Weihua Chen   陈威华 work in Alibaba DAMO Academy. Email: kugang.cwh at alibaba-inc.com [Google Scholar] [Resume]

News

• [Paper Accepted] SOLIDER is accepted by CVPR 2023, which achieves state-of-the-art on six downstream human visual tasks, and the project website has been released [link], which has attracted 1.8K+ star.

• [Code Released] The project website of DAMO-YOLO is released [link], which outperforms state-of-the-art YOLO series and attracts 3.8K+ star on github.

• [Paper Accepted] One paper is accepted by ECCV 2022, and the code has been released [link].

• [Paper Accepted] TagPerson is accepted by ACM MM 2022, and the code has been released [link].

• [Paper Accepted] One paper is accepted by IEEE TIFS.

• [Paper Accepted] CDTrans is accepted by ICLR 2022, and the code has been released [link].

Biography

• He joined Alibaba in 2018. Now, he is a senior algorithm engineer in Alibaba DAMO Academy. His current researches are mainly on self-supervised, unsupervised learning and domain adaptation. He has published over 30+ papers in international journals and top conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR and ACM MM. He has received the championships of multiple challenges in top conferences, including 5 champions, 2 runners-up, 1 third runner-up. His current researches are mainly on self-supervised/semi-supervised/unsupervised learning and domain adaptation.

• Weihua Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree in National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), as a member of Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing (CRIPAC). And he received the Bachelor and Master degree in Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU).

Selected Publications (# corresponding, * equal contribution)

• Beyond Appearance: a Semantic Controllable Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Human-Centric Visual Tasks
  Weihua Chen, Xianzhe Xu, Jian Jia, Hao Luo, Yaohua Wang, Fan Wang, Rong Jin, Xiuyu Sun
  The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
  
[PDF] [Project Website]


• Avatar Knowledge Distillation: Self-ensemble Teacher Paradigm with Uncertainty
  Yuan Zhang*, Weihua Chen*, Yichen Lu*, Tao Huang, Xiuyu Sun, Jian Cao
  The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023.
  
[PDF]


• Efficient Token-Guided Image-Text Retrieval with Consistent Multimodal Contrastive Training
  Chong Liu, Yuqi Zhang, Hongsong Wang#, Weihua Chen#, Fan Wang, Yan Huang, Yi-Dong Shen, Liang Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2023.
  
[PDF] [Code]


• Graph Convolution Based Efficient Re-Ranking for Visual Retrieval
  Yuqi Zhang, Qi Qian, Hongsong Wang, Chong Liu, Weihua Chen, Fan Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2023.
  
[PDF] [Code]


• TAGPerson: A Target-Aware Generation Pipeline for Person Re-identification
  Kai Chen, Weihua Chen#, Tao He, Rong Du, Fan Wang, Xiuyu Sun, Yuchen Guo, Guiguang Ding
  The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022.
  
[PDF] [Code]


• CDTrans: Cross-domain Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
  Tongkun Xu*, Weihua Chen*, Pichao Wang, Fan Wang, Hao Li, Rong Jin
  The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022.
  
[PDF] [Code] [Slides]


• DAMO-YOLO: A Report on Real-Time Object Detection Design
  Xianzhe Xu*, Yiqi Jiang*, Weihua Chen*, Yilun Huang*, Yuan Zhang* and Xiuyu Sun
  Arxiv 2211.15444.
  
[PDF] [Project Website]


• Reliability-Aware Prediction via Uncertainty Learning for Person Image Retrieval
  Zhaopeng Dou, Zhongdao Wang, Weihua Chen, Yali Li, and Shengjin Wang
  The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
  
[PDF] [Code]


• Multi-view Evolutionary Training for Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification
  Jianyang Gu, Weihua Chen, Hao Luo, Fan Wang, Hao Li, Wei Jiang, Weijie Mao
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2022.
  
[PDF]


• Exploring the Quality of GAN Generated Images for Person Re-Identification
  Yiqi Jiang*, Weihua Chen*, Xiuyu Sun, Xiaoyu Shi, Fan Wang, Hao Li
  The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021.
  
[PDF]


• Towards discriminative representation learning for unsupervised person re-identification
  Takashi Isobe, Dong Li, Lu Tian, Weihua Chen, Yi Shan, Shengjin Wang
  The IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
  
[PDF]


• Beyond triplet loss: a deep quadruplet network for person re-identification
  Weihua Chen, Xiaotang Chen, Jianguo Zhang, Kaiqi Huang
  The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Spotlight), 2017.
  
[PDF] [Slides]


• A Multi-task Deep Network for Person Re-identification
  Weihua Chen, Xiaotang Chen, Jianguo Zhang, Kaiqi Huang
  The Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI Oral), 2017.
  
[PDF] [Code]


• An Equalised Global Graphical Model-Based Approach for Multi-Camera Object Tracking
  Weihua Chen, Lijun Cao, Xiaotang Chen, Kaiqi Huang
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2016.
  
[PDF] [Code] [Demo]

Honors and Awards

• Win the 1st place in AICITY Challenge Track3 Multi-camera Vehicle Tracking on CVPR 2021. [PDF] [Code]


• Win the 1st place in AICITY Challenge Track2 Vehicle Re-Identification on CVPR 2021. [PDF] [Code]


• Win the 1st place in Multi-camera Multi-Person tracking on ICCV 2021.


• Win the 1st place Tracking Any Objects (TAO) Challenge on ECCV 2020. [PDF] [Code]


• Win the 1st place Visual Domain Adaptation (VisDA) Challenge on ECCV 2020. [PDF] [Code]


• Win the 2nd (2/263, top1%) place in Google Landmark Retrieval Competition on ICCV 2021 and silver medal in Google Landmark Recognition Competition. [PDF] [Code] [Kaggle Poster] [Slides] [Video]


• Win the 2nd place in RobMOTS: The Ultimate Tracking Challenge on CVPR 2021. [PDF]


• Win the 3rd place in AICITY Challenge Track2 Vehicle Re-Identification on CVPR 2020. [PDF] [Code]


• Organize the Multi-Camera Object Tracking (MCT) Challenge in Visual Surveillance and Re-identification Workshop on ECCV 2014


• Serve as Area Chair for VALSE2023/PRCV2023.


• Serve as Reveiwer for top conferences and journals, such as PAMI/TIP/TIFS/TCSVT/CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NIPS.


• Serve as Member of Technical Committee on Machine Vision for China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG).


• Serve as Youth Committee for Beijing Society of Image and Graphics (BSIG).


• Invited tutorial talk in IJCB 2021 with the topic of Human-centric Visual Understanding: From Research to Applications.