Bo Miao

Activities

• Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IROS, ACCV, DICTA, etc.
  
• Session chair of IROS 2021, "Recognition"
  
• 3rd place in the Referring VOS Track at the 5th Large-scale VOS Challenge (without model ensembling or multi-scale testing)

Publications

My research interest mainly falls on Embodied AI, Vision-and-Language, Video Understanding, and Human-Computer Interaction.

arXiv Preprints:

• LangMap: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary Goal Navigation
  Bo Miao, Weijia Liu, Jun Luo, Lachlan Shinnick, Jian Liu, Thomas Hamilton-Smith, Yuhe Yang, Zijie Wu, Vanja Videnovic, Feras Dayoub, Anton van den Hengel
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02220 2026 | paper | code
  

Conference Papers:

• Referring Human Pose and Mask Estimation in the Wild
  Bo Miao, Mingtao Feng, Zijie Wu, Mohammed Bennamoun, Yongsheng Gao, Ajmal Mian
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 | paper | code
  

• Disentangled Hierarchical VAE for 3D Human-Human Interaction Generation
  Zichen Geng, Zeeshan Hayder, Bo Miao, Jian Liu, Wei Liu, Ajmal Mian
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 | paper | code
  

• CymbaDiff: Structured Spatial Diffusion for Sketch-based 3D Semantic Urban Scene Generation
  Li Liang, Bo Miao, Xinyu Wang, Naveed Akhtar, Jordan Vice, Ajmal Mian
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 | paper | code
  

• Denoise-then-Retrieve: Text-Conditioned Video Denoising for Video Moment Retrieval
  Weijia Liu, Jiuxin Cao, Bo Miao, Zhiheng Fu, Xuelin Zhu, Jiawei Ge, Bo Liu, Mehwish Nasim, Ajmal Mian
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2025 | paper
  

• External Knowledge Enhanced 3D Scene Generation from Sketch
  Zijie Wu, Mingtao Feng, Yaonan Wang, He Xie, Weisheng Dong, Bo Miao, Ajmal Mian
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024 | paper
  

• Spectrum-guided Multi-granularity Referring Video Object Segmentation
  Bo Miao, Mohammed Bennamoun, Yongsheng Gao, Ajmal Mian
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 | paper | code
  

• Regional Video Object Segmentation by Efficient Motion-Aware Mask Propagation
  Bo Miao, Mohammed Bennamoun, Yongsheng Gao, Ajmal Mian
  International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2022 | paper

• Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation by Motion-Aware Mask Propagation
  Bo Miao, Mohammed Bennamoun, Yongsheng Gao, Ajmal Mian
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2022 | Oral | paper | code
  

• Object-to-Scene: Learning to Transfer Object Knowledge to Indoor Scene Recognition
  Bo Miao, Liguang Zhou, Ajmal Mian, Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021 | paper | code
  

• Automated Epileptic Seizure Detection Method Based on the Multi-attribute EEG Feature Pool and mRMR Feature Selection Method
  Bo Miao, Junling Guan, Liangliang Zhang, Qingfang Meng, Yulin Zhang
  International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2019 | paper

• Fractional Amplitude of Low-frequency Fluctuation and Degree Centrality in Autistic Children: A Resting-state fMRI Study
  Bo Miao, Junling Guan, Qingfang Meng, Yulin Zhang
  International Workshop on Pattern Recognition 2018 | paper

• A Feature Selection Method for Classification of ADHD
  Bo Miao, Yulin Zhang
  International Conference on Information, Cybernetics and Computational Social Systems 2017 | paper | Best Paper

Journal Papers:

• Region Aware Video Object Segmentation with Deep Motion Modeling
  Bo Miao, Mohammed Bennamoun, Yongsheng Gao, Ajmal Mian
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2024 | paper
  

• Temporally Consistent Referring Video Object Segmentation with Hybrid Memory
  Bo Miao, Mohammed Bennamoun, Yongsheng Gao, Mubarak Shah, Ajmal Mian
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2024 | paper | code
  

• Context-Enhanced Video Moment Retrieval with Large Language Models
  Weijia Liu, Bo Miao, Jiuxin Cao, Xuelin Zhu, Bo Liu, Mehwish Nasim, Ajmal Mian
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2024 | paper
  

• Classification of ADHD Individuals and Neurotypicals Using Reliable RELIEF: A Resting-State Study
  Bo Miao, Liangliang Zhang, Junling Guan, Qingfang Meng, Yulin Zhang
  IEEE Access 2019 | paper