Guangrun Wang 王广润

Short Bio

Guangrun Wang is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford, working with Prof. Philip H. S. Torr. Before that, he was a PhD candidate in the HCP Lab of Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Prof. Liang Lin. He also worked as a visiting scholar in the MMLab of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, mentored by Prof. Ping Luo and Prof. Xiaogang Wang.

His research interest is machine learning.

His GPA is 95, ranking 1st in his class. He receives the 2018 Pattern Recognition Best Paper Award. He was awarded as an "Outstanding Student of Guangdong Province". He ranked 1st in 2015 Graduate Innovation Funding of The High Performance Computing Collaborative Innovation Center(only 7 graduate students were awarded in China that year). He won several worldwide competition medals such as Kaggle data mining gold (out of about 1000 teams)/silver/bronze medals. He ranked 1st in PASCAL VOC segmentation leaderboard for months. His team ranked 1st/2nd place out of 2322 teams in FashionAI Global Challenge. He won two National Scholarships. Has was awarded SYSU Excerpts of Dissertation (Top 5%) and SYSU Outstanding Graduate (Top 5%). He was awaded Excellent intern in DMAI (the first employee to have this honor). He has two ESI Hightly Cited Paper. He was awarded as an outstanding reviewer of ICLR 2021. He was awarded as an outstanding reviewer of NeurIPS 2021. He was awarded as an Outstanding Reviewer of ICCV 2021. He was awarded as a Distinguished Senior Program Committee member of IJCAI (only 18 members, announced at the IJCAI-21 Opening Ceremony). He has been fortunate enough to serve as a reviewer for the papers of Turing Prize winners several times. He is in the list of Top Chinese Rising Stars in Artificial Intelligence. He is awarded Wu Wen-Jun Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (only nine people were awarded in China in 2021).

He serves as a Distinguished Senior Program Committee member (only 18 members, announced at the IJCAI-21 Opening Ceremony) and a Senior PC for IJCAI, Program Committee Board of IJCAI (PCB for 2022, 2023, and 2024), outstanding reviewer for NeurIPS, ICLR and ICCV, conference reviewer for ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR, AAAI, ECCV, EMNLP, EACL, IJCNLP, NAACL, AACL, WACV, ACCV, PRCV, journal reviewer for TMLR, ISPRS, T-PAMI, T-NNLS, T-IP, T-CSVT, PR, IEEE Access, ISPL, JVCI, IEEE/CAA JAS, IPM, IF, DT.

He has obtained double Bachelor Degrees, including Engineering and Business.

We are hiring! If you are interested in my research or would like to work with me as an intern in the University of Oxford, feel free to contact me. Please read the blog: "What are the future AI technologies worthy of attention for young people?".

News

The code for self-supervised person re-ID on SYSU-30k has been released. GitHub NEW!

I was awarded Wu Wen-Jun Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (only nine people were awarded in China this year). NEW!

There are leaderboards on SYSU-30k. complete leaderboard; self-supervised learnining leaderboard NEW!

The code of our ICCV oral paper, i.e., "Solving Inefficiency of Self-supervised Representation Learning" has been released. [Download the code]; [Oral presentation Slices]; [Poster]; NEW!

Three papers are accepted by ICCV 2021 (One oral presentation). One paper is accepted by CVPR 2021 (oral presentation). One paper is accepted by ICME 2021. One paper is accepted by TNNLS. One paper is accepted by the Findings of EMNLP. NEW!

I am selected as one of only eighteen distinguished Senior PC's of the 2021 Program Committee, announced at the IJCAI-21 Opening Ceremony. NEW!

I am awarded as a highlighted Reviewer for ICLR 2022, an Outstanding Reviewer of NeurIPS 2021, ICCV 2021, and ICLR 2021. NEW!

I am in the list of Top Chinese Rising Stars in Artificial Intelligence. NEW!

I have written new blogs 《A talk at TVG Keynote Day: Science-Oriented, Trustworthy, Multidimensional, and Self-Supervised Artificial Intelligence》《A tutorial on Python programming with blender》《A video introduction of NeRF》《3D scene reconstruction》《Pytorch's bug on resizing》《Oxford's first snow this year》《A talk at TVG dinner: Representation Learning for image, 3D, trustworthy AI, and beyond》《Reading: "Adversarial Robustness Through the Lens of Causality"》《Solving Inefficiency of Self-supervised Representation Learning》《Daylight Saving Time Ended in the UK》《Adversarial Visual Robustness by Causal Intervention》《Reading google brain’s paper on knowledge distillation》《Reading Hinton's paper "pix2seg"》《What are the future AI technologies worthy of attention for young people?》《3D human reconstruction from videos》《3D Point Could Generation Based on Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models》《Reading a “Science” paper: predicting RNA》《Improving Adversarial Robustness by Discretization》《A Deep Learning Method for 3D Human Reconstruction》《Adversarial Weight Perturbation Helps Robust Generalization》《Weekend: the best time to explore》《Towards Trustworthy AI: Advanced Explainability and Advanced Robustness》《How to keep energetic at work?》《DFT paper/code and Nobel Prize: 密度泛函理论、代码及1998年诺贝尔奖》《阅读DeepMind时隔一周又来一篇Nature论文：人类蛋白质结构预测》《阅读DeepMind的Nature论文和源代码：AlphaFold2》《Auto Annotation Machine》《安装coco api的坑》《阅读代码：OpenAI的DALL.E源代码》《阅读微软论文"BEIT: BERT Pre-Training of Image Transformers"》《阅读谷歌工作：优化器SAM的论文和代码》《阅读谷歌论文“When Vision Transformers Outperform ResNets...”》《阅读马毅老师的“从第一性原则出发的深度学习”》《基于投影条件判别器的条件GAN》《FAST Lab Logo正式发布》《我的思考：布朗运动处处不可导与未来神经网络》《3D表征学习和图像生成表征学习》《牛津大学TVG组招收若干名实习访问学生》《你见过凌晨的牛津吗？》《FAST LAB开始公开写作啦》 NEW!

I have written an HTML page showing the deadline of the leading AI conferences in 2022. "DDL of leading AI conferences". NEW!

I am in the Program Committee Board (PCB) of IJCAI, i.e., I will serve for IJCAI-ECAI 22, IJCAI 23 and IJCAI 24. I will serve as a reviewer of TMLR, NeurIPS 2022, ECCV 2022, ICML 2022, ICLR 2022, CVPR 2022, and ACL 2022!

I start to work at University of Oxford, joining TVG. My commonly used e-mail becomes wanggrun at gmail.com or guangrun.wang at eng.ox.ac.uk. [Go to University of Oxford] NEW!

Media reports: 关于EfficientBERT:《EMNLP'21 | 让压缩语言模型自动搜索最优结构！》

I have 9 patents now! [ patents ]

I was awarded as an outstanding reviewer of ICLR 2021. NEW!

Media reports:《CVPR'21 Oral | 动态slimmable网络：高性能的网络轻量化方法！对比slimmable涨点5.9%！》

Media reports:《不使用标签数据!自动搜索Transformer混合结构，同速度超过EfficientNet 2.1%！》

I will serve as a reviewer of NeurIPS 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of EMNLP 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of ICCV 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of Defence Technology!

I will serve as a reviewer of NAACL 2021!

I have written a new blog on "Ensemble Learning of Super-Resolution".

I will serve as a reviewer of ICML 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of ACL 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of T-NNLS!

Media reports:《重磅！中山大学提出行人重识别新方法和史上最大数据集SYSU-30k，已开源！》

Media reports:《可微图学习和弱监督：中山大学提出新型行人重识别方法和史上最大最新评测基准》

The code and pretrained model of "Grammatically Recognizing Images with Tree Convolution" has been released. [Download the code and pretrained model].

The dataset, code, and pretrained model of "Weakly Supervised Person Re-ID: Differentiable Graphical Learning and A New Benchmark" has been released. [ Download the dataset, code, and pretrained model].

I will serve as SPC (Senior Program Committee members) for IJCAI 2021! "Only very senior experts are invited to be SPC, who will participate in the summary reject phase which is very crucial and we rely on academic judgment, responsibility, and dedication from senior researchers like you". [IJCAI Senior Program Committee] NEW!

I will serve as a reviewer of CVPR 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of EACL 2021!

The code of "Transferable, Controllable, and Inconspicuous Adversarial Attacks on Person Re-identification With Deep Mis-Ranking" has been released. [Download the code and pretrained model].

I will serve as a reviewer of Information Fusion (top journal, 中科院一区)

I will serve in Program Committee for AAAI 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of IJCAI 2021!

I will serve as a reviewer of ICLR 2021!

My commonly used e-mail will be gradually changed into wanggrun at hotmail.com or wanggrun at gmail.com. Between them, hotmail is preferred due to the accessibility in China.NEW!

I have written a new blog on "What is the future of AI / ML?"

The code and pretrained model of "EagleEye: Fast Sub-net Evaluation for Efficient Neural Network Pruning" has been released. [Download the code and pretrained model]

One paper is accepted by ECCV 2020 as oral presentation (top 2%), one of the top conferences in computer vision.

I have served as a reviewer of EMNLP 2020!

I will serve as a reviewer of ACCV 2020!

I will serve as a reviewer of WACV 2020!

One paper is accepted by KDD 2020, the top-1 conference in data mining.

One paper is accepted by T-NNLS, one of the top journals in AI.

Media reports:《CVPR 2020 Oral | 将SOTA行人再识别系统精度降至1.4%，中大、暗物智能等向视觉模式匹配的鲁棒性发起挑战》

I have 6 patents now! [ patents ]

I have two ESI highly cited papers now!

I will serve as a reviewer of NeurIPS 2020!

Media reports:《论文阅读笔记|Adaptively Connected Neural Networks》 《CVPR2020|如何同时保证NAS的效率和有效性?暗物智能等提出基于知识蒸馏的分块监督神经网络搜索算法》

Three papers are accepted by CVPR 2020!

I have served as a reviewer of ACL 2020!

I have served as a reviewer of the journal "Information Processing and Management" (中科院分区表2区).

The pytorch implementation of ACNet will be available. code in pytorch. NEW!

Neural Architecture Search: We are happy to announce that we have achieved a state-of-the-art 78.4% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet in a mobile setting, which is about a 2.1% gain over EfficientNet-B0. paper; code and pretrained model NEW!

I am awarded as an "Outstanding Student of Guangdong Province".

I have served as a reviewer of the famous journal "ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing"(中科院分区表1区)!

I will serve as a reviewer of CVPR 2020 !

I will serve as a member of the Program Committee (PC) for AAAI 2020!

One paper is accepted by CIKM 2019! One paper entitled "Learnable Parameter Similarity" is available in Arxiv!

I have served as a reviewer for IEEE Access!

I have served as a reviewer for T-PAMI!

The code and pretrained model of our CVPR 2019 paper "Adaptively Connected Neural Networks" have been available! code and pretrained model NEW!

Our paper entitled "Weakly Supervised Person Re-identification: Cost-effective Learning with A New Benchmark" has been in Arxiv, with a large ReID benmark SYSU-30k 30 times larger than ImageNet. paper; dataset

I will serve as a meta reviewer for ICML 2019 workshop !

I will serve as a reviewer of PRCV 2019 !

One paper is accepted by CVPR 2019!

I will serve as a reviewer of ICCV 2019 !

I will serve as a reviewer of IJCAI 2019 !

I am serving as a reviewer of CVPR 2019 !

I have served as a reviewer of IEEE Signal Processing Letter !

One paper is accepted by NIPS2018!

Two patents have been published!

Our team won the 2nd place in Key Points Detection of Apparel Track of FashionAI Global Challenge 2018-Alibaba Cloud!

The code and pretrained model of "Training COCO 2017 Object Detection and Segmentation via Learning Feature Pyramids" have been available!code and pretrained model

Receiving the 2018 Pattern Recognition Best Paper Award!NEW!

The code and pretrained model of "Training ImageNet and PASCAL VOC2012 via Learning Feature Pyramids" have been available! code and pretrained model

The code of "Batch Kalman Normalization: Towards Training Deep Neural Networks with Micro-Batches" has been available! code

The code of "Cross-Domain Visual Matching via Generalized Similarity Measure and Feature Learning" has been release! code

Teaching

Pattern Recognition

SE-308: Software Design Projects

Computer Vision