Chao Ma
Professor
Works on computer vision, including object detection and tracking for autonomous driving, vision-language understanding, image restoration and AIGC.
Chao Ma's lab at SJTU works on recognition, detection & segmentation, vision-language & multimodal and autonomous vehicles & drones. 56 papers since 2023, 48 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ECCV. 10 PhD students and 3 master's students. 23 alumni, most often to Huawei. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 86%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 23
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 14 papers2025 · T1 12
- 23 papers2024 · T1 19
- 7 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ACM MM
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Vision-language & multimodal11 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones6 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation5 papers
- image restoration0 papers
- restoration0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- ECCV (T1)Aggregating Cross-Domain Knowledge via Learnable Tokens for Multi-Teacher Distillation
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) FingdingsDynamic Scene Decomposition Beyond Moving Objects for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction in Autonomous Driving
- ECCV (T1)Efficient and High-Quality Depth Estimation via Pixel-Space Diffusion with Linear Attention
- CVPR (T1)Grounding Everything in Tokens for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR (T1)Guiding a Diffusion Model by Swapping Its Tokens
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) FindingsLearning Vision-Language-Action World Models for Autonomous Driving
- CVPR (T1)Octopus: History-Free Gradient Orthogonalization for Continual Learning in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ECCV (T1)OmniNWM: Unifying the State-Action-Reward Triad for Closed-Loop Panoramic Driving Navigation World Models
- ECCV (T1)PixelPilot: Scalable Vision-Language-Action Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- ECCV (T1)PointLAM: Local Attentive Mamba for Efficient Point-based 3D Object Detection
- ECCV (T1)Targeted Structure Completion for Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR (T1)Thermally Activated Dual-Modal Adversarial Clothing against AI Surveillance Systems
202514 papers
- ICLR (T1)A simple approach to unifying diffusion-based conditional generation
- ACM MMAnchorSync: Global Consistency Optimization for Long Video Editing
- ACM MMCDUPatch: Color-Driven Universal Adversarial Patch Attack for Dual-Modal Visible-Infrared Detectors
- NeurIPS (T1)Co-Reinforcement Learning for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- NeurIPS (T1)Correlated Low-Rank Adaptation for ConvNets
- ICCV (T1)Corvid: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models Towards Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
- ICCV (T1)Cross-Architecture Distillation Made Simple with Redundancy Suppression
- CVPR (T1)HaWoR: World-Space Hand Motion Reconstruction from Egocentric Videos
- ICCV (T1)PVMamba: Parallelizing Vision Mamba via Dynamic State Aggregation
- CVPR (T1)S^3-Face: SSS-Compliant Facial Reflectance Estimation via Diffusion Priors
- ICCV (T1)VRM: Knowledge Distillation via Virtual Relation Matching
- ICCV (T1)VTimeCoT: Thinking by Drawing for Video Temporal Grounding and Reasoning
202423 papers
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- MMMAdapting Pretrained Large-Scale Vision Models for Face Forgery Detection (Best Paper Award)
- TPAMI (T1)Correlation-Embedded Transformer Tracking: A Single-Branch Framework
- ACM MMCross-View Consistency Regularisation for Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR (T1)DiffusionTrack: Point Set Diffusion Model for Visual Object Tracking
- CVPR (T1)Domain Prompt Learning with Quaternion Networks
- AAAI (T1)Domain-controlled prompt learning
- ICRA (T1)Frame Fusion with Vehicle Motion Prediction for 3D Object Detection
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Frankenstein: Generating semantic-compositional 3d scenes in one tri-plane
- AAAI (T1)LERE: Learning-Based Low-Rank Matrix Recovery with Rank Estimation
- ICRA (T1)Lightning NeRF: Efficient Hybrid Scene Representation for Autonomous Driving
20237 papers
- CVPR (T1)3D-Aware Face Swapping
- CVPR (T1)Improving Fairness in Facial Albedo Estimation via Visual-Textual Cues
- CVPR (T1)PlenVDB: Memory Efficient VDB-Based Radiance Fields for Fast Training and Rendering
- ICCV (T1)ProtoTransfer: Cross-Modal Prototype Transfer for Point Cloud Segmentation
- CVPR (T1)SmartAssign: Learning A Smart Knowledge Assignment Strategy for Deraining and Desnowing
- CVPR (T1)UniDistill: A Universal Cross-Modality Knowledge Distillation Framework for 3D Object Detection in Bird’s-Eye View
- CVPR (T1)VideoTrack: Learning to Track Objects via Video Transformer
Where alumni went23 listed, 100% to industry
Industry 2Academia 0
Most often to
- Huawei
Apply to SJTUFall 2027
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