Yao (Ava) Xiao

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* denotes equal contribution. Papers highlighted with a red dashed border are representative works.

2025

TextRegion: Text-Aligned Region Tokens from Frozen Image-Text Models

Yao Xiao, Qiqian Fu, Heyi Tao, Yuqun Wu, Zhen Zhu, Derek Hoiem

Under Review.
[Paper] [Code]

2024

CVPR 2024

Region-Based Representations Revisited

Michal Shlapentokh-Rothman*,, Ansel Blume*,, Yao Xiao, Yuqun Wu, Sethuraman T V, Heyi Tao, Jae Yong Lee, Wilfredo Torres, Yu-Xiong Wang, Derek Hoiem.

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
[Webpage] [Paper] [Code] [Video]

TMLR

Continual Learning in Open-vocabulary Classification with Complementary Memory Systems

Zhen Zhu, Weijie Lyu, Yao Xiao, Derek Hoiem

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
[Paper] [Code]

2023

WACV 2023

PatchZero: Defending against Adversarial Patch Attacks by Detecting and Zeroing the Patch

Ke Xu*, Yao Xiao*, Zhaoheng Zheng, Kaijie Cai, Ram Nevatia.

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023.
[Abstract] [Paper]

2022

ECCV 2022

Contributions of Shape, Texture, and Color in Visual Recognition

Yunhao Ge*, Yao Xiao*, Zhi Xu, Xingrui Wang, Laurent Itti.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
[Paper] [Code]

2021

CVPR 2021

A Peek Into the Reasoning of Neural Networks: Interpreting with Structural Visual Concepts

Yunhao Ge, Yao Xiao, Zhi Xu, Meng Zheng, Srikrishna Karanam, Terrence Chen, Laurent Itti and Ziyan Wu.

IEEE/ CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[Webpage] [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Poster]