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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

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!

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

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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.

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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).

Code Project

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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Lab Director

Li Cheng

Lab Members

Bohan Wei

Jiahui Peng

Jing Wang

Jingjing Li

Pengyu Zhang

Hang Zhou

Yilin Wang

Akash Ghimire

Hamid Mohammadi

Ji Yang

Siyuan Li

Alumni

Jun Zhou

Shihao Zou

Xinxin Zuo

Chuan Guo

Muhammad Gohar Javed

Yuxuan Mu

Wei Ji

Sen Wang

Yande Li

Taivanbat Badamdorj

Shuang Wu

Youdong Ma

Javad Khaghani

Mahdiar Nekoui

Seyed Mojtaba Marvasti-Zadeh

Nguyen Tran Nhat Hoang

He Yan

Sait Akturk

Journal Club

Coming Talks:

Dec 2025:

• 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]

Finished Talks:

• Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion

  • By Jing, Nov 18, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

• SAM3: Segment Anything with Concepts

  • By Pengyu, Nov 18, 2025 - [Talk Slides] [Original Paper]

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