Kevin Lin

Email: kevin.qh.lin AT gmail.com

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Kevin is a postdoc researcher at University of Oxford, advised by Prof. Philip Torr. He is fortunate to be a visiting researcher at Stanford University, advised by Prof. James Zou.

Kevin obtained his PhD from National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. Mike Shou.

He has interned at Tencent, Meta AI, Meta Reality Labs, and Microsoft Research.

Research

His research goal is to develop multimodal intelligent agents that collaborate with humans. Bringing them, a bigger vision is to let agents to advance autoresearch (Paper2Poster, Paper2Video) and education (Code2Video, Violin).

Blogs

When Vision Meets Code
Code offers a new lens on the computer vision. This blog shares insights from (i) Code as Visual Representation; (ii) Video Generation via Programming; (iii) Coder as World Model.

Violin: An open-source video translation skill
Multimodal AI break down language barriers, making educational videos more accessible to global audiences
[demo] [github] [media]
130K twitter views. 800 github stars.

Selected Papers

† indicates equal contribution. Denotes student I mentored.
Data Journalist Agent: Transforming Data into Verifiable Multimodal Stories
Kevin QH. Lin, Batu EI, Yuhong Shi, Pan Lu, Philip Torr, James Zou.

Preprint
ACM CAIS 2026 workshop Spotlight
[project] [paper] [code]

VCode: a Multimodal Coding Benchmark with SVG as Symbolic Visual Representation
Kevin QH. Lin†, Yuhao Zheng†, Hangyu Ran†, Dantong Zhu, Dongxing Mao, Linjie Li, Philip Torr, Alex JP. Wang.

Preprint
CVPR 2026 visual concepts workshop Oral
[project] [paper] [code] [demo] [twitter]
#1 Huggingface daily paper.

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%)
[project] [paper] [EgoVLPv2] [code] [poster] [twitter] [media]
CVPR EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award.
PREMIA Best Student Paper Award, Gold Award.
Double champions in Ego4D & Epic-Kitchens CVPR 2022 challenges.

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 2024 open-world agents workshop Oral
[paper] [code] [huggingface] [dataset] [demo] [twitter]
#1 Huggingface daily paper.
Outstanding Paper Award, NeurIPS 2024 OWA workshop.
The model has been downloaded for over 280,000 times. 1.8K github stars.

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 2025 Spotlight
[project] [paper] [code] [twitter]

VLog: Video-Language Models by Generative Retrieval of Narration Vocabulary
Kevin QH. Lin, Mike Z. Shou.

CVPR 2025
[paper] [code] [twitter]
580 github stars.

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] [twitter]
370 github stars. 300 citations.

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]

Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers
Wei Pang†, Kevin QH. Lin†✉, Xiangru Jian†, Xi He✉, Philip Torr.

NeurIPS 2025
ICML 2025 multi-agent systems workshop Oral
[project] [paper] [code] [datasets] [demo] [poster] [twitter]
3.7K github stars. 1.2K twitter likes.

VideoMind: A Chain-of-LoRA Agent for Long Video Reasoning
Ye Liu†, Kevin QH. Lin†, Chang Wen Chen, Mike Z. Shou.

ICLR 2026
NeurIPS 2025 LAW workshop Spotlight
[project] [paper] [code] [dataset] [demo] [twitter]
330 github stars.

ShowUI-π: Flow-based Generative Models as GUI Dexterous Hands
Siyuan Hu†, Kevin QH. Lin†, Mike Z. Shou.

CVPR 2026
[project] [paper] [code] [huggingface] [dataset]

Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
Jiaqi Wang†, Kevin QH. Lin†, James Cheng, Mike Z. Shou.

NeurIPS 2025
[paper] [code] [huggingface] [twitter]

Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers
Zeyu Zhu†, Kevin QH. Lin†, Mike Z. Shou.

CVPR 2026 workshop
[project] [paper] [code] [dataset] [twitter]
#2 Huggingface daily paper.
2.3K github stars. 1M twitter views. Highlighted by YC Hacker News

Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Generation
Yanzhe Chen†, Kevin QH. Lin†, Mike Z. Shou.

ICML 2026
[project] [paper] [code] [dataset] [twitter]
1.8K github stars.

FocusUI: Efficient UI Grounding via Position-Preserving Visual Token Selection
Mingyu Ouyang, Kevin QH. Lin, Mike Z. Shou, Hwee Tou Ng.

CVPR 2026
[project] [paper] [code]
CVPR Compute Transparency Champion award.

Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
Jinheng Xie†, Weijia Mao†, Zechen Bai†, David JH. Zhang†, Weihao Wang, Kevin QH. Lin, Yuchao Gu, Zhijie Chen, Zhenheng Yang, Mike Z. Shou.

ICLR 2025
[project] [paper] [code] [huggingface] [demo] [twitter]
Most Influential ICLR Papers #4
Featured in MIT course “6.S978: Deep Generative Models”
1.9K github stars. 600 citations.

VideoLLM-online: Online Video Large Language Model for Streaming Video
Joya Chen, Zhaoyang Lv, Shiwei Wu, Kevin QH. Lin, Chenan Song, Difei Gao, Jia-Wei Liu, Ziteng Gao, Dongxing Mao, Mike Z. Shou.

CVPR 2024
[project] [paper] [VideoLLM-MoD] [code] [dataset] [twitter]
660 github stars. 200 citations.

GUIDE: A Benchmark for Understanding and Assisting Users in Open-Ended GUI Tasks
Saelyne Yang, Jaesang Yu, Yi-Hao Peng, Kevin QH. Lin, Jae Won Cho, Yale Song, Juho Kim

CVPR 2026
CVPR 2026 MMRAgI workshop Oral
[project] [paper] [dataset]
Outstanding Paper Award, CVPR 2026 MMRAgI workshop

AssistGPT: Towards Multi-modal Agent for Human-Centric AI Assistant
Difei Gao, Siyuan Hu, Kevin QH. Lin, Mike Z. Shou.

ACMMM 2024 Human-centric Multimedia Analysis
[project] [paper] [twitter]
Best Demo Paper Award

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