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AI Investor @ IDG Capital.
Level 41, Jing An Kerry Centre, Jingan District, Shanghai, China
allen.li.thu [at] gmail.com
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I am currently embracing an exhilarating journey as an AI Investor at IDG Capital, where since August 2022, I have been nurturing advancements in domains like Generative AI, Autonomous Driving, Robotics, Large Language Models, and their associated supply chains and applications. My primary focus is on fostering innovation and driving the surge of technology to new frontiers.

Prior to my current role, I was the Founder of ADLab @ Shanghai AI Lab. I built a research team consisting of 40+ talented researchers and interns aiming at revolutionizing the transportation system in a data-driven way.

Before that, I worked as Deputy Director of R&D at Sensetime Technology Ltd, leading a product team containing over 30 talented engineers and product specialists, developing the RoboX Autonomous Products, including RoboBus & RoboSweeper.

In May 2020, I acquired my Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the esteemed guidance of Professors Xiaogang Wang and Xiaoou Tang. I got my bachelor’s degrees of Electronic Engineering and Economics in Tsinghua University in 2016. During my doctoral years, I garnered invaluable experience working as a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and Meta Reality Labs (formerly Facebook Reality Labs).

Research Interests: My academic pursuits gravitate towards 3D Scene Reconstruction, 3D Scene Perception, Behaviour & Scene Simulation, and an extensive range of topics related to Autonomous Driving.

***Connect & Collaborate***
I am always eager to foster collaborations and new ventures. If you are passionate about forging your business path or joining a startup in the realms we share interests in, I invite you to reach out. Let’s exchange visionary insights over a cup of coffee.

News

Jul 13, 2023	4 Papers are accepted by ICCV-23. NEW!
Feb 28, 2023	6 Papers are accepted by CVPR-23.
Jan 17, 2023	2 Papers are accepted by ICRA-23, Sensor Calibration * 1 and Sensor Placement * 1.
Nov 20, 2022	One paper is accepted by AAAI-23, Instance Segmentation for Autonomous Driving.
Jul 4, 2022	Two papers are accepted by ECCV-2022, sensor fusion * 1 and NeRF * 1.
Jul 1, 2022	I have finished all the handovers at Sensetime. I am really grateful for the 3-year unforgettable experience here.

Selected publications

Conferences

ECCV
L-Tracing: Fast Light Visibility Estimation on Neural Surfaces by Sphere Tracing

Ziyu Chen, Chenjing Ding, Jianfei Guo, Dongliang Wang, Yikang Li , Xuan Xiao, Wei Wu, and Li Song

European Conference on Computer Vision 2022

Bib
@inproceedings{li2022ltracing, title = {L-Tracing: Fast Light Visibility Estimation on Neural Surfaces by Sphere Tracing}, author = {Chen, Ziyu and Ding, Chenjing and Guo, Jianfei and Wang, Dongliang and Li, Yikang and Xiao, Xuan and Wu, Wei and Song, Li}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision}, year = {2022}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {ECCV}, corr = {false}, selected = {true} }
ECCV
Homogeneous Multi-modal Feature Fusion and Interaction for 3D Object Detection

Xin Li, Botian Shi, Yuenan Hou, Xingjiao Wu, Tianlong Ma, Yikang Li^# , and Liang He

European Conference on Computer Vision 2022

Bib
@inproceedings{li2022hmfi, title = {Homogeneous Multi-modal Feature Fusion and Interaction for 3D Object Detection}, author = {Li, Xin and Shi, Botian and Hou, Yuenan and Wu, Xingjiao and Ma, Tianlong and Li, Yikang and He, Liang}, booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision}, year = {2022}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {ECCV}, corr = {true}, selected = {true} }
IROS
CROON: Automatic Multi-LiDAR Calibration and Refinement Method in Road Scene

Pengjin Wei, Guohang Yan, Yikang Li , Kun Fang, Wei Liu, Xinyu Cai, and Jie Yang

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2022

Bib
@inproceedings{li2022calib, title = {CROON: Automatic Multi-LiDAR Calibration and Refinement Method in Road Scene}, author = {Wei, Pengjin and Yan, Guohang and Li, Yikang and Fang, Kun and Liu, Wei and Cai, Xinyu and Yang, Jie}, booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems}, year = {2022}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {IROS}, corr = {false}, selected = {true} }
ITSC
General Driving Behavior Model based on the Desired Safety Margin for Vehicle Flow Simulation

Pinlong Cai, Junjie Zhang, Xuan Zhao, and Yikang Li^#

International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2022

Bib
@inproceedings{li2022sim, title = {General Driving Behavior Model based on the Desired Safety Margin for Vehicle Flow Simulation}, author = {Cai, Pinlong and Zhang, Junjie and Zhao, Xuan and Li, Yikang}, booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems}, year = {2022}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {ITSC}, corr = {true}, selected = {true} }
CVPR
β-DARTS: Beta-Decay Regularization for Differentiable Architecture Search

Peng Ye, Baopu Li, Yikang Li , Tao Chen, Jiayuan Fan, and Wanli Ouyang

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022

arXiv Bib PDF
@inproceedings{li2022betadecay, title = {$\beta $-DARTS: Beta-Decay Regularization for Differentiable Architecture Search}, author = {Ye, Peng and Li, Baopu and Li, Yikang and Chen, Tao and Fan, Jiayuan and Ouyang, Wanli}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2022}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {CVPR}, corr = {false}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01665}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.01665}, selected = {true} }
CVPR
Point-to-Voxel Knowledge Distillation for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

Yuenan Hou, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma, Chen Change Loy, and Yikang Li^#

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022

arXiv Bib PDF Code
@inproceedings{li2022lidarsegkd, title = {Point-to-Voxel Knowledge Distillation for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation}, author = {Hou, Yuenan and Zhu, Xinge and Ma, Yuexin and Loy, Chen Change and Li, Yikang}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2022}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {CVPR}, selected = {true}, corr = {true}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02099}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02099}, code = {https://github.com/cardwing/Codes-for-PVKD} }
NeurIPS
Pastegan: A Semi-parametric Method to Generate Image from Scene Graph

Yikang Li , Tao Ma, Yeqi Bai, Nan Duan, Sining Wei, and Xiaogang Wang

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019

arXiv Bib PDF Code Poster
@inproceedings{li2019pastegan, title = {Pastegan: A Semi-parametric Method to Generate Image from Scene Graph}, author = {Li, Yikang and Ma, Tao and Bai, Yeqi and Duan, Nan and Wei, Sining and Wang, Xiaogang}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, volume = {32}, year = {2019}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {NeurIPS}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07192}, pdf = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/file/12b1e42dc0746f22cf361267de07073f-Paper.pdf}, poster = {assets/files/publications/nips19_pastegan_poster.pdf}, code = {https://github.com/yikang-li/PasteGAN}, selected = {true} }
ECCV
Factorizable Net: an Efficient Subgraph-based Framework for Scene Graph Generation

Yikang Li , Wanli Ouyang, Bolei Zhou, Jianping Shi, Chao Zhang, and Xiaogang Wang

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2018

arXiv Bib PDF Code Poster
@inproceedings{li2018fnet, title = {Factorizable Net: an Efficient Subgraph-based Framework for Scene Graph Generation}, author = {Li, Yikang and Ouyang, Wanli and Zhou, Bolei and Shi, Jianping and Zhang, Chao and Wang, Xiaogang}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)}, pages = {335--351}, year = {2018}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {ECCV}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.11538}, pdf = {assets/files/publications/eccv18_fnet.pdf}, poster = {assets/files/publications/eccv18_fnet_poster.pdf}, code = {https://github.com/yikang-li/FactorizableNet}, selected = {true} }
CVPR
Visual Question Generation as Dual Task of Visual Question Answering

Yikang Li , Nan Duan, Bolei Zhou, Xiao Chu, Wanli Ouyang, Xiaogang Wang, and Ming Zhou

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018

arXiv Bib PDF Code Poster
@inproceedings{li2018iqan, title = {Visual Question Generation as Dual Task of Visual Question Answering}, author = {Li, Yikang and Duan, Nan and Zhou, Bolei and Chu, Xiao and Ouyang, Wanli and Wang, Xiaogang and Zhou, Ming}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, pages = {6116--6124}, year = {2018}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {CVPR}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07192}, pdf = {assets/files/publications/cvpr18_iqan.pdf}, poster = {assets/files/publications/cvpr18_iqan_poster.pdf}, code = {https://github.com/yikang-li/iQAN}, selected = {true} }
ICCV
Scene Graph Generation from Objects, Phrases and Region Captions

Yikang Li , Wanli Ouyang, Bolei Zhou, Kun Wang, and Xiaogang Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017

arXiv Bib PDF Code Poster
@inproceedings{li2017scene, title = {Scene Graph Generation from Objects, Phrases and Region Captions}, author = {Li, Yikang and Ouyang, Wanli and Zhou, Bolei and Wang, Kun and Wang, Xiaogang}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, pages = {1261--1270}, year = {2017}, bibtex_show = {true}, abbr = {ICCV}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09700}, pdf = {assets/files/publications/iccv17_msdn.pdf}, poster = {assets/files/publications/iccv17_msdn_poster.pdf}, code = {https://github.com/yikang-li/MSDN}, selected = {true} }

CVPR

ViP-CNN: Visual Phrase Guided Convolutional Neural Network

Yikang Li , Wanli Ouyang, and Xiaogang Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017

arXiv Bib PDF Poster

@inproceedings{li2017vip,
  title = {ViP-CNN: Visual Phrase Guided Convolutional Neural Network},
  author = {Li, Yikang and Ouyang, Wanli and Wang, Xiaogang},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages = {1347--1356},
  year = {2017},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  abbr = {CVPR},
  arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07191},
  pdf = {assets/files/publications/cvpr17_vip_cnn.pdf},
  poster = {assets/files/publications/cvpr17_vip_cnn_poster.pdf},
  selected = {true}
}

Preprints

Arxiv
OpenCalib: A Multi-sensor Calibration Toolbox for Autonomous Driving

Guohang Yan, Zhuochun Liu, Chengjie Wang, Chunlei Shi, Pengjin Wei, Xinyu Cai, Tao Ma, Zhizheng Liu, Zebin Zhong, Yuqian Liu, Ming Zhao, Zheng Ma, and Yikang Li^#

arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14087 2022

arXiv Bib PDF Code
@article{opencalib, title = {OpenCalib: A Multi-sensor Calibration Toolbox for Autonomous Driving}, author = {Yan, Guohang and Liu, Zhuochun and Wang, Chengjie and Shi, Chunlei and Wei, Pengjin and Cai, Xinyu and Ma, Tao and Liu, Zhizheng and Zhong, Zebin and Liu, Yuqian and Zhao, Ming and Ma, Zheng and Li, Yikang}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14087}, year = {2022}, abbr = {Arxiv}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14087}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.14087}, bibtex_show = {true}, corr = {true}, selected = {true}, code = {https://github.com/PJLab-ADG/SensorsCalibration} }
Arxiv
Joint Camera Intrinsic and LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration

Guohang Yan, Feiyu He, Chunlei Shi, Xinyu Cai, and Yikang Li^#

arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13708 2022

arXiv Bib PDF Code
@article{yan2022joint, title = {Joint Camera Intrinsic and LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration}, author = {Yan, Guohang and He, Feiyu and Shi, Chunlei and Cai, Xinyu and Li, Yikang}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13708}, year = {2022}, abbr = {Arxiv}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13708}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.13708}, bibtex_show = {true}, corr = {true}, selected = {true}, code = {https://github.com/OpenCalib/JointCalib} }
Arxiv
Multi-modal Sensor Fusion for Auto Driving Perception: A Survey

Keli Huang, Botian Shi, Xiang Li, Xin Li, Siyuan Huang, and Yikang Li^#

arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02703 2022

arXiv Bib PDF
@article{huang2022multi, title = {Multi-modal Sensor Fusion for Auto Driving Perception: A Survey}, author = {Huang, Keli and Shi, Botian and Li, Xiang and Li, Xin and Huang, Siyuan and Li, Yikang}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02703}, year = {2022}, abbr = {Arxiv}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02703}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.02703}, bibtex_show = {true}, corr = {true}, selected = {true} }
Arxiv
Perception Entropy: A Metric for Multiple Sensors Configuration Evaluation and Design

Tao Ma, Zhizheng Liu, and Yikang Li^#

arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06615 2021

arXiv Bib PDF
@article{ma2021pe, title = {Perception Entropy: A Metric for Multiple Sensors Configuration Evaluation and Design}, author = {Ma, Tao and Liu, Zhizheng and Li, Yikang}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06615}, year = {2021}, abbr = {Arxiv}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06615}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.06615}, bibtex_show = {true}, corr = {true}, selected = {true} }
Arxiv
CRLF: Automatic Calibration and Refinement based on Line Feature for LiDAR and Camera in Road Scenes

Tao Ma, Zhizheng Liu, Guohang Yan, and Yikang Li^#

arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04558 2021

arXiv Bib PDF Code
@article{ma2021crlf, title = {CRLF: Automatic Calibration and Refinement based on Line Feature for LiDAR and Camera in Road Scenes}, author = {Ma, Tao and Liu, Zhizheng and Yan, Guohang and Li, Yikang}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04558}, year = {2021}, abbr = {Arxiv}, arxiv = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04558}, pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.04558}, code = {https://github.com/PJLab-ADG/SensorsCalibration}, bibtex_show = {true}, corr = {true}, selected = {true} }