Weichao Qiu (邱卫超)
Email: qiuwch at gmail dot com
A fifth-year computer science Ph.D student of Johns Hopkins University.
Advisor: Alan Yuille
Education
2016 – 2020
Ph.D. Student in Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (Transfered with Prof. Alan Yuille). Advisor: Prof. Alan Yuille
2014 - 2016
Ph.D. Student in Department of Statistics, UCLA. Advisor: Prof. Alan Yuille
2011 – 2014
Master student in Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech. (HUST). Advisor: Prof. Xiang Bai
2007 – 2011
Bachelor in Department of Computer Science, HUST
Experience
2016.01 - 2020.12
Ph.D. student of Johns Hopkins University.
- Use Unreal Engine (UE4) to construct virtual worlds for training and diagnosing computer vision algorithms. Develop an UE4 plugin UnrealCV (unrealcv.org) to make realistic virtual worlds easier to create, use and share. Maintain a list showing applications of synthetic data in computer vision
2018.01
Taught JHU intersession course Virtual Reality App Development
2017.06 - 2017.11
Research intern of Oculus Research, Pittsburgh, PA
2014.09 - 2016.01
Ph.D student of UCLA
- Use Blender to generate synthetic human images with rich annotations, including keypoint and semantic part labeling.
2013.02 - 2013.11
Visiting Graduate Researcher, UCLA, Statistics, Supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille
- Image IQ, Collaborate with Prof. Hongjing Lu
- Dense correspondence estimation, Collaborate with Prof. Zhuowen Tu
Psychophysical experiment to study human’s ability of recognizing object when they see images through aperture. Human’s ability of recognizing small patch can help understand how to encode local visual information.
Extend SiftFlow algorithm by adding a scale field to solve large scale variance between two images
2010.09 - 2013.01
Research assistant in Multimedia and Communication lab, Supervised by Prof. Xiang Bai & Prof. Wenyu Liu
- Vehicle Detection
- Face recognition in unconstrained environment
2009.09 - 2010.06
President of Unique Studio, HUST
2009.07 - 2009.10
Intern of Microsoft Research, Asia, IEG (Innovation Engineering Group), Beijing
Publication
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Jiteng Mu*, Weichao Qiu*, Gregory Hager, Alan Yuille.
"Learning from Synthetic Animals",
CVPR 2020 (oral)
[code] - Michelle Shu, Chenxi Liu, Weichao Qiu, Alan Yuille. "Identifying model weakness with adversarial examiner", AAAI 2020
- Jialing Lyu, Weichao Qiu, Alan Yuille. "Identity Preserve Transform: Understand What Activity Classification Models Have Learnt", CVPR 2020 workshop
- Zhe Zhang, Chunyu Wang, Weichao Qiu, Wenhu Qin, Wenjun Zeng. "AdaFuse: Adaptive Multiview Fusion for Accurate Human Pose Estimation in the Wild", IJCV 2020
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Yiming Zuo*, Weichao Qiu*, Lingxi Xie, Fangwei Zhong, Yizhou Wang, Alan Yuille.
"CRAVES: Controlling Robotic Arm with a Vision-based, Economic System",
CVPR 2019
[project] [code] - Xiaohui Zeng, Chenxi Liu, Yu-Siang Wang, Weichao Qiu, Lingxi Xie, Yu-Wing Tai, Chi Keung Tang, and Alan Yuille. "Adversarial Attacks Beyond the Image Space", CVPR 2019 (oral)
- Yutong Bai, Qing Liu, Lingxi Xie, Weichao Qiu, Yan Zheng, Alan Yuille. "Semantic Part Detection via Matching: Learning to Generalize to Novel Viewpoints from Limited Training Data", ICCV 2019
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Qi Chen, Weichao Qiu, Yi Zhang, Lingxi Xie, Alan Yuille.
"SampleAhead: Online Classifier-Sampler Communication for Learning from Synthesized Data",
BMVC 2018 (oral)
[pdf] [poster] -
Yi Zhang, Weichao Qiu, Qi Chen, Xiaolin Hu, Alan Yuille.
"Unrealstereo: A synthetic dataset for analyzing stereo vision",
3DV 2018 (oral)
[pdf] -
Siyuan Qiao, Wei Shen, Weichao Qiu, Chenxi Liu, Alan Yuille.
"ScaleNet: Guiding Object Proposal Generation in Supermarkets and Beyond",
ICCV 2017
[pdf] [code] -
Weichao Qiu, Alan Yuille.
"UnrealCV: Connecting Computer Vision to Unreal Engine",
ECCV 2016 VARVAI workshop
[project] [code] [pdf] [poster] -
Weichao Qiu,
"Generating Human Images and Ground Truth using Computer Graphics", Master Thesis of UCLA, Statistics
[pdf] [code] -
Weichao Qiu, Xinggang Wang, Xiang Bai, Alan Yuille, Zhuowen Tu.
"Scale-Space SIFT Flow",
WACV 2014
[pdf] [code] [book chapter] - Jiayi Ma, Weichao Qiu, Ji Zhao, Yong Ma, Alan Yuille, Zhuowen Tu. "Robust L2E Estimation of Transformation for Non-Rigid Registration", TSP 2015
Award
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2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition worldwide final 2nd place of Design for Development award, Cairo, Egypt.