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

Congratulates to Dr. Jingjing Li for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

Congratulates to Jingjing for being awarded the Stephen and Olga Anhill Graduate Scholarship in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Our paper "Act to See, See to Act: Diffusion-Driven Perception-Action Interplay for Adaptive Policies " is accepted by NeurIPS 2025! Congrats to Jing Wang.

Welcome Jiahui, who recently joined in our lab as a MSc student.

Welcome Dr. Pengyu Zhang, who recently joined in our lab as a Postdoc Fellow.

Recent Publications

Jing Wang, Weiting Peng, Jing Tang, Zeyu Gong, Xihua Wang, Bo Tao, Li Cheng (2025). Act to See, See to Act: Diffusion-Driven Perception-Action Interplay for Adaptive Policies. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Shihao Zou, Yuanlu Xu, Nikolaos Sarafianos, Federica Bogo, Tony Tung, Weixin Si, Li Cheng (2025). Generating High-Fidelity Clothed Human Dynamics with Temporal Diffusion. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.

Guorui Liao, Chunyuan Zheng, Li Cheng, Haoyu Xie, Shanshan Huang, Jun Liao, Haoxuan Li, Li Liu (2025). HiPoser: 3D Human Pose Estimation with Hierarchical Shared Learning at Parts-Level Using Inertial Measurement Units. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Hang Zhou, Xinxin Zuo, Rui Ma, Li Cheng (2025). BOOTPLACE: Bootstrapped Object Placement with Detection Transformers. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

PDF Code Project

Weitao Feng, Hang Zhou, Jing Liao, Li Cheng, Wenbo Zhou (2025). CASAGPT: Cuboid Arrangement and Scene Assembly for Interior Design. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

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Journal Club

Coming Talks:

Nov 2025:

Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion
- By Jing, Nov 4, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]
DimensionX: Create Any 3D and 4D Scenes from a Single Image with Decoupled Video Diffusion
- By Siyuan, Nov 4, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

Finished Talks:

MaskControl: Spatio-Temporal Control for Masked Motion Synthesis
- By Yilin, Oct 14, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]
SeeGround: See and Ground for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
- By Akash, Oct 14, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

Check Full List.