Boming Miao

Boming Miao

PhD student

Sitemap

A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there, there is an XML version available for digesting as well.

Pages

Posts

Future Blog Post

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This post will show up by default. To disable scheduling of future posts, edit config.yml and set future: false.

Blog Post number 4

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 3

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 2

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

Blog Post number 1

less than 1 minute read

Published:

This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.

portfolio

publications

An Efficient Framework for Enhancing Discriminative Models via Diffusion Techniques

Published in AAAI, 2025

Image classification serves as the cornerstone of computer vision, traditionally achieved through discriminative models based on deep neural networks. Recent advancements have introduced classification methods derived from generative models, which offer the advantage of zero-shot classification. However, these methods suffer from two main drawbacks: high computational overhead and inferior performance compared to discriminative models. Inspired by the coordinated cognitive processes of rapid-slow pathway interactions in the human brain during visual signal recognition, we propose the Diffusion-Based Discriminative Model Enhancement Framework (DBMEF). This framework seamlessly integrates discriminative and generative models in a training-free manner, leveraging discriminative models for initial predictions and endowing deep neural networks with rethinking capabilities via diffusion models. Consequently, DBMEF can effectively enhance the classification accuracy and generalization capability of discriminative models in a plug-and-play manner. We have conducted extensive experiments across 17 prevalent deep model architectures with different training methods, including both CNN-based models such as ResNet and Transformer-based models like ViT, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DBMEF.Specifically, the framework yields a 1.51% performance improvement for ResNet-50 on the ImageNet dataset and 3.02% on the ImageNet-A dataset. In conclusion, our research introduces a novel paradigm for image classification, demonstrating stable improvements across different datasets and neural networks.

Authors: Chunxiao Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Boming Miao, Chuanlong Xie, Zizhe Wang, Yao Zhu
Paper

Noise Diffusion for Enhancing Semantic Faithfulness in Text-to-Image Synthesis

Published in CVPR, 2025

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in generating photorealistic images, but challenges remain in ensuring precise semantic alignment with input prompts. Optimizing the initial noisy latent offers a more efficient alternative to modifying model architectures or prompt engineering for improving semantic alignment. A latest approach, InitNo, refines the initial noisy latent by leveraging attention maps; however, these maps capture only limited information, and the effectiveness of InitNo is highly dependent on the initial starting point, as it tends to converge on a local optimum near this point. To this end, this paper proposes leveraging the language comprehension capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs) to guide the optimization of the initial noisy latent, and introduces the Noise Diffusion process, which updates the noisy latent to generate semantically faithful images while preserving distribution consistency. Furthermore, we provide a theoretical analysis of the condition under which the update improves semantic faithfulness. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and adaptability of our framework, consistently enhancing semantic alignment across various diffusion models.

Authors: Boming Miao, Chunxiao Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Andi Zhang, Rui Sun, Zizhe Wang, Yao Zhu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025, pp. 23575-23584
Paper | Code

Bridging the Gap Between Ideal and Real-world Evaluation: Benchmarking AI-Generated Image Detection in Challenging Scenarios

Published in ICCV, 2025

With the rapid advancement of generative models, highly realistic image synthesis has posed new challenges to digital security and media credibility. Although AI-generated image detection methods have partially addressed these concerns, a substantial research gap remains in evaluating their performance under complex real-world conditions. This paper introduces the Real-World Robustness Dataset (RRDataset) for comprehensive evaluation of detection models across three dimensions: 1) Scenario Generalization-RRDataset encompasses high-quality images from seven major scenarios (War & Conflict, Disasters & Accidents, Political & Social Events, Medical & Public Health, Culture & Religion, Labor & Production, and everyday life), addressing existing dataset gaps from a content perspective. 2) Internet Transmission Robustness-examining detector performance on images that have undergone multiple rounds of sharing across various social media platforms. 3) Re-digitization Robustness-assessing model effectiveness on images altered through four distinct re-digitization methods. We benchmarked 17 detectors and 10 vision-language models (VLMs) on RRDataset and conducted a large-scale human study involving 192 participants to investigate human few-shot learning capabilities in detecting AI-generated images. The benchmarking results reveal the limitations of current AI detection methods under real-world conditions and underscore the importance of drawing on human adaptability to develop more robust detection algorithms. Our dataset is publicly available at: https://zenodo.org/records/14963880.

Authors: Chunxiao Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Meiling Li, Boming Miao, Peng Sun, Yunjian Zhang, Xiangyang Ji, Yao Zhu
Paper

Towards Annotation-Free Evaluation: KPAScore for Human Keypoint Detection

Published in ICCV, 2025

Human keypoint detection is fundamental in computer vision, with applications in pose estimation and action recognition. However, existing evaluation metrics (eg, OKS, PCP, PDJ) rely on human-annotated ground truth, a labor-intensive process that increases costs, limits scalability. To address this, we propose KPAScore (KeyPoint-Answering Score), an annotation-free metric independent of ground truth. It evaluates keypoint detection using a two-stage VLM-based question-answering process: first, the VLM identifies the presence of keypoints within the image, and second, visual prompts are introduced to query the likelihood of each keypoint being accurately localized within a predefined boundary. To validate the rationale behind KPAScore, we propose KPUBench (KeyPoint Understanding Benchmark), which comprehensively evaluates the VLM’s ability to determine keypoint presence and localization. Extensive experiments demonstrate KPAScore’s effectiveness from three perspectives: consistency to keypoint variation, correlation with traditional metrics, alignment with human perception. We hope KPAScore will reduce reliance on manual annotations, facilitating broader adoption of keypoint detection in real-world applications.

Authors: Xiaoxiao Wang, Chunxiao Li, Peng Sun, Boming Miao, Yunjian Zhang, Yao Zhu
Paper

talks

teaching

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.

Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.