Education

• Ph.D. at College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  Sept 2014 - July 2019       Hangzhou, China
  Supervised by Prof. Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang and Prof. Xi Li.
  Dissertation: "Semantic Understanding-Aware Neural Network Architecture Design for Video Surveillance"
  Successfully defended at June, 2019
  
  
• Visiting Scholar at Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019      Pittsburgh, USA
  Supervised by Prof. Alexander G. Hauptmann.
  
  
• Bachelor at College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  Sept 2010 - June 2014       Hangzhou, China
  Chu Kochen Honors College
  Graduation Thesis: "Feature Learning and Its Applications"

Work Experiences

• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Clemson University
  School of Computing
  Aug 2023 - Now       Clemson, SC, USA
  
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University
  Visual Computing Group (VCG), School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  Nov 2021 - Aug 2023       Boston, USA
  Working with Prof. Hanspeter Pfister
  
  
• Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University
  Rapid-Rich Object Search (ROSE) Lab, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  Feb 2021 - Oct 2021       Singapore
  Working with Dr. Bihan Wen
  
  
• Research Scientist at Baidu Research
  Big Data Lab
  July 2019 - Jan 2021       Beijing, China
  Working with Prof. Dejing Dou and Prof. Jun Huan
  
  
• Research Intern at Baidu Research
  Big Data Lab
  Mar 2019 - June 2019       Beijing, China
  Supervised by Prof. Jun Huan.

Teaching

• CPSC 8810: Machine Learning-based Image Synthesis [2023 Fall]
  This course offers a comprehensive exploration of machine learning techniques for visual data (e.g., images or videos) synthesis. The course will cover a range of topics from classical algorithms (e.g., image filtering and transformation) and deep generative models (e.g., VAEs, GANs, and Diffusion Models). Participants will learn to implement image synthesis algorithms, to understand cutting-edge image synthesis techniques, and to explore intriguing research questions. This course will be of particular interest to students seeking to delve into fields of generative AI, computer vision, and deep learning.
  
  
• CPSC 4070/6070: Applied Computer Vision [2024 Spring]
  
  
  

Publications

1. Towards Robust Image Denoising via Flow-based Joint Image and Noise Model
   Lanqing Guo, Siyu Huang, Haosen Liu, and Bihan Wen
   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023
   
   
2. ContRE: A Complementary Measure for Robustness Evaluation of Deep Networks via Contrastive Examples
   Xuhong Li, Xuanyu Wu, Linghe Kong, Xiao Zhang, Siyu Huang, Dejing Dou, and Haoyi Xiong
   IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2023
   
   
3. Domain-Scalable Unpaired Image Translation via Latent Space Anchoring [pdf] [code]
   Siyu Huang*, Jie An*, Donglai Wei, Zudi Lin, Jiebo Luo, Hanspeter Pfister
   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023
   
   
4. 3D Domain Adaptive Instance Segmentation via Cyclic Segmentation GANs [pdf] [project] [code] [dataset]
   Leander Lauenburg, Zudi Lin, Ruihan Zhang, Marcia dos Santos, Siyu Huang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Edward S. Boyden, Hanspeter Pfister, Donglai Wei
   IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 2023
   
   
5. QuantArt: Quantizing Image Style Transfer Towards High Visual Fidelity [pdf] [slides] [code]
   Siyu Huang*, Jie An*, Donglai Wei, Jiebo Luo, Hanspeter Pfister
   IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
   
   
6. ShadowDiffusion: When Degradation Prior Meets Diffusion Model for Shadow Removal [pdf] [code]
   Lanqing Guo, Chong Wang, Wenhan Yang, Siyu Huang, Yufei Wang, Hanspeter Pfister, Bihan Wen
   IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
   
   
7. Making Your First Choice: To Address Cold Start Problem in Vision Active Learning [pdf] [code]
   Liangyu Chen, Yutong Bai, Siyu Huang, Yongyi Lu, Bihan Wen, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou
   Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), 2023
   
   
8. Cross-Model Consensus of Explanations and Beyond for Image Classification Models: An Empirical Study [pdf] [code]
   Xuhong Li, Haoyi Xiong, Siyu Huang, Shilei Ji, Dejing Dou
   Machine Learning, European Conference on Machine Learning 2022 journal track (MLJ), 2023
   
   
9. ShadowFormer: Global Context Helps Shadow Removal [pdf] [code]
   Lanqing Guo, Siyu Huang, Ding Liu, Hao Cheng, Bihan Wen
   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
   
   
10. Temporal Output Discrepancy for Loss Estimation-based Active Learning [pdf] [code]
    Siyu Huang, Tianyang Wang, Haoyi Xiong, Bihan Wen, Jun Huan, Dejing Dou
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022
    
    
11. MUSCLE: Multi-task Self-supervised Continual Learning to Pre-train Deep Models for X-ray Images of Multiple Body Parts [pdf]
    Weibin Liao, Haoyi Xiong, Qingzhong Wang, Yan Mo, Xuhong Li, Yi Liu, Zeyu Chen, Siyu Huang, Dejing Dou
    Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2022
    
    
12. A Unified Framework for Bidirectional Prototype Learning from Contaminated Faces across Heterogeneous Domains [pdf] [code]
    Meng Pang, Binghui Wang, Siyu Huang, Yiu-ming Cheung, Bihan Wen
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2022
    
    
13. Parameter-Free Style Projection for Arbitrary Style Transfer [pdf] [code] [Official PaddleHub]
    Siyu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Tianyang Wang, Bihan Wen, Qingzhong Wang, Zeyu Chen, Jun Huan, Dejing Dou
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
    
    
14. BM-NAS: Bilevel Multimodal Neural Architecture Search [pdf] [video] [code]
    Yihang Yin, Siyu Huang, Xiang Zhang
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022 (Oral)
    
    
15. AutoGCL: Automated Graph Contrastive Learning via Learnable View Generators [pdf] [video] [code]
    Yihang Yin, Qingzhong Wang, Siyu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Xiang Zhang
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
    
    
16. Boosting Active Learning via Improving Test Performance [pdf] [code]
    Tianyang Wang, Xingjian Li, Pengkun Yang, Guosheng Hu, Xiangrui Zeng, Siyu Huang, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Min Xu
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
    
    
17. Semi-Supervised Active Learning with Temporal Output Discrepancy [pdf] [supp] [poster] [slides] [video] [code]
    Siyu Huang, Tianyang Wang, Haoyi Xiong, Jun Huan, Dejing Dou
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
    
    
18. ReLLIE: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Customized Low-Light Image Enhancement [pdf] [code]
    Rongkai Zhang, Lanqing Guo, Siyu Huang, Bihan Wen
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021
    
    
19. An Investigation of Containment Measure Implementation and Public Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mainland China [pdf]
    Ji Liu, Haoyi Xiong, Xiakai Wang, Jizhou Huang, Qiaojun Li, Tongtong Huang, Siyu Huang, Haifeng Wang, Dejing Dou
    IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH), 2021
    
    
20. ArtFlow: Unbiased Image Style Transfer via Reversible Neural Flows [pdf] [supp] [code]
    Jie An*, Siyu Huang*, Yibing Song, Dejing Dou, Wei Liu, Jiebo Luo
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
    
    
21. Dual Low-Rank Multimodal Fusion [pdf]
    Tao Jin*, Siyu Huang*, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP (EMNLP Findings), 2020
    
    
22. Neighbours Matter: Image Captioning with Similar Images [pdf]
    Qingzhong Wang, Jiuniu Wang, Antoni Chan, Siyu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Xingjian Li, Dejing Dou
    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2020
    
    
23. Generating Person Images with Appearance-aware Pose Stylizer [pdf] [code]
    Siyu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Qingzhong Wang, Xingran Zhou, Bihan Wen, Jun Huan, Dejing Dou
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020
    
    
24. SBAT: Video Captioning with Sparse Boundary-Aware Transformer [pdf]
    Tao Jin, Siyu Huang, Ming Chen, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020
    
    
25. Stacked Pooling for Boosting Scale Invariance of Crowd Counting [pdf] [code]
    Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Zhongfei Zhang, Alexander Hauptmann
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020
    
    
26. Low-Rank HOCA: Efficient High-Order Cross-Modal Attention for Video Captioning [pdf]
    Tao Jin, Siyu Huang*, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019
    
    
27. Text Guided Person Image Synthesis [pdf] [supp]
    Xingran Zhou, Siyu Huang*, Bin Li, Yingming Li, Jiachen Li, Zhongfei Zhang.
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
    
    
28. User-Ranking Video Summarization with Multi-Stage Spatio-Temporal Representation [pdf] [demo]
    Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang, Fei Wu, Junwei Han.
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019
    
    
29. Perceiving Physical Equation by Observing Visual Scenarios [pdf]
    Siyu Huang*, Zhi-Qi Cheng*, Xi Li, Xiao Wu, Zhongfei Zhang, Alexander Hauptmann.
    NeurIPS Workshop on Modeling the Physical World, 2018
    
    
30. TVT: Two-View Transformer Network for Video Captioning [pdf]
    Ming Chen, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang, Siyu Huang.
    Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML), 2018
    
    
31. GNAS: A Greedy Neural Architecture Search Method for Multi-Attribute Learning [pdf] [slides] [poster]
    Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Zhongfei Zhang, Alexander Hauptmann.
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2018 (Oral)
    
    
32. Learning to Transfer: Generalizable Attribute Learning with Multitask Neural Model Search [pdf]
    Zhi-Qi Cheng, Xiao Wu, Siyu Huang, Jun-Xiu Li, Alexander Hauptmann, Qiang Peng.
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2018
    
    
33. Body Structure Aware Deep Crowd Counting [pdf] [demo]
    Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang, Fei Wu, Shenghua Gao, Rongrong Ji, Junwei Han.
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2018
    
    
34. Deep Learning Driven Visual Path Prediction From a Single Image [pdf] [dataset]
    Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang, Zhouzhou He, Fei Wu, Wei Liu, Jinhui Tang, Yueting Zhuang.
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2016
    
    

Contest

• AI Challenger Global Contest, 2017
  Organizers: Sinovation Ventures, ByteDance, Sogou
  Track: English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation Competition
  Ranked: 2nd/675 teams [news] [short slides]
  Team Members：Siyu Huang (team leader), Ming Chen, Lei Wang

Patents

• Data mining system, method, and storage medium. Ji Liu, Haoyi Xiong, Siyu Huang, Dejing Dou. Filed, US20210248139A1, CN111597226A
  
• Pose transfer system, method, and storage medium. Siyu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Dejing Dou. Granted, CN111680623A
  
• A text-guided person image generation algorithm. Xingran Zhou, Siyu Huang, Bin Li, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang. Granted, CN110021051B
  
• A one-dimensional sequence learning based video summarization algorithm. Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang. Granted, CN107729821A
  
• A pedestrian body appearance structure based crowd counting algorithm. Siyu Huang, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang. Granted, CN106815563B
  

Invited Talks and Presentations

1. Conference Presentation: "Parameter-Free Style Projection for Arbitrary Style Transfer".
   International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Virtual. May 2022.
   
2. Conference Presentation: "Semi-Supervised Active Learning with Temporal Output Discrepancy".
   International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Virtual. Oct 2021.
   
3. Invited Talk: “Visual Understanding and Prediction Techniques”.
   UESTC International Forum for Young Scholars. Virtual, Sept 2021.
   
4. Conference Presentation: "Generating Person Images with Appearance-aware Pose Stylizer".
   29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Virtual. Jan 2021.
   
5. Open Course: “Automated Deep Learning: Theory and Applications”.
   Baidu World Congress, Branch Forum. Beijing, Sept 2020.
   
6. Conference Tutorial: “A Tutorial on Neural Architecture Search”.
   IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Tutorial on Automated Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, Platforms, and Applications. Beijing, Nov 2019.
   
7. Open Course: “NAS with RL and Differentiable NAS in AutoDL”.
   Baidu Create 2019 - Baidu AI Developer Conference. Beijing, July 2019.
   
8. Invited Talk: “Deep Cross-Modal Knowledge Mining”.
   Forum for Talented Young Scholar in Computer Science. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, May 2019.
   
9. Invited Talk: "Text Guided Person Image Synthesis".
   Baidu Research. Beijing, China. Mar 2019.
   
10. Conference Presentation: "GNAS: A Greedy Neural Architecture Search Method for Multi-Attribute Learning".
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). Seoul, Korea. Oct 2018. [photo]
    
11. Invited Talk: "Greedy Neural Architecture Search for Multi-Attribute Learning".
    State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, Binghamton, USA. Sept 2018.
    

Awards

• Outstanding Research. Baidu Research. 2020.
• Excellent Postgraduate Students' Award. Zhejiang University. 2019.
• ACM MM Student Travel Award. ACM SIGMM. 2018.
• National Scholarship for PhD Student. Ministry of Education of the P.R.C. 2017. Awarded to top 1% PhD students.
• Postgraduate of Merit. Zhejiang University. 2017, 2018.
• Award of Honor for Postgraduate. Zhejiang University. 2017, 2018.
• Graduate of Chu Kochen Honors College. Zhejiang University. 2014.
• Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis "Feature Learning and Its Applications". Zhejiang University. 2014.

Professional Services

Area chair/meta reviewer: IJCAI (21, 23, 24), ICDM (20)
Journal reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE RAL, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Neurocomputing, etc.
Conference reviewer: ICLR (24), NeurIPS (23), SIGGRAPH (23), ACL (21, 22, 23), CVPR (21, 22, 23, 24), ICCV (21), ECCV (22), ACM MM (21, 22, 23), AAAI (19, 21, 22, 23), IJCAI (20, 22), SIGGRAPH Asia (21), BMVC (20,21), ICPR (20), ICDM (18), etc.