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Xuanchi Ren

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HKUST | MSRA

Biography

Xuanchi Ren is currently an undergraduate student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof.Qifeng Chen. During 2020 spring, he was an exchange student in EPFL, where he was fortunate to work with Prof.Alexandre Alahi and Dr. Li Erran Li. He is a full-time research intern in the Intelligent Multimedia Group of Microsoft Research Asia from July 2020, supervised by Dr. Yuwang Wang and Prof.Wenjun Zeng. He will work with Prof. Xiaolong Wang as a research intern in 2021 Summer.

His research interests currently focus on computer vision and deep learning. He has experience in the generative model, disentangled representation, autonomous driving, 3D vision, video generation, and low-level vision.

He is expected to apply for Ph.D. starting from 2022 Fall. Here is his Curriculum Vitae.

Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning

Education

  • Exchange student, 2020 Spring

    EPFL

  • BSc in Compter Science and Math, 2017-2022

    HKUST

Publications

Xuanchi Ren, Tao Yang, Li Erran Li, Alexandre Alahi, Qifeng Chen (2021). Safety-aware Motion Prediction with Unseen Vehicles for Autonomous Driving. ICCV 2021.

Xuanchi Ren*, Tao Yang*, Yuwang Wang, Wenjun Zeng (2021). Do Generative Models Know Disentanglement? Contrastive Learning is All You Need. Preprint.

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Tao Yang, Xuanchi Ren, Yuwang Wang, Wenjun Zeng (2021). GroupifyVAE: from Group-based Definition to VAE-based Unsupervised Representation Disentanglement. Preprint.

Xuanchi Ren, Tao Yang, Yuwang Wang, Wenjun Zeng (2021). Rethinking Content and Style: Exploring Bias for Unsupervised Disentanglement. Preprint.

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Xuanchi Ren*, Zian Qian*, Qifeng Chen (2020). Video Deblurring by Fitting to Test Data. Preprint.

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Xuanchi Ren, Haoran Li, Zijian Huang, Qifeng Chen (2019). Self-supervised Dance Video Synthesis Conditioned on Music. ACM MM 2020. Full Oral Presentation (9% acceptance rate).

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Projects

Innovate the Retail Industry with Automatic Checkout System
Xuanchi Ren, Zian Qian, Zhiwei Wang
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On the Performance Benefits of Zeroth Order Methods in the Context of Adversarial Training
XAlice Biryukov, Nicolas Dutly, Xuanchi Ren

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Microsoft Research Asia

Jul 2020 – Present Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

HKUST Visual Intelligence Lab

May 2019 – Present Hong Kong
Responsibilities include:

  • Researched on video generation, human motion synthesis and video deblurring.
  • Completed research projects submitted to conferences.
 
 
 
 
 

Mech Engineer

HKUST Robotics Institute

Oct 2017 – Oct 2018 Hong Kong
Help design and build robot to take the Robomaster competition held by DJI.

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