
Ray Anyi Rao
Ph.D. Candidate, Multimedia Laboratory
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Email: anyirao [at] link.cuhk.edu.hk
Short Bio
Ray Anyi Rao is a Ph.D. candidate at MMLab in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Dahua Lin and Bolei Zhou. He got the B.S. from EE Department, Nanjing University in 2018, ranking 1/183. He studies human-centered AI for multimodality and creativity, with focuses on intelligent video editing and creation, video semantic and cinematic analysis, aiming to build connections between AI and humans for collaborative intelligence.
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Publication
A Unified Framework for Shot Type Classification Based on Subject Centric Lens |
MovieNet: A Holistic Dataset for Movie Understanding |
CityNeRF: Building NeRF at City Scale |
BlockPlanner: City Block Generation with Vectorized Graph Representation |
A Local-to-Global Approach to Multi-modal Movie Scene Segmentation |
Online Multi-modal Person Search in Videos |
Jointly Learning the Attributes and Composition of Shots for Boundary Detection in Videos |
HotFlip: White-Box Adversarial Examples for Text Classification |
Automatic Music Accompaniment |
Experience
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Early Stage Research and Academic
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Early Stage Research
Multi-modal Video Analysis and Understanding |
Robust Training with Word-level Adversity for NLP |
Undergrad Academic
His GPA ranked No.1 in each semester during his undergraduate studies at Nanjing University with an overall GPA: 3.96/4.00 and Rank: 1/183. He finished major curricula in 2 years and learned a bunch of online courses. [Whole]
Undergrad Research Beginning
Automatic Music Accompaniment Using Probabilistic Machine Learning |
Real-time 3D Surface Reconstruction Using Lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) |
Undergrad Course Projects
Volunteer and Leadership Experience
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Co-Founder of a Children Care Volunteer Program     Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2015
Co-founded a psychological consulting program to promote left-behind children's growth and education. Volunteered to teach left-behind children Math and English in a junior high school located in the remote, underdeveloped Xiushui county. Recognized as a key team leader in the successful Warm One Hundred Campaign, which raised money for left-behind children. Our group received an excellence award from the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation.
Vice President of a Young Volunteers Association at Nanjing University     Jun. 2015 - Jun. 2016
Organized and participated in over 100 out-of-school and 20 in-school activities covering over 1000 volunteers. Our association received a volunteer association excellence award.
Research Intern Group Leader of JCET [Media Report]     July. 2015 - Aug. 2015
Campus Ambassador of Huawei     Aug. 2017 - Dec. 2017
Student Volunteer of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)     Dec. 2019
Miscellaneous
Professional Activities
Co-organizer: ICCV 2021 Workshop on AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding
Program Committee Member: CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, ECCV
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Judge: The 3rd International Artificial Intelligence Fair
Teaching Experience
Head TA, IERG 4160, Image and Video Processing (graduate level), Fall 2019
TA, IERG 3180, Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems Laboratory, Spring 2020
Patents
A Video Editing Method, CN202010694551.1
A Video Classification Method, CN202010694811.1
An Image Processing Method and Related Products, CN202010450801.3
A Zero-shot Action Recognition Method, CN202110821209.4
A Layout Generation Method, CN202111128490.X
Hobbies
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Undergrad: Nanjing University Student Choir Member (Joyful Snowflakes written by Chih-mo Hsu), The NJU EE Department Young Volunteers Association Vice President, Bronze medal at Nanjing University 55th Sports Meeting
Language: A bit of Japanese and Cantonese, Native Mandarin, Full proficiency in English