
An incoming CS Ph.D. student @ UIUC
About Me
I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and my advisor will be Prof. Derek Hoiem.
I obtained my master's degree from the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Laurent Itti and Prof. Ram Nevatia. Before that, I got my B.S. degree from Fudan University.
My research interests mainly lie in computer vision, especially in:
Humanoid Neural Network: guide models to become more human-like; simulate human learning ability; give insights into how humans perceive this world.
Robustness: real-world robust learning systems; robustness to image distortions and adversarial examples.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence: transparent, explainable, and controllable representation learning.
News
NEW [04/13/2022] I will become a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC with a Fellowship Award this fall.
[06/26/2021] One paper Contrastive Learning for Domain Transfer in Cross-Corpus Emotion Recognition is accepted by ACII 2021 as Oral!
Selected Publications

Contributions of Shape, Texture, and Color in Visual Recognition
Yao Xiao*, Zhi Xu*, Yunhao Ge*, Xingrui Wang, Laurent Itti.
Under review.

PatchZero: Task-agnostic Defense for Adversarial Patch Attacks
Ke Xu*, Yao Xiao*, Zhaoheng Zheng, Kaijie Cai, Ram Nevatia.
Under review.

A Peek Into the Reasoning of Neural Networks: Interpreting with Structural Visual Concepts
Yunhao Ge, Yao Xiao, Zhi Xu, Meng Zheng, Srikrishna Karanam, Terrence Chen, Laurent Itti and Ziyan Wu.
IEEE/ CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[Bibtex] [Paper] [Code] [Website] [Video]
@inproceedings{ge2021peek,title={A Peek Into the Reasoning of Neural Networks: Interpreting with Structural Visual Concepts},author={Ge, Yunhao and Xiao, Yao and Xu, Zhi and Zheng, Meng and Karanam, Srikrishna and Chen, Terrence and Itti, Laurent and Wu, Ziyan},booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},pages={2195--2204},year={2021}} |

Contrastive Learning for Domain Transfer in Cross-Corpus Emotion Recognition
Yufeng Yin, Liupei Lu, Yao Xiao, Zhi Xu, Kaijie Cai, Haonan Jiang, Jonathan Gratch, Mohammad Soleymani.
The 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2021. Oral, acceptance rate 23.6%.
[Bibtex] [Paper] [Code] [Video]
@INPROCEEDINGS{9597453,author={Yin, Yufeng and Lu, Liupei and Xiao, Yao and Xu, Zhi and Cai, Kaijie and Jiang, Haonan and Gratch, Jonathan and Soleymani, Mohammad},booktitle={2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)}, title={Contrastive Learning for Domain Transfer in Cross-Corpus Emotion Recognition}, year={2021},volume={},number={},pages={1-8},doi={10.1109/ACII52823.2021.9597453}} |
Research Experiences
IRIS Computer Vision Lab, USC, Los Angeles, CA Research Assistant. May 2021 – May 2022 Advisor: Prof. Ram Nevatia
iLab, USC, Los Angeles, CA Research Assistant. August 2020 – December 2021 Advisor: Prof. Laurent Itti
Intelligent Human Perception Lab, USC, Los Angeles, CA Research Assistant. March 2021 – May 2021 Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Soleymani
Blog
A place to record my feelings, exploration, growth, and learning materials. I intend to be casual here, so I decided to use Mandarin for some posts.
- NEW [04/27/2022] An Excerpt from Crafting Your Research Future
This is an excerpt from Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Masters and PhD Degrees in Science Engineering.
- [01/21/2022] 2022 Fall CS PhD申请总结
An article summarizing the experience during my CS PhD application process.
Academic Service
Reviewer
Conference: CVPR 2022, TCV@CVPR 2022, AIBSD@AAAI 2022.
Journal: IEEE Access.