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About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem.
My research interests mainly lie in computer vision, especially in:
Long-Form Video: Achieving maximum recall of related information using minimal memory storage.
Multimodal Learning: Aligning vision and language into cohesive multimodal representations.
Explainable AI: Revealing model perceptions of the world to enable a transparent latent space.
I'm always happy to collaborate on interesting projects, especially with self-motivated grad or undergrad students. If you're into my works or just want to chat, feel free to drop me an email! ๐ ๐
Selected Works
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TMLR 2025TextRegion: Text-Aligned Region Tokens from Frozen Image-Text Models
Yao Xiao, Qiqian Fu, Heyi Tao, Yuqun Wu, Zhen Zhu, Derek Hoiem
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), November 2025.
J2C Certification ๐
(top ~10% among accepted TMLR papers)
@article{ xiao2025textregion, title={TextRegion: Text-Aligned Region Tokens from Frozen Image-Text Models}, author={Yao Xiao and Qiqian Fu and Heyi Tao and Yuqun Wu and Zhen Zhu and Derek Hoiem}, journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research}, issn={2835-8856}, year={2025}, url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=KZLmkL62M4}, note={J2C Certification} } |
Blog
- [12/06/2025] ๅฐ็พไบบ้ฑผ
A space to share my thoughts and track my growth. Iโll keep it casual -- Iโm a CS student, but this isnโt a technical blog.
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant for CS 446: Machine Learning, Spring 2025, UIUC.
Services
Co-organizer: UIUC Computer Vision External Speaker Series โ Interested speakers are welcome to reach out to register for upcoming sessions.
Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, WACV, IEEE Access.