Charlotte Vision Lab

The Charlotte Vision Lab is a computer vision research group at UNC Charlotte focused on building systems that understand and act in the visual world. Our work spans video understanding, multimodal learning, robotic perception, generative modeling, and trustworthy machine vision. Our goal is to build trustworthy systems that can perceive, reason, and assist in complex real-world environments.

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    Our Research Directions

    01

    Video Understanding for Activities of Daily Living

    Temporal action detection, dense activity recognition, and long-video reasoning over unedited, real-world sequences.

    02

    Vision-Language and Vision-Language-Action Models

    Visual question answering, domain adaptation, interpretable decision-making, and embodied reasoning.

    03

    Reliable 3D and Generative Vision

    3D scene understanding, controllable image generation, and uncertainty estimation in open-world settings.

    Highlights

    ECCV 2026

    VisCoP

    Visual probing for efficient domain adaptation of vision-language models with minimal changes to pretrained parameters.

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    ECCV 2026

    Ego2Exo VLM

    Learning egocentric cues from exocentric video to improve vision-language understanding of daily living activities.

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    ECCV 2026

    3D FaceShell

    A privacy-preserving framework that controls how vision-language models interpret 3D face avatars while preserving identity.

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    CVPR 2026

    MS-Temba

    Multi-scale temporal Mamba for efficient temporal action detection in long untrimmed videos.

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