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Yuhao Chen is a Research Assistant Professor at the Vision and Image Processing Lab (VIP) in systems design engineering at university of Waterloo. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the VIP lab from 2020-2023. He obtained his B.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2015 and 2019, respectively, while being a member of the Video and Image Processing (VIPER) laboratory. With a strong passion for exploring the cutting-edge technologies, Yuhao’s research has been focused on developing computer vision and artificial intelligence solutions for industrial applications, specifically in the fields of precision health and precision manufacturing. He currently leads projects in food image analysis, medical imaging for covid, efficient Neural Radience Field, data augmentation using diffusion models for food and cancer images, 3d human pose and motion for hockey games, human avatar and motion from 2d images and videos, implicit representation for 3D and 2D geometries, multi-task learning for robotic vision systems.

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Employment (2)

University of Waterloo: Waterloo, Ontario, CA

2023-04-01 to present | research assistant professor (Systems design engineering)
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Yuhao Chen

University of Waterloo: Waterloo, Ontario, CA

2020-01 to 2023-03 | postdoc (Systems design engineering)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Purdue University: West Lafayette, IN, US

2015-08-22 to 2019-12 | Direct PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Purdue University: West Lafayette, IN, US

2011-08-22 to 2015-05-16 | BS (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Works (35)

MetaGraspNetV2: All-in-One Dataset Enabling Fast and Reliable Robotic Bin Picking via Object Relationship Reasoning and Dexterous Grasping

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Maximilian Gilles; Yuhao Chen; Emily Zhixuan Zeng; Yifan Wu; Kai Furmans; Alexander Wong; Rania Rayyes
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Rethinking Resource Competition in Multi-Task Learning: From Shared Parameters to Shared Representation

IEEE Access
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Dayou Mao; Yuhao Chen; Yifan Wu; Maximilian Gilles; Alexander Wong
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Superpixel-Guided Multi-Type Rail Segmentation via Contextual Information Aggregation

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Xuefeng Ni; Paul W. Fieguth; Ziji Ma; Bo Shi; Yuan Qiu; Yuhao Chen; Hongli Liu
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Weakly Supervised Learning for Pixel-Level Sea Ice Concentration Extraction Using AI4Arctic Sea Ice Challenge Dataset

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinwei Chen; Muhammed Patel; Linlin Xu; Yuhao Chen; K. Andrea Scott; David A. Clausi
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Synthetic Local Data Augmentation

2024-10-02 | Conference paper
Contributors: Vasyl Chomko; Yuhao Chen; David A. Clausi; Alexander Wong
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Fast GraspNeXt: A Fast Self-Attention Neural Network Architecture for Multi-task Learning in Computer Vision Tasks for Robotic Grasping on the Edge

arXiv
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85159701031

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Wong, A.; Wu, Y.; Abbasi, S.; Nair, S.; Chen, Y.; Shafiee, M.J.
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Multi-Task Edge Detection for Building Vectorization From Aerial Images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85149168080

Part of ISSN: 15580571 1545598X
Contributors: Wu, Y.; Xu, L.; Wang, L.; Chen, Q.; Chen, Y.; Clausi, D.A.
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NutritionVerse-3D: A 3D Food Model Dataset for Nutritional Intake Estimation

arXiv
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85156122633

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Tai, C.-E.A.; Keller, M.; Kerrigan, M.; Chen, Y.; Nair, S.; Xi, P.; Wong, A.
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NutritionVerse-Thin: An Optimized Strategy for Enabling Improved Rendering of 3D Thin Food Models

arXiv
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85156169157

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Tai, C.-E.A.; Li, J.; Kumar, S.; Nair, S.; Chen, Y.; Xi, P.; Wong, A.
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ShapeShift: Superquadric-based Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Grasping

arXiv
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85154039703

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Zeng, E.Z.; Chen, Y.; Wong, A.
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Transferring Knowledge for Food Image Segmentation using Transformers and Convolutions

arXiv
2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85164195424

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Sinha, G.; Parmar, K.; Azimi, H.; Tai, A.; Chen, Y.; Wong, A.; Xi, P.
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Jersey Number Recognition using Keyframe Identification from Low-Resolution Broadcast Videos

2023-10-29 | Conference paper
Contributors: Bavesh Balaji; Jerrin Bright; Harish Prakash; Yuhao Chen; David A. Clausi; John Zelek
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Mitigating Motion Blur for Robust 3D Baseball Player Pose Modeling for Pitch Analysis

2023-10-29 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jerrin Bright; Yuhao Chen; John Zelek
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NutritionVerse: Empirical Study of Various Dietary Intake Estimation Approaches

2023-10-29 | Conference paper
Contributors: Chi-en Amy Tai; Matthew Keller; Saeejith Nair; Yuhao Chen; Yifan Wu; Olivia Markham; Krish Parmar; Pengcheng Xi; Heather Keller; Sharon Kirkpatrick et al.
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Rink-Agnostic Hockey Rink Registration

2023-10-29 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jia Cheng Shang; Yuhao Chen; Mohammad Javad Shafiee; David A. Clausi
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A Bayesian Deep Image Prior Downscaling Approach for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Estimation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85130805725

Part of ISSN: 21511535 19391404
Contributors: Fang, Y.; Xu, L.; Chen, Y.; Zhou, W.; Wong, A.; Clausi, D.A.
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MetaGraspNet: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Scene-Aware Ambidextrous Bin Picking via Physics-based Metaverse Synthesis

arXiv
2022 | Other
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2-s2.0-85136036354

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Gilles, M.; Chen, Y.; Winter, T.R.; Zeng, E.Z.; Wong, A.
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MetaGraspNet: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Scene-Aware Ambidextrous Bin Picking via Physics-based Metaverse Synthesis

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
2022 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85141720705

Part of ISSN: 21618089 21618070
Contributors: Gilles, M.; Chen, Y.; Robin Winter, T.; Zhixuan Zeng, E.; Wong, A.
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MMRNet: Improving Reliability for Multimodal Object Detection and Segmentation for Bin Picking via Multimodal Redundancy

arXiv
2022 | Other
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2-s2.0-85163343772

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Chen, Y.; Gunraj, H.; Zeng, E.Z.; Meyer, R.; Gilles, M.; Wong, A.
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Yuhao Chen via Scopus - Elsevier

TAL: Topography-Aware Multi-Resolution Fusion Learning for Enhanced Building Footprint Extraction

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85124713772

Part of ISSN: 15580571 1545598X
Contributors: Wu, Y.; Xu, L.; Chen, Y.; Wong, A.; Clausi, D.A.
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Integrating crop growth models with remote sensing for predicting biomass yield of sorghum

In Silico Plants
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85107456402

Part of ISSN: 25175025
Contributors: Yang, K.-W.; Chapman, S.; Carpenter, N.; Hammer, G.; McLean, G.; Zheng, B.; Chen, Y.; Delp, E.; Masjedi, A.; Crawford, M. et al.
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MetaGraspNet_v0: A Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vision-driven Robotic Grasping via Physics-based Metaverse Synthesis

arXiv
2021 | Other
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2-s2.0-85137557191

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Chen, Y.; Zeng, E.Z.; Gilles, M.; Wong, A.
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Yuhao Chen via Scopus - Elsevier

Plant stem segmentation using fast ground truth generation

arXiv
2020 | Other
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2-s2.0-85094026039

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Yang, C.; Baireddy, S.; Chen, Y.; Cai, E.; Caldwell, D.; Méline, V.; Iyer-Pascuzzi, A.S.; Delp, E.J.
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Plant Stem Segmentation Using Fast Ground Truth Generation

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85085497816

Contributors: Yang, C.; Baireddy, S.; Chen, Y.; Cai, E.; Caldwell, D.; Meline, V.; Iyer-Pascuzzi, A.S.; Delp, E.J.
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Quantization in relative gradient angle domain for building polygon estimation

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85110472958

Part of ISSN: 10514651
Contributors: Chen, Y.; Wu, Y.; Xu, L.; Wong, A.
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QUANTIZATION in RELATIVE GRADIENT ANGLE DOMAIN for BUILDING POLYGON ESTIMATION

arXiv
2020 | Other
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2-s2.0-85095501138

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Chen, Y.; Wu, Y.; Xu, L.; Wong, A.
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Detecting and counting panicles in sorghum images

Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 5th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSAA 2018
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85062843726

Contributors: Olsen, P.A.; Natesan Ramamurthy, K.; Ribera, J.; Chen, Y.; Thompson, A.M.; Luss, R.; Tuinstra, M.; Abe, N.
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Leaf segmentation by functional modeling

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85080051446

Part of ISSN: 21607516 21607508
Contributors: Chen, Y.; Baireddy, S.; Cai, E.; Yang, C.; Delp, E.J.
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Locating objects without bounding boxes

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85077739374

Part of ISSN: 10636919
Contributors: Ribera, J.; Guera, D.; Chen, Y.; Delp, E.J.
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Yuhao Chen via Scopus - Elsevier

Counting plants using deep learning

2017 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP 2017 - Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85048118089

Contributors: Ribera, J.; Chen, Y.; Boomsma, C.; Delp, E.J.
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Estimating phenotypic traits from UAV based RGB imagery

arXiv
2018 | Other
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2-s2.0-85094493038

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Ribera, J.; He, F.; Chen, Y.; Habib, A.F.; Delp, E.J.
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Yuhao Chen via Scopus - Elsevier

Estimating plant centers using a deep binary classifier

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85055541606

Contributors: Chen, Y.; Ribera, J.; Delp, E.J.
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Yuhao Chen via Scopus - Elsevier

Locating objects without bounding boxes

arXiv
2018 | Other
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2-s2.0-85093784318

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Ribera, J.; Güera, D.; Chen, Y.; Delp, E.J.
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Yuhao Chen via Scopus - Elsevier

Plant leaf segmentation for estimating phenotypic traits

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
2018 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85045300227

Part of ISSN: 15224880
Contributors: Chen, Y.; Ribera, J.; Boomsma, C.; Delp, E.J.
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Locating Crop Plant Centers from UAV-Based RGB Imagery

Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCVW 2017
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85046254452

Contributors: Chen, Y.; Ribera, J.; Boomsma, C.; Delp, E.
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