Chen Chen

PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Office: Energy Production & Infrastructure Center (EPIC), Room 2337 Machine Vision Lab: EPIC, Room 2372 Address: 8700 Phillips Road, Charlotte, NC 28223 Phone: 704-687-8416 Email: chen.chen@uncc.edu Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar | Linkedin

Research Interests

My research interests include

• Computer Vision

• Machine Learning

• Image and Video Processing

Selected Recent Publications

1. 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
   arXiv:2105.07085   [Code] (ECCV-2020 Extension)
   
   
2. 3D Human Pose Estimation with Spatial and Temporal Transformers
   Ce Zheng, Sijie Zhu, Matias Mendieta, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen, Zhengming Ding
   arXiv:2103.10455   [Code]
   
   
3. Consistency-based Active Learning for Object Detection
   Weiping Yu, Sijie Zhu, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen, Mengyuan Liu
   arXiv:2103.10374   [Code]
   
   
4. Degrade is Upgrade: Learning Degradation for Low-light Image Enhancement
   Kui Jiang, Zhongyuan Wang, Zheng Wang, Peng Yi, Xiao Wang, Yansheng Qiu, Chen Chen, Chia-Wen Lin
   arXiv:2103.10621   [Code]
   
   
5. Deep Learning-Based Human Pose Estimation: A Survey
   Ce Zheng, Wenhan Wu, Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Chen Chen, Ruixu Liu, Ju Shen, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Mubarak Shah
   arXiv:2012.13392   [Project Page]
   
   
6. A3D: Adaptive 3D Networks for Video Action Recognition
   Sijie Zhu, Taojiannan Yang, Matias Mendieta, Chen Chen
   arXiv:2011.12384
   
   
7. Visual Explanation for Deep Metric Learning
   Sijie Zhu, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen
   IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 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. Towards Resolving the Challenge of Long-tail Distribution in UAV Images for Object Detection
    Weiping Yu, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021   [Code]
    
    
12. Revisiting Street-to-Aerial View Image Geo-localization and Orientation Estimation
    Sijie Zhu, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021
    
    
13. 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]
    
    
14. 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]
    
    
15. CP-NAS: Child-Parent Neural Architecture Search for 1-bit CNNs
    Li'an Zhuo, Baochang Zhang, Hanlin Chen, Linlin Yang, Chen Chen, Yanjun Zhu, David Doermann
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020
    
    
16. Density Map Guided Object Detection in Aerial Images
    Changlin Li, Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Chen Chen, Shanyue Guan
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (EarthVision Workshop), 2020   [Code]
    
    
17. 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]
    
    
18. 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]
    
    
19. 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 ]
    
    
20. 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)
    
    
21. Calibrated Stochastic Gradient Descent for Convolutional Neural Networks
    Li'an Zhuo, Baochang Zhang, Chen Chen, David Doermann, Jianzhuang Liu, Qixiang Ye
    33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
    
    
22. Gabor Convolutional Networks
    Shangzhen Luan, Chen Chen, Baochang Zhang, Jungong Han, Jianzhuang Liu
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2018   [ Code ]
    
    
23. Memory Attention Networks for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
    Chunyu Xie, Ce Li, Baochang Zhang, Chen Chen, Jungong Han, Changqing Zou, Jianzhuang Liu
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018
    
    
24. 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]
    
    
25. 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]
    
    
26. 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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