About ME

Zhaofan Qiu (邱钊凡)

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zhaofanqiu@gmail.com

I am currently a Researcher in Vision and Multimedia Lab at JD AI Research, Beijing, China. My research interests include video understanding, multimedia analysis and deep learning. I has authored or co-authored 20+ papers in top-notch Journals and Conferences, with about 2,300+ and an hindex of 15, according to Google Scholar. My works have also led to many awards, including Excellence Award of CAS Dean's Scholarship 2020 and Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2017.

I received B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2015 and 2020, respectively. I am the key architect of the top-performing multimedia analytic systems in worldwide competitions such as ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge 2021 & 2019 & 2017 & 2016, Visual Domain Adaptation Challenge 2018 & 2017, and THUMOS Action Recognition Challenge 2015. I am the co-organizer of Pre-training for Video Understanding Challenge in ACM Multimedia 2021.

Publications

Optimization Planning for 3D ConvNets

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, and Tao Mei
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021

Seco: Exploring sequence supervision for unsupervised representation learning

Ting Yao, Yiheng Zhang, Zhaofan Qiu, Yingwei Pan, and Tao Mei
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021

Boosting Video Representation Learning with Multi-Faceted Integration

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Dong Wu, and Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

Representing Videos as Discriminative Sub-graphs for Action Recognition

Dong Li, Zhaofan Qiu, Yingwei Pan, Ting Yao, Houqiang Li, and Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

Learning to Localize Actions from Moments

Fuchen Long, Ting Yao, Zhaofan Qiu, Xinmei Tian, Jiebo Luo, and Tao Mei,
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020

Transferring and Regularizing Prediction for Semantic Segmentation

Yiheng Zhang, Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Dong Liu, and Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

Learning Spatio-Temporal Representation with Local and Global Diffusion

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xinmei Tian, and Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019

Customizable Architecture Search for Semantic Segmentation

Yiheng Zhang, Zhaofan Qiu, Jingen Liu, Ting Yao, Dong Liu, Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019

Gaussian Temporal Awareness Networks for Action Localization

Fuchen Long, Ting Yao, Zhaofan Qiu, Xinmei Tian, Jiebo Luo, Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019 (oral)

Recurrent Tubelet Proposal and Recognition Networks for Action Detection

Dong Li, Zhaofan Qiu, Qi Dai, Ting Yao, Tao Mei
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018

Fully Convolutional Adaptation Networks for Semantic Segmentation

Yiheng Zhang, Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Dong Liu, Tao Mei
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (CVPR), 2018

Learning Spatio-Temporal Representation with Pseudo-3D Residual Networks

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Tao Mei
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017

Boosting Image Captioning with Attributes

Ting Yao, Yingwei Pan, Yehao Li, Zhaofan Qiu, Tao Mei
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017

Deep Semantic Hashing with Generative Adversarial Networks

Zhaofan Qiu, Yingwei Pan, Ting Yao, Tao Mei
ACM conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017 (oral)

Deep Quantization: Encoding Convolutional Activations with Deep Generative Model

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Tao Mei
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017

To Create What You Tell: Generating Videos from Captions

Yingwei Pan*, Zhaofan Qiu*, Ting Yao, Houqiang Li, Tao Mei (*equal contribution)
ACM Multimedia (MM), 2017 (brave new idea, oral)

Learning Deep Spatio-Temporal Dependency for Semantic Video Segmentation

Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Tao Mei
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2018

Learning Hierarchical Video Representation for Action Recognition

Qing Li*, Zhaofan Qiu*, Ting Yao, Tao Mei, Yong Rui, Jiebo Luo (*equal contribution)
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR), 2017

Action Recognition by Learning Deep Multi-Granular Spatio-Temporal Video Representation

Qing Li*, Zhaofan Qiu*, Ting Yao, Tao Mei, Yong Rui, Jiebo Luo (*equal contribution)
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2016 (best paper candidate)

Workshops

Trimmed Action Recognition, Dense-Captioning Events in Videos, and Spatio-temporal Action Localization with Focus on ActivityNet Challenge 2019

Zhaofan Qiu, Dong Li, Yehao Li, Qi Cai, Yingwei Pan, Ting Yao
In CVPR ActivityNet Challenge Workshop, 2019 (1nd place in Trimmed Action Recognition (Kinetics-700) task)

Seeing Bot

Yingwei Pan, Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Houqiang Li, Tao Mei
ACM conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017 (demo)

MSR Asia MSM at ActivityNet Challenge 2017

Ting Yao, Yehao Li, Zhaofan Qiu, Fuchen Long, Yingwei Pan, Dong Li, Tao Mei
In CVPR ActivityNet Challenge Workshop, 2017 (1nd place in Dense-Captioning task and 2rd place in Temporal Action Proposal task)

MSR Asia MSM at ActivityNet Challenge 2016

Zhaofan Qiu, Dong Li, Chuang Gan, Ting Yao, Tao Mei, Yong Rui
In CVPR ActivityNet Challenge Workshop, 2016 (3nd place in Untrimmed Video Classification task)

MSR Asia MSM at THUMOS Challenge 2015

Zhaofan Qiu, Qing Li, Ting Yao, Tao Mei, Yong Rui
In CVPR THUMOS Challenge Workshop, 2015 (2nd place in Action Classification task)

VIREO-TNO @ TRECVID 2015: Multimedia Event Detection

Hao Zhang, Yi-Jie Lu, Maaike de Boer, Frank ter Haar, Zhaofan Qiu, Klamer Schutte, Wessel Kraaij, Chong-Wah Ngo
NIST TRECVID Workshop (TRECVID'15), 2015

Awards

  • Global Top 100 Chinese Rising Stars in Artificial Intelligence, Baidu, 2021

  • Excellence Award of Dean's Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020

  • Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, 2017

  • National Scholarship, 2017

  • SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2017

  • Excellent Graduate in Anhui Province, 2015

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2015

  • National Scholarship, 2013