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 Siyuan for her paper, titled "Progressive Pose-Guided 4D Animal Reconstruction from Monocular Video", being accepted by ECCV 2026 (Oral).

Our paper "SAM3-I: Segment Anything with Instructions" is accepted by the main track of ACL 2026.

Welcome Emanuel de la Cruz Espinosa, who recently joined in our lab as a visiting PhD student.

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

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

Recent Publications

Siyuan Li, Weiying Chen, Yilin Wang, Xinxin Zuo, Xingyu Li, Li Cheng (2026). Progressive Pose-Guided 4D Animal Reconstruction from Monocular Video. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).

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Hang Zhou, Xinxin Zuo, Sen Wang, Li Cheng (2026). PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

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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.

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Journal Club

Coming Talks:

September 2026:

GenHOI: Generalized Hand-Object Pose Estimation with Occlusion Awareness
- By Pengyu, Sep 14, 2026 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

Finished Talks:

4D Primitive-Mâché: Glueing Primitives for Persistent 4D Scene Reconstruction
- By Siyuan, Aug 10, 2026 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]
Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video
- By Ji, July 28, 2026 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

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