Cheng Zhang

About

I am an undergraduate student at Jilin University. My research interests include multimodal large language models, computer vision, and affective computing. I focus on combining robust techniques with simple experimental design to achieve reproducible and interpretable results.

Publications

• EmoArt: A Multidimensional Dataset for Emotion-Aware Artistic Generation

  Cheng Zhang, Hongxia Xie, Bin Wen, Zhiliang Zhang

  Accepted — ACM MM 2025 (main proceedings)

• EmoDiscover: Vocabulary-free Emotion Discovery via Multi-modal LLM

  Hung-Jen Chen, Hongxia Xie, Cheng Zhang, Jia-Xing Zhong

  Under Review

• Single Document Image Highlight Removal via A Diffusion-based Method

  Lu Pan, Yu-Hsuan Huang, Hongxia Xie, Cheng Zhang, Zhi-Hui Chen

  Under Review

Research Experience

• Affective Vision Computing (AVC) Lab — Research Assistant

  2024 — Present

  Worked on multimodal emotion understanding and generation projects, focusing on dataset construction and model implementation.

• National & Provincial Research Projects — Participant

  2025 — Present

  Participated in NSFC and provincial youth projects, focusing on eliminating emotional hallucination and improving multimodal model robustness.

Education