CV

Contact:

Email: ymnwen[@]ucdavis.edu

Education:

• 2018~2020 M.S in Computer Science (Research-Thesis), University of California, Davis, 4.0/4.0
• Advisor: Prof. Yong Jae Lee

Research Interests

My research interests lie in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Specifically, they are:

i) Creative Content Generation; ii) 2D/3D Scene/human Perception & Understanding for AR/VR/Automous Driving.

Research experience

• 2021.1~current: Machine Learning Researcher Intern, Media Lab and Lightspeed & Quantum Studio, Tencent
  • Robust Transformer-based Monocular Depth Estimation for 3D Scene Reconstruction.
  • Efficient 3D Human Motion Prediction & Synthesis based on trajectory.
  • Supervisor: Dr. Bing Jian, Zhongshan Zhang, Ka Chen
• 2018.9~2020.12: Graduate Student Researcher, Computer Vision Lab, University of California, Davis
  • Investigates a new problem setting on human-object interaction understanding.
  • Proposed, designed, and collected a new dataset for various action activities in different scenes with time-synchronized first-person and third-person cameras.
  • Visual scene localization and pose estimation based on the egocentric (first-person) view video.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Yong Jae Lee, Dr. Krishna Kumar Singh
• 2019.6~2019.9: Intern Vision Researcher, Hikvision Research Institute U.S.A.
  • Learning to learn the scene structure prior with a few examples for super-resolution.
  • Supervisor: Dr. Zhe Hu
• 2018.4~2018.9: Senior Vision Researcher, AI Cloud, Xiaomi Technology
  • Led a five researchers team to explore the scene parsing.
  • Manager: Dr. Hangjun Ye
  • Technology Transfer: Sky Replacement
• 2016.7~2018.4:Computer Vision Researcher, Imaging & Vision Lab, Meitu Technology
  • Generative adversarial networks (GANs) research on image editing.
  • Technology Transfer:
    
    • AI Painting Artbot Meitu Artbot Andy,(#Hot-Topic Weibo)
      
    • Creative Style Transfer Meitu Style,
      
    • Learnable Selfie-beautilization Meitu Beauty,
      
    • Automatic ID Photo Generation Meitu ID photo
      
• 2016.4~2016.7: Intern Vision Researcher, Sensetime Research
  • Fashion attributes detection by single-shot detector.
  • Supervisor: Dr. Shi Qiu
• 2016.1~2016.3: Intern Computer Vision Researcher, Imaging & Vision Lab, Meitu Technology
  • Knowledge distilling techniques and effective model designs for face recognition.
• 2014.9~2015.7: Undergraduate Student Researcher, Multimedia Optimization Lab, Chung Yuan Christian University
  • Error concealment algorithm for lost frame of multi-view videos.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Ting-lan Lin

Teaching

ECS 174, Computer Vision, UC Davis, CS, Spring 2019