Yuren Cong

I am now working as a senior machine learning scientist at Picsart, focusing on image and video generative models. Previously, I was a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Information Processing at Leibniz University Hanover, working on scene understanding and generative models. I was advised by Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn and Prof. Michael Ying Yang.

My research interest lies in computer vision and graphics:

Image / Video Understanding
Image / Video Generation
Multimodal Learning
Embodied AI

Please feel free to contact me by email for any questions or collaboration!

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Publications

GenTron: Delving Deep into Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
Shoufa Chen, Mengmeng Xu, Jiawei Ren, Yuren Cong, Sen He, Yanping Xie, Animesh Sinha, Ping Luo, Tao Xiang, Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua,
Proc. of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024
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@misc{chen2023gentron,
      title={GenTron: Delving Deep into Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation},
      author={Shoufa Chen and Mengmeng Xu and Jiawei Ren and Yuren Cong and Sen He and Yanping Xie and Animesh Sinha and Ping Luo and Tao Xiang and Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2312.04557},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

FLATTEN: optical FLow-guided ATTENtion for consistent text-to-video editing
Yuren Cong, Mengmeng Xu, Christian Simon, Shoufa Chen, Jiawei Ren, Yanping Xie, Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua, Bodo Rosenhahn, Tao Xiang, Sen He,
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
Project Page / Code / Video /

@article{cong2023flatten,
  title={FLATTEN: optical FLow-guided ATTENtion for consistent text-to-video editing},
  author={Cong, Yuren and Xu, Mengmeng and Simon, Christian and Chen, Shoufa and Ren, Jiawei and Xie, Yanping and Perez-Rua, Juan-Manuel and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Xiang, Tao and He, Sen},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05922},
  year={2023}
}

Learning Similarity between Scene Graphs and Images with Transformers
Yuren Cong, Wentong Liao, Jiawei Ren, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Ying Yang,
arXiv.org (under review), 2023
Project Page / Code /

@article{cong2023learning,
  title={Learning Similarity between Scene Graphs and Images with Transformers},
  author={Cong, Yuren and Liao, Wentong and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Yang, Michael Ying},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.00590},
  year={2023}
}

SSGVS: Semantic Scene Graph-to-Video Synthesis
Yuren Cong, Jinhui Yi, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Ying Yang,
Proc. of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2023
Supplemental / Code /

@InProceedings{Cong_2023_CVPR,
    author    = {Cong, Yuren and Yi, Jinhui and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Yang, Michael Ying},
    title     = {SSGVS: Semantic Scene Graph-to-Video Synthesis},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2023},
    pages     = {2555-2565}
}

Reltr: Relation Transformer for Scene Graph Generation
Yuren Cong, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2023
Code / Colab /

@article{cong2023reltr,
  title={Reltr: Relation transformer for scene graph generation},
  author={Cong, Yuren and Yang, Michael Ying and Rosenhahn, Bodo},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  year={2023},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Attribute-Centric Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
Yuren Cong, Martin Renqiang Min, Li Erran Li, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Ying Yang,
arXiv.org (under review), 2023

@article{cong2023attribute,
  title={Attribute-centric compositional text-to-image generation},
  author={Cong, Yuren and Min, Martin Renqiang and Li, Li Erran and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Yang, Michael Ying},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01413},
  year={2023}
}

Spatial-temporal Transformer for Dynamic Scene Graph Generation
Yuren Cong, Wentong Liao, Hanno Ackermann, Bodo Rosenhahn, Michael Ying Yang,
Proc. of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
Supplemental / Code / Video /

@InProceedings{Cong_2021_ICCV,
    author    = {Cong, Yuren and Liao, Wentong and Ackermann, Hanno and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Yang, Michael Ying},
    title     = {Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Dynamic Scene Graph Generation},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
    month     = {October},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {16372-16382}
}

NODIS: Neural Ordinary Differential Scene Understanding
Yuren Cong, Hanno Ackermann, Wentong Liao, Michael Ying Yang, Bodo Rosenhahn,
Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , 2020
Code / Video /

@InProceedings{cong2020nodis,
  title={Nodis: Neural ordinary differential scene understanding},
  author={Cong, Yuren and Ackermann, Hanno and Liao, Wentong and Yang, Michael Ying and Rosenhahn, Bodo},
  booktitle={Computer Vision--ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23--28, 2020, Proceedings, Part XX 16},
  pages={636--653},
  year={2020},
  organization={Springer}
}