Ching Lik Teo

I am a Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. I am also affiliated to the Computer Vision Lab at UMIACS. My advisors are Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermüller.

I am interested in Computer Vision, Computational Linguistics and how these two emerging fields combine to solve difficult problems that model human understanding, attention and recognition. I am also interested in robotic perception, especially on how we can model Vision and Language on mobile active agents.

I am a recipient of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2011, the UMD CS Department Fellowship award and DSO National Laboratories Post-graduate Scholarship.

In 2014, I was accepted into the UMD Clark School's Future Faculty Program, that focuses on grooming future teaching faculties in Engineering and Computer Science.

I am one of the main organizers for the UMD Computer Vision Student Seminars (CVSS) series.

I serve as a reviewer for several Computer Vision and Robotics conferences: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA and IROS and journals: T-PAMI, IJRR, CVIU and IMAVIS.

Here's my updated CV and my Google scholar profile.

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Current Research

I am working on developing theories and algorithms that integrates Language with Vision beyond the semantic (label) level. This extends the previous work of using the "Cognitive Dialog" framework by considering the integration of vision and language across the entire spectrum of visual processes: from high-level (semantic) to low-level (signal). We are currently developing efficient methods for influencing low-level to mid-level visual processes: edge detection, contour grouping and segmentation, using high-level representations derived from language. More information can be found here.

Previous Research

Software and data

Some software available for academic research purposes are listed here. Several datasets that we have used in our work are listed and made available here.

We are actively using the Robot Operating System (ROS) to develop codes for the Pioneer 3-DX (previously Videre Erratic) robot platform. See our ROS hints to get acquainted. It contains useful README, links and sample ROS codes as well.

Refereed Publications

Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Detection and Segmentation of 2D Curved Reflection Symmetric Structures. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV. 2015.

  • pdf supplementary material poster video spotlight dataset code project page

  • Francisco Barranco*, Ching L. Teo*, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Contour Detection and Characterization for Asynchronous Event Sensors. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV. 2015. (* indicates equal contribution)

  • pdf supplementary material poster video spotlight dataset code project page

  • Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Fast 2D Border Ownership Assignment. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR. 2015. Oral

  • pdf extended abstract supplementary material slides poster dataset code project page

  • Austin Myers, Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Affordance Detection of Tool Parts from Geometric Features. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2015.

  • pdf slides dataset affordance SRF code project page

  • Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. A Gestaltist approach to contour-based object recognition: Combining bottom-up and top-down cues. The International Journal of Robotics Research, IJRR, vol 34(4-5):627--652, 2015. doi:10.1177/0278364914558493.

  • pdf [preprint] dataset code project page

  • Xiaodong Yu, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Action Attribute Detection from Sports Videos with Contextual Constraints. British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC. 2013.

  • pdf slides dataset

  • Ching L. Teo, Austin Myers, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Embedding High-Level Information into Low Level Vision: Efficient Object Search in Clutter. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2013. Oral

  • pdf slides dataset code project page

  • Yezhou Yang, Ching L. Teo, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Robots with Language: Multi-Label Visual Recognition Using NLP. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2013.

  • pdf slides dataset

  • Douglas Summers-stay, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Using a Minimal Action Grammar for Activity Understanding in the Real World. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS. 2012.

  • pdf slides dataset

  • Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Hal Daumé III, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Towards a Watson That Sees: Language-Guided Action Recognition for Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA. 2012.

  • pdf slides dataset supplementary results

  • Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. Synergistic Methods for using Language in Robotics. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, PerMIS. 2012. Oral

  • pdf slides dataset

  • Xiaodong Yu, Cornelia Fermüller, Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Yiannis Aloimonos. Active Scene Recognition with Vision and Language. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV. 2011.

  • pdf poster

  • Yezhou Yang*, Ching L. Teo*, Hal Daumé III, Yiannis Aloimonos. Corpus-Guided Sentence Generation of Natural Images. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP. 2011. (* indicates equal contribution) Oral

  • pdf slides results

  • Ching L. Teo, Yezhou Yang, Hal Daumé III, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos. A Corpus-Guided Framework for Robotic Visual Perception. AAAI Workshop on Language-Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents. 2011.

  • pdf slides dataset

  • Ching L. Teo, S. Li, L-F. Cheong, J. Sun. 3D ordinal constraints in Spatial Configuration for Robust Scene Recognition. 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR. 2008.

  • IEEE Xplore poster

  • Other Publications

    Talks

    Robust Symmetry Detection in Natural Images, POCV 2014 spotlight presentation. June 2014. extended abstract slides

    Robots Need Language, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Winners Day. Sep 2012. slides

    The Telluride Neuromorphic Workshop 2011: Our Experience, UMD Computer Vision Students Seminar (CVSS). Feb 2012. slides

    Integrating Language into Computer Vision, NUS Department of Mathematics Weekly Seminar. Jan 2012. slides

    Robots Need Language: A computational model for the integration of vision, language and action, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist Presentation. Apr 2011. Slides available upon request

    Current Courses and Teaching

    List of courses taken/taught in previous semesters

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    Last Updated: January 08, 2016