Thinking Beyond Labels: Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Recognition using Reasoning-Augmented LMMs

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), working with Prof. Fahad Shahbaz Khan and Prof. Rao Muhammad Anwer.

I received my Ph.D. in Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, advised by Prof. Jian Yang (IAPR Fellow) and Prof. Zhenyong Fu. Previously, I was a Research Assistant at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, advised by Prof. Chang Wen Chen (IEEE Fellow; SPIE Fellow; MAE).