Dr Hang Dai
- Honorary Research Fellow (School of Computing Science)
Biography
News
- After a happy journey in Glasgow, I will leave University of Glasgow and join Wuhan University as a full Professor. Thank you all, Glasgow!
We are now recruiting! Multiple fully-funded PhD and Master positions are open (topics in autonomous driving, robotic vision and embodied AI). Applicants who have a CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NIPS publication are preferred. Please send your CV to hang.dai.cs@gmail.com. - 29/01/2024 One paper is accepted in ICRA 2024, "Improving Radial Imbalances with Hybrid Voxelization and RadialMix for LiDAR 3D Semantic Segmentation".
- 09/12/2023 One paper is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), "CTVSR: Collaborative Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Video Super-Resolution".
- 13/04/2023 One paper is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (T-MI).
- 27/02/2023 Two papers accepted in CVPR 2023. (1) Feature Shrinkage Pyramid for Camouflaged Object Detection with Transformers. Zhou Huang et al. (2) MSeg3D: Multi-modal 3D Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving. Jiale Li et al. Congrats to former Interns.
- 17/01/2023 One paper "CEAFFOD: Cross-Ensemble Attention-based Feature Fusion Architecture Towards a Robust and Real-time UAV-based Object Detection in Complex Scenarios" is accepted in ICRA 2023. Congrats to Master student Ahmed.
- 10/01/2023 One paper is accepted in AAAI 2023 in the main track. Congrats to former Intern Xiaobin Hu.
- 08/07/2022 Three papers are accepted in ECCV 2022. Congrats to former Intern Jiale Li, Yu Hong, and Postdoc Dr. Xuebin Qin. Papers: CMKD (Oral presentation, acceptance rate: 2.7%), Self-Distillation, DIS.
Bio
Dr. Hang Dai is a Lecturer in Machine Learning at the School of Computing Science (IDA Section), University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of York, where he built a 3D morphable model of human heads (LYHM) from the Headspace dataset. He was awarded a three-year full Oversea Research Scholarship from the University of York during his Ph.D. study.
He is a regular publisher in top AI/CV conferences like CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACM MM and etc. He also wins competitive top conference challenge awards, such as CVPR 2022 Waymo Autonomous Driving Challenge and ECCV 2020 Command for Autonomous Vehicles Challenge. He leads his research group to formulate the problem of highly accurate dichotomous image segmentation towards entering an era of demanding highly accurate outputs from AI algorithms to support delicate human-machine interaction and immersed virtual life and deliver the DIS benchmark to the community.
Highly Accurate Dichotomous Image Segmentation
Research interests
His research interests lie in the intersection of computer vision, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence.
Research Interests.
3D Computer Vision: 3D shape analysis, 3D from X, face manipulation from 3D.
Autonomous Driving: 3D semantic segmentation, 3D object detection, Occupancy network, Interactive Planning, Lanes Network, Autolabeling, Simulation.
Low-level Vision Task: Object referral, Highly accurate image segmentation in Natural images, and Bio-medical images.
Ph.D. Vacancies.
I am looking for highly motivated and competitive Ph.D. candidates. Publications in top conferences like CVPR, ECCV, and ICCV are a PLUS. For Ph.D. topics, please refer to the section of Supervision. If you are interested, drop me an email with your CV. I will reply when the Ph.D. applicant meets the requirements.
[Hot!] One full Ph.D. studentship at Home Rate is available for the coming academic year (23-24). Qualified international students need to pay for the fee differences. This position is very competitive. Application Deadline: January 2023.
[CSC Ph.D. Studentship] Deadline: January of the academic year.
• What is covered: if accepted by the CSC, the CSC covers the stipend. The college’s graduate school endeavors to match this with a tuition waiver.
• Eligibility of Student: student has to be Chinese and has to agree to the CSC’s terms which include the requirement to return to China after completing their Ph.D.
Students who are not already in Glasgow, and who are affiliated with partner institutions are encouraged to apply for CSC Ph.D. studentship.
[Other scholarships] Deadline is usually January of the academic year. CDT studentships’ deadline is decided by the CDT team. More scholarship opportunities can be found here: University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Computing Science - Postgraduate research - Prospective students - PhD projects and funding opportunities.
[Ph.D. application process] Please refer to University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Computing Science - Postgraduate research - Prospective students. For international students, please make sure that you have the documentation to meet the language requirements for the College of Science & Engineering before you start the application process.
Supervision
Postgraduate Students:
Qianying Liu, PhD student (Co-supervised with Fani Deligianni)
Zeyu Dong, PhD student
Ph.D. projects are not limited to the following aspects:
3D Computer Vision:
- Semantic 3D face reconstructions from a single image
- 3D hand reconstruction/tracking from RGB image or combined sensor data
- 3D face recognition from combined sensor data
- Deepfake generation or detection using 3D face reconstruction
3D face reconstructions from a single image
Autonomous Driving:
- 3D semantic segmentation from point cloud (Self-Distillation) or sensor fusion (LiDAR+RGB).
- 3D object detection from monocular image (M3dssd, Pseudo-Stereo, CMKD), stereo image (DSGN), point cloud (voxel-to-point, Anchor-free 3DSSD), or sensor fusion (LiDAR+RGB).
- Occupancy network (MonoScene)
- Interactive Planning: Optimization-based Trajectory Planner with constraints generated incrementally over search steps.
- Lanes Network (HDMapGen, VectorMapNet)
- Auto-labeling the captured sensor data using semi-supervised learning or weakly-supervised learning.
- Simulation: Sim2Real for autonomous driving.
Monocular 3D Object Detection
Low-level vision task:
- Object referral for Salient Object Detection, Commands for Autonomous Vehicles (1st, 2nd place).
- Highly accurate image segmentation in natural (including semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, salient object detection, and camouflaged object detection), and bio-medical images (for example, retina vessel segmentation).
- Dong, Zeyu
Vision-based 3D Flow and Occupancy Prediction - Liu, Qianying
Deep Learning for Health Informatics
Teaching
COMPSCI5012 Internet Technology M - 2022-23