Shengcai Liao
Associate Professor, Lead Scientist
Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
News
11/2019, Looking for prospective Ph.D./Master students in computer vision for the 2020 academic year!
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!
10/2019, I have joined the newly established Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) as a founding faculty.
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.
12/2015, The MLAPG source code is released. [project page]
08/2015, The NPD face detector is released. [project page]
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]
12/2013, A database for attributed pedestrians in surveillance is released.
Research Interests
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning
Face Detection, Face Recognition
Pedestrian Detection, Person Re-identification
Background Subtraction, Object Tracking, Video Surveillance, Video Analysis
Similarity/Metric Learning
Employment
10/2019 ~ present, Associate Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
10/2018 ~ present, Lead Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)
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
09/2005 ~ 07/2010, Ph.D., Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09/2001 ~ 07/2005, B.S. Degree in Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University
Awards and Honors
The 1st Place, NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge 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.
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 Honor, 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
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
Encyclopedia of Biometrics, 2nd Edition, Assistant Editor, Springer, 2015
Area Chair
ICB 2018, ICPR 2016, ICB 2016, ELM 2014
Program Committee
ICCV 2011, ICCV 2013, ICCV 2015, ICCV 2017, ICCV 2019
CVPR 2012, CVPR 2013, CVPR 2014, CVPR 2015, CVPR 2016, CVPR 2017, CVPR 2019
ECCV 2012, ECCV 2014, ECCV 2016
ICB 2012, IJCB 2014, ICB 2015, BTAS 2015, BTAS 2016, IJCB 2017,BTAS 2018
ICPR 2014, ICPR 2016, ICPR 2018
AVSS 2015, AVSS 2016, AVSS 2017
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions: TPAMI, TIP, TNNLS, TSMC-B, TCSVT, TIFS, TMM
Elsevier Journals: PR, INS, CVIU, IVC, Neurocomputing
