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Enze Xie (谢恩泽)

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I am currently a senior researcher and research lead (in Generative AI) at AI Theory Lab of Huawei Noah's Ark Lab (Hong Kong). I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong in 2022. My advisor is Prof. Ping Luo and my co-advisor is Prof. Wenping Wang. I also work very close with my friend Wenhai Wang. I was fortunate to work with Prof. Chunhua Shen, Prof. Anima Anandkumar, and Prof. Sanja Fidler, During my PhD study, I collaborated with several researchers in industry e.g. Facebook (Meta) and NVIDIA.
I worked for a period of time at a small yet specialized quant trading firm, developing Transformer-based futures forecasting models.

My research interest is solving challenging problems in computer vision and machine learning. I did some works on instance-level detection and self/semi/weak-supervised learning. I developed a few well-known computer vision algorithms including:

PolarMask (Rank 10 in CVPR 2020 Top-10 Influential Papers).

PVT (Rank 2 in ICCV 2021 Top-10 Influential Papers).

SegFormer (Rank 3 in NeurIPS 2021 Top-10 Influential Papers).

BEVFormer (Rank 6 in ECCV 2022 Top-10 Influential Papers).

I co-developed OpenSelfSup (now mmselfsup), a popular self-supervised learning framework with 2k+ github star.

In 2023, I lead or participate in the following research topics:

AIGC, e.g. Diffusion Models in 2D/3D/Video
Large Language Models (LLMs), e.g. AI4Math, Automated Mathematical Theorem Proving
Autonomous Driving, e.g. 3D perception & prediction

Always looking for research interns with strong CV/ML background, feel free to shoot an email if interested.
We also have several positions for joint PhD programs with CUHK/HKUST and RAs, feel free to contact!

News

[2024.01] 6 papers accepted to ICLR 2023 (1 Oral, 1 Spotlight) and 1 paper accepted to CVPR 2024.

[2023.11] 1 survey paper accepted to TPAMI.

[2023.09] 4 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2023.

[2023.07] 5 papers accepted to ICCV 2023 (2 Oral) and 1 paper accepted to TPAMI.

[2023.05] 1 paper accepted to ACL 2023.

[2022.08] Obtained my Ph.D. degree from HKU and join Huawei Noah's Ark Lab.

[2019.10] Join HKU MMLab as a PhD student and play computer vision.

Publications

For the latest, check Google Scholar
(* indicates equal contribution)

Selected Papers

SegFormer: Simple and Efficient Design for Semantic Segmentation with Transformers

Enze Xie, Wenhai Wang, Zhiding Yu, Anima Anandkuma, Jose M. Alvarez, Ping Luo
NeurIPS 2021 [paper] [code] [中文解读] [demo] [NeurIPS 2021 Top-10 Influential Papers]
NVIDIA's first Vision Transformer work and transferred to several product teams.

DetCo: Unsupervised Contrastive Learning for Object Detection

Enze Xie*, Jian Ding*, Wenhai Wang, Xiaohang Zhan, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo
ICCV 2021 [paper] [code]
We introduce a detection-friendly unsupervised pre-training solution using large-scale unlabeled data.

PVTv2: Improved Baselines with Pyramid Vision Transformer

Wenhai Wang, Enze Xie, Xiang Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Kaitao Song, Ding Liang, Tong Lu, Ping Luo, Ling Shao
Tech report, arXiv [paper] [code] [ESI highly cited paper (1%), ESI hot papers (0.1%)]
A better version of PVT.

Pyramid Vision Transformer: A Versatile Backbone for Dense Prediction without Convolutions

Wenhai Wang, Enze Xie, Xiang Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Kaitao Song, Ding Liang, Tong Lu, Ping Luo, Ling Shao
ICCV 2021 (Oral) [paper] [code] [ICCV 2021 Top-10 Influential Papers]
The first work to extend Vision Transformer for object detection and segmentation.

PolarMask: Single Shot Instance Segmentation with Polar Representation

Enze Xie*, Peize Sun*, Xiaoge Song*, Wenhai Wang, Ding Liang, Chunhua Shen, Ping Luo
CVPR 2020 (Oral) [paper] [code] [中文解读] [talk] [CVPR20 Top-10 Influential Papers]
We introduced a new Polar Representation to reformulate instance segmentation.

PolarMask++: Enhanced Polar Representation for Single-Shot Instance Segmentation and Beyond

Enze Xie*, Wenhai Wang*, Mingyu Ding, Ruimao Zhang, Ping Luo
TPAMI 2021 [paper] [code]
We extend PolarMask(CVPR'20) to several instance-level detection tasks.

PAN++: Towards Efficient and Accurate End-to-End Spotting of Arbitrarily-Shaped Text

Wenhai Wang*, Enze Xie*, Xiang Li, Xuebo Liu, Ding Liang, Zhibo Yang, Tong Lu, Chunhua Shen
TPAMI 2021 [paper] [code]
We extend PSENet (CVPR'19) and PAN (ICCV'19) to a text spotting system.

Other Papers

Fast-BEV: Towards Real-time On-vehicle Bird’s-Eye View Perception

Bin Huang*, Yangguang Li*, Enze Xie*, Feng Liang*, Luya Wang, Mingzhu Shen, Fenggang Liu, Tianqi Wang, Ping Luo, Jing Shao
NeurIPS 2022 ML4AD workshop [paper] [code]

BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers

Zhiqi Li, Wenhai Wang, Hongyang Li, Enze Xie, Chonghao Sima, Tong Lu, Qiao Yu, Jifeng Dai
ECCV 2022 [paper] [code]

Understanding The Robustness in Vision Transformers

Daquan Zhou, Zhiding Yu, Enze Xie,Chaowei Xiao, Anima Anandkumar, Jiashi Feng, Jose M. Alvarez
ICML 2022 (Spotlight) [paper] [code]

Improving Monocular Visual Odometry Using Learned Depth

Libo Sun, Wei Yin, Enze Xie, Zhengrong Li, Changming Sun, Chunhua Shen
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022 [paper]

Deeply Unsupervised Patch Re-Identification for Pre-training Object Detectors

Jian Ding*, Enze Xie*, Hang Xu, Chenhan Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo, Gui-Song Xia
TPAMI 2022 [paper] [code]

Panoptic SegFormer: Delving Deeper into Panoptic Segmentation with Transformers

Zhiqi Li, Wenhai Wang, Enze Xie, Zhiding Yu, Anima Anandkumar, Jose M. Alvarez, Tong Lu, Ping Luo
CVPR 2022 [paper] [code]

CycleMLP: A MLP-like Architecture for Dense Prediction

Shoufa Chen, Enze Xie, Chongjian Ge, Runjian Chen, Ding Liang, Ping Luo
ICLR 2022 (Oral) [paper] [code]

Towards Ultra-Resolution Neural Style Transfer via Thumbnail Instance Normalization

Zhe Chen, Wenhai Wang, Enze Xie, Tong Lu, Ping Luo
AAAI 2022 [paper] [code]

Watch Only Once: An End-to-End Video Action Detection Framework

Shoufa Chen, Peize Sun, Enze Xie, Chongjian Ge, Jiannan Wu, Lan Ma, Jiajun Shen, Ping Luo
ICCV 2021 [paper] [code]

What Makes for End-to-End Object Detection?

Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Enze Xie, Wenqi Shao, Zehuan Yuan, Changhu Wang, Ping Luo
ICML 2021 [paper] [code]

Segmenting Transparent Objects in the Wild with Transformer

Enze Xie, Wenjia Wang, Wenhai Wang, Peize Sun, Hang Xu, Ding Liang, Ping Luo
IJCAI 2021 [paper] [code & dataset]

Segmenting Transparent Objects in the Wild

Enze Xie, Wenjia Wang, Wenhai Wang, Mingyu Ding, Chunhua Shen, Ping Luo
ECCV 2020 [paper] [code & dataset]

Scene Text Image Super-Resolution in the Wild

Wenjia Wang*, Enze Xie*, Xuebo Liu, Wenhai Wang, Ding Liang, Chunhua Shen, Xiang Bai
ECCV 2020 [paper] [code & dataset]

Differentiable Hierarchical Graph Grouping for Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Sheng Jin, Wentao Liu, Enze Xie, Wenhai Wang, Chen Qian, Wanli Ouyang, Ping Luo
ECCV 2020 [paper]

AE TextSpotter: Learning Visual and Linguistic Representation for Ambiguous Text Spotting

Wenhai Wang, Xuebo Liu, Xiaozhong Ji, Enze Xie, Ding Liang, ZhiBo Yang, Tong Lu, Chunhua Shen, Ping Luo
ECCV 2020 [paper] [Project Web]

Efficient and Accurate Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection with Pixel Aggregation Network

Wenhai Wang*, Enze Xie*, Xiaoge Song, Yuhang Zang, Wenjia Wang, Tong Lu, Gang Yu, Chunhua Shen
ICCV 2019 [paper] [code]

Shape Robust Text Detection with Progressive Scale Expansion Network

Wenhai Wang*, Enze Xie*, Xiang Li, Wenbo Hou, Tong Lu, Gang Yu, Shuai Shao
CVPR 2019 [paper] [code]

Scene Text Detection with Supervised Pyramid Context Network

Enze Xie*, Yuhang Zang*, Shuai Shao, Gang Yu, Cong Yao, Guangyao Li
AAAI 2019 [paper]

Technical Report

M^2BEV: Multi-Camera Joint 3D Detection and Segmentation with Unified Bird’s-Eye View Representation

Enze Xie, Zhiding Yu, Daquan Zhou, Jonah Philion, Anima Anandkumar, Sanja Fidler, Ping Luo, Jose M. Alvarez
Tech report, arXiv [paper] [project page]

TransTrack: Multiple-Object Tracking with Transformer

Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Rufeng Zhang, Enze Xie, Jinkun Cao, Xinting Hu, Tao Kong, Zehuan Yuan, Changhu Wang, Ping Luo
Tech report, arXiv [paper] [code]

OneNet: Towards End-to-End One-Stage Object Detection

Peize Sun, Yi Jiang, Enze Xie, Zehuan Yuan, Changhu Wang, Ping Luo
Tech report, arXiv [paper] [code]

SelfText Beyond Polygon: Unconstrained Text Detection with Box Supervision and Dynamic Self-Training

Weijia Wu*, Enze Xie* , Ruimao Zhang, Wenhai Wang, Guan Pang, Zhen Li, Hong Zhou, Ping Luo
Tech report, arXiv [paper] [code]

1st Place Solutions for OpenImage2019--Object Detection and Instance Segmentation

Yu Liu, Guanglu Song, Yuhang Zang, Yan Gao, Enze Xie, Junjie Yan, Chen Change Loy, Xiaogang Wang
Tech report, arXiv [paper]

TextSR: Content-Aware Text Super-Resolution Guided by Recognition

Wenjia Wang*, Enze Xie*, Peize Sun, Wenhai Wang, Lixun Tian, Chunhua Shen, Ping Luo
Tech report, arXiv [paper] [code]
Improved version has been accepted by ECCV2020

Academic Service

Organizer for T4V: Transformers for Vision Workshop at CVPR 2022

Journal Reviewer for TPAMI, IJCV, RA-L, T-MM

Conference Reviewer for ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IROS, IJCAI, AAAI, WACV, ACCV

SPC for IJCAI21,22

Honours and Awards

Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2023 by Stanford University

2023

WAIC Youth Outstanding Paper (10 papers selected)

2023