News


16 July 2024
1 paper is accepted by ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2024) on Visual Abductive Reasoning with Vision Foundational Models.

19 May 2024
Our team ranked the 1st on STAR: Situated Reasoning Challenge STAR video leaderboard.

17 April 2024
1 paper is accepted by International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024) on Point Cloud Understanding with Vision Foundational Models.

29 Aug 2023
Our RCA model ranked the 1st on visual abductive reasoning Sherlock benchmark.

30 June 2022
4 papers are accepted by ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2022) on Video Recognition and Retrieval.

3 Mar 2022
1 paper is accepted by Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022) on Efficient Video Recognition.

5 July 2021
2 papers are accepted by ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2021) on Efficient Video Recognition and Retrieval.

29 July 2020
Rank 3rd in ACM Multimedia (ACM MM workshop HiEVE 2020) on Human-Centric Video Analysis.

29 July 2020
1 paper is accepted by ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2020) on Sport Analysis.

21 December 2018
1 paper is accepted by IEEE Trans Multimedia (TMM 2018) on Multimedia Event Detection.

Hao ZHANG 

Senior Research Scientist

Institute of High Performance Computing
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

1 Fusionopolis Way, #20-10, Connexis North Tower, Singapore 138632

Email: zhanghaoinf AT gmail DOT com

I work as Senior Research Scientist in IHPC, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). My research interests lies in visual abductive reasoning, video understanding, and multimedia event detection. I have around 20 publications in top-tier journals/conferences including CVPR, IJCAI, ACM Multimedia, IEEE Trans Multimedia. I also serves as a technical program committee (TPC) member for ACM Multimedia 2019/2020, and reviewer for ACM Multimedia 2021/2024, CVPR2021/2022, ICCV2021, ECCV2022/2024, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TMM, ACM TOMM, Neurocomputing, 《中国科学: 信息科学》.

Education

City Univeristy of Hong Kong (CityU-HK)
Ph.D. in Computer Science                       Sept. 2013 - Feb. 2018, Hong Kong, China
Advisor: Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Master in Computer Science                    Sept. 2012 - Jun. 2013, Hong Kong, China
Nanjing University (NJU)
Bachelor in Electronics Engineering      Sept. 2008 - Jun. 2012, Nanjing, China

Experiences

Senior Research Scientist, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Sept. 2022 - Present
Research Scientist, Singapore Management University, Oct. 2021 - Aug. 2022
Advisior: Chong-Wah Ngo
Postdoc Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, Aug. 2019 - Jun. 2021
Advisior: Chong-Wah Ngo
Senior Algorithm Engineer, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Mar. 2018 - Jul. 2019

Selected Publications

(Full list see my [Google Scholar] *Corresponding )

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RCA: Region Conditioned Adaptation for Visual Abductive Reasoning
Hao Zhang*, Yeo Keat Ee, Basura Fernando
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2024 CCF-A)    Codes   

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PointTFA: Training-Free Clustering Adaption of Large 3D Point Cloud Models
Jinmeng Wu, Chong Cao, Hao Zhang*, Basura Fernando, Yanbin Hao, Hanyu Hong
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI, 2024, CCF-A)   

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Long-term Leap Attention, Short-term Periodic Shift for Video Classification
Hao Zhang, Lechao Cheng, Yanbin Hao*, Chong-Wah Ngo
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2022, Oral, CCF-A)      Poster   Code  

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Group Contextualization for Video Recognition
Yanbin Hao, Hao Zhang*, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xiangnan He
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2022, CCF-A)    Poster   Codes   

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Unsupervised Video Hashing with Multi-granularity Contextualization and Multi-structure Preservation
Yanbin Hao, Jingru Duan, Hao Zhang*, Bin Zhu, Pengyuan Zhou, Xiangnan He
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2022, CCF-A)    Poster   Codes   

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Hierarchical Hourglass Convolutional Network for Efficient Video Classification
Yi Tan, Yanbin Hao, Hao Zhang, Shuo Wang, Xiangnan He
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2022, CCF-A)    Poster   Codes   

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Parameterization of Cross-token Relations with Relative Positional Encoding for Vision MLP
Zhicai Wang, Yanbin Hao, Xingyu Gao, Hao Zhang, Shuo Wang, Tingting Mu, Xiangnan He
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2022, CCF-A)    Poster    Codes   

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Token Shift Transformer for Video Classification
Hao Zhang, Yanbin Hao*, Chong-Wah Ngo
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2021, CCF-A)    Poster    Codes   

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Fine-grained Cross-modal Alignment Network for Text-Video Retrieval
Ning Han, Jingjing Chen, Gruangyi Xiao, Hao Zhang, Yawen Zeng, Hao Chen
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2021, Oral, CCF-A)   

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Compact Bilinear Augmented Query Structured Attention for Sport Highlights Classification
Yanbin Hao, Hao Zhang*, Chong-Wah Ngo, Qiang Liu, Xiaojun Hu
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM, 2020, Oral, CCF-A)   

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A Fine Granularity Object-level Representation for Event Detection and Recounting
Hao Zhang, Chong-Wah Ngo
IEEE. Trans on Multimedia (IEEE TMM, 2018, JCR-1)      

Professional Services

Reviewer of Conferences:
2024: NeurIPS, ECCV, ACM Multimedia, BMVC, AAAI (Program Committee Member)
2023: ACM Multimedia, ACM Trans TOMM, BMVC, ICME
2022: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICME, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TMM, ACM Trans TOMM
2021: ACM Multimedia
2020: ACM Multimedia (Technical Program Committee member)
2019: ACM Multimedia (Technical Program Committee member)

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