Senior Research Engineer II Institute for Infocomm Research Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Email: cheng_yi@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Google Scholar    ResearchGate    LinkedIn

About me

I am a Senior Research Engineer at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, and a Ph.D. student at School of Computing, NUS, supervised by Professor Mohan Kankanhalli. I received the B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 2016, and the M.S. degree from National University of Singapore in 2018.

Research Interests

Machine learning, computer vision, and neuro-symbolic AI, with an emphasis on video understanding and reasoning.

Latest News

• Dec 2023: One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

• Jun 2023: Received the 1st Place Award in the EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Recognition Track in CVPR2023.

• Jun 2022: Two papers accepted by IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2022.

• Jun 2022: Received the 1st Place Award in the EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Recognition Track in CVPR2022.

• Apr 2022: One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

• Apr 2022: One paper accepted by Pattern Recognition.

• Apr 2022: One paper accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems.

Publications

• Bridging the Intent Gap: Knowledge-Enhanced Visual Generation
  Yi Cheng, Ziwei Xu, Dongyun Lin, Harry Cheng, Yongkang Wong, Ying Sun, Joo-Hwee Lim, Mohan Kankanhalli.
  arXiv, 2024.

• Keyword-Aware Relative Spatio-Temporal Graph Networks for Video Question Answering
  Yi Cheng, Hehe Fan, Dongyun Lin, Ying Sun, Mohan Kankanhalli, Joo-Hwee Lim.
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2023.

• A Study on Differentiable Logic and LLMs for EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Challenge for Action Recognition 2023
  Yi Cheng, Ziwei Xu, Fen Fang, Dongyun Lin, Hehe Fan, Yongkang Wong, Ying Sun, Mohan Kankanhalli.
  Techinical report at CVPRW, 2023.

• Entropy Guided Attention Network for Weakly-supervised Action Localization
  Yi Cheng, Ying Sun, Hehe Fan, Tao Zhuo, Joo-Hwee Lim, Mohan Kankanhalli.
  Pattern Recognition, 2022.

• Action Relational Graph for Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization
  Yi Cheng, Ying Sun, Dongyun Lin, Joo-Hwee Lim.
  2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021.

• 6D Pose Estimation with Correlation Fusion
  Yi Cheng, Hongyuan Zhu, Ying Sun, Cihan Acar, Wei Jing, Yan Wu, Liyuan Li, Cheston Tan, Joo-Hwee Lim.
  International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020.

• Improving Night-Time Pedestrian Retrieval with Distribution Alignment and Contextual Distance
  Mang Ye, Yi Cheng, Xiangyuan Lan, Hongyuan Zhu.
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019.

• Look Across Elapse: Disentangled Representation Learning and Photorealistic Cross-Age Face Synthesis for Age-Invariant Face Recognition
  Jian Zhao, Yu Cheng, Yi Cheng, Yang Yang, Haochong Lan, Fang Zhao, Lin Xiong, Yan Xu, Jianshu Li, Sugiri Pranata, Shengmei Shen, Junliang Xing, Hengzhu Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng.
  AAAI, 2019.

• 3D-Aided Deep Pose-Invariant Face Recognition
  Jian Zhao, Lin Xiong, Yu Cheng, Yi Cheng, Jianshu Li, Li Zhou, Yan Xu, Jayashree Karlekar, Sugiri Pranata, Shengmei Shen, Junliang Xing, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng.
  IJCAI, 2018.

Full list of publications in Google Scholar.

Competitions and Awards

• The 1st Prize in the EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Recognition Track in CVPR2023. Certificate

• The 1st Prize in the EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Recognition Track in CVPR2022. Certificate

• The 1st Prize in the EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Recognition Track in CVPR2021. Certificate

• The 2nd Prize in the EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges Action Anticipation Track in CVPR2020. Certificate

Working Experience

• Senior Research Engineer II, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Jul 2023-Present.

• Senior Research Engineer I, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Apr 2022-Jul 2023.

• Research Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Jan 2019-Apr 2022.

• Research and Development Engineer, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore, Dec 2017-Jan 2019.

• Research and Development Intern, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore, May 2017-Nov 2017.

Professional Service

• Invited reviewer of TCSVT, NeurIPS2023, CVPR2022, ECCV2022, ICIP2022, ICME2021.