Recognition & Service

Achievements

Competition results, honors, awards, and academic service by Zebang Cheng.

Competition Highlights

1st Place

EgoLink Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2026

Developed SAGE, a multimodal agent system for linking and reasoning over egocentric interaction evidence.

Role: Lead contributor to SAGE

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2nd Place

AffectiveArt Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2026

A multimodal affective-computing challenge focused on understanding emotional content in visual art.

Role: Team member

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3rd Place

MPDD-AVG Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2026

A challenge result in audio-visual generation and multimodal perception under the ACM Multimedia 2026 competition program.

Role: Team member

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1st Place

MER2024 Challenge on Noise Robustness

Improved Emotion-LLaMA with Conv-Attention for robust multimodal emotion recognition under noisy conditions.

Role: Core contributor

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3rd Place

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge

Used multimodal language-model reasoning to support open-vocabulary emotion recognition beyond a fixed label set.

Role: Core contributor

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3rd Place

SemEval 2024 Multimodal Emotion-Cause Analysis Challenge

Built a multimodal system for extracting emotion-cause pairs from conversations using multimodal language models.

Role: Co-first author and core contributor

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2nd Place

ACM Multimedia 2023 Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge

Introduced Expression MAE, a semi-supervised approach for learning robust multimodal emotion representations.

Role: First author and core contributor

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Honors & Awards

Professional Activities