Archived news.
11/22/2024 Bei is presenting at IEEE Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (BIBM) conference in Lisbon December 3, 2024.
10/14/2024 Our paper "CTP-LLM: Predicting Clinical Trial Phase Transition using Large-Language Models" Is accepted by IEEE BIBM as a short paper. Congratulations on first author Michael Reinisch!
9/17/2024 Chenxi's paper "Probing the Link Between Vision and Language in Material Perception. " is now published in PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations, Chenxi.
8/23/2024 The Xiao lab welcome Vatanak (Vee) Lavan joining the lab as PhD student. Vee received his BS degree in CS in Kean University in 2024.
8/6/2024 Chenxi Liao is presenting a poser on "Probing semantic and visual representations in material perception through psychophysics and unsupervised learning" at CCN2024 on August 6, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
5/18/2024 Bei is giving a talk at Technology Workshop " Unveiling the potential of AI in Understanding Human Vision with Ethical Integration" in Vision Science Society Annual Meeting.
4/25/2024 Congratulations to collaborating student Jianfeng He (Virginia Tech) on successfully defending his PhD thesis and receiving the best thesis award from Virginia Tech.
4/03/2024 Bei is giving a seminar talk at Stanford Vision Brunch on Zoom at 12:30pm US Eastern.
3/22/2024. Bei is giving a seminar talk at SUNY School of Optometry SIVR Colloquia, New York City.
3/08/2024. Bei is awarded the honorific title Provost Associate Professor.
1/04/2024. American University is among the first to receive an NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) award ($5.7 Million) for translating basic research into practice and policy. Bei leads one of the seed projects on clinical trial transition prediction.
12/04/2023. Bei is giving a seminar talk at CS department in University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
11/20/2023-11/23/2023 Bei is attending Brittish Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2023) In Aberdeen, Scottland.
11/14/2023 "Chenxi Liao will present our work "Probing the link between vision and language in material perception using machine learning and psychophysics" in Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting (SFN ) (poster 347.10/EEF)
10/16/2023 Xiao Lab welcomes Michael Reinisch, visiting graduate student from Univ. of Graz to join the lab as a researcher.
10/01/2023 Xiao Lab welcomes neuroscience major Jack MacCollum to join the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
8/08/2023 Jianfeng He presented our paper "CLUR: Uncertainty Estimation for Few-Shot Text Classification with Contrastive Learning" at KDD 2023 Research Track. Paper PDF is here.
5/21/2023 Chenxi Liao is giving a talk "Share representation of Different Material Categories: Transfer learning from Cyrstals from Soap" at Vision Science Society 2023.
5/16/2023. Our paper "CLUR: Uncertainty Estimation for Few-Shot Text Classification with Contrastive Learning", is accepted by KDD 2023 Research Track. Congratulations to first author, Jiafeng He. PDF coming soon.
4/27/2023. Bei Xiao and Professor Laurie Bayet (Neuroscience) received a $40K CAS Collaborative Pilot Research Grant from AU. We are very excited to collaborate with Bayet Lab in Visual Development on Object Perception.
04/05/2023. Xiao lab has open positions for Master Graduate Fellowship and RA position. Details see Open Positions.
03/07/2023. Bei Xiao is awarded an NIH R15 grant of $420K for the proposal "Learning diagnostic latent representations for human material perception: common mechanisms and individual variability"! The project starting date is April 1st, 2023!
03/07/2023, Our paper "Unsupervised learning reveals interpretable latent representation for translucency perception" is selected as a cover paper for the February issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations to first author Chenxi Liao.
02/13/2023, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2023 will be in Aberdeen, UK. I will be AC/Reviewer selection Chair.
01/20/2023, Bei Xiao will give a talk in Japaness vision science society winter meeting on "Understanding material perception using deep generative models".
12/12/2022. Chenxi Liao successfully defended his master thesis "UNSUPERVISED LEARNING REVEALS INTERPRETABLE LATENT REPRESENTATION FOR TRANSLUCENCY PERCEPTION ". Congratulations.
01/23/2023, Our paper "Unsupervised learning reveals interpretable latent representation for translucency perception" is accepted to publish in PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations on first author Chenxi Liao.
08/29/2022, Chenxi presented a poster, "Unsupervised learning of translucent material appearance using StyleGAN", in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (CCN) in San Francisco.
06/29/2022. Bei is serving on Programming Committee at the 2022 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2022). Abstract Submission deadline: July 22nd. Full paper deadline: July 29th. All deadline 23:59 GMT.
06/07/2022 Our paper "Semantic Inpainting on Segmentation Map Via Multi-Expansion Loss" is accepted to publish in Neurocomputing. Please find the PDF of the paper here and the code here. Congratulations on first author Jianfeng He.
5/24/2022 The lab is attending The third Capital Graphics workshop, a local gathering of vision and graphics researchers in DMV in George Washington University. Bei, Chenxi, Jesse and Shengkai are all presenting!
5/13/2022 Chenxi and I are attending Vision Science Society Annual Meeting in St. Pete's beach in Florida. Chenxi is giving a talk in the Color, light and material session on Sunday afternoon, 2:30pm.
2/9/2022. Our submission "A Perceptual Evaluation of the StyleGAN2-ADA Generated Images of Translucent Objects" has been accepted as an Oral Presentation at VSS 2022. Congratulations to first author, Chenxi Liao.
2/9/2022. Our submission "Replaceability of two deep generative models trained with a pair of translucent objects with different geometries" Has been accepted as a poster presentation in V-VSS. Congratulations to first author, Masataka Sawayama.
12/17/2021 Our paper "Crystal or Jelly? Effect of Color on the Perception of Translucent Materials with Photographs of Real-world Objects" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Vision. Congratulations on first author, Chenxi Liao.
09/22/2021 We received a new NSF grant "MRI: Acquisition of Volumetric Capture System for the Institute for IDEAS". This grants allows to set up a new Volumetric Capture Studio at Institute of IDEALS at AU and opens exciting research directions at AU!
09/17/2021 Our paper "Reducing Noise Pixels and Metric Bias in Semantic Inpainting onSegmentation Map" is accepted to publish in ICCV Advances in Image Manipulations (AIMs) 2021 workshop. Congratulations on first author JIanfeng He. Read the paper here.
08/02/2021 Bei Xiao is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effectively July 1st.
07/02/2021 Exciting news! Starting July, we are having a joint Machine Vision Journal Club with Prof. Leah Ding's lab. We read recent and classical papers in machine vision, human cognition, and machine learning in cybersecurity. You can find the Journal Club papers and schedules here. We wish to continue this into Fall, 2022. If you are interested in joining us, please email Bei or Chenxi Liao.
06/07/2021 I am one of CVPR2021 outstanding reviewers. Nice to be recognized.
05/22/2021 Xiao lab is attending V-VSS. Check out our poster on individual difference in material perception.
05/12/2021 Xiao lab welcomes CS major, Jesse Schwarz, joining the lab. Jesse will work on visual perception in VR.
05/2/2021 Xiao lab welcomes Shengkai Liao, Master student in CS, joining the lab. Shengkai will do his capstone project on machine learning to predict visual preferences.
02/22/2021. Our abstract " Individual Differences in Classification of Translucent Materials Using Photos of Real-world Objects has been accepted as a Poster presentation at the 2021 V-VSS Annual Meeting. Congratulations to first author Chenxi Liao.
09/16/2020. Our paper "Towards More Accurate Uncertainty Estimation In Text Classification" is accepted by EMNLP 2020! Congratulations to first author Jianfeng He. The paper will be presented at EMNLP 2020 conference.
08/31/2020 Our paper "Exploring the determinants of color perception using #thedress and its variants: the role of spatio-chromatic context, chromatic illumination, and material-light interaction" is accepted to publish in journal Perception.
7/26/2020 A new review chapter on Color Constancy written by Bei is published in Springer's Encyclopedia on Color Science and Technology.
7/15/2020 Our paper "Effect of Geometric Sharpness on Translucent Material Perception" is published in Journal of Vision. Thanks for all the co-authors.
06/23/2020 Xiao lab welcomes Chenxi Liao joining the lab. Chenxi will start his PhD studies in Brain, Cognition, and Neuroscience program at AU this Fall. Before joining Xiao lab, Chenxi was a master student in Industrial Engineering at Columbia University.
05/11/2020 Former lab member Gaurav Kumar has accepted an offer from UCSD for graduate study in CS. Congratulations Gaurav!
1/01/2020 Wenyan Bi accepted a postdoc position at Department of Psychology at Yale University. Congratulations!
12/20/2019 CVSS 2019 Lecture Videos online.
10/27-10/30/2019 Bei visitedTU Delft for invited mini-symposium on material perception and Fan Zhang's PhD defense.
10/02/19 Wenyan Bi Successfully defended her PhD thesis: "VISUAL INFERENCE OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF DEFORMABLE OBJECTS IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS". Congratulations, Dr. Bi!
06/29/19 Computational Vision Summer School (CVSS 2019) is happening now. Wenyan and Laysa are presenting posters! See the detailed program here.
05/15/19. The 2019 Capital Graphics workshop will be held in George Mason University Arlington Campus.
04/16/19. Bei was awarded National Eye Institute Early Career Scientist Travel Grant to attend the 2019 Vision Science Society annual meeting.
04/02/19. Evan Jeing has won a NASA AU STEM Student Summer Research Award on "Visual and Haptic Perception of Object Material Properties in VR". Congratulations, Evan.
03/21/19. Our paper "Manipulating patterns of dynamic deformation elicits the impression of cloth with varying stiffness" is accepted to publish in Journal of Vision. Congratulations on first author, Wenyan Bi.
02/06/19 Our paper "Visual communication of how haptics feel" is now published in Journal of Vision.
11/30/18 Bei is giving a computer science colloquium talk at College of William and Mary, VA.
08/18 Wenyan's paper "'How does motion affect material perception of deformable objects?" is accepted to present in the 2018 conference on computational cognitive neuroscience (CCN) in Philadelphia.
07/18 Bei and Wenyan are visiting University of Tuebingen, Center of Integrated Neuroscience.
06/18 Our paper "Interaction between static visual cues and force feedback on perception of mass of visual objects" is conditionally accepted by ACM SAP 2018. Congratulations on the first author Wenyan Bi! Preprint is now published on Biorxiv.
05/18 Wenyan Bi received a competitive Center of Behavioral Neuroscience Summer Research Award. This award will support her research on haptic and visual perception of material properties this summer. Congratulations, Wenyan!
05/01 The lab welcomes Gaurav Kumar, a summer research student form IIT Kanpur. Gaurav will work on deep learning on cloth perception.
04/18 Bei Xiao received American University Mellon Fellowship for projects in haptics and visual perception in VR.
03/18 Wenyan's new paper," Estimating mechanical properties of cloth from videos using dense motion trajectories: human psychophysics and machine learning" is accepted for publication in Journal of Vision. Congratulations, Wenyan!