Yi WANG
Scholar

Yi WANG

Google Scholar ID: MAG909MAAAAJ
Assistant Professor (Research), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), PhD (NTU)
Visual Information ProcessingEgocentric VisionEmbodied Perception
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers covering areas such as 3D representation learning, open-vocabulary situation recognition, bitstream-corrupted video recovery, etc., and served as Area Chair or Associate Editor in several top conferences (e.g., ICLR 2026, CVPR 2025). Specific achievements include but are not limited to: 'Signeye: Traffic sign interpretation from vehicle first-person view', '3DGeoDet: General-purpose Geometry-aware Image-based 3D Object Detection'.
Research Experience
  • Before joining PolyU, worked as a Research Fellow in EEE, NTU, until March 2023, with PI A/P YAP Kim Hui. Prior to going to Singapore, was involved in national projects and a robotics center at NPU, China, supervised by Prof. WAN Shuai and Prof. MEI Shaohui.
Education
  • Received BEng in Electronic and Information Engineering and MEng in Signal and Information Processing from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China; earned PhD in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2021, supervised by Dr. CHAU Lap Pui, who worked as an A/P at NTU (till 2022) and is currently a Prof. at PolyU.
Background
  • Research interests include Visual Information Processing, Egocentric Vision, Embodied Cognition, and Multimedia Forensics. Currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), also working in the JC STEM Lab of Machine Learning and Computer Vision with Prof. CHAU Lap Pui.
Miscellany
  • Actively recruiting image/video processing, computer vision, 3D vision self-motivated PhD students (including self-finance) to join the research group at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.