I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Automation, Southeast University, under the supervision of Prof. Wankou Yang.

My research interests include Visual Grounding and Pixel Understanding for LMMs.

I have published 7+ papers in top international AI conferences and journals such as TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, ICCV, NeurIPS, and AAAI.

🔥 News

• 2025.09: 🎉 One first-author paper has been accepted to TPAMI 2025.
• 2025.07: 🎉 Two first-author paper has been accepted to ICCV 2025.
• 2024.12: 🎉 One first-author paper has been accepted to AAAI 2025.
• 2024.09: 🎉 One first-author paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
• 2023.12: 🎉 One first-author paper has been accepted to TIP 2023.
• 2021.09: 🎉 One first-author paper has been accepted to TCSVT 2021.

📝 Publications

TPAMI 2025

TPAMI 2025 Improving Generalized Visual Grounding with Instance-aware Joint Learning
Ming Dai, Wenxuan Cheng, Jiang-jiang Liu, Lingfeng Yang, Zhenhua Feng, Wankou Yang, Jingdong Wang

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ICCV 2025

ICCV 2025 PropVG: End-to-End Proposal-Driven Visual Grounding with Multi-Granularity Discrimination
Ming Dai, Wenxuan Cheng, Jiedong Zhuang, Jiang-jiang Liu, Hongshen Zhao, Zhenhua Feng, Wankou Yang

Paper | Code | 中文解读

ICCV 2025

ICCV 2025 DeRIS: Decoupling Perception and Cognition for Enhanced Referring Image Segmentation through Loopback Synergy
Ming Dai, Wenxuan Cheng, Jiang-jiang Liu, Sen Yang, Wenxiao Cai, Yanpeng Sun, Wankou Yang

Paper | Code

AAAI 2025 (Selected as Oral)

AAAI 2025 Multi-task Visual Grounding with Coarse-to-Fine Consistency Constraints
Ming Dai, Jian Li, Jiedong Zhuang, Xian Zhang, Wankou Yang

Paper | Code

NeurIPS 2024

NeurIPS 2024 SimVG: A Simple Framework for Visual Grounding with Decoupled Multi-modal Fusion
Ming Dai, Lingfeng Yang, Yihao Xu, Zhenhua Feng, Wankou Yang

Paper | Code | 中文解读

Arxiv 2024

Arxiv 2024 Drone Referring Localization: An Efficient Heterogeneous Spatial Feature Interaction Method For UAV Self-Localization
Ming Dai, Enhui Zheng, Jiahao Chen, Lei Qi, Zhenhua Feng, Wankou Yang

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TIP 2023

TIP 2023 Vision-Based UAV Self-Positioning in Low-Altitude Urban Environments
Ming Dai, Enhui Zheng, Zhenhua Feng, Jiedong Zhuang, Wankou Yang

Paper | Code | 中文解读

TCSVT 2021

TCSVT 2021 A Transformer-Based Feature Segmentation and Region Alignment Method For UAV-View Geo-Localization
Ming Dai, Jianhong Hu, Jiedong Zhuang, Enhui Zheng

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🎖 Honors and Awards

Competition

• 2023.12 National First Prize, 5th Global Campus AI Algorithm Elite Competition (Zero-Shot Referring Expression Understanding)
• 2023.10 National First Prize (Track Champion), 4th “Space Cup” National Innovation and Creativity Competition (Multispectral Object Detection), Team Leader
• 2022.08 National Second Prize (Track Runner-up), China Postgraduate Smart City Technology and Creative Design Competition (Object Detection), Team Leader
• 2018.09 Zhejiang Provincial Robotics Competition: 2nd Prize (Shopping Track), 2nd Prize (Tourism Track), 3rd Prize (Transportation Track)
• 2017.09 1st Prize (East China Division) and 2nd Prize (National Division), Siemens Cup China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge, Team Leader

Scholarships and Honors

• Graduate National Scholarship
• Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship
• Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province
• Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate of China Jiliang University
• Holder of One National Invention Patent

📖 Educations

• 2023.09 – present Ph.D. Student, School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
• 2020.09 – 2023.06 Master’s Student, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China.
• 2016.09 – 2020.06 Undergraduate Student, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China.

💻 Internships

• 2024.12 – present Baidu, LMMs Research, Shanghai, China
• 2022.11 – 2023.05 NIO, Autonomous Driving – Perception (Vision), Beijing, China
• 2022.03 – 2022.08 ByteDance, E-commerce – Algorithm (Knowledge Graph), Hangzhou, China

💬 Services

Reviewers

• TNNLS,TCSVT, ISPRS,PR
• NeurIPS2025, CVPR2025, ICCV2025, AAAI2026

Leadership

• 2018–2019 President, 1st AI and Robotics Association, China Jiliang University