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Yin Cui
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
About
I am Yin Cui (崔崟 in Chinese, pronounced as /yin tsui/), a research scientist at NVIDIA. Before joining NVIDIA, I was a research scientist at Google. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and Cornell Tech in 2019, advised by Professor Serge Belongie. Together with the team, I received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize (2023) for the COCO dataset. My current research interests are Generative AI and Multimodal.
Industry Research
Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI
NVIDIA: Yin Cui (core contributor)
[Paper] [Website] [Code] [Hugging Face] [Project Page] [Blog] [Video] [Model API]
[Jensen Huang Keynote at CES 2025]
Edify Image: High-Quality Image Generation with Pixel Space Laplacian Diffusion Models
NVIDIA: Yin Cui (core contributor)
[Paper] [Website] [Video] [Image Model API] [360 HDRi Model API]
GenUSD: 3D Scene Generation Made Easy
Jiashu Xu, Yunhao Ge, Yifan Ding, Yin Cui, Chen-Hsuan Lin, Xiaohui Zeng, Zekun Hao, Zhaoshuo Li, Donglai Xiang, Qianli Ma, Fangyin Wei, JP Lewis, Qinsheng Zhang, Seungjun Nah, Arun Mallya, Jingyi Jin, Hanzi Mao, Yen-Chen Lin, Pooya Jannaty, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Yu Liu
ACM SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! 2024
[Live Demo at SIGGRAPH 2024] [Blog] [Paper] [Video]
Selected Publications
VideoGLUE: Video General Understanding Evaluation of Foundation Models
Liangzhe Yuan, Nitesh Bharadwaj Gundavarapu, Long Zhao, Hao Zhou, Yin Cui, Lu Jiang, Xuan Yang, Menglin Jia, Tobias Weyand, Luke Friedman, Mikhail Sirotenko, Huisheng Wang, Florian Schroff, Hartwig Adam, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Ting Liu, Boqing Gong
TMLR 2024
[Paper] [Code]
Why Fine-grained Labels in Pretraining Benefit Generalization?
Guan Zhe Hong, Yin Cui, Ariel Fuxman, Stanley Chan, Enming Luo
TMLR 2024
[Paper]
DaTaSeg: Taming a Universal Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Segmentation Model
Xiuye Gu, Yin Cui, Jonathan Huang, Abdullah Rashwan, Xuan Yang, Xingyi Zhou, Golnaz Ghiasi, Weicheng Kuo, Huizhong Chen, Liang-Chieh Chen, David A Ross
NeurIPS 2023
[Paper] [Objects365 Instance Segmentation Dataset]
Surrogate Gap Minimization Improves Sharpness-Aware Training
Juntang Zhuang, Boqing Gong, Liangzhe Yuan, Yin Cui, Hartwig Adam, Nicha C. Dvornek, Sekhar Tatikonda, James S. Duncan, Ting Liu
ICLR 2022
[Paper] [Website] [Code in PyTorch] [Code in JAX]
Fashionpedia: Ontology, Segmentation, and an Attribute Localization Dataset
Menglin Jia*, Mengyun Shi*, Mikhail Sirotenko*, Yin Cui*, Claire Cardie, Bharath Hariharan, Hartwig Adam, Serge Belongie
ECCV 2020 (Oral)
[Paper] [Website] [Code] [Kaggle Challenge]
Large Scale Fine-Grained Categorization and Domain-Specific Transfer Learning
Yin Cui, Yang Song, Chen Sun, Andrew Howard, Serge Belongie
CVPR 2018
[Paper] [Code] [Data] [Tensorflow Hub]
The iNaturalist Species Classification and Detection Dataset
Grant Van Horn, Oisin Mac Aodha, Yang Song, Yin Cui, Chen Sun, Alex Shepard, Hartwig Adam, Pietro Perona, Serge Belongie
CVPR 2018 (Spotlight)
[Paper] [Code and Data]
[Tensorflow Object Detection API] [Blog]
Miscellaneous
Professional Activities
- Area Chair of ICCV 2025, ICLR 2025, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2023, ICCV 2023, WACV 2023
- Action Editor of TMLR
- Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member of AAAI 2022, AAAI 2023
- Guest Editor of IJCV Special Issue on Open-World Visual Recognition
- Reviewer of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, IJCV
- Organizing Committee of ImageNet and COCO Visual Recognition Workshop at ICCV 2015, ECCV 2016
- Organizing Committee of Joint Workshop of the COCO and Places Challenges at ICCV 2017
- Organizing Committee of Joint COCO and Mapilary Recognition Challenge Workshop at ECCV 2018, ICCV 2019
- Organizing Committee of Joint COCO and LVIS Recognition Challenge Workshop at ECCV 2020
- Organizing Committee of Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop at CVPR 2017, CVPR 2018, CVPR 2019
- Organizing Committee of Large-scale Scene Understanding Workshop (COCO Captioning Challenge) at CVPR 2015
Selected Honors
- PAMI Mark Everingham Prize (2023)
- McMullen Fellowship (2014 - 2015)
- Edwin Howard Armstrong Memorial Award (2014)
- Wei Family Private Foundation Special Scholarship (2013)
- National Scholarship (2010)