Cheng Chi
Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR)
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR)
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Sciences (CASIA)

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About Me

I am a Postdoctor in National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Sciences. I received the Ph.D degree in 2020 from Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

My research interest includes machine learning and pattern recognition, with a focus on object detection, face detection and pedestrian detection.

News
  •   • 10 / 2020:   Obtain China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
  •   • 09 / 2020:   One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2020 as Spotlight
  •   • 06 / 2020:   Our paper ATSS was nominated for Best Paper Award at CVPR 2020
  •   • 05 / 2020:   One paper is accepted by TPAMI
  •   • 02 / 2020:   One paper is accepted by CVPR 2020 as Oral
  •   • 05 / 2020:   One paper is accepted by ICML 2020
  •   • 12 / 2019:   Obtain Tang Lixin Scholarship
  •   • 11 / 2019:   Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2020
  •   • 07 / 2019:   Start my internship at MSRA
  •   • 06 / 2019:   We win 1st place in UG2 Challenge on the Dark Face Detection track [report] [poster]
  •   • 11 / 2018:   One paper is accepted by AAAI 2019 as Oral
  •   • 08 / 2018:   We win 3rd place in WIDER Challenge on the face detection track
  •   • 08 / 2018:   One paper is accepted by IEEE Access
  •   • 03 / 2018:   One paper is accepted by Sensors
  •   • 01 / 2018:   Start my internship at Sensetime Research
Publications
RelationNet++: Bridging Visual Representations for Object Detection via Transformer Decoder
Cheng Chi, Fangyun Wei, Han Hu
Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Spotlight, 2020
paper
code
RefineFace: Refinement Neural Network for High Performance Face Detection
Shifeng Zhang*, Cheng Chi*, Zhen Lei, Stan Z Li
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
*equal contribution
paper
Loss Function Search for Face Recognition
Xiaobo Wang, Shuo Wang, Cheng Chi, Shifeng Zhang, Tao Mei
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
paper
Bridging the Gap Between Anchor-based and Anchor-free Detection via Adaptive Training Sample Selection
Shifeng Zhang, Cheng Chi, Yongqiang Yao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Oral, Best Paper Nomination, 2020
paper,
code
Relational Learning for Joint Head and Human Detection
Cheng Chi, Shifeng Zhang, Junliang Xing, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Xudong Zou
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
paper
PedHunter: Occlusion Robust Pedestrian Detector in Crowded Scenes
Cheng Chi, Shifeng Zhang, Junliang Xing, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Xudong Zou
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
paper
Selective Refinement Network for High Performance Face Detection
Cheng Chi, Shifeng Zhang, Junliang Xing, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Xudong Zou
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Oral, 2019
paper
code
A Flexible Tactile Sensor With Good Consistency
Cheng Chi, Xuguang Sun, Tong Li, Xin Shu, Ning Xue, Chang Liu
IEEE Access (SCI, IF: 3.557), 2018
paper
Recent progress in technologies for tactile sensors
Cheng Chi, Xuguang Sun, Ning Xue, Tong Li, Chang Liu
Sensors (SCI, IF: 2.475), 2018
paper
Preparation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/polydimethylsiloxane composite for electronic skin application
Cheng Chi, Xuguang Sun, Tong Li, Ning Xue, Chang Liu
2018 IEEE 8th International Nanoelectronics Conferences (INEC), 2018
paper
A Self-Supervised Learning Manipulator Grasping Approach Based on Instance Segmentation
Xin Shu, Chang Liu, Tong Li, Chunkai Wang, Cheng Chi
IEEE Access (SCI, IF: 3.557), 2018
paper
A Biodegradable Porous Silicon and Polymeric Hybrid Probe for Electrical Neural Signal Recording
Ning Xue, Deheng Wang, Chunxiu Liu, Zunji Ke, Paz Elia, Tong Li, Cheng Chi, Yuhua Cheng, Jianhai Sun
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (SCI, IF: 5.667), 2018
paper
Systematic study and experiment of a flexible pressure and tactile sensing array for wearable devices applications
Ning Xue†, Guangheng Gao, Jianhai Sun, Chunxiu Liu, Tong Li, Cheng Chi†
†corresponding author
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (SCI, IF: 1.888), 2018
paper
A highly-sensitive flexible tactile sensor array utilizing piezoresistive carbon nanotube–polydimethylsiloxane composite
Xuguang Sun, Chunkai Wang, Cheng Chi, Ning Xue, Chang Liu
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (SCI, IF: 1.888), 2018
paper
Miniature Force Sensing System for Monitoring of Optimal Cricoid Pressure for Airway Protection
Ning Xue, Chunxiu Liu, Jianhai Sun, Tong Li, Cheng Chi, Hwan-Ing Hee, Yu-Shun Wang
IEEE Sensors Journal (SCI, IF: 2.617), 2018
paper
Real-Time and Autonomous Grasping Operation of Manipulator Based on Tactile Sensor Array
Tong Li, Cheng Chi, Chunkai Wang, Ning Xue, Chunxiu Liu, Chang Liu
2nd IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IMCEC), 2018
paper
Academic Activities
Presentation
  •   • NeurIPS 2020 Spotlight
  •   • ICML 2020 Poster
  •   • CVPR 2020 Oral
  •   • AAAI 2020 Poster
  •   • AAAI 2019 Oral
  •   • ECCV 2018 Poster
Reviewer
  •   • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
  •   • Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
  •   • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
  •   • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  •   • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  •   • Neurocomputing
  •   • IEEE Sensors Journal
Education

B.Eng. in College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University of China
Sep. 2011 - Jul. 2015

Ph.D. in Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sep. 2015 - Jul. 2020

Postdoctor in Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Sciences
Sep. 2020 - Present
Awards
  •   • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2020
  •   • Outstanding Graduates in Beijing, 2020
  •   • Outstanding Graduates of UCAS, 2020
  •   • Tang Lixin Scholarship, 2019 - Present
  •   • 1st place in UG2 Challenge on the dark face detection track, 2019
  •   • 3rd place in WIDER Challenge on the face detection track, 2018
  •   • Merit Student, 2018