Chao Feng

I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech, Cornell University, working with Andrew Owens. Prior to that, I was a master's student at the University of Michigan (UMich).

I'm interested in computer vision, multimodal learning, and generative models.

Email / Google Scholar / GitHub

Work Experience

Adobe Research
Research Scientist Intern · Summer, 2025
Topics: Image/Video Generation

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

NeurIPS, 2025	ViCrit: A Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Proxy Task for Visual Perception in VLMs Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Chao Feng*, Yongyuan Liang, Yuhang Zhou, Xiaoyu Liu, Ziyi Zang, Ming Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Furong Huang, Lijuan Wang Paper
NeurIPS, 2025 Spotlight	SoTA with Less: MCTS-Guided Sample Selection for Data-Efficient Visual Reasoning Self-Improvement Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Chao Feng, Hongjin Lu, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Furong Huang, Lijuan Wang Paper
EMNLP, 2025 Findings	Masked Diffusion Captioning for Visual Feature Learning Chao Feng, Zihao Wei, Andrew Owens Webpage Paper
CVPR, 2025	GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation Chao Feng, Ziyang Chen, Aleksander Holynski, Alexei A. Efros, Andrew Owens Webpage Paper
ICRA, 2025	This&That: Language-Gesture Controlled Video Generation for Robot Planning Boyang Wang, Nikhil Sridhar, Chao Feng, Mark Van der Merwe, Adam Fishman, Nima Fazeli, Jeong Joon Park Webpage Paper
CVPR, 2024	Binding Touch to Everything: Learning Unified Multimodal Tactile Representations Fengyu Yang, Chao Feng, Ziyang Chen*, Hyoungseob Park, Daniel Wang, Yiming Dou, Ziyao Zeng, Xien Chen, Rit Gangopadhyay, Andrew Owens, Alex Wong Webpage Paper GitHub
ACL, 2024 Findings	Vision-Flan: Scaling Human-Labeled Tasks in Visual Instruction Tuning Zhiyang Xu, Chao Feng, Rulin Shao, Trevor Ashby, Ying Shen, Di Jin, Yu Cheng, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang Webpage Paper
CVPR, 2023 Highlight	Self-Supervised Video Forensics by Audio-Visual Anomaly Detection Chao Feng, Ziyang Chen, Andrew Owens Webpage Paper GitHub
ACM MM, 2022	AVA-AVD: Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization in the Wild Eric Zhongcong Xu, Zeyang Song, Satoshi Tsutsui, Chao Feng, Mang Ye, Mike Zheng Shou Paper GitHub

Service

Reviewer: CVPR 2022/2024, WACV 2023, ACM MM 2023, ICCV 2023, ECCV 2024, NeurIPS 2024, ICRA 2025, ICLR 2025, AISTATS 2025, TPAMI.