Kuan-Chuan Peng

Kuan-Chuan Peng
  • Biography

    Before joining MERL, he was a Research Scientist (2016-2018) and Staff Scientist (2019) at Siemens Corporate Technology. His PhD research focuses on solving abstract tasks in computer vision using convolutional neural networks. In addition to his PhD, he received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and an MS degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2009 and 2012 respectively. His research interests include incremental learning, developing practical solutions given biased or scarce data, and fundamental computer vision and machine learning problems.

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  • Research Highlights

  • MERL Publications

    •  Aich, A., Peng, K.-C., Roy-Chowdhury, A.K., "Cross-Domain Video Anomaly Detection without Target Domain Adaptation", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Crandall, D. and Gong, B. and Lee, Y. J. and Souvenir, R. and Yu, S., Eds., DOI: 10.1109/​WACV56688.2023.00261, January 2023, pp. 2578-2590.
      BibTeX TR2023-001 PDF Video Presentation
      • @inproceedings{Aich2023jan,
      • author = {Aich, Abhishek and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Roy-Chowdhury, Amit K.},
      • title = {Cross-Domain Video Anomaly Detection without Target Domain Adaptation},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
      • year = 2023,
      • editor = {Crandall, D. and Gong, B. and Lee, Y. J. and Souvenir, R. and Yu, S.},
      • pages = {2578--2590},
      • month = jan,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/WACV56688.2023.00261},
      • issn = {2642-9381},
      • isbn = {978-1-6654-9346-8},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-001}
      • }
    •  Cherian, A., Peng, K.-C., Lohit, S., Smith, K., Tenenbaum, J.B., "Are Deep Neural Networks SMARTer than Second Graders?", arXiv, December 2022.
      BibTeX arXiv
      • @inproceedings{Cherian2022dec,
      • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Lohit, Suhas and Smith, Kevin and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.},
      • title = {Are Deep Neural Networks SMARTer than Second Graders?},
      • booktitle = {arXiv},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = dec,
      • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09993}
      • }
    •  Ahmed, S.M., Lohit, S., Peng, K.-C., Jones, M.J., Roy Chowdhury, A.K., "Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer Without Task-Relevant Source Data", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Avidan, S and Brostow, G and Cisse M and Farinella, G.M. and Hassner T., Eds., DOI: 10.1007/​978-3-031-19830-4_7, October 2022, pp. 111-127.
      BibTeX TR2022-135 PDF Video Software Presentation
      • @inproceedings{Ahmed2022oct,
      • author = {Ahmed, Sk Miraj and Lohit, Suhas and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Jones, Michael J. and Roy Chowdhury, Amit K},
      • title = {Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer Without Task-Relevant Source Data},
      • booktitle = {Computer Vision--ECCV 2022: 17th European Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23--27, 2022, Proceedings, Part XXXIV},
      • year = 2022,
      • editor = {Avidan, S and Brostow, G and Cisse M and Farinella, G.M. and Hassner T.},
      • pages = {111--127},
      • month = oct,
      • publisher = {Springer},
      • doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-19830-4_7},
      • isbn = {978-3-031-19830-4},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-135}
      • }
    •  Peng, K.-C., "Iterative Self Knowledge Distillation --- From Pothole Classification To Fine-Grained And COVID Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Gan, W.-S. and Ma, K. K., Eds., DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP43922.2022.9746470, April 2022, pp. 3139-3143.
      BibTeX TR2022-020 PDF Video Presentation
      • @inproceedings{Peng2022apr,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan},
      • title = {Iterative Self Knowledge Distillation --- From Pothole Classification To Fine-Grained And COVID Recognition},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2022,
      • editor = {Gan, W.-S. and Ma, K. K.},
      • pages = {3139--3143},
      • month = apr,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9746470},
      • issn = {1520-6149},
      • isbn = {978-1-6654-0541-6},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-020}
      • }
    •  Ke, L., Peng, K.-C., Lyu, S., "Towards To-a-T Spatio-Temporal Focus for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-015 PDF Presentation
      • @inproceedings{Ke2022feb,
      • author = {Ke, Lipeng and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Lyu, Siwei},
      • title = {Towards To-a-T Spatio-Temporal Focus for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition},
      • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = feb,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-015}
      • }
  • Other Publications

    •  Prithviraj Dhar, Rajat Vikram Singh, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Ziyan Wu and Rama Chellappa, "Learning without Memorizing", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Dhar_CVPR19,
      • author = {Dhar, Prithviraj and Singh, Rajat Vikram and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Wu, Ziyan and Chellappa, Rama},
      • title = {Learning without Memorizing},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      • year = 2019
      • }
    •  Kunpeng Li, Ziyan Wu, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jan Ernst and Yun Fu, "Guided Attention Inference Network", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2019.
      BibTeX
      • @Article{Li_TPAMI19,
      • author = {Li, Kunpeng and Wu, Ziyan and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Ernst, Jan and Fu, Yun},
      • title = {Guided Attention Inference Network},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)},
      • year = 2019,
      • publisher = {IEEE}
      • }
    •  Lezi Wang, Ziyan Wu, Srikrishna Karanam, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Rajat Vikram Singh, Bo Liu and Dimitris N. Metaxas, "Sharpen Focus: Learning with Attention Separability and Consistency", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Wang_ICCV19,
      • author = {Wang, Lezi and Wu, Ziyan and Karanam, Srikrishna and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Singh, Rajat Vikram and Liu, Bo and Metaxas, Dimitris N.},
      • title = {Sharpen Focus: Learning with Attention Separability and Consistency},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
      • year = 2019
      • }
    •  Yunye Gong, Srikrishna Karanam, Ziyan Wu, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jan Ernst and Peter C. Doerschuk, "Learning Compositional Visual Concepts with Mutual Consistency", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Gong_CVPR18,
      • author = {Gong, Yunye and Karanam, Srikrishna and Wu, Ziyan and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Ernst, Jan and Doerschuk, Peter C.},
      • title = {Learning Compositional Visual Concepts with Mutual Consistency},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      • year = 2018
      • }
    •  Kunpeng Li, Ziyan Wu, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jan Ernst and Yun Fu, "Tell Me Where to Look: Guided Attention Inference Network", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Li_CVPR18,
      • author = {Li, Kunpeng and Wu, Ziyan and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Ernst, Jan and Fu, Yun},
      • title = {Tell Me Where to Look: Guided Attention Inference Network},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      • year = 2018
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng, Ziyan Wu and Jan Ernst, "Zero-Shot Deep Domain Adaptation", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_ECCV18,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Wu, Ziyan and Ernst, Jan},
      • title = {Zero-Shot Deep Domain Adaptation},
      • booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
      • year = 2018
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng, Tsuhan Chen, Amir Sadovnik and Andrew C. Gallagher, "Where Do Emotions Come from? Predicting the Emotion Stimuli Map", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2016.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_ICIP16,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chen, Tsuhan and Sadovnik, Amir and Gallagher, Andrew C.},
      • title = {Where Do Emotions Come from? Predicting the Emotion Stimuli Map},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      • year = 2016
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng and Tsuhan Chen, "Toward Correlating and Solving Abstract Tasks Using Convolutional Neural Networks", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_WACV16,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chen, Tsuhan},
      • title = {Toward Correlating and Solving Abstract Tasks Using Convolutional Neural Networks},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
      • year = 2016
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng, Tsuhan Chen, Amir Sadovnik and Andrew C. Gallagher, "A Mixed Bag of Emotions: Model, Predict, and Transfer Emotion Distributions", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_CVPR15,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chen, Tsuhan and Sadovnik, Amir and Gallagher, Andrew C.},
      • title = {A Mixed Bag of Emotions: Model, Predict, and Transfer Emotion Distributions},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      • year = 2015
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng and Tsuhan Chen, "Cross-layer Features in Convolutional Neural Networks for Generic Classification Tasks", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_ICIP15,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chen, Tsuhan},
      • title = {Cross-layer Features in Convolutional Neural Networks for Generic Classification Tasks},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      • year = 2015
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng and Tsuhan Chen, "A Framework of Extracting Multi-scale Features Using Multiple Convolutional Neural Network", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_ICME15,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chen, Tsuhan},
      • title = {A Framework of Extracting Multi-scale Features Using Multiple Convolutional Neural Network},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)},
      • year = 2015
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Tsuhan Chen, Dongqing Zhang and Hong Heather Yu, "A Framework of Changing Image Emotion Using Emotion Prediction", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2014.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_ICIP14,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Karlsson, Kolbeinn and Chen, Tsuhan and Zhang, Dongqing and Yu, Hong Heather},
      • title = {A Framework of Changing Image Emotion Using Emotion Prediction},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      • year = 2014
      • }
    •  Kuan-Chuan Peng and Tsuhan Chen, "Incorporating Cloud Distribution in Sky Representation", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{Peng_ICCV13,
      • author = {Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chen, Tsuhan},
      • title = {Incorporating Cloud Distribution in Sky Representation},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
      • year = 2013
      • }
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