Zhiling Cui

崔志凌

Ph.D. Student

Dalian University of Technology

Email: cuizhiling AT mail.dlut.edu.cn

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I am a Ph.D. student at the Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence, Ministry of Education and the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Computer Aided Design, Dalian University of Technology. I am under the supervision of Prof. Xiaopeng Wei and Prof. Xin Yang, with co-supervision from Bo Dong. In addition, I work closely with my lab colleagues Haiyang Mei (National University of Singapore) and Wen Dong (Dalian University of Technology), as well as my best friends Hunan Chen (Tsinghua University) and Ao Jin (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen). During my undergraduate studies, I conducted research on swarm intelligence algorithms in the Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information System, under the guidance of Prof. Chunquan Li.

• MLLM: e.g., Visual Question Answering, Group Relative Policy Optimization, Contrastive Decoding.
• Computer Vision: e.g., Image/Video Understanding, Object Counting, Material Reconstruction.
• Evolutionary Computation: Swarm intelligence optimization algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO).

• 2021.09-Now, PhD Student (Joint Master-PhD Program), Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology.
• 2017.09-2021.06, Bachelor in Internet of Things Engineering, Nanchang University.
• 2014.04-2017.06, CuiWei Experimental Class, Ningdu Middle School.

• 2019.06-2021.06, Counselor assistant, Nanchang University.
• 2018.06-2019.06, Head, Embedded Development Group, Robot Team, Nanchang University.
• 2017.09-2019.06, Head, IoT lab, Nanchang University.
• 2017.09-2021.06, Monitor, Class 171, IoT Engineering, Nanchang University.

Papers:

1. Zhiling Cui, Haiyang Mei, Yunhan Liang, Peigen Yang, Yutong Jiang, Xiaopeng Wei, Xin Yang*, Swipe Past Now! Unveiling Toxic Content in Short Videos, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (Under Review), 2026
2. Zhiling Cui, Haiyang Mei, Yunhan Liang, Yudong Chen, Liang Zhang, Xiaopeng Wei, Xin Yang*, Guess Where I Am? Advancing Video-based Global Geo-Localization with LVLM, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) (Under Review), 2025
3. Zhiling Cui, Haiyang Mei, Wen Dong, Ziqi Wei, Zheng Lv, Dongsheng Zhou, Xin Yang*, Steel Sheet Counting from an Image with a Two-Stream Network, In IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (TIM), 2024
4. Zhiling Cui, Haiyang Mei, Wen Dong, Yuxin Wang, Dongsheng Zhou, Xiaopeng Wei, Xin Yang*, Synergizing Internal and External Correlations for Improved Single-Image SVBRDF Recovery, Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS) (Under Review), 2024

Patents:

Coming soon.

• 2021.07, Outstanding Communist Party Member (25 faculty and students honored across the school)
• 2021.06, Nanchang University "Top Ten Student Party Members" (10 students honored across the school)
• 2021.06, Nanchang University Outstanding Graduate
• 2020.12, National Scholarship (Ranked 1st in the science and engineering category school-wide)
• 2020.12, "Taihao Star · Outstanding College Student" Scholarship (10 students honored across the school)
• 2020.11, Nanchang University Model Student (sole recipient in the major)
• 2020.11, Nanchang University Top Scholarship (sole recipient in the major)
• 2020.07, Nanchang University Outstanding Student Party Member (sole recipient in the major)
• 2020.05, Nanchang University Outstanding Communist Youth League Cadre
• 2019.11, Nanchang University Model Student (sole recipient in the major)
• 2019.11, Nanchang University First-Class Scholarship
• 2018.12, First Prize, 7th College Student Automobile Innovation Design Competition
• 2018.08, First Prize, China Robot Competition (National Runner-up)
• 2018.08, Third Prize, China Robot Competition
• 2018.05, Nanchang University Outstanding Communist Youth League Member
• 2018.04, Third Prize, China Engineering Robot Competition - 1
• 2018.04, Third Prize, China Engineering Robot Competition - 2
• (Other minor awards and honors are omitted.)

• Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology（TCSVT）
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
  • Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)