Research Interests

• Applications in the field of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
• People & Perception AI
• Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence (e.g., collaborative active learning)
• Human Sensing from Unconstrained Images and Videos (e.g., facial expression, motion analysis, and trajectory prediction)
• Object, Scene Recognition and Segmentation
• Camera Pose Estimation and Relocalization
• Generative AI
• Generalized Fundation Modeling for Image, Video and 3D Assets Generation, etc.
• Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, Domain Adaptation, Meta-Learning for Efficient Personalization Applications.
• Explore Latent Space to Ensure Better Control Signals for Generative Applications (e.g., Disentanglement, ID-Preserving).
• 2D & 3D Digital Human and Related Applications (e.g., Talking Face, Virtual Try-On)
• Photo-Realistic and Cartoon-Style Avatar Generation (e.g., Face, Hair, Head, Hand, and Full-Boday Avatars)
• Neural Rendering Related Various Techniques and Applications (e.g., Nerf and Gaussian Splatting)
• Shadow and Illumination Modeling (e.g., Shadow Removal, Delighting, Relighting, and Shadow Generating)
• Multimodal Fusion, Text-to-Image Generation, and Image/Video Caption
• Style Transfer and Controllable Person Image Synthesis
• Image and Video Recovery and Enhancement (e.g., Super Resolution)
• Personalized Information Retrieval and Recommendation System
• Multi-Modality Content Understanding
• User Behavior and Engagement Analysis
• Retrieval, Ranking, and Post-Ranking Modeling and Strategies
• Item & User Coldstart Strategies
• Other Recommendation Strategies Related Topics
• Others
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence
• Other Related Applications

Book and Book Chapters

• Chengjiang Long, Arslan Basharat, and Anthony Hoogs. "Video Frame Deletion and Duplication", in the book Multimedia Forensics (Chapter 13), edited by Husrev Taha Sencar, Luisa Verdoliva, and Nasir Memon, Springer, 2022.

Selected Publications

The following are selected journal and conference papers from 83 co-author papers, highlighting 1 TOG, 2 T-PAMI, 1 IJCV, 2 TVCG, 1 TIP, 2 T-MM, 1 SIGGRAPH Asia, 10 CVPR, 8 ICCV, 3 ECCV, 6 AAAI, 3 ACM MM, 1 TCSVT, 1 PR, 1 TOMM, 1 CAGD, 3 CGF, 1 RA-L, 2 WACV, 2 ICME, 1 ACCV and 1 ICTAI with 45 1st/2nd-author papers, in which the 2nd authorship indicates the 1st author as my advisors I worked with or as my students/interns/colleagues I closely supervised. For the full list, you can find it in My Google Scholar.