Yulei Niu is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at DVMM Lab, Columbia University from 2022, working with Prof. Shih-Fu Chang.
He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University working with Prof. Hanwang Zhang.
He obtained his Ph.D. at Renmin University of China in 2020, advised by Prof. Ji-Rong Wen and Prof. Zhiwu Lu.
Prior to the Ph.D. study, Yulei received B.E. degree in Computer Science from Renmin University of China in 2015.
His research interests include vision and language, visual reasoning, and causal inference.
[01/2024] | I serve as Area Chair for ACM MM 2024. |
[12/2023] | I serve as Senior PC Member for IJCAI 2024. |
[06/2023] | I serve as Senior PC Member for AAAI 2024. |
[03/2023] | I serve as Area Chair for BMVC 2023. |
[10/2022] | I was recognized as a top reviewer for NeurIPS 2022. |
[07/2022] | I serve as Area Chair for BMVC 2022 and Senior PC Member for AAAI 2023. |
[04/2022] | We are co-organizing the workshop on 2nd Causality in Vision at ECCV 2022 and calling for papers! |
[01/2022] | I was honored to be awarded the China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. |
[09/2021] | I was recognized as an outstanding reviewer for ICCV 2021. |
[03/2021] | I was recognized as an outstanding reviewer for ICLR 2021. |
[12/2020] | We are co-organizing the workshop on Causality in Vision at CVPR 2021. |
[11/2020] | I serve as Senior PC Member for IJCAI 2021. |
ICLR 2024 |
SCHEMA: State CHangEs MAtter for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos Yulei Niu, Wenliang Guo, Long Chen, Xudong Lin, Shih-Fu Chang [Paper] [Code] |
AAAI 2024 |
Beyond Grounding: Extracting Fine-Grained Event Hierarchies Across Modalities Hammad A. Ayyubi, Christopher Thomas, Lovish Chum, Rahul Lokesh, Long Chen, Yulei Niu, Xudong Lin, Xuande Feng, Jaywon Koo, Sounak Ray, Shih-Fu Chang, [Paper] |
ICCV 2023 |
Prompt-aligned Gradient for Prompt Tuning Beier Zhu, Yulei Niu, Yucheng Han, Yue Wu, Hanwang Zhang [Paper] [Code] |
TPAMI |
Counterfactual samples synthesizing and training for robust visual question answering Long Chen, Yuhang Zheng, Yulei Niu, Hanwang Zhang, Jun Xiao [Paper] |
CVPR 2023 |
DiGeo: Discriminative Geometry-Aware Learning for Generalized Few-Shot Object Detection Jiawei Ma, Yulei Niu, Jincheng Xu, Shiyuan Huang, Guangxing Han, Shih-Fu Chang [Paper] [Code] |
AAAI 2023 |
Debiased Fine-Tuning for Vision-language Models by Prompt Regularization Beier Zhu, Yulei Niu, Saeil Lee, Minhoe Hur, Hanwang Zhang Oral Presentation [Paper] [Code] |
EMNLP 2022 |
Weakly-Supervised Temporal Article Grounding Long Chen, Yulei Niu, Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Guangxing Han, Christopher Thomas, Hammad Ayyubi, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang [Paper] [Code] |
EMNLP 2022 |
Interventional Training for Out-Of-Distribution Natural Language Understanding Sicheng Yu, Jing Jiang, Hao Zhang, Yulei Niu, Qianru Sun, Lidong Bing [Paper] [Code] |
NeurIPS 2022 |
Respecting Transfer Gap in Knowledge Distillation Yulei Niu, Long Chen, Chang Zhou, Hanwang Zhang [Paper] [Code] |
ECCV 2022 |
Explicit Image Caption Editing Zhen Wang, Long Chen, Wenbo Ma, Guangxing Han, Yulei Niu, Jian Shao, Jun Xiao [Paper] [Code] |
CVPR 2022 |
Classification-Then-Grounding: Reformulating Video Scene Graphs as Temporal Bipartite Graphs Kaifeng Gao, Long Chen, Yulei Niu, Jian Shao, Jun Xiao [Paper] [Code] |
ICLR 2022 |
On Non-Random Missing Labels in Semi-Supervised Learning Xinting Hu, Yulei Niu, Chunyan Miao, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hanwang Zhang [Paper] [Code] |
AAAI 2022 |
Cross-Domain Empirical Risk Minimization for Unbiased Long-tailed Classification Beier Zhu, Yulei Niu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hanwang Zhang Oral Presentation [Paper] [Code] |
NeurIPS 2021 |
Introspective Distillation for Robust Question Answering Yulei Niu, Hanwang Zhang [Paper] [Code] |
ACL 2021 |
COSY: COunterfactual SYntax for Cross-Lingual Understanding Sicheng Yu, Hao Zhang, Yulei Niu, Qianru Sun, Jing Jiang [Paper] [Code] |
CVPR 2021 |
Counterfactual VQA: A Cause-Effect Look at Language Bias Yulei Niu, Kaihua Tang, Hanwang Zhang, Zhiwu Lu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Ji-Rong Wen [Paper] [Code] |
WACV 2021 |
Domain-Adaptive Few-Shot Learning An Zhao, Mingyu Ding, Zhiwu Lu, Tao Xiang, Yulei Niu, Jiechao Guan, Ji-Rong Wen, Ping Luo [Paper] [Code] |
CVPR 2020 |
Unbiased Scene Graph Generation from Biased Training Kaihua Tang, Yulei Niu, Jianqiang Huang, Jiaxin Shi, Hanwang Zhang Oral Presentation [Paper] [Code] |
CVPR 2020 |
Two Causal Principles for Improving Visual Dialog Jiaxin Qi*, Yulei Niu*, Jianqiang Huang, Hanwang Zhang Visual Dialog Challenge 2019 Winner [Paper] [Code] |
TPAMI |
Variational Context: Exploiting Visual and Textual Context for Grounding Referring Expressions Yulei Niu, Hanwang Zhang, Zhiwu Lu, Shih-Fu Chang [Paper] |
SIGIR 2019 |
Coarse-to-Fine Grained Classification Yuqi Huo, Yao Lu, Yulei Niu, Zhiwu Lu, Ji-Rong Wen Short Paper [Paper] |
CVPR 2019 |
Recursive Visual Attention in Visual Dialog Yulei Niu, Hanwang Zhang, Manli Zhang, Jianhong Zhang, Zhiwu Lu, Ji-Rong Wen Oral Presentation [Paper] [Code] [Talk] |
TIP |
Multi-Modal Multi-Scale Deep Learning for Large-Scale Image Annotation Yulei Niu, Zhiwu Lu, Ji-Rong Wen, Tao Xiang, Shih-Fu Chang [Paper] |
CVPR 2018 |
Grounding Referring Expressions in Images by Variational Context Hanwang Zhang, Yulei Niu, Shih-Fu Chang [Paper] [Code] |
AAAI 2017 |
FeaBoost: Joint Feature and Label Refinement for Semantic Segmentation Yulei Niu, Zhiwu Lu, Songfang Huang, Xin Gao, Ji-Rong Wen Oral Presentation [Paper] |
IJCAI 2015 |
Weakly Supervised Matrix Factorization for Noisily Tagged Image Parsing Yulei Niu*, Zhiwu Lu*, Songfang Huang, Peng Han, Ji-Rong Wen [Paper] |
Co-organizer |
Workshop on 2nd Causality in Vision, ECCV 2022 Workshop on 1st Causality in Vision, CVPR 2021 |
Area Chair | ACM MM'24, BMVC'23, BMVC'22, ACM MM Asia'20 |
Senior PC Member | AAAI'24, IJCAI'24, AAAI'23, IJCAI'23, IJCAI'21 |
Journal Reviewer | IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, ACM TOIS, ACM CSUR, Neurocomputing |
PC Member |
CVPR (2020-), ICCV (2021-), ECCV (2022-), ICML (2020-), NeurIPS (2020-), ICLR (2021-), ACL (2023-), EMNLP (2021-), AAAI (2020-), IJCAI (2021-), ACMMM (2020-), WACV (2021), BMVC (2019-2020) |
Last updated: Jan 16, 2023.