Heng Fan
University of North Texas
Computer Science and Engineering
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Education

PhD, Stony Brook University, 2021.
Major: Computer Science
Dissertation Title: Algorithms and Benchmarks for Robust Visual Object Tracking

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 3110, Data Structures and Algorithms, 2 courses.
CSCE 5218, Deep Learning, 3 courses.
CSCE 5900, Special Problems, 3 courses.
CSCE 5934, Directed Study, 1 course.
CSCE 6280, Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 1 course.
CSCE 6940, Individual Research, 5 courses.
CSCE 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 3 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding
Wang, H., Yu, Y., Luo, T., Fan, H., Zhang, L. (2024). MaGIC: Multi-modality Guided Image Completion. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
Yadav, S., Le, T., Dong, S., Fan, H., Yang, Q., Qiu, C., Li, X., Huang, Y. A New Simulation Platform For Learning-Empowered Distributed Sensing. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2024.
Feng, Y., Meng, Z., Clemmer, C., Fan, H., Huang, Y. (2023). A Multi-granularity Decade-Long Geo-Tagged Twitter Dataset for Spatial Computing. ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL).
Shen, Y., Gu, X., Xu, K., Fan, H., Wen, ., Zhang, L. (2023). Accurate and Fast Compressed Video Captioning. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
Liu, X., Liu, X., Yi, Z., Zhou, X., Le, T., Zhang, L., Huang, Y., Yang, Q., Fan, H. (2023). PlanarTrack: A Large-scale Challenging Benchmark for Planar Object Tracking. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
Liu, X., Lin, Y., Yang, Q., Fan, H. (2023). Transferable Adversarial Attack on 3D Object Tracking in Point Cloud. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM).
Gu, B., Fan, H., Zhang, L. (2023). Two Birds, One Stone: A Unified Framework for Joint Learning of Image and Video Style Transfers. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
Zhou, W., Fan, H., Luo, T., Zhang, L. (2023). Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Detection with Network Stability Analysis. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
Yi, Z., Blanco, E., Fan, H., Albert, M. (2022). BAPO: A Large-Scale Multimodal Corpus for Ball Possession Prediction in American Football Games. IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR).
Guo, M., Zhang, ., Fan, H., Jing, L. (2022). Divert More Attention to Vision-Language Tracking. Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Yu, Y., Zhang, L., Fan, H., Luo, T. (2022). High-Fidelity Image Inpainting with GAN Inversion. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
Guo, M., Zhang, Z., Fan, H., Jing, L., Lyu, Y., Li, B., Hu, W. (2022). Learning Target-aware Representation for Visual Tracking via Informative Interactions. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
Lin, L., Fan, H., Zhang, Z., Xu, Y., Ling, H. (2022). SwinTrack: A Simple and Strong Baseline for Transformer Tracking. Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Fan, H., Ling, H. (2021). CRACT: Cascaded Regression-Align-Classification for Robust Tracking. 7013-7020. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Fan, H., Ling, H. (2021). MART: Motion-Aware Recurrent Neural Network for Robust Visual Tracking. 566-575. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
Singh, Y., Atulkar, V., Ren, J., Yang, J., Fan, H., Latecki, L., Ling, H. (2021). Osteoporosis Prescreening and Bone Mineral Density Prediction using Dental Panoramic Radiographs. 2700-2703. IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC).
Fan, H., Yang, F., Chu, P., Lin, Y., Yuan, L., Ling, H. (2021). TracKlinic: Diagnosis of Challenge Factors in Visual Tracking. 970-979. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
Fan, H., Miththanthaya, H., Rajan, S., Liu, X., Zou, Z., Lin, Y., Ling, H. (2021). Transparent Object Tracking Benchmark. 10734-10743. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
Journal Article
Shen, J., Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Zuo, X., Fan, H., Yang, W. (2024). ICAFusion: Iterative Cross-Attention Guided Feature Fusion for Multispectral Object Detection. Pattern Recognition.
Shen, J., Guo, T., Zuo, X., Fan, H., Yang, W. (2024). SSPNet: Scale and Spatial Priors Guided Generalizable and Interpretable Pedestrian Attribute Recognition. Pattern Recognition.
Zhang, L., Jiang, L., Ji, R., Fan, H. (2023). PIDray: A Large-scale X-ray Benchmark for Real-World Prohibited Item Detection. International Journal of Computer Vision.
Zhang, L., Gao, J., Xiao, Z., Fan, H. (2023). AnimalTrack: A Benchmark for Multi-Animal Tracking in the Wild. International Journal of Computer Vision. 131, 496–513.
Wang, H., Zhang, L., Fan, H., Luo, T. (2023). Collaborative three-stream transformers for video captioning. Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
Liu, Y., Fan, H., Yuan, X., Xiang, J. (2022). GL-GAN: Adaptive Global and Local Bilevel Optimization for Generative Adversarial Network. Pattern Recognition. 123, 108375--1.
Zhou, Q., Wang, R., Zeng, G., Fan, H., Zheng, G. (2022). Towards bridging the distribution gap: Instance to Prototype Earth Mover’s Distance for distribution alignment. 82, 102607. Medical Image Analysis.
Zhu, P., Wen, L., Du, D., Bian, X., Fan, H., Hu, Q., Ling, H. (2022). Detection and Tracking Meet Drones Challenge. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 44(11), 7380-7399.
Liu, Y., Fan, H., Ni, F., Xiang, J. (2021). ClsGAN: Selective Attribute Editing Model based on Classification Adversarial Network. Neural Networks. 133, 220-228.
Fan, H., Bai, H., Lin, L., Yang, F., Chu, P., Deng, G., Yu, S., H., Huang, M., Liu, J., Xu, Y., Liao, C., Yuan, L., Ling, H. (2021). LaSOT: A High-quality Large-scale Single Object Tracking Benchmark. International Journal of Computer Vision. 129, 439–461.
Jia, J., Elezovikj, S., Fan, H., Yang, S., Liu, J., Guo, W., Tan, C., Ling, H. (2021). Semantic-Aware Label Placement for Augmented Reality in Street View. The Visual Computer. 37, 1805-1819.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Fan, H. (Principal), "Cooperative Perception for Connected Vehicles," Sponsored by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, International, $60000 Funded. (August 2023 – August 2024).
Huang, Y. (Principal), Li, X. (Co-Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Fan, H. (Co-Principal), Qiu, C. (Co-Principal), Wei, Y. (Co-Principal), Baba, A. I. (Supporting), "Learning Empowered Distributed Sensing," Sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $2069324 Funded. (March 16, 2023 – March 15, 2024).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (2023 – 2024).

Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (2021 – 2023).

Professional Service

Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024. (2023 – Present).

Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies. (2024 – 2024).

Editor, Guest Editor, ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems. (2023 – 2024).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT). (2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM). (2023 – 2023).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE/CVF ICCV 2023. (2023 – 2023).

Area Chair, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024. (2023 – 2023).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE/CVF CVPR 2023. (2022 – 2023).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM). (2022 – 2022).

Area Chair, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2023. (2022).

Reviewer, Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). (2022 – 2022).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE CVPR 2022. (2021 – 2022).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). (2021 – 2022).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, AAAI 2022. (2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). (2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT). (2021).

Other, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2022. (2021).