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  • Tat‐Seng Chua

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  • Scaling Vision Transformers to Gigapixel Images via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Learning

    Richard J. Chen, Chengkuan Chen, Yicong Li, Tiffany Chen, Andrew Daniel Trister, Rahul G. Krishnan, Faisal Mahmood

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

    HIPT with hierarchical pretraining outperforms current state-of-the-art methods for cancer subtyping and survival prediction, and self-supervised ViTs are able to model important inductive biases about the hierarchical structure of phenotypes in the tumor microenvironment.

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  • Can I Trust Your Answer? Visually Grounded Video Question Answering

    Junbin Xiao, Angela Yao, Yicong Li, Tat‐Seng Chua

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

    NExT-GQA is constructed - an extension of NExT-QA with 10.5K temporal grounding (or location) labels tied to the original QA pairs tied to the original VLMs and aims to push towards trustworthy VLMs in VQA systems.

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  • Video as Conditional Graph Hierarchy for Multi-Granular Question Answering

    Junbin Xiao, Angela Yao, Zhiyuan Liu, Yicong Li, Wei Ji, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    This work proposes to model video as a conditional graph hierarchy which weaves together visual facts of different granularity in a level-wise manner, with the guidance of corresponding textual cues to align with the multi-granular essence of linguistic concepts in language queries.

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  • Invariant Grounding for Video Question Answering

    Yicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji, Tat‐Seng Chua

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

    A new learning framework is proposed, Invariant Grounding for VideoQA (IGV), to ground the question-critical scene, whose causal relations with answers are invariant across different interventions on the complement, which significantly improves the reasoning ability.

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  • Video Question Answering: Datasets, Algorithms and Challenges

    Yaoyao Zhong, Wei Ji, Junbin Xiao, Yicong Li, Weihong Deng, Tat‐Seng Chua

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2022

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  • Contrastive Video Question Answering via Video Graph Transformer

    Junbin Xiao, Pan Zhou, Angela Yao, Yicong Li, Richang Hong, Shuicheng Yan, Tat‐Seng Chua

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    With superior video encoding and QA solution, it is shown that CoVGT can achieve much better performances than previous arts on video reasoning tasks and can also benefit from cross-modal pretraining, yet with orders of magnitude smaller data.

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  • LASO: Language-Guided Affordance Segmentation on 3D Object

    Yicong Li, Na Zhao, Junbin Xiao, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat‐Seng Chua

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

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  • Interventional Video Relation Detection

    Yicong Li, Xun Yang, Xindi Shang, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2021

    This paper proposes an Interventional Video Relation Detection approach that aims to improve not only the accuracy but also the robustness of the model prediction, and applies a causality-inspired intervention on the model input subject, object, which forces the model to fairly incorporate each possible predicate prototype into consideration.

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  • EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering

    Sheng Zhou, Junbin Xiao, Qingyun Li, Yicong Li, Xun Yang, Dan Guo, Meng Wang, Tat‐Seng Chua, +1 more

    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 EgoTextVQA, a novel and rigorously constructed benchmark for egocentric QA assistance involving scene text, and comprehensively evaluates 10 prominent multimodal large language models.

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  • Video Visual Relation Detection via Iterative Inference

    Xindi Shang, Yicong Li, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2021

    This work derives their model from the viewpoint of joint relation classification which is light-weight yet effective, and proposes a training approach to better learn the dependency knowledge from the likely correct triplet combinations.

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  • VideoQA in the Era of LLMs: An Empirical Study

    Junbin Xiao, Nanxin Huang, Hangyu Qin, Dongyang Li, Yicong Li, Fengbin Zhu, Zhulin Tao, Jianxing Yu, +3 more

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2025

    This work conducts a timely and comprehensive study of Video-LLMs’ behavior in VideoQA, aiming to elucidate their success and failure modes, and provide insights towards more human-like video understanding and question answering.

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  • Equivariant and Invariant Grounding for Video Question Answering

    Yicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2022

    A self-interpretable framework, Equivariant and Invariant Grounding for Interpretable VideoQA (EIGV), which is able to distinguish the causal scene from the environment information, and explicitly present the visual-linguistic alignment.

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  • Discovering Spatio-Temporal Rationales for Video Question Answering

    Yicong Li, Junbin Xiao, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat‐Seng Chua

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

    TranSTR is proposed, a Transformerstyle neural network architecture that takes STR as the core and additionally underscores a novel answer interaction mechanism to coordinate STR for answer decoding that achieves new state-of-the-art (SoTA) results.

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  • Redundancy-aware Transformer for Video Question Answering

    Yicong Li, Xun Yang, An Zhang, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2023

    A novel transformer-based architecture is proposed, that aims to model VideoQA in a redundancy-aware manner, and introduces a video encoder structure that emphasizes the object-level change in neighboring frames, while adopting an out-of-neighboring message-passing scheme that imposes attention only on distant frames.

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  • Transformer-Empowered Invariant Grounding for Video Question Answering

    Yicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji, Tat‐Seng Chua

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

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  • VidVRD 2021

    Wei Ji, Yicong Li, Meng Wei, Xindi Shang, Junbin Xiao, Tongwei Ren, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2021

    This paper makes a comprehensive and detailed introduction of this task, concludes the proposed algorithms in the last few years, and proposes future direction for research in this task.

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  • Overexpression screen of chromosome 21 genes reveals modulators of Sonic hedgehog signaling relevant to Down syndrome

    Anna J. Moyer, Fabian‐Xosé Fernandez, Yicong Li, Donna K. Klinedinst, Liliana Florea, Yasuhiro Kazuki, Mitsuo Oshimura, Roger H. Reeves

    Disease Models & Mechanisms · 2023

    It is suggested that cerebellar hypoplasia and other phenotypes related to aberrant SHH signaling arise from the net effect of trisomy for multiple chromosome 21 genes rather than the overexpression of a single trisomic gene.

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  • Understanding Long Videos via LLM-Powered Entity Relation Graphs

    Chu, Meng, Yicong Li, Tat‐Seng Chua

    arXiv · 2025

    GraphVideoAgent is a cutting-edge system that leverages the power of graph-based object tracking in conjunction with large language model capabilities that enables more nuanced understanding of how objects interact and transform over time, facilitating improved frame selection through comprehensive contextual awareness.

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  • GraphVideoAgent: Enhancing Long-form Video Understanding with Entity Relation Graphs

    Meng Chu, Yicong Li, Tat‐Seng Chua

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2025

    GraphVideoAgent is proposed, a novel agent-based LVU framework that integrates a dynamic entity relation graph with a large language model (LLM)-based multi-round reasoning that enables accurate keyframe selection, effective reasoning over sparse visual evidence, and interpretable prediction.

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  • X-Ray2EM: Uncertainty-Aware Cross-Modality Image Reconstruction from X-Ray to Electron Microscopy in Connectomics

    Yicong Li, Yaron Meirovitch, Aaron T. Kuan, Jasper S. Phelps, Alexandra Pacureanu, Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Nir Shavit, Lu Mi

    IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) · 2023

    An uncertainty-aware 3D reconstruction model is proposed that translates X-ray images to EM-like images with enhanced membrane segmentation quality, showing its potential for developing simpler, faster, and more accurate X-rays based connectomics pipelines.

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  • Intermediate Connectors and Geometric Priors for Language-Guided Affordance Segmentation on Unseen Object Categories

    Yicong Li, Yiyang Chen, Zhiyuan Ma, Junbin Xiao, Xiang Wang, Angela Yao

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

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  • Visual feature synthesis with semantic reconstructor for traditional and generalized zero‐shot object classification

    Ye Zhao, Tingting Xu, Xueliang Liu, Dan Guo, Zhenzhen Hu, Hengchang Liu, Yicong Li

    International Journal of Intelligent Systems · 2022

    A novel named semantic consistent Wasserstein generative adversarial network (scWGAN) is proposed, which uses a semantic reconstructor to reconstruct semantic embeddings from generated visual features by incorporating a novel Semantic Consistent Loss noted L rec .

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  • The XPRESS Challenge: Xray Projectomic Reconstruction -- Extracting Segmentation with Skeletons

    Nguyen, Tri, Mukul Narwani, Larson, Mark, Yicong Li, Shuhan Xie, Hanspeter Pfister, Donglai Wei, Nir Shavit, +4 more

    arXiv · 2023

    This task provides volumetric XNH images of cortical white matter axons from the mouse brain along with ground truth annotations for axon trajectories along with two types of ground-truth annotations: a small volume of voxel-wise annotations and a larger volume with skeleton-based annotations.

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  • Efficient Prediction of Model Transferability in Semantic Segmentation Tasks

    Yang Tan, Yicong Li, Yang Li, Xiao-Ping Steven Zhang

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2023

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  • AnchorDS: Anchoring Dynamic Sources for Semantically Consistent Text-to-3D Generation

    Zhu, Jiayin, Yang, Linlin, Yicong Li, Angela Yao

    arXiv · 2025

    This work reformulates text‑to-3D optimization as mapping a *dynamically evolving source* distribution to a fixed target distribution, and introduces AnchorDS, an improved score distillation mechanism that provides state‑anchored guidance with image conditions and stabilizes generation.

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