Jinfa Huang       

Currently, I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester (UR), advised by Prof. Jiebo Luo.

I aim at building multimodal interactive AI systems that can not only ground and reason over the external world signals, to understand human language, but also assist humans in decision-making and efficiently solving social concerns, e.g., robot. As steps towards this goal, my research interests include but are not limited to Multimodal Large Language Models, Video Language Alignment.

Prior to that, I got my master's degree from Peking University (PKU) in 2023, advised by Prof. Li Yuan and Prof. Jie Chen. And I obtained the honored bachelor's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2020.

( Note: I am actively seeking a summer internship in the U.S. for 2024. Feel free to connect with me:) )

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News

  • [2023/09]   Join the VIStA Lab as a Ph.D. student working on vision and language.
  • [2023/07]   1 paper is accepted by ACMMM 2023.
  • [2023/05]   I was awarded the 2023 Peking University Excellent Graduation Thesis.
  • [2023/04]   1 paper is accepted by TIP 2023.
  • [2023/04]   1 paper is accepted by IJCAI 2023.
  • [2023/02]   1 paper (Top 10% Highlight) is accepted by CVPR 2023.
  • [2022/09]   1 paper is accepted by ICRA 2023.
  • [2022/09]   1 paper (Spotlight) is accepted by NeurIPS 2022.

  • Education

    University of Rochester (UR), USA
    PH.D. Student in Computer Science      • Sep. 2023 - Present
    Advisor: Prof. Jiebo Luo

    Peking University (PKU), China
    MPhil Student in Computer Science      • Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2023
    Advisors: Prof. Li Yuan and Prof. Jie Chen

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China
    Bachelor Degree in Software Engineering      • Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020

    Selected Publication [Google Scholar]

    My current research mainly focues on vision+language. *Equal Contribution. Representative works are highlighted.

    Video-Text as Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning
    Peng Jin, Jinfa Huang, Pengfei Xiong, Shangxuan Tian, Chang Liu, Xiangyang Ji, Li Yuan, Jie Chen
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2023
    (Highlight Presentation, Top 2.5%)
    [Paperlink], [Code]
    Area: Video-and-Language Representation, Game Theory, Video-Text Retrieval

    In this paper, we creatively model video-text as game players with multivariate cooperative game theory to wisely handle the uncertainty during fine-grained semantic interaction with diverse granularity, flexible combination, and vague intensity.

    Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning for Compact Video-and-Language Representations
    Peng Jin*, Jinfa Huang*, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Guoli Song, David A. Clifton, Jie Chen
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
    (Spotlight Presentation, Top 5%)
    [Paperlink], [Code]
    Area: Video-and-Language Representation, Machine Learning, Video-Text Retrieval, Video Captioning

    To solve the problem of modality gap in video-text feature space, we propose Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning (EMCL) to learn compact video-and-language representations. We use the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to find a compact set of bases for the latent space, where the features could be concisely represented as the linear combinations of these bases.

    Weakly-Supervised 3D Spatial Reasoning for Text-based Visual Question Answering
    Hao Li, Jinfa Huang, Peng Jin, Guoli Song, Qi Wu, Jie Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, TIP 2023
    [Paperlink]
    Area: 3D Spatial Reasoning, Text-based Visual Question Answering

    Existing approaches are constrained within 2D spatial information learned from the input images and rely on transformer-based architectures to reason implicitly during the fusion process. spatial reasoning between texts and objects is crucial in TextVQA, we introduce 3D geometric information into a human-like spatial reasoning process to capture the contextual knowledge of key objects step-by-step.

    Cross-Modality Time-Variant Relation Learning for Generating Dynamic Scene Graphs
    [Paperlink] , [Code]
    Jingyi Wang, Jinfa Huang, Can Zhang, Zhidong Deng
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2023
    Area: Cross-Modal Representation, Scene Graph Generation

    In the process of temporal and spatial modeling during dynamic scene graph generation, it is particularly intractable to learn time-variant relations in dynamic scene graphs among frames. In this paper, we propose a Time-variant Relation-aware TRansformer, which aims to model the temporal change of relations in dynamic scene graphs.

    Selected Honors & Scholarships

  • Outstanding Graduate of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) ,  2020
  • National Inspirational Scholarship,  2018
  • Selected entrant for Deepcamp 2020 (200 people worldwide),  2020
  • Outstanding Camper of Tencent Rhino Bird Elite Research Camp (24 people worldwide),  2020
  • Selected entrant for Google Machine Learning Winter Camp 2019 (100 people worldwide),  2019
  • China Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-CCPC), JiLin, Bronze,  2018
  • Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 10% student), UESTC  2017~2019
  • Peking University Excellent Graduation Thesis (Top 10%), PKU  2023

  • Academic Service

  • PC Member:   CVPR'23, NeurIPS'23, ICLR'23, ICCV'23
  • Journal Reviewer:   IEEE TCSVT

  • Personal Interests

    Anime: As a pastime in my spare time, I watched a lot of Japanese anime about love, sports and sci-fi.

    Literature: My favorite writer is Xiaobo Wang, the wisdom of his life inspires me. My favorite philosopher is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, and I am grateful that his philosophy has accompanied me through many difficult times in my life.


    Last updated on Oct, 2023

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