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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.
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2014

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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