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Xuanchi Ren

Student

University of Toronto

Biography

I am a PhD student at University of Toronto, machine learning group and Vector Institute. My supervisor is Prof. Sanja Fidler. During my undergraduate years at HKUST, I was supervised by Prof. Qifeng Chen and I was fortunate to work with Dr. Li Erran Li, Prof. Alexandre Alahi@EPFL, Dr. Yuwang Wang@MSRA and Prof. Xiaolong Wang@UCSD.

My research interests are in computer vision, particularly generative modeling and representation learning.

Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning

Education

  • PhD student in Computer Science, 2022-2027 (expected)

    University of Toronto

  • Exchange student, 2020 Spring

    EPFL

  • BSc in Compter Science and Math, 2017-2022

    HKUST

Publications

Xuanchi Ren, Xiaolong Wang (2022). Look Outside the Room: Synthesizing A Consistent Long-Term 3D Scene Video from A Single Image. CVPR 2022.

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Xuanchi Ren*, Tao Yang*, Yuwang Wang, Wenjun Zeng (2021). Learning Disentangled Representation by Exploiting Pretrained Generative Models: A Contrastive Learning View. ICLR 2022.

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Dacheng Yin*, Xuanchi Ren*, Chong Luo, Yuwang Wang, Zhiwei Xiong, Wenjun Zeng (2021). Retriever: Learning Content-Style Representation as a Token-Level Bipartite Graph. ICLR 2022.

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Tao Yang, Xuanchi Ren, Yuwang Wang, Wenjun Zeng (2021). Towards Building A Group-based Unsupervised Representation Disentanglement Framework. ICLR 2022.

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

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

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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 – Dec 2021 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

HKUST Visual Intelligence Lab

May 2019 – Sep 2022 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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