Qin Liu (刘 钦)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
liuqin [at] stanford.edu
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Qin Liu (刘 钦)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
liuqin [at] stanford.edu
Google Scholar / Github / LinkedIn / CV
About
I am a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University advised by Prof. Ehsan Adeli. Previously, I obtained my PhD from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Marc Niethammer (now at UC San Diego).
News
12/2024 Defended my Ph.D. thesis, "Human-Centered Visual Segmentation." Many thanks to my committee!
06/2024 Summer internship at Microsoft (contractor via Centific), advised by Zhengyuan Yang and Jianfeng Wang.
06/2023 Summer internship at Amazon, advised by Manchen Wang and Zhenlin Xu.
04/2023 We maintain an up-to-date list of awesome foundation models. Welcome to contribute.
05/2022 Summer internship at UII America again.
05/2021 Summer internship at UII America, advised by Ziyan Wu and Terrence Chen.
08/2020 Joined UNC CS as a Ph.D. student.
Research
My research is dedicated to advancing human-centered machines that enhance human abilities to perceive, understand, and interact with the world. To achieve this, I study the following topics:
Theory & Systems: Causal Inference, Probabilistic Modeling, TinyML Systems, Human-in-the-Loop Systems
Human-centered AI: AI for Healthcare, General-purpose AI Assistants, Interactive Machine Perception
Foundation Models: Efficient Sequence Modeling, Unified Multimodal Models, Human Alignment & Interaction
Some of my first-authored papers are listed below:
[New preprint!] Exploring Cycle Consistency Learning in Interactive Volume Segmentation
Qin Liu, Meng Zheng, Benjamin Planche, Zhongpai Gao, Terrence Chen, Marc Niethammer, Ziyan Wu. [Code/Models]
[CVPR'25] LiVOS: Light Video Object Segmentation with Gated Linear Matching
Qin Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Marc Niethammer, Lijuan Wang. [Code/Models]
[CVPR'24] Rethinking Interactive Image Segmentation with Low Latency, High Quality, and Diverse Prompts
Qin Liu, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal, Marc Niethammer. [Code/Models]
[ICCV'23] SimpleClick: Interactive Image Segmentation with Simple Vision Transformers
Qin Liu, Zhenlin Xu, Gedas Bertasius, Marc Niethammer. [Code/Models]
[ECCV'22] PseudoClick: Interactive Image Segmentation with Click Imitation
Qin Liu, Meng Zheng, Benjamin Planche, Srikrishna Karanam, Terrence Chen, Marc Niethammer, Ziyan Wu. [Supp]
[MICCAI'22] iSegFormer: Interactive Segmentation via Transformers with Application to 3D Knee MR Images
Qin Liu, Zhenlin Xu, Yining Jiao, Marc Niethammer. [Code/Models]
[MICCAI'19] Multi-class Gradient Harmonized Dice Loss with Application to Knee MR Image Segmentation (early accept)
Qin Liu*, XiongfengTang*, Deming Guo, Yanguo Qin, Pengfei Jia, Yiqiang Zhan, Xiang Zhou, Dijia Wu. (*equal contribution)
Hobbies
Marathon (certificates)
Break dancing (sport of 2024 Paris Summer Olympics)