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Zitong Huang
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11ranked-venue papers
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11since 2021 · last 2026
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 6 · 3 first-author · 6 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 6 · 2 first-author · 6 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SCORP: Scene-Consistent Object Refinement via Proxy Generation and TuningabstractViewpoint missing of objects is common in scene reconstruction, as camera paths typically prioritize capturing the overall scene structure rather than individual objects. This makes it highly challenging to achieve high-fidelity object-level modeling while maintaining accurate scene-level representation. Addressing this issue is critical for advancing downstream tasks requiring high-fidelity object reconstruction. In this paper, we introduce Scene-Consistent Object Refinement via Proxy Generation and Tuning (SCORP), a novel 3D enhancement framework that leverages 3D generative priors to recover fine-grained object geometry and appearance under missing views. Starting with proxy generation by substituting degraded objects using a 3D generation model, SCORP then progressively refines geometry and texture by aligning each proxy to its degraded counter-part in 7-DoF pose, followed by correcting spatial and appearance inconsistencies through registration-constrained enhancement. This two-stage proxy tuning ensures the high-fidelity geometry and appearance of the original object in unseen views while maintaining consistency in spatial positioning, observed geometry, and appearance. Across challenging benchmarks, SCORP achieves consistent gains over recent state-of-the-art baselines on both novel view synthesis and geometry completion tasks. SCORP is available at https://github.com/PolySummit/SCORP. Ziling Liu, Zitong Huang, Mingqi Gao 0003, Feng Zheng 0001 |
WACV | 3 |
| 2026 | Dual-Thresholded Heatmap-Guided Proposal Clustering and Negative Certainty Supervision With Enhanced Base Network for Weakly Supervised Object DetectionabstractWeakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted significant attention in recent years, as it does not require box-level annotations. State-of-the-art methods generally adopt a multi-module network, which employs WSDDN as the multiple instance detection network module and uses multiple instance refinement modules to refine performance. However, these approaches suffer from three key limitations. First, existing methods tend to generate pseudo GT boxes that either focus only on discriminative parts, failing to capture the whole object, or cover the entire object but fail to distinguish between adjacent intra-class instances. Second, the foundational WSDDN architecture lacks a crucial background class representation for each proposal and exhibits a large semantic gap between its branches. Third, prior methods discard ignored proposals during optimization, leading to slow convergence. To address these challenges, we propose the Dual-thresholded heAtmap-guided proposal clustering and Negative Certainty supervision with Enhanced base network (DANCE) method for WSOD. Specifically, we first devise a heatmap-guided proposal selector (HGPS) algorithm, which utilizes dual thresholds on heatmaps to pre-select proposals, enabling pseudo GT boxes to both capture the full object extent and distinguish between adjacent intra-class instances. We then construct a weakly supervised basic detection network (WSBDN), which augments each proposal with a background class representation and uses heatmaps for pre-supervision to bridge the semantic gap between matrices. At last, we introduce a negative certainty supervision (NCS) loss on ignored proposals to accelerate convergence. Extensive experiments on the challenging PASCAL VOC and MS COCO datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our method. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/gyl2565309278/DANCE. Yuelin Guo, Haoyu He 0001, Zitong Huang, Renhao Lu, Lu Shi 0002, Weizhe Zhang |
IEEE Trans. Image Process. | 4 |
| 2025 | SWAT-NN: Simultaneous Weights and Architecture Training for Neural Networks in a Latent Space
Zitong Huang, Mansooreh Montazerin, Ajitesh Srivastava |
IEEE Big Data | 1 |
| 2025 | Segmenting Objectiveness and Task-awareness Unknown Region for Autonomous DrivingabstractWith the emergence of transformer-based architectures and large language models (LLMs), the accuracy of road scene perception has substantially advanced. Nonetheless, current road scene segmentation approaches are predominantly trained on closed-set data, resulting in insufficient detection capabilities for out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. To overcome this limitation, road anomaly detection methods have been proposed. However, existing methods primarily depend on image inpainting and OOD distribution detection techniques, facing two critical issues: (1) inadequate consideration of the objectiveness attributes of anomalous regions, causing incomplete segmentation when anomalous objects share similarities with known classes, and (2) insufficient attention to environmental constraints, leading to the detection of anomalies irrelevant to autonomous driving tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel framework termed Segmenting Objectiveness and Task-Awareness (SOTA) for autonomous driving scenes. Specifically, SOTA enhances the segmentation of objectiveness through a Semantic Fusion Block (SFB) and filters anomalies irrelevant to road navigation tasks using a Scene-understanding Guided Prompt-Context Adaptor (SG-PCA). Extensive empirical evaluations on multiple benchmark datasets, including Fishyscapes Lost and Found, Segment-Me-If-You-Can, and RoadAnomaly, demonstrate that the proposed SOTA consistently improves OOD detection performance across diverse detectors, achieving robust and accurate segmentation outcomes. Mi Zheng, Guanglei Yang, Zitong Huang, Zhenhua Guo 0001, Kevin Han, Wangmeng Zuo |
ACM Multimedia | 3 |
| 2025 | MIRAGE: Assessing Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Chains of MLLMabstractMultimodal hallucination in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) restricts the correctness of MLLMs. However, multimodal hallucinations are multi-sourced and arise from diverse causes. Existing benchmarks fail to adequately distinguish between perception-induced hallucinations and reasoning-induced hallucinations. This failure constitutes a significant issue and hinders the diagnosis of multimodal reasoning failures within MLLMs. To address this, we propose the MIRAGE benchmark, which isolates reasoning hallucinations by constructing questions where input images are correctly perceived by MLLMs yet reasoning errors persist. MIRAGE introduces multi-granular evaluation metrics: accuracy, factuality, and LLMs hallucination score for hallucination quantification. Our analysis reveals strong correlations between question types and specific hallucination patterns, particularly systematic failures of MLLMs in spatial reasoning involving complex relationships (\emph{e.g.}, complex geometric patterns across images). This highlights a critical limitation in the reasoning capabilities of current MLLMs and provides targeted insights for hallucination mitigation on specific types. To address these challenges, we propose Logos, a method that combines curriculum reinforcement fine-tuning to encourage models to generate logic-consistent reasoning chains by stepwise reducing learning difficulty, and collaborative hint inference to reduce reasoning complexity. Logos establishes a baseline on MIRAGE, and reduces the logical hallucinations in original base models. Link: \url{https://bit.ly/25mirage}. Bowen Dong 0001, Minheng Ni, Zitong Huang, Guanglei Yang, Wangmeng Zuo, Lei Zhang 0006 |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2025 | IMWA: Iterative Model Weight Averaging benefits class-imbalanced learning
Zitong Huang, Bowen Dong 0001, Chaoqi Liang, Erjin Zhou, Wangmeng Zuo |
Pattern Recognit. | 1 |
| 2024 | Class Balance Matters to Active Class-Incremental LearningabstractFew-Shot Class-Incremental Learning has shown remarkable efficacy in efficient learning new concepts with limited annotations. Nevertheless, the heuristic few-shot annotations may not always cover the most informative samples, which largely restricts the capability of incremental learner. We aim to start from a pool of large-scale unlabeled data and then annotate the most informative samples for incremental learning. Based on this premise, Based on this purpose, this paper introduces the Active Class-Incremental Learning (ACIL). The objective of ACIL is to select the most informative samples from the unlabeled pool to effectively train an incremental learner, aiming to maximize the performance of the resulting model. Note that vanilla active learning algorithms suffer from class-imbalanced distribution among annotated samples, which restricts the ability of incremental learning. To achieve both class balance and informativeness in chosen samples, we propose Class-Balanced Selection (CBS) strategy. Specifically, we first cluster the features of all unlabeled images into multiple groups. Then for each cluster, we employ greedy selection strategy to ensure that the Gaussian distribution of the sampled features closely matches the Gaussian distribution of all unlabeled features within the cluster.Our CBS can be plugged and played into those CIL methods which are based on pretrained models with prompts tunning technique.Extensive experiments under ACIL protocol across five diverse datasets demonstrate that CBS outperforms both random selection and other SOTA active learning approaches. Zitong Huang, Yuanze Li, Bowen Dong 0001, Erjin Zhou, Yong Liu 0026, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Chun-Mei Feng 0001, Wangmeng Zuo |
ACM Multimedia | 1 |
| 2023 | ImaginaryNet: Learning Object Detectors without Real Images and Annotations
Minheng Ni, Zitong Huang, Kailai Feng, Wangmeng Zuo |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2022 | W2N: Switching from Weak Supervision to Noisy Supervision for Object Detection
Zitong Huang, Yiping Bao, Bowen Dong 0001, Erjin Zhou, Wangmeng Zuo |
ECCV (30) | 1 |
| 2022 | Multi-Vision Network for Accurate and Real-Time Small Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing ImagesabstractAccurate and real-time detection of airplanes, cars, and ships in remote sensing images is an important but challenging task that plays an important role in both military and civilian life. The most challenging issues posed by this task are the intensive and tiny size of objects and the complexity of application scenarios. In this letter, we propose a multi-vision small object detector that can rapidly and accurately detect airplanes, cars, and ships in remote sensing images. We make the following three contributions: a multiscale residual block (MRB) is proposed, whereby dilated convolution is employed in a cascade residual block to capture multiscale context information, thus improving the feature representation ability of convolutional neural networks; a multiscale receptive field enhancement module (MRFEM) is proposed that combines features obtained using dilated convolution at different dilation rates to further enhance the multiscale feature representation of the remote sensing targets; and a multi-vision network (MVNet) is presented that uses multiple low-level feature maps with multi-branch convolution to detect small objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a significant mean average precision (mAP) of 94.70% in remote sensing images and can run at 24 FPS on a single NVIDIA 1080Ti GPU. Wenxuan Han, Alifu Kuerban, Yuchun Yang, Zitong Huang, Binghui Liu, Jie Gao 0015 |
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett. | 4 |
| 2021 | Boosting Weakly Supervised Object Detection via Learning Bounding Box AdjustersabstractWeakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) has emerged as an inspiring recent topic to avoid expensive instance-level object annotations. However, the bounding boxes of most existing WSOD methods are mainly determined by precomputed proposals, thereby being limited in precise object localization. In this paper, we defend the problem setting for improving localization performance by leveraging the bounding box regression knowledge from a well-annotated auxiliary dataset. First, we use the well-annotated auxiliary dataset to explore a series of learnable bounding box adjusters (LBBAs) in a multi-stage training manner, which is class-agnostic. Then, only LBBAs and a weakly-annotated dataset with non-overlapped classes are used for training LBBA-boosted WSOD. As such, our LBBAs are practically more convenient and economical to implement while avoiding the leakage of the auxiliary well-annotated dataset. In particular, we formulate learning bounding box adjusters as a bi-level optimization problem and suggest an EM-like multi-stage training algorithm. Then, a multi-stage scheme is further presented for LBBA-boosted WSOD. Additionally, a masking strategy is adopted to improve proposal classification. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of our method. Our method performs favorably against state-of-the-art WSOD methods and knowledge transfer model with similar problem setting. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/DongSky/lbba_boosted_wsod. Bowen Dong 0001, Zitong Huang, Yuelin Guo, Qilong Wang 0001, Zhenxing Niu, Wangmeng Zuo |
ICCV | 2 |