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Kedi Ying
dblp:403/0195
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Vision and language · 77% Segmentation and scene understanding · 23% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Accessibility and assistive technology · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer vision › Vision and language
visual question answering |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | mmWalk: Towards Multi-modal Multi-view Walking Assistance · NeurIPS 2025 |
Accessibility and assistive technology › assistive navigation
blind navigation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | mmWalk: Towards Multi-modal Multi-view Walking Assistance · NeurIPS 2025 |
Computer vision › Segmentation and scene understanding › scene understanding
multi-view scene understanding |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | mmWalk: Towards Multi-modal Multi-view Walking Assistance · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
vision-language model fine-tuning · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | mmWalk: Towards Multi-modal Multi-view Walking AssistanceabstractWalking assistance in extreme or complex environments remains a significant challenge for people with blindness or low vision (BLV), largely due to the lack of a holistic scene understanding. Motivated by the real-world needs of the BLV community, we build mmWalk, a simulated multi-modal dataset that integrates multi-view sensor and accessibility-oriented features for outdoor safe navigation. Our dataset comprises $120$ manually controlled, scenario-categorized walking trajectories with $62k$ synchronized frames. It contains over $559k$ panoramic images across RGB, depth, and semantic modalities. Furthermore, to emphasize real-world relevance, each trajectory involves outdoor corner cases and accessibility-specific landmarks for BLV users. Additionally, we generate mmWalkVQA, a VQA benchmark with over $69k$ visual question-answer triplets across $9$ categories tailored for safe and informed walking assistance. We evaluate state-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs) using zero- and few-shot settings and found they struggle with our risk assessment and navigational tasks. We validate our mmWalk-finetuned model on real-world datasets and show the effectiveness of our dataset for advancing multi-modal walking assistance. Kedi Ying, Ruiping Liu 0001, Chongyan Chen, Mingzhe Tao, Hao Shi 0004, Kailun Yang 0001, Jiaming Zhang 0001, Rainer Stiefelhagen |
NeurIPS | 1 |