Liang Liao

Liang Liao (廖良)

Research Fellow, S-lab, Nanyang Technological University

I am currently working with Prof. Weisi Lin as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (南洋理工大学). Before this, I worked with Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (国立情報学研究所), Japan. I received my Ph.D. degree at National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University (武汉大学) with honors in Jun. 2019, advised by Prof. Ruimin Hu. I received my B.Eng. degree at the International School of Software, Wuhan University in Jun. 2013. My research interests focus on visual signal coding, restoration, and understanding, particularly its applications to video compression, image inpainting, low-quality image analysis, and video quality assessment.
E-mail: liang.liao AT ntu.edu.sg; Google Scholar

News

  • July 2024 - One papers is accepted by TIP 2024

  • July 2024 - Two papers are accepted by ACM MM 2024

  • July 2024 - Two papers are accepted by ECCV 2024

  • May 2024 - Q-Align is accepted by ICML 2024

  • Apr., 2024 - One paper about AI4Science is accepted by IEEE TIM

  • Feb., 2024 - Two papers about image quality assessment are accepted by CVPR 2024

  • Jan., 2024 - Q-Bench is accepted as a spotlight paper (Top 5%) by ICLR 2024

  • Jan., 2024 - One paper about image quality assessment is accepted by IEEE TIP

  • Dec., 2023 - Two papers about real-world super-resolution and hidden follower detection are accepted by AAAI 2024

  • Step., 2023 - Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: Dec. 15, 2023. Multimedia Tools and Applications Special Issue on "Recent Advances in AI-Powered Multimedia Visual Computing and Multimodal Signal Processing for Metaverse Era"

  • Step., 2023 - One paper about video quality assessment is accepted by IEEE TPAMI

  • Step., 2023 - One paper about remote sensing image compression is accepted by IEEE TGRS

  • Step., 2023 - One paper about domain-adaptive crowd counting is accepted by IEEE TMM

  • Aug., 2023 - I am honored for being elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member!

  • Aug., 2023 - One paper about image aesthetics assessment is accepted by IEEE TIP

  • Jul., 2023 - One paper about video quality assessment is accepted by ACM MM 2023

  • Jul., 2023 - One paper about video quality assessment is accepted by ICCV 2023

  • Jul., 2023 - Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: Jul. 31, 2023. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Smart City and Informatization (iSCI-2023). Looking forward to seeing you in Exeter, UK.

  • Jul., 2023 - I am serving as the Publicity Co-Chair of iSCI 2023, which will be held in Exeter, UK, 1-3 November 2023

  • Jun., 2023 - One paper about audio-driven video frame interpolation is accepted by ICIP 2023

  • Mar., 2023 - One paper about video quality assessment is accepted by ICME 2023

  • Feb., 2023 - One paper about multi-view clustering is accepted by CVPR 2023

  • Feb., 2023 - One paper about video quality assessment is accepted by IEEE TCSVT

  • Feb., 2023 - One paper about multi-target domain adaptation is accepted by ICASSP 2023

  • Jan., 2023 - One paper about disentangled representation learning is accepted by CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research

  • Dec., 2022 - Two papers are accepted by TMM and CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, respectively

  • Nov., 2022 - Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: Dec. 15, 2022. ICME 2023 Special Session on "Quality Enhancement and Assessment for Low-quality Multimedia Data Understanding"

  • Nov., 2022 - Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: Jun. 1, 2023. Multimedia Tools and Applications Special Issue on "Enhancement, Understanding and Assessment of Low-quality Multimedia Data"

  • Nov., 2022 - One paper about scene understanding under adverse weather is accepted by AAAI 2023

  • Jul., 2022 - Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: Feb. 28, 2023. Applied Sciences Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Image Processing"

  • Jul., 2022 - Four papers are accepted by ACM MM 2022, ECCV 2022, and ICIP 2022, respectively

  • Apr., 2022 - We are honored to invite three IEEE Fellows from academia and the Executive R&D Director from SenseBrain as the Keynote Speakers

  • Apr., 2022 - We are hosting an ACM MM 2022 Workshop. Details please refer to our Website

  • Apr., 2022 - One paper about scene understanding under adverse weather is accepted by IEEE TIP

  • Mar., 2022 - One paper about space-time video super-resolution is accepted by CVPR 2022

  • Feb., 2022 - I started as a Research Fellow at S-lab, Nanyang Technological University

  • Jan., 2022 - The personal website is online (Github)

  • Oct., 2019 - I started as a post-doctor at National Institute of Informatics, Japan

  • Jun., 2019 - I got PHD degree from Wuhan University


Publications (* Corresponding Author)

Preprints

2024

  • Blind Video Quality Prediction by Uncovering Human Video Perceptual Representation

    Liang Liao, Kangmin Xu, Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Weisi Lin

    TIP 2024 (Accepted)

  • RefScale: Multi-temporal Assisted Image Rescaling in Repetitive Observation Scenarios

    Zhen Zhang, Jing Xiao, Liang Liao, Mi Wang

    ACM MM 2024 (Accepted)

  • Q-Ground: Image Quality Grounding with Large Multi-modality Models

    Chaofeng Chen, Yang Sensen, Haoning Wu, Liang Liao, Zicheng Zhang, Annan Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Weisi Lin

    ACM MM 2024 (Accepted)

  • Towards Open-ended Visual Quality Comparison

    Haoning Wu, Hanwei Zhu, Zicheng Zhang, Erli Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Chunyi Li, Annan Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Xiaohong Liu, Guangtao Zhai, Shiqi Wang, Weisi Lin

    ECCV 2024 (Accepted)

  • Enhancing Diffusion Models with Text-Encoder Reinforcement Learning

    Chaofeng Chen, Annan Wang, Haoning Wu, Liang Liao, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    ECCV 2024 (Accepted)

  • Q-Align: Teaching LMMs for Visual Scoring via Discrete Text-Defined Levels

    Haoning Wu, Zicheng Zhang, Weixia Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Chunyi Li, Yixuan Gao, Annan Wang, Erli Zhang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai, and Weisi Lin

    ICML 2024 (Accepted)

  • Ensemble Cross UNet Transformers for Augmentation of Atomic Electron Tomography

    Yang Yu, Jingling Yuan, Liang Liao, Xiao Li, Xian Zhong, Jinsong Wu

    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (Accepted)

  • Local Distortion Aware Efficient Transformer Adaptation for Image Quality Assessment

    Kangmin Xu, Liang Liao*, Jing Xiao, Chaofeng Chen, Haoning Wu, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    CVPR 2024 (Accepted)

  • Q-Instruct: Improving Low-level Visual Abilities for Multi-modality Foundation Models

    Haoning Wu, Zicheng Zhang, Erli Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Annan Wang, Kaixin Xu, Chunyi Li, Jingwen Hou, Guangtao Zhai, Geng Xue, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    CVPR 2024 (Accepted)

  • Q-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Foundation Models on Low-level Vision

    Haoning Wu, Zicheng Zhang, Erli Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Annan Wang, Chunyi Li, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Guangtao Zhai, and Weisi Lin

    ICLR 2024 (Accepted)

  • TOPIQ: A Top-down Approach from Semantics to Distortions for Image Quality Assessment

    Chaofeng Chen, Jiadi Mo, Jingwen Hou, Haoning Wu, Liang Liao, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    TIP 2024 (Accepted)

  • Iterative Token Evaluation and Refinement for Real-World Super-Resolution

    Chaofeng Chen, Shangchen Zhou, Liang Liao, Haoning Wu, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    AAAI 2024

  • Hidden Follower Detection: How is the Gaze-Spacing Pattern Embodied in Frequency Domain?

    Shu Li, Ruimin Hu, Suhui Li, and Liang Liao

    AAAI 2024

2023

  • Neighbourhood Representative Sampling for Efficient End-to-end Video Quality Assessment

    Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Jingwen Hou, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Jinwei Gu and Weisi Lin

    TPAMI 2023

  • Uplink-Assist Downlink Remote Sensing Image Compression via Historical Referecing

    Huiwen Wang, Liang Liao, Jing Xiao, Weisi Lin, Mi Wang

    TGRS 2023

  • Find Gold in Sand: Fine-Grained Similarity Mining for Domain-Adaptive Crowd Counting

    Huilin Zhu, Jingling Yuan, Xian Zhong, Liang Liao, Zheng Wang

    TMM 2023

  • Towards Transparent Deep Image Aesthetics Assessment with Tag-based Content Descriptors

    Jingwen Hou, Weisi Lin, Yuming Fang, Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Weide Liu

    TIP 2023

  • Towards Explainable In-the-Wild Video Quality Assessment: a Database and a Language-Prompted Approach

    Haoning Wu, Erli Zhang, Liang Liao, Chaofeng Chen, Jingwen Hou, Annan Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    ACM MM 2023

  • Exploring Video Quality Assessment on User Generated Contents from Aesthetic and Technical Perspectives

    Haoning Wu#, Erli Zhang#, Liang Liao#, Chaofeng Chen, Jingwen Hou, Annan Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    ICCV 2023

  • ASVFI: Audio-driven Speaker Video Frame Interpolation

    Qianrui Wang, Dengshi Li, Liang Liao, Hao Song, Wei Li, and Jing Xiao

    ICIP 2023 (Accepted)

  • Exploring Opinion-Unaware Video Quality Assessment with Semantic Affinity Criterion

    Haoning Wu, Liang Liao, Jingwen Hou, Chaofeng Chen, Erli Zhang, Annan Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    ICME 2023

  • GCFAgg: Global and Cross-view Feature Aggregation for Multi-view Clustering

    Weiqing Yan, Yuanyang Zhang, Chenlei Lv, Chang Tang, Guanghui Yue, Liang Liao, and Weisi Lin

    CVPR 2023

  • DisCoVQA: Temporal Distortion-Content Transformers for Video Quality Assessment

    Haoning Wu, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Jingwen Hou, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, and Weisi Lin

    TCSVT 2023

  • BAT: Bi-Alignment Based on Transformation in Multi-Target Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation

    Xian Zhong, Wei Li, Liang Liao*, Jing Xiao, Wenxuan Liu, Wenxin Huang, and Zheng Wang

    ICASSP 2023

  • A Review of Disentangled Representation Learning for Remote Sensing Data

    Mi Wang, Huiwen Wang, Jing Xiao, Liang Liao

    CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research 2023

  • Progressive Motion Boosting for Video Frame Interpolation

    Jing Xiao, Kangmin Xu, Mengshun Hu, Liang Liao*, Zheng Wang, Chia-Wen Lin, and Shin'ichi Satoh

    TMM 2023

  • OSAP-Loss: Efficient Optimization of Average Precision via Involving Samples after Positive Ones Towards Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

    Xin Yuan, Xin Xu, Xiao Wang, Kai Zhang, Liang Liao, Zheng Wang, and Chia-Wen Lin

    CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology 2023

  • Only a Few Classes Confusing: Pixel-wise Candidate Labels Disambiguation for Foggy Scene Understanding

    Liang Liao, Wenyi Chen, Zhen Zhang, Jing Xiao, Yan Yang, Chia-Wen Lin, and Shin'ichi Satoh

    AAAI 2023

2022

Before 2022

Professional Activities