Xu Yang; 杨旭 | PALM, CS, SEU

About Me

I am now an Associate Professor at PALM lab, Department of Computer Science, Southeast University (SEU), China. I got my B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), M.S. degree from Southeast University (SEU) supervised by Prof Xin Geng, and Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) supervised by Prof Jianfei Cai and Prof Hanwang Zhang.

Research Interests

I have wide interest on AI, especially machine learning and deep learning. In the past and future few years, I will focus on the following topics:

Computer Vision: Image Captioning, Vision Reasoning
Machine Learning: Structural Learning, Causal Inference, Label Distribution Learning

Selected Publications

Deconfounded image captioning: A causal retrospect
Xu Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.TPAMI.
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Auto-encoding and Distilling Scene Graphs for Image Captioning
Xu Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.TPAMI.
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Auto-Parsing Network for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering
Xu Yang, Chongyang Gao, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2021.
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Causal attention for vision-language tasks
Xu Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Guojun Qi, Jianfei Cai
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2021.
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Hierarchical Scene Graph Encoder-Decoder for Image Paragraph Captioning
Xu Yang, Chongyang Gao, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
ACM International Conference on Multimedia. ACMMM 2020.
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Learning to collocate neural modules for image captioning
Xu Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2019.
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Auto-encoding scene graphs for image captioning
Xu Yang, Kaihua Tang, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2019.
[PDF]Oral Presentation

Shuffle-then-assemble: learning object-agnostic visual relationship features
Xu Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Jianfei Cai
European Conference on Computer Vision. ECCV 2018.
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Sparsity Conditional Energy Label Distribution Learning for Age Estimation
Xu Yang, Xin Geng, Deyu Zhou
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI 2016.
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Deep label distribution learning for apparent age estimation
Xu Yang, Bin-Bin Gao, Chao Xing, Zeng-Wei Huo, Xiu-Shen Wei, Ying Zhou, Jianxin Wu, Xin Geng
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops. ICCVW 2015.
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Misc

When I have some available time, I usually read, swim, and run. I have ubiquitous interest on different topics of the books, including Computer Science, Philosophy, History, Politics, Literature, and Detective Fiction.

Some recommended books:

Research: 《How To Read a Book》《Style, Toward Clarity and Grace》《The Craft of Research》
Philosophy: 《The Book of Why》《The Structure of Scientific Revolutions》《The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy》
Literature: 《百年孤独》《战争与和平》《三国演义》