.

    113
  • Improved Protein Structure Prediction Using a New Multi‐Scale Network and Homologous Templates

    Hong Lin Su, Wenkai Wang, Zongyang Du, Zhenling Peng, Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jianyi Yang

    Advanced Science · 2021

    trRosettaX, an improved version of trRosetta for protein structure prediction is presented, which suggests the effectiveness of using the multi‐scale network and the benefit of incorporating homologous templates into the network.

    110
  • A Highly Efficient Model to Study the Semantics of Salient Object Detection

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shanghua Gao, Ali Borji, Yongqiang Tan, Lin Liu Zheng, Meng Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    110
  • Self-Paced Balance Learning for Clinical Skin Disease Recognition

    Jufeng Yang, Xiaoping Wu, Jie Liang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Paul L. Rosin, Liang Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2019

    110
  • CorrMatch: Label Propagation via Correlation Matching for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Boyuan Sun, Yuqi Yang, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    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 proposes to conduct pixel propagation by modeling the pairwise similarities of pixels to spread the high-confidence pixels and dig out more, and performs region propagation to enhance the pseudo labels with accurate class-agnostic masks extracted from the correlation maps.

    109
  • Structure-measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Tao Li, Ali Borji

    arXiv · 2017

    109
  • SemanticPaint: Interactive 3D Labeling and Learning at your Fingertips

    Julien Valentin, Vibhav Vineet, Ming‐Ming Cheng, David Kim, Jamie Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, Matthias Nießner, Antonio Criminisi, +2 more

    arXiv · 2015

    SemanticPaint allows users to simultaneously scan their environment whilst interactively segmenting the scene simply by reaching out and touching any desired object or surface, and continuously learns from these segmentations, and labels new unseen parts of the environment.

    104
  • SemanticPaint

    Julien Valentin, Vibhav Vineet, Ming‐Ming Cheng, David K. Kim, Jamie Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, Matthias Nießner, Antonio Criminisi, +2 more

    ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2015

    SemanticPaint allows users to simultaneously scan their environment whilst interactively segmenting the scene simply by reaching out and touching any desired object or surface, and continuously learns from these segmentations, and labels new unseen parts of the environment.

    104
  • Structure-Preserving Neural Style Transfer

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiao-Chang Liu, Jie Wang, Shao-Ping Lu, Yu‐Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2019

    100
  • Localization Distillation for Object Detection

    Zhaohui Zheng, Rongguang Ye, Qibin Hou, Dongwei Ren, Ping Wang, Wangmeng Zuo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    This paper presents a novel localization distillation (LD) method which can efficiently transfer the localization knowledge from the teacher to the student and introduces the concept of valuable localization region that can aid to selectively distill the classification and localization knowledge for a certain region.

    99
  • Class-Specific Semantic Reconstruction for Open Set Recognition

    Hongzhi Huang, Yu Wang, Qinghua Hu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    A novel method, called Class-Specific Semantic Reconstruction (CSSR), that integrates the power of AE and prototype learning, which achieves outstanding performance in both close and open set recognition and is sufficiently simple and flexible to incorporate into existing frameworks.

    98
  • Joint Acne Image Grading and Counting via Label Distribution Learning

    Xiaoping Wu, Ni Wen, Jie Liang, Yu‐Kun Lai, Dongyu She, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jufeng Yang

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

    98
  • Faster Diffusion: Rethinking the Role of UNet Encoder in Diffusion Models

    Senmao Li, Taihang Hu, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Linxuan Li, Shiqi Yang, Yaxing Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Jun Yang

    arXiv · 2023

    It is found that encoder features change gently, whereas the decoder features exhibit substantial variations across different time-steps, which inspired us to conduct the first comprehensive study of the UNet encoder.

    97
  • S4Net: Single stage salient-instance segmentation

    Ruochen Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou, Tai‐Jiang Mu, Jingdong Wang, Shi‐Min Hu

    Computational Visual Media · 2020

    This paper designs a single stage salient instance segmentation framework, with a novel segmentation branch that regards not only local context inside each detection window but also the surrounding context, enabling us to distinguish instances in the same scope even with partial occlusion.

    97
  • Conditional Variational Image Deraining

    Yingjun Du, Jun Xu, Xiantong Zhen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ling Shao

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2020

    A Conditional Variational Image Deraining (CVID) network is proposed for better deraining performance, leveraging the exclusive generative ability of Conditionalvariational Auto-Encoder on providing diverse predictions for the rainy image.

    96
  • Taking a Deeper Look at Co-Salient Object Detection

    Deng-Ping Fan, Lin Liu Zheng, Ge-Peng Ji, Dingwen Zhang, Huazhu Fu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    96
  • Strip R-CNN: Large Strip Convolution for Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Xinbin Yuan, Zhaohui Zheng, Yuxuan Li, Xialei Liu, Li Liu, Xiang Li, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2025

    Strip R-CNN is the first work to systematically explore large strip convolutions for remote sensing object detection, finding that strip convolutions enable directional feature aggregation along the dominant spatial dimension of slender objects, reducing background interference while preserving essential geometric information.

    95
  • Global2Local: Efficient Structure Search for Video Action Segmentation

    Shanghua Gao, Qi Han, Zhongyu Li, Pai Peng, Liang Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    A global-to-local search scheme that exploits both global search to find the coarse combinations and local search to get the refined receptive field combination patterns further and an expectation guided iterative local search scheme to refine combinations effectively.

    92
  • Intelligent Visual Media Processing: When Graphics Meets Vision

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou, Song–Hai Zhang, Paul L. Rosin

    Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2017

    Recent research on how computer vision techniques benefit computer graphics techniques and vice versa is surveyed, and research on analysis, manipulation, synthesis, and interaction is covered.

    92
  • DenseCut: Densely Connected CRFs for Realtime GrabCut

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Shuai Zheng, Philip H. S. Torr, Carsten Rother

    Computer Graphics Forum · 2015

    A very fast segmentation technique which still achieves very high quality results is demonstrated and is proposed to replace the time consuming iterative refinement of global colour models in traditional GrabCut formulation by a densely connected crf.

    91
  • Internet visual media processing: a survey with graphics and vision applications

    Shi‐Min Hu, Tao Chen, Kun Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ralph R. Martin

    The Visual Computer · 2013

    Recent research as regards processing of large collections of images and video, including work on analysis, manipulation, and synthesis is surveyed, and possible future directions in this emerging research area are suggested.

    89
  • Dense Semantic Image Segmentation with Objects and Attributes

    Shuai Zheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jonathan Warrell, Paul Sturgess, Vibhav Vineet, Carsten Rother, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2014

    87
  • Bilateral Functions for Global Motion Modeling

    Wen-Yan Lin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiangbo Lu, Hongsheng Yang, Minh N. Do, Philip H. S. Torr

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2014

    This paper uses the bilateral domain to reformulate a piecewise smooth constraint as continuous global modeling constraint and demonstrates how the model can reliably obtain large numbers of good quality correspondences over wide baselines, while keeping outliers to a minimum.

    87
  • Optimizing the F-Measure for Threshold-Free Salient Object Detection

    Kai Zhao, Shanghua Gao, Wenguan Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    The relaxed F-measure is proposed which is differentiable w.r.t the posterior and can be easily appended to the back of CNNs as the loss function, named FLoss, which can continuously force the network to produce polarized activations.

    86
  • ICNet: Intra-saliency Correlation Network for Co-Saliency Detection

    Wenda Jin, Jun Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yi Zhang, Wei Guo

    neural information processing systems · 2020

    An Intra-saliency Correlation Network (ICNet) is proposed to extract intra-saliency cues from the single image saliency maps (SISMs) predicted by any off-the-shelf SOD method, and obtain inter-saliency cues by correlation techniques.

    84
  • Depth-aware neural style transfer

    Xiao-Chang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yu‐Kun Lai, Paul L. Rosin

    Proceedings of the Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering · 2017

    A novel approach for neural style transfer is introduced that integrates depth preservation as additional loss, preserving overall image layout while performing style transfer, and producing an image that preserves its semantic content.

    82
  • Endpoints Weight Fusion for Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation

    Jia–Wen Xiao, Chang–Bin Zhang, Jiekang Feng, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    81
  • Online Attention Accumulation for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Peng-Tao Jiang, Ling-Hao Han, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yunchao Wei

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    79
  • DFormerv2: Geometry Self-Attention for RGBD Semantic Segmentation

    Bo-Wen Yin, Jiao-Long Cao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

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

    This paper investigates a new way to learn RGBD feature representations and presents DFormerv2, a strong RGBD encoder that explicitly uses depth maps as geometry priors rather than encoding depth information with neural networks.

    77
  • ImageSpirit

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shuai Zheng, Wen-Yan Lin, Vibhav Vineet, Paul Sturgess, Nigel T. Crook, Niloy J. Mitra, Philip H. S. Torr

    ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2014

    This article proposes treating nouns as object labels and adjectives as visual attribute labels to formulate the image parsing problem as one of jointly estimating per-pixel object and attribute labels from a set of training images, and proposes an efficient (interactive time) solution.

    72
  • PoseShop: Human Image Database Construction and Personalized Content Synthesis

    Tao Chen, Ping Tan, Liqian Ma, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ariel Shamir, Shi‐Min Hu

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2012

    71
  • HFS: Hierarchical Feature Selection for Efficient Image Segmentation

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Qibin Hou, Jia-Wang Bian, Philip H.S. Torr, Shi‐Min Hu, Zhuowen Tu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This paper proposes a real-time system, Hierarchical Feature Selection (HFS), that performs image segmentation at a speed of 50 frames-per-second, and can be used in a variety computer vision tasks that are built on top ofimage segmentation and superpixel extraction.

    69
  • FocusCut: Diving into a Focus View in Interactive Segmentation

    Lin Liu Zheng, Zheng-Peng Duan, Zhao Zhang, Chunle Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    68
  • On the Connection between Local Attention and Dynamic Depth-wise Convolution

    Qi Han, Zejia Fan, Qi Dai, Lei Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiaying Liu, Jingdong Wang

    arXiv · 2021

    68
  • Representative Batch Normalization with Feature Calibration

    Shanghua Gao, Qi Han, Duo Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Pai Peng

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

    66
  • Salient Objects in Clutter

    Deng-Ping Fan, Jing Zhang, Gang Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ling Shao

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    It is argued that improving the dataset can yield higher performance gains than focusing only on the decoder design, and several dataset-enhancement strategies are investigated, including label smoothing to implicitly emphasize salient boundaries, random image augmentation to adapt saliency models to various scenarios, and self-supervised learning as a regularization strategy to learn from small datasets.

    65
  • Pixel-Level Non-local Image Smoothing With Objective Evaluation

    Jun Xu, Zhiang Liu, Yingkun Hou, Xiantong Zhen, Ling Shao, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2020

    64
  • Zero-Shot Emotion Recognition via Affective Structural Embedding

    Chi Zhan, Dongyu She, Sicheng Zhao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jufeng Yang

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

    62
  • DOTS: Decoupling Operation and Topology in Differentiable Architecture Search

    Yuchao Gu, Lijuan Wang, Yun Liu, Yi Ping Yang, Yu-Huan Wu, Shao-Ping Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    The proposed Decouple the Operation and Topology Search (DOTS), which decouples the topology representation from operation weights and makes an explicit topology search, and is an effective solution for differentiable NAS.

    60
  • Co-Salient Object Detection with Co-Representation Purification

    Ziyue Zhu, Zhao Zhang, Lin Liu Zheng, Xing Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    This paper proposes a Co-Representation Purification Purification (CoRP) method aiming at searching noise-free co-representation, and uses the prediction to iteratively reduce irrelevant embeddings in the co- representation.

    57
  • RF-Next: Efficient Receptive Field Search for Convolutional Neural Networks

    Shanghua Gao, Zhongyu Li, Han Qi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Liang Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2022

    This work proposes to find better receptive field combinations through a global-to-local search scheme, and proposes an expectation-guided iterative local search scheme to refine combinations effectively.

    57
  • FLIC: Fast linear iterative clustering with active search

    Jiaxing Zhao, Bo Ren, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Paul L. Rosin

    Computational Visual Media · 2018

    This paper proposes a novel search algorithm called “active search” which explicitly considers neighbor continuity, and designs a back-and-forth traversal strategy and a joint assignment and update step to speed up the algorithm.

    56
  • Adaptive Deep Metric Learning for Affective Image Retrieval and Classification

    Xingxu Yao, Dongyu She, Haiwei Zhang, Jufeng Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Liang Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2020

    55
  • Hi-Fi: Hierarchical Feature Integration for Skeleton Detection

    Kai Zhao, Wei Shen, Shanghua Gao, Dandan Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    A new convolutional neural network architecture is presented by introducing a novel hierarchical feature integration mechanism, named Hi-Fi, to address the object skeleton detection problem and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of effectively fusing features from very different scales.

    55
  • One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt

    Liu, Tao, Kai Wang, Senmao Li, Joost van de Weijer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Shiqi Yang, Yaxing Wang, Jian Jun Yang, +1 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This paper proposes a novel training-free method for consistent text-to-image (T2I) generation, termed "One-Prompt-One-Story", which concatenates all prompts into a single input for T2I diffusion models, initially preserving character identities.

    54
  • Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Alternate Self-Dual Teaching

    Dingwen Zhang, Hao Li, Wenyuan Zeng, Chaowei Fang, Lechao Cheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Junwei Han

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2023

    A novel end-to-end learning framework, alternate self-dual teaching (ASDT), based on a dual-teacher single-student network architecture is built, inspired by the Pulse Width (PW) modulation, to alleviate the influence of the imperfect knowledge from either teacher model on the KD process.

    54
  • DEL: Deep Embedding Learning for Efficient Image Segmentation

    Yun Liu, Peng-Tao Jiang, Vahan Petrosyan, Shijie Li, Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    A novel method called DEL (deep embedding learning) which can efficiently transform superpixels into image segmentation which can achieve comparable segments when compared with MCG but is much faster than it, i.e. 11.4fps vs. 0.07fps.

    53
  • Faster Diffusion: Rethinking the Role of the Encoder for Diffusion Model Inference

    Senmao Li, Taihang Hu, Joost van de Weijer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Tao Liu, Tao Liu, Shiqi Yang, Yaxing Wang, +2 more

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    This paper conducts a comprehensive study of the UNet encoder and empirically analyze the encoder features, which provides insights regarding their changes during the inference process, and finds that encoder features change minimally, whereas the decoder features exhibit substantial variations across different time-steps.

    52
  • Ordered or Orderless: A Revisit for Video Based Person Re-Identification

    Le Zhang, Zenglin Shi, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Jia-Wang Bian, Zeng Zeng, Chunhua Shen

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2020

    This paper presents a simple yet surprisingly powerful approach for VPRe-id, where it is shown that the common practice of employing recurrent neural networks to aggregate temporal-spatial features may not be optimal and provides an error bound that sheds light upon how could the authors improve VP re-identification.

    52
  • Scoot: A Perceptual Metric for Facial Sketches

    Deng-Ping Fan, Shengchuan Zhang, Yu-Huan Wu, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren, Paul L. Rosin, Rongrong Ji

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

    The results suggest that “spatial structure” and “co-occurrence texture” are two generally applicable perceptual features in face sketch synthesis, and the first largest scale human-perception-based sketch database that can evaluate how well a metric consistent with human perception is evaluated.

    52
  • Rethinking the U-Shape Structure for Salient Object Detection

    Jiangjiang Liu, Zhiang Liu, Pai Peng, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    51
  • SaliencyRank: Two-stage manifold ranking for salient object detection

    Wei Qi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji, Huchuan Lu, Lianfa Bai

    Computational Visual Media · 2015

    This work proposes a novel graph based ranking method to detect and segment the most salient object in a scene according to its relationship to image border (background) regions, i.e., the background feature.

    46
  • Recognition From Web Data: A Progressive Filtering Approach

    Jufeng Yang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Yu‐Kun Lai, Liang Zheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2018

    44
  • Sequential Optimization for Efficient High-Quality Object Proposal Generation

    Ziming Zhang, Yun Liu, Xi Chen, Yanjun Zhu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Venkatesh Saligrama, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2017

    A novel object proposal algorithm, BING++, is proposed, which inherits the virtue of good computational efficiency of BING but significantly improves its proposal localization quality.

    44
  • Low-Resolution Self-Attention for Semantic Segmentation

    Yu-Huan Wu, Shichen Zhang, Yun Liu, Le Zhang, Xin Zhan, Daquan Zhou, Jiashi Feng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, +1 more

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    The Low-Resolution Self-Attention (LRSA) mechanism to capture global context at a significantly reduced computational cost, i.e., FLOPs is introduced and the effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated by building the LRFormer, a vision transformer with an encoder-decoder structure.

    43
  • SemanticPaint: A Framework for the Interactive Segmentation of 3D Scenes

    Stuart Golodetz, Michael Sapienza, Julien P. C. Valentin, Vibhav Vineet, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Anurag Arnab, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Olaf Kähler, +4 more

    arXiv · 2015

    42
  • Enhancing Information Maximization With Distance-Aware Contrastive Learning for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

    Huali Xu, Li Liu, Shuaifeng Zhi, Shaojing Fu, Zhuo Su, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yongxiang Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2024

    This paper explores a Source-Free CDFSL (SF-CDFSL) problem, in which CDFSL is addressed through the use of existing pretrained models instead of training a model with source data, avoiding accessing source data.

    41
  • EditAnything: Empowering Unparalleled Flexibility in Image Editing and Generation

    Shanghua Gao, Zhijie Lin, Xingyu Xie, Pan Zhou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shuicheng Yan

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2023

    This work presents EditAnything, a novel approach that empowers users with unparalleled flexibility in editing and generating image content, and introduces an array of advanced features, including cross-image dragging, region-interactive editing, controllable layout generation, and virtual character replacement.

    41
  • Generative Multi-modal Models are Good Class-Incremental Learners

    Xusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Linlan Huang, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This work proposes a novel generative multi-modal model (GMM) framework for class-incremental learning and improves by at least 14% accuracy over all the current state-of-the-art methods with significantly less forgetting in the Few-shot CIL setting.

    40
  • Long-Tailed Class Incremental Learning

    Xialei Liu, Yusong Hu, Xusheng Cao, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Ke Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    40
  • SRFormerV2: Taking a Closer Look at Permuted Self-Attention for Image Super-Resolution

    Yupeng Zhou, Zhen Li, Chunle Guo, Li Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2026

    This paper presents SRFormer, a simple but novel method that can enjoy the benefit of large window self-attention but introduces even less computational burden, and attempts to scale up the model by further enlarging the window size and channel numbers to explore the potential of Transformer-based models.

    39
  • Revisiting Computer-Aided Tuberculosis Diagnosis

    Yun Liu, Yu-Huan Wu, Shichen Zhang, Li Liu, Min Wu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    A large-scale dataset, namely the Tuberculosis X-ray (TBX11 K) dataset, is established, which contains 11 200 chest X-ray (CXR) images with corresponding bounding box annotations for TB areas and a strong baseline, SymFormer, is proposed, for simultaneous CXR image classification and TB infection area detection.

    39
  • Bottom-Up Top-Down Cues for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Qibin Hou, Daniela Massiceti, Puneet K. Dokania, Yunchao Wei, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Philip H. S. Torr

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This work considers the task of learning a classifier for semantic segmentation using weak supervision in the form of image labels specifying objects present in the image, and adopts an Expectation-Maximization (EM) based approach, which outperforms the state-of-the-art method with a very high margin.

    39
  • Semantic Edge Detection with Diverse Deep Supervision

    Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Fan, Deng-Ping, Le Zhang, Jia-Wang Bian, Tao, Dacheng

    arXiv · 2018

    38
  • Referring Camouflaged Object Detection

    Xuying Zhang, Bowen Yin, Zheng Lin, Qibin Hou, Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    This work develops a simple but strong dual-branch framework, dubbed R2CNet, with a reference branch embedding the common representations of target objects from referring images and a segmentation branch identifying and segmenting camouflaged objects under the guidance of the common representations.

    37
  • SARDet-100K: Towards Open-Source Benchmark and ToolKit for Large-Scale SAR Object Detection

    Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li, Weijie Li, Qibin Hou, Yuxuan Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Bo Yang

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    37
  • SM3Det: A Unified Model for Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Li, Yuxuan, Xiangyang Li, Yunheng Li, Yicheng Zhang, Yimian Dai, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jianwen Yang

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper introduces a new task called Multi-Modal Datasets and Multi-Task Object Detection (M2Det) for remote sensing, designed to accurately detect horizontal or oriented objects from any sensor modality, and proposes a unified model, SM3Det (Single Model for Multi-Modal datasets and Multi-Task object Detection).

    35
  • GET: Unlocking the Multi-modal Potential of CLIP for Generalized Category Discovery

    Enguang Wang, Zhimao Peng, Zhengyuan Xie, Fei Yang, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    A Text Embedding Synthesizer (TES) is proposed to generate pseudo text embeddings for unlabelled samples, which unlocks the multi-modal potentials of CLIP and outperforms the baseline methods by a large margin on all GCD benchmarks, achieving new state-of-the-art results.

    34
  • D2ANet: Difference-aware attention network for multi-level change detection from satellite imagery

    Jie Mei, Yibo Zheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Computational Visual Media · 2023

    A difference-aware attention network (D2ANet) for simultaneous building localization and multi-level change detection from the dual-temporal satellite imagery and design a difference-attention module to exploit local correlations among the multi- level changes, which improves the ability to identify damage on different scales.

    34
  • Domain Shift Preservation for Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation

    Jinghua Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jianmin Jiang

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2021

    34
  • Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation

    Yunheng Li, Zhongyu Li, Quansheng Zeng, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2024

    This work introduces a series of independent decoders to align the multi-level visual features with the text embeddings in a cascaded way, forming a novel but simple framework named Cascade-CLIP that achieves superior zero-shot performance on segmentation benchmarks.

    33
  • Advancing Textual Prompt Learning with Anchored Attributes

    Zheng Li, Yibing Song, Ming‐Ming Cheng, X.C. Li, Jian Yu Yang

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

    This work introduces an Attribute-anchored Textual Prompt learning method for vision-language models, named ATPrompt, which expands the learning space of soft prompts from the original one-dimensional category level into the multi-dimensional attribute level by incorporating multiple attribute tokens into the learnable soft prompts.

    32
  • CubemapSLAM: A Piecewise-Pinhole Monocular Fisheye SLAM System

    Yahui Wang, Shaojun Cai, Shijie Li, Yun Liu, Yang-Yan Guo, Tao Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2019

    This work proposes a novel SLAM system with the cubemap model that utilizes the full FoV without introducing distortion from the fisheye lens, which greatly benefits the feature matching pipeline.

    32
  • Sora Generates Videos with Stunning Geometrical Consistency

    Xuanyi Li, Daquan Zhou, Chenxu Zhang, Shaodong Wei, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper introduces a new benchmark that assesses the quality of the generated videos based on their adherence to real-world physics principles, and employs a method that transforms the generated videos into 3D models, leveraging the premise that the accuracy of 3D reconstruction is heavily contingent on the video quality.

    31
  • Looking Through the Glass: Neural Surface Reconstruction Against High Specular Reflections

    Jiaxiong Qiu, Peng-Tao Jiang, Yifan Zhu, Ze-Xin Yin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

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

    A novel surface reconstruction framework, NeuS-HSR, based on implicit neural rendering, which outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for accurate and robust target surface reconstruction against HSR and designs a novel auxiliary plane module by combining physical assumptions and neural networks to generate the auxiliary plane appearance.

    30
  • FMNet: Frequency-Aware Modulation Network for SDR-to-HDR Translation

    Gang Xu, Qibin Hou, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2022

    A frequency-aware modulation block that can dynamically modulate the features according to its frequency-domain responses is designed to enhance the contrast in a frequency-adaptive way for SDR-to-HDR translation and reduce the structural distortions and artifacts in the translated low-frequency regions.

    29
  • Joint salient object detection and existence prediction

    Huaizu Jiang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shijie Li, Ali Borji, Jingdong Wang

    Frontiers of Computer Science · 2018

    This paper proposes a supervised learning approach for jointly addressing the salient object detection and existence prediction problems and adopts the structural SVM framework, which forms the two problems jointly in a single integrated objective function.

    29
  • Direct Line Guidance Odometry

    Shijie Li, Bo Ren, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Duncan Frost, Victor Adrian Prisacariu

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2018

    28
  • Multi-Space Neural Radiance Fields

    Ze-Xin Yin, Jiaxiong Qiu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

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

    27
  • Three Birds One Stone: A Unified Framework for Salient Object Segmentation, Edge Detection and Skeleton Extraction.

    Qibin Hou, Jiangjiang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji, Philip H. S. Torr

    arXiv · 2018

    This paper introduces a horizontal cascade, each component of which is densely connected to the outputs of previous component, which allows for effectively exploiting features across different levels hierarchically to effectively address the multiple pixel-wise binary regression tasks.

    27
  • A Framework for the Volumetric Integration of Depth Images

    Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Olaf Kähler, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Carl Yuheng Ren, Julien P. C. Valentin, Philip H. S. Torr, Ian D. Reid, David W. Murray

    arXiv · 2014

    27
  • RSAR: Restricted State Angle Resolver and Rotated SAR Benchmark

    Xin Zhang, Xue Yang, Yuxuan Li, Jian Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiang Li

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

    26
  • Class Incremental Learning with Pre-trained Vision-Language Models

    Xialei Liu, Xusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Jia-wen Xiao, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper proposes an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that enables further adaptation instead of only using zero-shot learning of new tasks, and proposes a method for parameter retention in the adapter layers that uses a measure of parameter importance to better maintain stability and plasticity during incremental learning.

    26
  • Historical Context-based Style Classification of Painting Images via Label Distribution Learning

    Jufeng Yang, Liyi Chen, Le Zhang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Dongyu She, Shao-Ping Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2018

    This work introduces a novel knowledge distilling strategy to assist visual feature learning in the convolutional neural network for painting style classification and demonstrates the superiority of the proposed method over the state-of-the-art approaches on Painting91, OilPainting, and Pandora datasets.

    26
  • Rapid Salient Object Detection With Difference Convolutional Neural Networks

    Zhuo Su, Li Liu, Matthias Müller, Jiehua Zhang, Diana Wofk, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Matti Pietikäinen

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    An efficient network design is proposed that combines traditional wisdom on SOD and the representation power of modern CNNs, and a difference convolution reparameterization (DCR) strategy that embeds PDCs into standard convolutions, eliminating computation and parameters at inference.

    25
  • Masked Autoencoders are Efficient Class Incremental Learners

    Jiang-Tian Zhai, Xialei Liu, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Ke Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This work proposes to use Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) as efficient learners for CIL and proposes a bilateral MAE framework to learn from image-level and embedding-level fusion, which produces better-quality reconstructed images and more stable representations.

    25
  • Vision Permutator: A Permutable MLP-Like Architecture for Visual Recognition

    Qibin Hou, Zihang Jiang, Yuan, Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng

    arXiv · 2021

    25
  • SERE: Exploring Feature Self-Relation for Self-Supervised Transformer

    Zhong-Yu Li, Shanghua Gao, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    This work utilizes the feature SElf-RElation (SERE) for training self-supervised ViT and enhances the relation modeling ability of ViT, resulting in stronger representations that stably improve performance on multiple downstream tasks.

    24
  • Demystifying Local Vision Transformer: Sparse Connectivity, Weight Sharing, and Dynamic Weight

    Qi Han, Zejia Fan, Qi Dai, Lei Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiaying Liu, Jingdong Wang

    arXiv · 2021

    24
  • LSANet: Feature Learning on Point Sets by Local Spatial Aware Layer

    Lin-Zhuo Chen, Xuanyi Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Kai Wang, Shao-Ping Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2019

    24
  • Pixel Distillation: Cost-Flexible Distillation Across Image Sizes and Heterogeneous Networks

    Guangyu Guo, Dingwen Zhang, Longfei Han, Nian Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Junwei Han

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    23
  • Object Proposals Estimation in Depth Image Using Compact 3D Shape Manifolds

    Shuai Zheng, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Melinos Averkiou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Niloy J. Mitra, Jamie Shotton, Philip H. S. Torr, Carsten Rother

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    This work investigates the task of finding particular object shapes from a single depth image by exploiting the inherently low dimensionality in the object shape variations, which is discovered and encoded as a compact shape space.

    22
  • A Vision for Auto Research with LLM Agents

    Chengwei Liu, Chong Wang, Cao, Jiayue, Jingquan Ge, Kun Wang, Zhang, Lyuye, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Penghai Zhao, +11 more

    arXiv · 2025

    Preliminary explorations demonstrate the feasibility and potential of Auto Research as a promising paradigm for self-improving, AI-driven research processes.

    21
  • BING++: A Fast High Quality Object Proposal Generator at 100fps

    Ziming Zhang, Yun Liu, Tolga Bolukbasi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Venkatesh Saligrama

    arXiv · 2015

    A novel object proposal algorithm is proposed which inherits the good computational efficiency of BING but significantly improves its proposal localization quality and also recursively improves BING++'s proposals by exploiting the fact that edges in images are typically associated with object boundaries.

    21
  • TAR3D: Creating High-Quality 3D Assets Via Next-Part Prediction

    Xuying Zhang, Yutong Liu, Yangguang Li, Renrui Zhang, Yufei Liu, Kai Wang, Wanli Ouyang, Zhiwei Xiong, +3 more

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

    TAR3D is presented, a novel framework that consists of a 3D-aware Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoder and a Generative Pre-trained Transformer to generate high-quality 3D assets to migrate the multimodal unification and promising learning capabilities of the next-token prediction paradigm to conditional 3D object generation.

    20
  • TeMO: Towards Text-Driven 3D Stylization for Multi-Object Meshes

    Xuying Zhang, Bowen Yin, Yuming Chen, Lin Liu Zheng, Yunheng Li, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    A novel framework, dubbed TeMO, to parse multi-object 3D scenes and edit their styles under the contrast supervision at multiple levels and develops a Cross-Grained Contrast (CGC) supervision system, where a fine-grained loss between the words in the textual description and the randomly rendered images are constructed to complement the coarse-grained loss.

    20
  • Fusing Image and Segmentation Cues for Skeleton Extraction in the Wild

    Xiaolong Liu, Pengyuan Lyu, Xiang Bai, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops · 2017

    20
  • StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation

    Yupeng Zhou, Daquan Zhou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng, Yupeng Zhou

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    19
  • Deeply Explain CNN Via Hierarchical Decomposition

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Peng-Tao Jiang, Ling-Hao Han, Liang Wang, Philip H. S. Torr

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2023

    A hierarchical decomposition framework to explain CNN’s decision-making process in a top-down manner with a gradient-based activation propagation module that can decompose any intermediate CNN decision to its lower layers and find the supporting features.

    19
  • Restore Globally, Refine Locally: A Mask-Guided Scheme to Accelerate Super-Resolution Networks

    Xiaotao Hu, Jun Xu, Shuhang Gu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Li Liu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    A Mask Guided Acceleration (MGA) scheme to reduce the computational costs of existing SR networks while maintaining their SR capability and experiments demonstrate that the MGA scheme reduces the FLOPs of five popular SR networks by 10% ∼ 48% with comparable or even better SR performance.

    19
  • A Glimpse to Compress: Dynamic Visual Token Pruning for Large Vision-Language Models

    Quansheng Zeng, Yunheng Li, Qilong Wang, Peng-Tao Jiang, Zuxuan Wu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2026

    A dynamic pruning framework inspired by human cognition that takes a data-driven “glimpse” and prunes irrelevant visual tokens in a single forward pass before answer generation and reduces the time and memory costs of fine-tuning with negligible performance loss.

    18
  • Towards RAW Object Detection in Diverse Conditions

    Zhong-Yu Li, Xin Jin, Bo-Yuan Sun, Chunle Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    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 the AODRaw dataset, which offers 7,785 high-resolution real RAW images with 135,601 annotated instances spanning 62 categories, capturing a broad range of indoor and outdoor scenes under 9 distinct light and weather conditions, and provides a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating current detection methods.

    18
  • AR-1-to-3: Single Image to Consistent 3D Object via Next-View Prediction

    Xuying Zhang, Yupeng Zhou, Kai Wang, Yikai Wang, Zhen Li, Shaohui Jiao, Daquan Zhou, Qibin Hou, +1 more

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

    AR-1-to-3 is proposed, a novel next-view prediction paradigm based on diffusion models that first generates views close to the input views, which are then utilized as contextual information to progressively synthesize farther views, and a stacked local feature encoding strategy and an LSTMbased global feature encoding strategy.

    17
  • Fine-Grained Knowledge Selection and Restoration for Non-exemplar Class Incremental Learning

    Jiang-Tian Zhai, Xialei Liu, Yu Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2024

    17
  • Refinedbox: Refining for fewer and high-quality object proposals

    Yun Liu, Shijie Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Neurocomputing · 2020

    A computationally lightweight neural network is designed to reduce the number of proposals in object proposal generation, and can achieve state-of-the-art performance with a few proposals compared with some well-known proposal generation methods.

    17
  • Robust Non-parametric Data Fitting for Correspondence Modeling

    Wen-Yan Lin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shuai Zheng, Jiangbo Lu, Nigel Crook

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2013

    17
  • ImageAdmixture: Putting Together Dissimilar Objects from Groups

    Fang‐Lue Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiaya Jia, Shi-Min Hu

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2012

    17
  • KAC: Kolmogorov-Arnold Classifier for Continual Learning

    Yusong Hu, Zichen Liang, Fei Yang, Qibin Hou, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This paper introduces the Kolmogorov-Arnold Classifier (KAC), a novel classifier developed for continual learning based on the KAN structure, and explores the impact of KAN’s spline functions and introduces Radial Basis functions for improved compatibility with continual learning.

    16
  • Task-Adaptive Saliency Guidance for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning

    Xialei Liu, Jiang-Tian Zhai, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Ke Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This work introduces task-adaptive saliency for EFCIL and proposes a new framework, which it is called Task-Adaptive Saliency Supervision (TASS), for mitigating the negative effects of saliency drift between different tasks.

    16
  • A Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Framework for Skeleton-based Action Segmentation

    Yunheng Li, Zhongyu Li, Shanghua Gao, Qilong Wang, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2023

    Joint-decoupled temporal modeling is proposed, which employs independent trainable weights to capture distinctive temporal features of each joint, inspired by the fact that different joints move at different speeds.

    16
  • CMAE-V: Contrastive Masked Autoencoders for Video Action Recognition

    Cheng-Ze Lu, Xiaojie Jin, Zhicheng Huang, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

    arXiv · 2023

    This work shows that CMAE also trivially generalizes well on video action recognition without modifying the architecture and the loss criterion, by directly replacing the original pixel shift with the temporal shift.

    16
  • An Evaluation of Feature Matchers for Fundamental Matrix Estimation.

    Jia-Wang Bian, Yu-Huan Wu, Ji Yin Zhao, Yun Liu, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ian D. Reid

    Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) · 2019

    16
  • InterLCM: Low-Quality Images as Intermediate States of Latent Consistency Models for Effective Blind Face Restoration

    Senmao Li, Kai Wang, Joost van de Weijer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Chunle Guo, Shiqi Yang, Yaxing Wang, Jian Jun Yang, +1 more

    arXiv · 2025

    Treating low-quality images as the intermediate state of LCM, InterLCM achieves a balance between fidelity and quality by starting from earlier LCM steps and incorporates a Visual Module to extract visual features and a Spatial Encoder to capture spatial details, enhancing the fidelity of restored images.

    15
  • Designing an Illumination-Aware Network for Deep Image Relighting

    Zuo-Liang Zhu, Zhen Li, Ruixun Zhang, Chunle Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2022

    15
  • Image Formation Model Guided Deep Image Super-Resolution

    Jinshan Pan, Yang Liu, Deqing Sun, Jimmy Ren, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Jun Yang, Jinhui Tang

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    This work presents a simple and effective image super-resolution algorithm that imposes an image formation constraint on the deep neural networks via pixel substitution and shows that the proposed algorithm performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods.

    15
  • LSANet: Feature Learning on Point Sets by Local Spatial Attention

    Lin-Zhuo Chen, Xuanyi Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Kai Wang, Shao-Ping Lu

    arXiv · 2019

    This work designs a novel Local Spatial Attention (LSA) module to adaptively generate attention maps according to the spatial distribution of local regions and proposes the Spatial Feature Extractor (SFE), which constructs a branch architecture, to aggregate the spatial information with associated features in each layer of the network better.

    15
  • Self-Erasing Network for Integral Object Attention

    Qibin Hou, Peng-Tao Jiang, Yunchao Wei, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2018

    15
  • Video salient object detection via cross-frame cellular automata

    Jingfan Guo, Tongwei Ren, Lei Huang, Xingyu Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Gangshan Wu

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · 2017

    15
  • RPCANet$^{++}$: Deep Interpretable Robust PCA for Sparse Object Segmentation

    Fengyi Wu, Yimian Dai, Tao Zhang, Yixuan Ding, Jian Jun Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Zhenming Peng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2026

    This work proposes RPCANet++, a sparse object segmentation framework that fuses the interpretability of RPCA with efficient deep architectures and achieves state-of-the-art performance on Infrared Small Target Detection and Vessel Segmentation tasks, while maintaining competitive results on Defect Detection tasks involving larger targets.

    14
  • Revisiting Efficient Semantic Segmentation: Learning Offsets for Better Spatial and Class Feature Alignment

    Shichen Zhang, Yunheng Li, Yu-Huan Wu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This work proposes a coupled dual-branch offset learning paradigm that explicitly learns feature and class offsets to dynamically refine both class representations and spatial image features and constructs an efficient semantic segmentation network, OffSeg.

    14
  • Dual Pyramid Generative Adversarial Networks for Semantic Image Synthesis

    Shijie Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jüergen Gall

    arXiv · 2022

    A Dual Pyramid Generative Adversarial Network (DP-GAN) is proposed that learns the conditioning of spatially-adaptive normalization blocks at all scales jointly, such that scale information is bi-directionally used, and it unifies supervision at different scales.

    14
  • iNAS: Integral NAS for Device-Aware Salient Object Detection

    Yuchao Gu, Shanghua Gao, Xusheng Cao, Peng Du, Shao-Ping Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    14
  • Mining Pixels: Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Using Image Labels

    Qinbin Hou, Puneet K. Dokania, Daniela Massiceti, Yunchao Wei, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Philip H. S. Torr

    arXiv.org · 2016

    This work considers the task of learning a classifier for semantic segmentation using weak supervision, in this case, image labels specifying the objects within the image, and proposes minimizing the combination of the standard softmax loss and the KL divergence between the true latent posterior and the likelihood given by the CNN.

    13
  • Dual Frequency Transformer for Efficient SDR-to-HDR Translation

    Gang Xu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Machine Intelligence Research · 2024

    This paper is among the first to investigate the performance of Transformers for SDR-to-HDR translation and proposes a dual frequency attention (DFA), which leverages the self-attention mechanism to separately encode the low-frequency structural information and high-frequency detail information.

    12
  • Zone Evaluation: Revealing Spatial Bias in Object Detection

    Zhaohui Zheng, Yuming Chen, Qibin Hou, Xiang Li, Ping Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2024

    A new zone evaluation protocol is presented, extending from the traditional evaluation to a more generalized one, which measures the detection performance over zones, yielding a series of Zone Precisions (ZPs), and finds that the key lies in the human-imperceptible divergence in data patterns between objects in different zones, thus eventually forming a visible performance gap between the zones.

    12
  • RDNeRF: relative depth guided NeRF for dense free view synthesis

    Jiaxiong Qiu, Yifan Zhu, Peng-Tao Jiang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

    The Visual Computer · 2023

    This paper presents a learning-based approach named relative depth guided NeRF (RDNeRF), which jointly renders RGB images and recovers scene geometry in dense free views and recovers more accurate geometry than basic models.

    12
  • Unbiased Region-Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction

    Y R Li, Y R Li, Quansheng Zeng, Wenhai Wang, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    DenseVLM is proposed, a framework designed to learn unbiased region-language alignment from powerful pretrained VLM representations that can directly replace the original VLM in open-vocabulary object detection and image segmentation methods, leading to notable performance improvements.

    11
  • SRFormerV2: Taking a Closer Look at Permuted Self-Attention for Image Super-Resolution

    Yupeng Zhou, Zhen Li, Chunle Guo, Liu, Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    arXiv · 2023

    11
  • Towards Sustainable Self-supervised Learning

    Shanghua Gao, Pan Zhou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shuicheng Yan

    arXiv · 2022

    A Target-Enhanced Conditional (TEC) scheme which introduces two components to the existing mask-reconstruction based SSL, and proposes patch-relation enhanced targets which enhances the target given by base model and encourages the new model to learn semantic-relation knowledge from the base model by using incomplete inputs.

    11
  • Understanding Image Impressiveness Inspired by Instantaneous Human Perceptual Cues

    Jufeng Yang, Yan Sun, Jie Liang, Yong‐Liang Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    A novel image property is proposed, called impressiveness, that measures how images impress people with a short-term contact, based on an impression-driven model inspired by a number of important human perceptual cues.

    11
  • Three Birds One Stone: A General Architecture for Salient Object Segmentation, Edge Detection and Skeleton Extraction

    Qibin Hou, Jiangjiang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji, Philip H. S. Torr

    arXiv · 2018

    11
  • Connectedness of Random Walk Segmentation

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guo-Xin Zhang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2010

    11
  • Anchor Token Matching: Implicit Structure Locking for Training-Free AR Image Editing

    Taihang Hu, Linxuan Li, Kai Wang, Yaxing Wang, Jian Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    This work introduces Implicit Structure Locking (ISLock), the first training-free editing strategy for AR visual models that achieves high-quality, structure-consistent edits without additional training and is superior or comparable to conventional editing techniques.

    10
  • Reformulating Classification as Image-Class Matching for Class Incremental Learning

    Yusong Hu, Zichen Liang, Xialei Liu, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2024

    10
  • OPUS: Occupancy Prediction Using a Sparse Set

    Jiabao Wang, Zhaojiang Liu, Qiang Meng, Liujiang Yan, Ke Wang, Jiabao Wang, Wei Liu, Qibin Hou, +1 more

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    10
  • Low-Rank Constrained Super-Resolution for Mixed-Resolution Multiview Video

    Shao-Ping Lu, Senmao Li, Rong Wang, Gauthier Lafruit, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Adrian Munteanu

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2020

    10
  • Face Sketch Synthesis Style Similarity:A New Structure Co-occurrence Texture Measure

    Deng-Ping Fan, Shengchuan Zhang, Yu-Huan Wu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren, Rongrong Ji, Paul L. Rosin

    arXiv · 2018

    10
  • Towards Universal Video MLLMs with Attribute-Structured and Quality-Verified Instructions

    Yunheng Li, Hengrui Zhang, Meng-Hao Guo, Wenzhao Gao, Shaoyong Jia, Shaohui Jiao, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2026

    Experiments across seven benchmarks show that ASID-Captioner improves fine-grained caption quality while reducing hallucinations and improving instruction following and achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models and is competitive with Gemini-3-Pro.

    9
  • Step-Wise Distribution-Aligned Style Prompt Tuning for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

    Huali Xu, Li Liu, Tianpeng Liu, Shuaifeng Zhi, Shuzhou Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    This paper investigates the source-free CDFSL (SF-CDFSL) problem to solve the few-shot learning (FSL) task in target domain using only a pre-trained model and a few target samples, without requiring source data or training strategies.

    9
  • Class Incremental Learning for Image Classification With Out-of-Distribution Task Identification

    Xusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2025

    9
  • Personalized Image Semantic Segmentation

    Yu Zhang, Chang–Bin Zhang, Peng-Tao Jiang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Feng Mao

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

    By observing the correlation among a user’s personalized images, this paper proposes a baseline method that incorporates the inter-image context when segmenting certain images and shows that this method outperforms the existing methods on the proposed dataset.

    9
  • MS-NeRF: Multi-Space Neural Radiance Fields

    Ze-Xin Yin, Pengyi Jiao, Jiaxiong Qiu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    This work proposes a multi-space neural radiance field (MS-NeRF) that represents the scene using a group of feature fields in parallel sub-spaces, which leads to a better understanding of the neural network toward the existence of reflective and refractive objects.

    8
  • AR-1-to-3: Single Image to Consistent 3D Object Generation via Next-View Prediction

    Xuying Zhang, Yupeng Zhou, Wang, Kai, Yi‐Kai Wang, Zhen Li, Shaohui Jiao, Daquan Zhou, Qibin Hou, +1 more

    arXiv · 2025

    8
  • DISTA-Net: Dynamic Closely-Spaced Infrared Small Target Unmixing

    Shengdong Han, Shangdong Yang, Yuxuan Li, Xin Zhang, Li Xiang, Jian Yu Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yimian Dai

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

    The Dynamic Iterative Shrinkage Thresholding Network (DISTA-Net), which reconceptualizes traditional sparse reconstruction within a dynamic framework, and is the first deep learning model designed specifically for the unmixing of closely-spaced infrared small targets, achieving superior sub-pixel detection accuracy.

    8
  • Camouflaged Object Detection with Adaptive Partition and Background Retrieval

    Bowen Yin, Xuying Zhang, Li Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yongxiang Liu, Qibin Hou

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2025

    This paper presents a novel learning framework for camouflaged object detection, called AdaptCOD, which decouples the detection process into three parts, namely localization, segmentation, and retrieval.

    8
  • NeuSmoke: Efficient Smoke Reconstruction and View Synthesis with Neural Transportation Fields

    Jiaxiong Qiu, Ruihong Cen, Zhong Li, Han Yan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

    SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers · 2024

    NeuSmoke is introduced, an efficient framework for dynamic smoke reconstruction using neural transportation fields, enabling high-quality density reconstruction and novel-view synthesis from multi-view videos and achieves over 10 times faster than previous physics informed approaches.

    8
  • High-Quality Mask Tuning Matters for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Quansheng Zeng, Yunheng Li, Daquan Zhou, Guanbin Li, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2024

    8
  • Ret3D: Rethinking Object Relations for Efficient 3D Object Detection in Driving Scenes

    Wu, Yu-Huan, Da Zhang, Le Zhang, Xin Zhan, Dengxin Dai, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2022

    This work introduces a simple, efficient, and effective two-stage detector, termed as Ret3D, which utilization of novel intra-frame and inter-frame relation modules to capture the spatial and temporal relations accordingly.

    8
  • WebSeg: Learning Semantic Segmentation from Web Searches

    Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiangjiang Liu, Philip H. S. Torr

    arXiv · 2018

    8
  • A Reverse Causal Framework to Mitigate Spurious Correlations for Debiasing Scene Graph Generation

    Shuzhou Sun, Li Liu, Tianpeng Liu, Shuaifeng Zhi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Janne Heikkilä, Yongxiang Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    The reconstructed causal paradigm is reconstructed into a reverse causal structure, wherein the classifier’s inputs are treated as the confounder, and both the detector’s inputs and the final predictions are viewed as causal variables, which can mitigate the spurious correlations inherent in the SGG framework, subsequently eliminating the induced biases.

    7
  • Delving Deeper into Data Scaling in Masked Image Modeling

    Cheng-Ze Lu, Xiaojie Jin, Qibin Hou, Jun Hao Liew, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

    arXiv · 2023

    The study reveals that MIM can be viewed as an effective method to improve the model capacity when the scale of the training data is relatively small and MIM pre- training is data-agnostic under most scenarios, which means that the strategy of sampling pre-training data is non-critical.

    7
  • Geometric Style Transfer

    Xiao-Chang Liu, Xuanyi Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Peter M. Hall

    arXiv · 2020

    7
  • Interactive Knowledge Distillation

    Shipeng Fu, Zhen Li, Jun Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Liu, Zitao, Xiaomin Yang

    arXiv · 2020

    7
  • DFormer++: Improving RGBD Representation Learning for Semantic Segmentation

    Bo-Wen Yin, Jiao-Long Cao, Dan Xu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2026

    6
  • NAIPv2: Debiased Pairwise Learning for Efficient Paper Quality Estimation

    Penghai Zhao, Jinyu Tian, Qinghua Xing, Xin Zhang, Zhizhong Li, Jianjun Qian, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiang Li

    arXiv · 2025

    NAIPv2 is presented, a debiased and scalable framework for automated paper quality estimation and demonstrates strong generalization, with predicted scores increasing consistently across decision categories from Rejected to Oral.

    6
  • Re-Aligning Language to Visual Objects with an Agentic Workflow

    Yuming Chen, Jiangyan Feng, Haodong Zhang, Lijun Gong, Feng Zhu, Rui Zhao, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, +1 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes an agentic workflow controlled by an LLM to re-align language to visual objects via adaptively adjusting image and text prompts and reveals a potential to preserve data quality along with scaling up data quantity, which further improves LOD performance from a data-alignment perspective.

    6
  • Predictive Sample Assignment for Semantically Coherent Out-of-Distribution Detection

    Zhimao Peng, Enguang Wang, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2024

    A concise SCOOD framework based on predictive sample assignment (PSA) that includes a dual-threshold ternary sample assignment strategy based on the predictive energy score that can significantly improve the purity of the selected ID and OOD sample sets and introduces a retraining strategy to help the model fully fit the selected auxiliary ID/OOD samples.

    6
  • Traffic Scene Parsing Through the TSP6K Dataset

    Peng-Tao Jiang, Yuqi Yang, Yang Cao, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Chunhua Shen

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

    A detail refining decoder is proposed for scene parsing, which recovers the details of different semantic regions in traffic scenes owing to the proposed TSP6K dataset, and experiments show its effectiveness in parsing the traffic monitoring scenes.

    6
  • Geometry-Aware ICP for Scene Reconstruction from RGB-D Camera

    Bo Ren, Jiacheng Wu, Yalei Lv, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shao-Ping Lu

    Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2019

    A novel ICP algorithm is proposed that provides significantly stabler registration estimation for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) tasks on RGB-D camera inputs, and is readily integratable with previous ICP algorithms.

    6
  • AdaSample: Adaptive Sampling of Hard Positives for Descriptor Learning

    Xinyu Zhang, Le Zhang, Zao-Yi Zheng, Liu, Yun, Jia-Wang Bian, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2019

    6
  • Automatic Model Selection in Subspace Clustering via Triplet Relationships

    Jufeng Yang, Jie Liang, Kai Wang, Yong‐Liang Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    This paper proposes to simultaneously estimate K and segment the samples according to the local similarity relationships derived from the affinity matrix and defines a novel data structure termed the Triplet, each of which reflects a high relevance and locality among three samples which are aimed to be segmented into the same subspace.

    6
  • Multi-scale Spatiotemporal Information Fusion Network for Video Action Recognition

    Yutong Cai, Weiyao Lin, John See, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guangcan Liu, Hongkai Xiong

    IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) · 2018

    6
  • MatchBench: An Evaluation of Feature Matchers

    Jia-Wang Bian, Ruihan Yang, Liu Yun, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ian D. Reid, Wenhai Wu

    arXiv · 2018

    6
  • Image Matching: An Application-oriented Benchmark

    Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Yun Liu, Wen-Yan Lin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ian D. Reid

    arXiv · 2017

    6
  • Direct 3D-Aware Object Insertion via Decomposed Visual Proxies

    Jingbo Gong, Yikai Wang, Yushi Lan, Yuhao Wan, Ziheng Ouyang, Rui Zhao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou, +1 more

    arXiv · 2026

    DI (Decomposed Injection for Reference Composition and Target-integration), a novel framework that integrates interactive pose manipulation with high-fidelity 2D image synthesis to enable pose-controllable object insertion and outperforms previous methods in both geometric controllability and visual quality.

    5
  • Representation Entanglement for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Much Easier Than You Think

    Ge Wu, Shen Zhang, Ruijing Shi, Shanghua Gao, Zhenyuan Chen, Lei Wang, Zhaowei Chen, Hongcheng Gao, +4 more

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    5
  • Revisiting End-to-End Learning with Slide-level Supervision in Computational Pathology

    Wenhao Tang, Rong Qin, Heng Fang, Fengtao Zhou, Hao Chen, Xiang Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    5
  • Towards Stable 3D Object Detection

    Jiabao Wang, Qiang Meng, Guochao Liu, Liujiang Yan, Ke Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    5
  • Lighting the Darkness in the Deep Learning Era.

    Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo, Ling-Hao Han, Jun Jiang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jinwei Gu, Chen Change Loy

    arXiv · 2021

    5
  • Structured Skip List: A Compact Data Structure for 3D Reconstruction

    Shijie Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Shao-Ping Lu, Yahui Wang, Victor Adrian Prisacariu

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

    5
  • Salient Object Detection via High-to-Low Hierarchical Context Aggregation

    Yun Liu, Yu Qiu, Le Zhang, Jia-Wang Bian, Guang-Yu Nie, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2018

    5
  • Computer Vision

    Deyu Meng, Xiang Bai, Qinghua Hu, L Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qinghua Hu, Yujiu Yang

    Communications in computer and information science · 2017

    The idea is to randomize attribute selection and no longer look for globally optimal split, but instead randomly use subset of K attributes on which to base the split.

    5
  • PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage

    Tao Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, Shi‐Min Hu

    2009

    A system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels, able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images.

    5
  • Multimodal Large Models Driven SAR Image Captioning: A Benchmark Dataset and Baselines

    Ziyi Gao, Shuzhou Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yongxiang Liu, Li Liu

    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing · 2025

    This article designs an annotation protocol that spans three semantic layers—object, relation, and scene—and develops a semi-automated annotation framework assisted by the large model GPT-4 V, significantly reducing human annotation cost while ensuring annotation quality.

    4
  • Enhancing Representations Through Heterogeneous Self-Supervised Learning

    Zhong-Yu Li, Bowen Yin, Yongxiang Liu, Li Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2025

    The proposed Heterogeneous Self-Supervised Learning (HSSL), which enforces a base model to learn from an auxiliary head whose architecture is heterogeneous from the base model, is compatible with various self-supervised methods and achieves superior performances on various downstream tasks.

    4
  • A Simple Detector with Frame Dynamics is a Strong Tracker

    Chenxu Peng, Chenxu Wang, Minrui Zou, Danyang Li, Zhengpeng Yang, Yimian Dai, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiang Li

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2025

    This work proposes a simple yet effective infrared tiny-object tracker that enhances tracking performance by integrating global detection and motion-aware learning with temporal priors, and proposes a trajectory constraint filtering strategy in the post-processing stage to suppress false positives and enhance tracking robustness.

    4
  • ControlSR: Taming Diffusion Models for Consistent Real-World Image Super Resolution

    Yuhao Wan, Peng-Tao Jiang, Qibin Hou, Hao Zhang, Jinwei Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Li, Bo

    arXiv · 2024

    ClearSR is presented, a new method that can better take advantage of latent low-resolution image (LR) embeddings for diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) and can generate more consistent SR results with LR images than existing methods.

    4
  • A Literature Review of Literature Reviews in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

    Penghai Zhao, Xin Zhang, Cao, Jiayue, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Yang, Xiang Li

    arXiv · 2024

    This work constructs RiPAMI, a large-scale database containing more than 3,000 review articles, and combines narrative synthesis with statistical analysis to capture structural and content-level features of PAMI reviews.

    4
  • Token Merging for Training-Free Semantic Binding in Text-to-Image Synthesis

    Taihang Hu, Linxuan Li, Joost van de Weijer, Hongcheng Gao, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Jian Jun Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yaxing Wang, +1 more

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    4
  • Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision

    Zhouchen Lin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ran He, Kurban Ubul, Wushouer Silamu, Hongbin Zha, Jie Zhou, Cheng-Lin Liu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    4
  • NeRC: Rendering Planar Caustics by Learning Implicit Neural Representations

    Jiaxiong Qiu, Ze-Xin Yin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2023

    4
  • Centralized Information Interaction for Salient Object Detection

    Jiangjiang Liu, Zhiang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2020

    4
  • Generalized Zero-Shot Learning via VAE-Conditioned Generative Flow

    Yuchao Gu, Le Zhang, Liu, Yun, Shao-Ping Lu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2020

    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
  • A survey of historical learning: learning models with learning history

    Xiang Li, Ge Wu, Lingfeng Yang, Wenhai Wang, Renjie Song, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jian Yu Yang

    Vicinagearth. · 2025

    This survey is the first survey that systematically studies the methodologies which make use of various historical statistics when training deep neural networks and encourages the community to pay attention to the think of historical learning principles when designing algorithms.

    3
  • Multi-Token Enhancing for Vision Representation Learning

    Zhongyu Li, Yusong Hu, Bowen Yin, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2024

    Multi-Token Enhancing (MTE) is introduced that extracts multiple auxiliary tokens simultaneously from a single model to enhance representation learning, while incurring minimal additional training costs and no additional inference costs.

    3
  • KnifeCut: Refining Thin Part Segmentation with Cutting Lines

    Lin Liu Zheng, Zheng-Peng Duan, Zhao Zhang, Chunle Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2022

    This work proposes KnifeCut, which is the first method to solve interactive thin structure refinement pertinently and offers the users two results, where one only focuses on the target thin part and the other provides the refinements for all thin parts that share similar features with the target one.

    3
  • Interactive Style Transfer: All is Your Palette

    Zheng Lin, Zhao Zhang, Kang-Rui Zhang, Bo Ren, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2022

    This work proposes a drawing-like interactive style transfer (IST) method, by which users can interactively create a harmonious-style image, which expands the creative dimension of NST.

    3
  • Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Alternative Self-Dual Teaching

    Dingwen Zhang, Zeng, Wenyuan, Guo, Guangyu, Chaowei Fang, Lechao Cheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Junwei Han

    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
  • Dependency Aware Filter Pruning

    Kai Zhao, Xinyu Zhang, Qi Han, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2020

    3
  • RepFinder

    Ming‐Ming Cheng, Fang‐Lue Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi-Min Hu

    ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2010

    3
  • Semantic organization to enhance active learning based on distributed multimedia educational resources

    K. Li, Xiaochun Cheng, Zhiwei Li, D. Ouyang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xin Yu, Zhong Su

    IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) · 2005

    3
  • WOW-Seg: A Word-free Open World Segmentation Model

    Danyang Li, Tianhao Wu, Bin Li, Zhenyuan Chen, Yang Zhang, Yuxuan Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiang Li

    arXiv · 2026

    WOW-Seg is proposed, a Word-free Open World Segmentation model for segmenting and recognizing objects from open-set categories that introduces a novel visual prompt module, Mask2Token, which transforms image masks into visual tokens and ensures their alignment with the VLLM feature space.

    2
  • DIPO: Dual-State Images Controlled Articulated Object Generation Powered by Diverse Data

    Ruiqi Wu, Xinjie wang, Liu Liu, Chunle Guo, Jiaxiong Qiu, Chongyi Li, Lichao Huang, Zhizhong Su, +1 more

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    2
  • RAM++: Robust Representation Learning via Adaptive Mask for All-in-One Image Restoration

    Zilong Zhang, Chuwei Qin, Chunle Guo, Yong Zhang, Chao Xue, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Chongyi Li

    arXiv · 2025

    2
  • Benchmarking Drag⋆ for eye direction transformation and beyond

    Yuxiang Fu, Jiakun Ding, WANG REN-ZHI, Qian Fu, Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qing Guo

    Visual Intelligence · 2025

    This work systematically investigates the capability of Drag ⋆ for eye direction transformation and proposes the edge-localized point selector and zero-latent source region replacement, which can alleviate the identified limitations.

    2
  • Rendering real-world unbounded scenes with cars by learning positional bias

    Jiaxiong Qiu, Ze-Xin Yin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Bo Ren

    The Visual Computer · 2023

    A novel module to learn the positional bias between sampled points along a camera ray and target points along the incident light by multi-layer perceptrons to reconstitute the input points and view direction with regularization constraints for physical rendering.

    2
  • SLAN: Self-Locator Aided Network for Vision-Language Understanding

    Jiang-Tian Zhai, Qi Zhang, Tong S. Wu, Xingyu Chen, Jiangjiang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

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

    2
  • Correction to “Nonlinear Regression via Deep Negative Correlation Learning”

    Le Zhang, Zenglin Shi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Jia-Wang Bian, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Guoyan Zheng, Zeng Zeng

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    2
  • Decoupled Spatial Temporal Graphs for Generic Visual Grounding

    Qianyu Feng, Yunchao Wei, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yi Yang

    arXiv · 2021

    2
  • S4Net: Single Stage Salient-Instance Segmentation

    Fan, Ruochen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou, Tai‐Jiang Mu, Jingdong Wang, Shi‐Min Hu

    arXiv · 2017

    2
  • Mixture of Style Experts for Diverse Image Stylization

    Shihao Zhu, Ziheng Ouyang, Yijia Kang, Qilong Wang, Mi Zhou, Bo Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    arXiv · 2026

    StyleExpert is introduced, a semantic-aware framework based on the Mixture of Experts (MoE), which employs a unified style encoder, trained on the large-scale dataset of content-style-stylized triplets, to embed diverse styles into a consistent latent space.

    1
  • Sharpness-Aware Dynamic Anchor Selection for Generalized Category Discovery

    Zhimao Peng, Enguang Wang, Fei Yang, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 2026

    A novel method, which contains two modules: Loss Sharpness Penalty (LSP) and Dynamic Anchor Selection (DAS), which enhances the robustness of model parameters to small perturbations by minimizing the worst-case loss sharpness of the model, thereby reducing overfitting of noise samples and improving the quality of pseudo-labels.

    1
  • Ret3D: rethinking object relations for efficient 3D object detection

    Yuhuan Wu, Da ZHANG, Yun Liu, Le ZHANG, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Scientia Sinica Informationis · 2025

    1
  • Visibility-Uncertainty-guided 3D Gaussian Inpainting via Scene Conceptional Learning

    Cui, Mingxuan, Qing Guo, Yuyi Wang, Hongkai Yu, Di Lin, Qin Zou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xi Li

    arXiv · 2025

    A method that measures the visibility uncertainties of 3D points across different input views and uses them to guide 3DGI in utilizing complementary visual cues is proposed, which demonstrates the superior performance of the method over state-of-the-art techniques.

    1
  • Could Describe Anything Model Understand Remote Sensing Objects?

    Ziyi Gao, Shuzhou Sun, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yunli Long, Yongxiang Liu, Li Liu

    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing · 2025

    The first systematic evaluation of the describe anything model (DAM) for localized captioning in remote sensing is presented, revealing that DAM performs robustly on visible imagery with fine-grained prompts, but exhibits significant performance degradation in infrared and SAR domains, where modality-specific distortions hinder effective spatial grounding.

    1
  • SLAN: Self-Locator Aided Network for Cross-Modal Understanding

    Jiang-Tian Zhai, Qi Zhang, Tong Wu, Xingyu Chen, Jiangjiang Liu, Bo Ren, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2022

    Self-Locator Aided Network (SLAN) is proposed for cross-modal understanding tasks without any extra gold data and demonstrates strong zero-shot and fine-tuned transferability to two localization tasks.

    1
  • Structured Sparsification with Joint Optimization of Group Convolution and Channel Shuffle

    Xinyu Zhang, Kai Zhao, Taihong Xiao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ming–Hsuan Yang

    arXiv · 2020

    1
  • Robust Regression via Deep Negative Correlation Learning

    Le Zhang, Zenglin Shi, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Jia-Wang Bian, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Guoyan Zheng, Zeng Zeng

    arXiv · 2019

    1
  • Image Matching Benchmark

    Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Yun Liu, Wen-Yan Lin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ian D. Reid

    arXiv · 2017

    This work presents the first application-oriented image matching benchmark to facilitate the analysis of matching algorithms in application level and demonstrates the effectiveness of a simple technique which is readily pluggable into any matching system to improve performance.

    1
  • Editorial Special issue on the fifth Computational Visual Media conference (CVM 2017)

    Niloy J. Mitra, Yizhou Yu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Graphical Models · 2017

    This special issue of Graphical Models includes a selection of oral papers presented at the recent Computational Visual Media conference held at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, and a novel rigidity controllable mesh deformation method, which can flexibly adjust shape rigidity by expanding the local neighborhood around a vertex beyond the first ring.

    1
  • Dotting the Eye: An Intent-Driven Image Retouching Agent for Visual Focus Enhancement

    Chuwei Qin, Zilong Zhang, Zewei Chang, Chunle Guo, Ruixing Wang, Tao Hu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Chongyi Li

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • OPUS-V2: Bridging the Gap between Sparse Points and Dense Voxels

    JiaBao Wang, Qiang Meng, Liujiang Yan, Ke Wang, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2026

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  • MRCNet: Motion Reasoning Chain for Cross Modal Video Camouflaged Object Detection

    Wenjun Hui, Zhenfeng Zhu, Shuai Zheng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Huchuan Lu, Yao Zhao

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2026

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  • RoadGIE: Towards A Global-Scale Aerial Benchmark for Generalizable Interactive Road Extraction

    Chenxu Peng, Chenxu Wang, Yimian Dai, Yongxiang Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiang Li

    arXiv · 2026

    To improve structural consistency and mitigate performance degradation during iterative interactions, RoadGIE integrates an expert-guided prompting strategy and adapts the skeleton-based recall loss for interactive scenarios, achieving state-of-the-art performance in both segmentation accuracy and topological consistency on WorldRoadSeg-360K and other benchmarks, while maintaining efficient operation with only 3.7M parameters.

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  • See More, Know More: Richer Prior Knowledge for Novel Class Discovery

    Zhimao Peng, Enguang Wang, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Computational Visual Media · 2026

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  • GlassGS: Geometry and Concept-Aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reflective Enclosures

    Mingxuan Cui, Yunrui Zhu, Wuqi Wang, Di Lin, Jianhua Zhang, Jie Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Shengyong Chen, +1 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • Towards Understanding Token Evolution in Continual Learning of MLLMs

    Xusheng Cao, Yifan Meng, Jiaze Li, Jianzhong Ju, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Fei Yang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, +1 more

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2026

    This work revisits catastrophic forgetting from an interpretability perspective and introduces correctness-guided layer alignment (CLA), which allows the new model to inherit multi-layer semantic consistency from its predecessor while learning from ground-truth supervision.

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  • SlimHead: Rethinking the Efficiency Bottleneck in Dense Object Detection

    Zhaohui Zheng, Yuming Chen, Ping Wang, Le Zhang, Xiang Li, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • Weaving Light and Time: Unified Harmonic-Geometric Representation Learning for Dense RGB-Event Parsing

    Chenxu Peng, 周崇恬, Dicheng Liu, Bo-Wen Yin, Y Sophia Dai, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiang Li

    arXiv · 2026

    To achieve profound modal synergy, Evita explicitly embeds a suite of intrinsic co-learning modules directly into every encoder layer, and features Geometric Parallax Rectification for adaptive spatial alignment and Harmonic Spectral Resonance for texture transfer exclusively in the complex frequency domain.

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  • Annotations as Rollouts: Efficient and Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Video MLLMs

    Yunheng Li, Guohong Mu, Hao Li, Shengsheng Qian, Dingwen Zhang, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2026

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  • AngleRoCL: Angle-Robust Concept Learning for Physically View-Invariant T2I Adversarial Patches

    Wenjun Ji, Yuxiang Fu, Ying, Luyang, Deng-Ping Fan, Yuyi Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang, Qing Guo

    arXiv · 2025

    The angle robustness of T2I adversarial patches is studied comprehensively, revealing their angle-robust issues, and AngleRoCL is introduced, a simple and flexible approach that significantly enhances the angle robustness of T2I adversarial patches compared to baseline methods.

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  • TempSamp-R1: Effective Temporal Sampling with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Video LLMs

    Yunheng Li, Jing Cheng, Shaoyong Jia, Hai-ju Kuang, Shaohui Jiao, Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • AuxDet: Auxiliary Metadata Matters for Omni-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection

    Shi, Yangting, Zhu, Yinfei, He, Renjie, Le Hui, Cai, Meng, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yimian Dai

    arXiv · 2025

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  • Revisiting Data Challenges of Computational Pathology: A Pack-based Multiple Instance Learning Training Framework

    Wenhao Tang, Heng Fang, Ge Wu, Xiang Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes a pack-based MIL framework, which packs multiple sampled, variable-length feature sequences into fixed-length ones, enabling batched training while preserving data heterogeneity, and introduces a residual branch that composes discarded features from multiple slides into a hyperslide which is trained with tailored labels.

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  • OmniSegmentor: A Flexible Multi-Modal Learning Framework for Semantic Segmentation

    Bowen Yin, Jiao-Long Cao, Xuying Zhang, Yumin Chen, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Qibin Hou

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • AngleRoCL: Angle-Robust Concept Learning for Physically View-Invariant Adversarial Patches

    Wenjun Ji, Yuxiang Fu, Luyang Ying, Deng-Ping Fan, Yuyi Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ivor Tsang, Qing Guo

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • Knowledge Graph Enhanced Generative Multi-modal Models for Class-Incremental Learning

    Xusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Linlan Huang, Fei Yang, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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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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  • Editorial for Special Issue on Multi-modal Representation Learning

    Deng-Ping Fan, Nick M. Barnes, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Luc Van Gool

    Machine Intelligence Research · 2024

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  • PR-MIM: Delving Deeper into Partial Reconstruction in Masked Image Modeling

    Zhongyu Li, Yunheng Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes a progressive reconstruction strategy and a furthest sampling strategy to reconstruct those thrown tokens in an extremely lightweight way instead of completely abandoning them and validates the effectiveness of the proposed method across various existing frameworks.

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  • Towards Spatial Equilibrium Object Detection

    Zhaohui Zheng, Yu-Ming Chen, Qibin Hou, Xiang Li, Ming‐Ming Cheng

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper proposes a spatial equilibrium label assignment (SELA) to alleviate the spatial disequilibrium problem by injecting the prior spatial weight into the optimization process of detectors and challenges the conventional sense of object detectors and shows the indispensability of spatial equilibrium.

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  • AN AUTOMATIC VIDEO ANALYTICS APPROACH TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO CONTENT FEATURES ON AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

    Jingjie Zhu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ying Wang, Jie Tan

    Global Fashion Management Conference · 2023

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  • Semi-Supervised Learning with Meta-Gradient

    Taihong Xiao, Xinyu Zhang, Haolin Jia, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ming–Hsuan Yang

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics · 2021

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  • Editorial: Human visual saliency and artificial neural attention in deep learning

    Wenguan Wang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Haibin Ling, Fatih Porikli

    Neurocomputing · 2020

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  • Model-Agnostic Structured Sparsification with Learnable Channel Shuffle.

    Xinyu Zhang, Kai Zhao, Taihong Xiao, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ming–Hsuan Yang

    arXiv · 2020

    A model-agnostic structured sparsification method for efficient network compression that automatically induces structurally sparse representations of the convolutional weights, thereby facilitating the implementation of the compressed model with the highly-optimized group convolution.

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  • Towards Disentangling Non-Robust and Robust Components in Performance Metric

    Yujun Shi, Ben Liao, Guangyong Chen, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

    2019

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  • Understanding Adversarial Behavior of DNNs by Disentangling Non-Robust and Robust Components in Performance Metric

    Yujun Shi, Ben Liao, Guangyong Chen, Yun Liu, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

    arXiv · 2019

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  • Pedestrian Detection with a Directly-Cascaded Deconvolution-Convolution Structure

    Zhiming Chen, Xintong Han, Weiyao Lin, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guangcan Liu, Hongkai Xiong

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A novel neural network structure which can be flexibly combined with powerful object detection systems for boosting pedestrian detection and incorporates the features learned in different layers in a novel and unified fashion is proposed.

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  • Learning Pixel-wise Labeling from the Internet without Human Interaction

    Yun Liu, Yujun Shi, Jia-Wang Bian, Le Zhang, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiashi Feng

    arXiv · 2018

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  • Application of Graph Based Database in Geoinformatics: A Sinoprobe Example

    Zhiping Chen, Yunguo Guan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Guofei Chen

    AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts · 2011

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