About

About Me

I graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1997 and received my Ph.D. from Osaka City University in 2004. I began my career as a software engineer at a small startup. In 2007, I joined OMRON Corporation, where I have spent nine years developing various computer vision technologies for mobile applications. In 2016, I established my own company, tiwaki Co., Ltd. I am now a chair professor of Dalian University of Technology (DUT). To learn more about me, please check my posts on this website written in English, Chinese or Japanese.

Career

Engineer

As an engineer, I developed the world’s first commercial facial beautifier application for digital cameras and mobile phones in 2007, prior to the release of the first generation of the iPhone. Currently, I hold over 50 patents including granted patents and patent applications in progress. ¹ A few of my patents can be found here.

Researcher

I am working on problems related to computer vision and machine learning. My research interests include saliency detection, object detection, visual retrieval and more. I serve as reviewer for many top tier journals and conferences such as TPAMI, TIP, CVPR and ICCV, and others. I maintain the well-known saliency detection dataset DUT-OMRON and DUTS. Additionally, I am the author of the python implementation of Manifold Ranking Saliency algorithm. You can find my work on Google Scholar and DBLP.

Entrepreneur

I embarked on a new adventure in my career as an entrepreneur in 2016. Running a startup is never easy, but I relish the challenge and am constantly learning something new.