Kun Yuan (袁坤) R&D Expert in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Video Technology Group, Kuaishou Technology Research Interests: Visual Content Generation, Video Quality Assessment, Video Enhancement and Restoration, AI Infrastructure Email: yuankunbupt dot gmail dot com [Google Scholar] [Linkedin]

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News

• [2024-07] Two papers accepted by ACM MM 2024.
• [2024-07] One paper accepted by ECCV 2024.
• [2024-03] Two papers accepted by CVPR 2024.
• [2023-10] Two papers accepted by ACM MM 2023.
• [2023-03] One paper accepted by CVPR 2023.
• [2022-03] One paper accepted by CVPR 2022.
• [2021-02] One paper accepted by ICLR 2021.
• [2021-02] Two papers accepted by ICCV 2021.
• [2020-08] One paper accepted by ECCV 2020.
• [2018-07] One paper accepted by IJCAI 2018.

Publications (* denotes equal contribution, # denotes corresponding author)

QPT V2: Masked Image Modeling Advances Visual Scoring
Qizhi Xie, Kun Yuan#, Yunpeng Qu, Mingda Wu, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Jihong Zhu
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024.
[Paper][Project Page]

QNCD: Quantization Noise Correction for Diffusion Models
Huanpeng Chu, Wei Wu, Chengjie Zang, Kun Yuan
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024.
[Paper][Project Page]

XPSR: Cross-modal Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution
Yunpeng Qu*, Kun Yuan*, Kai Zhao, Qizhi Xie, Jinhua Hao, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
[Paper][Project Page]

KVQ: Kwai Video Quality Assessment for Short-form Videos
Yiting Lu*, Xin Li*, Yajing Pei*, Kun Yuan#, Qizhi Xie, Yunpeng Qu, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Zhibo Chen#
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
[Paper] [Supp] [Project Page]

PTM-VQA: Efficient Video Quality Assessment Leveraging Diverse PreTrained Models from the Wild
Kun Yuan*, Hongbo Liu*, Mading Li*, Muyi Sun, Ming Sun, Jiachao Gong, Jinhua Hao, Chao Zhou, Yansong Tang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
[Paper]

Capturing Co-existing Distortions in User-Generated Content for No-reference Video Quality Assessment
Kun Yuan*, Zishang Kong*, Chuanchuan Zheng, Ming Sun, Xing Wen
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023.
[Paper]

Ada-DQA: Adaptive Diverse Quality-aware Feature Acquisition for Video Quality Assessment
Hongbo Liu*, Mingda Wu*, Kun Yuan*, Ming Sun, Yansong Tang, Chuanchuan Zheng, Xing Wen, Xiu Li
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023.
[Paper]

Quality-aware Pre-trained Models for Blind Image Quality Assessment
Kai Zhao*, Kun Yuan*, Ming Sun, Mading Li, Xing Wen
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
[Paper]

ShowFace: Coordinated Face Inpainting with Memory-Disentangled Refinement Networks
Zhuojie Wu, Xingqun Qi, Zijian Wang, Wanting Zhou, Kun Yuan, Muyi Sun, Zhenan Sun
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2022.
[Paper]

Self-supervised Correlation Mining Network for Person Image Generation
Zijian Wang, Xingqun Qi, Kun Yuan, Muyi Sun
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
[Paper]

Learning N:M Fine-grained Structured Sparse Neural Networks from Scratch
Aojun Zhou, Yukun Ma, Junnan Zhu, Jianbo Liu, Zhijie Zhang, Kun Yuan, Wenxiu Sun, Hongsheng Li
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.
[Paper] [Project Page]

Incorporating Convolution Designs into Visual Transformers
Kun Yuan, Shaopeng Guo, Ziwei Liu, Aojun Zhou, Fengwei Yu, Wei Wu
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
[Paper] [Project Page]

Differentiable Dynamic Wirings for Neural Networks
Kun Yuan, Quanquan Li, Shaopeng Guo, Dapeng Chen, Aojun Zhou, Fengwei Yu, Ziwei Liu
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
[Paper]

Learning Connectivity of Neural Networks from a Topological Perspective
Kun Yuan, Quanquan Li, Jing Shao, Junjie Yan
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
[Paper]

SafeNet: Scale-normalization and Anchor-based Feature Extraction Network for Person Re-identification
Kun Yuan, Qian Zhang, Chang Huang, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018.
[Paper]

Deep Networks for Degraded Document Image Binarization through Pyramid Reconstruction
Gaofeng Meng, Kun Yuan, Ying Wu, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2017.
[Paper]

Efficient Cloud Detection in Remote Sensing Images using Edge-aware Segmentation Network and Easy-to-hard Training Strategy
Kun Yuan, Gaofeng Meng, Dongcai Cheng, Jun Bai, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017.
[Paper]

NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment: Methods and Results
Xin Li, Kun Yuan, Yajing Pei, Yiting Lu, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Zhibo Chen, Radu Timofte
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW), 2024.
[Paper] [Project Page]

Zoom-VQA: Patches, Frames and Clips Integration for Video Quality Assessment
Kai Zhao, Kun Yuan, Ming Sun, Xing Wen
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW), 2023.
[Paper] [Project Page]

Awards

• 快手洛子峰奖:“KVQ:基于 AI 的视频质量评价”
  2023
• 快手洛子峰奖:“基于主观的智能视频增强与编解码架构联合优化”
  2023