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Nov 10, 2025 One paper about Egocentric Video Generation has been accepted by WACV 2026. Congratulations to Yujiang!
Sep 25, 2025 Our project on Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding ($50K) is selected for funding by Jenison Fund.
Sep 18, 2025 We have one paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to Yifan!
Aug 16, 2025 I will be serving CVPR 2026 as an Area Chair.
Jun 25, 2025 We have one paper accepted by ICCV 2025. Congratulations to Yifan!
Mar 31, 2025 We have one paper accepted by CVPR 2025 Workshop on Efficient Large Vision Models. Congratulations to Yifan!
Feb 26, 2025 We have one paper accepted by CVPR 2025. Congratulations to Zhanbo on his first CVPR paper at ACTION Lab!
Dec 02, 2024 I will be serving ICCV 2025 as an Area Chair.
Oct 28, 2024 We have one paper accepted by WACV 2025. Congrats to all the authors!
Sep 17, 2024 ACTION Lab members were attending Midwest Computer Vision Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. [Photo]
Sep 13, 2024 I will be serving as an Area Chair for CVPR 2025.
Sep 04, 2024 We have received a grant from DoD/ARO ($300K) to develop Dynamic Scene Graphs (DSGs) over large-scale multimodal time series data for representation learning, enabling learning for a variety of computer vision tasks in complex and dynamic environments.
Aug 22, 2024 We have received a grant from NSF ($1.5M) to develop a single comprehensive tool Varuna to perform media forensics with Dr. Matthew Wright (Rochester Institute of Technology, lead institute) and Dr. Andrea E Hickerson (University of Mississippi).
Aug 16, 2024 Two new Ph.D. students, Zhongyi Cai and Wenliang Guo, are joining the lab. Welcome!
Jul 19, 2024 Wentao Bao successfully defended his dissertation, and will be joining Meta as a research scientist. Congratulations Dr. Bao!
Jul 01, 2024 We have 4 papers accepted at ECCV 2024. Congratulations to Wentao, Yifan, and Yujiang!
Apr 19, 2024 Junwen Chen successfully defended her dissertation, and will be joining Amazon as a research scientist. Congratulations Dr. Chen!
Apr 19, 2024 We have one paper [PDF] accepted by IJCAI 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!
Jan 30, 2024 I will serve as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia.
Oct 30, 2023 I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR 2024 and Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition.
Aug 14, 2023 We have three new Ph.D. students joining us in Fall 2023. Welcome Yujiang Pu, Yifan Li, and Zhanbo Huang!
Jul 25, 2023 We have one paper accepted by ACM Multimedia 2023. Congratulations to Junwen!
Jul 14, 2023 We have one paper accepted by ICCV 2023. Congratulations to Wentao!
Apr 01, 2023 We have received a grant (Co-PI, $1.8M) to develop neuro-symbolic approaches for vision-language modeling with Dr. Parisa Kordjamshidi (MSU), Dr. Vishnu Boddeti (MSU), and Dr. Dan Roth (UPenn).
Feb 01, 2023 We have one paper accepted by CVPR 2023. Congratulations to Xinmiao!
Oct 01, 2022 We have one paper accepted by WACV 2023. Congratulations to Xiwen!
Aug 16, 2022 I joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor.
Apr 01, 2022 I have received a grant (Single PI, $249K) to develop algorithms for action detection, precognition, and justification.
Mar 01, 2022 We have three papers accepted by CVPR 2022. Congratulations!
Dec 01, 2021 We have one paper accepted by AAAI 2022. Congratulations!
Jul 03, 2021 Our paper “Universal 3-Dimensional Perturbations for Black-Box Attacks on Video Recognition Systems” is accepted by IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2021. Congratulations!
Jul 02, 2021 We have three papers accepted by ICCV 2021. Congratulations to Junwen and Wentao!
Jul 01, 2021 I have received an NSF SaTC grant to develop algorithms for deepfake detection with Dr. Wright from Computing Security.
Apr 03, 2021 We have one paper accepted by International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Congratulations to Xiwen and Wentao!
Apr 02, 2021 I have received a grant (PI, $358K) from Army Research Office (ARO) to develop dynamic scene graphs with Dr. Qi Yu from School of Information.
Apr 01, 2021 Our paper “Revealing a History: Palimpsest Text Separation with Generative Networks” is accepted by International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.
Oct 01, 2020 We have received a grant (Co-PI, $199K) from Knight Foundation to develop algorithms for identifying deepfake videos with Dr. Matthew Wright from Computing Security.
Aug 01, 2020 We have received an NSF SaTC grant (Co-PI) to develop algorithms for identifying clickbait videos with Dr. Matthew Wright from Computing Security.
Jul 02, 2020 Our paper “Group Activity Prediction with Sequential Relational Anticipation Model” is accepted by ECCV, 2020. Congratulations to Junwen!
Jul 01, 2020 We have two papers accepted by ACM Multimedia, 2020. Congratulations to Wentao and Junwen!
Jun 03, 2020 RIT-18 dataset for understanding compositional group activity is available!
Jun 02, 2020 I was elevated to the IEEE Senior Member.
Jun 01, 2020 Our paper “Object-Aware Centroid Voting for Monocular 3D Object Detection” is accepted by IROS, 2020. Congratulations to Wentao!
Apr 02, 2020 Our paper “RIT-18: A Novel Dataset for Compositional Group Activity Understanding” is accepted by CVPR Workshop 2020.
Apr 01, 2020 Our paper “Few-shot Human Motion Prediction via Learning Novel Motion Dynamics” is accepted by IJCAI, 2020.
Feb 02, 2020 I accepted the invitation to serve as an Area Chair of ACM Multimedia 2020.
Feb 01, 2020 I accepted the invitation to join the Editorial Board of Multimedia Systems (Springer).
Jan 01, 2020 Our paper “Residual Dense Network for Image Restoration” is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). Congratulations!
Dec 01, 2019 We receive Faculty Mentoring Grant from RIT Provost’s office.
Nov 03, 2019 I was invited to visit the Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester, and delivered a talk at the CS seminar.
Nov 02, 2019 Our paper “Publishing Video Data with Indistinguishable Objects” is accepted by EDBT 2020 (top-tier conference in database field). Congratulations!
Nov 01, 2019 Our paper “Object Tracking via Multi-Stream Deep Similarity Learning Networks” is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (T-IP). Congratulations!
Sep 01, 2019 I accepted the invitation to serve as a Reviewer for CVPR 2020.
Aug 02, 2019 New PhD student Wentao Bao is joining the lab. Welcome!
Aug 01, 2019 We will be hosting three students this fall. Welcome Chuanqi Zang, Beibei Jin, and Hanbin Hong!
Jul 01, 2019 I accepted the invitation to serve as a Program Committee member for AAAI 2020.
Mar 04, 2019 Our group received GPU donation from Nvidia. Thank Nvidia for the generous support!
Mar 03, 2019 I serve as a Co-PI in a project awarded by Office of Naval Research to study complex decision-making process with PI Qi Yu and Co-PI Daniel Krutz. (ONR, $1.58M)
Mar 02, 2019 I have received an internal funding from RIT as PI to study few-shot learning problem. (RIT, $5,000)
Mar 01, 2019 We have two IEEE T-CSVT papers accepted. Congratulations to Chengcheng Jia, Zhengming Ding, Yi Tian, and Prof. Yun Fu!
Feb 02, 2019 I accepted the invitation to serve as a reviewer of ICCV 2019.
Feb 01, 2019 I accepted the invitation to serve as an Area Chair of ACM Multimedia 2019.
Jan 02, 2019 I visited Prof. Chenliang Xu’s lab, and delivered a talk at University of Rochester.
Jan 01, 2019 I accepted the invitation to serve as an Associate Editor for Elsevier Journal of Measurement: Sensors.
Oct 03, 2018 I accepted the invitation to serve as a reviewer of CVPR 2019.
Oct 02, 2018 I delivered a talk at the PhD Colloquium Series at RIT.
Oct 01, 2018 I accepted the invitation to serve as an Associate Editor for Elsevier Journal of Measurement.
Sep 01, 2018 Our paper titled “Adversarial Action Prediction Networks” was accepted by IEEE TPAMI. Congratulations!
Aug 03, 2018 First Ph.D. student Junwen Chen is joining the lab. Welcome!
Aug 02, 2018 I joined Rochester Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor.
Aug 01, 2018 Our paper titled “Clustered Lifelong Learning via Representative Task Selection” was accepted by ICDM 2018. Congratulations to Gan Sun!
May 01, 2018 I accepted the invitation to serve as Senior Program Committee of AAAI 2019.
Feb 02, 2018 Our paper “Residual Dense Network for Image Super-Resolution” was accepted by CVPR 2018 as an oral paper. Congratulations to Yulun!
Feb 01, 2018 I accepted the invitation to serve as Program Committee of ICMLA 2018.
Oct 01, 2017 Our paper “Action Prediction from Videos via Memorizing Hard-to-Predict Samples” was accepted by AAAI 2018. Congratulations!
Jul 01, 2017 Our paper “Deep Active Learning Through Cognitive Information Parcels” was accepted by ACM Multimedia 2017. Congratulations to Wencang!
Jun 01, 2017 A survey for human action recognition and prediction is available on arXiv.
Apr 01, 2017 Our paper “Multi-Stream Deep Similarity Learning Networks for Visual Tracking” was accepted by IJCAI 2017. Congratulations to Kunpeng!
Mar 01, 2017 Our paper “Deep Sequential Context Networks for Action Prediction” was accepted by CVPR 2017. Congratulations!