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Education
- Ph.D., Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
- Date: March 2016
- Doctoral Thesis: Understanding Hand-Object Manipulation from First-Person View Video
- Advisor: Prof. Yoichi Sato and Dr. Kris Kitani
- M.S., Communication and Information System, Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi’an, China)
- Date: March 2011
- Master’s Thesis: Research on Cross-layer Design between H.264 Algorithms and MAC Protocols of Wireless Ad hoc Networks
- Advisor: Prof. Bo Li
- B.S., Electronics and Information Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi’an, China)
- Date: June 2008
Research experience
- Apr 2016 - Seq 2018: Project Researcher
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
- Research area: First-person vision, wearable ego-vision system and its applications.
- Supervisor: Prof. Yoichi Sato
- Sep 2015 - Mar 2016: Research Intern
- Huawei Japan Research Center (Yokohama, Japan)
- Research area: Hand gesture recognition and its applications in virtual reality.
- Supervisor: Dr. Bo Zheng
Work experience
- April 2011 - April 2012: Software Engineer
- Huwei Technologies (Shenzhen, China)
- Duties included: Developing software for access network devices
Selected publications
Predicting Gaze in Egocentric Video by Learning Task-dependent Attention Transition
Y. Huang, M. Cai, Z. Li and Y. Sato, "Predicting Gaze in Egocentric Video by Learning Task-dependent Attention Transition," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV oral), pp. 789-804, 2018.
Temporal localization and spatial segmentation of joint attention in multiple first-person videos
Y. Huang, M. Cai, H. Kera, R. Yonetani, K. Higuchi, and Y. Sato, "Temporal localization and spatial segmentation of joint attention in multiple first-person videos," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW), pp. 2313-2321, 2017.
An ego-vision system for hand grasp analysis
M. Cai, K.M. Kitani, and Y. Sato, "An ego-vision system for hand grasp analysis," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS), vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 524–535, 2017.
Understanding hand-object manipulation with grasp types and object attributes
M. Cai, K.M. Kitani, and Y. Sato, "Understanding hand-object manipulation with grasp types and object attributes," Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), XII.034, pp. 1-10, 2016.
A scalable approach for understanding the visual structures of hand grasps
M. Cai, K.M. Kitani, and Y. Sato, "A scalable approach for understanding the visual structures of hand grasps," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1360-1366, 2015.
Skills
- Programming: C++/C, Python, Matlab
- Language
- Chinese: Native
- English: Fluent
- Japanese: Fluent (reading); Intermediate (speaking, writing)
- Deutsch: Beginner
Services
- Area Chair
- CVPR 2024
- International conference reviewer
- ICCV 2017 - 2023
- CVPR 2018 - 2023
- ECCV 2018 - 2024
- NeurIPS 2022 - 2024
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