Papers by Zhedong Zheng
When Words Smile: Generating Diverse Emotional Facial Expressions from Text (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that generate only coarse facial expressions ignore the rich and dynamic nature of face-to-face communication. |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end text-to expression model that explicitly focuses on emotional dynamics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on 15,000 text–3D expression pairs on a large-scale dataset. |
Cultivating Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Manipulation Detection (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for manipulation detection and grounding focus on manipulator type classification under result-oriented supervision. |
| Approach: | They propose a reasoning-driven framework that shifts learning from outcome fitting to process modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art with superior generalization on large-scale datasets. |
Generating Attribution Reports for Manipulated Facial Images: A Dataset and Baseline (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing facial forgery detection methods focus on binary classification or pixel-level localization, providing little semantic insight into the nature of the manipulation. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal task that localizes forged regions and generates natural language explanations grounded in editing process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task localizes forged regions and generates natural language explanations grounded in editing process. |