LI REN
302-230-6194 renli@knights.ucf.edu
EDUCATION
University of Central Florida, FL
Ph.D in Computer Science
University of Delaware, DE
M.S. in Computer Science
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
B.E. in Electronic and Information Engineering
2016 - Present
2012 - 2014
2007 - 2012
RESEARCH INTEREST
Image & Video Processing, Natural Language Processing
PUBLICATION
Li Ren, Kai Li, Liqiang Wang, Kien Hua, Beyond the Deep Metric Learning: Enhance the Cross-Modal Matching with
Adversarial Discriminative Domain Regularization, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),
2020
Li Ren, Guojun Qi, Kien Hua, Improve Diversity of Visual Captioning Through Variational Autoencoder and Adversarial Learning, in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer (WACV), 2019
Li Ren, Kien Hua, Improved Image Description with Embedded Intermediate Scene Graph and Semantic Matching,
in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE-ISM), 2018
Guoyu Lu, Li Ren, Jeff Caplan, Chandra Kambhamettu, Stromule Branch Tip Detection Based on Accurate Cell
Image Segmentation, the 24th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE-ICIP), 2017
Guoyu Lu, Li Ren, Abhishek Kolagunda, Chandra Kambhamettu, Neural Network Shape: Organ Shape Representation With Radial Basis Function Neural Networks, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing (ICASSP), 2016
Guoyu Lu, Yan Yan, Li Ren, Jingkuan Song, Nicu Sebe, Chandra Kambhamettu, Localize Me Anywhere, Anytime:
A Multi-task Point-Retrieval Approach, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
Guoyu Lu, Yan Yan, Li Ren, Philip Saponaro, Nicu Sebe, Chandra Kambhamettu, Where Am I in the Dark:
Exploring Active Transfer Learning on the Use of Indoor Localization based on Thermal Imaging, Neurocomputing
173 (2016): 83-92.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant (Multimedia Lab, UCF)
· Research Projects on NLP/Multimedia Representation Learning
Advisor: Prof. K. Hua, Dr. Guojun Qi
2017 - present
Internship (Part Time) in Crystal Photonics, Inc.
· Single Scatter Simulation in Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Advisor: Dr. Soonseok Kim, Dr. Wenli Wang
2019 - 2020
Research Assistant (CRCV, UCF)
· Research Projects on Video Description
· Movie Description Challenge on Large Dataset.
Advisor: Prof. M. Shah
2016 - 2017
Research Internship (Intel China Labs)
· Explore innovative frameworks to learn semantic information from continuous video frames.
· Attend competition on 2016 MSR-VTT (3rd place)
Advisor: Dr. Jianguo Li
2015 - 2016
Research Assistant (VIMS Lab. University of Delawar)
2014 - 2015
· Propose a multi-task point retrieval framework to explore the relationship between descriptors and the 3D points.
· Propose an image-based localization system based on thermal imaging to make the system independent of light sources.
Advisor: Prof. C. Kambhamettu
Independent Project (University of Delaware)
2013
· Propose a framework with relevance model and relevance topic model applying query expansion technique on document
retrieval system.
· Advisor: Dr. Benjamin Carterette
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Tools
Research Tools
Python, C/C++, Matlab
PyTorch, Tensorflow