Kevin Qinghong Lin

I am a Ph.D. student in Show Lab @ NUS, working with Prof. Mike Shou.

I work on building multi-modal assistants from and for humans. This involves abilities like:

• Perception: video understanding, vision-language pretraining
• Reasoning: large multimodal models, reinforcement learning
• Interaction: multi-modal agents

I am open to discussion and collaboration. Feel free to reach out.

News

• 2025 Jun: Selected for CVPR 2025 Doctoral Consortium, Thank you!
• 2025 May: UI-Vision got accepted by ICML 2025.
• 2025 Apr: Served as Area Chair of NeurIPS 2025.
• 2025 Feb: ShowUI, VLog, RoICtrl, MovieBench got accepted by CVPR 2025.
• 2025 Jan: Show-o got accepted by ICLR 2025. Congrats to the team!
• 2024 Dec: ShowUI (Oral) received Outstanding Paper Award by NeurIPS Open-World Agents workshop 2024.
• 2024 Nov: Recognized as NeurIPS 2024 Top Reviewers.
• 2024 Sept: VideoGUI (Spotlight), VideoLLM-MoD got accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
• 2024 Aug: AssistGPT got accepted by HCMA@ACM MM 2024 as Best Demo Paper.
• 2024 July: MovieSeq got accepted by ECCV 2024.
• 2024 Jun: EgoVLP received Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) Distinguished Paper Award.
• 2024 May: Recognized as CVPR 2024 Outstanding Reviewers.
• 2024 Feb: VideoLLM-online, SparseFormer got accepted by CVPR 2024.
• 2023 Sept: VisorGPT got accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
• 2023 Aug: EgoVLP received PREMIA Best Student Paper Award (Gold award).
• 2023 July: UniVTG, EgoVLPv2, TL;DR got accepted by ICCV 2023.
• 2023 Mar: All-in-one, Afformer got accepted by CVPR 2023.
• 2022 Sept: EgoVLP (Spotlight) got accepted by NeurIPS 2022.
• 2022 Aug: Joined Show Lab @ NUS to start my Ph.D. journey!
• 2022 Jun: EgoVLP won Double Champions of Joint 1st Ego4D and 10th EPIC Workshop, CVPR 2022. [News]

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

† indicates equal contribution. Denotes student I mentored.

	Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers Wei Pang†, Kevin QH. Lin†, Xiangru Jian†, Xi He, Philip Torr Preprint, 2025 [paper] [code] [project] [datasets] [twitter] 2K github stars.
	Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models Jiaqi Wang†, Kevin QH. Lin†, James Cheng, Mike Z. Shou. Preprint, 2025 [paper] [code] [huggingface]
	VideoMind: A Chain-of-LoRA Agent for Long Video Reasoning Ye Liu†, Kevin QH. Lin†, Chang Wen Chen, Mike Z. Shou. Preprint, 2025 [paper] [code] [dataset] [project] [demo]
	ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent Kevin QH. Lin, Linjie Li, Difei Gao, Zhengyuan Yang, Shiwei Wu, Zechen Bai, Stan WX. Lei, Lijuan Wang, Mike Z. Shou. CVPR, 2025 NeurIPS OWA workshop, 2024. Oral [paper] [code] [huggingface] [dataset] [demo] Outstanding Paper Award, NeurIPS Open-World Agents Workshop 2024.
	VLog: Video-Language Models by Generative Retrieval of Narration Vocabulary Kevin QH. Lin, Mike Z. Shou. CVPR, 2025 [paper] [code]
	VideoGUI: A Benchmark for GUI Automation from Instructional Videos Kevin QH. Lin, Linjie Li, Difei Gao, Qinchen Wu, Mingyi Yan, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Mike Z. Shou. NeurIPS, 2024. Spotlight [paper] [code] [project]
	Learning Video Context as Interleaved Multimodal Sequences Kevin QH. Lin, Pengchuan Zhang, Difei Gao, Xide Xia, Joya Chen, Ziteng Gao, Jinheng Xie, Xuhong Xiao, Mike Z. Shou. ECCV, 2024 [paper] [code]
	UniVTG: Towards Unified Video-Language Temporal Grounding Kevin QH. Lin, Pengchuan Zhang, Joya Chen, Shraman Pramanick, Difei Gao, Alex JP. Wang, Rui Yan, Mike Z. Shou. ICCV, 2023 [paper] [code] [demo]
	Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining Kevin QH. Lin, Alex JP. Wang, M. Soldan, M. Wray, R. Yan, Eric ZC. Xu, D. Gao, R. Tu, W. Zhao, W. Kong, C. Cai, H. Wang, D. Damen, B. Ghanem, W. Liu, Mike Z. Shou. NeurIPS, 2022. Spotlight (1.7%) [paper] [code] [project] [poster] [media] EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award & PREMIA Best Student Paper Award 2023. Double champions in Ego4D & Epic-Kitchens CVPR 2022 challenges.

Honors

• CVPR Doctoral Consortium
  2025
• Outstanding Paper Award, NeurIPS Open-World Agents
  2024
• NeurIPS Top Reviewers
  2024
• Best Demo Paper Award, ACM Multimedia HCMA
  2024
• Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) Distinguished Paper Award
  2024
• CVPR Outstanding Reviewers (Top 2%)
  2024
• PREMIA Best Student Paper Awards, Gold Award
  2023
• NeurIPS Scholar Award
  2022
• Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Scholarship, Second Prize
  2022
• 1st Place on Ego4D - Object State Change Classification Challenge, CVPR
  2022
• 1st Place on EPIC-Kitchens - Multi-Instance Retrieval Challenge, CVPR
  2022
• Show Lab Annual Award
  2022, 2024
• China National Scholarship
  2018, 2021

Service

• Area Chair: NeurIPS 2025.

• Workshop Organizer: Open Multimodal Gathering @ NUS; Multimodal Video Agent @ CVPR 25.

• Conference Reviewer: CVPR (2024 Outstanding Reviewers), ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS (2024 Top Reviewers), ICML, ICLR, etc.

• Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, IJCV, TMLR, TNNLS, TMM, etc.

• Teaching Assistant: EE6934, EE6733, EE4212

• Co-organizer of The AI Talks.