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En Yu
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35ranked-venue papers
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 30 · 14 first-author · 29 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 16 · 8 first-author · 13 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
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| 2026 | Autonomous Concept Drift Threshold DeterminationabstractExisting drift detection methods focus on designing sensitive test statistics. They treat the detection threshold as a fixed hyperparameter, set once to balance false alarms and late detections, and applied uniformly across all datasets and over time. However, maintaining model performance is the key objective from the perspective of machine learning, and we observe that model performance is highly sensitive to this threshold. This observation inspires us to investigate whether a dynamic threshold could be provably better. In this paper, we prove that a threshold that adapts over time can outperform any single fixed threshold. The main idea of the proof is that a dynamic strategy, constructed by combining the best threshold from each individual data segment, is guaranteed to outperform any single threshold that apply to all segments. Based on the theorem, we propose a Dynamic Threshold Determination algorithm. It enhances existing drift detection frameworks with a novel comparison phase to inform how the threshold should be adjusted. Extensive experiments on a wide range of synthetic and real-world datasets, including both image and tabular data, validate that our approach substantially enhances the performance of state-of-the-art drift detectors. Pengqian Lu, Jie Lu 0001, Anjin Liu, En Yu, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
AAAI | 4 |
| 2026 | Drift-aware Collaborative Assistance Mixture of Experts for Heterogeneous Multistream LearningabstractLearning from multiple data streams in real-world scenarios is fundamentally challenging due to intrinsic heterogeneity and unpredictable concept drifts. Existing methods typically assume homogeneous streams and employ static architectures with indiscriminate knowledge fusion, limiting generalizability in complex dynamic environments. To tackle this gap, we propose CAMEL, a dynamic Collaborative Assistance Mixture of Experts Learning framework. It addresses heterogeneity by assigning each stream an independent system with a dedicated feature extractor and task-specific head. Meanwhile, a dynamic pool of specialized private experts captures stream-specific idiosyncratic patterns. Crucially, collaboration across these heterogeneous streams is enabled by a dedicated assistance expert. This expert employs a multi-head attention mechanism to distill and integrate relevant context autonomously from all other concurrent streams. It facilitates targeted knowledge transfer while inherently mitigating negative transfer from irrelevant sources. Furthermore, we propose an Autonomous Expert Tuner (AET) strategy, which dynamically manages expert lifecycles in response to drift. It instantiates new experts for emerging concepts (freezing prior ones to prevent catastrophic forgetting) and prunes obsolete ones. This expert-level plasticity provides a robust and efficient mechanism for online model capacity adaptation. Extensive experiments demonstrate CAMEL’s superior generalizability across diverse multistreams and exceptional resilience against complex concept drifts. En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Kun Wang 0050, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2026 | InstaFace: Identity-Preserving Facial Editing with Single Image Inference
MD Wahiduzzaman Khan, Mingshan Jia, En Yu, Caifeng Shan, Kaska Musial-Gabrys |
FG | 4 |
| 2026 | Generalized Incremental Learning under Concept Drift across Evolving Data StreamsabstractReal-world data streams exhibit inherent non-stationarity characterized by concept drift, posing significant challenges for adaptive learning systems. While existing methods address isolated distribution shifts, they overlook the critical co-evolution of label spaces and distributions under limited supervision and persistent uncertainty. To address this, we formalize Generalized Incremental Learning under Concept Drift (GILCD), characterizing the joint evolution of distributions and label spaces in open-environment streaming contexts, and propose a novel framework called Calibrated Source-Free Adaptation (CSFA). First, CSFA introduces a training-free prototype calibration mechanism that dynamically fuses emerging prototypes with base representations, enabling stable new-class identification without optimization overhead. Second, we design a novel source-free adaptation algorithm, i.e., Reliable Surrogate Gap Sharpness-aware (RSGS) minimization. It integrates sharpness-aware perturbation loss optimization with surrogate gap minimization, while employing entropy-based uncertainty filtering to discard unreliable samples. This mechanism ensures robust distribution alignment and mitigates generalization degradation caused by uncertainties. Thus, CSFA establishes a unified framework for stable adaptation to evolving semantics and distributions in open-world streaming scenarios. Extensive experiments validate the superior performance and effectiveness of CSFA compared to SOTA approaches. En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
WWW | 1 |
| 2026 | Enhancing outdoor vision: Binocular desnowing with dual-stream temporal transformerabstractVideo desnowing, aimed at removing snowflakes and enhancing the quality of videos, is a crucial yet intricate task essential for improving the effectiveness of outdoor vision systems. Compared to rain and haze, the inherent opacity and diverse morphology of snowflakes result in more pronounced background occlusions, thereby challenging the efficacy of current desnowing techniques, particularly those focusing solely on images or videos captured from a monocular perspective. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a Dual-Stream Temporal Transformer (DSTT) to advance snow removal and visual enhancement by leveraging comprehensive information from stereo views and spatial-temporal cues. More specifically, it incorporates a Dual-Stream Weight-shared Transformer (DSWT) module to exploit spatial information from different views. This module employs a hierarchical weight-sharing strategy to extract fused spatial features across different views from low-level to high-level layers. Subsequently, the Dual-Stream ConvLSTM (DS-CLSTM) module is introduced to capture temporal correlations across streaming frames. By combining temporal-spatial cues and complementary details from diverse views, videos can be effectively restored while preserving the original content’s details. In addition, two binocular snowy datasets – SnowKITTI2012 and SnowKITTI 2015 – are presented, providing a valuable resource for evaluating the binocular desnowing task. Comprehensive experiments evaluated on both synthetic and real-world snowy datasets demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines. En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Kaihao Zhang, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
Pattern Recognit. | 1 |
| 2026 | Autonomous Online Multistream Generalization via Fuzzy Joint Discriminant Analysis
En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. | 1 |
| 2025 | Cross-View Referring Multi-Object TrackingabstractReferring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) is an important topic in the current tracking field. Its task form is to guide the tracker to track objects that match the language description. Current research mainly focuses on referring multi-object tracking under single-view, which refers to a view sequence or multiple unrelated view sequences. However, in the single-view, some appearances of objects are easily invisible, resulting in incorrect matching of objects with the language description. In this work, we propose a new task, called Cross-view Referring Multi-Object Tracking (CRMOT). It introduces the cross-view to obtain the appearances of objects from multiple views, avoiding the problem of the invisible appearances of objects in RMOT task. CRMOT is a more challenging task of accurately tracking the objects that match the language description and maintaining the identity consistency of objects in each cross-view. To advance CRMOT task, we construct a cross-view referring multi-object tracking benchmark based on CAMPUS and DIVOTrack datasets, named CRTrack. Specifically, it provides 13 different scenes and 221 language descriptions. Furthermore, we propose an end-to-end cross-view referring multi-object tracking method, named CRTracker. Extensive experiments on the CRTrack benchmark verify the effectiveness of our method. En Yu, Wenbing Tao |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2025 | RuleArena: A Benchmark for Rule-Guided Reasoning with LLMs in Real-World ScenariosabstractRuiwen Zhou, Wenyue Hua, Liangming Pan, Sitao Cheng, Xiaobao Wu, En Yu, William Yang Wang. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025. Ruiwen Zhou, Wenyue Hua, Liangming Pan, Sitao Cheng, Xiaobao Wu, En Yu, William Yang Wang |
ACL (1) | 6 |
| 2025 | Disentangling Instance and Scene Contexts for 3D Semantic Scene Completion
Enyu Liu, En Yu, Wenbing Tao |
ICCV | 2 |
| 2025 | OVTR: End-to-End Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking with TransformerabstractOpen-vocabulary multiple object tracking aims to generalize trackers to unseen categories during training, enabling their application across a variety of real-world scenarios. However, the existing open-vocabulary tracker is constrained by its framework structure, isolated frame-level perception, and insufficient modal interactions, which hinder its performance in open-vocabulary classification and tracking. In this paper, we propose OVTR (End-to-End Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Tracking with TRansformer), the first end-to-end open-vocabulary tracker that models motion, appearance, and category simultaneously. To achieve stable classification and continuous tracking, we design the CIP (Category Information Propagation) strategy, which establishes multiple high-level category information priors for subsequent frames. Additionally, we introduce a dual-branch structure for generalization capability and deep multimodal interaction, and incorporate protective strategies in the decoder to enhance performance. Experimental results show that our method surpasses previous trackers on the open-vocabulary MOT benchmark while also achieving faster inference speeds and significantly reducing preprocessing requirements. Moreover, the experiment transferring the model to another dataset demonstrates its strong adaptability. En Yu, Wenbing Tao |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2025 | Adapting Multi-modal Large Language Model to Concept Drift From Pre-training OnwardsabstractMulti-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently face challenges from concept drift when dealing with real-world streaming data, wherein distributions change unpredictably. This mainly includes gradual drift due to long-tailed data and sudden drift from Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) data, both of which have increasingly drawn the attention of the research community. While these issues have been extensively studied in the individual domain of vision or language, their impacts on MLLMs in concept drift settings remain largely underexplored. In this paper, we reveal the susceptibility and vulnerability of Vision-Language (VL) models to significant biases arising from gradual drift and sudden drift, particularly in the pre-training. To effectively address these challenges, we propose a unified framework that extends concept drift theory to the multi-modal domain, enhancing the adaptability of the VL model to unpredictable distribution changes. Additionally, a T-distribution based drift adapter is proposed to effectively mitigate the bias induced by the gradual drift, which also facilitates the model in distinguishing sudden distribution changes through explicit distribution modeling. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method enhances the efficiency and accuracy of image-text alignment in the pre-training of VL models, particularly in the concept drift scenario. Moreover, various downstream tasks exhibit significant improvements in our model's ability to adapt to the long-tailed open world. Furthermore, we create a set of multi-modal datasets called OpenMMlo, specifically tailored for the long-tailed open-world setting, to validate our findings. To foster the development of the multi-modal community, we have made both OpenMMlo datasets and our code publicly available at: https://github.com/XiaoyuYoung/ConceptDriftMLLMs. Jie Lu 0001, En Yu |
ICLR | 3 |
| 2025 | Unhackable Temporal Reward for Scalable Video MLLMsabstractIn the pursuit of superior video-processing MLLMs, we have encountered a perplexing paradox: the “anti-scaling law”, where more data and larger models lead to worse performance. This study unmasks the culprit: “temporal hacking”, a phenomenon where models shortcut by fixating on select frames, missing the full video narrative. In this work, we systematically establish a comprehensive theory of temporal hacking, defining it from a reinforcement learning perspective, introducing the Temporal Perplexity (TPL) score to assess this misalignment, and proposing the Unhackable Temporal Rewarding (UTR) framework to mitigate the temporal hacking. Both theoretically and empirically, TPL proves to be a reliable indicator of temporal modeling quality, correlating strongly with frame activation patterns. Extensive experiments reveal that UTR not only counters temporal hacking but significantly elevates video comprehension capabilities. This work not only advances video-AI systems but also illuminates the critical importance of aligning proxy rewards with true objectives in MLLM development. En Yu, Kangheng Lin, Yana Wei, Zining Zhu 0004, Jianjian Sun, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang 0005, Jingyu Wang 0001, Wenbing Tao |
ICLR | 1 |
| 2025 | Perception in ReflectionabstractWe present a perception in reflection paradigm designed to transcend the limitations of current large vision-language models (LVLMs), which are expected yet often fail to achieve perfect perception initially. Specifically, we propose Reflective Perception (RePer), a dual-model reflection mechanism that systematically alternates between policy and critic models, enables iterative refinement of visual perception. This framework is powered by Reflective Perceptual Learning (RPL), which reinforces intrinsic reflective capabilities through a methodically constructed visual reflection dataset and reflective unlikelihood training Comprehensive experimental evaluation demonstrates RePer's quantifiable improvements in image understanding, captioning precision, and hallucination reduction. Notably, RePer achieves strong alignment between model attention patterns and human visual focus, while RPL optimizes fine-grained and free-form preference alignment. These advancements establish perception in reflection as a robust paradigm for future multimodal agents, particularly in tasks requiring complex reasoning and multi-step manipulation. Project Page: [https://weiyana.github.io/Perception-in-Reflection](https://weiyana.github.io/Perception-in-Reflection) Yana Wei, Kangheng Lin, En Yu, Yuang Peng, Runpei Dong, Jianjian Sun, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang 0005, Vishal M. Patel |
ICML | 4 |
| 2025 | Multimodal Inverse Attention Network with Intrinsic Discriminant Feature Exploitation for Fake News DetectionabstractMultimodal fake news detection has garnered significant attention due to its profound implications for social security. While existing approaches have contributed to understanding cross-modal consistency, they often fail to leverage modal-specific representations and explicit discrepant features. To address these limitations, we propose a Multimodal Inverse Attention Network (MIAN), a novel framework that explores intrinsic discriminative features based on news content to advance fake news detection. Specifically, MIAN introduces a hierarchical learning module that captures diverse intra-modal relationships through local-to-global and local-to-local interactions, thereby generating enhanced unimodal representations to improve the identification of fake news at the intra-modal level. Additionally, a cross-modal interaction module employs a co-attention mechanism to establish and model dependencies between the refined unimodal representations, facilitating seamless semantic integration across modalities. To explicitly extract inconsistency features, we propose an inverse attention mechanism that effectively highlights the conflicting patterns and semantic deviations introduced by fake news in both intra- and inter-modality. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that MIAN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, underscoring its pivotal contribution to advancing social security through enhanced multimodal fake news detection. En Yu, Jiande Sun 0001 |
IJCAI | 2 |
| 2025 | Open Vision Reasoner: Transferring Linguistic Cognitive Behavior for Visual ReasoningabstractThe remarkable reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) stems from cognitive behaviors that emerge through reinforcement with verifiable rewards. This work investigates how to transfer this principle to Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) to unlock advanced visual reasoning. We introduce a two-stage paradigm built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B: a massive linguistic cold-start fine-tuning,
followed by multimodal reinforcement learning (RL) spanning nearly 1,000 steps—surpassing all previous open-source efforts in scale.
This pioneering work reveals three fundamental insights: 1) Behavior transfer emerges surprisingly early in cold start due to linguistic mental imagery. 2) Cold start broadly memorizes visual behaviors, while RL critically discerns and scales up effective patterns. 3) Transfer strategically favors high-utility behaviors such as visual reflection. Our resulting model, Open-Vision-Reasoner (OVR), achieves state-of-the-art performance on a suite of reasoning benchmarks, including 95.3% on MATH500, 51.8% on MathVision and 54.6% on MathVerse. We release our model, data, and training dynamics to catalyze the development of more capable, behavior-aligned multimodal reasoners. Yana Wei, Jianjian Sun, Kangheng Lin, Jisheng Yin, Jingcheng Hu, Yinmin Zhang, En Yu, Zejia Weng, Jia Wang 0025, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang 0005, Daxin Jiang, Vishal M. Patel |
NeurIPS | 8 |
| 2025 | Walking the Tightrope: Autonomous Disentangling Beneficial and Detrimental Drifts in Non-Stationary Custom-TuningabstractThis paper uncovers a critical yet overlooked phenomenon in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), especially for chest diagnosis: detrimental concept drift within chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning during non-stationary reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), where reasoning token distributions evolve unpredictably, thereby introducing significant biases in final predictions. To address this, we are pioneers in establishing the theoretical bridge between concept drift theory and RFT processes by formalizing CoT's autoregressive token streams as non-stationary distributions undergoing arbitrary temporal shifts. Leveraging this framework, we propose a novel autonomous counterfact-aware RFT that systematically decouples beneficial distribution adaptation from harmful concept drift through concept graph-empowered LLM experts generating counterfactual reasoning trajectories. Our solution, Counterfactual Preference Optimization (CPO), enables autonomous and stable RFT in non-stationary environments, particularly within the medical domain, through custom-tuning of counterfactual-aware preference alignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate our superior performance of robustness, generalization and coordination within RFT. Besides, we also contribute a large-scale dataset CXR-CounterFact (CCF), comprising 320,416 meticulously curated counterfactual reasoning trajectories derived from MIMIC-CXR. Our code and data are public at: https://github.com/XiaoyuYoung/CPO. Jie Lu 0001, En Yu |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2025 | Learning Robust Spectral Dynamics for Temporal Domain GeneralizationabstractModern machine learning models struggle to maintain performance in dynamic environments where temporal distribution shifts, \textit{i.e., concept drift}, are prevalent. Temporal Domain Generalization (TDG) seeks to enable model generalization across evolving domains, yet existing approaches typically assume smooth incremental changes, struggling with complex real-world drifts involving both long-term structure (incremental evolution/periodicity) and local uncertainties. To overcome these limitations, we introduce FreKoo, which tackles these challenges through a novel frequency-domain analysis of parameter trajectories. It leverages the Fourier transform to disentangle parameter evolution into distinct spectral bands. Specifically, the low-frequency components with dominant dynamics are learned and extrapolated using the Koopman operator, robustly capturing diverse drift patterns including both incremental and periodic drifts. Simultaneously, potentially disruptive high-frequency variations are smoothed via targeted temporal regularization, preventing overfitting to transient noise and domain uncertainties. In addition, this dual-spectral strategy is rigorously grounded through theoretical analysis, providing stability guarantees for the Koopman prediction, a principled Bayesian justification for the high-frequency regularization, and culminating in a multiscale generalization bound connecting spectral dynamics to improved generalization. Extensive experiments demonstrate FreKoo's significant superiority over state-of-the-art TDG methods, particularly excelling in real-world streaming scenarios with complex drifts and uncertainties. En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Guangquan Zhang 0001, Zhen Fang 0001 |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2025 | Perception-R1: Pioneering Perception Policy with Reinforcement LearningabstractInspired by the success of DeepSeek-R1, we explore the potential of rule-based reinforcement learning (RL) in MLLM post-training for perception policy learning. While promising, our initial experiments reveal that incorporating a thinking process through RL does not consistently lead to performance gains across all visual perception tasks. This leads us to delve into the essential role of RL in the context of visual perception. In this work, we return to the fundamentals and explore the effects of RL on different perception tasks. We observe that the perceptual perplexity is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of RL. We also observe that reward design plays a crucial role in further approaching the upper limit of model perception. To leverage these findings, we propose Perception-R1, a scalable RL framework using GRPO during MLLM post-training. With a standard Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct, Perception-R1 achieves +4.2% on RefCOCO+, +17.9% on PixMo-Count, +4.2% on PageOCR, and notably, 31.9% AP on COCO2017 val for the first time, establishing a strong baseline for perception policy learning. En Yu, Kangheng Lin, Jisheng Yin, Yana Wei, Yuang Peng, Jianjian Sun, Chunrui Han, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang 0005, Daxin Jiang, Jingyu Wang 0001, Wenbing Tao |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2024 | Online Boosting Adaptive Learning under Concept Drift for Multistream ClassificationabstractMultistream classification poses significant challenges due to the necessity for rapid adaptation in dynamic streaming processes with concept drift. Despite the growing research outcomes in this area, there has been a notable oversight regarding the temporal dynamic relationships between these streams, leading to the issue of negative transfer arising from irrelevant data. In this paper, we propose a novel Online Boosting Adaptive Learning (OBAL) method that effectively addresses this limitation by adaptively learning the dynamic correlation among different streams. Specifically, OBAL operates in a dual-phase mechanism, in the first of which we design an Adaptive COvariate Shift Adaptation (AdaCOSA) algorithm to construct an initialized ensemble model using archived data from various source streams, thus mitigating the covariate shift while learning the dynamic correlations via an adaptive re-weighting strategy. During the online process, we employ a Gaussian Mixture Model-based weighting mechanism, which is seamlessly integrated with the acquired correlations via AdaCOSA to effectively handle asynchronous drift. This approach significantly improves the predictive performance and stability of the target stream. We conduct comprehensive experiments on several synthetic and real-world data streams, encompassing various drifting scenarios and types. The results clearly demonstrate that OBAL achieves remarkable advancements in addressing multistream classification problems by effectively leveraging positive knowledge derived from multiple sources. En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2024 | Delving into the Trajectory Long-tail Distribution for Muti-object TrackingabstractMultiple Object Tracking (MOT) is a critical area within computer vision, with a broad spectrum of practical im-plementations. Current research has primarily focused on the development of tracking algorithms and enhancement of post-processing techniques. Yet, there has been a lack of thorough examination concerning the nature of tracking data it self. In this study, we pioneer an exploration into the distribution patterns of tracking data and iden-tify a pronounced long-tail distribution issue within existing MOT datasets. We note a significant imbalance in the distribution of trajectory lengths across different pedestri-ans, a phenomenon we refer to as “pedestrians trajectory long-tail distribution”. Addressing this challenge, we intro-duce a bespoke strategy designed to mitigate the effects of this skewed distribution. Specifically, we propose two data augmentation strategies, including Stationary Camera View Data Augmentation (SVA) and Dynamic Camera View Data Augmentation (DVA), designed for viewpoint states and the Group Softmax (GS) module for Re-ID. SVA is to backtrack and predict the pedestrian trajectory of tail classes, and DVA is to use diffusion model to change the background of the scene. GS divides the pedestrians into unrelated groups and performs softmax operation on each group individually. Our proposed strategies can be integrated into numerous existing tracking systems, and extensive experimentation validates the efficacy of our method in reducing the influ-ence of long-tail distribution on multi-object tracking per-formance. The code is available at https://github.com/chen-si-jia/Trajectory-Long-tail-Distribution-for-MOT. En Yu, Wenbing Tao |
CVPR | 2 |
| 2024 | Merlin: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Foresight Minds
En Yu, Yana Wei, Dongming Wu 0005, Lingyu Kong, Tiancai Wang, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang 0005, Wenbing Tao |
ECCV (4) | 1 |
| 2024 | ChatSpot: Bootstrapping Multimodal LLMs via Precise Referring Instruction Tuning
En Yu, Zheng Ge, Jianjian Sun, Yuang Peng, Runpei Dong, Chunrui Han, Xiangyu Zhang 0005 |
IJCAI | 2 |
| 2024 | QTrack: Embracing Quality Clues for Robust 3D Multi-Object Trackingabstract3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has achieved tremendous achievement thanks to the rapid development of 3D object detection and 2D MOT. Recent advanced works generally employ a series of object attributes, e.g., position, size, velocity, and appearance, to provide the clues for the association in 3D MOT. However, these cues may not be reliable due to some visual noise, such as occlusion and blur, leading to tracking performance bottlenecks. To reveal the dilemma, we conduct extensive empirical analysis to expose the key bottleneck of each clue and how they correlate with each other. The analysis results motivate us to efficiently absorb the merits among all cues and adaptively produce an optimal tracking manner. Specifically, we present Location and Velocity Quality Learning, which efficiently guides the network to estimate the quality of predicted object attributes. Based on these quality estimations, we propose a quality-aware object association (QOA) strategy to leverage the quality score as an important reference factor for achieving robust association. Despite its simplicity, extensive experiments indicate that the proposed strategy significantly boosts tracking performance by 2.2% AMOTA and our method outperforms all existing state-of-the-art works on nuScenes by a large margin. Moreover, QTrack achieves 51.1%, 54.8% and 56.6% AMOTA tracking performance on the nuScenes test sets with BEVDepth, VideoBEV, and StreamPETR models respectively, which significantly reduces the performance gap between the pure camera and LiDAR-based trackers. En Yu, Xiaoping Li 0005, Wenbing Tao |
IROS | 2 |
| 2024 | Fuzzy Shared Representation Learning for Multistream ClassificationabstractMultistream classification aims to predict the target stream by transferring knowledge from labeled source streams amid nonstationary processes with concept drifts. While existing methods address label scarcity, covariate shift, and asynchronous concept drift, they focus solely on the original feature space, neglecting the influence of redundant or low-quality features with uncertainties. Therefore, the advancement of this task is still challenged by how to: 1) ensure guaranteed joint representations of different streams, 2) grapple with uncertainty and interpretability during knowledge transfer, and 3) track and adapt the asynchronous drifts in each stream. To address these challenges, we propose an interpretable fuzzy shared representation learning (FSRL) method based on the Takagi–Sugeno–Kang (TSK) fuzzy system. Specifically, FSRL accomplishes the nonlinear transformation of individual streams by learning the fuzzy mapping with the antecedents of the TSK fuzzy system, thereby effectively preserving discriminative information for each original stream in an interpretable way. Then, a multistream joint distribution adaptation algorithm is proposed to optimize the consequent part of the TSK fuzzy system, which learns the final fuzzy shared representations for different streams. Hence, this method concurrently investigates both the commonalities across streams and the distinctive information within each stream. Following that, window-based and GMM-based online adaptation strategies are designed to address the asynchronous drifts over time. The former can directly demonstrate the effectiveness of FSRL in knowledge transfer across multiple streams, while the GMM-based method offers an informed way to overcome the asynchronous drift problem by integrating drift detection and adaptation. Finally, extensive experiments on several synthetic and real-world benchmarks with concept drift demonstrate the proposed method's effectiveness and efficiency. En Yu, Jie Lu 0001, Guangquan Zhang 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. | 1 |
| 2023 | Generalizing Multiple Object Tracking to Unseen Domains by Introducing Natural Language RepresentationabstractAlthough existing multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms have obtained competitive performance on various benchmarks, almost all of them train and validate models on the same domain. The domain generalization problem of MOT is hardly studied. To bridge this gap, we first draw the observation that the high-level information contained in natural language is domain invariant to different tracking domains. Based on this observation, we propose to introduce natural language representation into visual MOT models for boosting the domain generalization ability. However, it is infeasible to label every tracking target with a textual description. To tackle this problem, we design two modules, namely visual context prompting (VCP) and visual-language mixing (VLM). Specifically, VCP generates visual prompts based on the input frames. VLM joints the information in the generated visual prompts and the textual prompts from a pre-defined Trackbook to obtain instance-level pseudo textual description, which is domain invariant to different tracking scenes. Through training models on MOT17 and validating them on MOT20, we observe that the pseudo textual descriptions generated by our proposed modules improve the generalization performance of query-based trackers by large margins. En Yu, Zhuoling Li, Shoudong Han, Wenbing Tao |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2023 | RelationTrack: Relation-Aware Multiple Object Tracking With Decoupled RepresentationabstractExisting online multiple object tracking (MOT) algorithms often consist of two subtasks, detection and re-identification (ReID). In order to enhance the inference speed and reduce the complexity, current methods commonly integrate these double subtasks into a unified framework. Nevertheless, detection and ReID demand diverse features. This issue results in an optimization contradiction during the training procedure. With the target of alleviating this contradiction, we devise a module named Global Context Disentangling (GCD) that decouples the learned representation into detection-specific and ReID-specific embeddings. As such, this module provides an implicit manner to balance the different requirements of these two subtasks. Moreover, we observe that preceding MOT methods typically leverage local information to associate the detected targets and neglect to consider the global semantic relation. To resolve this limitation, we develop a module, referred to as Guided Transformer Encoder (GTE), by combining the powerful reasoning ability of Transformer encoder and deformable attention. Unlike previous works, GTE avoids analyzing all the pixels and only attends to capture the relation between query nodes and a few self-adaptively selected key samples. Therefore, it is computationally efficient. Extensive experiments have been conducted on the MOT16, MOT17 and MOT20 benchmarks to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed MOT framework, namely RelationTrack. The experimental results indicate that RelationTrack has surpassed preceding methods significantly and established a new state-of-the-art performance, e.g., IDF1 of 70.5% and MOTA of 67.2% on MOT20. En Yu, Zhuoling Li, Shoudong Han |
IEEE Trans. Multim. | 1 |
| 2022 | Towards Discriminative Representation: Multi-view Trajectory Contrastive Learning for Online Multi-object TrackingabstractDiscriminative representation is crucial for the association step in multi-object tracking. Recent work mainly utilizes features in single or neighboring frames for constructing metric loss and empowering networks to extract representation of targets. Although this strategy is effective, it fails to fully exploit the information contained in a whole trajectory. To this end, we propose a strategy, namely multi-view trajectory contrastive learning, in which each trajectory is represented as a center vector. By maintaining all the vectors in a dynamically updated memory bank, a trajectory-level contrastive loss is devised to explore the inter-frame information in the whole trajectories. Besides, in this strategy, each target is represented as multiple adaptively selected keypoints rather than a pre-defined anchor or center. This design allows the network to generate richer representation from multiple views of the same target, which can better characterize occluded objects. Additionally, in the inference stage, a similarity-guided feature fusion strategy is developed for further boosting the quality of the trajectory representation. Extensive experiments have been conducted on MOTChallenge to verify the effectiveness of the proposed techniques. The experimental results indicate that our method has surpassed preceding trackers and established new state-of-the-art performance. En Yu, Zhuoling Li, Shoudong Han |
CVPR | 1 |
| 2022 | MAT: Motion-aware multi-object tracking
Shoudong Han, Piao Huang, En Yu, Donghaisheng Liu, Xiaofeng Pan |
Neurocomputing | 4 |
| 2022 | Deep Discrete Cross-Modal Hashing with Multiple Supervision
En Yu, Jiande Sun 0001, Xiaojun Chang, Huaxiang Zhang 0001, Alex Hauptmann 0001 |
Neurocomputing | 1 |
| 2022 | Learn-to-adapt: Concept drift adaptation for hybrid multiple streams
En Yu, Yiliao Song, Guangquan Zhang 0001, Jie Lu 0001 |
Neurocomputing | 1 |
| 2022 | Discrete Fusion Adversarial Hashing for cross-modal retrieval
Jing Li 0046, En Yu, Xiaojun Chang, Huaxiang Zhang 0001, Jiande Sun 0001 |
Knowl. Based Syst. | 2 |
| 2020 | Multi-class joint subspace learning for cross-modal retrieval
En Yu, Jing Li 0046, Li Wang 0148, Jia Zhang 0028, Wenbo Wan, Jiande Sun 0001 |
Pattern Recognit. Lett. | 1 |
| 2019 | Fusion-Supervised Deep Cross-Modal HashingabstractDeep hashing has recently received attention in cross-modal retrieval for its impressive advantages. However, existing hashing methods for cross-modal retrieval cannot fully capture the heterogeneous multi-modal correlation and exploit the semantic information. In this paper, we propose a novel Fusion-supervised Deep Cross-modal Hashing (FDCH) approach. Firstly, FDCH learns unified binary codes through a fusion hash network with paired samples as input, which effectively enhances the modeling of the correlation of heterogeneous multi-modal data. Then, these high-quality unified hash codes further supervise the training of the modality-specific hash networks for encoding out-of-sample queries. Meanwhile, both pair-wise similarity information and classification information are embedded in the hash networks under one stream framework, which simultaneously preserves cross-modal similarity and keeps semantic consistency. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of FDCH. Li Wang 0148, Lei Zhu 0002, En Yu, Jiande Sun 0001, Huaxiang Zhang 0001 |
ICME | 3 |
| 2019 | Coupled feature selection based semi-supervised modality-dependent cross-modal retrieval
En Yu, Jiande Sun 0001, Li Wang 0148, Wenbo Wan, Huaxiang Zhang 0001 |
Multim. Tools Appl. | 1 |
| 2019 | Adaptive Semi-Supervised Feature Selection for Cross-Modal RetrievalabstractIn order to exploit the abundant potential information of the unlabeled data and contribute to analyzing the correlation among heterogeneous data, we propose the semi-supervised model named adaptive semi-supervised feature selection for cross-modal retrieval. First, we utilize the semantic regression to strengthen the neighboring relationship between the data with the same semantic. And the correlation between heterogeneous data can be optimized via keeping the pairwise closeness when learning the common latent space. Second, we adopt the graph-based constraint to predict accurate labels for unlabeled data, and it can also keep the geometric structure consistency between the label space and the feature space of heterogeneous data in the common latent space. Finally, an efficient joint optimization algorithm is proposed to update the mapping matrices and the label matrix for unlabeled data simultaneously and iteratively. It makes samples from different classes to be far apart, while the samples from same class lie as close as possible. Meanwhile, the l2,1-norm constraint is used for feature selection and outlier reduction when the mapping matrices are learned. In addition, we propose learning different mapping matrices corresponding to different sub-tasks to emphasize the semantic and structural information of query data. Experiment results on three datasets demonstrate that our method performs better than the state-of-the-art methods. En Yu, Jiande Sun 0001, Jing Li 0046, Xiaojun Chang, Xianhua Han, Alex Hauptmann 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Multim. | 1 |