Dr Yujun Cai
Lecturer
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Journal Articles
Zhang, Chi, Cai, Yujun, Lin, Guosheng and Shen, Chunhua (2023). DeepEMD: differentiable Earth Mover's Distance for few-shot learning. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45 (5), 5632-5648. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3217373
Xin, Ziyin, Cai, Yujun, Dang, Louis T., Burke, Hannah M. S., Revote, Jerico, Charitakis, Natalie, Bienroth, Denis, Nim, Hieu T., Li, Yuan-Fang and Ramialison, Mirana (2022). MonaGO: a novel gene ontology enrichment analysis visualisation system. BMC Bioinformatics, 23 (1) 69. doi: 10.1186/s12859-022-04594-1
Cai, Yujun, Ge, Liuhao, Cai, Jianfei, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat and Yuan, Junsong (2021). 3D hand pose estimation using synthetic data and weakly labeled RGB images. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43 (11), 3739-3753. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.2993627
Conference Papers
Luo, Yihong, Qiu, Siya, Tao, Xingjian, Cai, Yujun and Tang, Jing (2025). Energy-Calibrated VAE with Test Time Free Lunch. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-73013-9_19
Kin, Kenrick, Wan, Chengde, Koh, Ken, Marin, Andrei, Camgöz, Necati Cihan, Zhang, Yubo, Cai, Yujun, Kovalev, Fedor, Ben-Zacharia, Moshe, Hoople, Shannon, Nunes-Ueno, Marcos, Sanchez-Rodriguez, Mariel, Bhargava, Ayush, Wang, Robert, Sauser, Eric and Ma, Shugao (2024). STMG: a machine learning microgesture recognition system for supporting thumb-based VR/AR input. CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI USA, 11-16 May 2024. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642702
Tanke, Julian, Zhang, Linguang, Zhao, Amy, Tang, Chengcheng, Cai, Yujun, Wang, Lezi, Wu, Po-Chen, Gall, Juergen and Keskin, Cem (2024). Social diffusion: long-term multiple human motion anticipation. 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Paris, France, 1-6 October 2023. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.00880
Qu, Haoxuan, Cai, Yujun and Liu, Jun (2024). LLMs are good action recognizers. 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA, United States, 16-22 June 2024. Washington, DC, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.01741
Wang, Yiwei, Cai, Yujun, Chen, Muhao, Liang, Yuxuan and Hooi, Bryan (2023). Primacy effect of ChatGPT. 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, Singapore, 6-10 December 2023. Kerrville, TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.8
Qu, Haoxuan, Hui, Xiaofei, Cai, Yujun and Liu, Jun (2023). LMC: large model collaboration with cross-assessment for training-free open-set object recognition. NIPS'23: 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, New Orleans, LA USA, 10-16 December 2023. Maryland Heights, MO USA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. doi: 10.5555/3666122.3668138
Wang, Yiwei, Hooi, Bryan, Wang, Fei, Cai, Yujun, Liang, Yuxuan, Zhou, Wenxuan, Tang, Jing, Duan, Manjuan and Chen, Muhao (2023). How fragile is relation extraction under entity replacements?. 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Singapore, Singapore, 6-7 December 2023. Kerrville, TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Qu, Haoxuan, Cai, Yujun, Foo, Lin Geng, Kumar, Ajay and Liu, Jun (2023). A characteristic function-based method for bottom-up human pose estimation. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, Canada, 17-24 June 2023. Washington, DC USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01250
Han, Shangchen, Wu, Po-Chen, Zhang, Yubo, Liu, Beibei, Zhang, Linguang, Wang, Zheng, Si, Weiguang, Zhang, Peizhao, Cai, Yujun, Hodan, Tomas, Cabezas, Randi, Tran, Luan, Akbay, Muzaffer, Yu, Tsz-Ho, Keskin, Cem and Wang, Robert (2022). UmeTrack: unified multi-view end-to-end hand tracking for VR. SA '22: SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, Daegu, Republic of Korea, New York, NY USA. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3550469.3555378
Wang, Yiwei, Cai, Yujun, Liang, Yuxuan, Ding, Henghui, Wang, Changhu and Hooi, Bryan (2022). Time-aware neighbor sampling on temporal graphs. 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July 2022. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892942
Wang, Yiwei, Chen, Muhao, Zhou, Wenxuan, Cai, Yujun, Liang, Yuxuan, Liu, Dayiheng, Yang, Baosong, Liu, Juncheng and Hooi, Bryan (2022). Should we rely on entity mentions for relation extraction? Debiasing relation extraction with counterfactual analysis. 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle, WA USA, 10-15 July 2022. Kerrville, TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.224
Cai, Yujun, Wang, Yiwei, Zhu, Yiheng, Cham, Tat-Jen, Cai, Jianfei, Yuan, Junsong, Liu, Jun, Zheng, Chuanxia, Yan, Sijie, Ding, Henghui, Shen, Xiaohui, Liu, Ding and Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat (2022). A unified 3D human motion synthesis model via conditional variational auto-encoder. 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Canada, 10-17 October 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICCV48922.2021.01144
Chen, Mingfei, Zhang, Jianfeng, Xu, Xiangyu, Liu, Lijuan, Cai, Yujun, Feng, Jiashi and Yan, Shuicheng (2022). Geometry-guided progressive NeRF for generalizable and efficient neural human rendering. 17th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel, 23-27 October 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20050-2_14
Wang, Yiwei, Chen, Muhao, Zhou, Wenxuan, Cai, Yujun, Liang, Yuxuan and Hooi, Bryan (2022). GRAPHCACHE: Message Passing as Caching for Sentence-Level Relation Extraction. 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Seattle, WA, United States, 10-15 July 2022. Stroudsburg, PA, United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-naacl.128
Wang, Yiwei, Cai, Yujun, Liang, Yuxuan, Ding, Henghui, Wang, Changhu, Bhatia, Siddharth and Hooi, Bryan (2021). Adaptive data augmentation on temporal graphs. NIPS'21: 35th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Virtual, 6-14 December 2021. Maryland Heights, MO USA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. doi: 10.5555/3540261
Wang, Yiwei, Wang, Wei, Liang, Yuxuan, Cai, Yujun and Hooi, Bryan (2021). Mixup for node and graph classification. WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3449796
Wang, Yiwei, Wang, Wei, Liang, Yuxuan, Cai, Yujun and Hooi, Bryan (2021). CurGraph: curriculum learning for graph classification. WWW '21: The Web Conference 202, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3450025
Wang, Yiwei, Wang, Wei, Liang, Yuxuan, Cai, Yujun and Hooi, Bryan (2021). Progressive supervision for node classification. European Conference, ECML PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, 14-18 September 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67658-2_16
Wang, Tao, Zhang, Jianfeng, Cai, Yujun, Yan, Shuicheng and Feng, Jiashi (2021). Direct multi-view multi-person 3D pose estimation. 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), Online, 6-14 December 2021. Maryland Heights, MO, United States: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Wang, Yiwei, Wang, Wei, Cai, Yujun, Hooi, Bryan and Ooi, Beng Chin (2020). Detecting implementation bugs in graph convolutional network based node classifiers. 2020 IEEE 31st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Coimbra, Portugal, 12-15 October 2020. Piscataway, NJ USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ISSRE5003.2020.00037
Wang, Yiwei, Wang, Wei, Liang, Yuxuan, Cai, Yujun, Liu, Juncheng and Hooi, Bryan (2020). NodeAug: semi-supervised node classification with data augmentation. KDD '20: The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Virtual, 6-10 July 2020. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3394486.3403063
Zhang, Chi, Cai, Yujun, Lin, Guosheng and Shen, Chunhua (2020). DeepEMD: few-shot image classification with differentiable Earth Mover's Distance and structured classifiers. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA USA, 13-19 June 2020. Piscataway, NJ USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.01222
Cai, Yujun, Huang, Lin, Wang, Yiwei, Cham, Tat-Jen, Cai, Jianfei, Yuan, Junsong, Liu, Jun, Yang, Xu, Zhu, Yiheng, Shen, Xiaohui, Liu, Ding, Liu, Jing and Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat (2020). Learning Progressive Joint Propagation for Human Motion Prediction. Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 16th European Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 23-28 August 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58571-6_14
Cai, Yujun, Ge, Liuhao, Liu, Jun, Cai, Jianfei, Cham, Tat-Jen, Yuan, Junsong and Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat (2019). Exploiting spatial-temporal relationships for 3D pose estimation via graph convolutional networks. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul South Korea, Oct 27-Nov 02, 2019. LOS ALAMITOS: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICCV.2019.00236
Ge, Liuhao, Cai, Yujun, Weng, Junwu and Yuan, Junsong (2018). Hand PointNet: 3D Hand Pose Estimation Using Point Sets. IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2018.00878
Cai, Yujun, Ge, Liuhao, Cai, Jianfei and Yuan, Junsong (2018). Weakly-supervised 3D hand pose estimation from monocular RGB images. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01231-1_41