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 Hang Zhou for his paper, titled 'PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions', being accepted by ICLR 2026.

Welcome Dr. Bohan Wei, who recently joined in our lab as a Postdoc Fellow.

Congrats to Jiahui Peng for receiving the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship!

Congrats to Jun Zhou for his paper accepted by AAAI 2026. His paper, titled VPHO: Joint Visual-Physical Cue Learning and Aggregation for Hand-Object Pose Estimation, is among the first attempts to visually estimate pressure measure during hand object interactions.

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

Recent Publications

Jun Zhou, Chi Xu, Kaifeng Tang, Yuting Ge, Tingrui Guo, Li Cheng (2025). VPHO: Joint Visual-Physical Cue Learning and Aggregation for Hand-Object Pose Estimation. AAAI 2026.

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).

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Journal Club

Coming Talks:

Jan 2026:

One Model to Rig Them All: Diverse Skeleton Rigging with UniRig
- By Ji, Jan 29, 2026 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]
LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model
- By Jingjing, Jan 29, 2026 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

Finished Talks:

Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Brick Structures from Text
- By Hang, Dec 16, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]
Back to Basics: Let Denoising Generative Models Denoise
- By Yilin, Dec 16, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

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