Qiang Meng (孟强)

I am currently a staff engineer at KargoBot and DiDi, specializing in perception for autonomous driving. My expertise lies in the realms of 3D object detection, occupancy prediction, and data fusion, among other areas. Prior to my current role, I worked as an algorithm engineer and sub-core team leader at Aibee. During my time at Aibee, I actively contributed to diverse computer vision projects, encompassing tasks such as face recognition, image retrieval, and car/person re-identification, etc.

I completed my Master's degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, with a GPA ranking of 3rd out of 61 students.

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News
  • 09/2024:    Our paper "OPUS: Occupancy Prediction Using a Sparse Set" was accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
  • 07/2024:    Our paper "Towards Stable 3D Object Detection" was accepted by ECCV 2024.
  • 02/2023:    Our paper "Curricular Object Manipulation in LiDAR-based Object Detection" was accepted by CVPR 2023.
  • 04/2022:    Invited to give a talk at Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 03/2022:    Invited to give a talk in ICLR 直播分享会 organized by ReadPaper.
  • 01/2022:    Our Paper "Improving Federated Learning Face Recognition via Privacy-Agnostic Clusters" was accepted by ICLR 2022 as a SPOTLIGHT paper.
  • 11/2021:    Invited to give a talk in the workshop on face image quality organized by EAB, DHS-OBIM, NIST, eu-LISA, etc.
  • 07/2021:    Our paper "Learning Compatible Embeddings" was accepted by ICCV 2021.
  • 06/2021:    Invited to give a talk about MagFace in CVPR 论文分享会 organized by 机器之心.
  • 03/2021:    Our paper "MagFace: A Universal Representation for Face Recognition and Quality Assessment" was accepted by CVPR 2021 as an ORAL paper.
  • 12/2020:    Our paper "Searching for Alignment in Face Recognition" was accepted by AAAI 2021.

Selected Publications
My research interests lie in computer vision, deep learning and optimization. Representative works are highlighted.

OPUS: Occupancy Prediction Using a Sparse Set
Jiabao Wang*, Zhaojiang Liu*, Qiang Meng, Liujiang Yan, Ke Wang, Jie Yang, Wei Liu, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng
*equal contirbution
NeurIPS, 2024
paper | code
OPUS is an fully sparse and end-to-end framework for occupancy prediction. It utilizes a transformer encoder-decoder architecture to simultaneously predict occupied locations and classes using a set of learnable queries.
Towards Stable 3D Object Detection
Jiabao Wang*, Qiang Meng*, Guochao Liu, Liujiang Yan, Ke Wang, Mingming Cheng, Qibin Hou
*equal contirbution
ECCV, 2024
project page | paper | code
This paper designs a novel stability index (SI) to evaluate the stability of 3D object detection models, and proposes a strong baseline for stability improvement.
Small, Versatile and Mighty: A Range-View Perception Framework
Qiang Meng, Xiao Wang, JiaBao Wang, Liujiang Yan, Ke Wang
arXiv, 2024
paper
The Small, Versatile, and Mighty (SVM) framework is a range-view-based perception system which can perform object detection, semantic segmentation and panoptic segmentation.
Curricular Object Manipulation in LiDAR-based Object Detection
Ziyue Zhu*, Qiang Meng*, Xiao Wang, Ke Wang, Liujiang Yan, Jian Yang
*equal contirbution
CVPR, 2023
paper | code
Curricular object manipulation (COM) is a framework for LiDAR-based object detection that incorporates the easy-to-hard training strategy into both loss design and augmentation process.
Towards Privacy-Preserving, Real-Time and Lossless Feature Matching
Qiang Meng, Feng Zhou
arXiv, 2022
paper | code
SecureVector is a plug-in module designed to accomplish real-time and lossless feature matching among sanitized features, offering significantly higher security levels compared to current state-of-the-art solutions.
Improving Federated Learning Face Recognition via Privacy-Agnostic Clusters
Qiang Meng, Feng Zhou, Hainan Ren, Tianshu Feng, Guochao Liu, Yuanqing Lin
ICLR , 2022 (Spotlight)
project page | paper | 知乎
A pragmatic framework that markedly enhances the performance of federated learning in face recognition while ensuring privacy guarantees. Key components encompass a meticulously crafted differentially private local clustering mechanism and a recognition loss that is consensus-aware.
Learning Compatible Embeddings
Qiang Meng, Chixiang Zhang, Xiaqiang Xu, Feng Zhou
ICCV, 2021
project page | paper | 知乎 | short video | code
A general framework (LCE) that is applicable for both cross model compatibility and compatible training in direct, forward, and backward manners.
MagFace: A Universal Representation for Face Recognition and Quality Assessment
Qiang Meng, Shichao Zhao, Zhida Huang, Feng Zhou
CVPR, 2021 (Oral presentation)
project page | paper | 知乎 | short video | code
A novel loss which equips feature magnitudes with the ability to represent face qualities, as well as achieves better performances on face recognition and clustering. Remarkably, no additional labels are required!
Basket-based Softmax
Qiang Meng, Xinqian Gu, Xiaqing Xu, Feng Zhou
arXiv, 2022
paper
A simple but effective mining-during-training strategy that enables models to be trained in an end-to-end fashion on multiple datasets.
Searching for Alignment in Face Recognition
Xiaqing Xu, Qiang Meng, Yunxiao Qin, Jianzhu Guo, Chenxu Zhao, Feng Zhou, Zhen Lei
AAAI, 2021
paper | 知乎
We design a face template searching space with decomposed crop size and vertical shift, and propose the Face Alignment Policy Search (FAPS) to find optimal alignment templates for face recognition.
PoseFace: Pose-Invariant Features and Pose-Adaptive Loss for Face Recognition
Qiang Meng, Xiaqing Xu, Xiaobo Wang, Yang Qian, Yunxiao Qin, Zezheng Wang, Chenxu Zhao, Feng Zhou, Zhen Lei
arXiv, 2021
paper
An efficient large-pose face recognition method that leverages facial landmarks to disentangle pose-invariant features and incorporates a pose-adaptive loss to dynamically address the imbalance issue.

Honors
  • [2015] College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship, University of Washington
  • [2014] Samsung Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China
  • [2013] National Encouragement Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China
  • [2013] First prize in the Challenge Cup, University of Science and Technology of China
  • [2012] National Encouragement Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China
  • [2012] 1st place in RoboGame Robot Competition, University of Science and Technology of China

Teaching
  • IND E 315 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers [Spring 17] [Summer 17] [Winter 18] [Spring 18]
  • IND E 250 - Linear and Network Programming [Fall 16] [Fall 17]
  • IND E 410 - Fundamentals of Engineering Economy [Winter 16]


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