I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng and Prof. Jian-Fang Hu. Prior to that, I received my master’s degree from Harbin Institute of Technology with research in Knowledge Graph and NLP, advised by Prof Yang Liu and Xiaoyan Liu. Currently, my research interests lie in Video Understanding and Multimodal Information Processing.

🔥 News

2024.12: One first-author paper is accepted by TMM!
2024.07: One paper is accepted by ECCV 2024!
2024.03: One paper is accepted by TKDE!
2024.02: One first-author paper is accepted by CVPR 2024!
2022.05: One first-author paper is accepted by TKDE!

📝 Publications

ReferDINO: Referring Video Object Segmentation with Visual Grounding Foundations

Tianming Liang, Kun-Yu Lin, Chaolei Tan, Jianguo Zhang, Wei-Shi Zheng, Jian-Fang Hu

Arxiv 2025

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Rethinking Temporal Context in Video-QA: A Comprehensive Study of Single-frame Static Bias

Tianming Liang, Linhui Li, Jian-Fang Hu, Xiangyang Yu, Wei-Shi Zheng, and Jianhuang Lai

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2024

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Ranking Distillation for Open-Ended Video Question Answering with Insufficient Labels

Tianming Liang, Chaolei Tan, Beihao Xia, Wei-Shi Zheng, and Jian-Fang Hu

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024

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Distantly-Supervised Long-Tailed Relation Extraction Using Constraint Graphs

Tianming Liang, Yang Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Hao Zhang, Gaurav Sharma, and Maozu Guo

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2022

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Progressive Pretext Task Learning for Human Trajectory Prediction. Xiaotong Lin, Tianming Liang, Jianhuang Lai, and Jian-Fang Hu. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. [paper][code]
Sentence Bag Graph Formulation for Biomedical Distant Supervision Relation Extraction. Hao Zhang, Yang Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Tianming Liang, Gaurav Sharma, Liang Xue, and Maozu Guo. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). [paper]

🏆 Honors and Awards

2021.07, Outstanding Master’s Thesis of HIT [Thesis]
2021.05, Excellent Graduate of HIT
2020.12, National Scholarship
2020.12, Pacemaker to Excellent Student of HIT

📖 Educations

2023-present, Ph.D. in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
2019-2021, M.S. in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
2015-2019, B.S. in the Faculty of Electronic lnafamalion and Exectrical Engineesing, Dalian University of Technology

💻 Internships

2020.05 - 2020.07, Machine Learning Engineer at Qihoo 360, Beijing