Wong, Yongkang 黄永康
BEng, PhD
Assistant Director (Operation)
NUS Artifitial Intelligence Institute (NAII)
Senior Research Fellow
School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Address: COM3 Building #B1-08, 11 Research Link, 119391
Singapore
Email: yongkang döt wong ät nus döt edu döt sg
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I am a senior research fellow at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, and the Assistant Director (Operation) of the NUS Artifitial Intelligence Institute (NAII) . I am also a member of the IEEE and ACM.
In 2006, I obtained his BEng from The University of Adelaide. After a brief spell in Clipsal Integrated Systems and Codan Limited, I pursuit PhD in Computer Science from The University of Queensland under the supervision of Prof. Brian C. Lovell and Dr. Conrad Sanderson. I has worked as a graduate researcher at NICTA's Queensland laboratory from 2008 to 2012. I joint NUS at 2012, where I have been working with exciting researchers on Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Social Scene Understanding, Privacy Preserving Technologies, Fairness, Trustworthy AI, Knowledge-driven model and many other topics. I also served as the Assistant Director for Sensor-enhanced Social Media Centre (SeSaMe Centre) and subsequently for NUS Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies (N-CRiPT).
My research is in the area of computer vision, machine learning and multimedia application, in particular on social scene analysis and trusted multimodal AI.
Latest News
1 paper accepted in NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight, Congrats to Wei
1 paper accepted in ICML 2024, Congrats to Wei
1 paper accepted in ICLR 2024, Congrats to Xudong
1st Place Award in EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges 2023 (Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Action Recognition), Congrats to Yi
1 paper accepted in NeurIPS 2022, Congrats to Ziwei
1 Brave New Idea paper accepted in ACM MM 2022 (Best Paper Award)
1 paper accepted n TPAMI, Congrats to Xudong
2 papers accepted in NeurIPS 2021, Congrats to Ziwei and Yan
Selected Recent Publications
TOPA: Extend Large Language Models for Video Understanding via Text-Only Pre-Alignment (NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight)
Improve Multimodal Context Understanding via Multimodal Composition Learning (ICML 2024).
Finetuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Fairness (ICLR 2024)
Don't Pour Cereal into Coffee: Differentiable Temporal Logic for Temporal Action Segmentation (NeurIPS 2021)
Fair Representation: Guranteeing Approximate Multiple Group Fairness for Unknown Tasks (TPAMI) arXiv
Unsupervised Motion Representation Learning with Capsule Autoencoders (NeurIPS 2021) arXiv
Learning to Predict Trustworthiness with Steep Slope Loss (NeurIPS 2021) arXiv
Learning Causal Representation for Training Cross-Domain Pose Estimator via Generative Inventions (ICCV 2021) Paper
Relation-aware Compositional Zero-shot Learning for Attribute-Object Pair Recognition (TMM) doi
Direction Concentration Learning: Enhancing Congruency in Machine Learning (TPAMI) arXiv
Learning to Detect Human-Object Interactions with Knowledge (CVPR 2019) Paper
Learning to Learn from Noisy Labeled Data (CVPR 2019) Paper
Community Service
Area Chair
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) - 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) - 2020, 2021, 2022
Guest Editor
Pattern Recognition Special Issue on Open-Set Big Data Understanding: Theory and Applications Call for Papers
Information Processing & Management Special Issue on Cross-Media analysis and Understanding
Workshop Program Chair / Program Committee Member
Workshop on User-centric Narrative Summarization of Long Videos (NarSUM) - 2022, 2023 website
Workshop on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunoflourescene Images - 2014
Review for the following journals: TMM, TIP, TCSVT, TKDD, TNNLS, TIFS, TOMM, TNNLS, TCYB, PLOS ONE, PRL, etc.
Review for the following conferences
Computer Vision
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - 2019, 2021, 2023
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) - 2020, 2022, 2024
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) - 2022
Multimedia
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) - 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
ACM Conference on Multimedia Asia (MM Asia) - 2019
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - 2021, 2022, 2024
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) - 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) - 2019, 2020, 2021
Others
International Conference of Pattern Recognition (ICPR) - 2012
International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP) - 2016
Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR) - 2011, 2013
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) - 2014, 2015
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) - 2012, 2014
International Joint Conference on Computer Sciences and Software Engineering (JCSSE) - 2014
Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology - 2015, 2019