Wentong Li 李文通 College of Artificial Intelligence Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) No.29 Jiangjun Road, Nanjing，China Office: 1205, No.1 Building

About Me

I am an Associate Professor of the College of Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, working closely with Prof. Jie Qin. Previously, I completed my Ph.D at College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, fortunately supervised by Prof. Jianke Zhu and Prof. Lei Zhang (PolyU HK, IEEE Fellow), in June 2024. My recent research interests are Visual/Scene Understanding, Embodied AI and Multimodal Large Language Models, particularly in:
1. Fine-grained vision-language tasks with MLLMs/VLMs, including visual referring&grounding for image/video/3D scene.
2. Embodied scene understanding&interaction , including ego-centric analysis, streaming understanding, reasoning&interaction.
3. Efficient and effective MLLMs, including token reduction, lightweight mllm, efficient high-resolution understanding.
Before, I mainly focus on the field of the techniques for object detection, image segmentaion and their weakly-supervised/label-efficient approaches. Besides, I am also interested in autonomous driving tasks (HD-Map, 3D-Occupancy, etc.) and 3D reconstruction tasks.

Looking for self-motivated Masters, Research Interns/Assistants and Ph.Ds (co-supervised), please email me if you have interest.

News

• [2025.6]: We released the EOC-Bench, an object-centric embodied cognition benchmark in dynamic egocentric scenarios.
• [2025.5]: One paper is accepted by IJCV (TokenPacker, 57 citations at the time of acceptance).
• [2025.4]: Our VideoRefer and VideoRefer-Bench have been discussed and adopted by NVIDIA & UC Berkely in their DAM work.
• [2025.2]: Five papers are accepted by CVPR 2025 (One Highlight).
• [2025.2]: We released the VideoRefer-700K dataset on HuggingFace. Please see the VideoRefer Suite for the details.
• [2024.12]: Awarded Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of ZJU (浙江大学优秀博士学位论文).
• [2024.6]: Obtained my Ph.D. degree from ZJU.

Preprints

Selected Publications

Full Publications

OrderChain: A General Prompting Paradigm to Improve Ordinal Understanding Ability of MLLM
Jinhong Wang, Shuo Tong, Dongqi Tang, Weiqiang Wang, Wentong Li, Hongxia Xu, Danny Chen, Jintai Chen, Jian Wu
ICCV, 2025.

TokenPacker: Efficient Visual Projector for Multimodal LLM
Wentong Li*, Yuqian Yuan*, Jian Liu, Dongqi Tang, Song Wang, Jie Qin, Jianke Zhu, Lei Zhang
IJCV, 2025.

Reliable and Calibrated Semantic Occupancy Prediction by Hybrid Uncertainty Learning
Song Wang, Zhongdao Wang, Jiawei Yu, Wentong Li, Bailan Feng,Junbo Chen, Jianke Zhu
IJCAI, 2025.

Large Models are Good Annotators for Zero-Shot Learning
Qingzhi He, Yizhen Jia, Wentong Li, Shengcai Liao, Rong Quan, Tong Cui, Jie Qin
SIGIR, 2025.

Inst3D-LMM: Instance-Aware 3D Scene Understanding with Multi-modal Instruction Tuning
Hanxun Yu*, Wentong Li*, Song Wang, Junbo Chen, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2025.

VideoRefer Suite: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Object Understanding with Video LLM
Yuqian Yuan, Hang Zhang, Wentong Li, Zesen Cheng, Boqiang Zhang, Long Li, Xin Li, Deli Zhao, Wenqiao Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Jianke Zhu, Lidong Bing
CVPR, 2025.

PointLoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation with Token Selection for Point Cloud Learning
Song Wang, Xiaolu Liu, Lingdong Kong, Jianyun Xu, Chunyong Hu, Gongfan Fang, Wentong Li, Jianke Zhu, Xinchao Wang
CVPR, 2025.

Uncertainty-Instructed Structure Injection for Generalizable HD Map Construction
Xiaolu Liu, Ruizi Yang, Song Wang, Wentong Li, Junbo Chen, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2025.

Scalable Autoregressive Monocular Depth Estimation
Jinhong Wang, Jian Liu, Dongqi Tang, Weiqiang Wang, Wentong Li, Danny Chen, Jintai Chen, Jian Wu
CVPR, 2025.

Label-efficient Semantic Scene Completion with Scribble Annotations
Song Wang, Jiawei Yu, Wentong Li, Hao Shi, Kailun Yang, Junbo Chen, Jianke Zhu
IJCAI, 2025.

Osprey: Pixel Understanding with Visual Instruction Tuning
Yuqian Yuan*, Wentong Li*, Jian Liu, Dongqi Tang, Xinjie Luo, Chi Qin, Lei Zhang, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2024.

Not All Voxels Are Equal: Hardness-aware Semantic Scene Completion with Self-distillation
Song Wang, Jiawei Yu, Wentong Li, Wenyu Liu, Xiaolu Liu, Junbo Chen, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2024.

MGMap: Mask-Guided Learning for Online Vectorized HD Map Construction
Xiaolu Liu, Song Wang, Wentong Li, Ruizi Yang, Junbo Chen, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2024.

Box2mask: Box-supervised instance segmentation via level-set evolution
Wentong Li, Wenyu Liu, Jianke Zhu, Miaomiao Cui, Yu Risheng, Xiansheng Hua, Lei Zhang
T-PAMI, 2024.

Fine-Grained Multi-View Hand Reconstruction Using Inverse Rendering
Qijun Gan, Wentong Li, Jinwei Ren, Jianke Zhu
AAAI, 2024.

Label-efficient Segmentation via Affinity Propagation
Wentong Li*, Yuqian Yuan*, Song Wang, Wenyu Liu, Dongqi Tang, Jian Liu, Jianke Zhu, Lei Zhang
NeurIPS, 2023.

Point2Mask: Point-supervised Panoptic Segmentation via Optimal Transport
Wentong Li, Yuqian Yuan, Song Wang, Jianke Zhu, Jianshu Li, Jian Liu, Lei Zhang
ICCV, 2023.

Improving Nighttime Driving-scene Segmentation via Dual Image-adaptive Learnable Filters
Wenyu Liu, Wentong Li, Jianke Zhu, Miaomiao Cui, Xuansong Xie, Lei Zhang
T-CSVT, 2023.

LiDAR2Map: In Defense of LiDAR-Based Semantic Map Construction Using Online Camera Distillation
Song Wang, Wentong Li, Wenyu Liu, Xiaolu Liu, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2023.

H2RBox: Horizonal Box Annotation is All You Need for Oriented Object Detection
Xue Yang, Gefan Zhang, Wentong Li, Xuehui Wang, Yue Zhou, Junchi Yan
ICLR, 2023.

Box-supervised Instance Segmentation with Level Set Evolution
Wentong Li, Wenyu Liu, Jianke Zhu, Miaomiao Cui, Xian-Sheng Hua, Lei Zhang
ECCV, 2022.

Translational symmetry-aware facade parsing for 3-D building reconstruction
Hantang Liu, Wentong Li, Jianke Zhu
IEEE MultiMedia, 2022.

Oriented Reppoints for Aerial Object Detection
Wentong Li, Yijie Chen, Kaixuan Hu, Jianke Zhu
CVPR, 2022.

Research Experiences

• Ant Group | HangZhou | Dec.2022 - Sep.2024
  Collaborator: Jianshu Li,Dongqi Tang, Jian Liu
  Research Intern (Ph.D)
• Alibaba DAMO Academy | HangZhou | July.2020 - Oct.2020
  Supervisor: Prof. Lei Zhang
  Research Intern (Ph.D)
• Institution of Automation, CAS | Beijing | July.2018 - June.2019
  Supervisor: Prof. Peng Wang , Prof. Wanyi Li
  Research Assistant (Master)

Honors

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Zhejiang University, 2024
• Excellent Doctoral Graduates of Zhejiang Province, China (Top 1%), 2024
• Excellent Doctoral Graduates of Zhejiang University, 2024
• Tencent Scholarship, 2023
• Five-A Postgraduate Student, 2023
• Outstanding Postgraduate Student, 2020-2023
• Longhu Scholarship, 2022
• First-class Academic Scholarship, 2018-2023
• National Scholarship, 2016

Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer:
  AAAI2025, ICLR2025, CVPR2025, ICML2025, ICCV2025, NeurIPS2025, ACM MM2025
  CVPR2024, ICLR2024, ICML2024, ECCV2024, ACM MM2024, NeurIPS2024
  CVPR2023, ICCV2023, NeurIPS2023, ACM MM2023
  
• Journal Reviewer:
  Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
  Pattern Recognition (PR)
  ACM Computing Surveys
  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
  Neurcomputing
  

Tech. Talks

• Fine-grained Image Understanding with MLLMs, ECNU, Visual Perception+X(VPX) Group, 2024/09.
• Osprey:Pixel Understanding with Visual Instruction Tuning, Video, slides, AI TIME, 2024/01.
• Point-supervised Image Segmentation, AntGroup, Machine Intelligence Group, 2023/09.

Teaching

• Intro. to AI: A Foundational Course , NUAA, Fall 2025.
• Image Processing and Analysis, Police Brain of Zhejiang Province, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2022.
• FDS2021: Foundation of Data Structure, Zhejiang University, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021.

People

• Close Collaborators
Yuqian Yuan, PhD, ZJU (Research Intern, Alibaba DAMO Academy)
Song Wang, PhD, ZJU (Visiting PhD, NUS)
Hanxun Yu, PhD, ZJU

• Students
Yizhen Jia, PhD, NUAA (co-supervised)
Yue Feng, PhD, NUAA (co-supervised)
Zihao Xin, PhD, NUAA (co-supervised)
Zhiyuan Qi, Master, NUAA (Research Intern, Geely Automobile Research Institute)
Jinwei Hu, Undergraduate, NUAA
Zichen Zhao, Undergraduate, NUAA
Jiangyu Zhou, Undergraduate, NUAA

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