Yixin Zhu

I am a postdoctoral scholar in Prof. Song-Chun Zhu's VCLA lab at UCLA. I work part-time at DMAI as the Research Director.

My primary research interests focus on functional object and scene understanding, spanning in the fields of computer vision, computer graphics, robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and cognitive science.

In particular, my ongoing work integrates high-level cues (e.g. functionality, physics, causality) into computer vision to enable richer representations and deeper understandings. I am a co-organizer of Vision Meets Cognition (FPIC) workshops and Virtual Reality Meets Physical Reality workshops.

My work is currently supported by DARPA XAI grant N66001-17-2-4029 and ONR MURI grant N00014-16-1-2007.

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[Dissertation on Visual Commonsense Reasoning]

News

2018-06

Our 4th CVPR FPIC Workshop will be held on June 18 in Salt Lake City.
2018-06

I gave an invited talk at the CVPR Workshop on Visual Understanding of Humans in Crowd Scene.
2018-05

One paper has been accepted by IJCV.
2018-04

One paper has been accepted by CogSci 2018.
2018-03

One paper has been accepted by SIGGRAPH 2018, featured in the Technical Paper Trailer.
2018-02

One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2018.
2018-01

Two papers have been accepted by ICRA 2018.
2018-01

I'll serve as the webmaster in the coming CVPR 2019.
2018-01

One paper has been accepted by IEEE VR 2018.
2017-11

One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2018.
2017-07

Our 3rd CVPR FPIC Workshop will be held on July 21 in Honolulu.
2017-06

Two papers have been accepted by IROS 2017.
2017-04

Two papers have been accepted by CogSci 2017.
2016-11

One paper been accepted by IEEE VR 2017 and TVCG.
2016-09

One paper been accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Workshop.
2016-09

I gave an invited Teddy Talk in the plenary session in CRESSTCON 2016.
2016-05

I served as a co-chair in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Workshop on Virtual Reality meets Physical Reality.
2016-04

One paper been accepted by IJCAI 2016.
2016-04

One paper been accepted by CogSci 2016.
2016-04

I served as a co-chair in CogSci 2016 Workshop on Physical and Social Scene Understanding.
2016-03

One paper been accepted by CVPR 2016.
2015-04

One paper been accepted by CogSci 2015.
2015-03

One paper been accepted by CVPR 2015.

Cross-lab Collaborations

Chenfanfu Jiang, UPenn Computer Graphics Group

Demetri Terzopoulos, UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory

Brandon Rothrock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

James Kubricht and Hongjing Lu, UCLA Computational Vision and Learning Lab (CVL)

Ying Nian Wu, UCLA Department of Statistics

Tao Gao, UCLA Department of Statistics and Communication Studies

Wei Liang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Yibiao Zhao, iSee.ai

Elias Bareinboim, Purdue University

Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu, UMass Boston

Jiajun Wu, MIT

Tianfu Wu, NC State University (NCSU)

Eric Peltola and Veronica Santos, UCLA Biomechatronics Lab

Sara Spotorno, Tian Xu and Philippe Schyns, University of Glasgow

Michael Walton and Andrew Fuchs, SPAWAR

VCLA Collaborations

Siyuan Qi and Siyuan Huang on Scene Synthesis and Parsing.

Xu Xie and Zhenliang Zhang on Virtual Reality.

Mark Edmonds on Causal Learning

Feng Gao, Chi Zhang and Siyuan Qi on Reinforcement Learning

Hangxing Liu and Yaofang Zhang on Human-Robot-Interaction

Students Mentored

Shu Wang, Ph.D. in Statistics, UCLA, 2018 Fall

Wenwen Si, Master in Computer Vision, CMU, 2018 Fall

Hangxin Liu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, UCLA, 2018 Spring

Jenny Lin, Ph.D. in Computer Science, CMU, 2017 Fall

Mark Edmonds, Ph.D. in Computer Science, UCLA, 2017 Fall

Tian Ye, Master in Robotics, CMU, 2017 Fall

Feng Gao, Master in Statistics, UCLA, 2017 Fall

Xu Xie, Master in Statistics, UCLA, 2017 Fall

Xingwen Guo, Master in Computer Science, Yale, 2017 Fall

Chi Zhang, Master in Computer Science, UCLA, 2017 Fall

Jingyu Shao, Master in Statistics, UCLA, 2016 Winter

Yutong Zhang, Master in Computer Science, UCLA, 2015 Fall

Scholarships & Awards

2018.06

Outstanding Statistician Award, UCLA Statistics Department
2013.06-2018.03

Graduate Research Assistant @ VCLA
2018.03

RAS Travel Grant, ICRA
2017.07

Doctoral Student Travel Grants, UCLA
2017.07

Doctoral Student Travel Grants, UCLA Statistics Department
2017.06

CVPR 2017 Outstanding Reviewer
2015-2018

UCLA University Fellowship
2014.08

NVidia CUDA Hardware Donation Program for Researchers
2011.07

Google Scholarship
2011.07

UCLA-CSST Scholarship
2010.12

Samsung Scholarship