Ph.D. Student - Ye Liu

BS(WHU);

Research Interests

Vision & Language, Foundation Models

Honors & Awards

• PolyU Distinguished Postdocteral Fellowship 2025/26
• PolyU PhD Scholars International Collaborative Research Fellowship (ICRF) 2024
• PolyU Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Scholarship 2022, 2023, 2024
• HKSTP Ideation Grant 2023, 2024
• The Most Appreciated Teaching Assistant (MATA) Award - Gold Medal 2022

Selected Publications

Ye Liu, Zongyang Ma, Junfu Pu, Zhongang Qi, Yang Wu, Ying Shan, Chang Wen Chen. "UniPixel: Unified Object Referring and Segmentation for Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning". NeurIPS 2025.

Ye Liu, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Chang Wen Chen, and Mike Zheng Shou. "VideoMind: A Chain-of-LoRA Agent for Temporal-Grounded Video Reasoning". LAW @ NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight).

Ye Liu, Zongyang Ma, Zhongang Qi, Yang Wu, Ying Shan, and Chang Wen Chen. "E.T. Bench: Towards Open-Ended Event-Level Video-Language Understanding". NeurIPS 2024.

Ye Liu, Jixuan He, Wanhua Li, Junsik Kim, Donglai Wei, Hanspeter Pfister, and Chang Wen Chen. "R^2-Tuning: Efficient Image-to-Video Transfer Learning for Video Temporal Grounding". ECCV 2024.

Ye Liu, Siyuan Li, Yang Wu, Chang Wen Chen, Ying Shan, and Xiaohu Qie. "UMT: Unified Multi-modal Transformers for Joint Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection". CVPR 2022.