Professor Muchao Ye presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision 2025 (ICCV) in Hawai'i in October.
The event featured technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials on topics like AI and intelligent systems, bringing together academics and industry professionals to present and discuss the latest research and innovations in the field.
Professor Ye helped run the tutorial "Towards Safe Multi-Modal Learning: Unique Challenges and Future Directions." The tutorial focuses on the growing challenges of ensuring trust and reliability in AI systems that combine multiple data types—such as text, images, audio, and video. The tutorial explores how modality integration, alignment, and fusion create unique risks, including adversarial attacks, data poisoning, jailbreak exploits, and hallucinations. It also highlights emerging threats from modality misalignment and unsafe fused representations. By examining these issues and outlining future research directions, the session aims to build a foundation for safer and more trustworthy multi-modal AI systems.
What was your experience like at ICCV 2025?
I was a presenter for an accepted tutorial in ICCV 2025 titled Towards Safe Multi-Modal Learning: Unique Challenges and Future Directions. In this tutorial, I worked with my collaborators and introduced some insights I obtained in conducting research in the area of AI safety/adversarial machine learning. My talk is based on my research works LeapAttack (KDD ’22), VLAttack (NeurIPS ’23), and VERA (CVPR ’25). I felt excited that I could present my research there and met many friends there with the same research interest.
Was there a moment at ICCV 2025 that stuck out to you the most?
I think what stuck out to me the most is that I can always make new friends and met old friends when I attended the conference in the conference center. The research community is friendly and they are open. This experience is awesome!
What advice would you give to someone attending or presenting the next conference?
My advice for attending the conference would simply be having an open mind. ICCV is a large venue and there are many attendees. It’s a precious opportunity to learn about the latest research, and we shall keep our minds open and learn about new ideas.
What was your experience like in Hawai’i?
Hawai’i is a wonderful place to travel. It’s full of diversity and provides various activities for travelers. People can go hiking in the mountains and go surfing in the oceans. Or we can simply enjoy sunrise or the sunset in the beaches. Wherever we go in the Hawai’i, we will have fun. I think this is an awesome experience.
What's one thing you'd recommend to anyone traveling to Hawai'i for the first time?
I would recommend people to go to the Lanikai beach. The water there is splendid. We can always have fun there: watching the sunrise, swimming or surfing.
