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🔊 My name pounces as: Yi-Chin

I am a fourth-year Computer Science M.S./Ph.D. candidate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and a proud member of The Cake Lab research group. I feel extremely fortunate to be advised by my kind and wise advisor Prof. Tian Guo. I am interested in designing system supports and optimizations for Augmented Reality (AR) applications. My recent research has a strong focus on designing system support for AR environment lighting understanding and photorealistic rendering.

In the past, I have interned at Baidu (Summer 2018), Kuaishou Y-tech Graphics AI team in Spring 2022, and GoogleARVR in Summer, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, road tripping, and work on my website templates.

📰 News

News

📢 Latest: I'm a Ph.D. candidate now!

  • 03/31/2023 🎉 We have released the code of our UbiComp 2022 paper LitAR.
  • 12/15/2022 🎉 Received student travel grant from HotMobile 2023, thank you!
  • 12/15/2022 🎉 Passed my classes and research qualifications, I'm a Ph.D. candidate now!
  • 12/09/2022 🎉 One paper accepted by HotMobile 2023!
  • 01/18/2022 🎉 I joined the Y-tech Graphics AI team as a research intern.
  • 05/17/2022 🎉 Our paper LitAR is accepted by UbiComp 2022!
  • 05/17/2022 🎉 Our paper Privacy-preserving Reflection Rendering for Augmented Reality is accepted by ACM MM 2022!
  • 03/04/2022 🎉 I will join Google as a research intern in the summer!
  • 01/18/2022 🎉 I joined the Y-tech Graphics AI team as a research intern.
  • 05/24/2021 ✨ We just released the Xihe source code! Check our GitHub repo.
  • 04/15/2021 🎉 I will join the Y-tech Graphics AI team as a research intern in next spring!
  • 04/15/2021 🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that I will continue my Ph.D. study at The Cake Lab with Prof. Tian Guo.
  • 04/15/2021 🎉 I've presented my M.S. Thesis.
  • 04/03/2021PointAR source code is now released! Check our GitHub repo.
  • 03/25/2021 🔥 New paper on mobile system for 3D vision-based lighting estimation has been conditionally accepted to MobiSys 2021.
  • 08/25/2020 🎙️ I presented our efficient mobile AR lighting estimation paper at ECCV 2020.
  • 07/22/2020 🔥 Our paper on efficient mobile AR lighting estimation neural network has been accepted to ECCV 2020.
  • 03/03/2020 🎙️ I presented my poster at the HotMobile 2020 conference in Austin, TX.
  • 02/01/2020 🔥 Our poster on mobile AR lighting estimation has been accepted to HotMobile 2020.
  • 08/26/2019 🦸🏻‍♂️ I joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute CakeLab.
  • 10/26/2018 🎙️ I presented our paper on ASMMC-MMAC 2018 workshop.
  • 10/15/2018 🏆 I received Wang Kechang Technology innovation scholarship (<1%).
  • 10/13/2018 🏆 I received annual special scholarship at Tianjin Normal University (top 5%).
  • 08/15/2018 🔥 Our paper about human speech emotion in spectrogram representation has submitted to ACM Multimedia 2018 ASMMC-MMAC workshop!
  • 07/04/2018 👨🏻‍💻 I joined the DuerOS department at Baidu, Inc as a frontend software engineer intern.
  • 09/30/2017 🏆  I received third prize of the 2017 China national Mobile Innovation Contest (top 6%).
  • 09/30/2016 🏆  I received third prize of the 2016 China national Mobile Innovation Contest (top 10%).

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🥷 Experiences

Google, Mountain View, CA
Student Researcher
May 2022 - May 2023

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Ph.D. Student in TheCakeLab, advised by Prof. Tian Guo
Aug 2021 - Present

Kuaishou Technology, Palo Alto, CA
Research Intern
Jan, 2022 - May, 2022

Baidu, Beijing, China
Software Engineering Intern
Jun, 2018 - Sept, 2018

Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
Sept, 2015 - Jun, 2019

📄 Publications

Multi-Camera Lighting Estimation for Photorealistic Front-Facing Mobile Augmented Reality
Yiqin ZhaoSean FanelloTian Guo 
The Twenty-fourth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
LitAR: Visually Coherent Lighting for Mobile Augmented Reality
Yiqin ZhaoChongyang MaHaibin HuangTian Guo 
The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Privacy-preserving Reflection Rendering for Augmented Reality
Yiqin ZhaoSheng WeiTian Guo 
30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
IEEEVRW'22|PaperPoster
FusedAR: Adaptive Environment Lighting Reconstruction for Visually Coherent Mobile AR Rendering
Yiqin ZhaoTian Guo 
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
Xihe: a 3D vision-based lighting estimation framework for mobile augmented reality
Yiqin ZhaoTian Guo 
The 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Artifacts Evaluated – Functional v1.1
PointAR: Efficient Lighting Estimation for Mobile Augmented Reality
Yiqin ZhaoTian Guo 
16th European Conference on Computer Vision
Access'19|PaperProject
Exploring Deep Spectrum Representations via Attention-Based Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Emotion Recognition
Ziping ZhaoZhongtian BaoYiqin ZhaoZixing ZhangNicholas CumminsZhao RenBjörn Schuller 
IEEE Access
ASMMC-MMAC'18|PaperProject
Deep Spectrum Feature Representations for Speech Emotion Recognition
Ziping ZhaoYiqin ZhaoZhongtian BaoHaishuai WangZixing ZhangChao Li 
4th Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing and first Multi-Modal Affective Computing of Large-Scale Multimedia Data
INTERSPEECH'18|PaperProject
Exploring Spatio-Temporal Representations by Integrating Attention-based Bidirectional-LSTM-RNNs and FCNs for Speech Emotion Recognition
Ziping ZhaoYu ZhengZixing ZhangHaishuai WangYiqin ZhaoChao Li 
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association

❤️ Services and Awards

Academic services

  • UbiComp 2022 student volunteer.

Awards

  • ACM HotMobile 2023 Student Travel Grant.
  • ACM HotMobile 2020 Student Travel Grant.
  • China Collegiate Computing Contest, jointly held by Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Apple, Inc.
    • 2017 national third prize, top 6%
    • 2016 national third prize, top 10%
  • University Scholarship, Tianjin Normal University
    • 2018 - 2019 academic first grade scholarship, top 10%
    • Wang Kechang Culture and Technology Innovation Scholarship, ≤ 1%
    • 2017 - 2018 academic year top grade scholarship, top 5%
    • 2016 - 2017 academic year second grade scholarship, top 20%
    • 2015 - 2016 academic year first grade scholarship, top 10%

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赵一勤 | Yiqin (Pronunciation: Yi-Chin)
CS Ph.D. Candidate @wpicakelab
Student Researcher @GoogleVRAR
Research Interests: Mobile System, AR, CV, CG

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