Hu Cao (曹虎)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chair of Robotics, AI and Real-time Systems (I6)
Computation, Information and Technology (CIT)
Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany 85748
Email: hu.cao@tum.de

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Biography

Hu Cao is now a postdoctoral research associate in the Chair of Robotics, AI, and Real-Time Systems, at the Technical University of Munich. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from TUM, supervised by Prof. Alois Knoll. Before coming to TUM, I did research with Prof.Guang Chen. Hu Cao's research interests focus on dense prediction (classification, detection, and segmentation), autonomous driving, and robotic grasping.

I am looking for highly self-motivated collaborators who are interested in dense prediction, autonomous driving, and robotic grasping. Please send me an up-to-date resume via email.
News
  • • 02 / 2024:   One paper on collaborative semantic occupancy prediction is accepted by CVPR 2024
  • • 10 / 2023:   I am happy that I have been awarded as an IEEE TMI Distinguished Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
  • • 10 / 2023:   One paper on efficient vision transformers is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)
  • • 03 / 2023:   One paper on point set registration is accepted by ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS, IF 11.774)
  • • 03 / 2023:   One paper on robust face alignment and landmarks is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI, IF 23.6)
  • • 02 / 2023:   One paper on robust radar calibration is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS, IF 9.551)
  • • 12 / 2022:   We are organizing a special issue on Neurointelligence for Frontiers in Neuroscience (SCI, IF 5.152), and you are welcome to submit your original research work, Please click here for more information
  • • 10 / 2022:   One paper on Efficient-Grasping is accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-Mech)
  • • 09 / 2022:   Remote visiting the Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. Hengshuang Zhao
  • • 09 / 2022:   We released a git to collect papers about event-based robotics (autonomous driving & robotic grasping), Link
  • • 08 / 2022:   Two papers are accepted by IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI), 2022
  • • 08 / 2022:   SwinUnet is accepted by European Conference on Computer Vision-Medical Computer Vision Workshop (ECCV-MCVW), Video is here, Link, 2022
  • • 07 / 2022:   Our paper (Improving Autonomous Driving with Event-Based Neuromorphic Vision) is showcased on IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight, which highlights the most innovative and creative research directions, Link
  • • 05 / 2022:   One paper on event-based robotic grasping is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM)
  • • 03 / 2022:   I joined Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, as an academic guest, supervised by Prof. Lothar Thiele
  • • 09 / 2021:   One paper on vehicle detection is accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal
  • • 05 / 2021:   A validation for u-shaped swin transformer is published as a tech report on arxiv, codes released at SwinUnet
  • • 04 / 2021:   Research internship at EI Innovation Lab, Huawei Cloud BU, working with Prof. Qi Tian and Dr. Xiaopeng Zhang and Dr. Dongsheng Jiang
  • • 02 / 2021:   One paper on robotic grasping detection is accepted by ICRA 2021
  • • 07 / 2020:   One paper on parking slot detection is accepted by Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • • 04 / 2020:   One paper on event-based vision for robotic grasping is accepted by Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • • 03 / 2020:   Our work on event-based vision for autonomous driving is accepted by IEEE SPM (IF 15.204)
  • • 01 / 2020:   I joined the chair of robotics, AI and real-time systems, TUM, as a Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof. Alois Knoll
Dense prediction
GhostViT: Expediting Vision Transformers via Cheap Operations
Hu Cao, Zhongnan Qu, Guang Chen, Xinyi Li, Lothar Thiele, Alois Knoll
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
[paper]
Robust Face Alignment via Inherent Relation Learning and Uncertainty Estimation
Jiahao Xia, Min Xu, Haimin Zhang, Jianguo Zhang, Wenjian Huang, Hu Cao, Shiping Wen
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Journal, JCR Q1, IF-23.6), 2023
[DSLPT]
Swin-Unet: Unet-like Pure Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation
Hu Cao, Yueyue Wang, Joy Chen, Dongsheng Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Qi Tian, Manning Wang
Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW) , 2022
[paper]
Orientation-aware People Detection and Counting Method based on Overhead Fisheye Camera
Hu Cao, Boyang Peng, Linxuan Jia, Bin Li, Alois Knoll, Guang Chen
IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI), 2022
Autonomous driving
Globally Optimal Robust Radar Calibration in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Xinyi Li, Yinlong Liu, Venkat, Hu Cao, Feihu Zhang and Alois Knoll
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Journal, JCR Q1, IF-9.551), 2023
Fusion-based Feature Attention Gate Component for Vehicle Detection based on Event Camera
Hu Cao, Guang Chen, Jiahao Xia, Genghang Zhuang, Alois Knoll
IEEE Sensors Journal, (Journal, JCR Q1, IF-4.325), 2021
Parking Slot Detection on Around-View Images Using DCNN
Wei Li, Hu Cao*, Jiacai Liao, Jiahao Xia, Libo Cao, Alois Knoll
In Frontiers in Neurorobotics (Journal, JCR Q2, IF-3.493), 2020
Event-based neuromorphic vision for autonomous driving: a paradigm shift for bio-inspired visual sensing and perception
Guang Chen, Hu Cao, Jorg Conradt, Huajin Tang, Florian Rohrbein, Alois Knoll
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (JCR Q1, IF-15.204), 2020
Robotic grasping
Efficient Grasp Detection Network with Gaussian-based Grasp Representation for Robotic Manipulation
Hu Cao, Guang Chen, Zhijun Li, Qian Feng, Jianjie Lin, Alois Knoll
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Journal, JCR Q1, IF-5.867), 2022
NeuroGrasp: Multi-modal Neural Network with Euler Region Regression for Neuromorphic Vision-based Grasp Pose Estimation
Hu Cao, Guang Chen, Zhijun Li, Yingbai Hu, Alois Knoll
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, (Journal, JCR Q1, IF-5.332), 2022
Residual Squeeze-and-Excitation Network with Multi-scale Spatial Pyramid Module for Fast Robotic Grasping Detection
Hu Cao, Guang Chen, Zhijun Li, Jianjie Lin, Alois Knoll
In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (ICRA2021), Virtual, 2021
Event-Based Robotic Grasping Detection With Neuromorphic Vision Sensor and Event-Grasping Dataset
Bin Li, Hu Cao*, Zhongnan Qu, Yingbai Hu, Zhenke Wang, Zichen Liang
In Frontiers in Neurorobotics (Journal, JCR Q2, IF-3.493), 2020
Preprints
Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network with Gaussian-based Grasping Representation for Robotic Grasping Detection
Hu Cao, Guang Chen, Zhijun Li, Qian Feng, Jianjie Lin, Alois Knoll
Academic Activities
Editor Services
  •   • Topic Coordinator for Frontiers in Neuroscience (IF 5.152), 2022
Conference Reviewers/Program Committee member (PC)
  •   • IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024
  •   • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021/2022/2024
  •   • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021/2024
  •   • ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023/2024
  •   • Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024
  •   • Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention(MICCAI), 2024
  •   • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023/2024
  •   • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022/2024
Journal Reviewers
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
  •   • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-Mech)
  •   • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (TCI)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (TIM)
  •   • IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine (TIMM)
  •   • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
  •   • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
  •   • Medical Image Analysis (MIA)
  •   • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  •   • Scientific Reports
  •   • Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  •   • Automotive Innovation
Internship and Cooperation
                       
Awards
  •   • Distinguished Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2022-2023
  •   • Outstanding Graduate of Hunan Province, 2019
  •   • Outstanding Graduate of Hunan University, 2019
  •   • Outstanding Graduate Student of Hunan University, 2017-2018
  •   • Outstanding Graduate Student Leader of Hunan University, 2017-2018
  •   • Most media Attention Award, The 3rd Lushan Cup Innovation Challenge Competition, 2018
  •   • Second Prize, 2018 ”Haosen Pharmaceutical Cup” 5th China Graduate Smart City Technology and Creative Design Competition , 2018
  •   • Second Prize, The 4th National ”TRIZ” Cup College Students Innovation Competition, 2016
  •   • First Prize, The 7th National College Students Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, 2016
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