Basic Information/基本信息

                 

                    Le Wang, Ph.D.

                       Associate Professor

  Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

               College of Artificial Intelligence

                    Xi'an Jiaotong University

                                王乐，博士

                副教授，博士生、硕士生导师

                   人工智能与机器人研究所

                            人工智能学院

                            西安交通大学

Honors and Awards/荣誉奖励

2019，指导学生获西安交通大学“信源通”高水平

            论文奖

2018，中国科协“青年托举人才工程”项目

2018，指导学生获西安交通大学优秀硕士学位

            论文

2014，西安交通大学“信源通”优秀博士论文基金

2012-2014，西安交通大学“信源通”高水平论文奖

2012，ACCV Best Application Paper Award

Contact Information

Email: lewang at xjtu.edu.cn

           wangleabc at gmail.com

Mail: Institute of Artificial Intelligence and

         Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University,

         28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, 

         Shaanxi, 710049, China

Office: Room 307, Science Building

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Biography/个人简介

Le Wang is an Associate Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering and a B.E. degree in Automation both from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2014 and 2008, respectively. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar with Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting Ph.D. student with Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. He joined Xi'an Jiaotong University in October, 2014. He is a senior member of the CSIG, and a member of the IEEE, CAA, and CCF.

Work/工作经历

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China                                                                         07/2018 - Present

      Associate Professor, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China                                                                        10/2014 - 06/2018

      Assistant Professor, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA                                                                               01/2016 - 01/2017

      Visiting Scholar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, supervised by Prof. Ying Wu

 

Education/教育背景

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China                                                                         09/2008 - 09/2014

    Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA                                                                   09/2013 - 03/2014

   Visiting Ph.D. student in Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Gang Hua

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China                                                                         09/2004 - 07/2008

   B.E. in Automation

Research Interests/研究兴趣

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/计算机视觉与模式识别

  • Image/Video Object Segmentation/图像/视频目标分割
  • Image/Video Analysis and Understanding/图像视频分析与理解
  • Video Action and Event Analysis and Understanding/视频行为/事件分析与理解
  • Fine-grained Object Analysis/细粒度目标分析

Deep Learning/深度学习

Hybrid-augmented Intelligence/混合增强智能

Publications/论文
 
Notes:
  • Notes 1: Electronic papers shared on this website are for fast dissemination of research work. The copyrights of the papers belong to the corresponding publishers. Also the technologies presented in some of the published papers are protected by China Patents or pending Patents.
  • Notes 2: "*" indicates the corresponding author.
  • Notes 3: IEEE T-PAMI is considerred to be the top one computer vision journal and has very high journal impact factor that a ranked among Top 3 in all Computer Science Journals (nearly 100).
  • Notes 4: ICCV, CVPR, and ECCV are considered to be the top three major computer vision conferences with highly competitive overall acceptance rate ~25% and <5% acceptance for oral presentation.

Selected Journal Articles:

  1. Zhanning Gao, Le Wang*, Nebojsa Jojic, Zhenxing Niu, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Video Imprint", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), Vol. 41, Issue 12, pp. 3086-3099, December, 2019.
  2. Ziyi Liu, Le Wang*, Gang Hua, Qilin Zhang, Zhenxing Niu, Ying Wu, and Nanning Zheng, "Joint Video Object Discovery and Segmentation by Coupled Dynamic Markov Networks", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), Vol. 27, Issue 12, pp. 5840-5853, December, 2018.
  3. Zhenxing Niu, Gang Hua, Le Wang, and Xinbo Gao, "Knowledge Based Topic Model for Unsupervised Object Discovery and Localization", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 50-63, January, 2018.
  4. Le Wang, Gang Hua, Rahul Sukthankar, Jianru Xue, Zhenxing Niu, and Nanning Zheng, "Video Object Discovery and Co-Segmentation with Extremely Weak Supervision", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), Vol. 39, Issue 10, pp. 2074-2088, October, 2017.
  5. Le Wang, Gang Hua, Jianru Xue, Zhanning Gao, and Nanning Zheng, "Joint Segmentation and Recognition of Categorized Objects from Noisy Web Image Collection", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), Vol. 23, Issue 9, pp. 4070-4086, September, 2014.
  6. Jianru Xue, Le Wang, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Automatic salient object extraction with contextual cue and its applications to recognition and alpha matting", Pattern Recognition (PR), Vol. 46, Issue 11, pp. 2874-2889, November, 2013. (Long version of the ICCV'2011 segmentation paper)

Conference Papers

  1. Chuan Wu, Yaochen Li, Ling Li, Le Wang, Yuehu Liu, "Caption Generation from Road Images for Traffic Scene Construction", in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'2020), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 23-26 June, 2020.
  2. Liheng Xu, Chi Zhang, Yuehu Liu, Le Wang, Li Li, "Worst Perception Scenario Search for Autonomous Driving", in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'2020), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 23-26 June, 2020.
  3. Xinling Liu, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Joint Multi-Object Detection and Segmentation from an Untrimmed Video", in Proc. IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'2020), Halkidiki, Greece, 5-7 June, 2020. (Oral Presentation)
  4. Rizhi Ding, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Zhenxing Niu, Nanning Zheng, Gang Hua, "Fine-grained Giant Panda Identification", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2020), Barcelona, Spain, 4-8 May, 2020.
  5. Mo Zhou, Zhenxing Niu, Le Wang*, Zhanning Gao, Qilin Zhang, and Gang Hua, "Ladder Loss for Coherent Visual-Semantic Embedding", in Proc. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2020), New York, NY, USA, 7-12 February, 2020.
  6. Changbo Zhai, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Zhanning Gao, Zhenxing Niu, Nanning Zheng and Gang Hua, "Action Co-Localization in an Untrimmed Video by Graph Neural Networks", in Proc. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'2020), pp. 555-567, Daejeon, Korea, 5-8 January, 2020.
  7. Ziyi Liu, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Zhanning Gao, Zhenxing Niu, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization through Contrast based Evaluation Networks", in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'2019), pp. 3899-3908, Seoul, Korea, 27 October-2 November, 2019.
  8. Yuanhao Zhai, Le Wang*, Ziyi Liu, Qilin Zhang, Gang Hua, and Nanning Zheng, "Action Coherence Network for Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2019), pp. 918-922, Taipei, Taiwan, 22-25 September, 2019. (Oral Presentation)
  9. Haoliang Tan, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Zhanning Gao, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Object Affordances Graph Network for Action Recognition", in Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'2019), Cardiff, UK, 9-12 September, 2019. (Spotlight Presentation)
  10. Yu Liu, Chi Zhang, Yuehu Liu, Le Wang, Li Li, and Nanning Zheng, "Joint Intelligence Ranking by Federated Gradient Descent", in Proc. The 1st International Workshop on Federated Machine Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality (FML'2019) in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'2019), Macau, China, 12 Auguast, 2019.
  11. Jin Li, Xuguang Lan, Yang Liu, Le Wang, Nanning Zheng, "Compressing Unknown Classes with Product Quantizer for Efficient Zero-Shot Classification", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2019), pp. 5463-5472, Long Beach, CA, 16-20 June, 2019.
  12. Xiao Wu, Yaochen Li, Yuehu Liu, Shanmin Pang, Le Wang, Chuan Wu, and Huihui Huo, "Jointly Detecting and Retrieving Vehicles from Road Image Sequences based on CNN", in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'2019), pp. 2530-2535, Paris, France, 9-12 June, 2019.
  13. Zijian Kang, Le Wang*, Ziyi Liu, Qilin Zhang, and Nanning Zheng, "Extracting Action Sensitive Features to Facilitate Weakly-supervised Action Localization",  in Proc. IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'2019), pp. 188-201, Crete, Greece, 24-26 May, 2019. (Oral Presentation)
  14. Zhanning Gao, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Zhenxing Niu, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Video Imprint Segmentation for Temporal Action Detection in Untrimmed Videos", in Proc. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2019), pp. 8328-8335, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 27 January-1 February, 2019. (Oral Presentation)
  15. Xin Lv, Le Wang*, Qilin Zhang, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Video Object Co-segmentation from Noisy Videos by a Multi-level Hypergraph Model", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2018), pp. 2207 - 2211, Athens, Greece, 7-10 October, 2018.
  16. Xuhuan Duan, Le Wang*, Changbo Zhai, Qilin Zhang, Zhenxing Niu, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Joint Spatio-temporal Action Localization in Untrimmed Videos with Per-frame Segmentation", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2018), pp. 918-922, Athens, Greece, 7-10 October, 2018. (Oral Presentation)
  17. Jinliang Zang, Le Wang*, Ziyi Liu, Qilin Zhang, Gang Hua, and Nanning Zheng, "Attention-based Temporal Weighted Convolutional Neural Network for Action Recognition", in Proc. IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'2018), pp. 97-108, Rhodes, Greece, 25-27 May, 2018. (Oral Presentation)
  18. Ziyi Liu, Le Wang*, and Nanning Zheng, "Content-Aware Attention Network for Action Recognition", in Proc. IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'2018), pp. 109-120, Rhodes, Greece, 25-27 May, 2018. (Oral Presentation)
  19. Chi Zhang, Yuehu Liu, Qilin Zhang, and Le Wang, "A Graded Offline Evaluation Framework for Intelligent Vehicle's Cognitive Ability", in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'2018), pp. 320-325, Changshu, China, 26-29 June, 2018. (Oral Presentation)
  20. Zhenxing Niu, Mo Zhou, Le Wang, Xinbo Gao, and Gang Hua, "Hierarchical Multimodal LSTM for Dense Visual-Semantic Embedding",  in Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'2017), pp. 1899-1907, Venice, Italy, 22-29 October, 2017.
  21. Zhanning Gao, Gang Hua, Dongqing Zhang, Nebojsa Jojic, Le Wang, Jianru Xue, and Nanning Zheng, "ER3: A Unified Framework for Event Retrieval, Recognition and Recounting", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2017), pp. 2107-2116, Honolulu, Hawaii, 21-26 July, 2017.
  22. Zhenxing Niu, Mo Zhou, Le Wang, Xinbo Gao, and Gang Hua, "Ordinal Regression with Multiple Output CNN for Age Estimation", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'2016), pp. 4920-4928, Las Vegas, NV, 26 June-1 July, 2016.
  23. Le Wang, Gang Hua, Rahul Sukthankar, Jianru Xue, and Nanning Zheng, "Video Object Discovery and Co-segmentation with Extremely Weak Supervision", in Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'2014), pp. 640-655, Zurich, Switzerland, 6-12 September, 2014. [Spotlight] [Poster]
  24. Le Wang, Jianru Xue, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Concurrent Segmentation of Categorized Objects from an Image Collection", in Proc. IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2012), pp. 3309-3312, Tsukuba, Japan, 11-15 November, 2012. (Oral Presentation)
  25. Le Wang, Jianru Xue, Nanning Zheng, and Gang Hua, "Automatic Salient Object Extraction with Contextual Cue", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'2011), pp.105-112, Barcelona, Spain, 6-13 November, 2011. [Demo] [Poster]
  26. Shanmin Pang, Jianru Xue, Le Wang, and Nanning Zheng, "Large-Scale Bundle Adjustment by Parameter Vector Partition", in Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'2012), pp. 26-39, Daejeon, Korea, 5-9 November, 2012. (Best Application Paper Award, Oral Presentation)
  27. Ce Li, Jianru Xue, Xuguang Lan, Miao Hui, Le Wang, and Nanning Zheng, "Multi-regions in the Scalable Video Coding Method", in Proc. International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP'2010), Yantai, China, 16-18 October, 2010.

 

Patents/专利
  1. 王乐，师皓玥，臧津樑，“一种用于行为识别的虚拟视频数据生成方法”，申请号：201910945140.9，申请时间：2019.09.30.
  2. 王乐，翟长波，谭昊亮，“一种基于图神经网络的目标辅助的动作识别方法”，申请号：201910817670.5，申请时间：2019.08.30.
  3. 王乐，翟长波，“一种基于图卷积网络的未剪辑视频动作时序定位方法”，申请号：201910575041.6，申请时间：2019.06.28.
  4. 王乐，丁日智，“一种基于块检测器及特征融合的卷积神经网络的细粒度图像识别方法及系统”，申请号：201910575043.5，申请时间：2019.06.28.
  5. 王乐，翟元浩，刘子熠，“一种基于动作连贯性的弱监督时序动作定位方法”，申请号：201910575033.1，申请时间：2019.06.28.
  6. 王乐，康子健，刘子熠，郑南宁，“一种基于非对称多流的动作检测方法”，申请号：201910458481.3，申请时间：2019.05.29.
  7. 王乐，刘子熠，郑南宁，“一种基于对比度的弱监督时序动作定位评价方法及系统”，申请号：201910458525.2，申请时间：2019.05.29.
  8. 吕欣，王乐，郑南宁，“一种基于多层超图模型的多视频目标协同分割方法”，申请号：201810998162.7，申请时间：2018.08.29.
  9. 王乐，刘子熠，郑南宁，“一种基于耦合动态马尔科夫网络的视频目标发现与分割方法”，申请号：201810865881.1，申请时间：2018.08.01.
  10. 薛建儒，王乐，高占宁，“一种网络图像自主收集与筛选方法”，授权号：201210336284.2，授权时间：2015.08.05.

 

Grants/科研项目
  1. PI/负责人, "Spatiotemporal Video Action Localization based on Scene Semantic Association Pattern Mining"/“场景语义关联模式挖掘的视频行为时空定位方法研究”, General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 61976171/国家自然科学基金面上项目, 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2023.
  2. PI/负责人, "Video Action Recognition and Localization"/“视频行为识别与定位”, Wormpex AI Research Technical Cooperation Project 20190977/便利蜂横向合作项目, 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2022.
  3. Sub-Program PI/子课题负责人, "Theory and Methods for Human-in-the-loop Hybrid-augmented Intelligence"/“人在回路的混合增强智能理论与方法”, The National Key Research and Development Program of China 2018AAA0101400/国家重点研发计划项目, 12/01/2019 - 11/30/2022.
  4. PI/负责人, "Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology"/“第四届中国科协青年人才托举工程项目”, 2018QNRC001, 01/17/2019 - 12/31/2021.
  5. PI/负责人, "Research on Video Action Recognition and Spatiotemporal Localiazation based on Scene Semantic Mining"/“基于场景语义挖掘的视频行为识别与时空定位方法研究”, General Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2019M653642/中国博士后科学基金面上项目, 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2020.
  6. PI/负责人, "Theory and Method of Human-multi-agent Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence"/“人-多智能体协作混合智能的理论与方法”, Key Research and Development Training Program of Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities zdyf2018018/中央高校基本科研业务费重点研发计划培育项目, 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2019.
  7. Sub-Program PI/子课题负责人, "Theory, Methods and Key Technologies for Deep Learning of Next Generation"/“下一代深度学习理论、方法与关键技术”, The National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFA0700800/国家重点研发计划项目, 05/01/2018 - 04/30/2022.
  8. Key member/项目骨干，"Cognitive Construction based Human-like Intelligent Driving Method"/“基于认知构建的类人智能驾驶方法研究”，General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 61773312/国家自然科学基金面上项目, 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2021.
  9. Key member/项目骨干，"Weakly Supervised or Unsupervised Action and Event Co-segmentation based on Spatiotemporal Context"/“基于时空上下文的弱监督或无监督视频行为和事件协同分割研究”，National Science Foundation for Distinguished Overseas Young Scholars 61629301/国家自然科学基金海外及港澳学者合作研究基金延续资助项目（海外杰青项目）, 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2020.
  10. PI/负责人, "Spatiotemporal Context Aware Action and Event Co-segmentation from Multiple Videos"/“基于时空上下文的视频行为和事件协同分割研究”, Special Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2017T100752/中国博士后科学基金特别资助项目, 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2019.
  11. PI/负责人, "Spatiotemporal Context Aware Thematic Object Discovery and Segmentation from Web Videos"/“时空上下文感知的网络视频主题目标发现与分割研究”, Research Fund for Young Scholars of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 61503296/国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目, 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2018.
  12. PI/负责人, "Video Object Discovery and Co-segmentation with Contextual Modeling"/“网络视频中时空上下文感知的主题目标发现与分割研究”, General Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2015M572563/中国博士后科学基金面上项目, 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2016.
  13. PI/负责人, "Joint Video Object Retrieval and Segmentation by Spatiotemporal Correlation"/“时空上下文关联的视频主题目标检索与分割方法研究”, Innovation Program of Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Z201503125/中央高校基本科研业务费自主创新类项目, 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2017.

 

Services/学术服务

 Reviewer for International Journals:

  • 自动化学报
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
  • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  • IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (T-IP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Robotica
  • Computational Visual Media (CVMJ)
  • IET Computer Vision
  • Journal of Machine Vision and Application (MVA)
  • The Visual Computer (TVCJ)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
Reviewer for International Conferences:
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015, 2017, 2019
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, 2020
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI), 2020
  • China Symposium on Cognitive Computing and Hybrid Intelligence (CCHI), 2019
  • IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (MWSCAS), 2018, 2019
  • Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM), 2017
  • IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2015, 2019
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2014
  • Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2014, 2018
Program Committee Member:
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI), 2020
  • The 35th Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC), 2020
  • China Symposium on Cognitive Computing and Hybrid Intelligence (CCHI), 2018, 2019
  • International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), 2016, 2018

Conference and Workshop Chairs:

  • Publicity Chair, The 35th Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC), 2020
  • Forum Chair, Forum II - Hybrid Intelligence and Deep Learning, China Symposium on Cognitive Computing and Hybrid Intelligence (CCHI), 2019

学术组织任职：

  • 中国自动化学会青年工作委员会，副秘书长
  • 中国自动化学会人工智能与机器人教育专业委员会，委员