WalkGPT Grounded Vision-Language Conversation with Depth-Aware Segmentation for Pedestrian Navigation

March 11, 2026·
Rafi Ibn Sultan
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Hui Zhu
Xiangyu Zhou
Xiangyu Zhou
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Chengyin Li
,
Prashant Khanduri
,
Marco Brocanelli
,
Dongxiao Zhu
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Proceedings of The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026
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Xiangyu Zhou
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Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Wayne State University, advised by Prof. Dongxiao Zhu in the Trustworthy AI Lab. My research focuses on trustworthy AI: making AI systems robust and aligned so they can be deployed safely.

I work across large language models (LLMs), large reasoning models (LRMs), and agentic AI, spanning safety alignment, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, in-context learning, and machine unlearning. My work has been published at venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, and AAAI (oral). In industry, I worked on generative retrieval as an AI/ML engineer intern at LinkedIn.

I am always happy to connect with others working on trustworthy AI. Feel free to reach out!