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Weitai Kang
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8ranked-venue papers
4as first author
8since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0007-6484-0665ORCID · corroborated
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 6 · 3 first-author · 6 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 6 · 3 first-author · 6 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3DResT: A Strong Baseline for Semi-Supervised 3D Referring Expression Segmentationabstract3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-RES) typically requires extensive instance-level annotations for fully supervised learning, a process that is both time-consuming and costly. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can address this by using a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data, improving performance while reducing the annotation costs. SSL adopts a teacher-student learning paradigm, where the teacher produces pseudo-labels to guide the student, often using high-confidence threshold filtering to improve pseudo-label quality. However, in the context of 3D-RES, where each label corresponds to a single mask and labeled data is scarce, existing SSL methods treat high-quality pseudo-labels merely as auxiliary supervision, which hinders their ability to fully boost the model's learning potential. The reliance on high-confidence thresholds for filtering often results in potentially valuable pseudo-labels being discarded, restricting the model's ability to leverage the abundant unlabeled data. Therefore, we identify two critical challenges in semi-supervised 3D-RES, namely, inefficient utilization of highquality pseudo-labels and wastage of useful information from lowquality pseudo-labels. In this paper, we introduce the first semisupervised learning framework for 3D-RES, presenting a robust baseline method named 3DResT. To address these challenges, we propose two novel designs called Teacher-Student Consistency- Based Sampling (TSCS) and Quality-Driven Dynamic Weighting (QDW). TSCS aids in the selection of high-quality pseudo-labels, integrating them into the labeled dataset to strengthen the labeled supervision signals. QDW preserves low-quality pseudo-labels by dynamically assigning them lower weights, allowing for the effective extraction of useful information rather than discarding them. Extensive experiments conducted on the widely used benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Notably, with only 1 points compared to the fully supervised method. Code will be available at:https://github.com/Wind010321/3DResT Mengxue Qu, Weitai Kang, Yan Yan 0002, Yao Zhao 0001, Yunchao Wei |
IEEE Trans. Multim. | 3 |
| 2025 | Robin3D Improving 3D Large Language Model via Robust Instruction TuningabstractRecent advancements in 3D Large Language Models (3DLLMs) have highlighted their potential in building general-purpose agents in the 3D real world, yet challenges remain due to the lack of high-quality robust instruction-following data, leading to limited discriminative power and generalization of 3DLLMs. In this paper, we introduce Robin3D, a powerful 3DLLM trained on large-scale instruction-following data generated by our novel data engine, Robust Instruction Generation (RIG) engine. RIG generates two key instruction data: 1) the Adversarial Instruction-following data, which features mixed negative and positive samples to enhance the model's discriminative understanding. 2) the Diverse Instruction-following data, which contains various instruction styles to enhance model's generalization. As a result, we construct 1 million instruction-following data, consisting of 344K Adversarial samples, 508K Diverse samples, and 165K benchmark training set samples. To better handle these complex instructions, Robin3D first incorporates Relation-Augmented Projector to enhance spatial understanding, and then strengthens the object referring and grounding ability through ID-Feature Bonding. Robin3D consistently outperforms previous methods across five widely-used 3D multimodal learning benchmarks, without the need for task-specific fine-tuning. Notably, we achieve a 7.8\% improvement in the grounding task (Multi3DRefer) and a 6.9\% improvement in the captioning task (Scan2Cap). Weitai Kang, Haifeng Huang 0001, Yuzhang Shang, Mubarak Shah, Yan Yan 0002 |
ICCV | 1 |
| 2025 | Intent3D: 3D Object Detection in RGB-D Scans Based on Human IntentionabstractIn real-life scenarios, humans seek out objects in the 3D world to fulfill their daily needs or intentions. This inspires us to introduce 3D intention grounding, a new task in 3D object detection employing RGB-D, based on human intention, such as "I want something to support my back." Closely related, 3D visual grounding focuses on understanding human reference. To achieve detection based on human intention, it relies on humans to observe the scene, reason out the target that aligns with their intention ("pillow" in this case), and finally provide a reference to the AI system, such as "A pillow on the couch". Instead, 3D intention grounding challenges AI agents to automatically observe, reason and detect the desired target solely based on human intention. To tackle this challenge, we introduce the new Intent3D dataset, consisting of 44,990 intention texts associated with 209 fine-grained classes from 1,042 scenes of the ScanNet dataset. We also establish several baselines based on different language-based 3D object detection models on our benchmark. Finally, we propose IntentNet, our unique approach, designed to tackle this intention-based detection problem. It focuses on three key aspects: intention understanding, reasoning to identify object candidates, and cascaded adaptive learning that leverages the intrinsic priority logic of different losses for multiple objective optimization. Weitai Kang, Mengxue Qu, Jyoti Kini, Yunchao Wei, Mubarak Shah, Yan Yan 0002 |
ICLR | 1 |
| 2025 | Visual Grounding with Attention-Driven Constraint Balancing
Weitai Kang, Luowei Zhou, Junyi Wu 0002, Changchang Sun, Yan Yan 0002 |
ACM Multimedia | 1 |
| 2025 | InfantAgent-Next: A Multimodal Generalist Agent for Automated Computer InteractionabstractThis paper introduces \textsc{InfantAgent-Next}, a generalist agent capable of interacting with computers in a multimodal manner, encompassing text, images, audio, and video.
Unlike existing approaches that either build intricate workflows around a single large model or only provide workflow modularity, our agent integrates tool-based and pure vision agents within a highly modular architecture, enabling different models to collaboratively solve decoupled tasks in a step-by-step manner.
Our generality is demonstrated by our ability to evaluate not only pure vision-based real-world benchmarks (i.e., OSWorld), but also more general or tool-intensive benchmarks (e.g., GAIA and SWE-Bench).
Specifically,
we
achieve a $\mathbf{7.27\\%}$ accuracy gain over Claude-Computer-Use on OSWorld.
Codes and evaluation scripts are included in the supplementary material and will be released as open-source. Weitai Kang, Winson Chen, Shan Zuo, Mimi Xie, Ali Payani, Mingyi Hong 0001, Caiwen Ding |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2024 | Token Transformation Matters: Towards Faithful Post-Hoc Explanation for Vision TransformerabstractWhile Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in various computer vision applications, post-hoc explanations of their internal mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Vision Transformers extract visual information by representing image regions as transformed tokens and integrating them via attention weights. However, existing post-hoc explanation methods merely consider these attention weights, neglecting crucial information from the transformed tokens, which fails to accurately illustrate the rationales behind the models' predictions. To incorporate the influence of token transformation into interpretation, we propose TokenTM, a novel post-hoc explanation method that utilizes our introduced measurement of token transformation effects. Specifically, we quantify token transformation effects by measuring changes in token lengths and correlations in their directions pre- and post-transformation. Moreover, we develop initialization and aggregation rules to integrate both attention weights and token transformation effects across all layers, capturing holistic token contributions throughout the model. Experimental results on segmentation and perturbation tests demonstrate the superiority of our proposed TokenTM compared to state-of-the-art Vision Transformer explanation methods. Junyi Wu 0002, Bin Duan 0004, Weitai Kang, Hao Tang 0005, Yan Yan 0002 |
CVPR | 3 |
| 2024 | On the Faithfulness of Vision Transformer ExplanationsabstractTo interpret Vision Transformers, post-hoc explanations assign salience scores to input pixels, providing human-understandable heatmaps. However, whether these inter-pretations reflect true rationales behind the model's output is still underexplored. To address this gap, we study the faithfulness criterion of explanations: the assigned salience scores should represent the influence of the corresponding input pixels on the model's predictions. To evaluate faithful-ness, we introduce Salience-guided Faithfulness Coefficient (SaCo), a novel evaluation metric leveraging essential in-formation of salience distribution. Specifically, we con-duct pair-wise comparisons among distinct pixel groups and then aggregate the differences in their salience scores, resulting in a coefficient that indicates the explanation's degree of faithfulness. Our explorations reveal that cur-rent metrics struggle to differentiate between advanced ex-planation methods and Random Attribution, thereby failing to capture the faithfulness property. In contrast, our pro-posed SaCo offers a reliable faithfulness measurement, es-tablishing a robust metric for interpretations. Furthermore, our SaCo demonstrates that the use of gradient and multi-layer aggregation can markedly enhance the faithfulness of attention-based explanation, shedding light on potential paths for advancing Vision Transformer explainability. Junyi Wu 0002, Weitai Kang, Hao Tang 0005, Yuan Hong 0001, Yan Yan 0002 |
CVPR | 2 |
| 2024 | SegVG: Transferring Object Bounding Box to Segmentation for Visual Grounding
Weitai Kang, Gaowen Liu, Mubarak Shah, Yan Yan 0002 |
ECCV (38) | 1 |