News

• [2024/07]: A first-authored paper has been accepted by ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
• [2024/06]: Invited talk at University of Cambridge Selwyn College.
• [2023/08]: A first-authored paper has been accepted by IEEE Transaction on Image Processing.
• [2023/07]: Invited talk at TechBeat platform.
• [2023/02]: A co-first-authored paper has been accepted by CVPR2023.
• [2023/02]: A co-first-authored paper has been accepted by Neurocomputing.
• [2021/09]: A co-authored paper was accepted by ICONIP2021.
• [2021/07]: A co-authored paper was accepted by PRCV2021.
• [2020/12]: I am honored to be a three-star member of Shenghan High IQ Club .

Education

University of Cambridge
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Ph.D. Student

October 2023 - Present

Stanford University
Computer Science Department
Non-degree Undergraduate Student
On-site Research Intern (UVRI Intern)

January 2022 - June 2023

Fudan University
Intelligent Science and Technology (excellent class)
Undergraduate Student
GPA: 3.92/4.0; Ranking: 1/245

September 2019 - June 2023

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

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Yancheng Cai, Ali Bozorgian, Maliha Ashraf, Robert Wanat, Rafał K. Mantiuk
elaTCSF: A Temporal Contrast Sensitivity Function for Flicker Detection and Modeling Variable Refresh Rate Flicker
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, Accepted (With Strong Accept)
[Project] [Paper]

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Yancheng Cai*, Stephen Tian*, Hong-Xing Yu, Sergey Zakharov, Katherine Liu, Adrien Gaidon, Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu
Multi-object manipulation via object-centric neural scattering functions
CVPR 2023, Published (With two Strong Accepts)
[Project] [Paper]

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Yancheng Cai, Bo Zhang, Baopu Li, Tao Chen, Hongliang Yan, Jingdong Zhang, Jiahao Xu
Rethinking Cross-Domain Pedestrian Detection: A Background-Focused Distribution Alignment Framework for Instance-free One-Stage Detectors
TIP (IEEE Transactions on Image Processing), Published
[IEEE paper] [知乎]

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Lei Lu*, Yancheng Cai*, Hua Huang, Ping Wang
An efficient fine-grained vehicle recognition method based on part-level feature optimization
Neurocomputing, Published [paper]

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Jingdong Zhang, Peng Ye, Bo Zhang, Hancheng Ye, Baopu Li, Yancheng Cai, Tao Chen
Enhancing Task-Related Features Learning with Task Agnostic-to-Specific Attention for Multi-task Dense Prediction
TPAMI (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), Under Review

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Zhaoqing Wu, Yancheng Cai, Xiaohua Qiu, Min Li, Yujie He, Yu Song, Weidong Du
Dual-band Maritime Ship Classification based on Multi-layer Convolutional Features and Bayesian Decision
ICONIP 2021 (International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2021), Published
[Springer]

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YuJie He, Min Li, ZhenHua Wei, Yancheng Cai
Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Weighted Variation Coefficient Local Contrast Measure
PRCV 2021 (Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision 2021), Published
[Springer]

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Research Experience

• January 2022 - June 2023, Research Assistant, Stanford Vision and Learning Lab
  Advisors: Prof. Jiajun Wu, Prof. Yunzhu Li.
• October 2020 - June 2023, Research Assistant, Fudan Embedded Deep Learning and Visual Analysis Lab
  Advisors: Prof. Tao Chen.

Selected Award

• 2022 China National Scholarship (The highest honorable national scholarship to Chinese students). (0.2%)
• 2020 China National Scholarship (The highest honorable national scholarship to Chinese students). (0.2%)
• 6th place in the China Finals of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Competition (ADAS) held by Dell.
• Top Ten Students in School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University. (1%)
• Fudan University Individual Award for Scientific Research. (0.5%)

Academic Service

• Journal Reviewer: T-PAMI
• Conference Reviewer: CVPR 2023, CVPR 2022, ECCV 2022