Research
Research Interests
My current interest spans object and human recognition, detection, and segmentation, with the following topics:
Open-world Data:Â
long-tailed/imbalanced data, biased data, unlabeled data, high-resolution data, multi-modal data
Efficient Learning Methods:
knowledge distillation, open-vocabulary/set recognition, domain adaptation, self/weakly-supervised learning
Architecture Design:
     transformers for instance-level understanding, network design for mobile applications
Research Statement
I'm developing Machine Learning algorithms for visual object perception in the open world. The major focus is designing effective methods to handle practical challenges in real-world non-ideal environments. Specifically, I'm taking two broad perspectives: 1) Handle open-world data that may be long-tailed, biased, unlabeled, or contain unknown, anomaly concepts. 2) Develop efficient learning and inference methods to gain superior training data efficiency and runtime efficiency, these include knowledge distillation, X-shot & Y-supervised learning, domain adaptation, and network architecture design.
Academic Activities
Competitions:
3rd place of continual domain adaptative object detection challenge at ICCV2023
best grand challenge winner at ACM Multimedia 2020
winner at the ACM Multimedia Human in Events challenge Track4 2020.
2nd place at the ACM Multimedia Human in Events challenge Track2 2020.
winner in the LVIS challenge 2019
Academic Services:
Programme Committee/Conference Reviewer:Â
NeurIPS [2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024], ICML[2023], ICLR [2020, 2022, 2023, 2024]
CVPR [2020,2021,2022,2023, 2024], ICCV[2021, 2023], ECCV[2022, 2024], WACV[2021, 2022]
Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TCSVT, TNNLSÂ
Talks:
Sichuan University Research Talk Series @ Sichuan University, 2024
A*star Rising Star Talk Series: Object Detection with Non-idea Data Distribution@ A*star Singapore, 2023
Transformers for Multi-person Pose Detection @ Sea AI Lab, 2021
Efficient Object Detection Methods @ NUS ECE department, 2020
Efficient Object Detection Methods @ Huawei SG R&D Center, 2020
Long-tailed Object Detection @ ICCV Joint COCO and Mapillary Workshop 2019
Intern Experiences
2021.03-2021.07 Research Intern, Sea AI Lab, with Yan Shuicheng
2019.10-2020.01 Research Collaboration, Salesforce Research Asia, with ‪Steven C.H. Hoi‬ and Junnan Li
2020.01-2020.08 Research Intern, Yitu Tech., with Yan Shuicheng and Chen Yunpeng