CVSep 11, 2023
Phase-Specific Augmented Reality Guidance for Microscopic Cataract Surgery Using Long-Short Spatiotemporal Aggregation TransformerPuxun Tu, Hongfei Ye, Haochen Shi et al.
Phacoemulsification cataract surgery (PCS) is a routine procedure conducted using a surgical microscope, heavily reliant on the skill of the ophthalmologist. While existing PCS guidance systems extract valuable information from surgical microscopic videos to enhance intraoperative proficiency, they suffer from non-phasespecific guidance, leading to redundant visual information. In this study, our major contribution is the development of a novel phase-specific augmented reality (AR) guidance system, which offers tailored AR information corresponding to the recognized surgical phase. Leveraging the inherent quasi-standardized nature of PCS procedures, we propose a two-stage surgical microscopic video recognition network. In the first stage, we implement a multi-task learning structure to segment the surgical limbus region and extract limbus region-focused spatial feature for each frame. In the second stage, we propose the long-short spatiotemporal aggregation transformer (LS-SAT) network to model local fine-grained and global temporal relationships, and combine the extracted spatial features to recognize the current surgical phase. Additionally, we collaborate closely with ophthalmologists to design AR visual cues by utilizing techniques such as limbus ellipse fitting and regional restricted normal cross-correlation rotation computation. We evaluated the network on publicly available and in-house datasets, with comparison results demonstrating its superior performance compared to related works. Ablation results further validated the effectiveness of the limbus region-focused spatial feature extractor and the combination of temporal features. Furthermore, the developed system was evaluated in a clinical setup, with results indicating remarkable accuracy and real-time performance. underscoring its potential for clinical applications.
CVNov 4, 2025
FilletRec: A Lightweight Graph Neural Network with Intrinsic Features for Automated Fillet RecognitionJiali Gao, Taoran Liu, Hongfei Ye et al.
Automated recognition and simplification of fillet features in CAD models is critical for CAE analysis, yet it remains an open challenge. Traditional rule-based methods lack robustness, while existing deep learning models suffer from poor generalization and low accuracy on complex fillets due to their generic design and inadequate training data. To address these issues, this paper proposes an end-to-end, data-driven framework specifically for fillet features. We first construct and release a large-scale, diverse benchmark dataset for fillet recognition to address the inadequacy of existing data. Based on it, we propose FilletRec, a lightweight graph neural network. The core innovation of this network is its use of pose-invariant intrinsic geometric features, such as curvature, enabling it to learn more fundamental geometric patterns and thereby achieve high-precision recognition of complex geometric topologies. Experiments show that FilletRec surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and generalization, while using only 0.2\%-5.4\% of the parameters of baseline models, demonstrating high model efficiency. Finally, the framework completes the automated workflow from recognition to simplification by integrating an effective geometric simplification algorithm.
CLMar 6, 2025
Knowledge-Decoupled Synergetic Learning: An MLLM based Collaborative Approach to Few-shot Multimodal Dialogue Intention RecognitionBin Chen, Yu Zhang, Hongfei Ye et al.
Few-shot multimodal dialogue intention recognition is a critical challenge in the e-commerce domainn. Previous methods have primarily enhanced model classification capabilities through post-training techniques. However, our analysis reveals that training for few-shot multimodal dialogue intention recognition involves two interconnected tasks, leading to a seesaw effect in multi-task learning. This phenomenon is attributed to knowledge interference stemming from the superposition of weight matrix updates during the training process. To address these challenges, we propose Knowledge-Decoupled Synergetic Learning (KDSL), which mitigates these issues by utilizing smaller models to transform knowledge into interpretable rules, while applying the post-training of larger models. By facilitating collaboration between the large and small multimodal large language models for prediction, our approach demonstrates significant improvements. Notably, we achieve outstanding results on two real Taobao datasets, with enhancements of 6.37\% and 6.28\% in online weighted F1 scores compared to the state-of-the-art method, thereby validating the efficacy of our framework.
CLMar 13
Continual Learning in Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and OpportunitiesHongyang Chen, Zhongwu Sun, Hongfei Ye et al.
Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting-a critical limitation of the static pre-training paradigm inherent to modern LLMs. This survey presents a comprehensive overview of CL methodologies tailored for LLMs, structured around three core training stages: continual pre-training, continual fine-tuning, and continual alignment.Beyond the canonical taxonomy of rehearsal-, regularization-, and architecture-based methods, we further subdivide each category by its distinct forgetting mitigation mechanisms and conduct a rigorous comparative analysis of the adaptability and critical improvements of traditional CL methods for LLMs. In doing so, we explicitly highlight core distinctions between LLM CL and traditional machine learning, particularly with respect to scale, parameter efficiency, and emergent capabilities. Our analysis covers essential evaluation metrics, including forgetting rates and knowledge transfer efficiency, along with emerging benchmarks for assessing CL performance. This survey reveals that while current methods demonstrate promising results in specific domains, fundamental challenges persist in achieving seamless knowledge integration across diverse tasks and temporal scales. This systematic review contributes to the growing body of knowledge on LLM adaptation, providing researchers and practitioners with a structured framework for understanding current achievements and future opportunities in lifelong learning for language models.
CVJul 15, 2025
Assessing Color Vision Test in Large Vision-language ModelsHongfei Ye, Bin Chen, Wenxi Liu et al.
With the widespread adoption of large vision-language models, the capacity for color vision in these models is crucial. However, the color vision abilities of large visual-language models have not yet been thoroughly explored. To address this gap, we define a color vision testing task for large vision-language models and construct a dataset \footnote{Anonymous Github Showing some of the data https://anonymous.4open.science/r/color-vision-test-dataset-3BCD} that covers multiple categories of test questions and tasks of varying difficulty levels. Furthermore, we analyze the types of errors made by large vision-language models and propose fine-tuning strategies to enhance their performance in color vision tests.
GROct 9, 2025
Generating Sizing Fields for Mesh Generation via GCN-based Simplification of Adaptive Background GridsXunyang Zhu, Hongfei Ye, Yifei Wang et al.
The sizing field defined on a triangular background grid is pivotal for controlling the quality and efficiency of unstructured mesh generation. However, creating an optimal background grid that is geometrically conforming, computationally lightweight, and free from artifacts like banding is a significant challenge. This paper introduces a novel, adaptive background grid simplification (ABGS) framework based on a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN). We reformulate the grid simplification task as an edge score regression problem and train a GCN model to efficiently predict optimal edge collapse candidates. The model is guided by a custom loss function that holistically considers both geometric fidelity and sizing field accuracy. This data-driven approach replaces a costly procedural evaluation, accelerating the simplification process. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework across diverse and complex engineering models. Compared to the initial dense grids, our simplified background grids achieve an element reduction of 74%-94%, leading to a 35%-88% decrease in sizing field query times.