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Intro
- I am a Senior Researcher at ByteDance AI Lab.
- At ByteDance, I lead research programs on developing next-generation robot techniques and systems. I received my Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, advised by Fuchun Sun. During my Ph.D. study, I visited the University of Pennsylvania, working with Jianbo Shi. I also interned at Intel Labs, Microsoft Research Asia and ByteDance. My thesis was nominated as CAAI Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award 2020. My work HyperNet was among the Most Influential CVPR Papers in Google Scholar Metrics 2021, FoveaBox was among ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1%) 2021, and SOLOv2 was recognized as NeurIPS 2020 Key Research Papers.
- We are recruiting interns / full-time researchers and developers in robotics. If you are interested in these positions, please drop me an email.
News
- [04/2022] Our journal extention of SA-AutoAug got accepted by TPAMI!
- [02/2022] Our improved bridge construction work got accepted by ICRA 2022, supporting varying-sized materials with Prioritized Memory Resets!
- [01/2022] iBOT got accepted by ICLR 2022, setting new SOTAs on ImageNet linear acc (82.3%), fine-tuning acc (87.8%), as well as unsupervised ARI (32.8%)!
- [08/2021] Our journal extention of SOLO got accepted by TPAMI!
- [08/2021] ICM-3D got accepted to RA-L, about 3D point clouds segmentation.
- [07/2021] Two papers are accepted to IROS 2021, about 6-DoF grasp pose estimation and autonomous assembly.
- [03/2021] Four papers are accepted to CVPR 2021, and DenseCL is selected as the Oral presentation!
- [01/2021] Organizing a tutorial Recent Progress on Visual Object Detection and Segmentation at ICIP 2021.
Selected Publications
(*Interns at ByteDance)-
Scale-aware Automatic Augmentations for Object Detection with Dynamic Training
Yukang Chen*, Peizhen Zhang, Tao Kong, Yanwei Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Lu Qi, Jian Sun and Jiaya Jia
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2022. [Code]
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Learning Design and Construction with Varying-Sized Materials via Prioritized Memory Resets
Yunfei Li*, Tao Kong, Lei Li and Yi Wu
ICRA 2022. [Paper][Project][Code]
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iBOT: Image BERT Pre-Training with Online Tokenizer
Jinghao Zhou*, Chen Wei, Huiyu Wang, Wei Shen, Cihang Xie, Alan Yuille and Tao Kong
ICLR 2022. [Paper][Code]
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Mask Encoding: A General Instance Mask Representation for Object Segmentation
Rufeng Zhang*, Tao Kong, Xinlong Wang*, Mingyu You
Pattern Recognition 2021. [Paper][Code]
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SOLO: A Simple Framework for Instance Segmentation
Xinlong Wang*, Rufeng Zhang*, Chunhua Shen, Tao Kong and Lei Li
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2021. [Paper][Code]
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ICM-3D: Instantiated Category Modeling for 3D Instance Segmentation
Ruihang Chu*, Yukang Chen*, Tao Kong, Lu Qi and Lei Li
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2021. [Paper]
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Learning to Design and Construct Bridge without Blueprint
Yunfei Li*, Tao Kong, Lei Li, Yifeng Li and Yi Wu
IROS 2021. (Oral) [Paper]
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Simultaneous Semantic and Collision Learning for 6-DoF Grasp Pose Estimation
Yiming Li*, Tao Kong, Ruihang Chu*, Yifeng Li, Peng Wang and Lei Li
IROS 2021. (Oral) [Paper]
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Dense Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Visual Pre-Training
Xinlong Wang*, Rufeng Zhang*, Chunhua Shen, Tao Kong and Lei Li
CVPR 2021. (Oral) [Paper][Code]
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Scale-aware Automatic Augmentation for Object Detection
Yukang Chen*, Yanwei Li, Tao Kong, Lu Qi, Ruihang Chu*, Lei Li and Jiaya Jia
CVPR 2021. [Paper][Code]
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SOLOv2: Dynamic and Fast Instance Segmentation
Xinlong Wang*, Rufeng Zhang*, Tao Kong, Lei Li and Chunhua Shen
NeurIPS 2020. [Paper][Code]
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SOLO: Segmenting Objects by Locations
Xinlong Wang*, Tao Kong, Chunhua Shen, Yuning Jiang and Lei Li
ECCV 2020. [Project][Paper][Code]
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FoveaBox: Beyond Anchor-based Object Detector
Tao Kong, Fuchun Sun, Huaping Liu, Yuning Jiang, Lei Li, Jianbo Shi
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing 2020. [Project][Paper][Code]
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Feature Pyramid Reconfiguration with Consistent Loss for Object Detection
Tao Kong, Fuchun Sun, Wenbing Huang, Chuanqi Tan, Bin Fang, Huaping Liu
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing 2019. [Paper]
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Deep Feature Pyramid Reconfiguration for Object Detection
Tao Kong, Fuchun Sun, Chuanqi Tan, Huaping Liu, Wenbing Huang
ECCV 2018. [Paper][Poster]
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RON: Reverse Connection with Objectness Prior Networks for Object Detection
Tao Kong, Fuchun Sun, Anbang Yao, Huaping Liu, Yurong Chen, Ming Lu
CVPR 2017. [Paper][Code]
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HyperNet: Towards Accurate Region Proposal Generation and Joint Object Detection
Tao Kong, Anbang Yao, Yurong Chen, Fuchun Sun
CVPR 2016. (Spotlight) [Paper]
Honors & Awards
- CAAI Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award, 2020
- Outstanding Graduate Award, 2019
- CSC Scholarship, 2018
- The 1st place of IROS Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition, 2016
- Intel Division Recognition Award, 2016
- Outstanding Graduate Award, 2014
- The CCF Outstanding Undergraduate Award, 2013
- IBM Excellence Scholarship, 2013
- Young Science Award, 2013
- National Scholarship, 2012/2013
Last update: April, 2022