Chen Chen

PhD, Assistant Professor, IEEE Senior Member Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV) Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida Office: HEC 221 Address: 4328 Scorpius St., Orlando, FL 32816-2365 Phone: 407-823-1047 Email: chen.chen@crcv.ucf.edu Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar | Linkedin

Research Interests

• Computer Vision

• Machine Learning

• Image and Video Processing

News

• Ce Zheng has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congratulations Dr. Zheng! [Defense Presentation]

• 1 paper accepted by NeurIPS 2023 (human pose estimation).

• Taojiannan Yang has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congratulations Dr. Yang! He will join AWS AI Lab as a Research Scientist. [Defense Presentation]

• 9 papers accepted by ICCV 2023 (federated learning, geospatial foundation model, pre-training for object detection, human/hand pose estimation, video action recognition, and image denoising).

• We won the First Place of the Affordance-Centric Question-driven Task Completion Challenge (CVPR 2023 Long-form Video Understanding and Generation Workshop). [Certificate] [Technical Report]

• 2 papers accepted by IJCAI 2023 (15% acceptance rate).

• 6 papers accepted by CVPR 2023.

• We will organize a tutorial "A Comprehensive Tour and Recent Advancements toward Real-world Visual Geo-Localization" at CVPR 2023. (Organizers: Rakesh Kumar, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah, Han-Pang Chiu, Sijie Zhu) [Website]

• 1 ICLR paper accepted (Efficient Video Action Recognition)

• My student Dr. Sijie Zhu won the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the College of Engineering and Computer Science at UCF. Congratulations to Sijie!

• Invited to give a talk at the Workshop on Real-World Surveillance (RWS): Applications and Challenges in conjunction with WACV 2023. [Talk Slide]

• We will organize two workshops at CVPR 2023: (1) The 2nd FedVision Workshop (FedVision) [Workshop Website], (2) The 1st Workshop on Capturing, Interpreting & Visualizing Indoor Living Spaces (CIVILS) [Workshop Website]

• 3 AAAI'23 papers accepted (Federated learning, Action recognition, Video captioning)

• Sijie Zhu has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congratulations Dr. Zhu! He will join ByteDance (Mountain View, CA) as a Research Scientist. [Defense Presentation]

• Invited to give a talk for graduate student seminar series at West Virginia University.

• Invited to give a talk at University of South Florida AI+X Seminar.

• Invited to give an academic talk at Qualcomm on the topic of "Cross-view Image Geo-localization". [Video] [Talk Slide]

• Invited to give a keynote talk at the 4th BIG-Surv Workshop @ ICME 2022 to talk about privacy-preserving video analytics. [Video]

• 3 ECCV'22 papers accepted (Video geo-localization, Image compositing, Medical image segmentation)

• 2 ACM-Multimedia'22 papers accepted (Human mesh reconstruction, Single image deraining)

• Our CVPR oral paper "FedAlign" is one of the finalists for the CVPR 2022 best paper (33 out of 8,161). Congratulations to Matias and Tao! [Image]

• We organized two workshops (FedVision and DNetCV) at CVPR 2022

Selected Publications [Full Publications]

1. AIM: Adapting Image Models for Efficient Video Action Recognition
   Taojiannan Yang, Yi Zhu, Yusheng Xie, Aston Zhang, Chen Chen, Mu Li
   International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023   [Project Website]
   
   
2. Local Learning Matters: Rethinking Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
   Matias Mendieta, Taojiannan Yang, Pu Wang, Minwoo Lee, Zhengming Ding, Chen Chen
   IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 (Best Paper Nominee (33 out of 8,161))   [Code]
   
   
3. MutualNet: Adaptive ConvNet via Mutual Learning from Different Model Configurations
   Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Matias Mendieta, Pu Wang, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Minwoo Lee, Tao Han, Mubarak Shah, Chen Chen
   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2022   [Code]
   
   
4. Degrade is Upgrade: Learning Degradation for Low-light Image Enhancement
   Kui Jiang, Zhongyuan Wang, Zheng Wang, Chen Chen, Peng Yi, Tao Lu, Chia-Wen Lin
   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022   [Code]
   
   
5. 3D Human Pose Estimation with Spatial and Temporal Transformers
   Ce Zheng, Sijie Zhu, Matias Mendieta, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen, Zhengming Ding
   IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021   [Code]
   
   
6. Semi-supervised Domain Adaptive Retrieval via Discriminative Hashing Learning
   Haifeng Xia, Taotao Jing, Chen Chen, Zhengming Ding
   ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021 (Oral)  
   
   
7. Visual Explanation for Deep Metric Learning
   Sijie Zhu, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen
   IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021   [Code]
   
   
8. TransBTS: Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Transformer
   Wenxuan Wang, Chen Chen, Meng Ding, Jiangyun Li, Hong Yu, Sen Zha
   International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021   [Code]
   
   
9. VIGOR: Cross-View Image Geo-localization beyond One-to-one Retrieval
   Sijie Zhu, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen
   IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021   [Dataset and Code]
   
   
10. Learning Normal Dynamics in Videos with Meta Prototype Network
    Hui Lv, Chen Chen, Zhen Cui, Chunyan Xu, Yong Li, Jian Yang
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021   [Code]
    
    
11. GradAug: A New Regularization Method for Deep Neural Networks
    Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Chen Chen
    Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020   [Poster]   [Code]
    
    
12. MutualNet: Adaptive ConvNet via Mutual Learning from Network Width and Resolution
    Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Chen Chen, Yan Shen, Mi Zhang, Andrew Willis
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020 (Oral)   [Code]   [Video Presentation]
    
    
13. Attention Mechanism Exploits Temporal Contexts: Real-time 3D Human Pose Reconstruction
    Ruixu Liu, Ju Shen, He Wang, Chen Chen, Sen-ching Cheung, Vijayan Asari
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)  [Code]
    
    
14. Multi-Scale Progressive Fusion Network for Single Image Deraining
    Kui Jiang, Zhongyuan Wang, Peng Yi, Chen Chen, Baojin Huang, Yimin Luo, Jiayi Ma, Junjun Jiang
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020   [Code]
    
    
15. 3D Dilated Multi-Fiber Network for Real-time Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI
    Chen Chen, Xiaopeng Liu, Meng Ding, Junfeng Zheng, Jiangyun Li
    International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2019   [ Code ]
    
    
16. Joint Dynamic Pose Image and Space Time Reversal for Human Action Recognition from Videos
    Mengyuan Liu, Fanyang Meng, Chen Chen, Songtao Wu
    33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019 (Oral)
    
    
17. Real-world Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos
    Waqas Sultani, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
    [ Project Website (New Anomaly Detection Dataset) ] [Video Presentation] [Download the dataset]
    
    
18. Tube Convolutional Neural Network (T-CNN) for Action Detection in Videos
    Rui Hou, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
    [Project] [Code]
    
    
19. Cross-View Image Matching for Geo-localization in Urban Environments
    Yicong Tian, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
    [Project Website (Cross-view dataset and code)]
    
    

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