Events and Awards

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  2010

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  • June: Hearty congratulations to Lixin Duan for receiving the Best Student Paper Award at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010). CVPR is a flagship conference in computer vision with the overall paper acceptance rates over recent years being about 27%. 

  • May: Prof. Wen Gao from Peking University visited our group.

  • March: Dr. Sing Bing Kang from Microsoft Research and Dr. Remagnino Paolo from Kingston University visited our group.

  • March: Dr. Xu visited Tsinghua University, Peking University, Automation Institute and Computing Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Microsoft Research Asia, and Zhejiang University. Dr. Xu delivered six invited talks to introduce our recent work on transfer learning during the visit.

  • January: Dr. Yi Ma from UIUC and Dr. Xilin Chen from Computing Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our group.

    2009

  • December: Dr. Yong Rui from Microsoft China Research and Development Group and Dr. Changsheng Xu from Automation Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our group.

  • September: Congratulations to the Ph.D. student Lixin Duan for being awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship. Again, only two winners from Singapore universities received the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship awards this year. This is also the second consecutive year in which a student from our group has won the award.

  • July and August: Prof. Ramesh Jain from University of California, Irvine, Prof. Dan Schonfeld from University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Qi Tian from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Dr. Wenjun Zeng and Dr. Xu Han from University of Missouri, Dr. Lei Zhang from Microsoft Research Asia, and Dr. Kaiqi Huang from Automation Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our group.

  • June: Dr. Xu visited Tsinghua University, Automation Institute and Computing Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Microsoft Research Asia, and University of Science and Technology of China.

  • May: The Ph.D. student Lixin Duan received a student Travel Grant from organizers of 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009). ICML is a leading conference in machine learning.

  • April: Prof. Steve Maybank from Birkbeck College, University of London visited our group.

  • February: Prof. Hanqing Lu from Automation Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our group.

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2008

  • December: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang from Columbia University, Prof. Chang Wen Chen from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Dr. Jiebo Luo from Kodak Research Laboratories and Dr. Xin Tong from Microsoft Research Asia visited our group.

  • September: Congratulations to the Ph.D. student Yi Huang for being awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship. Only two winners from Singapore universities received the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship awards this year.