Bangzhen Liu

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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 11 · 1 first-author · 11 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 10 · 1 first-author · 10 since 2021
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2026 VideoSketcher: A Training-Free Approach for Coherent Video Sketch Transfer
abstract
Generating high-quality sketches from video requires a nuanced understanding of semantic content and visual structure, particularly for complex scenes across diverse sketch styles. Efficient and flexible video-to-sketch style transformation remains a significant challenge. We introduce VideoSketcher, a training-free framework for style-controllable sketch video generation that preserves frame structure while applying specified sketch aesthetics. Leveraging text-to-image diffusion models, VideoSketcher utilizes strong semantic priors without the need for extensive training. Our approach enforces temporal consistency by retaining latent information across frames and employs a Time-Linked Attention mechanism to capture structural elements from the source video and inject stylistic information from the reference image. To bridge the semantic gap between sketches and original video content, we introduce Sketch Directive Amplification for selective transfer of stylistic features. Additionally, a Stroke Graph Regularization strategy, comprising line and point loss, refines line consistency in the latent space. Extensive experiments validate VideoSketcher’s superior temporal stability and fidelity across diverse sketch styles and content. Video demos can be found in the supplementary materials.
Huining Li, Bangzhen Liu, Rui Yang 0011, Chenshu Xu, Xufang Pang, Shengfeng He
WACV2
2025 Turbo2K: Towards Ultra-Efficient and High-Quality 2K Video Synthesis
Wenbo Li 0002, Zhongdao Wang, Haoze Sun, Bangzhen Liu, Haoyu Chen 0003, Aoxue Li, Lei Zhu 0003
ICCV5
2025 Seeing 3D Through 2D Lenses: 3D Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Geometric Rectification
abstract
The rapid growth of 3D digital content necessitates expandable recognition systems for open-world scenarios. However, existing 3D class-incremental learning methods struggle under extreme data scarcity due to geometric misalignment and texture bias. While recent approaches integrate 3D data with 2D foundation models (e.g., CLIP), they suffer from semantic blurring caused by texture-biased projections and indiscriminate fusion of geometric-textural cues, leading to unstable decision prototypes and catastrophic forgetting. To address these issues, we propose Cross-Modal Geometric Rectification (CMGR), a framework that enhances 3D geometric fidelity by leveraging CLIP's hierarchical spatial semantics. Specifically, we introduce a Structure-Aware Geometric Rectification module that hierarchically aligns 3D part structures with CLIP's intermediate spatial priors through attention-driven geometric fusion. Additionally, a Texture Amplification Module synthesizes minimal yet discriminative textures to suppress noise and reinforce cross-modal consistency. To further stabilize incremental prototypes, we employ a Base-Novel Discriminator that isolates geometric variations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly improves 3D few-shot class-incremental learning, achieving superior geometric coherence and robustness to texture bias across cross-domain and within-domain settings.
Tuo Xiang, Xuemiao Xu, Bangzhen Liu, Jinyi Li, Shengfeng He
ICCV3
2025 Cross-Subject Mind Decoding from Inaccurate Representations
Yangyang Xu 0003, Bangzhen Liu, Wenqi Shao, Yong Du 0003, Shengfeng He
ICCV2
2025 RecDreamer: Consistent Text-to-3D Generation via Uniform Score Distillation
abstract
Current text-to-3D generation methods based on score distillation often suffer from geometric inconsistencies, leading to repeated patterns across different poses of 3D assets. This issue, known as the Multi-Face Janus problem, arises because existing methods struggle to maintain consistency across varying poses and are biased toward a canonical pose. While recent work has improved pose control and approximation, these efforts are still limited by this inherent bias, which skews the guidance during generation. To address this, we propose a solution called RecDreamer, which reshapes the underlying data distribution to achieve more consistent pose representation. The core idea behind our method is to rectify the prior distribution, ensuring that pose variation is uniformly distributed rather than biased toward a canonical form. By modifying the prescribed distribution through an auxiliary function, we can reconstruct the density of the distribution to ensure compliance with specific marginal constraints. In particular, we ensure that the marginal distribution of poses follows a uniform distribution, thereby eliminating the biases introduced by the prior knowledge. We incorporate this rectified data distribution into existing score distillation algorithms, a process we refer to as uniform score distillation. To efficiently compute the posterior distribution required for the auxiliary function, RecDreamer introduces a training-free classifier that estimates pose categories in a plug-and-play manner. Additionally, we utilize various approximation techniques for noisy states, significantly improving system performance. Our experimental results demonstrate that RecDreamer effectively mitigates the Multi-Face Janus problem, leading to more consistent 3D asset generation across different poses.
Chenxi Zheng, Yihong Lin, Bangzhen Liu, Xuemiao Xu, Yongwei Nie, Shengfeng He
ICLR3
2025 Language-Driven 3D Human Pose Estimation in Multi-Person Scenarios: A New Dataset and Approach
Tingrui Shen, Bangzhen Liu, Zhirun Fan, Shiting Zhang, Dan Cao, Shengfeng He
ACM Multimedia2
2025 StableGuard: Towards Unified Copyright Protection and Tamper Localization in Latent Diffusion Models
abstract
The advancement of diffusion models has enhanced the realism of AI-generated content but also raised concerns about misuse, necessitating robust copyright protection and tampering localization. Although recent methods have made progress toward unified solutions, their reliance on post hoc processing introduces considerable application inconvenience and compromises forensic reliability. We propose StableGuard, a novel framework that seamlessly integrates a binary watermark into the diffusion generation process, ensuring copyright protection and tampering localization in Latent Diffusion Models through an end-to-end design. We develop a Multiplexing Watermark VAE (MPW-VAE) by equipping a pretrained Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with a lightweight latent residual-based adapter, enabling the generation of paired watermarked and watermark-free images. These pairs, fused via random masks, create a diverse dataset for training a tampering-agnostic forensic network. To further enhance forensic synergy, we introduce a Mixture-of-Experts Guided Forensic Network (MoE-GFN) that dynamically integrates holistic watermark patterns, local tampering traces, and frequency-domain cues for precise watermark verification and tampered region detection. The MPW-VAE and MoE-GFN are jointly optimized in a self-supervised, end-to-end manner, fostering a reciprocal training between watermark embedding and forensic accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that StableGuard consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in image fidelity, watermark verification, and tampering localization.
Haoxin Yang, Bangzhen Liu, Xuemiao Xu, Yuyang Yu, Zikai Huang, Shengfeng He
NeurIPS2
2025 Rotation-Adaptive Point Cloud Domain Generalization via Intricate Orientation Learning
abstract
The vulnerability of 3D point cloud analysis to unpredictable rotations poses an open yet challenging problem: orientation-aware 3D domain generalization. Cross-domain robustness and adaptability of 3D representations are crucial but not easily achieved through rotation augmentation. Motivated by the inherent advantages of intricate orientations in enhancing generalizability, we propose an innovative rotation-adaptive domain generalization framework for 3D point cloud analysis. Our approach aims to alleviate orientational shifts by leveraging intricate samples in an iterative learning process. Specifically, we identify the most challenging rotation for each point cloud and construct an intricate orientation set by optimizing intricate orientations. Subsequently, we employ an orientation-aware contrastive learning framework that incorporates an orientation consistency loss and a margin separation loss, enabling effective learning of categorically discriminative and generalizable features with rotation consistency. Extensive experiments and ablations conducted on 3D cross-domain benchmarks firmly establish the state-of-the-art performance of our proposed approach in the context of orientation-aware 3D domain generalization.
Bangzhen Liu, Chenxi Zheng, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Shengfeng He
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.1
2025 Gaussian Prompter: Linking 2D Prompts for 3D Gaussian Segmentation
abstract
Interactive 3D segmentation in radiance fields is crucial for advanced 3D scene understanding and manipulation. However, existing methods often struggle to achieve both volumetric completeness and segmentation accuracy, primarily because they fail to consider the critical links between 2D prompt-based segmentations across multiple views. Motivated by this gap, we introduce Gaussian Prompter, a novel approach specifically designed for 3D Gaussian Splatting. The core idea behind Gaussian Prompter is to seamlessly integrate a Gaussian-centric segmentation paradigm by effectively linking various 2D prompts from multi-view segmentations to ensure consistent 3D segmentation. To realize this, we employ two tailored approaches: GaussBlend and PinPrompt. GaussBlend aggregates multi-view 2D segmentation masks into a cohesive 3D segmentation, ensuring both accuracy and completeness. PinPrompt leverages high-confidence prompts from adjacent views to enhance segmentation precision further. Additionally, to address the lack of complex datasets in 3D segmentation, we introduce the SegMip-360 dataset, which includes over 350 precisely annotated masks across seven scenes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the Gaussian Prompter significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both segmentation accuracy and completeness. Our code and video demonstrations can be found at our repository and project page.
Honghan Pan, Bangzhen Liu, Xuemiao Xu, Chenxi Zheng, Yongwei Nie, Shengfeng He
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.2
2025 Open-Set Mixed Domain Adaptation via Visual-Linguistic Focal Evolving
abstract
We introduce a new task, Open-set Mixed Domain Adaptation (OSMDA), which considers the potential mixture of multiple distributions in the target domains, thereby better simulating real-world scenarios. To tackle the semantic ambiguity arising from multiple domains, our key idea is that the linguistic representation can serve as a universal descriptor for samples of the same category across various domains. We thus propose a more practical framework for cross-domain recognition via visual-linguistic guidance. On the other hand, the presence of multiple domains also poses a new challenge in classifying both known and unknown categories. To combat this issue, we further introduce a visual-linguistic focal evolving approach to gradually enhance the classification ability of a known/unknown binary classifier from two aspects. Specifically, we start with identifying highly confident focal samples to expand the pool of known samples by incorporating those from different domains. Then, we amplify the feature discrepancy between known and unknown samples through dynamic entropy evolving via an adaptive entropies min/max game, enabling us to accurately identify possible unknown samples in a gradual manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method’s superiority against the state-of-the-arts in both open-set and open-set mixed domain adaptation.
Bangzhen Liu, Yangyang Xu 0003, Xuemiao Xu, Shengfeng He
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.1
2025 Learning an Interpretable Stylized Subspace for 3D-Aware Animatable Artforms
abstract
Throughout history, static paintings have captivated viewers within display frames, yet the possibility of making these masterpieces vividly interactive remains intriguing. This research paper introduces 3DArtmator, a novel approach that aims to represent artforms in a highly interpretable stylized space, enabling 3D-aware animatable reconstruction and editing. Our rationale is to transfer the interpretability and 3D controllability of the latent space in a 3D-aware GAN to a stylized sub-space of a customized GAN, revitalizing the original artforms. To this end, the proposed two-stage optimization framework of 3DArtmator begins with discovering an anchor in the original latent space that accurately mimics the pose and content of a given art painting. This anchor serves as a reliable indicator of the original latent space local structure, therefore sharing the same editable predefined expression vectors. In the second stage, we train a customized 3D-aware GAN specific to the input artform, while enforcing the preservation of the original latent local structure through a meticulous style-directional difference loss. This approach ensures the creation of a stylized sub-space that remains interpretable and retains 3D control. The effectiveness and versatility of 3DArtmator are validated through extensive experiments across a diverse range of art styles. With the ability to generate 3D reconstruction and editing for artforms while maintaining interpretability, 3DArtmator opens up new possibilities for artistic exploration and engagement.
Chenxi Zheng, Bangzhen Liu, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Shengfeng He
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.2
2024 Learning with Unreliability: Fast Few-Shot Voxel Radiance Fields with Relative Geometric Consistency
abstract
We propose a voxel-based optimization framework, Re VoRF, for few-shot radiance fields that strategically ad-dress the unreliability in pseudo novel view synthesis. Our method pivots on the insight that relative depth relationships within neighboring regions are more reliable than the ab-solute color values in disoccluded areas. Consequently, we devise a bilateral geometric consistency loss that carefully navigates the trade-off between color fidelity and geometric accuracy in the context of depth consistency for uncertain regions. Moreover, we present a reliability-guided learning strategy to discern and utilize the variable quality across syn-thesized views, complemented by a reliability-aware voxel smoothing algorithm that smoothens the transition between reliable and unreliable data patches. Our approach allows for a more nuanced use of all available data, promoting en-hanced learning from regions previously considered unsuit-able for high-quality reconstruction. Extensive experiments across diverse datasets reveal that our approach attains significant gains in efficiency and accuracy, delivering ren-dering speeds of 3 FPS, 7 mins to train a 360° scene, and a 5% improvement in PSNR over existing few-shot methods. Code is available at https://github.com/HKCLynn/ReVoRF.
Bangzhen Liu, Hao Tang 0007, Bailin Deng, Shengfeng He
CVPR2
2024 Beyond Textual Constraints: Learning Novel Diffusion Conditions with Fewer Examples
abstract
In this paper, we delve into a novel aspect of learning novel diffusion conditions with datasets an order of magnitude smaller. The rationale behind our approach is the elimination of textual constraints during the few-shot learning process. To that end, we implement two optimization strategies. The first, prompt-free conditional learning, utilizes a prompt-free encoder derived from a pre-trained Stable Diffusion model. This strategy is designed to adapt new conditions to the diffusion process by minimizing the textual-visual cor-relation, thereby ensuring a more precise alignment between the generated content and the specified conditions. The second strategy entails condition-specific negative rectification, which addresses the inconsistencies typically brought about by Classifier-free guidance in few-shot training con-texts. Our extensive experiments across a variety of condition modalities demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our framework, yielding results comparable to those obtained with datasets a thousand times larger. Our codes are available at https://github.com/Yuyan9Yu/BeyondTextConstraint.
Yuyang Yu, Bangzhen Liu, Chenxi Zheng, Xuemiao Xu, Shengfeng He, Huaidong Zhang
CVPR2
2024 VrdONE: One-stage Video Visual Relation Detection
abstract
Video Visual Relation Detection (VidVRD) focuses on understanding how entities interact over time and space in videos, a key step for gaining deeper insights into video scenes beyond basic visual tasks. Traditional methods for VidVRD, challenged by its complexity, typically split the task into two parts: one for identifying what relation categories are present and another for determining their temporal boundaries. This split overlooks the inherent connection between these elements. Addressing the need to recognize entity pairs' spatiotemporal interactions across a range of durations, we propose VrdONE, a streamlined yet efficacious one-stage model. VrdONE combines the features of subjects and objects, turning predicate detection into 1D instance segmentation on their combined representations. This setup allows for both relation category identification and binary mask generation in one go, eliminating the need for extra steps like proposal generation or post-processing. VrdONE facilitates the interaction of features across various frames, adeptly capturing both short-lived and enduring relations. Additionally, we introduce the Subject-Object Synergy (SOS) module, enhancing how subjects and objects perceive each other before combining. VrdONE achieves state-of-the-art performances on the VidOR benchmark and ImageNet-VidVRD, showcasing its superior capability in discerning relations across different temporal scales. The code is available at https://github.com/lucaspk512/vrdone.
Xinjie Jiang, Chenxi Zheng, Xuemiao Xu, Bangzhen Liu, Weiying Zheng, Huaidong Zhang, Shengfeng He
ACM Multimedia4
2023 Where is My Spot? Few-shot Image Generation via Latent Subspace Optimization
abstract
Image generation relies on massive training data that can hardly produce diverse images of an unseen category according to a few examples. In this paper, we address this dilemma by projecting sparse few-shot samples into a continuous latent space that can potentially generate infinite unseen samples. The rationale behind is that we aim to locate a centroid latent position in a conditional StyleGAN, where the corresponding output image on that centroid can maximize the similarity with the given samples. Although the given samples are unseen for the conditional StyleGAN, we assume the neighboring latent subspace around the centroid belongs to the novel category, and therefore introduce two latent subspace optimization objectives. In the first one we use few-shot samples as positive anchors of the novel class, and adjust the StyleGAN to produce the corresponding results with the new class label condition. The second objective is to govern the generation process from the other way around, by altering the centroid and its surrounding latent subspace for a more precise generation of the novel class. These reciprocal optimization objectives inject a novel class into the StyleGAN latent subspace, and therefore new unseen samples can be easily produced by sampling images from it. Extensive experiments demonstrate superior few-shot generation performances compared with state-of-the-art methods, especially in terms of diversity and generation quality. Code is available at https://github.com/chansey0529/LSO.
Chenxi Zheng, Bangzhen Liu, Huaidong Zhang, Xuemiao Xu, Shengfeng He
CVPR2