Ce Zhang

Ce Zhang (张册)

I am a second year Ph.D. student at UNC-Chapel Hill working with Prof. Gedas Bertasius. Previously, I obtained my Master's degree from Brown Universiy advised by Prof. Chen Sun in 2023. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Southeast University in China in 2020.

I like music, basketball and PC games.

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Research

I'm broadly interested in Computer Vision, Multimodal learning and Robotics. Currently, I'm mainly working on video understanding, with a focus on leveraging foundation models (LLMs, VLMs, etc.) to solve multiple video understanding tasks. I'm also interested in Robot Learning, especially learning from videos. I believe that videos can provide rich sources of demonstrations for robot learning, and that the commonsense knowledge encoded in foundation models would help solve robotic tasks faster and more robustly.

	A Simple LLM Framework for Long-Range Video Question-Answering Ce Zhang, Taixi Lu, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Ziyang Wang, Shoubin Yu, Mohit Bansal, Gedas Bertasius EMNLP, 2024 We present LLoVi, a language-based framework for long-range video question-answering (LVQA). LLoVi decomposes LVQA into two stages: (1) visual captioning by a short-term visual captioner, and (2) long-range temporal reasoning by an LLM. We did thorough empirical analysis on our proposed framework. LLoVi achieves state-of-the-art performance on EgoSchema, NExT-QA, IntentQA and NExT-GQA.
	AntGPT: Can Large Language Models Help Long-term Action Anticipation from Videos? Qi Zhao, Shijie Wang, Ce Zhang, Changcheng Fu, Minh Quan Do, Nakul Agarwal, Kwonjoon Lee, Chen Sun ICLR, 2024 We use discretized action labels to represent videos, then feed the text representations to LLMs for long-term action anticipation. Results on Ego4D, EK-55 and Gaze show that this simple approach is suprisingly effective.
	Object-centric Video Representation for Long-term Action Anticipation Ce Zhang, Changcheng Fu, Shijie Wang, Nakul Agarwal, Kwonjoon Lee, Chiho Choi, Chen Sun WACV, 2024 We proposed ObjectPrompts, an approach to extract task-specific object-centric representations from general-purpose pretrained models without finetuning. We also proposed a Transformer-based architecture to retrieve relevant objects from the past observation for long-term action anticipation.
	Goal-Conditioned Predictive Coding as an Implicit Planner for Offline Reinforcement Learning Zilai Zeng, Ce Zhang, Shijie Wang, Chen Sun NeurIPS, 2023 We investigate if sequence modeling has the capability to condense trajectories into useful representations that can contribute to policy learning. GCPC achieves competitive performance on AntMaze, FrankaKitchen and Locomotion.

Services

Reviewer: CVPR 2025, ECCV 2024 (outstanding reviewer), ACL Rolling Review
Organizer: T4V @ CVPR 2024

This webpage is adapted from Jon Barron's page.