Chaohui Wang

Alumni

Perceiving Systems

http://files.is.tue.mpg.de/chwang

Homepage: http://files.is.tue.mpg.de/chwang

Google Scholar Page: http://scholar.google.de/citations?user=0lO_16kAAAAJ&hl=en

Academic Background

Since 03/2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Intelligent Systems, Germany
01/2012~03/2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Education

2007~2011: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Vision, Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP), France
2006~2007: M.Sc. in Mathematics, Vision and Machine Learning, Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) & Ecole Normale Supérieur (ENS) de Cachan, France
2004~2006: Engineer degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) in Information and Telecommunications, Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France
2000~2004: B.E. in Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China

Professional Activities

Co-guest Editor (with N. Komodakis, H. Ishikawa, O. Veksler & E. Boros): Special Issue on “Inference and Learning of Graphical Models: Theory and Applications in Computer Vision and Image Analysis” in Elsevier Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) (tentative submission: 15 September 2014. tentative publication: September 2015): http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-vision-and-image-understanding/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-inference-and-learning-of-graphical-models/
Optimization Chair: ICCV 2013
Conference Reviewing: ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, ACCV, AISTATS, MICCAI, ICPR
Journal Reviewing: IEEE T-PAMI, CVIU, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-Cybernetics, IVC

Google Scholar Link

http://scholar.google.de/citations?user=0lO_16kAAAAJ&hl=en

20 results (View BibTeX file of all listed publications)

2016

Occlusion boundary detection via deep exploration of context

Fu, H., Wang, C., Tao, D., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Occlusion boundaries contain rich perceptual information about the underlying scene structure. They also provide important cues in many visual perception tasks such as scene understanding, object recognition, and segmentation. In this paper, we improve occlusion boundary detection via enhanced exploration of contextual information (e.g., local structural boundary patterns, observations from surrounding regions, and temporal context), and in doing so develop a novel approach based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and conditional random fields (CRFs). Experimental results demonstrate that our detector significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art (e.g., improving the F-measure from 0.62 to 0.71 on the commonly used CMU benchmark). Last but not least, we empirically assess the roles of several important components of the proposed detector, so as to validate the rationale behind this approach.

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2016

ps Fu, H., Wang, C., Tao, D., Black, M. J. Occlusion boundary detection via deep exploration of context In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 (inproceedings)

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2015

Joint 3D Object and Layout Inference from a single RGB-D Image

(Best Paper Award)

Geiger, A., Wang, C.

In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 9358, pages: 183-195, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, 2015 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Inferring 3D objects and the layout of indoor scenes from a single RGB-D image captured with a Kinect camera is a challenging task. Towards this goal, we propose a high-order graphical model and jointly reason about the layout, objects and superpixels in the image. In contrast to existing holistic approaches, our model leverages detailed 3D geometry using inverse graphics and explicitly enforces occlusion and visibility constraints for respecting scene properties and projective geometry. We cast the task as MAP inference in a factor graph and solve it efficiently using message passing. We evaluate our method with respect to several baselines on the challenging NYUv2 indoor dataset using 21 object categories. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method is able to infer scenes with a large degree of clutter and occlusions.

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2015

avg ps Geiger, A., Wang, C. Joint 3D Object and Layout Inference from a single RGB-D Image In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 9358, pages: 183-195, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, 2015 (inproceedings)

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2014

Tracking using Multilevel Quantizations

Hong, Z., Wang, C., Mei, X., Prokhorov, D., Tao, D.

In Computer Vision – ECCV 2014, 8694, pages: 155-171, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: D. Fleet and T. Pajdla and B. Schiele and T. Tuytelaars ), Springer International Publishing, 13th European Conference on Computer Vision, September 2014 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Most object tracking methods only exploit a single quantization of an image space: pixels, superpixels, or bounding boxes, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. It is highly unlikely that a common optimal quantization level, suitable for tracking all objects in all environments, exists. We therefore propose a hierarchical appearance representation model for tracking, based on a graphical model that exploits shared information across multiple quantization levels. The tracker aims to find the most possible position of the target by jointly classifying the pixels and superpixels and obtaining the best configuration across all levels. The motion of the bounding box is taken into consideration, while Online Random Forests are used to provide pixel- and superpixel-level quantizations and progressively updated on-the-fly. By appropriately considering the multilevel quantizations, our tracker exhibits not only excellent performance in non-rigid object deformation handling, but also its robustness to occlusions. A quantitative evaluation is conducted on two benchmark datasets: a non-rigid object tracking dataset (11 sequences) and the CVPR2013 tracking benchmark (50 sequences). Experimental results show that our tracker overcomes various tracking challenges and is superior to a number of other popular tracking methods.

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2014

ps Hong, Z., Wang, C., Mei, X., Prokhorov, D., Tao, D. Tracking using Multilevel Quantizations In Computer Vision – ECCV 2014, 8694, pages: 155-171, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: D. Fleet and T. Pajdla and B. Schiele and T. Tuytelaars ), Springer International Publishing, 13th European Conference on Computer Vision, September 2014 (inproceedings)

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2013

Markov Random Field Modeling, Inference & Learning in Computer Vision & Image Understanding: A Survey

Wang, C., Komodakis, N., Paragios, N.

Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 117(11):1610-1627, November 2013 (article)

Abstract

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) in computer vision and image understanding, with respect to the modeling, the inference and the learning. While MRFs were introduced into the computer vision field about two decades ago, they started to become a ubiquitous tool for solving visual perception problems around the turn of the millennium following the emergence of efficient inference methods. During the past decade, a variety of MRF models as well as inference and learning methods have been developed for addressing numerous low, mid and high-level vision problems. While most of the literature concerns pairwise MRFs, in recent years we have also witnessed significant progress in higher-order MRFs, which substantially enhances the expressiveness of graph-based models and expands the domain of solvable problems. This survey provides a compact and informative summary of the major literature in this research topic.

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2013

ps Wang, C., Komodakis, N., Paragios, N. Markov Random Field Modeling, Inference & Learning in Computer Vision & Image Understanding: A Survey Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 117(11):1610-1627, November 2013 (article)

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Simultaneous Cast Shadows, Illumination and Geometry Inference Using Hypergraphs

Panagopoulos, A., Wang, C., Samaras, D., Paragios, N.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 35(2):437-449, 2013 (article)

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