LIU, Jiazhen

About Me

I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the LONG Group, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Long Chen. My research focuses on computer vision. Prior to that, I received my Master’s degree from Renmin University of China (RUC), where Prof. Xirong Li advised me. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Shandong University (Weihai), the start of my academic.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision: Image Matching
• Multimodal: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM), Referring Segmentation, Reasoning

News

• [Feb 2026] Bay Area bound! Joining Apple this summer for a research-focused internship.
• [Feb 2026] One paper was accepted by CVPR 2026! here
• [Jan 2026] One paper was accepted by ICLR 2026! here
• [June 2025] We released our work on effectively empowering small-scale VLMs with reliable thinking capabilities. see here.
• [April 2025] Excited to attend ICLR 2025 in Singapore! Thanks to my advisor, Prof. Long, for the support. Learned a lot.
• [Feb. 2025] Our paper about hallucinations in MLLMs is accepted to CVPR 2025 (Highlight).
• [Aug. 2024] A new research about hallucination in MLLMs has been released! see here.
• [Nov. 2023] Our team has secured a top-three position in the 2023 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) AVS.
• [Oct. 2023] I am thrilled to have the opportunity to attend the ICCV conference in Paris.
• [Aug. 2023] Our paper about homography estimation is accepted to ICCV 2023.
• [Aug. 2022] Our paper about retinal image matching is accepted to ECCV 2022.

Publications

Awards & Honors

• [April 2025] Excellent Master Thesis Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics
• [Sept. 2024] RedBird PhD Award at HKUST.
• [Sept. 2023] National Scholarship (Graduate Students).
• [2018 - 2020] National Scholarships (Undergraduate Students) for 3 times.

Services

Reviewers

• CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACM MM, ACL, WACV, BMVC
• IEEE TMI, TIP, TPAMI