2017
						
							07/2018
							 AAAI 2018
							
							Our lab have 8 papers (1 oral and 5 spotligh) accepted to AAAI 2018.
						
						
							12/2017
							 Outstanding Thesis Award 
							
							Shizhan Zhu's Mphil thesis titled "Face Alignment in
							the Wild", supervised by
							Prof. Loy, is selected as the winner of
							Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2016, congratulations!
						
						
							10/2017
							 The Adrian Hao Yin Ü Gateway Fellowship 
							
 MPhil alumnus
							Shizhan Zhu receives
							The
								Adrian Hao Yin Ü Gateway Fellowship at International House, UC Berkeley for
							2017-2018.
						
						
							06/2017
							 Best Application Paper Honorable Mention 
							
 The paper titled "
							Pedestrian Color Naming via
								Convolutional Neural Network" has won the Best Application Paper
							Honorable Mention in the The 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'16).
						
						
							03/2017
							 Faculty Distinguished Alumni Award 
							
 PhD alumnus
							Kaiming He has been selected as the awardee of the
							Faculty Distinguished Alumni Award
							for his contribution to the advancement of the art and
							science of artificial intelligence.
						
						2016
						
							08/2016
							 Outstanding Thesis Award 
							
							Chaochao Lu's Mphil thesis titled "Face Verification
							in the Wild", supervised by
							Prof. Tang, is selected as the
							winner of Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2015, congratulations!
						
						
							06/2016
							 PAMI Young Researcher Award 
							
							Prof. Xiaogang Wang, is selected as the
							Honarable Mention of PAMI Young Researcher Award
							2016, congratulations!
							 Read more about the
								award 
						
						
							6/2016
							 CVPR 2016 
							
 We have 18 papers accepted to the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
							Recognition
							(CVPR'16, Las Vegas).
							 Read more 
						
						
							02/2016
							 2016-2017 Facebook Graduate Fellowship Award 
							
							Bolei Zhou, M.Phil. Student graduated in
							2012 (supervised by
							Prof. Xiaoou Tang), has won the
							2016-2017 Facebook Graduate Fellowship Award! Congratulations
							to Bolei! He is pursuing his Ph.D. at MIT.
							
							 Read more 
						
						2014
						
							
								
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									NIPS 2014
									We have 3 papers accepted to the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
									(NIPS'14). Link
								
- 
									 Newly Elected IEEE Fellow 
									Congratulations to Dacheng Tao, for being elected to IEEE Fellow! Dacheng is now the
									second former MMlab students elected to IEEE Fellow, after Xuelong Li.
									 Read more 
								
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									 2014 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award 
									Yi Shuai, a HKPF supervised by Prof.
										Xiaogang Wang , has won the 2014 Microsoft Research Asia fellowship award!
									Congratulations to Shuai!
									
										Read more 
								
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									 ILSVRC2014 
									Our team CUHK DeepID-Net won 2nd place at 2014's ImageNet Large-Scale Visual
									Recognition Challenge in detection tasks! This year 38 entrants from 13 countries
									participated in the challenge.
									 Read more 
								
-  ECCV 2014 
									We have 10 papers accepted to the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'14,
									Zurich).
									 Read more 
-  CVPR 2014 
									We have 12 papers accepted to the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
									Recognition (CVPR'14, Columbus).
									 Read more 
-  We are designated as the new CUDA Research Center 
									Chinese University of Hong Kong is designated as the new CUDA Research Center. It is
									the first center of its kind in Hong Kong!
									 Read more 
-  Teaching Award  Congratulations to Kai Zhu for winning the Best
									Teaching Assistant Award for 2013-2014 academic year!
								
2013
						
							
								
-  Young Researcher Award 2012-2013  Prof. Wang, is selected as the
									winner of CUHK Young Researcher Award 2012-2013, congratulations!.
- ICCV 2013  We have 16 papers accepted to the IEEE International
									Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'13, Sydney).
-  2013 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award  Luo
										Ping, a HKPF supervised by Prof. Sean Tang , has
									won the 2013 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award! Luo Ping, we are proud of
									you!
-  CVPR 2013  We have eight papers (one oral) accepted to the IEEE
									Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'13, Oregon).
-  Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering  Prof. Tang was
									granted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong as the Outstanding Fellow of the
									Faculty of Engineering (工程學院傑出學人)  Read more 
-  Outstanding Thesis Award  Bolei Zhou's Mphil thesis
									titled "Modeling Crowd Behaviors in Video",
									supervised by Prof. Tang
									and Prof. Wang,
									is selected as the winner of Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2012,
									congratulations! Read
										more 
2012
						
							
								
- Teaching Award  Congratulations to Wei Zhang for winning the Best
									Teaching Assistant Award for 2011-2012 academic year!
2011
						
							
								
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2011 Congratulations to Bolei
									Zhou, for winning the prestigious Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award!
- Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2011 Congratulations to Tian
									Yuandong, for winning the prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellow Award!
- Teaching Award 2011 Congratulations to Tianfan for winning the Best
									Teaching Assistant Awards for 2010-2011 academic year!
2010
						
							- NIPS 2010 Outstanding Student Paper Award Congratulation to Dahua Lin
								for winning the outstanding student paper award of NIPS 2010 
 D. Lin, E. Grimson, and J. Fisher, "Construction of Dependent Dirichlet Processes based
								on Poisson Processes", NIPS, 2010.
 Since NIPS does not have a "best paper award" as in CVPR, the outstanding student paper
								award is the highest honor that one can get from NIPS.
- Teaching Award 2010 Congratulations to Liu Ke for winning the
								outstanding teaching assistant award for 2009-2010 academic year.
2009
						
							- IEEE Fellow Prof. Tang was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow for his
								contributions to pattern recognition and video processing.
- Best Paper Award We won the CVPR 2009 Best Paper Award. This is the
								first one ever from Asia. Congratulations to Kaiming. 
 K. He, J. Sun, and X. Tang, "Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior ," CVPR,
								2009. Conference
									version, Journal
									version
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2009 Congratulations to He Kaiming
								for winning the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship award.
2008
						
							- ECCV 2008 We have 5 papers accepted to European Conference on Computer
								Vision (ECCV'08).
- CVPR 2008 We have 5 papers accepted to IEEE Conference on Computer
								Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'08).
- AAAI, ICML, and SIGCHI 2008 We have 1 paper accepted to the Conference
								of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'08), 1 paper
								accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'08), and 1 paper
								accepted to ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI'08).
- Oversea Study Congratulations to Wang Huan for admission to the Ph.D
								program at Department of CS of Yale. Also congratulations to Chen Yu for admission to
								Department of Engineering of Cambridge University.
2007
						
							- ICCV 2007 We have 9 papers accepted to IEEE International Conference on
								Computer Vision (ICCV'07).
- CVPR 2007 We have 10 papers (1 oral papers) accepted to IEEE Conference
								on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'07, Minneapolis USA). This year CVPR
								received 1250 paper submissions, of which 60 were selected for oral presentation, with
								293 posters. The oral acceptance rate is 4.8% and the overall acceptance rate is 28.2%.
							
- IJCAI 2007 We have 3 papers (2 oral papers and 1 poster) accepted to
								the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '07, Hyderabad
								India). For this year IJCAI, among about 1353 papers submission, 212 orals and 258
								posters are accepted. So the oral acceptance rate is 15.7%, the overall acceptance rate
								is 34.7%.
- Oversea Study Congratulations to Lin Dahua for admission to the Ph.D
								program at Department of EECS of MIT. Also congratulations to Liu Wei for admission to
								Department of EE of Columbia University.
2006
						
							- ECCV 2006 We have 9 papers (3 oral papers) accepted to European
								Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'06). For this year ECCV, among about 900 papers
								submission, 40 orals and 153 posters are accepted. So the oral acceptance rate is 4.4%,
								the overall acceptance rate is 21.4%.
- CVPR 2006 We have 11 papers (3 oral papers) accepted to IEEE Conference
								on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'06, New York). This year CVPR received
								1131 paper submissions, of which 54 were selected for oral presentation, with 264
								posters. The oral acceptance rate is 4.8% and the overall acceptance rate is 28.1%.
- Oversea Study Congratulations to Cao Liangliang for admission to the
								Ph.D. program at Statistics Dept. of Harvard University and at the ECE Dept. of UIUC.
								Also congratulations to Xie Xianchao for Admission to Statistics Dept. of Harvard
								University, congratulations to Du Peng for admission to CS Dept. of University of
								California,San Diego, and congratulations to Kang Hongwen for admission to CS Dept. of
								Carnegie Mellon University.
2005
						
							- ICCV 2005 We have 6 papers accepted to IEEE International Conference on
								Computer Vision (ICCV'05). For this year ICCV, among about 1200 papers submission, 45
								orals and 199 posters are accepted. So the oral acceptance rate is 3.8%, the overall
								acceptance rate is 20.3%.
- CVPR 2005 We have 9 papers accepted to IEEE International Conference on
								Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05). For this year CVPR, among about 1160
								papers submission, 74 orals and 250 posters are accepted. So the oral acceptance rate is
								6.5%, the overall acceptance rate is 28%.
- ICIP 2005 We have 11 papers accepted to IEEE International Conference
								on Image Processing (ICIP'05).
- Oversea Study Congratulations to LIU Hao for admission to Ph.D.
								programs at MIT Media Lab and Stanford. He has chosen to go to the EECS department at
								Stanford to pursue his second Ph.D. in Sept. 2005.
2004
						
							- Oversea Study Congratulations to WANG Xiaogang for admission to MIT. He
								will join the vision group there in Sept. 2004. 
 Congratulations to TAO Dacheng for admission to University of Cambridge. He will join
								the vision group there in Sept. 2004.
- Teaching Award 2004 Congratulations to Zhao Feng for winning the
								prestigious teaching assistant awards for 2003-2004 academic year.
- Marriage Announcement This past couple of years, our lab saw five of
								our most handsome boys (LIN Feng, LUO Bo, SHA Lifeng, ZHAO Feng, and WANG Xiaogang) and
								one most beautiful girl (SHEN Hua) married. Wishing them all happy ever after!
2003
						
							- CVPR 2004 Our lab has 7 papers accepted to IEEE CVPR in 2004. Thanks
								for the hard work of Zhifeng Li, Dacheng Tao, and Xiaogang Wang.
- Baby Announcement Tang Zhiming, Samuel, came to this world at 18:35pm,
								on Sunday, March 9th, 2003. Everything included, the little boy weights 7.7 pounds. Mom
								Qiumei and Dad Xiaoou are all happy ever after!
2003
						
							- ICCV 2003 Our lab has 3 papers accepted to IEEE ICCV this year. Thanks
								for the hard work of Feng Lin and Xiaogang Wang.
2002
						
							- Teaching Award 2002 Congratulations to Xiaogang Wang for winning the
								prestigious teaching assistant award for 2001-2002 academic year.