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Heng Fan

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Heng.Fan@unt.edu

Education

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

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 2900 - Special Problems in Computer Science and Engineering, 1 course.
  • CSCE 3110 - Data Structures and Algorithms, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 5218 - Deep Learning, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 5900 - Special Problems, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5934 - Directed Study, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 6280 - Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 6940 - Individual Research, 6 courses.
  • CSCE 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 4 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Li, Y., Li, Q., Wang, H., Ma, X., Yao, J., Dong, S., Fan, H., Zhang, L. (2024). Beyond MOT: Semantic Multi-object Tracking. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
  • Gu, X., Fan, H., Huang, Y., Luo, T., Zhang, L. (2024). Context-Guided Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • Zheng, J., Fan, H., Zhang, L. (2024). Kernel Adaptive Convolution for Scene Text Detection via Distance Map Prediction. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • Lu, Y., Liu, D., Wang, Q., Han, C., Cui, Y., Cao, Z., Zhang, X., Chen, Y., Fan, H. (2024). ProMotion: Prototypes As Motion Learners. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • Lin, L., Fan, H., Zhang, Z., Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Ling, H. (2024). Tracking Meets LoRA: Faster Training, Larger Model, Stronger Performance. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
  • 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, L., 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, Z., 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

  • Zuo, X., Qi, C., Chen, Y., Shen, J., Fan, H., Yang, W. (2024). Learnable Cross-Scale Sparse Attention Guided Feature Fusion for UAV Object Detection. IEEE Access. 12 114212-114226.
  • 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. 145 109913.
  • Zhang, L., Gu, X., Li, C., Luo, T., Fan, H. (2024). Local Compressed Video Stream Learning for Generic Event Boundary Detection. International Journal of Computer Vision. 132 1187–1204.
  • 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. 148 110194.
  • 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. 131 3170–3192.
  • 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. 235 103799. 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, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • 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), "Intelligent Distributed Sensing," sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $902266 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Fan, H. (Principal), "Cooperative Perception for Connected Vehicles," sponsored by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, International, $60000 Funded. (2023 - 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. (2023 - 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 (Area Chair), IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2022. (2021).