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Kai Chen


Department of ​Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Office: Room 1024, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building
Email: kaichen [at] cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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Short Bio

​I have received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Qi Dou. Previously, I received the B. Eng. degree and M. Eng. degree from Wuhan University, under the supervison from Prof. Jian Yao.

My research interest lies in 3D vision, object-centric perception and policy learning for robot manipulation.

Recent Publications


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Shape-guided Configuration-aware Learning for Endoscopic-image-based Pose Estimation of Flexible Robotic Instruments
Yiyao Ma*, Kai Chen*, Hon-Sing Tong, Ruofeng Wei, Yui-Lun Ng, Ka-Wai Kwok, Qi Dou.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
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RGBManip: Monocular Image-based Robotic Manipulation through Active Object Pose Estimation
Boshi An*, Yiran Geng*, Kai Chen*, Xiaoqi Li, Qi Dou, Hao Dong.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.
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Value-Informed Skill Chaining for Policy Learning of Long-Horizon Tasks with Surgical Robot
Tao Huang, Kai Chen, Wang Wei, Jianan Li, Yonghao Long, Qi Dou.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
[paper] [project]

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Demonstration-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Efficient Exploration for Task Automation of Surgical Robot
Tao Huang, Kai Chen, Bin Li, Yun-Hui Liu, Qi Dou.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
[paper] [project]

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Deep Fusion Transformer Network with Weighted Vector-Wise Keypoints Voting for Robust 6D Object Pose Estimation
Jun Zhou*, Kai Chen*, Linlin Xu, Qi Dou, Jing Qin.
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
[paper] [project]

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StereoPose: Category-Level 6D Transparent Object Pose Estimation from Stereo Images via Back-View NOCS
Kai Chen, Stephen James, Congying Sui, Yun-Hui Liu, Pieter Abbeel, Qi Dou.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
[paper] [project]

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Sim-to-Real 6D Object Pose Estimation via Iterative Self-training for Robotic Bin Picking
Kai Chen, Rui Cao, Stephen James, Yichuan Li, Yun-Hui Liu, Pieter Abbeel, Qi Dou.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
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SGPA: Structure-Guided Prior Adaptation for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation
Kai Chen, Qi Dou.
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021. (Oral)
[paper] [project]

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Category-level 6D Object Pose Estimation via Cascaded Relation and Recurrent Reconstruction Networks
Jiaze Wang*, Kai Chen*, Qi Dou.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
[paper] [project]

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Learning Icosahedral Spherical Probability Map based on Bingham Mixture Model for Vanishing Point Estimation
Haoang Li*, Kai Chen*, Pyojin Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Zhe Liu, Kyungdon Joo, Yun-Hui Liu.
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
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Learning to Identify Correct 2D-2D Line Correspondences on Sphere
Haoang Li, Kai Chen, Ji Zhao, Jiangliu Wang, Pyojin Kim, Zhe Liu, Yun-Hui Liu.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
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CLMM-Net: Robust Cascaded LiDAR Map Matching based on Multi-Level Intensity Map
Kai Chen, Lei He, Xiaofeng Wang, Yuqian Liu, Ming Zhao.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
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Vanishing Point Guided Natural Image Stitching
Kai Chen, Jian Yao, Jingmin Tu, Yahui Liu, Yinxuan Li, Li Li.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02478, 2020.
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Miscellaneous

Professional Activities
  • Conference Reviews:

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023,2024.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022,2024.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022,2023.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021,2022,2023.

  • Journal Reviews:

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)