Xin Tao

Senior Researcher

YouTu X-Lab
Tencent
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Email: [at] gmail


Biography [CV]

I am currently a Senior Researcher in YouTu X-Lab of Tencent, since 2018. Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering Department in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) since 2013. My supervisor is Prof. Jiaya Jia. Before that, I received the B. Eng. degree in Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2013, supervised by Prof. Guangqiang He.

My research interest includes image processing and computer vision.

Publications [Google Scholar]

                  
Ruizheng Wu, Xin Tao, Xiaodong Gu, Xiaoyong Shen, Jiaya Jia, "Attribute-Driven Spontaneous Motion in Unpaired Image Translation" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.

[project][paper]

Hongyun Gao, Xin Tao, Xiaoyong Shen, Jiaya Jia, "Dynamic Scene Deblurring with Parameter Selective Sharing and Nested Skip Connections" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.

[project][paper]

Yi Wang, Xin Tao, Xiaoyong Shen, Jiaya Jia, "Semantic Regeneration Network" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.

[project][paper]

Yi Wang, Xin Tao, Xiaojuan Qi, Xiaoyong Shen, Jiaya Jia, "Image Inpainting via Generative Multi-column Convolutional Neural Networks" Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2018.

[project][arxiv]

Xin Tao, Hongyun Gao, Xiaoyong Shen, Jue Wang, Jiaya Jia, "Scale-recurrent Network for Deep Image Deblurring" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.

[project][paper][arxiv]

Ying-Cong Chen, Huaijia Lin, Michelle Shu, Ruiyu Li, Xin Tao, Xiaoyong Shen, Yangang Ye, Jiaya Jia, "Facelet-Bank for Fast Portrait Manipulation" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.

[project][paper]

Xin Tao, Chao Zhou, Xiaoyong Shen, Jue Wang, Jiaya Jia, "Zero-order Reverse Filtering" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2017.

[project][paper][arxiv]

Xin Tao, Hongyun Gao, Renjie Liao, Jue Wang, Jiaya Jia, "Detail-revealing Deep Video Super-resolution" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (Oral), 2017.

[project][video results][paper][arxiv]

Xiaoyong Shen, Hongyun Gao, Xin Tao, Chao Zhou,Jiaya Jia, "High-Quality Correspondence and Segmentation Estimation for Dual-Lens Smart-Phone Portraits" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2017.

[project][paper]

Xiaoyong Shen, Xin Tao, Chao Zhou, Hongyun Gao, Jiaya Jia, "Regional Foremost Matching for Internet Images" ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2016 (Proc. SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016).

[project][paper]

Xiaoyong Shen, Xin Tao, Hongyun Gao, Chao Zhou, Jiaya Jia, "Deep Automatic Portrait Matting" European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , 2016. (Spotlight Presentation)

[project][paper]

Jianping Shi, Xin Tao, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, "Break Ames Room Illusion: Depth from General Single Images" ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2015 (Proc. SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015).

[project][paper]

Renjie Liao, Xin Tao, Ruiyu Li, Ziyang Ma, Jiaya Jia, "Video Super-Resolution via Deep Draft-Ensemble Learning" IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2015.

[project][paper]

Ziyang Ma, Renjie Liao, Xin Tao, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, Enhua Wu, "Handling Motion Blur in Multi-Frame Super-Resolution" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.

[project][paper]

Li Xu, Xin Tao, Jiaya Jia, "Inverse Kernels for Fast Spatial Deconvolution" European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014.

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Guangqiang He, Taizhi Liu, and Xin Tao, "The multiparty coherent channel and its implementation with linear optics" Optical Express 21(17): 19790-19798, 2013.

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Education Background

Ph.D.
Computer Science and Engineering
August 2013 - September 2018 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Advisor: Jiaya Jia

B. Eng.
Information Engineering | Honored Class (TRC)
January 2011 - January 2013 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Research Experience

Senior Researcher
Youtu Lab | Tencent
November 2018 - present | Shenzhen, China
PhD
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
August 2013 - September 2018 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Advisor: Jiaya Jia

Research Intern
Youtu Lab | Tencent
June 2017 - September 2017 | Shenzhen, China

    Advisor: Yu-Wing Tai

Research Intern
Creative Technologies Lab | Adobe Research
June 2016 - August 2016 | Greater Seattle Area

    Advisor: Jue Wang

Research Assistant
Laboratory of Quantum Nonlinear Photonics (QNP)
January 2011 - January 2013 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Advisor: Guangqiang He

Honors & Awards

CUHK Certificate of Merit for Best Teaching Assistant Award 2014-2015
CUHK Postgraduate Studentship 2013-present
Shanghai outstanding graduates (Top 1%) 2013
National Scholarship (Top 1%) 2011
SJTU Academic Excellence Scholarship: First-class Prize (Top 1%) 2011
Third Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM 2011) 2011
Honorable Mention Prize in Mathematical Contest In Modeling 2011 (MCM 2011) 2011

Professional Activities

Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Transaction on Graphics (TOG)
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
Conference Reviewer
CVPR 2018-2019, ECCV 2018, ICCV 2017, ACCV 2018

Teaching

CSCI3290 Computational Photography 2013-2014 / 2014-2015 / 2015-2016 / 2016-2017 Fall
CSCI1050 Hands-on Introduction to MATLAB 2013-2014 Spring
CSCI5280 Image Processing and Computer Vision 2014-2015 / 2015-2016 Spring