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I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Tianjin Key Laboratory of Visual Computing and Intelligent Perception (VCIP) and Media Computing Lab (MCLab) at the College of Computer Science, Nankai University, supervised by Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng and Prof. Qibin Hou. Prior to this, I completed seven years of undergraduate and master's studies at Dalian University of Technology (DUT).

My current research interest includes temporal modeling, open-vocabulary understanding and multi-modal learning.

I am dedicated to contributing to open-source projects, and my work can be found in HVision-NKU. Additionally, I maintain a list of Awesome Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation resources.

If you're interested in my research or have any research-related questions, please feel free to contact me via email at yunhengli [at] mail.nankai.edu.cn or yunheng.li.21 [at] gmail.com.

📚 Publications

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Preprint

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Align Before Segment: Understanding Visual Encoder Fine-tuning for Open Vocabulary Segmentation

Yunheng Li, Quansheng Zeng, Zhong-Yu Li, Enguang Wang, Qibin Hou#, Ming-Ming Cheng

FineCLIP is an align-before-segment framework that fine-tunes CLIP with dense image-text alignment, notably enhancing open-vocabulary segmentation performance.

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A Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Framework for Skeleton-based Action Segmentation

Yunheng Li, Zhong-Yu Li, Shanghua Gao, Qilong Wang, Qibin Hou#, Ming-Ming Cheng

[Paper] [Code]

Decoupled Spatio-Temporal (DeST) framework is the first to decouple spatio-temporal modeling for effective skeleton-based action segmentation.

Journal

IEEE TCSVT 2023
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Involving Distinguished Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Temporal Action Segmentation

Yunheng Li, Kai-Yuan Liu, Sheng-Lan Liu#, Lin Feng, Hong Qiao

[Paper]

IDT-GCN employs an Involving Distinction Graph Convolutional Network (ID-GC) to effectively capture both similar and differential dependencies among spatial joints through multiple adaptive topologies. Additionally, Temporal Segment Regression (TSR) is used to model action sequences.

Conference

ICCV 2025
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Unbiased Region-Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction

Yunheng Li, Yuxuan Li, Quansheng Zeng, Wenhai Wang, Qibin Hou#, Ming-Ming Cheng

[Paper] [Code] [Huggingface]

DenseVLM is an unsupervised fine-tuning framework for open-vocabulary dense prediction tasks, which retrieves region-level semantics from a powerful vision-language model and decouples foreground and background features to achieve unbiased region-language alignment and improved open-vocabulary dense prediction.

ICML 2024
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Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation

Yunheng Li, Zhong-Yu Li, Quansheng Zeng, Qibin Hou#, Ming-Ming Cheng

[Paper] [Code] [中译版] [集智书童] [Poster]

Cascade-CLIP aligns vision-language embeddings via cascaded manner, effectively leveraging CLIP’s multi-level visual features for better zero-shot segmentation.

CVPR 2023
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Reducing the Label Bias for Timestamp Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation

Kaiyuan Liu*, Yunheng Li*, Shenglan Liu#, Chenwei Tan, Zihang Shao

[Paper] [Slides] [Poster]

D-TSTAS employs a masked timestamp prediction method to reduce dependency on timestamps and a center-oriented timestamp expansion technique to capture semantic-rich motion representations.

📃 Others

Spatial Focus Attention for Fine-grained Skeleton-based Action Tasks. IEEE SPL, 2022. Kaiyuan Liu, Yunheng Li, Yuanfeng Xu, et al. [Paper]

Double Attention Network Based on Sparse Sampling. IEEE ICME, 2022. Zhuben Dong, Yunheng Li, Yiwei Sun, et al. [Paper]

Eicient Two-Step Networks for Temporal Action Segmentation. Neurocomputing, 2021. Yunheng Li, Zhuben Dong, Kaiyuan Liu, et al. [Paper] [Code]

Temporal Segmentation of Fine-gained Semantic Action: A Motion-centered Figure Skating Dataset. AAAI, 2021. Shenglan Liu, Aibin Zhang*, Yunheng Li*, et al. [Paper] [Datasets]

🎓 Educations

  • 2023.09 - Present, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
  • 2020.09 - 2022.06, M.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

👥 Services

  • Conference: CVPR; ICCV; NeurIPS; ECCV; etc.
  • Journal: IEEE TCSVT; Neurocomputing.