News


7 July 2023
I was awarded the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Academic Year 2023/2024.

4 July 2023
I was awarded the AY2023-24 School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) Dean’s List.

14 April 2023
I passed the Dissertation Proposal.

28 February 2023
Our full paper Extracting Class Activation Maps from Non-Discriminative Features as well is accepted by CVPR 2023.

8 July 2022
I was awarded the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Academic Year 2022/2023.

2 March 2022
Our full paper Class Re-Activation Maps for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation is accepted by CVPR 2022.

20 April 2021
I passed the Qualifying Examination.

5 August 2019
I was admitted into Ph.D. in Computer Science programme as a full-time student commencing in January 2020, Singapore Management University .

Zhaozheng Chen 

Algorithm Engineer @ Huawei

zhaozhengcc@gmail.com
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Zhaozheng Chen is an Algorithm Engineer at Huawei Singapore Research Center. Before that, he is a Research Scientist in Singapore Management University. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science at Singapore Management University in December 2023. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning.

Education

Singapore Management University
Ph.D. in Computer Science        January 2020 - December 2023
Advisor: Prof. Qianru Sun
Shandong University
Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology   September 2015 - June 2019
Advisor: Prof. Liqiang Nie

Work Experiences

Algorithm Engineer  Huawei Singapore Research Center  September 2024 - present
Research Scientist  Singapore Management University  January 2024 - August 2024
Advisior: Prof. Qianru Sun
Intern Student     YouTu Lab, Tencent  October 2018 - January 2019
Advisior: Dr. Xiaoyong Shen

Publications



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Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation with image-level labels: from traditional models to foundation models
Zhaozheng Chen, Qianru Sun
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2024.

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Learning De-Biased Representations for Remote-Sensing Imagery
Zichen Tian, Zhaozheng Chen, Qianru Sun
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

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Extracting Class Activation Maps from Non-Discriminative Features as well
Zhaozheng Chen, Qianru Sun
The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.

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Class Re-Activation Maps for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Zhaozheng Chen, Tan Wang, Xiongwei Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua, Hanwang Zhang, Qianru Sun
The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.

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Meta-Transfer Learning through Hard Tasks
Qianru Sun*, Yaoyao Liu*, Zhaozheng Chen, Tat-Seng Chua, Bernt Schiele (*=Equal contribution)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020.

Professional Services

Invited Reviewer for BMVC 2023, 2024

Invited Reviewer for ICCV 2023

Invited Reviewer for ECCV 2024

Invited Reviewer for IJCAI 2023, 2024

Invited Reviewer for CVPR 2023, 2024

Invited Reviewer for IJCV

Invited Reviewer for IEEE TPAMI, TKDE, TMM, TCSVT, TNNLS

Teaching Assistant

CS 701, Deep Learning and Vision, Fall 2022

CS 701, Deep Learning and Vision, Fall 2021

Honors

SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, July. 2023

SMU SCIS Dean's List, July. 2023

SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, July. 2022

Bronze Medal, The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Nanning Site, Nov. 2017

National Scholarship for Encouragement, Ministry of Education of P.R.China, Sep. 2017

Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest In Modeling, Feb. 2017

Outstanding Student of Shandong University, Sep. 2016

The First Prize Scholarship of Shandong University, Sep. 2016


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