Publications
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2026
CVPR
PAD-Hand: Physics-Aware Diffusion for Hand Motion Recovery
Elkhan Ismayilzada, Yufei Zhang, Zijun Cui
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
CVPR Workshop
Beyond Motion Pattern: An Empirical Study of Physical Forces for Human Motion Understanding
Anh Dao, Manh Tran, Yufei Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Zijun Cui
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop, 2026
TMLR
Bayesian Network Structure Discovery Using Large Language Models
Yinghuan Zhang, Yufei Zhang, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Zijun Cui
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026
2025
ICCV
Diffusion-based 3D Hand Motion Recovery with Intuitive Physics
Yufei Zhang, Zijun Cui, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Qiang Ji
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
TMLR
Physics-Aware Spatiotemporal Causal Graph Network for Forecasting with Limited Data
Zijun Cui*, Sam Griesemer*, Sungyong Seo*, Joshua Hikida, Yan Liu
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
AMIA
DGSurv: Dynamic Graph-Based Multimodal Learning for Interpretable Cancer Survival Prediction
Sajjad Shahabi, Zijun Cui, Ruishan Liu, Joseph Carlson, Yan Liu
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2025
Book Chapter
What is Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning: Terminologies Explained
Zijun Cui, Andrew J. Hung
Artificial Intelligence in Urology, Academic Press, 2025
2024
NeurIPS
Sample-efficient Simulation-based Inference for Urban Travel Demand Calibration
Sam Griesemer, Defu Cao, Zijun Cui, Carolina Osorio, Yan Liu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
npj Digital Medicine
Capturing Relationships between Suturing Sub-skills to Improve Automatic Suturing Assessment
Zijun Cui, Runzhuo Ma, Cherine H. Yang, Anand Malpani, Timothy N. Chu, Ahmed Ghazi, John W. Davis, Brian J. Miles, Clayton Lau, Yan Liu, Andrew J. Hung
npj Digital Medicine, 2024
CVPR
PhysPT: Physics-aware Pretrained Transformer for Estimating Human Dynamics from Monocular Videos
Yufei Zhang, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Zijun Cui, Qiang Ji
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
AISTATS
Theory-guided Message Passing Neural Network for Probabilistic Inference
Zijun Cui, Hanjing Wang, Tian Gao, Kartik Talamadupula, Qiang Ji
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024
2023
MICCAI
Oral
Self-supervised Sim-to-Real Kinematics Reconstruction for Video-based Assessment of Intraoperative Suturing Skills
Loc Trinh, Tim Chu, Zijun Cui, Anand Malpani, Cherine Yang, Istabraq Delieh, Alvin Hui, Oscar Gomez, Yan Liu, Andrew Hung
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023
CVPR
Biomechanics-guided Facial Action Unit Detection through Force Modeling
Zijun Cui, Chenyi Kuang, Tian Gao, Kartik Talamadupula, Qiang Ji
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
AMIA
Transferable and Interpretable Treatment Effectiveness Prediction for Ovarian Cancer via Multimodal Deep Learning
Emily Nguyen, Zijun Cui, Georgia Kokaraki, Joseph Carlson, Yan Liu
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2023
IEEE TNNLS
Knowledge-Augmented Deep Learning and Its Applications: A Survey
Zijun Cui, Tian Gao, Kartik Talamadupula, Qiang Ji
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023
2022
ECCV
AU-aware 3D Face Reconstruction through Personalized AU-specific Blendshape Learning
Chenyi Kuang, Zijun Cui, Jeffrey Kephart, Qiang Ji
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
UAI
Scholarship Award
Variational Message Passing Neural Network for Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) Inference
Zijun Cui, Hanjing Wang, Tian Gao, Kartik Talamadupula, Qiang Ji
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2022
IJCAI
Empirical Bayesian Approaches for Robust Constraint-based Causal Discovery under Insufficient Data
Zijun Cui, Naiyu Yin, Yuru Wang, Qiang Ji
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2022
2021
AAAI
Type-augmented Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
Zijun Cui, Pavan Kapanipathi, Kartik Talamadupula, Tian Gao, Qiang Ji
35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
CVPR
Dynamic Probabilistic Graph Convolution for Facial Action Unit Intensity Estimation
Tengfei Song, Zijun Cui, Yuru Wang, Wenming Zheng, Qiang Ji
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
CVPR
Hybrid Message Passing with Performance-Driven Structures for Facial Action Unit Detection
Tengfei Song, Zijun Cui, Wenming Zheng, Qiang Ji
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
2020
NeurIPS
Knowledge Augmented Deep Neural Networks for Joint Facial Expression and Action Unit Recognition
Zijun Cui, Tengfei Song, Yuru Wang, Qiang Ji
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
AAAI
Highlight
Label Error Correction and Generation Through Label Relationships
Zijun Cui, Yong Zhang, Qiang Ji
34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020