Research Group

Meet our talented research team working on cutting-edge computer vision and AI projects

Principal Investigator
CC

Chen Chen

Ph.D., Associate Professor

Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI)

Department of Computer Science

University of Central Florida

Office: UCF Global 226

Address: 4356 Scorpius St, Orlando, FL 32816

Email: chen.chen@ucf.edu

Ph.D. Students
Current doctoral students in the research group
GS

Guangyu Sun

QP

Qucheng Peng

AD

Andong Deng

ML

Ming Li

AB

Anthony Bilic

ZL

Zonglin Lyu

YZ

Yancheng Zhang

MK

Md Kowsher

YZ

Yuanhao Zou

PK

Patrick Kwon

Research for Undergraduate Students

Programs:

Publications by undergraduate students:

Momal Ijaz, Renato Diaz, Chen Chen, "Multi-modal Transformer for Nurse Activity Recognition"

The Fifth International Workshop on Computer Vision for Physiological Measurement (CVPM), in conjunction with CVPR 2022

Paper

Ethan Frakes, Umar Khalid, Chen Chen, "Efficient and consistent zero-shot video generation with diffusion models"

Real-Time Image Processing and Deep Learning 2024. Vol. 13034. SPIE, 2024

Paper
Ph.D. Alumni
Former doctoral students

Dr. Wenhan Wu

December 2025

Co-advising with Dr. Aidong Lu at UNCC

Dissertation: Human Action Recognition from Skeleton Data

Dr. Umar Khalid

December 2024

Dissertation: Effective and Efficient Use of Diffusion Models for Editing in Computer Vision

Current: Research Scientist at Axon AI

Dissertation: Efficient and Effective Deep Learning Methods for Computer Vision in Centralized and Distributed Applications

Current: Research Scientist, Apple Inc.

Dr. Ce Zheng

December 2023
Outstanding Dissertation Award

Dissertation: Reconstructing 3D Humans from Visual Data

Current: Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Defense Presentation

Dissertation: Towards Efficient and Effective Representation Learning for Image and Video Understanding

Current: Research Scientist, AWS AI Lab, CA

Defense Presentation

Dr. Sijie Zhu

December 2022
Outstanding Dissertation Award

Dissertation: Toward Real-World Cross-View Image Geo-Localization

Current: Research Scientist, Bytedance AI Lab, CA

Defense Presentation
Master's Alumni
Former master's students

Master in Computer Vision

Changlin Li

December 2020

Master's in Computer Vision

UNCC

Thesis: Object Detection in Aerial Imagery

Sumanta Bhattacharyya

December 2019

Master's in Computer Vision

UNCC

Thesis: Efficient Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation Using Attention Guided Generative Adversarial Network

Talal Alatiah

May 2020

Master's in Computer Vision

UNCC

Thesis: Recognizing Exercises and Counting Repetitions in Real Time