I am currently a PHD student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Xiang Bai. My research interests mainly lie in 3D object detection, crowd analysis.

Education

• PHD: Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2022–2026), unde the supervision of Prof. Xiang Bai.
• MA：Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2019–2022), under the supervision of Prof. Xiang Bai, Prof. Yongchao Xu and Prof. Yu Zhou.
• BA： Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication (2015-2019), under the supervision of Dr. Xiang Wan, Prof. Jian Xiao and Prof. Yi Tong.

Experience

08 / 2022 - current: Research Intern at Baidu (Mentors are Zhikang Zou and Xiaoqing Ye)

News

04 / 2024: I obtain the Youth Student Fundamental Research Project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), which is a grant of 300,000 RMB!
03 / 2024: FIDTM is selected as an ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1% of papers in the academic field)
03 / 2024: One paper is accepted by PR
02 / 2024: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2024
09 / 2023: Outstanding reviewer at ICCV 2023; Thank you ACs/PCs for the nomination!
09 / 2023: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2023
09 / 2023: TransCrowd is selected as an ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1% of papers in the academic field)
09 / 2023: One paper is accepted by IEEE TII
08 / 2023: One paper is accepted by IEEE RAL
08 / 2023: One paper is accepted by PRCV 2023
07 / 2023: One paper is accepted by ICCV 2023
04 / 2023: One paper is accepted by ICDAR 2023
03 / 2023：Two papers are accepted by CVPR 2023
02 / 2023: One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2023
01 / 2023: One paper is accepted by ICRA 2023
09 / 2022: Guided graduate students win 1st place in the VisDrone2022 (PRCV) challenge on the crowd counting track.
08 / 2022: One paper is accepted by IEEE TMM
06 / 2022: Two papers are accepted by ECCV 2022
03 / 2022: We released the first comprehensive public African text dataset [project]
10 / 2021: I’m awarded National Scholarship
10 / 2021: One paper is accepted by IJCV
09 / 2021: We win 1st place in the VisDrone2021 (ICCV) challenge on the crowd counting track.

Publications Full List

(* Equal contribution, † Corresponding author)

Preprint

• PointMamba: A Simple State Space Model for Point Cloud Analysis.
  Dingkang Liang*, Xin Zhou*, Xinyu Wang*, Xingkui Zhu, Wei Xu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai. [pdf] [code]

Conference

• Dynamic Adapter Meets Prompt Tuning: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Point Cloud Analysis.
  Xin Zhou*, Dingkang Liang*, Wei Xu, Xingkui Zhu, Yihan Xu, Zhikang Zou, Xiang Bai. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. [pdf] [code]
• A Simple Vision Transformer for Weakly Semi-supervised 3D Object Detection. Dingyuan Zhang*, Dingkang Liang*, Zhikang Zou*, Jingyu Li, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhe Liu, Xiao Tan, Xiang Bai. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [pdf]
• CrowdCLIP: Unsupervised Crowd Counting via Vision-Language Model.
  Dingkang Liang*, Jiahao Xie*, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Wei Xu, Xiang Bai. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [pdf] [code]
• SOOD: Towards Semi-Supervised Oriented Object Detection.
  Wei Hua*, Dingkang Liang*, Jingyu Li, XiaoLong Liu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [pdf] [code]
• Query-based Temporal Fusion with Explicit Motion for 3D Object Detection.
  Jinghua Hou*, Zhe Liu*, Dingkang Liang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023. [pdf] [code]
• DDS3D: Dense Pseudo-Labels with Dynamic Threshold for Semi-Supervised 3D Object Detection.
  Jingyu Li*, Zhe Liu*, Jinghua Hou, Dingkang Liang†. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023. [pdf] [code]
• Super-Resolution Information Enhancement For Crowd Counting.
  Jiahao Xie, Wei Xu, Dingkang Liang, Zhanyu Ma, Kongming Liang, Weidong Liu, Rui Wang, Ling Jin. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. [pdf] [code].
• Visual Information Extraction in the Wild: Practical Dataset and End-to-end Solution.
  Jianfeng Kuang, Wei Hua, Dingkang Liang, Mingkun Yang, Deqiang Jiang, Bo Ren, Yu Zhou, Xiang Bai. The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2023. [pdf] [code].
• An End-to-End Transformer Model for Crowd Localization.
  Dingkang Liang, Wei Xu, Xiang Bai. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022. [pdf] [code] [project].
• When Counting Meets HMER: Counting-Aware Network for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition.
  Bohan Li*, Ye Yuan*, Dingkang Liang, Xiao Liu, Zhilong Ji, Jinfeng Bai, Wenyu Liu, Xiang Bai. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022. [pdf] [code].

Journal

• LATFormer: Locality-Aware Point-View Fusion Transformer for 3D Shape Recognition.
  Xinwei He*, Silin Cheng*, Dingkang Liang*, Song Bai, Xi Wang, Yingying Zhu. Pattern Recognition (PR). [pdf]
• SAM3D: Zero-Shot 3D Object Detection via Segment Anything Model.
  DIngyuan Zhang, Dingkang Liang, Hongcheng Yang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhe Liu, Xiang Bai. Science China Information Science (SCIS), 2024. [pdf] [code]
• Focal Inverse Distance Transform Maps for Crowd Localization in Dense Crowd.
  Dingkang Liang, Wei Xu, Yingying Zhu, Yu Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), 2022. [pdf] [code].
• AutoScale: Learning to Scale for Crowd Counting.
  Chenfeng Xu*, Dingkang Liang*, Yongchao Xu, Song Bai, Wei Zhan, Xiang Bai, Massayoshi Tomizuka. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2022. [PDF] [code].
• TransCrowd: Weakly-Supervised Crowd Counting with Transformer.
  Dingkang Liang, Xiwu Chen, Wei Xu, Yu Zhou, Xiang Bai. Science China Information Science (SCIS), 2022. [PDF] [code] (ESI Highly Cited Paper).
• Comprehensive Benchmark Datasets for Amharic Scene Text Detection and Recognition.
  Wondimu Dikubab, Dingkang Liang, Minghui Liao, Xiang Bai. Science China Information Science (SCIS), 2022. [PDF] [Project]
• Cell Localization and Counting Using Direction Field Map.
  Yajie Chen, Dingkang Liang, Xiang Bai, Yongchao Xu, Xin Yang. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), 2021. [paper]
• Dilated-Scale-Aware Attention ConvNet For Multi-Class Object Counting.
  Wei Xu, Dingkang Liang, Yixiao Zheng, Zhanyu Ma. IEEE Signal Processing Letters (IEEE SPL), 2021. [paper] [code]

Competitions

• The 4th place of the 3D object detection track in CSIG-challenge 2022.
• Silver Award, China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (中国国际互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛全国总决赛), 2021.
• The 1st place of the Crowd Counting track in Vision Meets Drone (VisDrone) challenge with ICCV 2021.
• The 1st place of the Crowd Counting track in Vision Meets Drone (VisDrone) challenge with ECCV 2020.
• The 1st place (100,000 RMB Bonus) of the Crowd Counting track in CV101 (held by Extremevision and Intel), Shenzhen, China, 2019.
• The 1st place (80,000 RMB Bonus) of the OpenVino track in CV101 (held by Extremevision and Intel), Shenzhen, China, 2019.
• Gold Award, China College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (中国互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛全国总决赛), 2019.
• Grand Prize, “Challenge Cup” Competition, Provincial (挑战杯”江苏省大学生课外学术作品竞赛), 2019.
• 全国大学生FPGA创新设计邀请赛国家级一等奖 (3,000 RMB Bonus), 2019.
• 国家级大学生创新训练计划 (10,000 RMB Bonus)，结题成绩优秀，入选第十一届全国大学生创新创业年会参展项目, 2018.
• 全国大学生物联网设计竞赛华东赛区一等奖, 2018.
• 全国大学生智能互联创新大赛华东赛区二等奖, 2018.
• 全国大学生集成电路创新创业大赛华东赛区三等奖, 2018.
• 全国大学生“创青春”创业大赛江苏省铜奖, 2018.
• 江苏人工智能创新创业大赛优秀奖(10,000 RMB Bonus), 2018.
• 中移物联网OneNET之星重庆决赛优秀奖, 2018.
• 全国大学生电子设计竞赛国家级二等奖, 2018.
• 全国大学生FPGA创新设计邀请赛国家级二等奖, 2017.
• “英飞凌”杯全国高校无人机创新设计应用大赛 Top 3.5% (14/400) (3,500 RMB Bonus), 2017.
• 3S杯全国大学生互联网+“三创”大赛国家三等奖(5,000 RMB Bonus), 2017.

China Patent

授权发明专利

• 一种基于忆阻器的神经网络单元电路, CN110059816B
• 应用于数字识别的忆阻器读写电路, CN109509498B
• 基于忆阻器矩阵的权值运算模块, CN109325588B
• 一种基于距离变换标签的密集群体计数及定位方法, CN111062280B

Academic Services

Conference reviewer

• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 - 2024
• IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 - 2023
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023 - 2024
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
• International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2022

Journal reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• Science China-Information Science (SCIS)

Others

• Excellent volunteer teacher, Hainan, 2016.
• Former CEO & Co-Founder, Wefly, Inc. (The status of Wefly is cancellation.)
• Vice-chairman, Science and Technology Association of College of EOAST, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, May 2017 ~ May 2018.
• Outstanding Student Leader.
• Monitor, Electromagnetic fields and wireless technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Sep 2015 ~ Jun 2019. (Our class won the award of the advanced class of Jiangsu Province.)