Xin ZHANG

Hi, there! I am a Ph.D. student majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE) at National University of Singapore (NUS), supervised by Prof. Robby T. Tan. Before that, I received both my bachelor's and master's degrees from Beihang University.

My primary research interests include semantic segmentation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning and vision foundation models, etc.

Email: x.zhang@u.nus.edu

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News

[Jul. 2026] Our paper "Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO" is accepted to ECCV 2026!

[Apr. 2025] Our paper "Mamba as a Bridge: Where Vision Foundation Models Meet Vision Language Models for Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation" is selected as a CVPR 2025 Highlight!

Publications

CycleGRPO framework Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO
Xin Zhang, Haochen Wang, Yikang Zhou, Jason Li, Robby T. Tan
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
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We introduce CycleGRPO, a self-evaluating reinforcement learning framework that closes the region-to-text-to-region loop, jointly improving region understanding and localization without caption ground truth.

Mamba as a Bridge: Where Vision Foundation Models Meet Vision Language Models for Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation
Xin Zhang, Robby T. Tan
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 (Highlight)

We propose MFuser, a lightweight Mamba-based framework that efficiently fuses vision foundation and vision-language models, achieving state-of-the-art performance in domain-generalized semantic segmentation with strong spatial and semantic alignment.

ERF: A Benchmark Dataset for Robust Semantic Segmentation Under Extreme Rainfall Conditions
Xin Yang, Xin Zhang, Xinchao Wang
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 (Oral)

We introduce ERF, the first benchmark for semantic segmentation under violent rain, revealing major model robustness gaps.

HEAP: Unsupervised Object Discovery and Localization with Contrastive Grouping
Xin Zhang, Jinheng Xie, Yuan Yuan, Michael Bi Mi, Robby T. Tan
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

We propose a hierarchical contrastive grouping framework, HEAP, for unsupervised object discovery and localization.

Adaptive Domain Generalization via Online Disagreement Minimization
Xin Zhang, Ying-Cong Chen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2023

This work introduces AdaODM, which adapts models at test time by reducing classifier disagreement, boosting generalization to unseen domains.

Academic Services

Serve as a reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, MICCAI, TPAMI, TMLR.

Awards

[2020] Outstanding Master’s Graduate of Beijing

[2019] National Scholarship



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