About Me
I am a researcher at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge, MA, USA. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong, where I was a member of the Computer Vision Lab, advised by Prof. Kenneth K.Y. Wong. Prior to that, I got my B.Sc. from Sun Yat-sen University in 2016.
My interests are centered around machine learning and its applications to computer vision and natural language processing. My ultimate research goal is to develop an AI system that can perceive and reason about the physical world, and communicate with humans in natural language.
News
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[January 2023] A paper about competion-level code generation has been accepted by ICLR 2023.
[January 2023] A paper about face video inpainting has been accepted by TIP 2023.
[September 2022] Serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member for AAAI 2023.
[September 2022] A paper (S3-NeRF) about photometric stereo has been accepted by NeurIPS 2022.
[September 2022] A paper about Embodied Concept Learning has been accepted by CoRL 2022.
[July 2022] We are organizing a workshop about Machine Visual Common Sense on ECCV 2022.
[July 2022] A paper about Multi-View Photometric Stereo was accepted by ECCV 2022. A paper for Mask-Free Face Recognition was accepted by ICIP 2022.
[January 2022] A paper (ComPhy) about physical reasoning has been accepted by ICLR 2022.
Recent Research highlights
Publications [Bibtex]










Cops-Ref: A new Dataset and Task on Compositional Referring Expression Comprehension
CVPR2020
Paper Code & Data
Look Closer to Ground Better: Weakly-Supervised Temporal Grounding of Sentence in Video
Arxiv.
Paper



Aggregated deep feature from activation clusters for particular object retrieval.
MM17 (Thematic Workshop)
PaperPhD Dissertation

Deep learning for visual retrieval, visual grounding and visual reasoning
Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, 2021
HKU Thesis Online
Previous Experience
- [The University of Adelaide, 2019]: Visiting student, working with Dr. Qi Wu and Dr. Peng Wang
- [Tencent AI lab, 2018]: Research intern, working with Dr. Lin Ma and Dr. Wenhan Luo
- [Sensetime, 2015]: Research intern, working with Dr. Zhanghui Kuang and Dr. Wayne Zhang
- [Microsoft Research Asia, 2015]: Research intern, working with Dr. lei Sun
Professional Services
- Workshop Organizers:
Machine Visual Common Sense, CVPR 2023.
Machine Visual Common Sense, ECCV 2022.
- Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member:
AAAI 2023 - Conference Reviewer:
CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICME, ICLR
- Journal Reviewer:
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM)
Neurocomputing
Pattern Recognition (PR)
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
Awards
- M. Braun Postgraduate Prizes, HKU 2019-2020
- Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS), HKU 2016-2020
Teaching Assistant at HKU
- [Spring, 2020]: COMP3270 Artificial Intelligence
- [Spring, 2019]: COMP7404 Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
- [Spring, 2018]: COMP7404 Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
- [Summer, 2017]: COMP7502 Image Processing and Computer Vision