News
2025-06: Two papers are accepted to ICCV 2025.
2024-12: Two papers are accepted to ACM MM 2024 and AAAI 2025.
2024-02: Two papers are accepted to CVPR 2024.
2023-02: Two papers are accepted to CVPR 2023.
2022-05: I win the championship of PIC Challenge HCVG Track at ACM MM 2022.
2021-06: I receive the Best Paper Award of CVPR 2021 PIC Workshop.
Selected Publications & Preprints
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SynopGround: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Paragraph Video Grounding from TV Dramas and Synopses
Chaolei Tan* , Zihang Lin*, Junfu Pu, Zhongang Qi, Wei-Yi Pei, Zhi Qu, Yexin Wang, Ying Shan, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jian-Fang Hu
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) , 2024
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A large-scale video-text dataset with densely annotated paragraph timestamps to enable the new research direction of multi-paragraph video grounding on both long-form videos and long-term queries.
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Siamese Learning with Joint Alignment and Regression for Weakly-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding
Chaolei Tan , Jianhuang Lai, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jian-Fang Hu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024
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First attempt to explore weakly-supervised setting of video paragraph grounding, where a siamese learning framework jontly conducting feature alignment and boundary regression is proposed.
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Hierarchical Semantic Correspondence Networks for Video Paragraph Grounding
Chaolei Tan , Zihang Lin, Jian-Fang Hu, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jianhuang Lai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2023
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Introducing hierarchical modeling into video paragraph grounding by hierarchically aligning semantic correspondence across videos and paragraphs for temporal decoding at multiple granularities.
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Long-RVOS: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Long-term Referring Video Object Segmentation
Tianming Liang, Haichao Jiang, Yuting Yang, Chaolei Tan , Shuai Li, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jian-Fang Hu
ArXiv Preprint , 2025
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A new dataset for segmenting objects in long-form videos that jointly considers static, dynamic, and hybrid types of referring expressions.
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Enhancing Partially Relevant Video Retrieval with Hyperbolic Learning
Jun Li, Jinpeng Wang, Chaolei Tan , Niu Lian, Long Chen, Yaowei Wang, Min Zhang, Shu-Tao Xia, Bin Chen
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2025
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Unleashing the power of hyperbolic cross-modal learning to achieve long-form text-video retrieval with partially relevant language query.
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ReferDINO: Referring Video Object Segmentation with Visual Grounding Foundations
Tianming Liang, Kun-Yu Lin, Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jian-Fang Hu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2025
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Our first attempt to adapt pretrained visual grounding foundation models to Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS).
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Ranking Distillation for Open-Ended Video Question Answering with Insufficient Labels
Tianming Liang, Chaolei Tan , Beihao Xia, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jian-Fang Hu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024
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Tackle the incomplete annotation issues in open-ended video question answering with ranking distillation.
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Collaborative Static and Dynamic Vision-Language Streams for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
Zihang Lin, Chaolei Tan , Jian-Fang Hu, Zhi Jin, Tiancai Ye, Wei-Shi Zheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2023
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To model the collaborative static and dynamic vision-language streams for better spatio-temporal video grounding.
Honors & Awards
HKUST RedBird PhD Scholarship
ACM MM 2024 Outstanding Reviewer
CSIG Outstanding Master's Thesis Nomination Award
SYSU Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
ACM MM 2022 PIC Challenge HCVG Track 1st Place Award
CVPR 2021 PIC Workshop Best Paper Award
SYSU Guangdong Guangda Further Study Scholarship
Guangdong Soong Ching-ling Scholarship