CV
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 2025 (expected)
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 2020
- B.S. in Computer Science, HUazhong University of Science and Technology, 2017
Publications
- Libo Long, Xiao Hu, Jochen Lang. “Robustness Analysis: Are Optical Flow Methods Safe to Use? “. Accepted by Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025.
- Xiao Hu, Libo Long, Jochen Lang. “Motion Decoupled 3D Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Object Representation”. Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025.
- Libo Long, Xiao Hu, Jochen Lang. “Learning to Handle Large Obstructions in Video Frame Interpolation”. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2024.
- Xiao Hu, Basavaraj Hampiholi, Heiko Neumann, Jochen Lang. “Temporal Context Enhanced Referring Video Object Segmentation”. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024.
- Xiao Hu,Jochen Lang. “DOE-SLAM: Dynamic Object Enhanced Visual SLAM”. Sensors 2021, 21(9), 3091.
Work experience
- Research Assistant Spet 2020-Present
- University of Ottawa
- Computer Vision, 4D Reconstruction, SLAM under dynamic environment, RVOS.
- Computer Vision Research Intern Spet 2021-Apr 2022
- National Research Council Canada (NRCC)
- Real-world computer vision tasks, including semantic segmentation, pedestrian detection and tracking, and trajectory prediction.
- Distributed Systems Intern Spet 2018-Dec 2018
- Wind River Systems, Inc.
- Cloud computing system contributions (based on OpenStack) and automated cloud system installation.
- Data Analysis Intern May 2018-Sept 2018
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
- Data analysis and river water levels prediction in the Ottawa region.
Teaching
Projects
- M5D-GS 2024
- Developed a 3D Gaussian splatting-based method for 4D dynamic object representation.
- Decoupled object motion from deformation to improve processing of large-motion objects.
- Proposed a novel dataset for large-motion objects.
- TCE-RVOS 2023
- Developed a multi-modal approach for referring video object segmentation
- Enhanced the ability to understand temporal context.
- Vulnerable Individual-Aided Smart Crossroad System 2022
- Implemented pedestrian detection and classification from surveillance images.
- Estimated and predicted trajectories for vulnerable individuals (elderly, pregnant, and disabled people).
- Incorporated with the traffic light system to control the green light duration.
- UAV-Based Railway Inspection 2021
- Segmented railway tracks and water surfaces from UAV images to prevent water overflow onto the tracks.
- Calibrated GPS information to align images from different conditions and seasons, for risk level analysis.
- DOE-SLAM 2020
- Estimated the camera pose and object motion simultaneously.
- Recovered the camera pose from object motion during obstruction.
- Dynamic Object SLAM 2019
- Based on ORB-SLAM and Mask R-CNN to reconstruct different object models separately, and improve the accuracy in dynamic environments.
- Sequence Based SLAM 2019
- Selected the sequence based method with sequence descriptor to reduce the time usage for loop detection.
Honors&Awards
- National Research Council Canada
- Outstanding Intership Award Apr 2022
- University of Ottawa
- Hasan Ural Memorial Scholarship Oct 2021
- International Experience Scholarship May 2021
- International Admission Scholarship Aug 2020
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Excellent Graduate Award Jun 2017
- Excellent Student Cadre Oct 2016
- Individual Scholarship(Social Welfare) Mar 2016