News
- 08/2024, I'm delighted to share with you that I've just joined United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) as an Associate Professor. I'm looking for postdocs, PhD/master students, and visiting students who will work on multimodal LLM and generative AI, and digital humans. Contact me if you are interested in.
- 12/2021, A video introducing TransMatcher is released.
- 02/2021, We are hiring! [LinkedIn] [公众号]
- 11/2019, In ICCV2019, we have been awarded the 1st place for the NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge 2019, and 2nd place for the WIDER Face & Person Challenge 2019 – Track 2: Pedestrian Detection!
- 10/2018, I have joined the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- 09/2018, Slides of the ECCV tutorial “Representation Learning for Pedestrian Re-identification” have been shared.
- 08/2018, Welcome to our Github page: [VideoObjectSearch], with several recent codes published in ECCV, ICME, etc.
- 05/2015, The LOMO+XQDA source code is released. [project page]
- 10/2014, The OPeRID v1.0 database and benchmark toolkit is released. [project page]
- 07/2014, A benchmark tool for large-scale unconstrained face recognition is released. [project page]
Research Interests
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning
Face Detection, Face Recognition, Biometrics
Object Detection, Object Tracking, Person Re-identification
Similarity/Metric Learning, Deep Learning, Domain Generalization
AIGC, Image Generation, Synthetic Persons, MetaHuman
Employment
- 08/2024 ~ present, Associate Professor, College of Information Technology (CIT), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
- 10/2021 ~ 06/2024, Acting Director of R&D, Principal Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), G42
- 10/2018 ~ 09/2021, Lead Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), G42
- 11/2014 ~ 10/2018, Associate Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 08/2012 ~ 10/2014, Assistant Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 08/2010 ~ 08/2012, Postdoc, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University
Education
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Reviewer, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 19-25, 2021.
- The Second Class Award, The State Science and Technology Progress Award, Beijing, China, December 18, 2019.
- The 1st Place, NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge 2019 (in Conjunction with the ICCV 2019), Seoul, Korea, October 27, 2019.
- The 2nd Place, WIDER Pedestrian Detection Track, in WIDER Face and Person Challenge 2019 (in Conjunction with the ICCV 2019), Seoul, Korea, October 28, 2019.
- Outstanding Reviewer, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019), Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2019.
- The Winner, CVPR 2017 Detection in Crowded Scenes Challenge (MOT17Det), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 21-26, 2017.
- The 3rd Place, The International Challenge on Biometric Recognition in the Wild (ICB-RW, in Conjunction with the ICB 2016), Halmstad, Sweden, June 13-16, 2016.
- Best Student Paper Award (Advisor), The 11th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR 2016), Chengdu, China, Oct. 14-16, 2016.
- Best Student Paper Award (Advisor), The 8th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2015), Phuket, Thailand, May 19-22, 2015.
- The 4th Place, The VOT2014 Benchmark (in Conjunction with the ECCV 2014), Zurich, Switzerland, September 6th, 2014.
- Best Reviewer Award, IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2014), 29 September – 2 October 2014, Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Great Contribution Award, face authentication system for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
- First Prize of Best Paper Award, the 2nd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2007, Seoul, Korea, August, 2007
- Best Student Paper Award, the 1st IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2006), Hong Kong, January 2006
Professional Activities
Tutorials
- Person Re-Identification: Synthetic Data And Model Generalization, in IJCB 2022, October 10, 2022.
- Representation Learning for Pedestrian Re-identification, in ECCV2018, September 8, 2018. [slides]
- Person Re-identification: State of the Art and Future Trends, in ICPR2018, August 20, 2018. [slides]
- Research Progress in Person Re-identification, in CCCV2017, October 11, 2017. [slides]
Editor
Program Chair
Area Chair
- WACV 2025, NeurIPS 2024, ECCV 2024, WACV 2024, NeurIPS 2023, ICCV 2023, CVPR 2023, CVPR 2022, ICB 2018, ICPR 2016, ICB 2016, ELM 2014
Senior Program Committee
Program Committee
- ICCV 2011-2021, CVPR 2012-2021, ECCV 2012-2022
- NeurIPS 2020-2022, AAAI 2020-2024, ICLR 2022-2023, ICML 2023
- ICPR 2014-2022, AVSS 2015-2017, WACV 2013, BMVC 2017
- ICB, IJCB, BTAS