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	PhD,  Professor,  IEEE Senior Member,  Email: bin.fan@ieee.org
	School of Intelligence Science and Technology
	University of Science and Technology Beijing
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Bin Fan received his BEng degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) in 2006, and PhD degree from the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) in 2011. After got his doctoral degree, he had been worked in the NLPR, firstly as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor until 2020. He is now a full professor in University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). During 2015-2016, he visited the CVLab at EPFL. Bin Fan has wide research interests in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Deep Learning. His research is mainly focused on addressing problems related to applications of image classification, object detection, image segmentation, 3D reconstruction, image localization, 3D point cloud analysis, etc. He has published over 60 papers in highly ranked conferences and journals in the field, including IEEE TPAMI/TIP/TNNLS/TMM/TGRS, Pattern Recognition, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ECCV. He serves as an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer), and The Visual Computer (Springer), AC of CVPR/NeurIPS/ECCV/ICME, SPC of IJCAI/AAAI, and PCs for top computer vision and machine learning conferences (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR, etc). He is a Senior member of IEEE since 2016.
Research Interests
l Computer Vision l Pattern Recognition l Image Processing
Education
l PhD, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), 2011 l BE, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 2006
Work Experience
l 2020.3-now, Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China l 2014.11-2020.2, Associate Professor, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China l 2015.3-2016.3, Visiting Scholar, Computer Vision Lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland l 2011.7-2014.10, Assistant Professor, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
News
l [2024.6] To serve as an SPC for AAAI 2025 l [2024.5] To serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024 l [2024.5] Two papers accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems l [2024.3] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence l [2024.1] To serve as an Area Chair for ECCV 2024 l [2024.1] To serve as an Area Chair for ICME 2024 l [2024.1] Join the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) l [2023.12] One paper accepted by AAAI 2024. l [2023.11] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. l [2023.8] Join the Editorial Board of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Elsevier) l [2023.7] One paper accepted by ICCV 2023 l [2023.7] One paper accepted by IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. l [2023.6] I will serve as one Area Chair for CVPR 2024 and Senior PC for AAAI 2024. l [2023.6] Two papers accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. l [2023.5] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. l [2023.4] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. l [2023.4] One paper accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. l [2022.7] Two papers accepted by ECCV 2022. l [2022.6] One paper accepted by Pattern Recognition. l [2022.6] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. l [2022.6] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. l [2022.3] One paper accepted by CVPR 2022 (oral) l [2022.2] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia l [2022.1] I am honored to be recognized as the 2021 World's Top 2% Scientists. l [2022.1] One paper accepted by Pattern Recognition l [2022.1] One paper accepted by ICASSP 2022 l [2021.12] One paper accepted by AAAI 2022 l [2021.10] Selected as one NeurIPS 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award (top 8%) l [2021.6] Selected as one CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewer l [2021.3] One paper accepted by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters l [2020.12] One paper on 3D point cloud analysis accepted by Neurocomputing l [2020.10] Two papers on 3D point cloud analysis accepted by ICPR 2020 l [2020.10] One paper accepted by Neurocomputing l [2020.8] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia l [2020.8] One paper accepted by Pattern Recognition l [2020.7] One paper on mixed precision quantization for CNN models is accepted by ECCV 2020 l [2020.6] One paper on video object detection is accepted by Neurocomputing l [2020.2] One paper on object detection is accepted by CVPR 2020
Selected Publications
Book
1. Bin Fan, Zhenhua Wang, and Fuchao Wang. "Local Image Descriptor: Modern Approaches". Springer, 2015.
Journal
1. Hongmin Liu, Yan Ding, Hui Zeng, Huayan Pu, Jun Luo, and Bin Fan. "A Cascaded Multimodule Image Enhancement Framework for Underwater Visual Perception". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), 2024. 2. Chenghao Zhang, Gaofeng Meng, Bin Fan, Kun Tian, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "Reusable Architecture Growth for Continual Stereo Matching". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2024. 3. Hongmin Liu, Qi Zhang, Yufan Hu, Hui Zeng, and Bin Fan. "Unsupervised Multi-expert Learning Model for Underwater Image Enhancement". IEEE/CAA Journal Automatica Sinica, 2024. 4. Changwei Wang, Rongtao Xu, Ke Lv, Shibiao Xu, Weiliang Meng, Yuyang Zhang, Bin Fan, and Xiaopeng Zhang. "Attention Weighted Local Descriptors". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 2023. [code] 5. Hongmin Liu, Fan Jin, Hui Zeng, Huayan Pu, and Bin Fan. "Image Enhancement Guided Object Detection in Visually Degraded Scenes". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), 2023. 6. Bin Fan, Junjie Zhou, Wensen Feng, Huayan Pu, Yuzhu Yang, Qingqun Kong, Fuchao Wu, and Hongmin Liu. "Learning Semantic-aware Local Features for Long Term Visual Localization". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), 2022. 7. Hu Su, Yonghao He, Rui Jiang, Jiabin Zhang, Wei Zou, and Bin Fan. "DSLA: Dynamic Smooth Label Assignment for Efficient Anchor-free Object Detection". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2022. 8. Bin Fan, Yuzhu Yang, Wensen Feng, Fuchao Wu, Jiwen Lu, and Hongmin Liu. "Seeing through Darkness: Visual Localization at Night via Weakly Supervised Learning of Domain Invariant Features". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), 2022. 9. Yifan Chen, Han Wang, Xiaolu Sun, Bin Fan, Chu Tang, and Hui Zeng. "Deep Attention Aware Feature Learning for Person Re-Identification". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2022. [code] 10. Bin Fan, Hongmin Liu, Hui Zeng, Jiyong Zhang, Xin Liu, and Junwei Han. "Deep Unsupervised Binary Descriptor Learning through Locality Consistency and Self Distinctiveness". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), 2021. [code] 11. Liang Yan, Bin Fan, Hongmin Liu, Chunlei Huo, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "Triplet Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Pixel-Level Classification of VHR Remote Sensing Images". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS), 2020. 12. Bin Fan, Qingqun Kong, Baoqian Zhang, Hongmin Liu, Chunhong Pan, and Jiwen Lu. "Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensional Hamming Space". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2020. 13. Hongmin Liu, Qianqian Zhang, Bin Fan, Zhiheng Wang, and Junwei Han. "Features Combined Binary Descriptor based on Voted Ring-sampling pattern". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), 2020. 14. Bin Fan, Qingqun Kong, Xinchao Wang, Zhiheng Wang, Shiming Xiang, Chunhong Pan, and Pascal Fua. "A Performance Evaluation of Local Features for Image Based 3D Reconstruction". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), 2019. 15. Yongcheng Liu, Bin Fan, Lingfeng Wang, Jun Bai, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "Semantic Labeling in Very High Resolution Images via A Self-Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network". ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PHRS), 2018. [code] 16. Hengliang Luo, Yi Yang, Bei Tong, Fuchao Wu, and Bin Fan. "Traffic Sign Recognition Using Multi-task Convolutional Neural Network". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE TITS), 2018 17. Kun Ding, Chunlei Huo, Bin Fan, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "In Defense of Locality-Sensitive Hashing". IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), 29(1):87-103, 2018.  18. Xinchao Wang, Bin Fan, Shiyu Chang, Zhangyang Wang, Xianming Liu, Dacheng Tao, and Thomas S. Huang. "Greedy Batch-based Minimum-cost Flows for Tracking Multiple Objects". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), 26(10):4765-4776, 2017 19. Kun Ding, Bin Fan, Chunlei Huo, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "Cross-Modal Hashing via Rank-Order Preserving". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), 19(3): 571-585, 2017. 20. Zisha Zhong, Bin Fan, Kun Ding, Haichang Li, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "Efficient Multiple Feature Fusion with Hashing for Hyperspectral Imagery Classification: A Comparative Study". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS), 54(8): 4461-4478, 2016.  21. Zhenhua Wang, Bin Fan, Gang Wang, and Fuchao Wu. "Exploring Local and Overall Ordinal Information for Robust Feature Description".  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 38(11): 2198-2211, 2016. [code] 22. Wei Sui, Lingfeng Wang, Bin Fan, Hongfei Xiao, Huaiyu Wu, and Chunhong Pan. "Layer-wise Floorplan Extraction for Automatic Urban Building Reconstruction". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), 22(3): 1261-1277, 2016.  23. Bin Fan, Qingqun Kong, Tomasz Trzcinski, Zhiheng Wang, Chunhong Pan, and Pascal Fua. "Receptive Fields Selection for Binary Feature Description". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), 23(6): 2583-2595, 2014. 24. Feiyun Zhu, Ying Wang, Bin Fan, Shiming Xiang, Gaofeng Meng, and Chunhong Pan. "Spectral Unmixing via Data-guided Sparity". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), 23(12): 5412-5427, 2014. 25. Bin Fan, Fuchao Wu, and Zhanyi Hu, "Rotationally Invariant Descriptors using Intensity Order Pooling", IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 34(10): 2031-2045, 2012. [code] 26. Bin Fan, Fuchao Wu, and Zhanyi Hu, "Robust Line Matching through Line-point Invariants", Pattern Recognition (PR), 45(2): 794-805, 2012.
Conferences
1. Shixiong Xu, Gaofeng Meng, Xing Nie, Bolin Ni, Bin Fan, and Shiming Xiang. "Defying Imbalanced Forgetting in Class Incremental Learning". The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024), 2024. 2. Yongjie Chen, Hongmin Liu, Haoran Yin, and Bin Fan. "Building Vision Transformers with Hierarchy Aware Feature Aggregation". In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023), 2023 3. Sen Pei, Xin Zhang, Bin Fan, and Gaofeng Meng. "Out-of-distribution Detection with Boundary Aware Learning". In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022), 2022. 4. Chenghao Zhang, Kun Tian, Bin Fan, Gaofeng Meng, Zhaoxiang Zhang, and Chunhong Pan. "Continual Stereo Matching of Continuous Driving Scenes with Growing Architecture". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022), 2022. 5. Changwei Wang, Rongtao Xu, Yuyang Zhang, Shibiao Xu, Weiliang Meng, Bin Fan, Xiaopeng Zhang. "MTLDesc: Looking Wider to Describe Better". The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022), 2022. 6. Haibao Yu, Qi Han, Jianbo Li, Jianping Shi, Guangliang Cheng, and Bin Fan. "Search What You Want: BP-NAS for Mixed Precision Quantization". In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), 2020. [pdf] 7. Chaoxu Guo, Bin Fan, Qian Zhang, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "AugFPN: Improving Multi-scale Feature Learning for Object Detection". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), 2020. [pdf] [code] 8. Yongcheng Liu, Bin Fan, Gaofeng Meng, Jiwen Lu, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "DensePoint: Learning Densely Contextual Representation for Efficient Point Cloud Processing". In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2019), 2019. [pdf] [code] 9. Chaoxu Guo, Bin Fan, Jie Gu, Qian Zhang, Shiming Xiang, Veronique Prinet, and Chunhong Pan. "Progressive Sparse Local Attention for Video Object Detection". In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2019), 2019. [pdf] 10. Yongcheng Liu, Bin Fan, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "Relation-Shape Convolutional Neural Network for Point Cloud Analysis". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019), 2019. [pdf] [code] (Best paper finalists) 11. Yurun Tian, Xin Yu, Bin Fan, Fuchao Wu, Huub Heijnen, and Vassileios Balntas. "SOSNet: Second Order Similarity Regularization for Local Descriptor Learning". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019), 2019. [pdf] [code] 12. Yurun Tian, Bin Fan, and Fuchao Wu. "L2-Net: Deep Learning of Discriminative Patch Descriptor in Euclidean Space". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017), 2017. [pdf] [code] 13. Kun Ding, Chunlei Huo, Bin Fan, and Chunhong Pan. "kNN Hashing with Factorized Neighborhood Representation". In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015), 2015. [pdf] 14. Yanhong Bi, Bin Fan, and Fuchao Wu. "Beyond Mahalanobis Metric: Cayley-Klein Metric Learning". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015), 2015. [pdf] 15. Feiyun Zhu, Bin Fan, Xinliang Zhu, Ying Wang, Shiming Xiang, and Chunhong Pan. "10,000+ Times Accelerated Robust Subset Selection (ARSS) ". The Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), 2015. 16. Zhenhua Wang, Bin Fan, and Fuchao Wu. "Affine Subspace Representation for Feature Description". In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2014), 2014. 17. Zhenhua Wang, Bin Fan, and Fuchao Wu, "Local Intensity Order Pattern for Feature Description". In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), 2011. 18. Bin Fan, Fuchao Wu, and Zhanyi Hu, "Aggregating Gradient Distributions into Intensity Orders: A Novel Local Image Descriptor". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011), 2011. 19. Bin Fan, Fuchao Wu, and Zhanyi Hu, "Line Matching Leveraged by Point Correspondences". In Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), 2010.
Professional Activities
l IEEE Senior Member, since 2016.10 l Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), 2024.1 l Associate Editor of Neurocomputing (Elsevier), since 2014.10 l Associate Editor of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Elsevier), since 2023.8 l Associate Editor of The Visual Computer (Springer), since 2020.2 l Associate Editor of Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer), since 2021.12 l Associate Editor of Journal of Imaging (MDPI), since 2021 l Area Chair: CVPR 2023/2024, ECCV 2024, NeurIPS 2024 WACV 2016, ICME 2020-2024, PRCV 2022/2024 l Senior Program Committee Member: IJCAI 2020, IJCAI 2021, AAAI 2024, AAAI 2025 l Executive Area Chair (EAC): VALSE (2019-2021) l Senior Area Chair (SAC): VALSE (2021-2023) l Program Committee Member: CVPR (2011-2022), ICCV (2011-2023), ECCV (2012-2022), NeurIPS (2019-2023), AAAI (2019-2022), ICML (2020-2022), ICLR (2021-2022), etc. l Journal reviewer: IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, IEEE TCyb, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TGRS, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE JSTARS, Pattern Recognition, ISPRS JPHRS, etc. l Outstanding Reviewer: CVPR 2015, CVPR 2021, NeurIPS 2021
Alumni
l Zhenhua Wang, PhD (2008-2014, co-supervise with Prof. Fuchao Wu), (first job) PosDoc at NTU, Singapore; (now) Lead Researcher at Alibaba Group, China l Feiyun Zhu, PhD (2011-2016, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) PosDoc at Michigan University, USA; (now) Research at Sam's Club, USA l Zisha Zhong, PhD (2011-2017, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) PosDoc at The University of Iowa, USA; l Guoli Wang, PhD (2012-2018, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) Researcher at Samsung Research, China; (now) Researcher at Horizontal Robotics, China l Kun Ding, PhD (2014-2017, co-supervise with Prof, Chunhong Pan), (first job) Researcher at DiDi, China l Yanhong Bi, PhD (2011-2018, co-supervise with Prof. Fuchao Wu), (first job) Researcher at CNKI, China l Yurun Tian, PhD (2014-2019, co-supervise with Prof. Fuchao Wu), (first job) PosDoc at Imperial College London, UK l Yongcheng Liu, PhD (2015-2020, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) Assistant Professor at NLPR, CASIA l Chaoxu Guo, MS (2017-2020, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) Researcher at Alibaba Group, China l Hua Lin, MS (2017-2020, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) Researcher at UISEE, China l Liang Yan, PhD (2016-2021, co-supervise with Prof. Chunhong Pan), (first job) Researcher at Alibaba Group, China l Yirong Yang, MS (2018-2021, co-supervise with Prof. Shiming Xiang), (first job) Researcher at ByteDance, China ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Supervised Students at USTB ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- l Junjie Zhou, MS (2020-2023, 1 IEEE TIP), (first job) STARDUST, Beijing l Mingming Song, MS (2020-2023, 1 PRCV), (first job) Baidu, Beijing l Chuanjin Liu, MS (2020-2023, 1 IEEE RAL) (first job) Beijing Titlis Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing l Zhili Qiu, MS (2021-2024), (first job) Si-Tech Information Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing l Haifeng Yuan, MS (2021-2024), (first job) Li Auto, Beijing l Yinke Dong, MS (2021-2024), (first job) Li Auto, Beijing l Yixian Wang, MS (2021-2024), (first job) Guangzhou Automobile Car Energy Technology, Guangzhou