Liang (Eric) Yang is a 3D computer vision researcher at Apple Inc. He obtained two doctoral degrees, one from the City College of New York, City University of New York under the supervision of Dr. Jizhong Xiao at the CCNY Robotics Lab, and another one from State Key Lab of Robotics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His research interests includes 3D semantic understanding, 3D Object Graph Learning, visual localition and sensor fusion, deep inspection, and navigation for mobile autonomous robots. Please feel free to contact me for Any Cooperation.
Liang Yang had won 2014 IEEE ICMA Best Student Paper Award, 2015 ICIRA Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2017 Best IBM CRL Intern Research Project, 2018 Third Prize of UTC Graduate Research Poster, and 2019 Second Poster Prize of Soft Robotics and Robot Learning Workshop. He interned at MicroSoft Research & AI, and cooperated with Dr. Hao Jiang and the Ambient Intelligent Team. He was working toward Person Verification and Tracking using Ambient and Ego-centric Video. He also interned at IBM CRL NLP Group last summer (2017), where he was able to collaborate with Dr. Zhong Su on developing a robotic deep DJ system.
He was wroking on two projects supported by US Department of Transportation: 1) Deep Inspection using a Multi-scale network from detection to segmentation, and then back project to 3D space. 2) Flying and Wall Climbing Robots for Inspection, the project involves ROS, Android, Computer Vision, etc experience.
PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2019
The City Collge/City University Of New York
PHD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, 2017
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
MS in Control System, 2013
University Of Science And Technology Of China
Our Paper Towards Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation in 3D Graph-Structured Point Clouds of Wild Scenes by Haiyan Wang, Xuejian Rong, Liang Yang, Yingli Tian, is accepted by British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019, as oral. We were working toward point segmentation in a semi-superwised approach.
Our Paper Deep Neural Network based Visual Inspection with 3D Metric Measurement of Concrete Defects using Wall-climbing Robot Has been Accepted by 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019).
Our Paper Visual-GPS: Ego-Downward and Ambient Video based Person Location Association has been accepted by IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 2019. Please email me if you are interested.
Our Paper Visual SHM for Concrete Infrastructure Using a Wall-climbing Robot has been accepted by 9th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure 2019. Looking forward to see you at St. Louis.
Released the dataset for paper: Semantic Metric 3D Reconstruction for Concrete Inspection (Authors are: Liang Yang, Bing Li, Wei Li, Biao Jiang, and Jizhong Xiao), 2018 CVPRW. Please check here Code and Data. Also check here for our previous work: concrete structure inspection Code and Data.
See how things really be interesting combining 3D and 2D, the indoor semantic segmentation and reconstruction, wait for my further paper work:
This work aims to provide a robust and easy access solution of scale-visual-positioning
Field test at bridge-tunnel vertical surface at Riverside Dr, New York
From end of 2016, I was supported by US Dept. of Transportation of the project: Tier I University Transportation Center: Inspecting and Preserving Infrastructure through Robotic Exploration (INSPIRE Center). We proposed a new approach using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) towards a Concrete Structure Spalling and Crack database (CSSC), we also fined tuned the vgg 16 with a detection baseline for spalling/crack detection.
Thanks to U.S. Army Research Office grant and GSSI donation for visual SLAM and IMU fusion research for high aacuracy positioning and reconstruction
3D Lidar mapping and autonomous indoor parking solution
Thanks to U.S. Army Research Office grant and GSSI donation for visual SLAM and IMU fusion research for high aacuracy positioning and reconstruction
I am teaching at The City College of New York as Adjunct Lecturer for EE221, my office hour: Friday - 2 ~ 4 PM.
Year 2019 Spring: Measurement Laboratory I, please find the dropbox link below to download the materials you need:
Year 2018 Fall: Measurement Laboratory I, please find the dropbox link below to download the materials you need: