Publications

Representative contributions in world models, visual perception, multimodal reasoning, and efficient learning, with links to papers, code, and project resources.

2026

Language-Conditioned World Modeling for Visual Navigation
Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Yilong Dai, Lingdong Kong, Guangyu Chen, Xu Zhu, Qiyu Hu, Tianyu Wang, Johnalbert Garnica, Feng Liu, Siyu Huang, Qi Dai, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†
NeurIPS 2026 OralPaper Code
Towards Unified World Models for Visual Navigation via Memory-Augmented Planning and Foresight
Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Guangyu Chen, Lingdong Kong, Qiyu Hu, Yuxuan Zhou, Xu Zhu, Jingdong Sun, Jun-Yan He, Qi Dai, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†
ECCV 2026 Paper Code
HA-VLN 2.0: An Open Benchmark and Leaderboard for Human-Aware Navigation in Discrete and Continuous Environments with Dynamic Multi-Human Interactions
Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Qi He, Lingdong Kong, Heng Li, Minghan Li, Zebang Cheng, Yuxuan Zhou, Jingdong Sun, Qi Dai, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†
IROS 2026 Paper Project Code
GoViG: Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation Instruction Generation via Multimodal Reasoning
Fengyi Wu, Yifei Dong, Yilong Dai, Guangyu Chen, Qifeng Wu, Huiting Huang, Hang Wang, Qi Dai, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†
Findings of ACL 2026 Paper Code
Sign-Language Datasets at Scale: A Comprehensive Survey on Resources, Benchmarks, and Annotation Standards
Yiming Ni, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†, Jiayu Li, Wei Cheng
ACL 2026 Paper Dataset index
Overcoming Joint Intractability with Lossless Hierarchical Speculative Decoding
Yuxuan Zhou, Fei Huang, Heng Li, Fengyi Wu, Tianyu Wang, Jianwei Zhang, Junyang Lin, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†
ICLR 2026 OralPaper Code
Robust Adaptation of Foundation Models with Black-Box Visual Prompting
Changdae Oh, Gyeongdeok Seo, Geunyoung Jung, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Hosik Choi, Jiyoung Jung, Kyungwoo Song
IEEE TPAMI 2026 Paper

2025

MetaDesigner: Advancing Artistic Typography through AI-Driven, User-Centric, and Multilingual WordArt Synthesis
Jun-Yan He, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†, Chenyang Li, Jingdong Sun, Qi He, Wangmeng Xiang, Hanyuan Chen, Jin-Peng Lan, Xianhui Lin, Kang Zhu, Bin Luo, Yifeng Geng, Xuansong Xie, Alexander G. Hauptmann
ICLR 2025 Paper Project
Combo: Co-Speech Holistic 3D Human Motion Generation and Efficient Customizable Adaptation in Harmony
Chao Xu, Mingze Sun, Zhi-Qi Cheng^*, Fei Wang, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun, Ruqi Huang, Alexander Hauptmann
IEEE TPAMI 2025 · Early access Paper Project
StableAnimator: High-Quality Identity-Preserving Human Image Animation
Shuyuan Tu, Zhen Xing, Xintong Han, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, Zuxuan Wu
CVPR 2025 Paper Code Project
ProMQA: Question Answering Dataset for Multimodal Procedural Activity Understanding
Kimihiro Hasegawa, Wiradee Imrattanatrai, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Masaki Asada, Susan Holm, Yuran Wang, Ken Fukuda, Teruko Mitamura
NAACL 2025 Paper Code & Data
Securing the Skies: A Comprehensive Survey on Anti-UAV Methods, Benchmarking, and Future Directions
Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Sanjian Zhang, Guangyu Chen, Yuzhi Hu, Masumi Yano, Jingdong Sun, Siyu Huang, Feng Liu, Qi Dai, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†
CVPR 2025 · Anti-UAV Workshop Best Paper Award Paper
MaxSup: Overcoming Representation Collapse in Label Smoothing
Yuxuan Zhou, Heng Li, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†, Xudong Yan, Yifei Dong, Mario Fritz, Margret Keuper
NeurIPS 2025 OralPaper Code

2024

Human-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation
Heng Li, Minghan Li, Zhi-Qi Cheng^*†, Yifei Dong, Yuxuan Zhou, Jun-Yan He, Qi Dai, Teruko Mitamura, Alexander Hauptmann
NeurIPS 2024 · Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight Paper Project & benchmark
BlockGCN: Redefine Topology Awareness for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
Yuxuan Zhou, Xudong Yan, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†, Yan Yan, Qi Dai, Xian-Sheng Hua
CVPR 2024 Paper Code
Emotion-LLaMA: Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning with Instruction Tuning
Zebang Cheng, Zhi-Qi Cheng^*†, Jun-Yan He, Jingdong Sun, Kai Wang, Yuxiang Lin, Zheng Lian, Xiaojiang Peng, Alexander G. Hauptmann
NeurIPS 2024 Paper Code Project
SHIELD: LLM-Driven Schema Induction for Predictive Analytics in EV Battery Supply Chain Disruptions
Zhi-Qi Cheng^*, Yifei Dong, Aike Shi, Wei Liu, Yuzhi Hu, Jason O’Connor, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Kate Whitefoot
EMNLP 2024 · Industry Track Paper Code Project
Towards Calibrated Robust Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models
Changdae Oh, Hyesu Lim, Mijoo Kim, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun, Jaegul Choo, Alexander Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†, Kyungwoo Song
NeurIPS 2024 Paper Code

2023

HDFormer: High-Order Directed Transformer for 3D Human Pose Estimation
Hanyuan Chen, Jun-Yan He, Wangmeng Xiang, Zhi-Qi Cheng^*, Wei Liu, Hanbing Liu, Bin Luo, Yifeng Geng, Xuansong Xie
IJCAI 2023 Paper Code
DAMO-StreamNet: Optimizing Streaming Perception in Autonomous Driving
Jun-Yan He, Zhi-Qi Cheng^†, Chenyang Li, Wangmeng Xiang, Binghui Chen, Bin Luo, Yifeng Geng, Xuansong Xie
IJCAI 2023 Paper Code
ChartReader: A Unified Framework for Chart Derendering and Comprehension without Heuristic Rules
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Qi Dai, Alexander G. Hauptmann
ICCV 2023 Paper Code

2022

Rethinking Spatial Invariance of Convolutional Networks for Object Counting
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Qi Dai, Hong Li, Jingkuan Song, Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann
CVPR 2022 Paper Code
GSRFormer: Grounded Situation Recognition Transformer with Alternate Semantic Attention Refinement
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Qi Dai, Siyao Li, Teruko Mitamura, Alexander Hauptmann
ACM Multimedia 2022 Paper Code

2019

Learning Spatial Awareness to Improve Crowd Counting
Zhi-Qi Cheng^*, Jun-Xiu Li, Qi Dai, Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann
ICCV 2019 OralPaper

2018

Learning to Transfer: Generalizable Attribute Learning with Multitask Neural Model Search
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Xiao Wu, Siyu Huang, Jun-Xiu Li, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Qiang Peng
ACM Multimedia 2018 Paper

2017

Video2Shop: Exact Matching Clothes in Videos to Online Shopping Images
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Xiao Wu, Yang Liu, Xian-Sheng Hua
CVPR 2017 Paper
Video eCommerce++: Toward Large Scale Online Video Advertising
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Xiao Wu, Yang Liu, Xian-Sheng Hua
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2017 Paper

2016

Video eCommerce: Towards Online Video Advertising
Zhi-Qi Cheng, Yang Liu, Xiao Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua
ACM Multimedia 2016 ACM SCF Best Student Paper AwardPaper

For Zhi-Qi Cheng: * co-first author; † corresponding or co-corresponding author. MILab publication list · Google Scholar

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