Selected Publications

Please see my Google Scholar page for a full list of my publications.

ZooplanktonBench: A Geo-Aware Zooplankton Recognition and Classification Dataset from Marine Observations

Fukun Liu , Adam T Greer , Gengchen Mai and Jin Sun

ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Datasets and Benchmarks (2025)

Code arXiv
Concept-Centric Token Interpretation for Vector-Quantized Generative Models

Tianze Yang , Yucheng Shi , Mengnan Du , Xuansheng Wu , Qiaoyu Tan , Jin Sun and Ninghao Liu

Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2025)
Enhancing Cognition and Explainability of Multimodal Foundation Models with Self-Synthesized Data

Yucheng Shi , Quanzheng Li , Jin Sun , Xiang Li and Ninghao Liu

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2025)

Code arXiv
Neural Gaffer: Relighting Any Object via Diffusion

Haian Jin , Yuan Li , Fujun Luan , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sai Bi , Kai Zhang , Zexiang Xu , Jin Sun and Noah Snavely

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2024)

Code arXiv
On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geospatial artificial intelligence

Gengchen Mai , Weiming Huang , Jin Sun , Suhang Song , Deepak Mishra , Ninghao Liu , Song Gao , Tianming Liu , Gao Cong , Yingjie Hu and others

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (2024)

arXiv
Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification

Yucheng Shi , Mengnan Du , Xuansheng Wu , Zihan Guan , Jin Sun and Ninghao Liu

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2023)

Code arXiv
What’s in a Decade? Transforming Faces Through Time

Eric Ming Chen , Jin Sun , Apoorv Khandelwal , Dani Lischinski , Noah Snavely and Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Eurograhics (2023)

arXiv
PeanutNeRF: 3D Radiance Field for Peanuts

Farah Saeed , Jin Sun , Peggy Ozias-Akins , Ye Juliet Chu and Changying Charlie Li

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (2023)
Towers of babel: Combining images, language, and 3d geometry for learning multimodal vision

Xiaoshi Wu , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Jin Sun and Noah Snavely

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (2021)
Visual chirality

Zhiqiu Lin , Jin Sun , Abe Davis and Noah Snavely

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2020)
Hidden footprints: Learning contextual walkability from 3d human trails

Jin Sun , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Qianqian Wang and Noah Snavely

Computer Vision–ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23–28, 2020, Proceedings, Part XVIII 16 (2020)

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Leveraging vision reconstruction pipelines for satellite imagery

Kai Zhang , Noah Snavely and Jin Sun

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (2019)
Label denoising adversarial network (LDAN) for inverse lighting of faces

Hao Zhou , Jin Sun , Yaser Yacoob and David W Jacobs

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2018)
Seeing what is not there: Learning context to determine where objects are missing

Jin Sun and David W Jacobs

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2017)
Generating holistic 3d scene abstractions for text-based image retrieval

Ang Li , Jin Sun , Joe Yue-Hei Ng , Ruichi Yu , Vlad I Morariu and Larry S Davis

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2017)
Semi-supervised conditional gans

Kumar Sricharan , Raja Bala , Matthew Shreve , Hui Ding , Kumar Saketh and Jin Sun

arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05789 (2017)
Tohme: detecting curb ramps in google street view using crowdsourcing, computer vision, and machine learning

Kotaro Hara , Jin Sun , Robert Moore , David Jacobs and Jon Froehlich

Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2014)
Scale and object aware image thumbnailing

Jin Sun and Haibin Ling

International journal of computer vision (2013)
Scale and object aware image retargeting for thumbnail browsing

Jin Sun and Haibin Ling

2011 International Conference on Computer Vision (2011)

Selected Publications

ZooplanktonBench: A Geo-Aware Zooplankton Recognition and Classification Dataset from Marine Observations

Concept-Centric Token Interpretation for Vector-Quantized Generative Models

Enhancing Cognition and Explainability of Multimodal Foundation Models with Self-Synthesized Data

Neural Gaffer: Relighting Any Object via Diffusion

On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geospatial artificial intelligence

Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification

What’s in a Decade? Transforming Faces Through Time

PeanutNeRF: 3D Radiance Field for Peanuts

Towers of babel: Combining images, language, and 3d geometry for learning multimodal vision

Visual chirality

Hidden footprints: Learning contextual walkability from 3d human trails

Leveraging vision reconstruction pipelines for satellite imagery

Label denoising adversarial network (LDAN) for inverse lighting of faces

Seeing what is not there: Learning context to determine where objects are missing

Generating holistic 3d scene abstractions for text-based image retrieval

Semi-supervised conditional gans

Tohme: detecting curb ramps in google street view using crowdsourcing, computer vision, and machine learning

Scale and object aware image thumbnailing

Scale and object aware image retargeting for thumbnail browsing