Vision and Learning Lab is led by Dr. Li Cheng at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta. Our research centers around computer vision, machine learning, visual behavior analysis, biomedical image anlysis, and multimedia signal processing.

News

Congrats to Jun for his paper, Hand Gesture Recognition from an Open-Set Perspective, being accepted recently by IEEE TMM!

Two papers in our lab are accepted into ICLR 2025. They are 1st authored by Yilin and Gohar, respectively. Congratulations!

Welcome Dr. Jing Wang, who recently joined in our lab as a Postdoc Fellow.

Congratulates to Gohar for successfully passing his MSc Exam! We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

Welcome Dr. Hang Zhou, who recently joined in our lab as a Postdoc Fellow.

Recent Publications

Yilin Wang, Chuan Guo, Yuxuan Mu, Muhammad Gohar Javed, Xinxin Zuo, Juwei Lu, Hai Jiang, Li Cheng (2025). MotionDreamer: One-to-Many Motion Synthesis with Localized Generative Masked Transformer. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Jun Zhou, Chi Xu, Li Cheng (2025). Hand Gesture Recognition from an Open-Set Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).

Muhammad Gohar Javed, Chuan Guo, Li Cheng, Xingyu Li (2025). InterMask: 3D Human Interaction Generation via Collaborative Masked Modelling. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

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Wei Ji, Jingjing Li, Wenbo Li, Yilin Shen, Li Cheng, Hongxia Jin (2024). Unleashing Multispectral Video's Potential in Semantic Segmentation: A Semi-supervised Viewpoint and New UAV-View Benchmark. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Yilin Wang, Chuan Guo, Li Cheng, Hai Jiang (2024). RegionGrasp: A Novel Task for Contact Region Controllable Hand Grasp Generation. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops.

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Journal Club

Coming Talks:

Single View Reconstruction
- By Akash, Feb 25, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

Finished Talks:

One Step Diffusion via Shortcut Models
- By Yilin, Feb 11, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]
Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction
- By Hang, Feb 11, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

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