Visual Composition


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  • Image Harmonization

    1. Wenyan Cong, Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Liu Liu, Zhixin Ling, Weiyuan Li, Liqing Zhang, "DoveNet: Deep Image Harmonization via Domain Verification", CVPR, 2020. [pdf] [dataset&code]
    2. Wenyan Cong, Xinhao Tao, Li Niu, Jing Liang, Xuesong Gao, Qihao Sun, Liqing Zhang, "High-Resolution Image Harmonization via Collaborative Dual Transformations", CVPR, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    3. Li Niu, Linfeng Tan, Xinhao Tao, Junyan Cao, Fengjun Guo, Teng Long, Liqing Zhang, "Deep Image Harmonization with Globally Guided Feature Transformation and Relation Distillation", ICCV, 2023. [pdf] [dataset]
    4. Li Niu, Junyan Cao, Wenyan Cong, Liqing Zhang, "Deep Image Harmonization with Learnable Augmentation", ICCV, 2023. [pdf] [code]
    5. Xinhao Tao, Tianyuan Qiu, Junyan Cao, Li Niu, "Diverse Image Harmonization", arXiv, 2024. [pdf]
  • Video Harmonization

    1. Xinyuan Lu, Shengyuan Huang, Li Niu, Wenyan Cong, Liqing Zhang, "Deep Video Harmonization with Color Mapping Consistency", IJCAI, 2022. [pdf] [dataset&code]
  • Painterly Image Harmonization

    1. Junyan Cao, Yan Hong, Li Niu, "Painterly Image Harmonization in Dual Domains", AAAI, 2023. [pdf] [code]
    2. Lingxiao Lu, Jiangtong Li, Junyan Cao, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, "Painterly Image Harmonization using Diffusion Model", ACM MM, 2023. [pdf] [code]
    3. Li Niu, Junyan Cao, Yan Hong, Liqing Zhang, "Painterly Image Harmonization by Learning from Painterly Objects", AAAI, 2024. [pdf] [dataset&code]
  • Inharmonious Region Localization

    1. Jing Liang, Li Niu, Penghao Wu, Fengjun Guo, Teng Long, "Inharmonious Region Localization by Magnifying Domain Discrepancy", AAAI, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    2. Penghao Wu, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, "Inharmonious Region Localization with Auxiliary Style Feature", BMVC, 2022. [pdf] [code]
  • Object Shadow Generation

    1. Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, "Shadow Generation for Composite Image in Real-world Scenes", AAAI, 2022. [pdf] [dataset&code]
    2. Xinhao Tao, Junyan Cao, Yan Hong, Li Niu, "Shadow Generation with Decomposed Mask Prediction and Attentive Shadow Filling", AAAI, 2024. [pdf] [dataset]
    3. Qingyang Liu, Junqi You, Jianting Wang, Xinhao Tao, Bo Zhang, Li Niu, "Shadow Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Model", CVPR, 2024. [pdf] [dataset&code]
    4. Haonan Zhao, Qingyang Liu, Xinhao Tao, Li Niu, Guangtao Zhai, "Shadow Generation Using Diffusion Model with Geometry Prior", CVPR, 2025. [pdf] [code]
  • Object Placement

    1. Siyuan Zhou, Liu Liu, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, "Learning Object Placement via Dual-path Graph Completion", ECCV, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    2. Li Niu, Qingyang Liu, Zhenchen Liu, Jiangtong Li, "Fast Object Placement Assessment", arXiv, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    3. Bingjie Gao, Bo Zhang, Li Niu, "Object Placement for Anything", ICME, 2025. [pdf]
  • Foreground Object Search

    1. Bo Zhang, Jiacheng Sui, Li Niu, "Foreground Object Search by Distilling Composite Image Feature", ICCV, 2023. [pdf] [dataset&code]
  • Generative Composition

    1. Bo Zhang, Yuxuan Duan, Jun Lan, Yan Hong, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Li Niu, "ControlCom: Controllable Image Composition using Diffusion Model", arXiv, 2023. [pdf] [dataset&code]

    • Few-shot Visual Synthesis


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  • Few-shot Image Generation

    1. Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Weijie Zhao, Chen Fu, Liqing Zhang, "F2GAN: Fusing-and-Filling GAN for Few-shot Image Generation", ACM MM, 2020. [pdf] [code]
    2. Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang, "Few-shot Image Generation Using Discrete Content Representation", ACM MM, 2022. [pdf]
    3. Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang, "DeltaGAN: Towards Diverse Few-shot Image Generation with Sample-Specific Delta", ECCV, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    4. Yuxuan Duan, Li Niu, Yan Hong, Liqing Zhang, "WeditGAN: Few-Shot Image Generation via Latent Space Relocation", AAAI, 2024. [pdf] [code]
    5. Yuxuan Duan, Yan Hong, Bo Zhang, jun lan, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, "DomainGallery: Few-shot Domain-driven Image Generation by Attribute-centric Finetuning", NeurIPS, 2024. [pdf] [code]
  • Few-shot Image Translation

    1. Yuxuan Duan, Yan Hong, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, "Few-Shot Defect Image Generation via Defect-Aware Feature Manipulation", AAAI, 2023. [pdf] [code]

    • Weak-shot Learning


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  • Weak-shot Learning

    1. Junjie Chen, Li Niu, Liu Liu, Liqing Zhang, "Weak-shot Fine-grained Classification via Similarity Transfer", NeurIPS, 2021. [pdf] [dataset&code]
    2. Yan Liu, Zhijie Zhang, Li Niu, Junjie Chen, Liqing Zhang, "Mixed Supervised Object Detection by Transferring Mask Prior and Semantic Similarity", NeurIPS, 2021. [pdf] [code]
    3. Junjie Chen, Li Niu, Siyuan Zhou, Jianlou Si, Chen Qian, Liqing Zhang, "Weak-shot Semantic Segmentation via Dual Similarity Transfer", NeurIPS, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    4. Junjie Chen, Zeyu Luo, Wenhui Jiang, Zezheng Liu, Li Niu, Yuming Fang, "Weak-shot Pose Estimation via Keyness and Correspondence Transfer", NeurIPS, 2025.

    • Computational Aesthetics


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  • Aesthetic Evaluation

    1. Bo Zhang, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, "Image Composition Assessment with Saliency-augmented Multi-pattern Pooling", BMVC, 2021. [pdf] [dataset&code]
  • Aesthetic Cropping

    1. Yi Tu, Li Niu, Weijie Zhao, Dawei Cheng, Liqing Zhang, "Image Cropping with Composition and Saliency Aware Aesthetic Score Map", AAAI, 2020. [pdf]
    2. Bo Zhang, Li Niu, Xing Zhao, Liqing Zhang, "Human-centric Image Cropping with Partition-aware and Content-preserving Features", ECCV, 2022. [pdf] [code]
    3. Chao Wang, Li Niu, Bo Zhang, Liqing Zhang, "Image Cropping with Spatial-aware Feature and Rank Consistency", CVPR, 2023. [pdf]